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A CARD. / My fellow Citizens of / Greene and Orange: / In the Orange Chronicle of last week, / I...

A CARD. / My fellow Citizens of / Greene and Orange: / In the Orange Chronicle of last week, / I caused myself to be announced as a / candidate to represent you in the Con- / vention just called by the Legislature ... / [followed by eight long paragraphs of text in four columns]. Signed in type at the end "John Willis."

NP: np, [1861]. Printed broadside, 17 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches, employing bold capitals for the short head. Issued as a campaign platform for a position as one of the delegates to Virginia's secession convention, Willis argues forcefully for secession in this broadside, defends the institution of slavery, and announces..... More

Price: $850.00

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY...

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT. AN ACT TO PREVENT PROFANE CURSING AND SWEARING. [caption title] [followed by 63 lines of text]

[Boston: Printed by Young & Minns, 1798] Imprint supplied by Evans. Broadside. 46 x 28 cm. Old fold lines, overall toning of sheet, old tidelines and small rust marks and holes at edges (likely from having been posted), chipping to margins, especially along the right edge, but no loss of..... More

Price: $2,500.00

The Currency Bill: / An Act to Fund, Tax, and Limit the Currency Passed by the Congress of / the...

The Currency Bill: / An Act to Fund, Tax, and Limit the Currency Passed by the Congress of / the Confederate States, at Richmond, February 16th, 1864. / [double-rule] / [followed by 18 numbered points to the act, printed in two columns separated by a thin rule]

[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

Price: $3,000.00

D.B. COOKE & CO.'s RAILWAY GUIDE FOR ILLINOIS SHEWING ALL THE STATIONS WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE...

D.B. COOKE & CO.'s RAILWAY GUIDE FOR ILLINOIS SHEWING ALL THE STATIONS WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE DISTANCES CONNECTING WITH CHICAGO.

Chicago: D.B. Cooke & Co., entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1854, Jan. [18]55. Folding map, 71 x 53 cm., hand colored in outline, tipped into a blind-stamped brown cloth folder, with gilt lettering on front board. Lithographed by H. Acheson, 132 Lake Street, Chicago. Cover title..... More

Price: $1,500.00

THE DAVIS SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, DAYTON, OHIO, U.S.A. [caption title

THE DAVIS SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, DAYTON, OHIO, U.S.A. [caption title]

Buffalo, NY: Gies & Co., nd [ca.1890]. Color lithograph advertisement, 13 x 42 in. image, on an 18 x 46 in. sheet. A view of the vast brick complex of the Davis Sewing Machine Company, including the surrounding neighborhoods and streets of Dayton. Trains are seen coming and going in..... More

Price: $850.00

Peerless Hair Dressing / On Sale Here / Peerless / Beauty Supplies / Richmond, Va. / 525 N. 2nd...

Peerless Hair Dressing / On Sale Here / Peerless / Beauty Supplies / Richmond, Va. / 525 N. 2nd St. Dial 3-5413 / Everything for the Beauty Salon [complete text] Photos by "The Browns."

Richmond, VA: The salon (Quality Printing Co., Richmond, Va.), nd [1930s]. Illustrated advertising broadside, 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches, text in blue reverse within two banners and a sign, illustrated from a photo montage of 20 images (variously 3 3/8 x 2 1/4 inches or 3 3/8 x 2..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Shakers near Lebanon State of N York. Their Mode of Worship. Drawn from Life

Shakers near Lebanon State of N York. Their Mode of Worship. Drawn from Life.

N.p. n.p., nd [ca. 1830]. Stipple line engraving, hand colored in browns and blues; image 8 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches, on a sheet 14 x 16 inches. While it bears no indication of artist, engraver, or publisher, it is the version thought by scholar Robert P. Emlen likely to..... More

Price: $6,500.00

STOP THAT HORSE ! / A FREE LECTURE / On the Habits and Capabilities of the / HORSE! / Come One...

