![TWO AUTOGRAPH NOTES, SIGNED BY F. D. LEAR, BOTH DIRECTED TO MRS. [DOLLEY] MADISON, 1839, AND...](/pictures/thumb/66240.jpg?v=1635025885)
Frances D. Lear's first note, signed by her, was written to her "Dearest friend," and dated Wednesday 10th April [18]39. Single sheet, 12.5 x 16 cm., approx. 60 words, addressed on verso to "Mrs. Madison." Mrs. Lear requests "the favor of one more frank for Miss Hart and if you..... More
Plat map of 435 lots. 43.5 x 25.5 cm. Old fold lines, some toning to paper. Text advertisement for Brown & MacConnell Sales Managers, Fair Harbor Development Co., Inc. 64 Smith Ave., Telephone 128-M, Bay Shore, N.Y., printed below the border of the map. "Fair Harbor began as a real..... More
Boston, [MA]: Tuttle and Weeks, August, 1835. First edition. 12mo. 24 pp. Stitched, as issued. Large numbers stamped on title page and New York State Library stamp on title page with deaccession stamp on last page. Cohen 3791- The author suggests that imprisonment for life at hard labor is preferable..... More
Boston, [MA]: Printed at the Office of the Mechanicks Magazine, No. 52 Washington Street, six doors north of State Street, 1830. 16mo. 18 pp. Contemporary blue-gray wrappers. A fully detailed set of rules and regulations, up to 1830, including the Middlesex Canal by-laws, regulations relating to boats meeting at the..... More
[Boston, MA: 1822]. First edition. 8vo. 34 pp. Disbound. Massachusetts General Hospital is the third oldest general hospital in the United States. The cornerstone of the building was laid in 1818, and the building complete enough to receive patients by September 1821. Included here are summations of the work of..... More
[New York: July 31, 1813]. Newspaper broadside. 51 x 34 cm. Text in five columns. Overall toning to paper, faint old stain, paper flaw across part of the last two columns resulting in some disjointing of text, left margin uneven, disbound. In 1813 militia commanders in New York were ordered..... More
Baltimore, [MD]: Printed by Sherwood & Co., 1850. First edition. 8vo. 21 pp. Disbound. A printed note on the verso of the title page states this catalogue is defective for the years 1819-1821, due to the "absence of the regular records," but otherwise contains a complete roster through 1850. More
Philadelphia, [PA]: George G. Evans, Publisher, 1887. New revised edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 162pp. [7] ads. Portrait frontis. of Daniel M. Fox. Printed wrappers, some edge chipping and a spot on upper right front cover, faint old tideline at outer margin of the first couple of pages. More
Boston, [MA]: Printed for the Publisher, 1833. First edition. 8vo. 4, 98, [1], 15 pp. Disbound. Sabin 12699. Cohen 14270. Child (1794-1874) was a Massachusetts lawyer, journalist and anti-slavery reformer, and the husband of Lydia Maria Child, the well-known author and abolitionist. More
[New Haven? 1857?]. Offprint from the American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd series, Vol. xxiv, July 1857. Period plain green wrappers. 23 cm. [21]-38 pp., [1] folded chart, a map, 60 x 23 cm., tracking gales and hurricanes. OCLC: AM Museum Nat. Hist., Yale, Amherst, Am. Phil. Soc., Brown..... More
![IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF TEXAS TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME.... [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/66230.jpg?v=1634929843)
Partly printed document, completed in manuscript, docketted on verso. 31 x 37 cm. Old fold lines, some small holes along folds, some fading to ink, two blind stamped seals in the lower margin, overall toning to paper. Text enclosed in a decorative border. The heirs of James Cole were granted..... More
[New Orleans, LA ? 1884]. Broadside. 30.5 x 9 cm. Printed on golden yellow paper. Text enclosed in a decorative border. Beneath the caption title is a paragraph asserting that G.T. Beauregard and J. A. Early, Commissioners, would make sure it was an honest, fair drawing. "By an overwhelming popular..... More
