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THE / AULTMAN / & TAYLOR / MACHINERY CO. / MANSFIELD, O.

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...

Price: $1,250.00

By-Laws of the Federal Union Mining Company, Clear Creek County, Colorado, Organized, March 27, 1866. Capital stock $100,000.

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...

Price: $600.00

Colton's New Sectional Map of the State of Missouri. Compiled from the United States surveys & other authentic sources, exhibiting the sections, fractional sections, counties, cities, towns, villages, post offices, rail roads & other internal improvements

New York: J.H. Colton, 1862. Engraved broadside map, 37 x 41 1/2 inches, the counties hand-colored in light shades of blue, green, yellow, and pink, with a darker pink outling state borders, all enclosed within a wide ornamental border. Cover title: "Colton's Sectional Map of Missouri." Cf. Phillips, p. 443...

Price: $2,500.00

CORE HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND MEMORABILIA FROM THE FIRST COMPANY, 7TH REGIMENT NATIONAL GUARDS, NEW YORK STATE ARTILLERY, New York City, ca. 1816-1847.

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...

Price: $4,500.00

CUSTER'S REPLY/ TO THE / Atrocious Attempts / of the / Corrupt or Insane Radical Press / To Pervert his Testimony, &c./ (two columns) The Cleveland Leader has to-day issued an extra containing a most villanous effort to make upon the public mind a false impression in regard to the character of the testimony given by Major General Custer before the Reconstruction Committee of CONGRESS, in order to expose to the community the Gross Injustice of the publication, s well as the INFAMY OF THE MEANS resorteted to by the Radicals to continue their much abused power.....

Cleveland, O[hio]: Plain Dealer, Sept. 17, 1866. Broadside. 58 x 15 cm. Matted, glazed and framed. A small stain from paper clip at lower left of text, else very good. Custer's rebuttal to J.W. Forney, Secretary of the United States Senate, dated August 20, 1866, regarding his testimony before the...

Price: $3,500.00

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.

Price: $850.00

The Love of Truth / Mark the Boy / [cut illustrating the famous story of George Washington and the cherry tree, featuring a boy with a hatchet and his well-dressed father at the tree in the middle of a lush garden, a large plantation house in the background, 5 x 10 inches] / [followed by 46 lines of rhymed couplets giving an account of the chopping down of the cherry tree by young George Washington].

NP [Germantown, PA?]: np [Germantown Print Works?], nd [ca. 1806]. Printed broadside, 11 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches, on muslin, the title illustration and text enclosed within an ornamental border. First line: "At six year old, George full of boyish tricks,"; last two lines: "My sudden anger and my grief...

Price: $2,500.00

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...

Price: $1,500.00

The Union hospitals in Civil War Alexandria, Virginia,; as pictured in a group of 18 stereocards showing the buildings as they appeared while in use during the conflict, the photographs taken and printed at that time, each "Prepared for R. O. Abbott, Surgeon, U.S.A., Colonel and Medical Director, Dept. of Washington, by the Surgeon in Charge of the U.S.A. Gen. Hospitals, Alexandria, Va." [Lt. Col. Edwin Bentley], as indicated by a printed label affixed verso of each [noted “ROA" in the individual descriptions below], all save one with an additional title label verso or title printed directly on the card verso, as described below, all printed in red, the exception having a manuscript title in pencil under the presentation label. Accompanied by six other stereocards of Alexandria's Civil War-era hospitals, the photographs mounted on larger cards than those with the printed labels, each with a printed caption below the image.

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...

Price: $8,500.00

Brown, Matthew (1776-1853).

Matthew Brown Ex Libris, June 11th 1793. Volume 1, Metaphysics [with a second volume of his manuscript notes and essays, first on language (grammar, English language composition, and oratory) and then on "natural philosophy"].

[N.p.]: June 14th - July 22nd 1793 [and somewhat before]. Small 4to. Autograph manuscripts on laid paper, two volumes: (1), 298, (3) pp. (10 leaves blank, pencil notes in another hand on rear end-leaf); 30, (397) pp, illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, tables, etc. Matthew Brown's printed book label is affixed...

Price: $2,500.00

Carroll, B.R. (comp.)

Historical Collections of South Carolina; Embracing Many Rare and Valuable Pamphlets, and Other Documents, Relating to the History of that State, from Its First Discovery to Its Independence, in the Year 1776; Various notes and an introduction by the compiler

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: lxxx, [9]-533; 576 pp. Folding map in volume one (professionally repaired). Howes C-178. Sabin 11067. Turnbull II, p. 360. Larned 1128: "This useful work contains a reprint of Hewatt's 'Historical Account of South Carolina' and 16 pamphlets and extracts...

Price: $600.00

Custer, Maj. Gen. G(eorge) A. (signer in type)

TO THE / SOLDIERS / AND SAILORS / Who Served in the Army and Navy of the / United States During the Late Rebellion. / (in two columns) In pursurance of a resolution of a meeting of soldiers now or lately in the Union army, held in this city last evening, we invite those of you who approve the Restoration policy of the President and the principles announced by the National Union Convention at Philadelphia, to assemble at Cleveland on the 17th day of September next, for consultation on the momentous issues now convulsing our country......

Washington, DC: np, August 19, 1866. Broadside. 59 x 24 cm. Matted, framed and glazed. In the text the "Committee on Address," which includes Major Generals G.A. Custer, A.McD. McCook, L.H. Rousseau, George Crook, S. Meridith, and Thomas Ewing, argues that the country should move forward with accepting the South...

Price: $4,500.00

Department of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes, Secretary. General Land Office, Fred W. Johnson, Commissioner.

