New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1856. First edition. 8vo. xii, [13] - 537pp. Publisher's embossed brown cloth. Chipping to spine ends. A good copy. Beckwourth was born into slavery in Virginia, later freed by his father. It gives many insights into the period and people he came... More
Lancaster, PA: np, 1928. 8vo. 37 pp. No. 119 of an edition of 200 numbered copies, printed on deckled paper, from the only known copy of the 1587 original edition. Dark gray paper boards with white paper spine with title stamped in gilt. Signed by F.W. Hodge who did the... More
Hartford: Printed for and Sold by Oliver D. Cooke. Lincoln & Gleason, printers. 1803. 12mo. (3), 4-177pp., (1) page ad of books for sale by the publisher. Full leather period binding, with red leather title label and gilt rules on spine. Generally rubbed, fly leaf with small piece torn away... More
Baltimore: Printed by W. Pechin- for George Keatinge, No. 149, Market Street, 1796. 12mo. First American edition (?). 18mo. iv, [1], 6-127pp., [1] blank. Grained goat skin with title label and rules on spine. There is a Bennington, VT imprint same year. Palmer wrote this at the age of 19... More
London: Printed for J. Ridgway, No. 1. York Street, St. Jame's Square, 1792. 8vo. 46pp., [2] adv. for new publications for H. D. Symonds. Bound in recent paper boards and spine, title and date stamped on front cover. Reprint of Howes P-25 and ADAMS 82-66. More
Georgetown, D.C. Published by Joseph Milligan. J. C. Dunn, Printer, 1822. 16.5 cm. viii-492pp., [8]pp. index. Period dark brown leather with leather spine label and rules. Short split to lower front joint, old staining to front endpaers and first few pages. Uncommon title. PARSONS 729: "Written in Latin by Rev... More
[various places in Rhode Island, Massachusetts & Connecticut: 1771-1780]. Contemporary American binding, plain leather (rubbed). A few ink margin notes, some overall toning to text, but a remarkably crisp, clean set of late colonial and Revolutionary War era almanacs, superbly preserved, with Paul Revere engravings, a map of New York's... More
Cincinnati: Printed by Looker and Wallace, 1815. First edition. 12mo. 251,[4]pp. plus two folding maps.In original printed boards and spine. Some chipping to joints but a well preserved copy, rarely found in its original binding. The maps are a plan of Cincinnati and a map of Miami county. Housed in... More
[Port Hudson & Grand Coteau: 1863]. Four maps and a plan recording details of actions securing control of the Mississippi River, but then ending Banks's campaign for southwestern Louisiana and Texas: The Port Hudson Siege, May - July 1863; a plan of the fort at Baton Rouge; and the Battle... More
1852-1875. Three folio ledgers, one bound in 3/4 leather and pebbled cloth, the other two in full leather, with ms. entries on blue paper ruled in red and blue. Gilt stamped title on each spine: 1) "Shipping Invoice A" 2) "Ledger C" 3) "Journal D." Additionally stamped, with the company... More
Windsor, VA: [the company], nd [1950s-1960s]. Approx. 185 black & white photos, most 8 x 10 in., with a few slightly smaller, of the truck bodies, interior and exterior, manufactured by the Robinson Body Works. Most of the photos are in plastic display sleeves, in worn ring binders (most with... More
[1942-1945]. An OSS/OWI archive belonging to Gerald Mayer, head of the Office of War Information in Bern, Switzerland in the 1940s, and an operative for the Office of Strategic Services under Allen Dulles. Over 350 specimen copies of printed propaganda leaflets, political cartoons and graphics, newspapers, postal stamps, etc., distributed... More
Cincinnati, [OH]: Gibson House, Walnut St., (between 4th and 5th Sts.). Wrightson & Co., Printers, 167 Walnut St. [1861]. Broadside, 11 x 12 1/2 in., printed in three colors, backed with linen. Three vignettes across the top above the text illustrate a US flag with cannon, an eagle with wings... More
Photo album, 13 x 11 1/2 in., bound in light brown buckram, with vertical stripes on the covers. Carter's detailed record of his trip to the Colombian and Venezuelan oil fields, including photos, postcards, letters, receipts, an itinerary of the number of miles traveled, and a map of his route... More
Philadelphia: Printed by William Pritchard, 1797. 12mo. 244pp. Full flame calf. Gilt ruled spine was gilt stamped tan spine label (chipped). Joints rubbed, slight chip to tip of spine. Old tidelines particularly notable on page edges and endpapers, overall toning to text. SHIPTON AND MOONEY 32732; ESTC - W21312. More
Dedham, Massachusetts: Printed by H. Mann, and for sale at his bookstore.... 1806. 18cm. xii, - 230pp., (2) ads. Full brown tree calf, with gilt stamped red leather spine label and gilt rules. Some wear and foxing to text, four page subscriber's list mostly from Massachusetts. American Imprints 10779. More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 192 Broadway, 1862. Second edition. 8vo. Folding map, 227pp. Embossed brown pebbled cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Spine ends with wear, offsetting to map and title page from something once laid in. At West Point, Jomini's texts on military strategy were used to train... More
New York: John C. Wells, 97 Nassau Street, 1847. 8vo. 104, 38 pp. Printed pink boards backed with tan leather, gilt rules on spine. Two listings on OCLC: Columbia Univ. Law Sch.; Seattle Public Lib. More
Washington [D.C.]: Published by Cassmir Bohn. Sold by all the booksellers. Murphy & Co. Printers, 178 Market Street, Baltimore, 1854. 24mo. 103 pp. Embossed pebbled green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. All edges gilt. Title page printed in two colors, a folding map of Washington, DC... More
Zanesville, Ohio: np, 1819. 12mo. xi, [2], 14-216pp. Period brown leather with black spine label and gilt rules. Wear to spine ends, joints worn. Some staining lower corner first 12pp. Last 10 pages subscriber list from Ohio and Kentucky broken down by counties. Tresize appears to be a practicing Baptist... More
Winchester, [VA]: Printed by Robinson & Hollis, 1837. 16mo. 461pp. Period full brown calf, with red title label and gilt on spine, slightly rubbed. Contemporary ownership signature on front endpaper. A nice, tight copy. American Imprints 45568; Haynes 12132. More
New York: Printed and published by Isaac Riley, 1809. First edition. 12mo. ix, [3], blank, 180pp. Nineteenth century dark red quarter morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. Early use of the term 'Yankey' for New Englander in fiction. Comprised of fourteen letters of an imaginary tourist. An... More
New York: Published by Isaac T. Hopper, 1834. 8vo. 234pp. with errata glued in back. Green cloth spine with label and green paper boards. Spines worn on ends. Early signature on flyleaf. Hicks was one of the early abolitionists. His essay "Observations on the Slavery of Africans and Their Descendants,"... More
Washington, [DC]: Published by Pishey Thompson. A. Rothwell, Printer, 1830. 12mo. 123pp. Vignettes of statesmen Madison, Monroe, J.Q. Adams, William H. Crawford, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, William Wirt, William Pinckney, William Lowndes, Rufus King, Richard Rush, John Holmes, Peleg Sprague, Daniel Webster, Theodore Frelinghuysen, John M. Clayton, John Randolph... More
[New York]? np, 1905. 25 cm. 32pp. "This is one of seventy-five fascimile copies of a book made for Mr. Clarence H. Mackay at the suggestion of the officers of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company whose signatures herein appear, and presented to him in New York City on March Second, 1905........"... More
