nd [mid-late 19th c.]. Oblong folio, 14 x 21.5 in. 49 pp., approx. 400 accomplished sketches and drawings in red pencil, some in outline, some more elegantly shaded and detailed, showing the human form and its various parts. Accompanied by detailed notes, in red or purple ink, written in a...... More
[New Orleans, LA? nd (ca.1862). First edition, the Philip D. Sang copy. Printed broadside, 13 x 9 1/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type including larger display types. One of the great Civil War broadsides, and the only recorded copy. This printing is the bold Confederate response to..... More
Greenfield, (MA): Franklin Job Printing Office, 1866. 12mo. 11 pp. Original gilt-stamped blue wrappers. Fine. First edition. Cover title: The Federal Union Gold Mining Company. "Whereas, Napoleon B. Buford of Illinois, Erskine McClallen of Cororado, Joseph Beals, Elisha Wells and others of Massachusetts, having acquired a large mining property on..... More
Boston, in New-England: S. Kneeland, 1759 [i.e., 1761?]. Two parts in one, complete. Folio. [1 leaf], 14; 24, 396 pp. Later 3/4 calf, marbled boards. Library stamps, some browning, but crisp. Includes Acts through 1761. Ownership signature of Moses Bliss; a few scattered annotations in the margins. A few Acts..... More
NY: Henry C. Squires, [c1890]. Elaborate trade catalogue. Large 4to. vii, (1), 164 pp. Profusely illustrated, plates, line drawings. Romaine A Guide to American Trade Catalogs, 1744-1900, p. 145: "One of the most outstanding catalogs in the whole field of American advertising." OCLC locates five copies (Delaware, Harvard, Michigan, New..... More
[Salem, Mass.]: Salem Observer Press, [1842]. Broadside, 19" x 16 1/2". Caption title and three columns of text and tables within an attractive ornamental border. Old tidelines to upper corners, some foxing, snag at lower left of ornamental border (repaired on verso). Tipped onto a backing board at upper corners..... More
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(Montgomery, AL): G.W. Beers & Co., Printers, 1876. Printed broadside, 14 1/8 x 11 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, including nice display types in the head, on thin card, the whole enclosed within an ornamental border. In part: "We come, Sir, from the land ... of the..... More
[London, England]: Printed J. Mitchell and Co. (late Brettell), Rupert Street, Haymarket, [1844]. Small broadsheet, 19 cm., 2 pp., printed in various sizes and styles of type, with small vignette of a lion and a shield at head of text. Accompanied by a tiny calling card for "Gen. Tom Thumb,"..... More
New York: January 1, 1872. Black lettered stiff rust-colored paperwraps. Cover title: "The International Railroad Co. (of Texas) Prospectus, Charter, Mortgage Deed. &c. &c." 24 cm. 43 pp. Folding map tipped in at front: "Map Showing the Line of the International Railroad of Texas." [Washington, DC: G.W. & C.B. Colton..... More
[Gloucester, Mass: Printed at the Office of the Cape Ann Light and Gloucester Telegraph, 1863?]. Broadside, 9 7/8 x 7 ¾ inches. We have not been able to locate another copy through the usual reference sources (publication information taken from American Antiquarian Society cataloguing on OCLC for a microform edition)..... More
NP: np, nd [1860s?]. Broadsheet, [2] pp., 53 x 18 cm. Proprietor B.P. Burns advertises "many curiosities contained in his Museum... [including] one of Old Ocean's Greatest Wonders the Great Leathery Turtle from the Meditertanean Sea." Included is a vignette, 6 x 13 cm., depicting this giant creature being harpooned..... More
Memphis, TN: Printed by Saunders, Jones & Co., nd [late 1867 or early 1868]. Beautiful, elaborate trade card, 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, printed in red, green, and gilt, the text enclosed within a triple-rule red and green border, with green corner ornaments and a large central green ornament..... More
