New York: Dodge & Grattan, [1861]. Pictorial broadside with typographical border, some edge tears or chips. 39 x 30.5 cm. Wonderfully illustrated large broadside advertisement, offering city and state rights for sale. "This Fire Escape, which consists of a Fire Proof Ladder and Safety Tube combined...is made of chains or..... More
Philadelphia [PA]: King & Baird, Printers, No. 607 Sansom Street, 1863. First Edition. 8vo. 21 cm. 12 pp. Original glossy black printed wrapper with gilt stamping, lacks rear wrapper, front wrapper is chipped around edges and detached. The Free Military School for Applicants for the Command of Colored Regiments opened..... More
Sturbridge [MA]: October 4, 1838. Two page letter, 25 x 20 cm., approx. 400 words. Folded with integral address, small hole at wax seal. "H. Wheelock", one of the Road Commissioners of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, writes to William Crawford, Chairman of the County Commissioners of Worcester County. He reports on a...... More
Boston: Oct.1, 1846. Broadside. 24.5 x 28.5 cm. Professionally rebacked, some browning and old staining, with a number of closed tears. Apparently no OCLC. Shows the transitional period of railroads operating with the canal and lake systems. The line to Worcester had been a single track until 1843. More
Boston: Printed by Order of the Common Council. True & Greene, Printers, 1825. Sammelband of pamphlets, bound in contemporary boards rebacked in gray cloth with leather spine label. Included in this volume is Daniel Treadwell's pamphlet, REPORT MADE TO THE MAYOR.... 32pp. KRESS C1575 RINK 2819 AMERICAN IMPRINTS 22503 [OCLC..... More
June 4, 1787. Manuscript petition, 29.5 x 18.5 cm., 5 pp., approx. 1000 words. Stitched sheets (stitching pulled). Browned, old staining and fraying, some short separations along folds, chips and tears to the final leaf, affecting a few of the signatures. This is a petition written by the selectmen of..... More
[Knoxville?, Iowa: Printed for A. N. & D Overton], Nov. 12, 1861. Broadside. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. Nineteen lines of text, including a list of satisfied customers from the Knoxville, Iowa area. Signed in type A.N. & D. Overton. An invention perhaps overshadowed by events of the time. Iowa sent..... More
New York: Office of the New York Times, 1861. First edition. 12mo. 18.5 cm. 72 pp. With a large folding map (34 x 41.5 cm) showing the distribution of slaves in the South. Original printed wraps, chipped and soiled, but sound. HOWES L 467. More
New York: M.B. Brown & Co., Publishers and Printers, 199, 201 & 203 William Street, [1866]. First edition. 12mo. 18 cm. 232 pp., plus ads. Original brown cloth-backed printed paper boards. A bit rubbed, spine with chipping, otherwise very good. Includes "California State Rules of the Different Jockey Clubs and..... More
[Concord, NH: 1827]. Broadsheet. 45.5 cm. x 29cm. [2] pp., printed in four columns. Sheet lightly and uniformly browned. Adams' third Annual Message to Congress takes up seven of the eight columns. Most of his speech is concerned with international trade and treaties. Jackson Democrats had swept the mid-term elections..... More
Columbus, Ohio: Statesman Job Office, [1850]. Broadside. 59 cm. x 34.5 cm. Old fold lines, a few tiny holes, else a nice example. Curious list of over 100 delegates, including names, counties represented, their post offices, place of nativity, years in the state, age, occupation, married or single, lodgings and..... More
Portland, [Maine]: 1833. Broadsheet, 47.5 x 29 cm. printed in four columns on recto, two on verso, with ads filling out the column, the remainder of the verso blank. Some browning, 5" tear from bottom, without loss. An early and interesting Northern New Year's appearance of this enormously important document..... More
New York: [J. Winchester], January 1, 1841. Broadside, 34 x 25 cm., on a 39 x 29.5 cm. sheet. Verse in two columns, with large typographical border and small engraving. Very good. Evidently Park Benjamin's New World, a mammoth weekly, which was associated with or published as, the Evening Signal..... More
