Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner No. 147, Market Street. Brown and Merritt Printers, 24 Church Alley, 1809 [i.e. 1821]. 18mo. 16 pp. Text in verse. Eight engravings. Frontispiece, "The Council," with the imprint line below the illustration: "Philad'a. Published by Benjamin Warner No. 171 Market Street 1821." Later printing... More
New York: Greeley & McElrath, Tribune Buildings..... 1843. First American edition. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo. 22 cm. [2 (title)], xx, [21]-83, [1 (publisher's ad)] pp., double column, with page numbers [v-viii] omitted (i.e. text complete). Frontispiece: "A Diagram showing the operation of the division of labor, or the principle of the... More
[Mendota, Ill? 1861]. Small broadside, 5 5/8" x 3 1/4". Signed in type by Arny at conclusion. Lightly stained, otherwise very good. Itemizes cash received from 8 individuals (and agents?) in the Midwest totaling $191.88, but the principal source of income has been the "New York State fund" which has... More
Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1845. First edition. 8vo. 22.5 cm. 50 pp. Original printed wrappers. Soiled with some erosion to spine, else a very good copy. The second annual address to the Society. BAL 11052. More
Providence, [R.I.]: NP, 1853. First edition. 12mo. 18 cm. 8 pp. Self wraps. Fine. Signed in type at conclusion by A. Potter, Sec'y. Incorporators include Abner Peckham, Peleg W. Gardiner, and John S. Harris. The charter was forfeited in 1878 when the bank's cashier was indicted for embezzling $30,000. More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1866. 8vo. 23 cm. 120pp. Library withdrawal stamp on titlepage. Waterstain top of pages throughout, disbound. McDADE 774: "The Dearing family of six, plus a hired boy and woman guest were all brutally hacked to death by him." More
New York: American Family Publication Establishment, 128 Nassau Street, 1853. First edition. Second printing. 8vo. 23 cm. 136pp. Pink printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine and wrapper edges. LOWENSTEIN 570. KAGLE and STAFFORD 49. More
San Francisco: Published by Order of the Board of Directors, 1869. 12mo. 79pp. Sewn as issued, lacks wrappers. OCLC: Univ. of Rochester, CA State Lib., Univ. of So. CA, Library of Congress. More
New York: Published by Wilson & Company 162 Nassau Street. Stereotyped by Redfield and Savage, 1843. First American edition. 8vo. 21 cm. 64 pp. Disbound. Not in Imprints. Lacks portrait. More
San Francisco: Published by the California Immigrant Union, 316 California Street. Printed by A. L. Bancroft & Co., 721 Market Street, 1870. Second edition. 8vo. 64, 16pp., [30] ads etc., folding map of overland route. In text double page map of California, and double page map of San Joaquin Valley... More
White-Plains, [NY]: Peter C. Smith, 1829. 8vo. 132, [8] pp. Contemporary plain wraps, frayed and worn, corners turned. Some stains, manuscript title on front wrapper. Real estate issue between Hannah Tredwell and her uncle Joshua Pell, Jr. More
Cincinnati: 1811-1839 (bulk 1832). A group of 31 Documents, most 2.5 x 6 in. Fraying, penned x's, a few tears. Copies of cancelled checks with historical importance relating to The Second Bank of the United States (1816-1836) whose charter was signed by James Madison. Madison hoped that it would end... More
Narrow folio, approx. 150 pp., 10-15 entries per page, recording Laflin's numerous business transactions, including purchase and sales of gun powder casks, purchases of saltpeter and brimstone, labor costs for the powder mill, as well as sales of tobacco, hay, rye, beef, corn, winter apples, cloth, barrels of cider, planks... More
Sharon, MA, and Fairhaven, MA: Kendall Whaling Museum and Edward J. Lefkowicz, (c1985). First edition. 8vo. ix, (6), 157 pp. Describes 854 items. Very good. Gray cloth. (10532). More
Cleveland, OH: Rowfant Club, 1904-1916. Collection of Rowfant Club ephemera. Various sizes, 12mo to folio, the three broadsides, 17 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches or larger, and including pamphlets, leaflets, cards, handbills, and broadsides, providing a rather detailed look at the month-to-month workings of an active book collectors' club; a.... More
Charlottesville, (VA): U. Press of Virginia for the Bibliographical Society of the U. of Virginia, (c1967). First edition. 8vo. xii, (2), 189 pp. Illustrated from title pages, old engravings, etc. American printers during the period and their "methods of work, equipment he used, and policies by which he conducted his... More
Cleveland, (OH): (printed by Horace Carr) for Private Distribution, 1930. First edition, 1/250 unnumbered copies on WGM hand-made paper. 8vo. (6), 59 pp. Laid in is a nicely printed announcement of the publication of this volume indicating that a complimentary copy has been forwarded to the recipient, with original mailing... More
Cleveland, (OH): (printed by Horace Carr) for Private Distribution, 1930. First edition, 1/250 unnumbered copies on WGM hand-made paper. 8vo. (6), 59 pp. Several entries marked “have” in light pencil, else a very good copy. Publisher's green quarter-morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine title, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, plain... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Philobiblon Club, 1988. First edition, 1/300 unnumbered copies signed by the author. 8vo. 81 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dufief and three plates of title-page facsimiles. Dufief was one of Thomas Jefferson's main suppliers of books. Very good. Brown cloth, paper spine label. (10593). More
(Hartford, CT: Hartford Press for the Acorn Club), 1904. First edition, 1/102 copies (this #70). 4to. xv, 251 pp. Bibliography of 1741 18th-century Connecticut imprints. One pencil annotation, but a very good copy (from the "Bibliographical Library of William P. Wreden," with its bookplate). Original printed gray wrappers, with yapp... More
San Francisco, (CA): A.L. Bancroft and Co., 1878. First edition. 8vo. 304 pp. Plates. Libraries considered include those of Hubert H. Bancroft, J. Ross Browne, Charles and M.H. De Young, Joseph LeConte, Leland Stanford, and Arpad Haraszthy. Very good. Rebound in black pebbled cloth, gilt spine title, new endpapers. (10546). More
Berkeley, CA: (U. of California), 1905. First edition. 8vo. (2), 18 pp. An appraisal (coming in at $300,000; another $15,000 for duplicates) of the Bancroft collection of books and manuscripts, primarily relating to California and the Pacific slope north and south of that state, but including other Western Americana and... More
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971. First edition, issue in wrappers. 4to. xv, 263, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs. Detailed descriptions for 66 bindings in the collection, with a plate illustrating each. Invitation for the exhibition of the bindings laid in. Ink mark on rear wrapper, else very good. Original... More
New York and London: Pierpont Morgan Library and Oxford U. Press, (c1979). First edition. 4to. xxvii, 338 pp. 100 illustrations, including a mounted color frontispiece and six-full-page color plates, one for each of the 100 bindings described. Inscribed on a front endpaper by the author in 1982. Laid in is... More
Washington, (DC): Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, 1991. First edition, 1/300 deluxe unnumbered copies printed by W. Thomas Taylor and containing an etched portrait of Rosenwald signed by Tony Rosati. 4to. xxxv, 427 pp. Frontispiece portrait, 100 plates, some in color. Bookplate on front pastedown, but... More
