New York: Printed by Curran Dinsmore and Co., 1852. First edition. 8vo. 31 pp. Large folding map, featuring the color outline of the Mobile and Ohio system, from Mobile, through Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky to the upper Midwest. Not in Owen. OCLC locates two copies (New York Public, Virginia). Original..... More
[Richmond VA]: 1864. Printed broadside, 19 x 11 1/2 inches, on Confederate necessity paper. Sets forth rules for handling bonds and treasury notes. Parrish & Willingham 75 (Duke only). Not in Hummel or "More Virginia Broadsides." OCLC locates one copy (Duke). Folded; several splits at the head (affecting several letters)..... More
NP: np, nd [1847 or 1848]. One of at least three editions (LCP/HSP Afro-Americana 2853 and 2854 describe two editions differing from this one). 8vo. 8 pp. (discourse on pp. 3-8). Title-page cut of "Cudjo," an African-American in formal attire, delivering his discourse. Caption title: "Negro Sermon." "Cudjo" delivers a...... More
Washington, (DC): Printed by A. Boyd Hamilton, 1852. First edition. Folio. (2), 159 pp. [printed rectos only], completely interleaved (squares 166, 171, 226, 284, 326, 355, 391, 439, 521, 550-554, 566, 591, 596-597, 648, 917, 934-935, 994-996, 1024-1025, 1058, and 1084 have been completely redrawn on facing leaf in ink;..... More
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., Printers, nd (ca.1882). Printed broadsheet, 22 x 8 inches, employing a number of styles and sizes of type, recto with promotional text praising the climate and soil of the northern half of Dakota Territory for its ability to grow No. 1 Hard Spring Wheat, which..... 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
Partly printed deed on vellum, completed in manuscript, 28 x 52 cm. Thomas Willing conveys to William Bingham 1100 acres, a tract called "Halstead," in the late purchase district No. 3, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Document signed by Gov. Thomas Mifflin, and attested to by James Trimble, Deputy Secretary. State Seal..... More
Natchez: Printed by Peter Isler, printer to the territory, 1816. 8vo. 495, (1), (2), (20), (6) pp. Contemporary calf (rubbed), blind rules around edges of upper and lower boards and on spine, gilt stamped on brown leather spine label, some darkening to joints and spine. Offseting to endpapers and usual..... More
4 3/4 x 3 inches, mounted on a slightly larger card, undated, but circa 1875; tiny manuscript label "Steamboat Frank (Modoc)" affixed to lower margin. Image spotted and a little faded, but very good. Steamboat Frank (ca. 1850-1886) "was a member of the Hot Creek band of Indians and had..... More
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Hand sewn paper, 16 x 9.5 cm., 24 pp., approx. 8000 words, in a closely written but legible hand. Partly disbound, edges chipped, first page of first sermon is in several pieces (with some loss to text), loss to some lines on other pages, at edges. The first sermon, 14..... More
Winnsville, Fluvanna County, (VA): John H. Cocke, 1843. Broadside, 17 1/2 x 12 inches, employing a large bold type for the one-word first line in the head and a smaller bold type for the second line; the wood engraving is not signed. The horse stood at Cocke's Fluvanna County, Virginia..... More
[Concord, NH? New Hampshire Patriot, 1828]. Broadsheet, 46 x 29 cm. [2] pp., printed in four columns. Old fold lines, slightly rumpled, manuscript note across top page margin, "1828 Presidents Message." Signed in type by John Q. Adams, Washington, Dec. 1st, 1828. The President addressed the second session of the..... More
NY, (NY): Long & Carter, Printers, 131 Front Street, Corner of Pine, 1839. Broadside. 33 x 25cm. Text printed in blue, enclosed in a decorative blue border, with vignettes of a steamboat, eagle and railroad at top and a steamboat and canal boat at bottom. In the center is a...... More
Mexico: Imp. de la Calle de Sta. Clara N. 23, 3 de Abril de 1847. First edition. Printed broadside, 12 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type. Anaya (1795-1854) was interim President of Mexico from April 2 – May 20, 1847, and again from November..... More
1870. Broadsheet circular, with title printed in various sizes and styles of type, 17 x 12 inches, printed in four columns, on both sides of the sheet. The address is signed in type by Napoleon Arango, and dated March 28th, 1870. Arango eloquently states his objections to the insurrection declared..... More
Portland, (ME): Sanborn & Carter, 1853. First edition. 12mo. 180 pp. Wood engravings, plates, extra engraved title page, folding map. Original gilt-stamped green cloth (faded, spine ends chipped). Very good. More
Philadelphia, PA: printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the Stone House, No. 41, South Second Street, 1801. Second edition with additions. Frontis., viii, [1] - 536pp, 8, [24], 5 plates some folding. Some scattered staining and foxing, remains of an ownership stamp on titlepage. Modern leather rebind..... More
Washington, DC: Published by the Senior Class of the Woodrow Wilson High School, [1947]. Gilt stamped green fabrikoid, some rubbing to edges, else very good. 4to. 180 pp., plus [11] pp. of ads for local businesses. A young student's signature on front flyleaf, and personal notes from classmates scattered here..... More
Boston, (MA): Prince Society, 1910-1911. Small 4to. 4 volumes: xx, 471; xii, 470; xix, (2), 496; xvi, 503 pp. Illustrated, plates, facsimiles. Early brown buckram, gilt title on spines, original printed wrappers bound in; institutional bookplate on pastedowns, binder's endpapers brittle, else a very good copy. First edition, 1/250 copies..... More
[Washington, DC]: Printed by the U.S. Geological Survey, Engraved by R.F. Bartle & Co., Washington, DC, 1934. Large wall map of the United States, 58.5 x 81 in., including part of Mexico, and the Island of Cuba, mounted on cloth and attached to wooden rollers at the upper and lower..... More
Cincinnati: Printed by Morgan, Lodge, and Fisher, February, 1827. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. original wrappers soiled, paper label on front. First Edition. 100, [1] pp. Two plates. The plates depict the Medical College of Ohio and the Branch Bank. A plain, sensible, and well-written sketch of the fertile country, in..... More
Amsterdam: Paul Marret, 1695. Later edition in French (first published in Paris, 1676; the work first published in English in London, 1648). 12mo. 2 volumes bound as one: (24), 200, 178; (14), 318 pp. Extra engraved title pages to each volume, 16 folding maps and plates. Sabin 26304. Hill 665..... More
The collection of printed and manuscript ephemera includes trade cards (10), maps (3), invitations & correspondence (11), and miscellaneous items (5). Gerrish participated in the Amherst Eclipse Expedition, sponsored by D. Willis James, a trustee of Amherst and his son, utilizing their yacht for the purpose. Also along on the..... More
Selma, AL: Times Book and Job Office, 1879. First edition. 8vo. 200 pp. Howes H-192. Owen, p. 968-969 (describing his own copy). Recent navy quarter-morocco and marbled boards, gilt title on spine, original printed yellow wrappers (with advertisements for local businesses) bound in; poor quality paper browned, but a very..... More
Annapolis, MD: Printed for the publisher, 1845. 12mo. vi, 256pp. Rebound in black library buckram, gilt title on spine. Very good. First edition. Uncommon; OCLC records 8 copies (New York State Library, Library of Congress, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Naval Academy, Washington College, State Historical Society of Wisconsin), the NUC..... More