Little Rock, Ark. Issued by Land Dept. of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and Little Rock & Fort Smith Railways, (ca. 1904). 6 3/4 by 5 in. (28) p. , illustrated. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers lettering in orange, green design with inset of house on front cover... More about GET A HOME IN ARKANSAS
4to. 2-pages, approximately 300 words. Acting as administrator for a young woman's estate, Clopton makes a claim for payment of a debt incurred prior to the death of the young woman's grandfather, Arthur Slaughter. The letterhead describes Clopton's company as "Cotton Factors, Wholesale Grocers, and Dealers in Staple Dry Goods."... More about Making a claim for a payment of a debt in an autograph letter, signed 8 August 1877, from Helena,...
[Enosburgh Falls, VT: B.J. Kendall Company, 1880s-1900s]. The small broadsheets include: 1) FACTS TO BE CONSIDERED. [Text begins] "Ten years ago Kendall's Spavin Cure was practically unknown...." [and on verso] CONVINCING EVIDENCE THAT KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE WILL DO ALL THAT IS CLAIMED FOR IT. [followed by two columns of testimonials..... More about GROUP OF FOUR BROADSHEETS ADVERTISING "KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE," AND "PROF. FLINT'S...
New York: Published for Subscribers, by J.C. Colt; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman; Paris: A. & W. Galignani & Co., 1839. 30 cm. 142 pp. Illustrated with 11 lithographed plates, including five hand-colored, and one folding frontispiece, all lithographed by "Samyn Cincinnati, O.," some 18 feet long... More about AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF AMERICA. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING NOTES, AND...
[New York? np, 1829?]. Single sheet, 56 x 22 cm., printed on both sides. Three poems, printed in three columns each, plus several paragraphs of Christian advice. Beside the printed title of the first poem, "Dreadful Catastrophe" is a vignette of a sailing ship (a lightly printed image), decorative border... More about DREADFUL / CATASTROPHE / OF THE EXPLOSION OF THE SHIP AT N. YORK JUNE 4TH / 1829, WHEN 100 MEN...
New York: May 26, 1795. One page autograph letter signed. Single sheet approximately 160 words. After opening with some family news Green writes; "By the time this reaches your hand we shall have some News from France there is a vessel expected dayley there was a dredful squabble in the... More about LETTER TO HIS BROTHER WILLIAM E. GREEN, in Worcester, Massachusetts, concerning an incident...
[New York: np, 1810?]. Broadside. 31 x 21 cm. Decorative border. Title in bold, with two columns of text beneath. Among the rules: gate should be shut at all times, unless for use; only exemption for not paying farm, church, mills, funeral, blacksmith, physician; no credit; commuters pay half, etc.... More about RULES AND REGULATIONS, For the Gate Keepers of the Third Great Western Turnpike Road Company
Philadelphia, [PA]: Printed by Mathew Carey, No.122, Market-Street, 1808. 15 cm. 122pp. plus six plates, including frontispiece. Contemporary leather and rubbed marbled boards, spine gilt. Scattered foxing. Contemporary ink inscription on title page. First American edition of the poems composed by John Gay. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 15090. ROSENBACH 365. More about GAY'S FABLES. In One Volume. Complete From the Last London Edition
[Philadelphia, PA]: Meichel & Plumly, 3rd & Race, [1866]. Black and white lithograph. 24 x 29 cm. double matted backed with foam board. Light grayish stain in upper right corner margin, otherwise a sharp, fresh impression. Depicts Lincoln and his cabinet (seven men) seated and standing around a table in... More about LINCOLN AND CABINET. Annual Greeting of the Carriers to the Patrons of "The Press". For...
[Washington, DC]: 37th Congress, 2d Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc No. 29. 1862. First edition. 25 cm. 124 pp. Stitched sheets. These accounts of Brigham Young's as Indian commissioner in Utah from 1856-1861 include the period of the Utah War, when Young was an agent of the U.S. government... More about ACCOUNTS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG, SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IN UTAH TERRITORY. LETTER FROM THE...
Small leather-bound notebook, chipping to spine ends. 17 cm., approx. 85 pp. of entries, almost all in her fine, legible hand. A few newspaper clippings tipped in, and several notes (some addressed to "Aunt Mary") laid in. Beginning with her own marriage to Giles Henry Lodge (1805-1888) in 1845, she... More about FAMILY AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES, A MANUSCRIPT RECORD OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS KEPT BY MARY...
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[Chicago, Illinois]: ca. 1870s. Broadside. 43 x 29 cm. Text in four columns, with three Civil War illustrations beneath title. Loss of one letter where it had been folded. Weeden was a Chicago attorney at law and pension agent, operating out of Chicago. During the Civil War he was a.... More about INFORMATION FOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR HEIRS! [Caption title
Washington, D.C. Buell & Blanchard, 1853. 21 cm. [4], [2], 302, [2] pp. Original printed wraps, untrimmed. Slightly chipped around edges of wrappers and spine. WRIGHT Vol. 2, 12. LCP/HSP Afro-American Catalogue, 52. An anti-slavery fiction based on true events. A South Carolina law required the imprisonment of black mariners... More about MANUEL PEREIRA; OR THE SOVEREIGN RULE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. WITH VIEWS OF SOUTHERN LAWS, LIFE, AND...