STOP THAT HORSE ! / A FREE LECTURE / On the Habits and Capabilities of the / HORSE! / Come One and All / And Hear the Celebrated Horse Trainer, R. T. CLARK, / Who will Deliver one of his interesting Free Lectures / (two lines blank for filling in the place, date and time) / A class will be formed for teaching his new, original and practical system ...../ THE FOLLOWING TRICKS, / Practised By Jockeys Will Also Be Taught /

Pittsburgh, (PA): John P. Hunt, print, [1862-1866] ? Broadside. 60.5 x 23.5 cm. Some wear, tears to edges, generally very good. Not found OCLC. The only other imprints for John P. Hunt, printer are from the 1860s. More

Price: $1,500.00

SUPPLEMENT TO THE ORLEANS AMERICAN

SUPPLEMENT TO THE ORLEANS AMERICAN

[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

Price: $750.00

Ts. [i.e., St.] Johns Mirror Extra [caption title]. By Telegraph

Ts. [i.e., St.] Johns Mirror Extra [caption title]. By Telegraph.

Jacksonville, [FL]: The newspaper [M. Whit Smith], January 15, 1862 -- 8 1/2 A.M. First edition (?] of this extra. Printed broadside extra, 9 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches, presenting "breaking" news related to Civil War issues in four reports in nine paragraphs: Possible work toward exchange of prisoners from..... More

Price: $1,250.00

WANTED. / WANTED TO HIRE BY THE SUBSCRIBER, TWO MASTER MILL- / MEN, TO GO SOUTH IMMEDIATELY. THE...

WANTED. / WANTED TO HIRE BY THE SUBSCRIBER, TWO MASTER MILL- / MEN, TO GO SOUTH IMMEDIATELY. THE MILLS WHERE THE MEN / ARE WANTED ARE SITUATED ON DOBOY ISLAND, AT THE MOUTH OF THE / ALTAMAHA RIVER, IN GEORGIA, ABOUT 12 MILES BY RIVER BELOW / DARIEN..../ [followed by 12 more lines further describing the work involved, qualifications, conditions in the area, etc.]. Signed in type at the end "Clark Sayles, / Pres't Doboy Steam Mill & Lumber Co."

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

Price: $600.00

The Awful Doom of the Traitor; Or, the Terrible Fate of the Deluded and Guilty: Being a Full...

Bland, William

The Awful Doom of the Traitor; Or, the Terrible Fate of the Deluded and Guilty: Being a Full Disclosure of the Character and Selfish Designs of General Lopez, Who Decoyed a Multitude of Our Best and Bravest Citizens to an Awful and Untimely Grave in the Island of Cuba.

Cincinnati, (OH): H.M. Rulison, 1852. 8vo. 32 pp. Three wood engraved plates. Original printed pink front wrapper (chipped around the edges, lacking rear wrapper), recent stapling. Good copy. Second edition (first issued the previous year by the same publisher). Sensationalized account of the 1850-1851 "attempts by Cuban revolutionists, led by..... More

Price: $2,500.00

ROCKFORD REGISTER. Extra. Rockford, April 3, 4 P.M. CAPTURE OF RICHMOND CONFIRMED! PETERSBURG...

(Civil War). (Illinois).

ROCKFORD REGISTER. Extra. Rockford, April 3, 4 P.M. CAPTURE OF RICHMOND CONFIRMED! PETERSBURG EVACUATED! [Caption title (in six lines)].

Rockford, [IL? 1865]. Broadside, 22 X 8 cm., with small illustration of an eagle & flag motif under the "Rockford Register" line. A few shallow chips at edges, not affecting text. The "extra" announces: "We have just received the following additional despatches, confirming the glorious news of the fall of..... More

Price: $750.00

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. In the House of REPRESENTATIVES, February 16, 1779. WHEREAS upon...

[Directing the Speedy Resolution of Disputes over Quotas of Men]

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. In the House of REPRESENTATIVES, February 16, 1779. WHEREAS upon Examination, In Consequence of a Report of the Committee for settling Disputes between the Towns in the several Counties in this State respecting their Quotas of Men in the Continental Army, it appears that the Committees in the Counties of Plymouth, York, Hampshire, Berkshire and Lincoln who were appointed in April last to settle Disputes between the Towns in their in their respective Counties..... have not complied with the Design of their Appointment....Resolved. That the Committees... are hereby directed to compleat the Affair.... [Signed] John Pickering [40 lines of text approximately 320 words]

[Boston: Printed by Thomas & John Fleet], 1779. Broadside. 25 x 19 cm. Signed in type by John Pickering, Speaker, and read and concurred a true copy by John Avery, Dep. Sec'ry. Old fold lines, some tears to edges, with loss at upper corners (as though from being posted), one..... More

Price: $4,500.00

HELL ON THE BORDER; HE HANGED EIGHTY-EIGHT MEN: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT UNITED STATES CRIMINAL...

