[Mexico: 1796]. Large broadside, 58 x 41 cm., printed in two columns, on two halves (as issued), joined horizontally across the bottom and top margins of the halves. Old fold lines, some pencil underlining to text, else a nice example. A large display type for the head ("Miguel la Grua..... More

Cincinnati, O: Applegate, Pounsford & Co., Print, No. 43 Main Street, 1872. Gray paper wrappers, spine reinforced with cloth tape. Illustration of a train on rear wrapper. Versos of title page and rear wrapper reinforced around edges with clear tape. 22 cm. 14pp., (2 blank). Map tipped in at rear..... More

Louisville, KY: Courier-Journal Job Rooms Print, [1880?]. Single sheet, 60 x 75 cm., folded in 24 panels to 21 x 10 cm. Front and rear covers printed in orange and black occupy two panels, six panels of timetables, eight panels on Mammoth Cave (with illustrations by E.H. Thomas Co., Louisville)..... More

[Memphis, TN]: 1857. Invitation to a Celebration Ball for the completion of the railroad. Beige paper printed in gold, 18 x 12 cm., edges along three sides, a blind-embossed ornate frame in left corner. Some separations at folds, light soiling. Text reads: Rail Road / Celebration Ball./ The Corporation and..... More

Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally & Co., Printers and Engravers, 77 and 79 Madison Street, 1879. Folding map tipped into printed gray wrappers, 16 x 9 cm. Verso of front cover has a small map: "ILLUSTRATION OF THE PLAN OF RAND, McNALLY & CO.'s NEW INDEXED POCKET MAPS" from which is..... More

Nashville, [TN]: Marshall & Bruce Co., [1900]. Printed orange paper wrappers, stapled. 19 cm. 38pp, (2). Folding color map tipped in a rear, 28 x 42 cm. titled "LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, NASHVILLE, CHATTANOOGA AND ST. LOUIS RY. ROUTE. DIXIE FLYER." Text gives short descriptions of some 270 pieces of property for..... More

[Louisville, KY? 1890s]. Single sheet, 51 x 82 cm., folded to 26 x 11 cm. Rear panel title: "L & N Four Seasons Hotel and Sanatorium." Sixteen panels, including three on the Sanatorium, one on the "new" Harrogate Inn, two timetables, three on Cumberland Gap Park, three on the Four..... More

Louisville, KY: Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., March 1892. Single sheet, 57 x 83 cm., folded to 25.5 cm. x 11 cm. 16 panels mostly train schedules, on recto; map on verso titled "MAP OF LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD AND CONNECTING LINES," by Poole Bros. Engravers, Chicago. Map shows entire US..... More

San Francisco, CA: 1856-57. Leather covered ledger, 34 cm., approx. 45 pp. of entries in a neat hand. Gilt stamped leather spine label marked "Journal," and stamped "6" at base of spine. Beginning with his first entry on April 24, 1856, Chenery kept a record of expenses for cobble stone..... More

(Winchester, VA: J. Mack Noonan), (1923). First edition (issued as a postcard “pamphlet), a combination promotional and guidebook to local sites. Oblong 12mo (9 cm). (16) pp. Illustrated from photographs, central double-page feature on the Handley Public Schools. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Original postcard format, title printed in message..... More

Warrenton, VA: Joseph A. Jeffries, nd [ca. 1900]. Small broadside, 9 ½ x 6 inches, printing a long advertising statement for the store, “Restore your health, keep your health, and add to your comfort by placing your orders where you may be assured they will be conscientiously filled,” signed in..... More

Charlottesville, VA: May, 1945. Postcard, 3 ½ x 5 ¼ inches, carrying a family message concerning an ill relative. Outer quarter-inch of left edge not printed, one corner with a crease, else very good. More

(Marion, VA: Laura Copenhaver, nd [OCLC: “1940-1959?”]. Trade catalogue for the company. 12mo. 40 pp. Illustrated from photographs. OCLC: “Sales catalog for Rosemont, a Marion, Virginia firm headed by Laura Copenhaver, that produces reproductions of early American textiles (hooked and woven rugs, coverlets, woven fabrics) and furniture … includes descriptions..... More