Baltimore, (MD): Printed by James Lucas, 1847. First edition. 8vo. 25 pp. Large folding map, 51 x 68 cm., of the railroad and canal systems of Pennsylvania and Maryland, the routes hand-colored according to status (e.g., proposed routes in yellow). The Cumberland Valley Rail Road ran from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to..... More
New York: Charles Magnus' New York Printing Establishment. Offices 12 Frankfort St., New York and 529 7th Street, Washington, D.C., 1865. Broadside. 40.5 x 51 cm. sheet, image size 37.2 x 46.6 cm. Color lithograph, 40.5 x 51 cm., the central image a view of Richmond, Virginia, at the end..... More
NP [New York?]: John I. Donlevy, intaglio-chromographic and electrographic engraver, nd. Calligraphic bust-length oval portrait of George Washington, engraved by Donlevy, platemark 16 1/2 x 13 7/8 in. Matted, glazed and framed. Within the oval portrait which is based Stuart's "Lansdowne" image, Washington's face has been hand-colored. His birth and..... More
[Pennsylvania]: zusammen getragen, MDCCXXVII. Und aufs neu abgeschrieben, 1747. A. Manuscript German-American songbook for use by a Pennsylvania family, written in black ink in a careful hand; without musical notation. Neat manuscript shoulder notes, corrections, additions, and deletions scattered throughout. Small 4to. (4), 316, (39) pp. Decorative initial letters. Text..... More
Liberty, MO: W. Dale & Sons, 1861. Printed broadside, 12 1/2 x 8 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, including attractive display types, the whole enclosed within an ornamental border. "We will allow the highest market price for clean wool, and sell our goods as LOW as any..... More
Small red leather wallet-style copy of "The Gentleman's Annual Pocket Remembrancer, for the Year 1801," published in Philadelphia: printed by John Bioren, for William Y. Birch, nd (ca.1800). Leather a bit rubbed, flap intact. The Remembrancer contains, in addition to the printed text, some "ruled pages for memorandums, observations, and..... More
(St. Genevieve, MO): 1809. Folio. One page, approximately 175 words. A native of Virginia, Ashley migrated to Missouri early in the first decade of the 19th century, engaging in business first in St. Genevieve, then in St. Louis, before embarking on a career in public life that included service in..... More
(1857-1911). The solid wood box, 13 x 8 x 8 1/2 in.,from the Mount Pleasant plantation at Buffalo Forge, in Virginia is in fine condition, with side handles and brass corners. It has a top compartment, and a lower locking drawer (with key) containing two parts: a removable top layer..... More
NP: np, [ca. 1865 or a bit later]. Broadside, 14 1/2 x 10 inches. Woodcut portrait of General Lee dressed in a suit and tie, a three-quarter profile, occupies the upper half of the broadside. "[Signed in type] R.E. Lee, General." The whole enclosed in a decorative border. The farewell..... More
St. Louis: Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co., 1895. First edition. Large thick 4to. 743 pp. Illus. from photographs, plates, portraits, color frontis., "A Stampede" from a painting by Gean Smith. Howes C-820 ("b"). Adams "Herd" 593: One of the 'Big four' cattle books. An important book on the cattle industry..... More
Knoxville, TN: Stubley Printing Co., 1929. 8vo. 150pp. 3 portrait plates; handbill prospectus laid in. Original blue cloth. Very good copy. First edition. 4-page ALS from the author concerning local politics and finances laid in (Dandridge, Tennessee, 1876). The author served in Co. C of this unit recruited in East..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1875. A volume in Bohn's Standard library. Small 8vo (7 x 4 1/2 inches). vi, (2) 504 pp. 31-page publisher's catalogue front (Bell's Standard Works) and rear (Bohn's Standard Works). Thomas Hardy's copy with his ownership signature at the head of the title page and..... More
Paris: Chez Coustelier and Merigot & Piget, 1746-1747. First edition, second issue (with the Merigot & Piget imprint in volume two). 4to. 2 volumes: (4), xxiv, 453, (17); (2), viii, 537, (2) pp. Illustrated with 29 engraved plates and maps [of 30, lacking the frontispiece to volume one], many folding..... More