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Philadelphia: Lee & Walker 722 Chestnut St. [1863]. First edition. 33 x 26 cm. 6 pp. With a large color lithograph of the wedding party, by T. Sinclair. Disbound. Foxing and overall toning to edges, although the lithographic image is bright, outer edge of the first page of music has..... More
NY: Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street, 1856. Hand colored lithograph, painted by A.F. Tait, and lithographed by L[ouis] Maurer (his signature on the plate) for N. Currier's New York firm. 52 x 68 cm. A couple of shallow chips along the margins, not affecting image; professionally cleaned, a...... More
![THE COMMITTEE CHOSEN BY THE TOWN [of Reading, Mass.] on the First Day of January, A.D. 1849, To...](/pictures/thumb/64435.jpg?v=1579297385)
Boston, (MA): Wm. C. Lears, 26 Washington Street, [1850]. Broadside. 39 x 25 cm. Gray paper, text enclosed in an ornamental border, with the names of the committee of nine, and the town clerk. Dated in type "Reading, April 1, 1850" at conclusion. A separation and a couple of tiny..... More
[Boston?]: Sold by J.S. Dodge, 127 Hanover Street...dealer in Fancy Goods, Jewelry, &c. [1866]. 27.5cm. x 13.5 cm. Broadside, with decorative border. About 60 lines of verse, questioning why such things as the war brought were allowed to take place, asking: "Was it that Northern freeman should 'eat dirt' for..... More
New York: Printed by J. & J. Harper, 82 Cliff-St, 1827. First edition. 12mo. 18 cm. vi, [7]-264 pp. Contemporary calf boards, recently rebacked in brown fabrikoid with corners renewed, new endpapers. Some overall browning to text block, occasional stains and foxing. Previous owner's notes on rear blanks (some loss..... More
Rockford, [IL? 1865]. Broadside, 22 X 8 cm., with small illustration of an eagle & flag motif under the "Rockford Register" line. A few shallow chips at edges, not affecting text. The "extra" announces: "We have just received the following additional despatches, confirming the glorious news of the fall of..... More
![THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY THE DEATH OF MRS. NAOMI BADGER, at Charlestown [Mass.], Jan. 8, 1831, Aged...](/pictures/thumb/64430.jpg?v=1577751881)
Boston, (MA): J. Howe, Printer, Merchants Row, [1831]. Broadside. 25 x 20.5 cm. Text in two columns separated by a double rule, all within an ornamental border. Old folds, a few creases, a couple of pinholes without loss of text. Very good. Mrs. Badger was the wife of Benjamin Badger..... More
New York: Lith & Pub by N Currier, 2 Spruce St., NY, nd [early 1840s]. Color lithograph portrait of William Henry Harrison framed by a thin double-rule, 11 1/4 x 9 inches on a larger sheet, 18 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches, the president seated at his writing desk, quill..... More
Washington, DC: The newspaper (edited by Theophilus Fiske and Jesse E. Dow), December 13, 1845. Vol. 1, No. 23 [this issue only]. 8vo. [353]-368 pp. [printed double-column]. Polk's first Annual Message to Congress covers pp. [353]-367 of this issue of the newspaper, preceded by short reports on the opening two..... More
New York: The company, 1830. Engraved broadside form, 12 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches, printed on thin paper, wood engraved vignette as part of head, map lower left corner, 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, picturing the Galveston Bay area of Texas along the Gulf Coast and inland, with shading..... More
New York: Lith & Pub by N Currier, 2 Spruce St., NY, nd [late 1840s]. Color lithograph portrait of James K. Polk framed by a bold rule, 11 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches on a larger sheet, 14 x 10 inches, the president seated in his office, a government building..... More
Nashville, TN: The Nashville Republican, 1835. Printed newspaper broadsheet extra, 20 x 13 1/2 inches, the entire broadsheet taken up by Colden's letter to the newspaper, defending himself against charges of fraud involving the purchase of racing thoroughbreds by the three named residents of Gallatin, Tennessee, his text interspersed with..... More
