Cleveland, (OH): E.G. Knight & Co. and Parsons & Co., 1853. First Knight & Parsons directory (the first Cleveland directory was published in 1837). 8vo. 319, (2), 47, (1) pp. Large folding map, a street plan of the city; advertisements on colored paper, some illustrated. Cover title: "Knight & Parsons'..... More

Paris: Gravee chez Monrocq, fr., A Donamette Imp. nd [1890s?]. Large folding color map of Mexico, in 32 panels, laid down on newer linen, 73 x 102 cm., tipped into a dark green cloth folder (mottled), "Repubica Mexicana 1.3,000,000 Altimetrica" on spine. Altitudes are shown by gradient tints identified in..... More

New York: The company, April 29, 1833. Folio broadside, 12 ¼ x 7 1/8 inches, a partly printed [in script] document, completed in manuscript, certifying that one Sylvester Davis, is entitled to a tract of Texas land, within the described boundaries. Signed at the end by T. L. Ogden, Daniel..... More

Savannah, GA: January 7th, 1856. Printed broadside, 19 x 11 inches, employing several type sizes and styles , including display types, all enclosed within a wide ornamental border, corner pieces large and ornamental. Rule 19 sets out restrictions against "free persons of color" travelling on vessels seeking access to the..... More

Habana: Imprenta de D. Antonio Maria Valdes, (1820's). Two broadsides in Spanish, printed in various sizes and styles of type including headers in a bold shadow font. Text enclosed in decorative floral borders. Edges a bit unevenly trimmed, some old repairs to verso of the larger broadside, which also shows..... More

San Francisco, CA: [Faulkner & Leland], 15 July 1850. "Steamer Edition," this issue only (this newspaper was published bi-monthly 1 September 1849 - 30 October 1850; 21 different issues seem to be extant, scattered in as many institutions, with eight issues known in a single copy, the others known in..... More

Chicago, New York: George M. Hill Company, 1900. First and only edition. 32 x 22cm. 29 leaves. Red cloth spine with illustrated boards. Some wear and paper loss along edges of boards, some mottling to spine, otherwise a bright clean copy. Gift inscription on flyleaf. 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

Milwaukee [WI]: King, Lawton & Fowle, Printers, nd [1883-1889?]. Illustrated paperwraps. 22 cm. 40pp., illustration on inside of rear wrapper. Condensed Map of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway on rear cover. A promotional pamphlet for the "Land of the Dacotahs... the heart and hope of the New Northwest."..... More

Paris: H. Piaza, 1906. First edition, 1/400 copies. 8vo. 222, (4) pp. Color illustrations from Dinet paintings, color plates, color vignettes and initials. Dinet (1861-1929), a French orientalist painter, was born in Paris, the son of a prominent judge. After studying at the Lycée Henry IV through the 1870s, he..... More

Venetiis: apud Iuntas, MDLV. Colophon: Venetiis apud haeredes Lucaeantonii Iuntae. MDLV. The first edition of Girolamo Fracastoro's collected works. Quarto (242 x 170 mm). Collation: 6, A-Z4, AA-ZZ4, 3A-3Z4, 3&6, a-h4: 320 ff., foliated (vi) 1-184, 189-285 (I), (I) 2-32. Roman and italic types. Woodcut device on title page; full-page..... More

San Franciso, (CA): Published by Warren Holt, 1881. Broadside map, 92 x 76 cm., state borders with hand-coloring, all set within an ornamental border. Inset maps "Judicial Districts of California" and "U.S. Land Districts." Cover title: "Holt's Township Map of California and Nevada." Contemporary ownership signature on the front pastedown..... More

Boston, (MA): 1819-21. Folio ledger (33 cm). 45 pages of manuscript accounts [other leaves unused]. Samuel Bass King (1788-1864) eventually became cashier and then president of the first Taunton Bank; just after the period covered in this ledger (1823), he was serving as secretary of Boston’s Union Insurance Company and..... More