Harman, S.W.

HELL ON THE BORDER; HE HANGED EIGHTY-EIGHT MEN: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT UNITED STATES CRIMINAL COURT AT FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, AND OF CRIME AND CRIMINALS IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY, AND THE TRIAL AND PUNISHMENT THEREOF BEFORE HIS HONOR JUDGE ISAAC C. PARKER, "THE TERROR OF LAW-BREAKERS," AND BY THE COURTS OF SAID TERRITORY, EMBRACING THE LEADING SENTENCES AND CHARGES TO GRAND AND PETIT JURIES, DELIVERED BY THE WORLD FAMOUS JURIST, HIS ACKNOWLEDGED MASTERPIECES, BESIDES MUCH OTHER LEGAL LORE OF UNTOLD VALUE TO ATTORNEYS...; Compiled by C.P. Sterns.

Fort Smith, AR: Phoenix Pub. Co., (c1898). First edition, 1/1000 copies. 8vo. 720 pp. Illustrated, portrait frontispiece. Howes H-203 ("b"). Graff 1785: "An important source book." Adams Six-Guns 929: "The chief source of practically every book and feature on the old court and Oklahoma outlaws. The book contains much material..... More

Price: $1,750.00

THE THERAPEUTICS OF TYPHOID FEVER BY CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D. Term of [18]66-7. Copied by E.A....

Hering, Constantine

THE THERAPEUTICS OF TYPHOID FEVER BY CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D. Term of [18]66-7. Copied by E.A. Farrington, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa. [cover title]

NP [Philadelphia]: np, 1866-67. Manuscript notes, a homeopathic materia medica of Constantine Hering's treatments for typhoid fever, belonging to E.A. Farrington. 20 cm. 27pp. Stitched sheets of lined paper. A booklet, likely hand-made, using paper from the Mt. Holly Springs, PA paper mill [their embossed stamp on some pages]. A...... More

Price: $750.00

U.S. STEAMER SPITFIRE, BEFORE THE WALLS OF VERA CRUZ. MARCH 24, 1847. [caption title] An...

Isherwood, B.F.

U.S. STEAMER SPITFIRE, BEFORE THE WALLS OF VERA CRUZ. MARCH 24, 1847. [caption title] An autograph letter, signed, from Benjamin Franklin Isherwood to his mother Mrs. Eliza Green, 130 Hester St., New York City, concerning the Battle of Vera Cruz.

Single sheet, folded in half with integral address, postmarked. 32 cm. 3pp. of text, over 800 words in a legible hand. Sepia ink, old fold lines, one small hole affecting a word or two at a fold, old cello tape marks (tape since removed) along a few of the folds..... More

Price: $1,500.00

PROCLAMATION BY ANDREW JACKSON, PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES OF AMERICA [Caption title]. Andrew...

Jackson, Andrew

PROCLAMATION BY ANDREW JACKSON, PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES OF AMERICA [Caption title]

Paterson, New Jersey: Alexander S. Gould, Printer, [1832-3?]. Broadside, printed on silk. 66 x 51 cm. Seven columns of text. A few pieces missing along outer margins of border, a few tears within text. Jackson attacks the South Carolina Convention that passed the nullification ordinance, denounces nullification as treason and..... More

Price: $3,000.00

JACOB KLODSLOE, ONE OF THE NOBODIES: HOW HE CAME HOME FROM THE WAR, HOW HE GREW UP AND INTO IT....

Klodsloe, Jacob [pseudonym of Abraham Hoss Yeager].

JACOB KLODSLOE, ONE OF THE NOBODIES: HOW HE CAME HOME FROM THE WAR, HOW HE GREW UP AND INTO IT. [cover title].

