Raleigh, NC: N.C. Dept. of Conservation and Development, nd [1938?]. First edition. Narrow 8vo. 18 pp. Illustrated from line drawings, map. Describes advantages of the state, including natural resources, energy, climate, transportation "reasonable" taxes, markets, labor, etc. Cover title: "The Balanced State: North Carolina." Thornton Official Publications 586. OCLC locates..... More
New York: Coventry House, 1932. Brown cloth with chipping paper spine label. 23.5 cm. 47 pp. Frontis. of an African American balanced on a branch and looking skyward, with bayonets beneath him, plus 3 additional plates and in text illustrations. The Bonus Army made up of mostly of WW1 veterans..... More
Single sheet, text on one side only, with small backing sheet attached by the seal to the rear of the page. Manuscript document from Geo. P. Keeports, Notary Public of Baltimore County, attesting that he and one Mathew Egan, witnessed William Aug't. Washington transfer and assign his right and title..... More
Baltimore, MD: (Printed by David Graham, at the new Printing-Office, in Calvert-street), July 31, 1792, Vol. I, No. 242. 4to. (4) pp. [printed triple-column]. Includes two pages of ads, various goods, help wanted, passage on ships, real estate, dance instruction, a runaway indentured servant (German, “supposed to be with child”)..... More
NP: np, nd [early 1880s]. First edition. 8vo. 11 pp. Inscribed at the head of the title leaf "Private / with comps of Gen. Rosecrans." William S. Rosecrans (1819-1898), an Ohio native and West Point graduate, served in the Civil War as a Union general, commanding the Army of the..... More
(Philadelphia, PA): Lee & Walker, c1857. Sheet music (another edition was published by Oliver Ditson in Boston, the same year). 4to. 5 pp. Front wrapper illustrated by a cut of a five-string fretless banjo. OCLC locates 10 copies, four in the South (Duke, Historic New Orleans, and South Florida, Middle..... More
Washington, DC: Bankers Automatic Thrift Machine, Inc., (1925). 4to. (34) pp. Illus. Prospectus and description of the company, founded to develop, produce, and market a machine that "does the work of a bank's receiving teller ... receives, assorts, and adds deposits of coins and records same in the Bankers' Pass..... More
(New Orleans: The society), 1915. Program and souvenir for the event. Small 4to (9 1/2 x 7 inches). Five leaves, the title page, a portrait plate of Andrew Jackson, with a view of the Hermitage on the verso, menu, 2-page program for the banquet, including toasts, speeches, music, etc., illustrations..... More
Menu, on stiff card stock, 9 x 11 in., folded (partially split along fold; moderately soiled). Cover title printed in red and blue, small circular vignette of a farmer in his field and a rider on horseback, under the banner "L'Etoile du Nord." Signed at the bottom of the cover..... More
[Philadelphia: Barker, Moore & Mein, Importers and Wholesale Druggists, 609 Market St. nd] [ca.1880]. Single sheet of buff paper, folded. 26 cm. [4] pp. A promotional circular illustrated with several vignettes on first and last page, including one showing frogs riding livestock and waving banners for Barker's Horse and Cattle..... More
NP: np, March 1990. 4to. 227 pp. White paperwraps. Printed front cover. Very good. Number of short articles by various writers. More
Clermont-Ferrand: Michelin & Cie., Editeurs, 1919-1921. Four volume set, each volume with three or four Michelin guides to the battle fields bound in, each with a title page, black & white photo illustrations, and maps. All the guides, a total of 13, are in French, with the exception of the..... More
Baton Rouge, (LA): Baton Rouge Gazette, December 29, 1827. Printed broadside extra, 21 1/8 x 14 3/4 inches, headline in large bold type. The first notice is a long advertisement for a slave, 'Negro woman, named Annis, 18 years old, a good house servant" and other property; included thereafter are..... More
N.P., n.p., n.d. Condensed story of the battle presented by the Pea Ridge National Park Assoc. Folded pamphlet. 12mo.; no pagination (8pp.). One illustration. Very good. More
Belton, TX: Wedemeyer & Co., Printers and Publishers, 1902. Black lettered grey paperwraps, stapled. 24 cm. [2], pp.67-98, including ads for local businesses. A monthly publication, during the session, by the faculty and students of Baylor Female College at Belton, Texas. A few shallow chips to edges of wrappers, spine..... More
Louisville, KY: The company, nd [ca. 1875]. 8vo. (3) pp. Announcement by the company of the addition of a storage and commission business in addition to its regular trade in lumber; rates are given for storage and other services. We were unable to find any material on OCLC or in..... More
Printed by Curt Teich & Co. Chicago, IL. n.d. (ca.1915). Color illus. paperwraps. 8vo.; (1pp. of text, & 15pp. of color illus. postcard views of sites in Florida). OCLC locates two copies (State Lib. of FL; University of FL). cf. Servies 16565. More
(Houston, TX: Missouri Pacific-Gulf Coast Lines [printed by John S. Swift, St. Louis], 1925). First edition. 8vo. 64 pp. Illustrated, maps. Elaborate promotional and viewbook for the Rio Grande Valley, with one or more photographic scenes of the are on each page, with descriptive text. OCLC locates 11 copies, six..... More
Washington, DC: The Board, 1945. First edition. (?) Folio (34 cm). (111) pp. [printed rectos only]. Illustrated from photographs, line drawings, and an ad, plates, maps (for airline routes and regional coverage). Includes a 6-page history of the regional airline (studies for viability in 1943 and 1944, incorporation and beginning..... More
[Washington, DC]: Interstate Commerce Commission, 1889. First edition. 8vo. 75 pp. Adjudicating a dispute over Southern railways charging more for shipping over short distances than longer. OCLC locates one copy (Newberry). Original printed tan wrappers. Very good. More
New Castle, DE: Bellanca Aircraft Corp. 1928. First edition (?). Oblong 4to (7 ½ x 9 ¼ inches). (12) pp. Illustrated from photographs. Detailed trade prospectus for the Bellanca CH, a 6-passenger cabin monoplane, presented in text, specifications, and illustrations, built “to unite the maximum safety and the greatest possible..... More
Bergen County, NJ: 1927. Handbill, 10 x 5 7/8 inches, a program for the celebration of “his record long distance flight to Berlin, Germany,” listing 17 entries, starting at 3:30 in the afternoon, and including a National Biscuit Company Band concert, an escort with Chamberlin, eight addresses by notables including..... More
[Philadelphia, PA?]: nd [ca.1878-86]. Small broadside. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Printed on buff paper, in various sizes and style of type. Text describes the tonic as "prepared from the best remedies known and thoroughly reliable," suitable for "all diseases of the throat, breast and lungs." A trial order is respectfully..... More
Boston [MA]: Billings, Clapp & Co., Publishers, 1885. Pictorial tan paperwraps. 16 cm. (32) pp. Illustrations. Color illustrated ad for Nichols' Elixir Peruvian Bark & Protoxide of Iron on rear wrapper. Short critiques on the resorts of Atlantic City, Aiken, several locations in Florida, etc., interspersed with promotional material for..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1865. 22cm. (8), 308, (32, the bookseller's catalogue) pp. [text printed double-column]. 6598 items of Americana, replete with 17th and 18th century rarities; the 32-page catalogue offers material from a range of general antiquarian areas. Ownership signature of bookseller "Patrick Traynor / 29 & 30 Essex..... More
