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
London: Printed by Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1743. 8vo. [152pp.] with THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, Collected into English Metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..... London: Printed by A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1740. [52pp.]. Closed tear in... More
London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. Stereotype edition. 14 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers paneled and decorated in gilt, spine richly gilt, with raised bands and gilt title, gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt, with a colored... More
London: Published for John Reeves, Sold by George and William Nicol and Scatcherd and Letterman, 1812. 25 cm. Full contemporary black straight-grained morocco, covers panelled and decorated in gilt and blind, spine richly gilt, with raised bands and gilt title. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of a mother... More
Oxford: Printed at Clarendon Press by W. Dawson, T. Bensley, J. Cooke, 1798. 22 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers panelled and decorated with gilt tooling, flat spine panelled and richly gilt, with gilt title, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of Henley Bridge, on Thames... More
London: Printed by John Jarvis, 1792. 23 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt rules, gilt decorations and blind tooling on boards, flat spine with gilt rules, ornaments, and title, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers (split to front endpaper). All edges gilt, with a colored painting of the “Priory, Christchurch... More
London: Published for John Reeves, Sold by George and William Nicol and Scatcherd and Letterman, 1807. 24 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, single gilt rules on covers and flat spine, gilt title on spine, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of “Durham Cathedral”... More
New York: Doubleday & McClure (Edmund Evans, engraver & printer), 1897. First American edition, 1/1030 copies (this #980). 8vo. 91 pp. Illus. from line drawings, color plates, marginal decoration, text framed by thin double-rules, decorated endpapers. Child's pencil signature on verso of front endpaper, but a good solid copy. Original... More
(Croydon: Croydon Advertiser Printing Works), [1934]. First edition. Small 4to. 93 pp. Illustrated plates, color frontispiece. History, description of collections and premises, list of members with their angling publications, etc. Original gilt-stamped decorated two-tone cloth. Very good. More
(Washington, DC: Dept. of the Interior), 1999. First edition. Oblong 4to. 193 pp. [printed double-column]. Illustrated, maps, tables. Plan for the management of the National Monument at the site of Booker T. Washington's birthplace in Franklin County, Virginia, south of Roanoke; the site was designated a National Monument in 1956... More
Columbus, OH: A.R. Harding, Publisher, nd [1912]. Sale catalogue. 16mo. 32 pp. Illustrated. Offering subscriptions to the publisher's monthly 'Hunter-Trader-Trapper" and weekly "Camp and Trail," "also books on hunting, trapping, fur farming, ginseng growing, camping, fishing." Not in Phillips. Not recorded on OCLC. Pencil notes on outer wrappers, else very... More
(Savannah, GA: Savannah Morning News [for Wymberley Jones DeRenne], 1911. Second edition, greatly expanded from the 1905 first edition, 1/200 copies. Large 4to. 268, (2), xxviii pp. Illustrated, plates, frontispiece of the Wormsloe Library, title page facsimiles, large folding facsimile of a portion of the engrossed Constitution of the Confederate... More
(NY: New York Tribune), nd [1856]. 8vo. 15 pp. [partly printed double-column]. Map of the United States, showing the division of slave and non-slave states, printed on the rear wrapper. Original self-wrappers (some wear at extremities); paper browned, but very good. First edition. Gives extracts of the code "notoriously forced... More
Boston, (MA): Boston Gazette [Printed by Russell & Cutler], 1812. Printed broadside, 17 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches, the head printed in bold type. When Revolutionary War hero General Benjamin Lincoln, in his role as collector for the port of Boston, managed to get the contract to build the Cape... More
New Orleans, LA: T. Fitzwilliam & Co., Lith.; Paul C. Boudousquie, C.E., Del., Mobile, Ala. 1889. Matted, glazed, and framed. 50 x 30 cm. map, within a slightly larger border. Map is lightly creased from folding, printed in pale yellow and blue, showing Mobile Bay at the center, and the... More
New York: Lith. of Chs. Magnus, nd [ca. 1850]. Illustrated letter sheet, 10 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches. The color view at the head featuring a wooded square with a fountain in the foreground of a business district, the street teeming with pedestrians, horses and carriages, and riders on horseback;... More
(Bradenton, FL: Bradenton Chamber of Commerce [Printed by the Florida Grower Press, Tampa]), nd [1926]. Small 4to folded to narrow 8vo. (15) pp. [printed double-column]. Illustrated, plates, small state map. Original color illustrated wrappers, stapled. Very good. Promotional, describing Bradenton as "a true conception of the Florida most people seek-a... More
Brazos, Texas: May 22, 1864. Manuscript fieldnotes of a land survey made for the company. Single sheet. Small hand drawn map, 3 by 3 in., in corner. This was a late attempt by the confederates to start a wool factory to manufacture confederate uniforms. More
New Orleans, LA: Penick & Ford, October, 1936. 12mo. 48 pp. Illustrated from photographs. "100 delicious new recipes: gingerbread, cookies, cakes, pies, puddings, breads, muffins, waffles, griddle cakes & candies," an advertising recipe book for Brer Rabbit Molasses. Very good. Original color illustrated wrappers (a little soiled), stapled. (9155). More
NP: T.W. Ingersoll, c1898. Stereoview, 3 1/2 x 7 inches, a double-image color view of the Yosemite scene on a stiff card, imprinted "Views of the World Series," with "No. 50" added in pencil. Corners rubbed, some soiled, else very good. (1274). More
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Immigration, nd [1904]. First edition, apparently prepared for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. 16mo. (1), 19 pp. Though dealing primarily with the various species of pines, the pamphlet describes each of the state's hardwoods, giving uses for the timber. OCLC... More
Tuskegee Institute, AL: The School, 1937. "Revised" edition, a reproduced typescript (we have been unable to find evidence of an earlier edition). 8vo. 6 pp. Caption title: "Brief Sketch of the Development of Tuskegee Institute, 1881-1937." Not in Blockson catalogue. Unrecorded on OCLC (which does locate three copies of an... More
[Montreal?]: Canadian Pacific Railway, (1905). 8vo. 64 pp. Illustrated; plates, large folding map, ads. Original printed light blue wrappers (darkened at spine and edges), stapled. Very good. Promotional, issued under varying titles starting in 1892. More