NP: np, ca. 1825. Broadside, 10 x 5-5/8 in., nine four-line stanzas within an ornamental border. Paper browned and a little stained, trimmed right down to border, small piece of ornamental border missing from lower left corner. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS or OCLC. The poem commences: "Come all you jolly... More about LOSS OF THE SHIP ALBION! [Caption title
Peoria, (IL): Daily Transcript Book and Job Printing House, 1862. First edition thus (?). 12mo. 9, (3) pp. Final page prints a certificate, to be filled out in manuscript, for members as they join the unit; this copy made out to James Ward, and signed by the company's foreman and... More about Revised Constitution and By-Laws of the Young America Fire Engine Company, No. 2, Adopted July...
New-Haven, [CT]: Printed by George Bunce, 1799. 14 cm. 145 [i.e. 119] pp.; 12, 23-99, 110-119, 126-145. Paper boards with leather spine with creative early stitching through spine. Last page glued to board. SHIPTON and MOONEY 35769. More about THE WIDOW OF THE VILLAGE, or, Adventures of innocence. A moral tale, by the celebrated Marmontel....
Philadelphia, [PA]: George T. Lewis and Menzies Company, 1877. First edition. 12mo. 212 pp. Original brown cloth, with gilt stamping on spine and front boards, faded with a couple of stains on rear joint. Well used, with many notes in pencil & ink on interspersed blanks. A sound, complete copy... More about THE AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE. COOK BOOK
Walpole, [N.H.]: May 1, 1848. Folio broadside, 54 x 39 cm. Small pieces missing at all four corners, and a small V-shaped chip at the upper center of the margin, likely from having been posted. Old fold lines and foxing. Bleed through from an ink note on verso from the... More about REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. On the 10th of June, 1848,...in Walpole Village... I will sell at...
[1798?]. Folio, approx. 340pp. Boards lacking, leather spine partly perished, cracked and worn, first page of manuscript notes is detached. The names of both Jacob Scheetz and John Schuetz appear in the margins of the text, and the date '1798' is mentioned in some of the subject headers. Calculations are... More about MATHEMATICAL TEXTBOOK, INCLUDING DEFINITIONS OF COMMON TERMS, WORD PROBLEMS AND CALCULATIONS, ALL...
[Boston, MA]: Boston Masonic Mirror, [1831]. Broadside, 50 cm. x 34 cm. Trimmed close all around. An extraordinary publication, requiring considerable personal courage. Signed in type by over 1500 Massachusetts Masons, many of whom must have been exceedingly reluctant since Morgan's murder in 1827 to be publicly identified as Masons... More about DECLARATION OF THE FREEMASONS OF BOSTON AND VICINITY. Presented to the Public December 31, A.D....
[Atlanta, Georgia: 1867?]. Broadside, 16 x 10 in. Printed in three columns. A strong and stirring plea in opposition to the poll tax as "the most unjust and oppressive taxation ever imposed," despite the apparently lofty aim of providing monies for public schools. It is, Farrow declares, "a tax upon... More about THE INJUSTICE OF THE POLL TAXES. To the Members of the Constitutional Convention: [Caption title
Little Rock: Printed by William E. Woodruff, Printer to the Territory, 1834. 20 cm. 119, iii pp. Stitched signatures, unopened and untrimmed. Very good. ALLEN 33 OCLC: AAS, Univ. of AR Fayetteville, Univ. of AR Law, Georgetown Univ., Georgetown Univ. Law, Law Library of LA, Univ. of Houston, Univ. of... More about Acts passed at the eighth session of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas : which...
[Salem, Mass.]: Salem Observer Press, [1842]. Broadside, 19" x 16 1/2". Caption title and three columns of text and tables within an attractive ornamental border. Old tidelines to upper corners, some foxing, snag at lower left of ornamental border (repaired on verso). Tipped onto a backing board at upper corners... More about FIRE DEPARTMENT. Regulations Adopted by the Firewards of Salem. 1842
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition. 4to. 17, 119 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title-page, 6 full-page lithographs with some tidemarks, 7 fullpage engravings, and 99 woodcut illustrations in the text. Blue publisher's cloth, gilt on front board and spine, slightly faded. Cloth rubbed through on spine... More about HINTS ON PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE, Containing among other Illustrations, Views and Plans of the...
Boston, [MA]: J. N. Bradley & Co. 16 State Street, 1841. First edition. 19 cm. 87pp. Blue paper covered boards, black cloth spine, some splitting along joints. Stamp of Lowell Historical Society on front pastedown. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 2924; MCDADE 561. Accused of killing her husband with arsenic she was acquitted. More about A REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE LAST TEN YEARS IN THE LIFE OF MRS. HANNAH KINNEY:...
