Raleigh, (NC): NC Dept. of Agriculture, 1910. First edition. 8vo. 50 pp. Illustrated from photographs, three color plates. "The Appalachian Mountain region [has] a cool climate [and] a longer growing season and a more abundant and brighter sunlight. This makes it ideal for the commercial production of hardy fruits." Cover... More about Bulletin of North Carolina Fruit Lands for Sale
New York: H. de Marsan, nd [1861?]. First edition. Broadside song sheet, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (trimmed to edge of ornamental border), printing five verses and a chorus in two columns separated by a thin rule, and enclosed within a wide ornamental and illustrated border, with pictorial scenes... More about Bully for Us. [caption title] Composed and sung by Harry Fox, the Popular Negro Comedian, at...
Raleigh, NC: Mitchell Printing Co., (1916). First edition (?). 12mo (15 cm). 40 pp. Businesses, with addresses, listed under many categories. Cover title: "The Raleigh Chamber of Commerce: Who's Who in Business Raleigh." Apparently not in Thornton. Not recorded on OCLC. Hole-punched in upper corner, with string-tie for hanging. Very... More about BUSINESS GUIDE AND OFFICIAL DIRECTORY of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
New York: 1855-1865. Small oblong 4to. 148 leaves, almost all with manuscript entries on both sides, usually more than one per page, interleaved with blotting paper, as issued. The receipts, representing hundreds of transactions are signed by nearly as many New York merchants, acknowledging payment for a variety of goods... More about Business trading in cotton and other commodities, as recorded in a business ledger compiled by...
[New Orleans, LA? nd (ca.1862). First edition, the Philip D. Sang copy. Printed broadside, 13 x 9 1/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type including larger display types. One of the great Civil War broadsides, and the only recorded copy. This printing is the bold Confederate response to... More about BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION. / HIS OUTRAGEOUS INSULT TO THE / WOMEN OF NEW ORLEANS! / SOUTHERN MEN,...
Richmond, (VA): Printed by James E. Goode, 1864. 15 pp., 12mo, original printed wrappers. First Confederate edition. Very good copy. Parrish 8662. More about By-Laws and List of Members of Richmond Randolph Lodge No. XIX, Ancient York Masons
Louisville, KY: printed at Mrs. Palmer's Price Current Office - Wall Street, 1833. First edition (?). 20 cm. 11 pp. (printing error resulting in an extra signature being bound in, repeating pages 9-11). The Bank of Louisville was chartered in 1832. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Not in Sabin, American... More about BY-LAWS AND RULES OF THE BANK OF LOUISVILLE
Charlotte C. H. Charlotte Gazette Printing Office, 1874. 16mo. 10 pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Very good. First edition (?). Includes a list of the lodge's officers. Scarce; apparently unrecorded on OCLC. More about BY-LAWS OF KEYSVILLE LODGE, A.F. & A.M. NO. 154, ADOPTED JANUARY 10, 1874
Greenfield, (MA): Franklin Job Printing Office, 1866. 12mo. 11 pp. Original gilt-stamped blue wrappers. Fine. First edition. Cover title: The Federal Union Gold Mining Company. "Whereas, Napoleon B. Buford of Illinois, Erskine McClallen of Cororado, Joseph Beals, Elisha Wells and others of Massachusetts, having acquired a large mining property on... More about By-Laws of the Federal Union Mining Company, Clear Creek County, Colorado, Organized, March 27,...
Charleston, (SC): Evans & Cogswell, 1861. Revised edition (previous rules for operation had been published in 1806, 1839, and 1852). 8vo. 40 pp. Parrish & Willingham 7837. Turnbull III, p. 332. Very good. Original printed yellow glazed wrappers (spine a little eroded, old tideline in lower corner). (10161). More about By-Laws of the Orphan House of Charleston, South Carolina. Revised and adopted by the Board of...
(Pine City, GA): Daily Democrat Job Print, 1891. 16mo. 8 pp. Original printed red wrappers (faded, with some bleed through to text), stapled. Very good. Prospectus for the capitalization of the company. More about BY-LAWS OF THE PINE CITY LUMBER CO., OF PINE CITY, GA., WILCOX COUNTY
NY: Passenger Traffic Dept., United Fruit Company Steamship Service, nd [ca. 1915]. Small 4to folded to narrow 8vo. 15 pp. Illustrated, includes deck plans for 11 different models of steamships in the line, one of which is double-page. Original illustrated wrappers, stapled. Very good. Promotional for the "Great White Fleet,"... More about CABIN PLANS [cover title
Memphis, TN: The insurance co. (Johnson Printery, Memphis), [1942]. Printed wall calendar, 14 x 10 inches, the month-by-month calendar in the lower third, the whole enclosed within an ornamental border; "Booker T. Washington's Birthday April 5" printed in the lower border. Universal Life Insurance Company, "the cornerstone of Negro business... More about Calendar for 1943, advertising the Universal Life Insurance Company in Memphis, Tennessee,...
