New York, [NY]: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Franklin Street, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 19.5cm. vi, [3], [10]-325pp. plus (10) publisher's advertisement. Publishers blind stamped rust cloth. A little wear to spine ends, else very good. Sabin 79627. Not in LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue. Sewell states: "I will admit at the outset..... More
New York, NY: Published by Evert Duyckinck, 102 Pearl Street. George Long, Printer. 1815. 24mo. 14cm. Frontis. [5], -102, [2] pp. Old calf backed paper over wooden boards, paper heavily chipped, outer portion of front cover chipped away, piece missing from front endpaper. Old staining to one corner of frontis...... More
![THE THERAPEUTICS OF TYPHOID FEVER BY CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D. Term of [18]66-7. Copied by E.A....](/pictures/thumb/64519.jpg?v=1581551307)
NP: np, 1866-67. Manuscript notes, a homeopathic materia medica of Constantine Hering's treatments for typhoid fever, belonging to E.A. Farrington. 20 cm. 27pp. Stitched sheets of lined paper. A booklet, likely hand-made, using paper from the Mt. Holly Springs, PA paper mill [their embossed stamp on some pages]. A further..... More
Washington, DC: T.A. & M.C. Bland, Publishers, 1883. First edition. 8vo. 30; [2], 48 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Meacham, and seven wood engraved plates. Pebbled brown cloth lettered on front cover in gilt. Cloth worn through on corners and spine ends, flecked (particularly the front board). Dampstain on the frontis..... More
Boston [MA]: Printed by Ingraham and Hewes, 1826. Second edition. 12mo. 17.5 cm. vi, [7] - 128pp., lacks rear flyleaf. Contemporary blue-green marbled boards with brown leather spine. The story of a shipwrecked American vessel, Ocean, on the river La Plata in 1817. Includes a detailed account of life in..... More
Boston, [MA]: Charles and John M. Spear, Office of the Prisoner's Friend, No. 40 Cornpill, 1846. First and only edition. 18cm. 35pp., [1]. Disbound, else very good. OCLC: AAS, Boston Athenaeum, Peabody Essex, British Lib. More
New York, [NY]: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. 8vo. 71, [1]pp. Burgundy cloth, white lettering on front board partly rubbed away. Some wear to spine ends. DORNBUSCH III:1115. KRICK: 302. - "A firm contention that estimates of total Confederate military enlistments by Northern authors- especially C.F. Adams and T.L. Livermore-..... More
Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1790. First edition. 8vo. vi (including subscribers list), [vii]-viii, 336pp., including an index. Text in double columns. Original calf with red spine label and raised bands. Spine ends chipped, joints starting. Front flyleaf lacking, staining to rear endpapers, one pulled gathering, toning to text. SABIN 19056..... More
A six page letter, approx. 900 words, apparently in a secretarial hand, signed by Stoddert, and directed to John Templeman, a Georgetown shipping merchant. Docketed "Mr. Stoddert's directions about timber." United States Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert's three years as the first Secretary of the Navy led to his..... More
Hartford, [CT]: Cooke and Company, 1834. First American and first edition in English. 8vo. 23.5cm. xxxiv, 355pp. Original brown pebbled cloth, leather label faded and worn, spine faded, spine ends chipped, chipping to front pastedown, foxing and toning to text. Cousin exerted a strong influence upon the American Transcendentalists. AMERICAN..... More
Two manuscript documents, folio & octavo, a total of 2 1/2 pp. The first is a contemporary copy of a document signed by the Selectmen of the town of Canterbury, Connecticut, giving Joseph R. Willoughby thirty days to remove a fence which encroached on part of the Norwich and Woodstock..... More
[Elmira, NY: np, ca. 1910s]. Original printed wrappers in red and black ink on gray paper, secured by brass brads. Oblong 4to. [114pp.]. Numerous illustrations, many full-page, printed on glossy paper. Some pencil markings, tears and some loss to edges of wrappers, still a clean and tight copy. Outstanding trade..... More
[Boston]: 1813. Partly printed bill, completed in manuscript, and signed by the undertaker, Comfort Claflen. Single sheet, 18 x 11 cm., closely trimmed along the left margin, taking part of the printed "Board of Health" notice. The expenses for burying Ockington include opening the cemetery or tomb, use of a...... More
