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1869, 1869 / LIVERY, FEED & SALE STABLE. / Liberty, [cut of a horse drawn carriage, with driver,...

1869, 1869 / LIVERY, FEED & SALE STABLE. / Liberty, [cut of a horse drawn carriage, with driver, 1 1/8 x 2 1/2 inches] Missouri. / The undersigned having refitted the old "Thompson House" Stables, is prepared / to accommodate the public with / Hacks, Buggies and Saddle Horses, / and any thing else in his line. / He will also Run a Daily Hack to and from Liberty Landing to connect / with North Missouri Railroad at Baxter. [complete text]. Signed in type at the end "Wm. D. Wymore. / Liberty, March, 1869."

Liberty, MO: Wm. D. Wymore, 1869. Printed broadside, 7 3/4 x 11 3/4, employing several sizes and styles of type, including bold capitals for the head. Wymore (1835-1894) apparently took over the "Thompson House" Stables from a relative, George W. Wymore, who had established the business in the late 1840s... More about 1869, 1869 / LIVERY, FEED & SALE STABLE. / Liberty, [cut of a horse drawn carriage, with...

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Acts passed at the eighth session of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas : which...

Acts passed at the eighth session of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas : which was begun and held at the town of Little Rock, on Monday, the seventh day of October, and ended on Saturday, the sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

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...

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BOUDOUSQUIE'S REFERENCE MAP OF MOBILE AND VICINITY

BOUDOUSQUIE'S REFERENCE MAP OF MOBILE AND VICINITY.

New Orleans, LA: T. Fitzwilliam & Co., Lith.; Paul C. Boudousquie, C.E., Del., Mobile, Ala. 1889. Matted, glazed, and framed. 50 x 30 cm. map, within a slightly larger border. Map is lightly creased from folding, printed in pale yellow and blue, showing Mobile Bay at the center, and the... More about BOUDOUSQUIE'S REFERENCE MAP OF MOBILE AND VICINITY

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BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION. / HIS OUTRAGEOUS INSULT TO THE / WOMEN OF NEW ORLEANS! / SOUTHERN MEN,...

BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION. / HIS OUTRAGEOUS INSULT TO THE / WOMEN OF NEW ORLEANS! / SOUTHERN MEN, AVENGE / THEIR WRONGS!!! / [followed by a bold rule and a slightly revised version of Butler's famous proclamation suggesting, in some circumstances, a New Orleans woman might be treated as a "woman of the town plying her avocation"].

[New Orleans, LA? nd (ca.1862). First edition, the Philip D. Sang copy. Printed broadside, 13 x 9 1/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type including larger display types. One of the great Civil War broadsides, and the only recorded copy. This printing is the bold Confederate response to... More about BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION. / HIS OUTRAGEOUS INSULT TO THE / WOMEN OF NEW ORLEANS! / SOUTHERN MEN,...

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DECLARATION OF THE FREEMASONS OF BOSTON AND VICINITY. Presented to the Public December 31, A.D....

DECLARATION OF THE FREEMASONS OF BOSTON AND VICINITY. Presented to the Public December 31, A.D. 1831. [Caption title].

[Boston, MA]: Boston Masonic Mirror, [1831]. Broadside, 50 cm. x 34 cm. Trimmed close all around. An extraordinary publication, requiring considerable personal courage. Signed in type by over 1500 Massachusetts Masons, many of whom must have been exceedingly reluctant since Morgan's murder in 1827 to be publicly identified as Masons... More about DECLARATION OF THE FREEMASONS OF BOSTON AND VICINITY. Presented to the Public December 31, A.D....

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ELECTRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, / OF THE SCIENCE OF THE MAN, / WONDERFUL & AMUSING PHENOMENA, / AT THE NEW...

ELECTRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, / OF THE SCIENCE OF THE MAN, / WONDERFUL & AMUSING PHENOMENA, / AT THE NEW / BOTANIC HALL, / East Broadway near Market Street, / Monday & Tuesday Evenings, / January 8 and 9 / BY DR. H.A. BENTON. Favorably known as a Lecturer, and very successful in his experiments, not only in con-/ vincing his auditors of the power one may exert over another, by an effort of the will, or action upon / the Nervous System; but with proper application will cure almost every disease that flesh is heir to,/ which facts and certificates will from time to time, be exhibited, showing that active remedies or / medicines are not always, if ever, necessary, and that ELECTRICITY, in some form properly applied, have no Equal as a curative agent...../ N.B. Dr. BENTON, after three years' successful practice in Brooklyn, has now located / his office in New York...../ Examinations by Clairvoyants, for disease, / (which have astonished those who have witnessed them,) can be had if desired..../ ONE SHILLING, / or ten Tickets for ONE DOLLAR......

