Concord, NH: Published by J. Cummings, 1853. Pictorial broadside, lithographed on muslin by S.W. Chandler & Co. Lith. 204 Wash. St. Boston. 100 x 140 cm., unevenly trimmed to the neat line at the right margin, rather amateurish, folk-style repairs using similar cloth and uneven white thread stitching to corners..... More
London: Macmillan Co., 1989. First edition. Large 8vo. lxvii, 927pp. Black cloth with red and white dustjacket, short, closed tear to spine of jacket. Very good. More
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. 3 Henrietta Street, 1959. First edition. 8vo. xii, 168pp. Very good in blue cloth, light gray dustjacket with darkened spine. More
Cambridge, [MA]: Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1820. Second American edition. 8vo. 99 pp. Original blue gray printed wrappers frayed at edges and a few stains, spine partly perished, page edges untrimmed. Text browned, top edge of title page torn unevenly (possibly to remove an ownership signature?). AMERICAN IMPRINTS 3373..... More
![THE AMERICAN HUB! / [vignette of metal hub] / The Public is Invited to Examine this / VALUABLE...](/pictures/thumb/65270.jpg?v=1603232556)
Cleveland, Ohio: Viets & Savage Printers, 184 Superior Street. nd [1860-67]? Broadside. 31 x 20.5 cm. Printed in various sizes and styles of type. Some faint, old staining and scattered foxing. Signed in type by the inventor and patentee, Charles Leavitt who describes the quality and reasons the metal hubs..... More
[Montreal, Canada? 1862-64?]. Broadside. 26 x 21 cm. Blue paper. Paragraphs explaining the chemical makeup of the company's fertilizer which included "the best Peruvian guano," and how it worked, followed by testimonials, then directions and pricing. Signed in type by Henry Greenshields, 19 St. Sacrament St., (Montreal) Agent for Canada..... More
![DOUGLASS & DUNN, / [vignette of a steamboat and a freight barge] / Having purchased into, and...](/pictures/thumb/65268.jpg?v=1603304078)
[Albany or New York?, NY: nd] [ca. 1827]. Single sheet, folded to 25 x 20 cm., two leaves. Printed advertisement for Douglass & Dunn on recto of first leaf; note in ink, approx. 115 words, dated Albany, March 13 [1827?] on recto of second leaf, addressed for mailing on verso..... More
![AT A LEGAL MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE [TOWN] OF [LITTLETON] IN THE COUNTY OF [MIDDLESEX]...](/pictures/thumb/65267.jpg?v=1603306323)
[1812]. Election document summary for Littleton, Massachusetts, for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor for 1812. Partly printed, completed in manuscript, 31 x 19 cm., two leaves. Old fold lines, small hole from broken seal, not affecting any text. Engraved State Seal of Massachusetts at top of first leaf..... More
Philadelphia. [PA]: Sheriff's Office, July 10th, 1852. Broadside, 39 x 25 cm. Printed in various sizes and styles of type, including large, bold and shadow fonts. "By virtue of a Writ of Venditioni Exponas," two parcels of land belonging to Richard Morris were to be sold, one in Moyamensing, County..... More
Hanover, [NH]: Kimball's Reform Press, at his own risk, 1854. Single sheet folded, uncut and untrimmed. 25 x 15 cm. 8 pp. Small snag to front cover, slightly affecting the publisher's name, small stain to margin of last leaf. The program included humorous speeches: "Have I arrived at the age..... More
Hanover, [NH]: Dartmouth Press, 1851. Single sheet, folded, 23.5 x 14 cm. 4pp. Slightly foxed. The program included speeches from members of the graduating class: "14 hours adventures in New York, or 2d night's experience," by Josiah Bartlett, Jr.; "If dirt were trumps what hands you'd hold," by George S...... More
[Hanover, NH]: np, October 27, 1835. First edition. Stitched sheets, 18.5 x 11 cm. 24 pp. Ink inscription on front cover: "Presented by Mellen Chamberlain." Chamberlain was a graduate of Dartmouth, a lawyer, historian and librarian. He was head librarian at Boston Public Library for over 10 years. Hale taught..... More
