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

Salt lake City, (Utah Territory): 1863. Vol. XII, no 38 (this issue only). Folio. [297]-304 pp. This mid-Civil War issue of the Mormon newspaper prints a long statement (5 1/2 columns on the first two pages) by Brigham Young, extolling the patriotism of Mormons, their Mexican War battalions, etc., and..... More

New York: F. Missler & Krimmert (H.A. Rost Ptg. and Pub. Co., New York), nd [ca. 1895]. Large chromolithograph, 42 x 28 5/8 inches, an advertising poster designed to entice recent immigrants from Germany and eastern Europe to invest in farm lands in Georgia, apparently one of a number of..... More

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., Printers, nd (ca.1882). Printed broadsheet, 22 x 8 inches, employing a number of styles and sizes of type, recto with promotional text praising the climate and soil of the northern half of Dakota Territory for its ability to grow No. 1 Hard Spring Wheat, which..... More

Single sheet, folded. 31 cm. 3 pp. of text, docketted on the fourth page, "Concerning Town Common Land 1709." A manuscript report, approx. 540 words. Old fold lines, splitting along one fold (not affecting any text), some ink blots and corrections to text, a legible copy. The committee reports its..... More

[Liberty, MO]: W.L. Watkins, 1861. Printed broadside, 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, employing several type sizes, including large display types, the whole enclosed within an ornamental border. I can give more satisfaction, and better bargains, by simply paying a fair price for Wool and selling such cloths as [others]..... More

[Raleigh, NC?]: (1821). 8vo. 8 pp. Printed self-wrappers, disbound; age-toned, some foxing. Very good. First edition. The author's plan "on the utility and practicability of opening an inlet at the lower end of the Albemarle Sound, near a place called Nag's Head," including a list of needed supplies and estimates..... More

Boston: Printed by Adams & Nourse, Printers to the General Court, 1787. Broadside. 39 1/2 x 32 1/2 cm. Illus. relief cut. Signed in type by Gov. James Bowdoin, and by John Avery, Secretary. Old fold lines, a few tiny holes, else a very good example, encapsulated. "Wheras by an..... More

New York: Will H. Coleman, 1885. First edition, issue 2 (with Lafcadio Hearn's name at foot of page 299). 12mo. (4), 324 pp. Plates from wood engravings, frontispiece. Lafcadio Hearn supplied Chapter XL "The Scenes of Cable's Romances." Gilt-stamped at base of front cover: "Exposition Edition." Howes C-574: "Map not..... 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

Newbern, [NC]: Martin & Ogden, 1802. First American edition (first issued the same year in Liverpool, England, by Merritt & Wright). 8vo. 20 cm. (4), iii, xi, 83, (1, contents), 94, 151, (2, contents), (1, publisher's ad) pp. Ownership signature "Solon Stevens / Portsmouth [N.H.] Feb. 1805" on dedication page;..... 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

Madison, WI: nd [1880's]. 4to. 16 pages [written on rectos only], approximately 2250 words, each sheet imprinted at the top "J.S. McNaught / Special Agent / New York Life insurance Co. / Room 1, No. 23 E. Main St. / Madison, Wis." and eight of them docketed on the verso..... More