N.Y. PRUDEN & ROBERTS, Printers, 51 Beekman street, [1855]. 35 x 20 cm. Printed on both sides. The remainder of the sheet is filled with testimonials, in two columns. No listings found on OCLC or in Atwater. More about ELECTRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, / OF THE SCIENCE OF THE MAN, / WONDERFUL & AMUSING PHENOMENA, / AT THE...

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Ordinances of the Corporation of Morgantown, with the Charter Annexed

Ordinances of the Corporation of Morgantown, with the Charter Annexed

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

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Report of the Proposed Construction of a Rail Road from York to the Cumberland Valley Rail Road

Report of the Proposed Construction of a Rail Road from York to the Cumberland Valley Rail Road

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

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SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CHAMPION OF LIBERTY, GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON; FIRST...

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CHAMPION OF LIBERTY, GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON; FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

NP [New York?]: John I. Donlevy, intaglio-chromographic and electrographic engraver, nd. Calligraphic bust-length oval portrait of George Washington, engraved by Donlevy, platemark 16 1/2 x 13 7/8 in. Matted, glazed and framed. Within the oval portrait which is based Stuart's "Lansdowne" image, Washington's face has been hand-colored. His birth and... More about SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CHAMPION OF LIBERTY, GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON; FIRST...

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

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

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TWO EARLY CUBAN BROADSIDES, ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE TIVOLI COUNTRY FAIR, 1820's

TWO EARLY CUBAN BROADSIDES, ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE TIVOLI COUNTRY FAIR, 1820's.

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 about TWO EARLY CUBAN BROADSIDES, ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE TIVOLI COUNTRY FAIR, 1820's

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THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN, NOVEMBER 30, 1864: THE BLOODIEST ENGAGEMENT OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE...

Banks, R.W.

THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN, NOVEMBER 30, 1864: THE BLOODIEST ENGAGEMENT OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

NY & Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1908. 8vo. 88 pp. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth (a little spotted). Very good copy. First edition. The author served as captain of Company D, 37th Mississippi Infantry in the Confederate army. Dornbusch Il, 607. Nicholson, p. 54. Not in Nevins. More about THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN, NOVEMBER 30, 1864: THE BLOODIEST ENGAGEMENT OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES

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COMPENDIUM FLORAE PHILADELPHICAE: Containing a Description of the Indigenous and Naturalized...

Barton, William P.C.

COMPENDIUM FLORAE PHILADELPHICAE: Containing a Description of the Indigenous and Naturalized Plants Found Within a Circuit of Ten Miles Around Philadelphia.

Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son, 1818. First edition. 2 volumes. 20 cm. (8), 251; 234pp. Original cloth backed boards, spines perished, front covers detached. Untrimmed, light foxing, but text sound and clean. Small library stamps on title, library bookplates on front pastedowns, prev. owner's bookplates on front endpapers. Housed in... More about COMPENDIUM FLORAE PHILADELPHICAE: Containing a Description of the Indigenous and Naturalized...

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CAPE COD BRANCH R. ROAD / SPRING & SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. Sylvanus Bourne, Superintendant

Bourne, Sylvanus, Superintendant

CAPE COD BRANCH R. ROAD / SPRING & SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.

Sandwich, [MA]: 1853. Broadside. 35 x 29 cm. Lovely image of passenger train and engine occupies about a fifth of the page. Some losses to edges perhaps from pulling it down from where it had been posted. No lost of text. Laid down on stiff paper. More about CAPE COD BRANCH R. ROAD / SPRING & SUMMER ARRANGEMENT

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BRASS BOUND POLISHED WOODEN BOX WITH DRAFTING TOOLS AND CONTENTS, BELONGING TO DANIEL C.E. BRADY...

Brady, Daniel C.E. (1821-1878), and Charles P.A. Brady (1850-1911)

BRASS BOUND POLISHED WOODEN BOX WITH DRAFTING TOOLS AND CONTENTS, BELONGING TO DANIEL C.E. BRADY AND HIS SON CHARLES A. BRADY, OWNERS OF BUFFALO FORGE, ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, mid 19th century.

(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...

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“Ashland / The Homestead of Henry Clay” [caption title below image]; Drawn by James Hamilton...

[Clay, Henry]

“Ashland / The Homestead of Henry Clay” [caption title below image]; Drawn by James Hamilton after daguerreotypes taken on the spot by J.M. Hewitt. Engraved by J. Sartain

Louisville, KY: Published by F. Hegan, 1853. First edition (?; a reworked version was issued in Philadelphia in 1863). Engraved view of Henry Clay's home in Lexington, Kentucky, 20 3/4 x 30 1/2 inches, a richly hand-colored view of the stately southern house in a grove of trees, a dog... More about “Ashland / The Homestead of Henry Clay” [caption title below image]; Drawn by James Hamilton...

