[Washington, D.C. 1827]. Single sheet, folded to 32 x 19 cm. 3 pp. of text, docketted on the fourth page: "Naval Office, Old Circular." This copy signed in ink by Asbury Dickins, Secretary of the Institute from 1818-1838, and directed to the Naval Officer, Salem, Mass. Old fold lines, some..... More
Philadelphia [PA]: E.A. Wright, [1893]. Engraved commencement invitation, printed on stiff card stock, to be held at the Academy of Music, Washington, D.C. on June 5, 1893. 14.5 x 21.5 cm. Vignettes of one of the main Georgetown campus buildings, the Law Dept. building, and the U.S. Capitol printed on..... More
Baltimore [MD]: Printed by William A. Francis, 1831. Disbound pamphlet. 21 cm. 24 pp., errata slip tipped in. Published with the Approbation of the Most Rev. Archbishop of Baltimore, by James Myers, near the Cathedral. Foxing scattered throughout the text. The cures included one for Mrs. Ann Mattingly's Foot, and..... More
[Georgetown, D.C. Feb. 14, 1832]. Disbound sheets, later secured with staples. 20 cm. 27 pp. Signed at end by John Cox, Mayor, in behalf of the corporation and citizens of Georgetown, February 14th, 1832. The citizens of Georgetown, through their mayor, assert that the bridge in question interferes with the..... More
Washington, D.C. Printed by the West End Print, 831 20th Street, 1882. Buff paperwraps, stitched. 23 cm. 11 (1, blank) pp. Old vertical crease, wrappers lightly soiled, else very good. Included is the announcement of the Eleventh Annual Commencement held at Ford's Opera House on June 7, 1882, the program..... More
Boston, [MA]: Wells and Lilly. For Charles Ewer, No. 51, Cornhill, Dec. 1820. 22 cm. 272pp. Original period leather. Gilt stamped black morocco spine label and gilt rules on spine (rubbed), some wear to joints, upper corner missing from front endpaper. Early ownership signature of Datus Williams 1793 - 1867..... More
Belleville, Ill: N. A. Randall, 1852. 19 cm. 348 pp Recently rebound with a brown leather spine and marbled boards by Starr Bindery, new endpapers. Contemporary ownership signature at head of title page. Bookseller stamp at bottom margin of title page of Daniel Linahan of St. Louis on Washington St...... More
London: J. Booth [etc.], 1814. 22cm. xx, 363pp., plus folding map, hand colored in outline, and seventeen tables some folding. Bound in later blue leather, spine moderately faded, rubbing to joints. On pages 70- 71 some ink and pencil annotations at margins as well as a clipping of a statistical..... More
London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street-Square, 1856. First edition. 20 cm. (6), 123, (1) pp. Folding frontis. map engraved by E. Weller, with colored lines showing the itinerary and the part of the route traveled on foot. Bound in 3/4 leather and brown cloth, rebacked, with original spine laid..... More
[Baltimore & New York: Pride Mark Thomsen-Ellis Co., 1937] Dated from the mailing envelope. Tan paper wrappers, bound with thread at the left margin. 16 x 24 cm., frontis. photo, one page of text and 16 leaves of photo illustrations, printed on rectos only. Accompanied by a mailing envelope, addressed..... More
[Philadelphia, PA: E.A. Wright Company, ca.1916]. 18 x 26 cm. [18] leaves, mostly views and interiors of buildings. Tan wrappers bound with a red yarn tie at left margin. Very good. Photo illustrations of buildings, offices, the school bank, the infirmary, tea room, dining rooms, etc. Choices for dormitory living..... More
Washington, DC: The Weekly National Republican, [1871]. Single sheet, folded to 27 x 22 cm., 2 leaves, [2] pp. of text, printed on the first and third pages only. The first page states the paper's principles and policies in support of "the great Republican party, and... the Administration of President..... More
Washington, DC: Institute for the Preservation and Study of African-American Writing: D.C. Community Humanities Council, 1990. Paperwraps, front cover illustrated with photographs. 28cm. iv, 75pp. illus., portraits. Of the twelve oral histories recorded here all but one are done by women. OCLC: Am. Univ., DC Pub. Lib., George Washington Univ..... More
Paris: De L'Imprimerie de Didot L'Aine, 1786. Bound in full red morocco by book binder Rel. Prozerian (his name stamped on spine). 19 cm. 418, (2) pp. Frontis. illustration by Queverdo, engraved by Dambrun. Oeuvres de M. De Florian on half-title. Spine richly gilt; gilt tooling on front and rear..... More
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The first of the moral essays to be published, Of Moral Taste (1731) is not included here. Each folio, bound in later marbled wrappers, the three pamphlets housed together in a folding blue cloth portfolio, gilt-stamped “Pope / Moral Essays” on the upper board All very good. a. OF THE..... More
London: Printed and sold by J. Dormer, 1734. First edition. Folio. 15 pp. “Satires in verse upon Sir Robert Walpole” (OCLC). Walpole (1676-1745) served as prime minister to George I and George II, 1721-1742, lifting the Whigs to dominant power and solidifying the power of the House of Commons; “as..... More
[Great Britain]: nd [ca. 1820]. Oblong 4to (9 x 9 ½ inches). Contents leaf, listing 33 selections, characterizing each by type (song, glee, round, air, duet, or catch), generally a first verse and chorus written with the music, later verses following below the music, almost all popular tunes of the..... More
May 9th 1833 – A. J.” To the side in ink, in another hand: “Answd 11th May.” Above in a third hand, in pencil: “file this with letter of Mrs. / Jane C. Washington of 4 Jany.” Two other pencil notes relating to the action are below Jackson’s endorsement. Jane..... More
Thomas Ryerson (1753-1835) served in the Revolutionary War, following which he became associated with Robert Morris, settling in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he was appointed judge, served in the Pennsylvania legislature, and handled land deals on behalf of Morris. Robert Morris (1734-1806), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, came..... More
New York: The company, April 29, 1833. Folio broadside, 12 ¼ x 7 1/8 inches, a partly printed [in script] document, completed in manuscript, certifying that one Sylvester Davis, is entitled to a tract of Texas land, within the described boundaries. Signed at the end by T. L. Ogden, Daniel..... More
4to. One-page, approximately 75 words, in part: I am at a loss to understand why I should be esteemed worth … if not, therefore, in error, I beg to notify you of my acceptance of the membership conferred.” After a long military career, Lazelle was in command of the 18th..... More
Herkimer, NY: Citizen Publishing Co., (c1906). One of two 1906 editions. 8vo. 23 pp. [text printed double-column]. Prints 12 long letters written by Brown to Gillette earlier in 1906, used by the prosecution in its case against Gillette who was found guilty and executed. Theodore Dreiser used the circumstances of..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First edition, six parts (all published, unfinished at the author's death) issued April -- September, 1870. 8vo. vii, (1), 190, (2) total pages. Engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title-page, 12 plates. With all advertising matter, as called for by Hatton & Cleaver, present, with the..... More
(Calcutta, India): Brahmo Tract Society, 1886. First edition. 24mo. (2), 101 pp. Sen (1838-1884) was a Bengali Hindu philosopher and social reformer who incorporated Christian theology in Hindu thought; he was disappointed that his 1870 speaking tour in England, designed to present his cross cultural thoughts on religion, was not..... More
All in original printed wrappers (several with storage soiling, one with circle stains). Still a very good lot. a. Jurisdictional Statement. In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1958, Ruby Fredericka Shuttlesworth, by her next friend, F. L Shuttlesworth, Appellants v. Birmingham Board of Education of Jefferson..... More