A small archive of 28 letters, 12 post cards and miscellaneous ephemera and clippings from the Dead Letter Office at Alcatraz Prison, San Francisco Bay, dated from 1951 to 1962. The correspondence is addressed to inmates, both real and imagined, and to the postmaster at Alcatraz. A few of the..... More
[Salem, Mass.]: Salem Observer Press, [1842]. Broadside, 19" x 16 1/2". Caption title and three columns of text and tables within an attractive ornamental border. Old tidelines to upper corners, some foxing, snag at lower left of ornamental border (repaired on verso). Tipped onto a backing board at upper corners..... More
Milwaukee: Riverside Printing Co., nd (ca.1880). Buff paperwraps, stitched. 19cm. (16)pp. A promotional pamphlet encouraging settlement in the Dakota Territory. Though undated, rate charts for rail travel from Chicago and Milwaukee include mention of stations to be opened in early 1881. Advice to the potential settler is given by W.E...... More
Pomfret, VT: (The surveyor?), 1855. First edition. Large broadside, 58 x 47 inches, townships hand-colored, the map enclosed within a wide floral border broken by 10 views (each 4 x 5 inches), mostly of Woodstock and Royalton, most of the space outside the county borders filled with 28 village plans..... More
Memphis, TN: Printed by Saunders, Jones & Co., nd [late 1867 or early 1868]. Beautiful, elaborate trade card, 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, printed in red, green, and gilt, the text enclosed within a triple-rule red and green border, with green corner ornaments and a large central green ornament..... 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
Natchez: Printed by Peter Isler, printer to the territory, 1816. 8vo. 495, (1), (2), (20), (6) pp. Contemporary calf (rubbed), blind rules around edges of upper and lower boards and on spine, gilt stamped on brown leather spine label, some darkening to joints and spine. Offseting to endpapers and usual..... 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
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
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
Pittsburgh, (PA): Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum, 1810. 12mo. 504 pp. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather spine label, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Fine copy in an attractive recent binding. First edition. Howes C-947: "Excellent and extensive observations on pioneer conditions throughout the Ohio and lower Mississippi valleys." Sabin 17890. Clark..... More
NY: Putnam's, 1905. Fourth edition, with an additional chapter on the Old Régime in the Old Dominion and a new preface. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication to a former Union soldier, Col. George W. Dunn. Harwell In Tall Cotton 52: "Enjoyable record of Confederate service by..... More
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
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
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
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1873. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 530 pp. Illustrated, 30 plates, mostly archaeological specimens, three wood-engraved in-text vignettes. From the Gordon Jones collection, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Jones (1915-1987), a physician in Fredericksburg, Virginia, assembled a wonderful collection of Americana emphasizing the..... More
Columbus (OH): The author [and others], P.H. Olmsted, printer, 1821. 12mo. 204 pages. Folding map, plate. Contemporary calf (rubbed), leather spine label; persistent foxing, but a crisp copy. Seventh edition, "carefully revised and corrected." The new preface is dated 1821; Kilbourn's folding map of Ohio has the counties outlined in..... More
Fort Madison, (IA): Printed at the Statesman Office, 1850. 8vo. 24 pp. Self-wrappers, stitched as issued; a little chipping along the spine and a few brown spots, but an attractive untrimmed copy. First edition. Howes K-131: "First imprint of this city." Streeter sale III, 1895: " Here Kilbourne accuses Galland..... More
NY: Harper, 1840. Second edition, with original illustrations. New York: Harper, 1840. First illustrated edition with the date "1840" on the title page (first published in Augusta, Georgia, 1835). 12mo. 214 pp. 12 plates. Publisher's catalogue date March, 1840. Howes L-448. Sabin 41936. Streeter sale 1168. De Renne I, p...... More
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
NP [Washington DC?]: nd [ca. 1880]. Small oval portrait, 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches, in an elaborate Victorian gilt and plaster frame (chipped around the edges), glazed. The portrait of McKibbin is in profile, in full uniform, with grayish-white hair and beard; offered with a photograph, 4 3/8 x...... More
[Montgomery, AL: Montgomery Independent, May 3, 1967]. Broadside. "Permission Granted to Reprint," at bottom left corner of text. 58 x 38 cm. Text printed in two columns, on poor quality buff paper, old fold lines, a few closed tears along lower margin, not affecting text. Signed in type by Muncaster..... More
[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
New York: Ensign & Bridgman, 1866. Third edition (first issued in 1856). Broadside map, 31 x 33 inches, picturing the United States to include those with the Mississippi River on their eastern borders, all state borders hand-colored in shades of red, blue, yellow, and green, the whole enclosed within a...... More
Folio. One page, approximately 300 words; docketed on verso. Ridgely, "of the U.S. Navy," assigned power of attorney to Jane B. Ridgely, "to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever concerning my slaves … (consisting of the following: a negro man Nathan, a negro man Dennis, a negro boy Nathan..... More