8vo. (24) pp., 20 items or lots per page, written in a blank book. Full manuscript inventory of an unlocated southern household or plantation: furnishings, household goods, food, crops, livestock, etc., each item or lot with an appraised value; includes 13 slaves, ranging in value from "Boy George" at $25... More
Phladelphia: Published by M. Fithian, 61 North Second Street, 1842. 8vo. 251 pp. Original publishers embossed brown cloth with title gilt stamped on spine. Very good copy. More
Philadelphia, (PA): M. Fithian, 1842. First collected and separate edition. 12mo. 251 pp. A defense of Catholicism against the extreme anti-Catholic demagoguery of the day: "the documents here referred to clearly shew, that the condition of mankind has been no wise improved by the great religious revolution of the sixteenth... More
New York: Privately printed [for] Arcady Executives, (1929). First edition, one of a limited edition (this number 240) printed by William Edwin Rudge. Folio. (40) pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, floor plans, map, color frontispiece by Harry Henderson, aquatints by Donald Douglas, large folded aerial map of the property laid... More
Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1888-98. Vol. 1, #1-6. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled boards. Included are the following six articles: Zelia Nuttall's STANDARD OR HEAD-DRESS? AN HISTORICAL ESSAY OF A RELIC OF ANCIENT MEXICO. (1888) (52pp. & 3 color plates); Albert S. Gatschet's THE KARANKAWA INDIANS, THE COAST PEOPLE OF... More
(Pinehurst, NC: The company, c1931). Annual catalogue of archery equipment for sale, teaching manual, and record book. 8vo. 32 pp. Illustrated. Some years ago we sold a copy of the 1932 edition, the only one recorded on OCLC (North Carolina, Nebraska). Original four-color illustrated wrappers (wanting the rear wrapper), stapled... More
Pinehurst, NC: Archers Co. 1931. Sale catalogue. Small 8vo. 32 pp. Illustrated from photographs, line drawings; ad for "Ye Sylvan Archer," a magazzine, laid in. 1931 sale catalogue from the archery supply company, with articles on the sport's history, instruction, and upcoming competitions. OCLC locates two copies (North Carolina, Virginia)... More
Pinehurst, NC: Archers Co. 1931. Sale catalogue. Small 8vo. 32 pp. Illustrated from photographs, line drawings. 1931 sale catalogue from the archery supply company, with articles on the sport's history, instruction, and upcoming competitions. Cover title: "The Archers Company/ Fine Bows and Arrows." OCLC locates two copies (North Carolina, Virginia)... More
Pinehurst, NC: Archers Co. 1932. Sale catalogue. Small 8vo. 32 pp. Illustrated from photographs, line drawings. 1932 sale catalogue from the archery supply company, with articles on the sport's history, instruction, and upcoming competitions. Cover title: "The Archers Company 1932." Lake & Wright, p. 45 (locating two copies: Denver Public... More
(Chicago: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, 1925). Small 4to folded to narrow 8vo. 46 pp. [as printed double-column]. Illustrated, maps. "This folder is published for the purpose of presenting briefly some facts which may be of interest to homeseekers and other investors whose attention has been drawn to Arizona."... More
Portsmouth, VA: Somerville Printery, 1934. Printed broadside, 11 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, the text framed on top and bottom by ornamental rules, the imprint under the bottom rule. Daniel Atkins (1866-1923), for whom the post was named, served as a steward in... More
1885. Broadside, printed on silk. Measuring 11 x 14 1/2 inches. Signed in type by H.M. Nixon, L.M. Brown, and J.H. Oliver, Committee. Some soiling and wear at edges (short splits near top edge, not affecting text). The resolution adopted was to thank the citizen soldiery of Philadelphia for their... More
[Hollywood, CA]: (Beinfeld Publishing, c1976). Facsimile of the 1866 original, 1/1776 copies. Small 4to. xviii, (4), [17]-399 pp. Illustrated, plates, plan of the Armsmear grounds, portrait frontispiece of Colt. Biography of Colt and his Connecticut homestead. Howes C-618 (for the original). Riling 833: "Pages on the Colt revolver and the... More
