Washington, (DC): Printed by Davis & Force, 1819. First edition. 8vo. 575 pp. Ownership signature of James F. Haliday, who served on the District's Common Council in the early 1840s, at the head of the title page. Sabin 20300. American Imprints 47836. Cohen 10307. Original paper-backed drab boards (rubbed), printed..... More

Macon, GA: Lewis H. Andrews, [1858]. Broadside on card stock, 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches, employing at least six sizes and styles of type, with "Job Printer" central, the whole enclosed within four borders, an outer wide green ornamental border, a broken green rule, a wide red ornamental border..... More

Cincinnati, OH: [Privately printed] (Lithogr. and printed by Hunckel & Son, Baltimore, Md.), [1858]. First edition. 4to. (84) pp. Illustrated, color title page (in gold, green, red, pink, fawn, black, and white) and two color plates, both featuring Catawba Wine, bottled by Mr. Longworth’s company, lithographic portraits of the couple..... More

Hartford, CT: Jan 7, 1836. Printed broadside, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, the head in two type styles, one a bold italic. A satirical piece written at the expense of a thinly disguised Connecticut militia officer, portrayed here as a dandy and a dilettante, thinking he might be called to..... More

(Washington, DC): C. Alexander, Printer, 1850. First edition. 24mo. 36 pp. Folding map: "Map of the City of Washington, Established as the Permanent Seat of the Government of the United States of America, 1850" (14 x 18 inches; engraved and published by D. McClelland, Washington). Issued by the compiler as..... 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

Los Angeles, CA: Tight Lines publishers, 1932. First edition, 1/500 copies. 8vo. (10), 239 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, mounted portrait frontispiece of the author, line drawings, vignettes, endpaper maps. Swordfish and tuna fishing off Catalina Island. Bruns B-37 (describing a different binding). Front hinge repaired, else very good. Original..... More

Philadelphia, (PA): J.B. Lipincott & Co., 1868. First edition. 12mo. (4), 164 pp. Folding map. On the front endpaper inscribed, "To the President of the United States with the respects and kind regards of the author." With an 1867 copyright and close ties to his fellow Tennessean and Union supporter..... More

Boston, New-England, Printed: London re-printed for R. Baldwin in Pater-noster-Row, 1755. First British edition of the first history of America as a whole, by a resident American, detailing its component parts, their social and economic conditions and potential, politics, and geographical features. 8vo. 2 vols.: 568; 416 pp. Folding map..... More

[Paris?]: 1782. 1st edition, 1st issue. 8vo.; (2), 158pp. Engraved portrait. Contemporary French sprinkled calf (chipped at head of spine). Spine richly gilt with rules and ornaments, leather spine label, all edges red. Name clipped from head of first leaf of text, else very good. HOWES E198: "The unidentified author..... More

Philadelphia, PA: G.B. Zieber & Co., 1845. First edition. 12mo. iv, [5]-168 pp. Laid in is a clipped fragment from an autograph letter, Herbert's four-line closing sentiment ,signed by him and dated "Portland, October 18th 1839", with portions of three partial lines of the letter's text on the verso. Herbert..... More

[Washington, Pa: 1828]. Broadside. 45 x 29 cm. Text in four columns, signed in type by A. Lacock at Spring Dale, [Pa.], June 28, 1828, at end, along with a printed note: "Let us read this and then lend it to our neighbors." Docketted on verso: "Lacock v Jackson 1828."..... More

Montgomery (AL): Printed by Brittan and De Wolf, 1853. First edition. 8vo. 400 pp. Errata slip pasted to a rear endpaper. Includes Richard Henry Lee's funeral oration for George Washington, John Tyler's 1837 oration at Yorktown, two selections from William Lowndes Yancey, and other pieces, almost all of southern interest..... More