NP [Mansfield, Ohio?]: nd [1890s?]. Color illustrated broadside, 26 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. Advertisement for the Aultman-Taylor Engine, illustrated in full color, with trade names the "Eureka" and the "Hercules," and the "Columbia" with Russell Ball Bearing Wind Stacker and Parsons Self Feeder, illustrated in full color. In addition... More about THE / AULTMAN / & TAYLOR / MACHINERY CO. / MANSFIELD, O
Little Rock: Printed by William E. Woodruff, Printer to the Territory, 1834. 20 cm. 119, iii pp. Stitched signatures, unopened and untrimmed. Very good. ALLEN 33 OCLC: AAS, Univ. of AR Fayetteville, Univ. of AR Law, Georgetown Univ., Georgetown Univ. Law, Law Library of LA, Univ. of Houston, Univ. of... More about Acts passed at the eighth session of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas : which...
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 about By-Laws of the Federal Union Mining Company, Clear Creek County, Colorado, Organized, March 27,...
New York: Wright & Swasey (Wright gravure co.), 1892. 21 x 30 cm. 4pp., 80 plates. Original red morocco boards (rubbed), recently rebacked, corners repaired. Old tape marks on front board. Title page with edge wear, and a few plates with corners bent. "This book is one of an edition... More about CARICATURES PERTAINING TO THE CIVIL WAR; Reproduced from a Private Collection of Originals...
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 about A Discourse, December 25, 1847, to the Male and Female Bredren of Alabama, by Cudjo. Price 12 1/2...
Washington, (DC): Printed and published by S.A. Elliot, [1823]. First in a series of almanacs issued annually through 1832. 16mo. (2), [5]-61 pp. Sabin 22238. Drake 1521 (Boston Athenaeum, American Antiquarian Soc.). OCLC cites three copies (Boston Public, AAS, George Washington). Orig. salmon wrappers, printed paper label on upper wrapper. Very good. (1209). More about ELLIOT'S WASHINGTON POCKET ALMANAC for 1824
[Washington City]: Dan'l McKeowin, Dr. [Nov.2] 1814. Decorative partly printed billhead with the establishment's name, an eagle vignette and Washington City all enclosed in an oval border. 27 x 12 cm. The tavern owner's name, Dan'l. McKeowin is printed below the oval, and the year 18[14 in ms.]. A manuscript... More about INDIAN QUEEN TAVERN. WASHINGTON CITY
Morgantown, (VA): Virginia Weekly Star office, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. First public printing of the revised (1860) charter, with four pages of newly drafted municipal laws regulating gambling, maintenance of privies, selling on the Sabbath, keeping of hogs, detonation of fire-crackers, etc. The first printing of the municipal... More about Ordinances of the Corporation of Morgantown, with the Charter Annexed
[Raleigh, NC]: North Carolina Standard, 1856. First separate edition (?). Printed broadside, 19 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches, the headline printed in bold capitals. A forceful defense by Hedrick of both his own personal integrity and of the position of preventing the institution of slavery's expansion into the western territories... More about Prof. Hedrick's Defence [caption title, followed by three columns of dense text, separated by...
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 about Report of the Proposed Construction of a Rail Road from York to the Cumberland Valley Rail Road
[Albion, NY: ca. 1868]. Broadside. 70 x 58 cm. Newspaper supplement, printed in nine columns, recording the speech of Hon. Noah Davis on the "Issues of the Day Ably Discussed. Reconstruction---Public Debt---Democratic Repudiation---Greenbacks and Bonds---Taxation---Expose of Democratic Misrepresentations---Gov. Church Under the Scalpel." Old fold lines, but an otherwise fresh copy... More about SUPPLEMENT TO THE ORLEANS AMERICAN
Pawtucket, RI: Doboy Steam Mill & Lumber Co., Feb. 6, 1848. Advertising handbill. Broadside on yellow paper, 7 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, including a large bold display type (1 1/2 inches) in all capitals for the headline. The Doboy Steam Mill &... More about WANTED. / WANTED TO HIRE BY THE SUBSCRIBER, TWO MASTER MILL- / MEN, TO GO SOUTH IMMEDIATELY. THE...
(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 about BRASS BOUND POLISHED WOODEN BOX WITH DRAFTING TOOLS AND CONTENTS, BELONGING TO DANIEL C.E. BRADY...
[Toledo or Cincinnati, OH?]: np, 1882. Broadsheet. 45 x 14 cm. Addressed "To the Editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer," with a date line of "Toledo, Ohio, January 31, 1882." Old fold lines, slight stain to upper left corner, otherwise very good. No OCLC, nor have we found located elsewhere. The... More about CHICKAMAUGA. THE CLAIM OF "HERO" AT THAT BATTLE. A REPLY TO THE STATEMENT OF GEN. J. B....