Little Neck, L.I, [NY]: np, Dec. 28th [1889?]. Broadside. 19 x 13 cm. Poem in 29 stanzas, printed in two columns, separated by a rule, signed in type by Bloodgood H. Cutter. Mark Twain made Cutter famous when he called him America's worst poet. Cutter (1817-1906) was a prolific writer..... More
[Various places, including Bridgewater, Mass., Washington D.C., Charleston, S.C., and New Orleans: Jan. - June 1838]. In a series of two manuscript documents, four letters, and a 48 pp., approx. 8700 word manuscript travel diary, Samuel Leonard records his efforts to promote Eleazer Carver's cotton gin improvements throughout the antebellum..... More
New York: np, 1840. Yellow wrappers, stitched. 20 cm. 12pp. Some tears to the wrappers, slightly soiled, toning and foxing to text. Not found on OCLC, AMERICAN IMPRINTS, or SINGERMAN. The first six pages are a short biography of Braham's life in music, the last six print the program of..... More
![THE GREAT KNOW NOTHING SONG, "I DON'T KNOW." [caption title]. Francis F. Eastlack](/pictures/thumb/65259.jpg?v=1603232550)
[Philadelphia, PA]: H. J. Kehr, Central Hall, Frankford Road and Master Streets, nd [ca. 1850s]. Broadside. 25 x 15 cm. Song sheet, words only, decorative border. "(the KNOW NOTHINGS were founded in NY STATE in 1849 as a political & anti-Catholic secret society, which grew rapidly into a natl. org....... More
Peterboro, [NY]: May 24, 1844. Broadside. 32 x 21 cm. Addressed in the form of a letter to "Fellow-Citizens," approximately 900 words. Smith states that there are Indians or whites pretending to be Indians questioning the title on the lands and stripping timber from it. He says he has never..... More
New York: nd [1850s?]. Lithograph print of Madison Cottage, 31 x 49 cm., with wide margins. Depicts the cottage with its sign above a front entryway and an American flag flying from the roof, gentlemen arriving from a horse-drawn coach, another full of passengers just pulling up. "Corporal" Thompson took..... More
[Mansfield, OH: np, May 1, 1844]. Advertising broadside. 40.5 x 27.5cm. Unevenly and heavily darkened and toned, laid down on a backing sheet. Some chipping to edges and a few chips to lettering not affecting meaning. The E.P. Sturges Co. gives a detailed accounting of the spring stock of goods..... More
[Lynn, MA: np, ca.1852]. Broadside, 30 x 22cm. with an engraved cut of an eagle at head, title in bold type. Sheet toned, faint old stains, some shallow chipping and short tears to extremities and along folds. Urges Democrats to vote for Baker, despite his Whig leanings, over John B...... More
[Salem, Mass. 1870]. Unbound sheets (some uncut), 29.5 x 22.5cm. Two preliminary leaves, printed with the series title and table of contents for the issues which follow: Nos. 1-5; Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 1870, 40pp. (8pp. each no.). Laid in between the 2 preliminary leaves is a folded sheet of music..... More
NP: np, nd [1829-31]. Broadside, 40 x 25 cm. Signed in type by "Your Fellow Citizens." Old fold lines, short separate along one fold, at margin, slightly affecting a few letters, else a very good copy. The memorialist petition for the reinstatement of Dr. Thomas P. Jones, a former professor..... More
[Reading, PA: np, 1837. Satin broadside, 35 x 23cm., in two columns with typographical border. Some separation along top margin and across the upper border, some loss of border at bottom, one small hole touching a couple of letters in the text, otherwise good with modest fraying around edges. Susan..... More
Boston: From J. Bumstead's Printing-Office, Union-Street, 1798. Third American edition. 12mo. 17 cm. xxiv, [1], 26-264pp. Contemporary full leather binding with gilt stamped black leather spine label. Joints cracked, somewhat amateurishly repaired with glue (or shellac?) covering the spine in a protective layer, partly extending onto boards. Spine ends chipped..... More
Delhi, Delaware Co., NY: np, January 1856. Broadside, 32 x 28 cm. "Notice!!" printed in large, bold type, above a rule. Text in two paragraphs, and signed in type by Thomas Cunningham, Delhi, Delaware Co., NY, January [some hash marks through the month, and day rubbed out], 1856. Some toning..... More
