Chicago, (IL): Gravure Illustration Company, 1924. First edition. Large 4to. Nine parts, each with nine plates, most with multiple captioned photographic images of buildings, primarily private residences, but including country clubs, colleges and universities, public offices, and scenic views and street scenes of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, and Charlotte, North..... More
[Boston: T. Adams, 1792]. Broadside. 35 X 21.5 cm. Signed in type by David Cobb, Speaker, Samuel Phillips, President, and approved by John Hancock, with John Avery, jun. Secretary. A vignette [a version of the State seal] printed on the upper third of the sheet, shallow chipping to margins and..... More
[Richmond VA]: 1864. Printed broadside, 19 x 11 1/2 inches, on Confederate necessity paper. Sets forth rules for handling bonds and treasury notes. Parrish & Willingham 75 (Duke only). Not in Hummel or "More Virginia Broadsides." OCLC locates one copy (Duke). Folded; several splits at the head (affecting several letters)..... More
City of Washington: Printed and published by S.A. Elliot, Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Washigton Assembly Rooms, [1825]. 16mo. (13 cm). 64 pp. SABIN 22238. DRAKE 1521. OCLC locates four copies (American Antiquarian Society, New York State Library, George Washington, Wisconsin Historical Society). Drake adds three locations (D.C. Public, Boston Athenaeum..... More
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(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
NP [Rulo, NE?]: np, nd (ca.1871). Broadside, 43 x 20 cm., text in various sizes and styles of type, enclosed in a black ruled border. Printed on buff paper, lightly creased from folding, a few tiny pinholes, probably from the press of type on the paper. The event was sponsored..... More
Selma, AL: The railroad, 1876. Broadsheet, 14 5/8 x 16 1/8 inches, folded to narrow 8vo. Recto prints “Map of the Blue Mountain Line, Selma, Rome & Dalton R. R.: Dalton to Selma, South & North Alabama R. R., Calera to Montgomery, and Connections” (8 ½ x 9 inches), surrounded..... More
Washington, DC: Engraved and published by D. M'Clelland, 1855. Broadside map, 16 3/4 x 20 inches, a plat map of the city of Washington, with major streets named and major public and governmental buildings represented, the whole enclosed within a narrow bold rule border. Inset map of the District of..... More
Montgomery, Ala. W. E. Allred, Printer 18 Robinson St. (1894). 8vo. 12 pp. Begins with a poem, "The Alum Well (dedicated by a gifted lady of Montgomery)." The brochure extolls the virtues and curative powers of this, "the finest water in the world to enrich the blood, and throw off..... More
[Cheshire, CT?]: 1837. Broadside. 42 x 29 cm. Enclosed in decorative border. Striking woodcut of a horse attached to a cider mill, 10 x 13cm., above the caption title, followed by approx. 275 words of text in 27 lines. Below the text is an offer by the subscriber Nathan Booth..... More
Pocono Manor, PA: 1916. Oblong 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches). 45 photographically reproduced cartoons of couples, a few children, and several unaccompanied men, plus two original cartoons mounted to leaves of black paper making up a small album ("Photographs" embossed on front wrapper), each with the name of..... More
Baltimore, (MD): Printed by James Lucas, 1847. First edition. 8vo. 25 pp. Large folding map, 51 x 68 cm., of the railroad and canal systems of Pennsylvania and Maryland, the routes hand-colored according to status (e.g., proposed routes in yellow). The Cumberland Valley Rail Road ran from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to..... 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
Sonora, California: Duchow Brothers, Publishers. April 19, 1879 - April 17, 1880. 13 large folio issues. First two issues of Vol. 8 have 4 pp., the rest are 8 pp. issues. Some edgewear, else very good. The masthead of the paper states: "An Independent Newspaper, Devoted to Local Affairs, the..... More
Liberty Mills, (MO): Corbin, Everett & Jaggar, 1861. Printed broadside, 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, employing several sizes of type, including large display types, the whole enclosed within an ornamental border. Work shall be done promptly, and in a WORKMANLIKE MANNER. [We] expect to be prepared in season to..... More
Milwaukee, WI: The Gugler Litho. Co., nd [ca.1885]. Color lithograph, 19 x 27 inches [image], on a 24 x 32 inch sheet. The Illustration shows several multi-colored barns of the Holbert Horse Importing Company, with their roofs and walls lettered with advertisements for their services as importers of Percherons, Belgians..... More
Each of the letters is franked "free," but we have been unable to discover an official position for the letter writer (possibly former Massachusetts Congressman Ezekiel Bacon, serving in Washington as First Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury). The first letter recounts a misunderstanding between White and Lt. Twiggs, a fellow..... More
Cleveland, (OH): S. Brainard's Sons, c1866 [but 1884]. Second edition. 4to. 11 pp. Long introduction on the verso of the title page, the music with printed notes indicating stages of the battle. Thomas ("Blind Tom") Wiggins Bethune (1849-1908), an African-American autistic savant and musical prodigy, was born a slave on..... More
[1814-1829]. A group of 21 letters, a total of 42 pp., and approx. 7800 words, directed to Clotworthy Birnie at his home on Bear Branch, near Taney Town in Frederick County, Maryland. The letters involve Birnie's various real estate dealings, purchase or sale of livestock, cultivation of plants for hedging..... More
Dublin: Printed for R. Marchbanks, 1775. First Dublin edition (first published the same year in London). 12mo. xix, (3), 206 pp. Lacking the errata leaf. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Hugh, Earl of Eglinton on the front pastedown and his shelf location label on the rear pastedown; probably from..... More
NP [Austin, TX?]: [1842]. Single sheet, 15 x 20 cm. Partly printed, completed in manuscript. Burnet's attorney James Webb signs this promissory note for his client, who agreed to pay $12.50, the fourth installment on the purchase of out lot No. 45, Division D, in the city of Austin, originally..... More
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(Nashville, TN): Executive office, May, 1839. First edition. 4to (28 cm). (2) pp. Printed broadsheet address to “Fellow-Citizens of Tennessee, announcing his candidacy for re-election as Governor of Tenness, while explaining that the duties of the office will keep him from attending a statewide series of appearances with his opponent..... More
(Lexington, KY): Kentucky Reporter, 1828. First edition thus (an earlier printing appeared in Washington in late 1827), "Supplement to the Kentucky Reporter, Lexington January 23, 1828" at head of title page. 8vo.52 pp. Original self-wrappers, stitched, a very good untrimmed copy. Uncommon: the NUC locates but two copies (ViU, McSHi)..... More
[Princeton, NJ?]: 1907 (?). 4to (28 cm.). 10 pages [typed rectos only], approximately 2850 words, each leaf mounted along the left edge to a larger, heavier sheet, each page double-spaced, with 29 separate ink corrections, deletions, and additions by Cleveland in his characteristic hand (44 words added, 19 deleted, 20..... 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