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Reminiscences of Charleston, Lately Published in the Charleston Courier, and Now Revised and...

Fraser, Charles

Reminiscences of Charleston, Lately Published in the Charleston Courier, and Now Revised and Enlarged by the Author

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...

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REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DESIGN OF ARMY SEMIRIGID AIRSHIP RS-1. Henry Goldmark

Goldmark, Henry (et al.).

REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DESIGN OF ARMY SEMIRIGID AIRSHIP RS-1.

(Washington, DC: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, June 13, 1925). Two volumes: 28 [introduction, rectos only], (approximately 500) pp.; (approximately 400) pp. Both volumes illustrated with numerous charts, tables, blueprints, diagrammatic sketches and drawings, many folding, volume two with 13 full-size photographs bound-in. The committee members included Goldmark as chairman... More about REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DESIGN OF ARMY SEMIRIGID AIRSHIP RS-1

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Selma; Her Institutions and Her Men. John Hardy

Hardy, John

Selma; Her Institutions and Her Men

Selma, AL: Times Book and Job Office, 1879. First edition. 8vo. 200 pp. Howes H-192. Owen, p. 968-969 (describing his own copy). Recent navy quarter-morocco and marbled boards, gilt title on spine, original printed yellow wrappers (with advertisements for local businesses) bound in; poor quality paper browned, but a very... More about Selma; Her Institutions and Her Men

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DUTY AND AUTHORITY OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. John Haywood

Haywood, John.

DUTY AND AUTHORITY OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.

Nashville: Thomas G. Bradford, 1810. 8vo. 372, (6) pp., 8 pp. ads for printer. Contemporary leather binding, worn. Some internal staining. Very good. First edition. A native of North Carolina, Haywood (1762-1826) moved to Tennessee in 1807 where he enhanced his already solid reputation as a jurist and historian, publishing... More about DUTY AND AUTHORITY OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE

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RELATION DES VOYAGES ET DES DECOUVERTES QUE LES ESPAGNOLS ONT FAIT DANS LES INDES OCCIDENTALES......

Las Casas, Dom. B. de.

RELATION DES VOYAGES ET DES DECOUVERTES QUE LES ESPAGNOLS ONT FAIT DANS LES INDES OCCIDENTALES... AVEC LA RELATION CURIEUSE DES VOYAGES DU SIEUR DE MONTAUBAN~EN GUINEE L'AN 1695.

Amsterdam, J. Louis de Lorme Lib. 1698. 16mo.; [8], 402pp., [2]. Engraved frontis. plate. Full leather (worn; front joint cracked); small, old institutional label at head of spine; all page edges red. Internally clean, and a very good copy overall. This is the principal and most important work of Las... More about RELATION DES VOYAGES ET DES DECOUVERTES QUE LES ESPAGNOLS ONT FAIT DANS LES INDES OCCIDENTALES......

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The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas, with Remarks Historical and Critical on Johnson's Life of...

LEE, Henry

The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas, with Remarks Historical and Critical on Johnson's Life of Greene; To which Is Appended an Appendix of Original Documents Relating to the History of the Revolution.

Philadelphia: E. Littell, William Brown, printer, 1824. 8vo. (2), 511, xlvii pp. Contemporary sheep (scuffed, spine darkened and somewhat eroded). Very good copy. First edition. Howes L-204: "Here the son of 'Light Horse' Henry Lee resents the slurs on his father contained in William Johnson's Life of Greene and attacks... More about The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas, with Remarks Historical and Critical on Johnson's Life of...

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

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THE GENTLEMAN'S NEW POCKET FARRIER, COMPRISING A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE NOBLE AND USEFUL...

Mason, Richard.

THE GENTLEMAN'S NEW POCKET FARRIER, COMPRISING A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE NOBLE AND USEFUL ANIMAL THE HORSE; TOGETHER WITH THE QUICKEST AND SIMPLEST MODE OF FATTENING; NECESSARY TREATMENT WHILE UNDERGOING EXCESSIVE FATIGUE, OR ON A JOURNEY; THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF STABLES; DIFFERENT MARKS FOR ASCERTAINING THE AGE OF A HORSE, FROM THREE TO NINE YEARS.-- ALSO, A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE DISEASES TO WHICH THE HORSE IS SUBJECT, WITH SUCH REMEDIES AS LONG EXPERIENCE HAS PROVED TO BE EFFECTUAL; TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS AND RECEIPTS FOR THE CURE OF MOST OF THE COMMON DISTEMPERS INCIDENT TO OXEN, COWS, CALVES, SHEEP, LAMBS, SWINE, &c. &c. SELECTED FROM DIFFERENT AUTHORS.

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...

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