Oakland, CA: Oakland Chamber of Commerce, 1932. Promotional pamphlet, measuring 23 x 20 cm., folded to 23 x 10 cm. Red lettered white paper wraps, with color illustrations presented as oversized postage stamp views of tourist attractions in the two states; (24) pp. Illustrated with black & white photos and... More about CALIFORNIA - NEVADA TRAVELS ASSOCIATION. AMERICA'S GREATEST PLAYGROUND --- LAND OF A THOUSAND...
Chicago (IL): Burlington Route [Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roger & Smith Co., Printers], 1914. Revised edition. Large broadsheet folded to narrow 8vo. 18 panels of promotional narrative, profusely illustrated from photographs, describing areas and scenes of California on recto, the verso with a large map of California, with lists... More about CALIFORNIA EXCURSIONS, PERSONALLY CONDUCTED [cover title
San Francisco, CA: Southern Pacific, 1902. First edition. 16mo. 32 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Promotional for those thinking of moving to the state, emphasizing agricultural and other employment opportunities. OCLC locates three copies (California State Library, California - Berkeley, California - Davis). Very good. Original decorated tan wrappers, stapled. (6143). More about CALIFORNIA FOR EVERYBODY [cover title
San Francisco, CA: Southern Pacific, 1902. First edition. Broadsheet folded to narrow 12mo. 10 panels of descriptive promotional text for the state, printed in red and blue emphasizing its important towns, historic sites, and recreational opportunities. Bird's-eye topographical map of the state, with the lines of the Southern Pacific outlined... More about CALIFORNIA IN MINIATURE [cover title
NP: ("Printed in Germany"), nd [ca. 1895]. First edition (?). 8vo. 15 plates of views on a single sheet, folded accordion-style into gilt-stamped cloth boards. The 33 views presented here form an architectural photo-essay of the California 1894 Mid-Winter Fair, including a panorama of the grounds and views of individual... More about California Mid Winter Fair 1894 [cover title
[London & Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1854]. Pamphlet, with hand-made stitched wrappers supplied.Title, place and year of publication [incorrectly identified as 1849], and a small decoration design supplied in manuscript on front cover. 20 cm. 32 pp. Part of a series called "Chambers's Papers for the People," a 12... More about CALIFORNIA. [cover title
C. Washington, DC: Gibson Bros., Printers, n.d. (1863). 4pp. folder, printed on first page only. A declaration of "thorough loyalty" to the Union, and a belief that "the rebellion must be suppressed at whatever cost of treasure and of life." The occasion for this statement was a meeting of the... More about THE CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, D
Cambridge: The society, 1880. Society membership card for 1880-81, 3 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches, printed on blue card stock, the text printed within a bold red border, with the member's name ("H.K. Smith") and address ("Ely") written in appropriate spaces left on the partly printed card which is signed... More about Cambridge and Ely Angling Society [membership card title
Two cabinet photographs, undated [ca. 1890], each 4 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches, mounted on heavy card stock, one of the photographs picturing the men seated and standing in front of their tent "Bangor No. 1," pitched in a grove of trees, and also showing a meal cooking over their... More about Camp Africanus [manuscript mount title for a pair of cabinet photographs picturing four...
As reflected in four autograph letters, signed, 24 February-21 November 1862, from junior cavalry officer W.D. Stafford to his wife Hattie in West Union. From 12 x 8 in. to 8 x 5 in. (16) pp. News of Weather, dullness of day to day activities, activities of friends, etc. Accompanied... More about CAMP LIFE AT CAMP HENDERSHOT, NEAR DAVENPORT
NP [Azusa, CA?]: np [Camp Rincon?], nd [ca.1910's]. Single sheet, 16 x 53 cm., folded to 16 x 9 cm. With 6 panels of text and photo illustrations on both sides. Front and rear panels show an identical illustration of a hillside of light orange trees, lettering in black and... More about CAMP RINCON, SAN GABRIEL CANON
Philadelphia, PA: William H. Rau, publisher ("Sold only by Griffith & Griffith, Philadelphia, Chicago, London, Hamburg, Ger., Milan, Italy"), nd [ca. 1900]. Stereoview, 3 1/2 x 7 inches, picturing a group of 14 African-American soldiers in uniform crowding dice throwers on an open lawn. Camp Wikoff, on Long Island's Montauk... More about Camp Wikoff. Tenth U.S. Cavalry (Colored) Playing Crap [caption title under image