Boston, (MA): Oliver Ditson, c1852. First edition. 4to. 5 pp. Cover illustrated with a lithographed scene (Bufford's Lith., Boston) of Eliza escaping across the river skipping from ice floe to ice floe, an overseer on the rear shore with whip in hand, an African-American behind him with arms raised in..... More
Charleston, (SC): W. Riley, November 1844. First edition. Large 8vo. v, (2), 550 pp. Speculation helped create the Panic of 1837 which was followed by five years of recession, during which time business and farming bankruptcies were common and banks across the nation failed. The Bank of South Carolina and..... More
[Boston, MA: Beale, Homer & Co.], 1833. 8vo. [3]-89 pp. [lacking the front wrapper]. Debating the merits of the Force Bill that would compel, through military action if necessary, South Carolina and other states' compliance with Federal laws requiring collection of tariffs; Calhoun, seeing unconstitutional expanse of Presidential power and..... More
Baltimore, (MD): James Young, 1873. New edition, another version first published as a Confederate Imprint in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1861 (with others issued in between). 12mo. 168, (1), 9 pp. Illustrated with wood engraved portraits and vignettes, plates. As subjects, several presidents are included, but not Lincoln, as are Robert..... More
[in the Chesapeake Bay, nearing Fortress Monroe]: 1861. 8vo. Four pages, with a 2-color patriotic letterhead picturing two soldiers waving American flags, approximately 400 words, in part: "i miss the niggers now because when i was in annapolis i used to buy biscuits of them all buttered ... the slaves..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (c1937). First edition. 8vo. 274 pp. Plates. Investigating the sixth sense, mind reading, and other manifestations of parapsychology at Duke University. Some browning to endpapers from binder's glue, but very good. Original gray cloth, decorated dust jacket (a little wear at extremities). (10763). More
Newbern [sic], NC: 1862. 8vo. Five pages, approximately 400 words, in part: "The Aristocrat walks very erect, very seldom converses upon any subject and as a general thing turns up his nose in defiance of a Federal Soldier, but keeps docile thinking no doubt discretion the better part of valor..... More
Chicago, (IL): Press and Tribune Print, 1859. First edition. 8vo. 203, 51 pp. Folding plate, tables. "On the question of whether the railroad bridge [from Rock Island, Illinois to Davenport, Iowa] was a hazard to the navigation of the Mississippi River" (OCLC). "James Ward, a St. Louis steamboat owner, filed..... More
[New York: Charles Magnus?], nd [1860-1867]. Printed song sheet, 8 x 4 7/8 inches, the title in a nice display type, the text in dialect; printed on Venice Mill paper, with its blind stamp. First line: "I wish I was in de land of cotton." Wolf 487a. Magnus 220. Publication..... More
[New York: National Union Executive Committee], 1864. Printed broadside, 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, title in large capitals, the second line bold, printed in two columns separated by a thin line; the Lincoln interview, conducted by Judge John T. Mills, takes up the first column, Grant's letter, a poem..... More
NP [Frankfort, KY or Washington, DC?]: np [The petitioners], 1824. First edition. 8vo. 12 pp. A group of eight prominent Kentucky lawyers petition Congress to alleviate problems with the Federal court system in the state, "as being defective, unequal, insufficient for the prompt administration of justice, therefore requiring re-organization, amendment..... More
Louisville, KY: John P. Morton and Co., Printers to the Filson Club, 1896. First edition, Filson Club Publications, No. 11. Large 4to. 202 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Transylvania University, founded in 1780 in Boyle County, Kentucky, was the first college located west of the Allegheny Mountains; it moved..... More
Frankfort, KY: Frankfort Commonwealth, Tuesday, September 1, 1863. Newspaper extra. Double-folio broadside, 21 5/8 x 15 1/2 inches, printing the inaugural address in six columns of dense text, with an editorial introduction to the address covering half of the first column and announcements and advertisements filling out three quarters of..... More