[Various places: 1829-1833]. Contemporary 3/4 calf and marbled boards, front cover detached, gilt rules and title on spine (rubbed and worn). 22 cm. pagination various. Hand-written table of contents on lined paper tipped in between the front endpaper and the title page. The essays include: 1. ADDRESS ON THE EXPEDIENCY AND DUTY..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Cist, No. 104, North Second Street, 1794. Stitched sheets, plain drab blue rear wrapper (front wrapper lacking). 16 cm. [4], 73pp., [7], 8 folding plates. Some short tears and a snag to first folding plate affecting a letter or two of text and part of one..... More
Boston, [MA]: A. Williams and Company, 283 Washington Street, 1878. First edition. 8vo. 29 pp. Stitched paperwraps, moderately soiled. "The work is essentially an elaboration of ideas Spooner had first put forward in his Constitutional Law, Relative to Credit, Currency, and Banking (1843)....Spooner's position regarding the irrelevance of bullion to..... More
Boston, MA: Press of J. L. Hallworth, 1860. 17 x 10.5 cm. Plain tan wrappers. 8 pp. OCLC lists single copy at Graduate Theological Union. More
![FREDERICKBURG RAIL ROAD ONLY. Confederate States of America. War Department. Richmond. [May 22],...](/pictures/thumb/66224.jpg?v=1635025869)
[Richmond, VA: 1864]. A pass, issued by the CSA War Dept., printed on cheap brown paper. 10 x 17 cm. Rumpled, shallow chipping at margins. On the recto is a statement of permission, filled in ink, for [W.B. Snead?] to visit [Ashland, VA], signed by the provost marshal. Spaces for..... More
[Lafayette County, Arkansas: May 1850]. Probate Court Guardianship Papers, the petition of Bern Russell of Lafayette County, Arkansas for guardianship of Alfred Criner's minor children, before Judge James Trigg, Court of Probate in Lafayette County. 30 cm., 6 pp., approx. 1000 words. Old fold lines, split across the horizontal folds..... More
St. Paul, [MN]: Printed by Ramaley & Hall, 1868. 21.5 cm., 99, (1) pp. Printed tan wrappers, some soiling, previous owner's name on front wrapper. The Association was formed in 1857 would eventually be taken over by the city in 1882 to become part of the Public Library. This early..... More
[Philadelphia]: nd [1799]. Portrait of Patrick Lyon, 18 x 11.5 cm. image closely trimmed, laid down on a 30 x 24 cm. buff sheet. Some toning to paper, two small pin holes (from mounting?) in upper margins of paper; lower corners of image chipped (not affecting caption title). Lyon is..... More
Providence, [RI]: Geo. P. Daniels, 1845. Original printed brown wrappers. An image of an elephant with title and publishing information enclosed in decorative border on front wrapper. Rear wrapper with publishers list of twelve illustrated children's books all priced 6 1/4 cents, also enclosed in decorative border. 14 cm. 23..... More
A two-page letter on blue paper, 24 cm., approx. 260 words, in a neat hand. Accompanied by an envelope addressed to James Denver, H[ouse] Representatives, Washington, DC. Heintzelman addresses Denver, a Congressman from California, as "Dear General." The letter, written from San Francisco, reports on news from Sacramento: "I came..... More
Boston, [MA]: Russell, Ordione, and Company, 1833. Original blue-green cloth. Tear to tip of spine. 16 cm. 54 pp. Significant number of institutional copies. Not at UVA. More
New York: McLoughlin Bros, nd [bet. 1890-1910?]. Chromolithographed stiff paper wrappers. Cover illustration shows Red Riding Hood and the wolf walking side by side on a plank bridge. 27 cm. (16) pp., including covers, sewn. Text printed in two columns. Chromolithographed plates through-out. Howard Del. printed in reverse on rear..... More
Little Rock, Arkansas: Issued by Land Department of the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern and Little Rock & Fort Smith Railways, nd [1904?]. Glossy white paperwraps (lightly soiled), stapled. 17 cm. (32) pp. Frontis. map, photo illustrations, and ads. Title and illustration of a steer printed in brown on..... More