NY: [Privately printed], 1867. 4to. 399 pp. Illustrated; frontispiece portrait, map, steel engravings. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth (some minor wear to spine ends and corners), all edges gilt.; several owner's stamps, including one on the half-title, else very good. First edition. Howes C-618 ("b"). More
Denver, CO: Jonas Brothers (Welch-Haffner Printing Co., Denver), (c1924). First edition. 4to. 31, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs, line drawings, marginal vignettes. Illustrated guide to the Jonas Brothers' services. Caption title: "Taxidermy as an Art." Very good. Color decorated gray wrappers, stapled. (#4268). More
Charlottesville, (VA): Alderman Library, University of Virginia, 1980. First edition of this keepsake, published on the occasion of the opening of a Cather exhibition from the Barrett collection at the University of Virginia, 1/1500 copies designed by and with a frontispiece portrait by Warren Chappell. 12mo. 30 pp. Includes short... More
Chicago, IL: Gravure Illustration Co. 1902. First edition, a variant with Augusta before Savannah in the title and the plates arranged differently from the edition usually encountered (same text). Folio. 18 pp. [rectos only]. Illustrated from photographs, 98 captioned views on 62 plates, each with a tissue guard. Architecture, street... More
Chicago, IL: Gravure Illustration Co. 1899. First edition. Folio. 12 parts, chiefly captioned illustrations. Illustrated with photogravures, plates. Focuses on the architecture of Springfield and Holyoke, but includes views from the surrounding country; the majority of the plates depict civic structures, like schools, churches, hospitals, monuments, parks, etc. Cover title... More
(Chicago, IL): Gravure Illustration Co. 1899. First edition. Folio. 12 parts, chiefly captioned illustrations. Illustrated with photogravures, plates. Focuses on the architecture of Springfield and Holyoke, but includes views from the surrounding country; the majority of the plates depict civic structures, like schools, churches, hospitals, monuments, parks, etc. Cover title... More
Chicago, (IL): Gravure Illustration Company, 1924. First edition. Large 4to. Nine parts, each with nine plates, most with multiple captioned photographic images of buildings, primarily private residences, but including country clubs, colleges and universities, public offices, and scenic views and street scenes of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, and Charlotte, North... More
Chicago, IL: Gravure Illustration Co. 1902. First edition. Folio. 18 pp. [rectos only]. Illustrated from photographs, 98 captioned views on 62 plates, each with a tissue guard. Architecture, street scenes, countryside views, etc. De Renne catalogue III, p. 993. OCLC locates 11 copies of this issue (New York Public, Armstrong... More
194-'s Black quarto binder 128 pp, index. Mimeographed by Pvt. W.G. Stickley. Signature of Lieut. W.S. Boss. Approximately 20 forms for various needs of Fire Dept. laid in. This document shows equipment carried on Hose Wagons, salaries, techniques for fire prevention of the period. More
(Montgomery, AL: Powell Industries for the Handicapped), nd [1930s?]. Advertising flyer. Narrow 12mo. (3) pp. Portrait from a photograph of the Rev. Joseph Elbert Powell. Advertising flyer and fund raiser for Powell's "Powell Industries for the Handicapped" in Montgomery Alabama, established "to erect an Industrial Center which will manufacture useful... More
St. Paul, MN: Pioneer Press Co. 1902. 16mo.; 13pp. Original printed pink wrappers, illustrated with the association seal; old institutional stamps on front wrapper and verso, but a very good copy. Formed "to secure and create a record of the names and history of the territorial pioneers of every county... More
New York: Printed by T. & C. Wood (No. 18 Wall St.), (1835). First edition. 8vo. 8 pp. "[Formed] for the purpose of raising and smelting minerals in the State of Missouri, manufacturing shot, and carrying on all the customery [sic] business, and purchasing and holding all the necessary real... More
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