Boston, [MA]: Peter Edes, No. 45, Marlborough-Street, 1786. Newspaper. 46 cm. 4 pp. 4 columns per page. This weekly paper ran for three years, beginning in December 1784, but downsized with the issue of Aug. 3, 1786 due to an advertising tax, and discontinued in January 1787 [see: Brigham on..... More
[Hartford, Ct: Hudson & Goodwin], 1813. Broadsheet. 35 cm. 2pp. Removed from bound volume, but very good. An incredible and wonderfully vivid recital of the details in a bible publishing war. Dodge defends himself against charges and claims that the bible was previously published by Whiting & Watson and therefore..... More
Las Vegas, [NM]: Daily Gazette, 1881. Newspaper. 54 cm. 4 pp. Spine edge frayed, but very good. An extremely rare newspaper, which ran from 1880-87, but only a handful of issues are known--with splendid early notices (within a week) of rewards raised for Pat Garrett, for his shooting of Billy..... More
Stitched sheets. 30 cm. 68 pp. of entries in a neat hand. Browning and old staining to the outer sheets, extending into some pages of the text at front and rear. The account book deals with freight, primarily tons of stone purchased by Josiah Vinton from local suppliers and sent..... More
Philadelphia, [PA]: A. Bancroft, 630 Chestnut Street (second story), 1865. Oval albumen photograph of Lincoln, 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 cm., laid down enclosed in an oval border in the center of the original rectangular sheet 50 x 38 cm. Text lines above and below the photo speak to what..... More
Boston [MA]: Printed by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street, 1774. First edition. Stitched. 27 cm. [5]- 20 pp. Half-title, "An Oration Delivered March Fifth, 1774," between mourning lines (chipped, worn, outer margins frayed, age darkened and soiled, old staining to gutter), title page, including five lines in Latin from..... More
[Rochester?, N.Y: 1810?]. Small broadside, unevenly trimmed along top edge and left margin. Caption title in bold type. 23 x 18 cm. Approximately 540 words in 35 lines. Signed in type by Philip Van Keuren, jun., Chairman, by order of the Committee of Correspondence. The broadside discusses taxes laid upon..... More
NY: Published by G. & C. Carvill, 108 Broadway, 1827. First edition in English. 8vo. 21.5 cm. [v], 6- 323pp. Original drab boards with recent paper spine, retaining original paper spine label. Lacks front endpaper, hinges strenghthened with paper tape, boards worn on edges. Scattered foxing HOWES R284. More
Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Cist, No. 104, North Second Street, 1794. 12mo. 16.5 cm. [4], 73pp., [6], 8 folding plates. Bound with LAWS FOR REGULATING THE MILITIA OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 39pp. Original drab blue wrappers, deteriorated, spine perished. First folding plate has loss in fold affecting text..... More
[Hartford, CT]: Printed by Case, Tiffany & Co., 1837. Originial printed wrappers (chipped and rumpled). 23 cm. 23 pp. Cover title: "Mr. Beach's Answer to Mr. Sigourney." Upper outer corner torn from front wrapper, taking most of a presentation signature (likely Geo. Beach). The pamphlet airs a dispute over the management..... More
[Hartford, CT: 1837]. Three stitched pamphlets. The group includes: 1) To the Stockholders of the Phoenix Bank, Hartford, Conn. 24 cm. 16 pp. Signed in type by Charles Sigourney, President, June 26, 1837. 2) To the Stockholders of the Phoenix Bank. 25 cm. 23 pp. Signed in type by Geo..... More
Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 72 Washington Street, 1828. 12mo. 19.5 cm. 24pp. Stab stitched pamphlet. Minor foxing to text and small stain to title page. Inscribed by "the author" to J. B. Congdon Esq. Essay questions a standing miltary. Pierpont was a poet, teacher, lawyer, Unitarian minister, legislator, temperance and..... More
