Charleston, SC: printed and published by A.E. Miller & Co., No. 351 King Street, nd [1864]. Stitched sheets. 21 cm. 48 pp. At the head of the title: "First Edition, 48th year of Publication." Calculations by Prof. Robert Garlington of Newberry College, South Carolina. Tipped in is a small newspaper...
New York: James Reilley, Printer and Engraver, 12, 14, & 16 Spruce Street, New York, nd [ca.1878-79]. Poster for the circus, printed on both sides, 65 x 22 cm. on a 74 x 26 cm. sheet. "Programme No. 1." Text in various sizes and styles of type, bordered by small...
nd [1900-1910?]. Nine photos, most 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in., mounted on stiff card stock. Depicted are the Forts Pickens (3), Barrancas (1), and "Readoff," (1) [sic- actually the 'Advanced Redoubt' built near Barrancas as an extra line of defense]. On the verso of one of the photos of...
NP: nd [1876?]. Original pen & ink drawing, 14 x 18 1/2 in., mounted, glazed and framed. The unnamed artist has placed a sketch of a domed building, likely Memorial Hall, designed by Herman Schwarzmann as the art gallery for the exhibition, at the top of the drawing. Uncle Sam...
NY. Henry G. Langley, 1845 (first was 1844). 8vo. 347 pp., illus., 24 pp. publisher's catalogue. Publishers original pressed cloth binding. Some chipping to spine ends, light watermark first twenty pages. Otherwise a very good copy.
nd [late 1890s-early 1900s]. Seven cabinet photos (including one duplicate image), 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in., mounted on stiff grey card stock, 9 x 11 in. Each photo bears the stamp of T.N. Barnard, or Barnard Studio, Wallace, Idaho, printed on the card stock border. The photos show what...
Exeter, [N.H.]: Published by Josiah Richardson, 1828. First edition. 18 cm. 444, 24 pp. Contemporary calf, leather label, lightly rubbed. Considerably browned, but very sound. AMERICAN IMPRINTS: 35033.ATWATER: 2582.
[Raleigh, NC? np, 1864]. Single sheet, printed both sides, 20 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches. "I have come among you to beg you in the name of reason, of humanity, to obey the law, to recognize order and authority, to do nothing except in the manner prescribed by the Constitution...
[Charleston, S.C. np, 1860]. Printed broadside, 61 x 24 cm. One of at least four issues printed in Charleston at or shortly after secession. Hummel 2436 (six copies: Emory, Georgia, Duke, S.C. Historical Society, South Carolina). Not in Parrish & Willingham (but see two other Charleston printings recorded there: 5372...
Warrenton, NC: Printed at the News office, 1859. First edition (?). Printed broadside, 11 x 8 1/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, including an elaborate large ornamental display type for the word "Plow," the entire text enclosed within a wide ornamental border. The text describes two types...
NP: np, 1810-1830? Broadside. 23 x 23 cm. Illustrated with two relief cuts in the upper corners. Verse in eleven stanzas and two columns, separated by a decorative line. Not in American Imprints. OCLC lists a copy at AAS. The young man dreams he seduces the object of his desire...
[Albany, N.Y, 1842]. Broadside. 26 X 26 cm. Trimmed close all around, especially the top. About one-third of the broadside is taken up with a woodcut illustration of a steamboat. A visually appealing broadside, with large letters.
Sandwich, [MA]: 1853. Broadside. 35 x 29 cm. Lovely image of passenger train and engine occupies about a fifth of the page. Some losses to edges perhaps from pulling it down from where it had been posted. No lost of text. Laid down on stiff paper.
[Brooklyn, N.Y: Dec. 20, 1858]. Broadside. 28 x 23 cm. Cropped close at top, separated along one fold (without loss), but small piece lacking below the fold, affecting three or four words). Right margin ragged. An internal memo for posting, to be referred to by employees should the winter be...
Boston: James Fisher 71, Court Street, c.1841. 33 x 25 cm. Engraved by D. Kimberly. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by the Franklin Print Co. ... The lettering by J.B. Bolton... The Declaration of Independence : with fac-similes of the signatures and likenesses of the...
[Portland, Maine: 1848]. 29 x 16 cm. Broadside. Printed in two columns, with typographical border. The address extolls the election of "A leader to the people's mind... / ...the country's friend / And champion, often keely tried, / Found true as steel-- the nation's pride!" [Zachary Taylor, hero of the...
London, printed. Boston: Re-printed and sold by B. Edes and Sons, in Cornhill, 1783. First American edition. 19 cm. [18], 159, [1] pp. Nice example of a period leather American binding with raised bands on spine. Moderately scuffed, corners worn through. Owner's lengthy inscription on front free endpaper, in part...
Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Cist, No. 104, North Second Street and John Markland, No. 91, South Front Street, 1797. First edition. Three quarter leather with marbled boards. Some chipping to upper spine and top edge of boards. 23 cm. [2], vii, [2], 10-111, [3]pp The earliest substanial American book on fertilizer. EVANS: 32673. RINK:1508. ESTC: W37159.
Cincinnati: Printed by Morgan, Lodge, and Fisher, February, 1827. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. original wrappers soiled, paper label on front. First Edition. 100, [1] pp. Two plates. The plates depict the Medical College of Ohio and the Branch Bank. Tipped in sheet in front: "Js[?] S. Stevens with the compliments...
Fair Haven, MA: 5 March 1829. Single sheet folded to 23 x 20 cm. Manuscript petition, approx. 140 words, signed by 25 Citizens Announcing a Meeting to Choose Delegates for an Anti-Masonic Convention to be Held in Fall River. Indicative of the tidal wave of anti-Masonic sentiment which swept the...
New Haven, CT: 1787. 24 x 30 cm. Manuscript diploma in ink, text in Latin, signed in two places by Ezra Stiles. Official seal upper left corner. Some previous folds repaired with archival tape, water staining, browned. Legible overall. Holograph document in Latin stating that the Reverend Samuel Wales and...
Great Bend, [PA]: June 8, 1825. Autograph letter in ink addressed to P[utnam] Catlin, Esq. Folio, 2 pp., approximately 350 words. Tear at middle fold, no loss. McKinney says he has heard of the appointment of a committee by the Pennsylvania legislature to "...view the Susquehanna from Harrisburg, to the...
[Middletown, NY: Whig Press, 1857]. 31 x 24 cm. Broadside, printed in two columns, with typographical border. Few edge tears, slight foxing. Based upon the verse, the carrier is Quaker. The only Whig Press found was in Middletown, New York and the Carrier's Address appears in the Weds. Jan. 7, 1857 issue.
Dorset, Astabula Co., Ohio: March 26, 1860. Four pages, three pages of text, approximately three hundred words written in ink in a clear, legible hand, the fourth page with a pencil note: "Love to all. Ever & truly Jas Redpath". Very good. John Brown, Jr., 1821-95, was the son of...
Cincinnati, OH: Strobridge & Co., Lith. 1878. Third edition, carefully and critically revised. 71 x 657 cm., folded to 71 x 35 cm. 21 sections, joined and mounted to linen and lacquered. Folds to narrow elephant folio, bound in original 3/4 morocco (spine cracked and worn), title stamped in gilt...
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