![LATEST- INDEX-EXTRA. GARFIELD ASSASSINATED! Washington, D.C. July 2. 2:00 p.m. [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/64506.jpg?v=1581449214)
NP: np, [1881]. Broadside. 24 x 16cm. Two short closed tears at top margin, verso has remains of old paper where removed from an album. Striking caption typeface calls out the calamity of the moment. Text, in full: "Garfield is sinking rapidly, from internal hemorrhage. He was shot by a...... More
![VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENT. STATE OF [ARK.] COUNTY OF [SEBASTIEN]. [caption title](/pictures/thumb/64504.jpg?v=1581551302)
NP: np, nd [1863]. Partly printed document, completed in manuscript. 26cm. 2pp. Small vignette of an eagle and an American flag appears below "Volunteer Enlistment." Faint old fold lines, a very good example. The volunteer, John Parks, born in Franklin County, Arkansas, was aged 27, and by occupation a "laborer"..... More
Nashville, Tenn. Published for the Author, (1835). Printed paperwraps, stitched, spine perished. 19.5 cm. [48] pp. Illustrated with woodcuts, including an illustration of "Col. Crockett's Method of Wading the Mississippi" on the front cover. Small cotton loop added at the upper end of the spine, to allow the almanac to..... More
Boston, [MA]: Crosby & Nichols, 1863. First edition. 8vo. Engraved frontis. [4], v-xii, 13- 305pp. Blind stamped pebbled brown cloth with gilt spine title. Some abrasions on pastedowns, small hole on front endpaper, some foxing to first few leaves and to frontis., otherwise a clean tight copy. LCP/HSP: 4665 WORK..... More
Cambridge, [MA]: Published By Hilliard and Brown, 1827. Two volumes. First edition. 8vo. 23 cm. xi, (blank), 454; vi, errata, (blank), 379pp. Contemporary three quarter brown calf and marbled boards, rebacked with two gilt stamped leather spine labels on each volume. Printed booksellers ticket of Hilliard & Brown, Booksellers to..... More
Boston, [MA]: Published by Joseph T. Buckingham, Winter-Street, 1811. First edition. 8vo. 23cm. 263 pp. Original drab boards and paper spine. General wear with chipping to spine. Upon the establishment of a medical department at Harvard in 1783 Waterhouse, one of the best educated physicians in America, accepted the professorship..... More
![UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. CERTIFICATE OF RESIDENCE. ISSUED TO CHINESE [LABORER], UNDER THE...](/pictures/thumb/64500.jpg?v=1581551296)
[Visalia, California: March 14, 1894]. California Certificate of Residence No. 91324, for Frank Jack, dated March 14, 1894, Visalia, California. Partly printed certificate, completed in manuscript. 21 x 22 cm., with photograph of the subject, 5.5 x 5.5 cm., slightly faded to sepia, laid down in lower left corner. Blind..... More
![GREAT SALT LAKE, UTAH. [caption title]. Currier, Ives](/pictures/thumb/64499.jpg?v=1581551295)
NY: Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. nd [1857-1872]. Original color lithograph, 21 x 31.5 cm image on a 28 x 37.5 cm. sheet. Professionally cleaned and backed, closed tear to lower margin, slightly affecting the caption title, some expert restoration to right outer margin, not touching the..... More
Philadelphia, [PA]: Henry H. Porter, Publisher. Literary Rooms, 121 Chestnut St., T. Town, Printer, 1832. First edition. 8vo. 80 pp. Original blue paper boards, large orange printed paper label on front cover, with green paper spine. Some wear overall, scattered foxing. Very good. ATWATER 8: "It is just one of..... More
Philadelphia, [PA]: Printed and sold by James Humphreys at the corner of Walnut and Dock-streets, 1802. First edition 8vo. 23cm. 152, [2] pp. (including the 2 fldg. tables), plus an ad leaf. Color frontis. Original drab boards and chipped paper spine. Scattered foxing, small piece lacking from outer margin of..... More
Philadelphia, [PA]: Published for the Industrial League by Henry Carey Baird, Industrial Publisher, 406 Walnut St. 1872. First collected edition. 8vo. 24cm. 96pp. Pink printed wraps. Spine ends have been reinforced with tape. Corner torn on frontispiece no loss to image. These are satirical stories done to show the folly..... More
New York, [NY]: Published by W.E. Dean, 2 Ann Street, 1842. 8vo. 23.5 cm. 104 pp. Bound in 3/4 red morocco and marbled boards. Very good. GOLDSMITHS-KRESS 32825. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 42-2474. More