[Tuscaloosa, AL ? np, 1868 or 9]. Small broadsheet. 23 by 16cm. Lightly creased from folding, a few small browned spots, and one small hole at a fold affecting one or two letters, else a very good copy. The notice gives the regulations for admitting private or paying patients, and..... More

City of Washington: Daniel Rapine, 1825. First edition for this issue. 16mo. 47 pp. Lists the members of congress, with their residences in the Washington area, and hometown post office and county; officers and members of the various standing committees for both houses; other executive department officials; foreign ministers; and..... 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

Mobile, (AL): Henry Farrow & Co., [1869]. "Volume Five" (i.e., Farrow's fifth separate compilation, the first having been for 1859). 8vo. (4), 151, (1) pp. 56 page supplement of local advertising leaves on various color papers inserted; advertising endpapers. Not in Owen. Ellison 1573 (Mobile Public Library only). OCLC locates..... More

Topeka, (KS): Santa Fe Watch Co. (H.M. Ives & Son, printers), nd [1920s?]. First edition (?). 8vo. 32 pp. Illustrated, fold-out plate, the use of gold coloring applied liberally. 67 different watch models, gold emblems, gold Waldemar chains, knives, etc., are described. Santa-Fe Watch began in 1913, heavily advertised in..... 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

Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. 8vo. 192 pp. 10 folding engraved maps, outlines hand-colored. Original boards, rebound in cloth; untrimmed copy. First edition. Howes A-317: "Leading early authority on the subject." Sabin 2012. Eberstadt 106, 17 (quoting Seymour Dunbar): "Collects every scrap of contemporary fact regarding the entire..... More

London: Sherwood, Jones, 1823. 1st British ed., an abridgement of the authors' AMERICAN ATLAS (Phila., 1822). 8vo.; 447pp. With 18 folding maps and plates, 12 hand-colored. First British edition, an abridgement of the authors' AMERICAN ATLAS (Philadephia, 1822). Howes C-133. Includes nice engraved views of Quebec, Philadelphia, Havana, Rio de..... 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

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

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

Richmond, VA: Bailie & Gallaher, printers, 1837. Broadside printed on silk, 33 1/4 x 27 inches, the head in bold capitals, the whole enclosed within an ornamental border. The address closes with a warning: "It is from within, among yourselves -- from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate..... More