(Boston, MA: A. A. Childs & Co., Printed by Rand, Avery & Frye], nd [1869]. First edition. Square 12mo (7 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches). 27 leaves [printed rectos only], the text enclosed within bold red rules. Photographic portrait frontispiece of the artist Joseph Fagnani. The text on leaves 16-27... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Sam'l C. Atkinson, 1836-1837 [title page to each volume dated 1837]. First edition of the first two volumes of this periodical [of the three published], each covering six months, Volume I, No. 1 -- Volume II, No. 26, 52 issues, complete for these two volumes (Vol. III, another... More
Trenton, NJ, Brooklyn, NY, and various places in New England and the upper Midwest: 1839-1887. Some storage wear and soiling to some of the items, but a very good lot of papers relating to the life of a significant Brooklyn personality. Most of the material was once bound into a.... More
New York: Printed by James Parker and a few copies are to be sold by him, and Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia, 1747. First edition. Folio. 124, 39, (5) pp. Complete with the three folding maps by Lewis Evans, engraved by James Turner of Boston, two with hand-colored outline on linen... More
[Columbia, MS]: 1822. Oblong folio (7 5/8 x 12 3/8 inches). Partly printed broadside document, headlined "The State of Mississippi, / To all who shall see these presents, greeting / [followed by 14 printed lines, with spaces left for appropriate material to be entered by manuscript, in this case appointees... More
Washington, DC?]: 12 August 1861. Printed broadside, 15 7/8 x 10 3/8 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type for the head and printed on paper with a light bluish tint. Naming September 26, 1861, for the special day, this is the first of nine Thanksgiving proclamations issued by... More
1789. Printed broadside, 7 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches, docketed on the verso "No. 3 / Filed 19th March / 1804." Early Kentucky land broadside voiding a land transaction involving Robert Patterson and John Cockey Owings. "A printed notice from Greer, signed in print, voiding an unauthorized conveyance of a.... More
Charlottesville, VA: F. Carr and Co. (Jefferson Clark, Printer), 1829. First edition. 8vo. (2), [v]-viii, 136, (2), [137]-145 pp. Decisions, "peculiar to our own country," taken from manuscripts of early cases at the General Court in the possession of John Randolph, "the most eminent counsel at that bar and a.... More
[Pennsylvania]: zusammen getragen, MDCCXXVII. Und aufs neu abgeschrieben, 1747. A. Manuscript German-American songbook for use by a Pennsylvania family, written in black ink in a careful hand; without musical notation. Neat manuscript shoulder notes, corrections, additions, and deletions scattered throughout. Small 4to. (4), 316, (39) pp. Decorative initial letters. Text... More
Boston, (MA): E. P. Peabody, 1841. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. 128 pp. A series of 24 letters, "part of a real correspondence, begun in order to systemize the writer's own theory and practice ... [some] books must be considered as the conversation of those who have... More
Washington, (DC): Printed by A. Boyd Hamilton, 1852. First edition. Folio. (2), 159 pp. [printed rectos only], completely interleaved (squares 166, 171, 226, 284, 326, 355, 391, 439, 521, 550-554, 566, 591, 596-597, 648, 917, 934-935, 994-996, 1024-1025, 1058, and 1084 have been completely redrawn on facing leaf in ink;... More
Washington, (DC): Printed by A. Boyd Hamilton, 1852. First edition. Folio. (2), 159 pp. [printed rectos only]. Three large folding maps (each backed with linen). Cover title: "Maps of Washington." Elaborate survey of the District, each page with six or more squares divided into numbered lots; the 1143 squares correspond... More
[New Haven, CT]: [1844-1868]. Two volumes. 8vo. (pagination various), bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards, gilt stamped spine labels. This group of catalogues and sources on the history of Yale was collected by Isaac S. Newton, Class of 1848 (his library bookplate on both front pastedowns). Some scuffing and... More
Stevenson, AL and various places in Georgia: 1863-1864. All folded, several with splits at folds or some browning (defects described individually below). Still a very good lot of rare field-printed Army reconnaissance maps for Southern Appalachian campaigns. (1) [Tennessee] [Area around Harrison and Dallas, Tennessee, northeast of Chattanooga: supplied title]... More
[In the field, North Carolina: 1865]. Detailed manuscript map of a large portion of eastern North Carolina. Pen-and-ink manuscript map on glazed cotton of a large portion of the eastern North Carolina theater in the spring of 1865, 17 3/4 x 22 inches, from just east of Williamston and Murfreesboro... More
Chicago, (IL): 1891. 4to. 11 lines of manuscript on a plain sheet of writing paper. Accompanied by a cabinet photograph of Root, a bust-length portrait, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches, mounted on heavier stock, an ink identifying "Root" written in the extreme lower edge of the print. The autograph... More
Washington, DC: 1893. 4to. Eight lines of manuscript on the letter sheet which is inlaid into heavier stock. The autograph reads in full: "Hark to an exiled son's appeal, / Maryland! / My mother-state to thee I kneel, / Maryland! / For life and death, for woe and weal, /... More
Richmond, (VA): Hoyer & Ludwig, [1862]. First edition. Lithographed map, 19 x 24 inches, showing the Virginia countryside on the north and east of Richmond, roughly in a semi-circle from Ashland on the north, to West Point on the York River to the east, and on to Sandy Point Plantation... More
Princeton, KY: October 28, 1863. Broadside on lined paper. Printed broadside, 10 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Akerstrom was seeking veterans who had been "honorably discharged from the service of U.S. of nine months or more service ... liberal bounty of 402 dollars in installments during the service will be... More
Jacksonville, [FL]: The newspaper [M. Whit Smith], January 15, 1862 -- 8 1/2 A.M. First edition (?] of this extra. Printed broadside extra, 9 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches, presenting "breaking" news related to Civil War issues in four reports in nine paragraphs: Possible work toward exchange of prisoners from... More
Richmond, (VA): Ritchie & Dunnavant, Printers, 1863. First edition. 8vo. 23 pp. A memorial address delivered at V.M.I. on July 1, 1863, by the school's superintendent, reprinting the entirety of the hagiographic oration, as well as the official dispatch from the office of the Confederate Adjutant General's Office informing V.M.I.... More
Milledgeville, GA: Boughton, Nisbet, Barnes & Moore, Printers, 1865. First edition. 8vo. 72 pp. Romance set in Georgia during the Civil War. Wright II, 1531 ("LC copy lacks all after page 16"). Parrish & Willingham 6402 (Library of Congress, North Carolina, Western Reserve), calling for "16 pp." Crandall 3100 ("16... More
Richmond, VA: West & Johnston (Strother & Marcum, Printers, Raleigh, N.C.), 1861. "Twentieth Thousand" (six printings are known; this, the "20th thousand," was printed in Raleigh, all the others were printed in Richmond; another 1861 edition was published in Raleigh). 12mo. (2), ii, [5]-96 pp. Cover title: "The Volunteer's Hand-Book... More
New York: The translator, 1866-1872. First American edition and first edition in English (first published Paris, 1744), 1/25 large paper copies. Folio (13 inches). Six volumes: (4), 286, (1); (6), 284, (1); (4), v, (1), 11-312; (2), 308, (1); 311; 256, (1) pp. Illustrated, 18 maps, 15 plates, four facsimiles... More
Boston, (MA): De l'imprimerie de J. T. Buckingham, 1810. First American edition of a complete translation of the New Testament into French. 8vo. 2 volumes: 403; 326, (1, errata) pp. With the half-titles. American Imprints 19531. Finotti "Catholica Americana," pp. 39-43 (a long entry, including material related to Jean-Louis Lefebvre... More