Charleston, SC: John Russell, 1854. First edition. 8vo. 119 pp. Fraser (1782-1860) gave up a promising career in the law in the 1810s to become one of the best American miniature painters of the 19th century. This book "[gives] an authentic picture of the [ante-bellum] community" (DAB). Howes F-340. Sabin... More about Reminiscences of Charleston, Lately Published in the Charleston Courier, and Now Revised and...
St. Louis: April 28, 1842. Broadside, 10 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches, printed in various sizes and styles of type, including three large display types, for the two headlines and the central “MARMION.” The judgment which resulted in the sale of the Marmion was brought by Robert P. Clark, H.F.... More about CONSTABLE'S / SALE. / IN VIRTUE AND BY AUTHORITY OF EIGHT ORDERS OF SALE, SIX OF WHICH / WERE...
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1898. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xiv, (3), 550, 32 [publisher's catalogue]; (8), 641 pp. Two portrait plates, 33 maps and plans, some folding. With the year-of-publication ownership signature "A.C. Hopkins / Charles Town, WVa. / 1898" at the head of each half-title; Rev. Abner... More about Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. With portraits, maps, and plans
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Baltimore, (MD): Geo. Willig, [1839?]. Engraved sheet music, a complete set, individually published, of a rare and important collection of southern fiddle tunes. Folio. Four volumes in one: 7; 8-13; 5; 7 pp. Knauff's "Virginia Reels" constitutes the first collection of fiddle tunes from the American South, and is the... More about Virginia Reels Selected & Arranged FOR the Piano Forte [Nos. 1-4
Richmond, (VA): Peter Cottom, 1825. Third edition, enlarged and improved (first published under a slightly different title in 1811). 12mo. 228 pp. Illustrated with five plates. American Imprints 21355. Haynes 11451. Tape repair to verso of frontispiece, affecting the image a little, chip to upper corner of another plate, not... More about THE GENTLEMAN'S NEW POCKET FARRIER, COMPRISING A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE NOBLE AND USEFUL...
Nashville, TN: Regimental Publication Committee, 1904. 8vo. 520 pp. Illustrated, plates, portraits. Original black cloth (rubbed), gilt title on spine mostly rubbed away; ink note on front pastedown, some marginal pencil notes. Still a solid copy. First edition. Includes company rosters and an extensive section of biographical sketches. Howes M-173... More about History of the Twentieth Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A
[bound with nine other College of New Jersey (i.e., Princeton University) commencement orations, 1831-1836, seven catalogues of Princeton students and faculty members, 1834-1841, 12 small broadsides printing Princeton commencement exercises, 1836-1841, and two New Jersey State Agricultural Society related pamphlets, 1839-1840]. Trenton, (NJ): Printed by Isaac Collins, 1788. First edition... More about An Inaugural Oration, on the Progress and Importance of the Mathematical Sciences, Delivered at...
[New York]: H.R. Robinson, 52 Courtlandt Street, [1839]. 29 x 37 cm. Lithograph, hand-colored. Signed in stone "HD," believed to be Henry Dacre. Mrs. DeWitt Clinton is seen snubbing Martin Van Buren who had been her husband's enemy. Recent expert repair to lower edge that had been trimmed. More about THE CUT DIRECT. Or a Scene in high life at Saratoga Springs
NP [Territory of Montana]: np, 1865. Small receipt, partially printed on lined paper, completed in manuscript, measuring 12 1/2 x 8 cm. Printed on one side only. A very nice example of an early Montana Territory printing. The Territory of Montana was formed in May 1864, with Virginia City as... More about License No. 556 / Issued May 10th 1865 / To Masses (sp?) & Parsons / House of Entertainment /...
[Watertown, Mass. Printed by Benjamin Edes, 1776] Imprint information supplied by Bristol. Broadside. 17 x 15 cm. Small closed tear, stain on left third of paper, some wear along an old fold line. Encapsulated. John Avery, whose name appears in type at the bottom of this broadside, was part of... More about WATERTOWN, JULY 3, 1776. IN COUNCIL.; "ORDERED, That the following Part of the Resolution of...
Cincinnati, (OH): George Conclin, E. Shepard's Steam Press, 1849. 12mo. 254 pp. Three wood engraved plates and a chapter head vignette. Recent half-cloth and marbled boards, printed spine label. Very good. Reprint (first published in 1840; reprinted in Cincinnati seven times through this edition). Howes S-998: "One of the most... More about A New History of Texas; from the First European Settlement in 1692, Down to the Present Time,...