Cleveland, (OH): E.G. Knight & Co. and Parsons & Co., 1853. First Knight & Parsons directory (the first Cleveland directory was published in 1837). 8vo. 319, (2), 47, (1) pp. Large folding map, a street plan of the city; advertisements on colored paper, some illustrated. Cover title: "Knight & Parsons'..... More

[Paris, France]: Publie par un Citoyen de la Louisiane [Impr. de E. Duverger], 1825. First edition in French. 21cm. xvi, 792, [2] pp. Half title: Tresor Legislatif. Recent quarter leather and marbled boards. Old staining to portions of lower margins of last several leaves in the index, not affecting text..... 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

New York: Charles Magnus' New York Printing Establishment. Offices 12 Frankfort St., New York and 529 7th Street, Washington, D.C., 1865. Broadside. 40.5 x 51 cm. sheet, image size 37.2 x 46.6 cm. Color lithograph, 40.5 x 51 cm., the central image a view of Richmond, Virginia, at the end..... More

Philadelphia, (PA): S.H. Austin (T. Hunter, Lith., Phila.), c1885. Color lithograph, 23 3/8 x 17 1/4 inches, picturing the Washington Monument between the U.S. Capitol and the White House, both in the background with other buildings, tourists boating in the reflecting pool and strolling about the grounds; inset oval portrait..... 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: Union League, 1863]. Broadside. 8 7/16 x 5 7/16. Verse printed in two columns. BAL 1199 - Printing C: "This poem by Boker, commemorating the gallant action of The First Regiment of Louisiana Engineers, a Civil War unit composed almost wholly of Negroes, was widely published in handbill form..... 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

London: Wertheim & MacIntosh, 1856; Reprinted by the Massachusetts Colonization Society, 1857. 8vo. 31, (1) pp. Original printed tan wrappers (somewhat soiled). Very good. First American edition of the author's second work published in the United States. Library Company of Philadelphia Negro History 1553-1903 (for another work) "A graduate of..... More

London: Whittaker & Co. 2 White Hart Street, Paternoster Square, E.C. and 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1896. First edition. 19 cm. [v], vi-ix, [1], 241pp., 48pp. publisher's catalog. 112 illustrations. Red cloth with gilt stamping, spine faded. Dick Farman was the youngest of the Farman brothers. Henry and Maurice..... More

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. 8vo. xiv, (2), 371 pp. Folding map frontispiece, state borders outlined by hand in colors. Brown ribbon-embossed cloth (oak-leaf and acorn pattern), gilt spine title. A couple of short closed splits at the spine extremities and a few scattered spots of light..... More

Richmond, VA: Bailie & Gallaher, printers, 1837. Broadside printed on silk, 33 1/4 x 27 inches, the head in bold capitals, the whole enclosed within an ornamental border. The address closes with a warning: "It is from within, among yourselves -- from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate..... More

Frances D. Lear's first note, signed by her, was written to her "Dearest friend," and dated Wednesday 10th April [18]39. Single sheet, 12.5 x 16 cm., approx. 60 words, addressed on verso to "Mrs. Madison." Mrs. Lear requests "the favor of one more frank for Miss Hart and if you..... More