Cleburne, TX: A.H. Yeager, publisher (T. L. Saunders, printer), 1899. 12mo.; 129pp. Original printed gray wrappers (some wear to spine); text paper somewhat browned, but a very good copy. First edition. Autobiographical story of a Confederate soldier from Washington County, Tennessee; Civil War experiences include his capture at Kennesaw Mountain..... More

Price: $2,000.00

METHODE ABREGEE ET FACILE POUR APPRENDRE LA GEOGRAPHIE...AVEC UN ABREGE DE LA SPHERE. Abbe A. Le...

[Le Francois, Abbe A.]

METHODE ABREGEE ET FACILE POUR APPRENDRE LA GEOGRAPHIE...AVEC UN ABREGE DE LA SPHERE...

Paris: Chez les Libraires Associes, 1772. 12mo.; (2), x, 515, (1) pp. With 17 folding engraved maps by Robert de Vaugondy (dated 1750). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt-tooled, leather spine label, marbled endpapers and edges. Ecclesiastical supralibros, gilt, on both covers, described in an old manuscript note on a fly-leaf..... More

Price: $1,500.00

GEORGIA SCENES, CHARACTERS, INCIDENTS, &c., IN THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC, BY A...

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin)

GEORGIA SCENES, CHARACTERS, INCIDENTS, &c., IN THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC, BY A NATIVE GEORGIAN.

Augusta, (GA): Printed at the S.R. Sentinel office, 1835. First edition. 12mo. 235 pp. Howes L-448. Sabin 41936. Streeter sale 1168. De Renne I, p. 445. Harwell Georgiana 28: "The aim of the author was to supply a chasm of history which has always been overlooked -- the manners, amusements..... More

Price: $7,500.00

The History of the Tuna Club, Founded 1898, Incorporated 1901, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island,...

(Macrate, Arthur N., Jr.).

The History of the Tuna Club, Founded 1898, Incorporated 1901, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California.

(Avalon, CA): Privately printed for the club, (c1948). First edition. Small 4to. vii, (4), 197, (2) pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits. A detailed history of the club and sport fishing by its members, with charts and tables of record fish. Inscribed by George C. Thomas, Jr., a one-time president..... More

Price: $850.00

MEMOIRE, OU, COUP-D'OEIL RAPIDE SUR MES DIFFERENS VOYAGE ET MON SEJOUR DANS LA NATION CRECK. Le...

Milfort, Le Clerc.

MEMOIRE, OU, COUP-D'OEIL RAPIDE SUR MES DIFFERENS VOYAGE ET MON SEJOUR DANS LA NATION CRECK

Paris: L'Imprimerie de Giguet et Michaud, 1802. 8vo. (4), 331, (1) pp. Errata, half-title. Contemporary marbled boards, recently rebacked in calf, employing the original endpapers, new leather spine label. Very good copy. First edition. Signed by the author beneath his justification on the verso of the title page. Howes M-599..... More

Price: $6,000.00

ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE OF BERKS COUNTY, appointed at the Meeting of the...

Muhlenberg, Henry A. (and eleven others)

ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE OF BERKS COUNTY, appointed at the Meeting of the twenty-second of February last, to their Fellow Citizens of Berks county. [Caption title].

Reading, PA: Printed at the Chronicle Office, [1827]. Broadside. 58 x 45 cm. Printed in five columns, with typographical border. Matted. Browned. Small break, without loss. Not in Imprints or NUC. Muhlenberg was politically active in Pennsylvania for many years, and served in Congress during the Jackson administration. See DAB..... More

Price: $600.00

THE CHOCTAW NATION VS. THE UNITED STATES: IS AN AWARD AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, MADE UNDER A...

Pike, Albert).

THE CHOCTAW NATION VS. THE UNITED STATES: IS AN AWARD AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, MADE UNDER A TREATY THAT DECLARES IT SHALL BE FINAL, BINDING UPON THE CONSCIENCE OF THE NATION?

Washington: David M'Intosh, printer, 1872. 8vo. 205 pp. Bound with: (Pike, Luther H.) IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WARD H. LAMON, ET AL., VS. HENRY E. MCKEE:, NO. 11,238, EQUITY DOC. 28: A BRIEF [caption title]. Leather and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt title on spine;..... More

Price: $7,500.00

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