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
[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
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
(Montgomery, AL): G.W. Beers & Co., Printers, 1876. Printed broadside, 14 1/8 x 11 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, including nice display types in the head, on thin card, the whole enclosed within an ornamental border. In part: "We come, Sir, from the land ... of the... 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
Philadelphia, (PA): J.B. Lipincott & Co., 1868. First edition. 12mo. (4), 164 pp. Folding map. On the front endpaper inscribed, "To the President of the United States with the respects and kind regards of the author." With an 1867 copyright and close ties to his fellow Tennessean and Union supporter... 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
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
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... More
Dublin: P. & W. Wilson [and others], 1769. 8vo. 2 volumes: vii, 463; viii, 415 pp. Contemporary flame calf (joints cracked and a little eroded), leather spine labels (rubbed). A solid copy. First Dublin edition, originally published in French in 1757; the first edition in English appeared in London in... More
Knoxville, TN: Stubley Printing Co., 1929. 8vo. 150pp. 3 portrait plates; handbill prospectus laid in. Original blue cloth. Very good copy. First edition. 4-page ALS from the author concerning local politics and finances laid in (Dandridge, Tennessee, 1876). The author served in Co. C of this unit recruited in East... More
Paris: Chez Buisson, 1785. First edition in French. 8vo. (4), xvi, 234 pp. Folding map (short marginal tear, skillfully repaired on verso). Original boards, rebacked in calf to style, with matching corners. A nice copy. The first edition to be published with a map. HOWES; " First book on Kentucky... More
Original watercolor, 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, title, as above, written below the image, inscribed on the verso (visible in the frame): "To Col. Charles Bird / Adjt. 23rd Infty. / With compliments of / J.E.H. Foster / Lt. 3d Cavalry / Feby 12th 1876." The watercolor itself was... More
(Mt. Hope, KS?): n.d., n.d. (ca. 1890). 1st ed., published as a promotional to help the sale of a larger work of the same title, published in 1890 in Antioch, Illinois. Wraps; 15pp. Portraits on front & rear wraps. Rare. The NUC locates only the Denver Public Library copy. Orig... 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
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
(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
Nashville, TN: Regimental Publication Committee, 1904. 8vo. 520 pp. Illustrated, plates, portraits. Original black cloth (rubbed), gilt title on spine mostly rubbed away; ink note on front pastedown, some marginal pencil notes. Still a solid copy. First edition. Includes company rosters and an extensive section of biographical sketches. Howes M-173... More
Penfield, GA: W. & W.C. Richards, 1842. First edition. 4to. (6), 44 pp. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates and an extra-engraved title page. Howes R-252: "Originally issued in five parts, 1841-1842." Sabin 70963: "A second series was projected, but not published." De Renne catalogue II, p. 484. Harwell Georgiana 32... More
New York (?): [ca. 1932]. Photograph, 10 x 8 inches. Roosevelt's photographer for this portrait was Louis Fabian Bachrach, Sr. (1881-1963), second in a three generation commercial photography business, Bachrach Studios, started by his father, David Bachrach, photographer of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1868; Louis Fabian... More
Georgetown, Columbia: Printed and published by J.M. Carter, 1814. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 12mo. (4), [9]-279, (1) pp. Sabin 94484. American Imprints 32909. Haynes 18131. Sowerby 814 (with a long note pertaining to the first edition and Jefferson's relationship with Taylor). Poor "Catalogue" 255 (for the sale of Jefferson's... More
(Dallas, TX): (printed by Egan Printing Co., for the company), [ca.1917]. Trade catalogue. Oblong 4to. 526 pp. Frontispiece trademark illustration and numerous other illustrations from line drawings and photographs. Padgitt Brothers Company was established in 1869 and incorporated in 1900; the company's success "in supplying the needs of the saddlery... More
London: Printed by E. Cave at St. John's Gate, 1734-5. 16mo. 37, (2) pp. Contemporary calf (rubbed, lower portion of spine eroded, joints cracked); contemporary ink additions on several blank pages, stray ink notes on rear pastedown, but a good solid copy. First edition. The last printed page lists the... More
![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"].](/pictures/thumb/59718.jpeg?v=1480375647)
![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."](/pictures/thumb/58054.JPG?v=1474085611)
![General Grant / and / Captain Ben Hill Screws. / [ornamental rule] / (New York Herald, June 29, 1876.) / Impudence at the White House! / Bold Expressions of a Defiant Reb. / [ornamental rule] / [followed by seven paragraphs, printing Screws' address to the President at his White House visit]](/pictures/thumb/58039.JPG?v=1474085611)
![PADGITT BROS. CO. DALLAS, TEXAS. MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF SADDLES, HARNESS, HORSE COLLARS, LEATHER, SADDLERY HARDWARE, SHOE FINIDNGS. CATALOGUE No. 83. [cover title]. Trade catalogue.](/pictures/thumb/57734.jpg?v=1474085608)
