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

Mexico: Imp. de I. Cumplido, 1870. First edition. 8vo. 31 pp. The first constitution of the Mexican state of Hidalgo which was created January 15, 1869. In 1861 a plan to create the new state of Hidalgo out of parts of the state of Mexico was advanced by Federal deputies;..... More

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

(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

November 15, 1908. Black & white real photo postcard, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in., showing groups of men, horses and buggies gathered in front of a couple of small wood framed houses, in a rural setting. Two spots are marked on the photo, with accompanying hand-written captions in white..... More

(Washington, DC): C. Alexander, Printer, 1850. First edition. 24mo. 36 pp. Folding map: "Map of the City of Washington, Established as the Permanent Seat of the Government of the United States of America, 1850" (14 x 18 inches; engraved and published by D. McClelland, Washington). Issued by the compiler as..... More

Charleston, (SC): W. Riley, November 1844. First edition. Large 8vo. v, (2), 550 pp. Speculation helped create the Panic of 1837 which was followed by five years of recession, during which time business and farming bankruptcies were common and banks across the nation failed. The Bank of South Carolina and..... More

Washington City: Printed by William Duane & Son, 1805. Disbound pamphlet. 21 cm. 84pp. Accompanied by EXHIBITS, ACCOMPANYING THE ANSWER AND PLEA OF SAMUEL CHASE, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. [Washington City: 1805] 20 cm. 54 pp. Disbound pamphlet, lacking title page. Signature of Samuel Tenney..... More

New York: Peabody & Co., 1831 (-1834). First edition, six parts [of eight eventually published]. 4to. iv, [5]-50 pp. 22 engraved views of New York on 11 leaves, double-page hand-colored folding map of lower Manhattan; also bound in are the front wrapper from Part I, the prospectus that was included..... 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

[Troy, NY: 1849]. A 5 pp. letter, approx. 1500 words, in a clerical hand, signed by John E. Wool. Written on blue paper, and marked "Copy / Private" at the head of the first page, this letter was addressed to O.P. Baldwin and R.H. Gallaher, Editors of the Richmond Republican..... More

(Boston): Printed by order of the General Committe, 1862-1863. 4to. 2 vols.: 4, 4 pp. Original self wrappers; second series chipped along fore-edges and with old institutional blindstamp, overmarked "withdrawn"; third series clean. First editions of the second and third series (the first was published in 1862, a fourth series..... More

Folio. One page, approximately 125 words; docketed on verso. Parker, a native of Ohio, opened a law office in St. Joseph, Missouri, on the eve of the Civil War, served as city attorney there during the war and as a judge for the first time there, 1868-1870. After a brief..... More