![BEAUTIFUL PASADENA: SOME SCENES AND SOME INFORMATION, 1904 [cover title].](/pictures/thumb/59281.jpg?v=1543866221)
(Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Board of Trade), 1904. Small oblong 4to, tri-folded to narrow 12mo. (12) pp. Profusely illustrated, with text describing several hotels and giving a little promotional information. Apparently not in Rocq (with many other editions of a similar title). OCLC locates five copies (California - Berkeley, San Francisco... 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
Tampa, FL: Knull Floral Company, (ca. late 1920s). 8vo 48 pp. Illustrated; photos, illustrations of various plants, arrangements, tools. Includes pricing and planting information. Red- and green-lettered grey paperwraps; stapled. Very good. More
Huntsville, AL: Printed at the "Democratic Herald" Office, 1842. First (only?) edition. 8vo. (11) pp. 4 full-page diagrams (text on versos) that are metal cuts done from plates whose securing screw heads are evident. The title, copyright, and first page of text printed in portrait alignment, following pages of text... More
Forsyth, GA:, The college, (printed Albertype Co. Brooklyn, N.Y.), nd [ca. 1910?]. First edition. Oblong 8vo. (1) pp. Seven full-page views of the campus, including one folding panorama of the main campus quad. A Christian women's college dedicated to "giving the future mothers of the race the gracious enlightened tenderness... 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
[Indianapolis, IN]: Indianapolis Journal Print, 1875. First edition (?). Illustrated advertising broadsheet, 28 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches, employing a large number of sizes and styles of type, including nice display types. The show traveled via its own fleet of 42 railroad cars, "Mr. H. Barnum, with years of experience... More
Shreveport, LA: (H.G. Stetson, Printer, Camp St., New Orleans), November 5, 1866. Ephemera. Half-sheet folio, 5 3/8 by 11 inches, illustrated with a small engraving, 3/4 x 1 7/8 inches, of a steamboat in the upper corner; docketed on verso. Henry Ware, a native of Georgia, engaged in the commission... More
[Richmond, VA: 1824]. First edition. 4to. 15 pp. Each line of the text is numbered. George Washington founded the Potowmack Company in 1785 to make navigability improvements to the Potomac River, with an ultimate goal of using waterways to connect the eastern seaboard to the Ohio River and the Great... More
Nashville: Foster & Webb, Printers, 1902. 12mo; 80 pp. First edition. Rebound in modern blue fabrikoid, with original paper wrappers bound in. Illustrated with photographs. Inscribed by Patrick Griffin (one of the subjects of the Sketches) on front wrapper. Small stain on title page, with some chipping to bottom of... More
(Stratton, ME: The camps [Pinewood Press, Canton, Me.]), nd [ca. 1935?]. Promotional. Six-panel brochure folded to 16mo. Illustrated from photographs. Description of the Franklin County hunting and fishing camp, offering trout and salmon fishing and hunting for deer, bear, and grouse. Very good. Original illustrated wrapper. (#7912). More
(St. Paul, Minn. Brown & Bigelow), ca 1929. 21 x 27 cm.; [32] p. : ill., maps. Tan illustrated covers. Illustrations depict scenery, towns and events. Very good. OCLC lists Princeton Univ., Southern Methodist Univ. DeGolyer, and Yale Univ. More
Cambridge, England: Philip Steadman, 1967. This issue only. 4to. 32 pp. Illustrated from photographs, floor plans. "Form" was a short-lived periodical, 1966-1969; 10 numbers were issued during that period. This is the second of four issues partly devoted to Black Mountain College. The essay by Rice printed here was first... More
Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1984. First edition. 4to. xi, 97 pp. "This catalog list the National Archives and Record Services microfilm publications of records that relate directly to blacks in the United States … brief narratives describe these publications" (Introduction). Very good. Illustrated gold wrappers, stapled. (#6513). More
Bladen Springs, AL: The proprietor, nd [ca. 1877, the latest testimonial is dated December 29, 1876]. First edition of this early promotional. 8vo. (8) pp. "12 hours by steamboat from Mobile, on the Bigbee River. Daily communication during the winter season. Large hotel and pleasant cottages." Includes a description of... More
Printed broadside, 12 x 8 1/2 inches, with a one-line head, the text enclosed with an ornamental border. Folded; somewhat frayed along the left edge, several small holes, taking a half-dozen letters, foxed. First edition (?). A stirring, patriotic account of the Union victory that allowed Canby's forces to take... More
Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1874. Broadside map, 21 x 25 inches, the counties hand-colored in light shades of several colors, railroads, both finished and proposed, cities, and towns, including county seats, delineated. Cover title: "Guide Map to Ohio." Not in Phillips. Not recorded on OCLC (which does locate one copy of... More
Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. N.P., n.d. Blue lettered buff paperwraps (some short splits to wrappers, at spine ends). 8vo.; 76pp. Photo illustrated. A very good copy. The Bliss Electrical School was founded in 1893 and located in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Included in the catalog is a description of..... More
![THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. [cover title]; STATUES IN STAMPED COPPER AND BRONZE.](/pictures/thumb/52896.jpg?v=1474085598)
Salem, OH: W.H. Mullins Co., 1913. Color illustrated blue and gray stiff paper wraps. 8vo.; 79 pp. [two poems and two pages of text; the remainder is photo illustrated plates]. Chipping to bottom of spine; short splits at joints near head of spine. An overall very good, tight copy. 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
Washington [D.C.]: Published by Cassmir Bohn. Sold by all the booksellers. Murphy & Co. Printers, 178 Market Street, Baltimore, 1854. 24mo. 103 pp. Embossed pebbled green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. All edges gilt. Title page printed in two colors, a folding map of Washington, DC... More
Harrisburg, PA: J. Horace McFarland Co., Mount Pleasant Printery, 1896. Blue wrappers, printed in gold and darker blue. 9 by 6 in. 96pp., illus., includes price list. Not listed in Romaine. No OCLC. More
New York: N. Currier, c.1847. Hand-colored lithograph, 10 x 13 inches. Matted. Some browning to margin, but very good. The print pictures General Winfield Scott and his troops around an artillery battery. A caption in the lower margin describes the action during the battle. More
Marysville, Missouri. April 28, 1864. Partly printed broadsheet, filled in and signed by Felix Blakely. Twenty hundred dollar bond. Hand written note signed by Judge Joseph J. Wyatt stating he approves of the sufficency of the penalty and the security of the bond. Uncommon we would think as most charged... More
Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson, 1720. Narrow 12mo. 204 unnumbered leaves. OCLC locates four copies of this edition (Claremont, Emory, Cambridge, National Library of Wales). Contemporary morocco (rubbed), gilt ornaments on spine faded), gilt-stamped ornamented leather pastedowns, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. (mostly rubbed away). Solid copy of a handy edition. More
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