[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
A collection of 11 items from the first organizational years of the National Guard unit which protected New York City in the early 19th century. The group consists of three brass cylinders, each containing rolled manuscript documents related to the regiment; an oval metal box containing a pair of epaulettes..... More
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
[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
Washington, (DC): Printed by A. Boyd Hamilton, 1852. First edition. Folio. (2), 159 pp. [printed rectos only], completely interleaved (squares 166, 171, 226, 284, 326, 355, 391, 439, 521, 550-554, 566, 591, 596-597, 648, 917, 934-935, 994-996, 1024-1025, 1058, and 1084 have been completely redrawn on facing leaf in ink;..... 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
[Victor, CO]: 1897. Retained copies of correspondence for seven letters (15 pages, rectos only; approx. 2500 words), plus a hand-drawn diagram for the "Nellie V. Shaft," the "April Fool Shaft," and the "Golconda No. 2 Shaft." The letterhead stationery is illustrated with a 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. printed..... More
[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
Alexandria, VA: nd [after 10/7/64; cf. King Street Branch entry in the 1st Division]. A unique presentation assemblage prepared by a hospital department head for a colleague in a similar, and nearby, position. 24 stereoviews, image size 3 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches, mounted on stiff card stock, all except..... More
[Bremo, Fluvanna Co., Virginia]: John H. Cocke, nd [1837, determined by the horses named in the text]. Broadside, 17 1/4 x 11 inches, employing a large bold type for the one-word head and printed on course brown paper; the wood engraving is signed in the image "Anderson." The horse stood..... More
NP: np, 1810-1830? Broadside. 23 x 23 cm. Illustrated with two relief cuts in the upper corners. Verse in eleven stanzas and two columns, separated by a decorative line. Not in American Imprints. OCLC lists a copy at AAS. The young man dreams he seduces the object of his desire..... More
Lincoln, NB: State journal Power Press Print, 1870. First edition. 8vo. 30 pp. Three leaves of local advertisements at the rear. Howes A-219. Graff 55. Not in Streeter sale, Eberstadt, Soliday, or Decker. OCLC locates ten copies ( Columbia, Gene Autry Museum, Huntington, Stanford, Yale, Newberry, Harvard, Nebraska-Kearney, Nebraska-Omaha, Princeton)..... 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
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
Philadelphia: William Bradford [for the author and "worthy correspondents of the said society"], [1746]. 8vo. viii, 253 pp. Half-title. Recent brown calf, gilt rules on spine, leather spine label; browning to text block, but a very good copy in an attractive new period-style binding. First edition. Howes B-717 ("b"). Sabin..... More
Washington, DC: Gibson Brothers, 1913. 4to. xiii, 509 pp. Frontispiece plate. Original gilt-stamped navy cloth (rubbed). Owner's name, else very good. Original gilt-stamped navy cloth (rubbed). First edition. Howes C-191: "100 copies printed." Nevins I, p. 67: "Singularly unique, for this volume is composed largely of the letters from the..... More
Various places in the Pacific, 1943-1945. 129 postcards (including a few duplicates), almost all 3 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches, including 83 black-and-white real photo postcards, 41 color real photo postcards, and four color illustrated postcards, picturing scenes of native life in Hawaii, surfers, a luau, hula dancers, pineapple fields..... More
[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
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
Peoria, (IL): Daily Transcript Book and Job Printing House, 1862. First edition thus (?). 12mo. 9, (3) pp. Final page prints a certificate, to be filled out in manuscript, for members as they join the unit; this copy made out to James Ward, and signed by the company's foreman and..... More
Amsterdam: Paul Marret, 1695. Later edition in French (first published in Paris, 1676; the work first published in English in London, 1648). 12mo. 2 volumes bound as one: (24), 200, 178; (14), 318 pp. Extra engraved title pages to each volume, 16 folding maps and plates. Sabin 26304. Hill 665..... More
Cleveland, Ohio: 1882. Four pages, approximately 350 words, in part: "Advance sheets of [Mr. Blaine's] address reached her yesterday morning. Thronging emotions and memories made my heart stand still. It was the anniversary of the last day the Gen'l passed in our Mentor [Ohio] home ... hopes, ambitions, aspirations, pure..... More
Elberon, NJ: np, 1881. Printed broadside, 9 x 7 1/8 inches, the text printed within a wide black mourning rule, crossed at the corners. Garfield's death occurred some ten weeks after a disgruntled former supporter, Charles Guiteau, shot him twice at the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C...... More
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
Dublin: Moncrieffe, Jenkin [and others], 1785. 1st Dublin edition in English (earlier English editions appeared in Amsterdam and London). 8vo.; (2), 280pp. Recent sprinkled calf, leather spine label. Tidelines from old staining through text, but a solid copy in an attractive new binding. Sabin 42925 (quoting from "Monthly Review"): "His..... More