UNITED STATES INCLUDING TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS SHOWING THE EXTENT OF PUBLIC SURVEYS, NATIONAL PARKS AND MONUMENTS, INDIAN, MILITARY, BIRD AND GAME RESERVATIONS, NATIONAL FORESTS, RAILROADS, CANALS, AND OTHER DETAILS, 1934.

[Washington, DC]: Printed by the U.S. Geological Survey, Engraved by R.F. Bartle & Co., Washington, DC, 1934. Large wall map of the United States, 58.5 x 81 in., including part of Mexico, and the Island of Cuba, mounted on cloth and attached to wooden rollers at the upper and lower...

Price: $600.00

Douglass, William

A SUMMARY, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL OF THE FIRST PLANTING, PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENTS, AND PRESENT STATE OF THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS OF NORTH- AMERICA.

Boston, New-England, Printed: London re-printed for R. Baldwin in Pater-noster-Row, 1755. First British edition of the first history of America as a whole, by a resident American, detailing its component parts, their social and economic conditions and potential, politics, and geographical features. 8vo. 2 vols.: 568; 416 pp. Folding map...

Price: $4,500.00

Drake, B. & E.D. Mansfield

CINCINNATI IN 1826

Cincinnati: Printed by Morgan, Lodge, and Fisher, February, 1827. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. original wrappers soiled, paper label on front. First Edition. 100, [1] pp. Two plates. The plates depict the Medical College of Ohio and the Branch Bank. Tipped in sheet in front: "Js[?] S. Stevens with the compliments...

Price: $750.00

Gill, John R.

Examples of advertising art produced by John R. Gill for projects undertaken by the Art Engraving Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Seattle Engraving Company of Seattle, Washington, during the first two decades of the 20th century, as represented in printed examples, clippings, and tear sheets, and mounted in a period album.

Seattle, WA, and St. Paul, MN: 1900s and 1910s. Oblong 4to album, with 48 sheets of stiff black paper bearing 81 items (another seven are laid in), some in color, one or more pieces mounted per page, some overlapping each other, or trimmed artistically to fit the page. The advertisements...

Price: $850.00

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...

Price: $2,500.00

Kilbourne, D.W.

STRICTURES ON DR. I. GALLAND'S PAMPHLET, ENTITLED "VILLAINY EXPOSED," WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS TRANSACTIONS IN LANDS OF THE SAC AND FOX RESERVATION, ETC., IN LEE COUNTY, IOWA

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...

Price: $1,000.00

Leigh, Mrs. Edward (Ella)

Confessions of a Flirt; "An Ower True Tale."

Milledgeville, GA: Boughton, Nisbet, Barnes & Moore, Printers, 1865. First edition. 8vo. 72 pp. Romance set in Georgia during the Civil War. Wright II, 1531 ("LC copy lacks all after page 16"). Parrish & Willingham 6402 (Library of Congress, North Carolina, Western Reserve), calling for "16 pp." Crandall 3100 ("16...

Price: $2,500.00

Lloyd, W. Alvin

W. Alvin Lloyd's Southern Rail-Road Map, 1863

Mobile, AL: W. Alvin Lloyd (Lith. By W.R. Robertson, Mobile), [after June 20]1863. Lithographed map on thin paper, 16 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches, with light pink, yellow, and green coloring, delineating the railroad systems of the Confederacy, with Texas included in the Atlantic Ocean under the Carolinas, and a....

Price: $15,000.00

(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...

Price: $850.00

Payne, John Howard (1791-1852 ; American actor, author, poet, and diplomat).

"Home, Sweet Home," an original holograph copy of the poem and ballad, signed by the author and inscribed by him at the bottom to the wife of Daniel Webster's secretary "for Mrs. Zantzinger, who knows so thoroughly the way, and exercises so sweetly the power, to render Home what Heaven meant it should be. Washington, March 28, 1851."

Accompanied by five autograph letters from Payne to Zantzinger, signed 27 October 1849 – 4 May 1851. Washington, DC, 1851. The poem is written on a sheet of stationery, 8 x 6 1/2 inches embossed at the edges, and mounted on a larger sheet (9 x 8 3/4 inches); a....

Price: $12,500.00

Robert, Oscar (1829-1901)

PORTRAIT OF BOY WITH THE U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING IN BACKGROUND. [title supplied]

[Washington, DC]: nd [ca.1870]. Original watercolor, charcoal and chalk drawing on canvas, 24.5 x 29.5 in., glazed and framed. Signed by the artist. The young boy is well dressed in a double-breasted suit and bow tie, with button-up boots. He stands on a tiled terrace, one hand one a balustrade...

Price: $1,500.00

Robinson, William Davis

Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution: Including a Narrative of the Expedition of General Xavier Mina; With Some Observations on the Practicability of Opening a Commerce between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, through the Mexican Isthmus in the Province of Oaxaca, and at the Lake of Nicaragua; and on the Future Importance of Such Commerce to the Civilized World, and More Especially to the United States.

Philadelphia: Printed for the author [by] Lydia R. Bailey, printer, 1820. 8vo. xxxvi, 396 pp. Original paper-backed boards (rubbed and soiled), printed paper spine label; lacking blank endpapers front and rear, spine a bit perished, foxed. Still a sound copy in the original binding. First edition. Howes R-380: "Chief contemporary...

Price: $850.00

Smyth, George W.

An Address Delivered to the Mississippi Hibernian Society on St. Patrick’s Day, 1827 [cover title].

Natchez [MS]: Printed at the Ariel Office, 1827. 8vo. (1), 7 pp. Original printed wrappers, the front wrapper bordered with a Greek key-meander; some spine erosion, owner’s name (a Smyth) on the front cover, but a very good copy housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. Unrecorded 1827 Natchez Imprint.First...

Price: $3,750.00

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