[NP: 1863]. Trade circular. Single sheet, folded. 25 x 19.5 cm. [4] pp. One page of text, [2 pp. blank], docketed on fourth page, in manuscript, "Messrs. Sherwin Nowell & Pratt Circular, Sept. 1863." Old fold lines, else very good. The firm announces they will open "on or before August..... More
![DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP. [caption title]. Alfred A. Andrews, Tobias Oakman Gardner](/pictures/thumb/65538.jpg?v=1612825985)
[Boston: 1851]. Trade circular. Single sheet, 26.5 x 20.5 cm., printed on blue paper. "The Copartnership heretofore existing between the Subscribers, is, by mutual consent, dissolved." Signed in type by Alfred A. Andrews and Tobias Oakman Gardner. Alfred Andrews states he has formed a new copartnership with Tobias Oakman Gardner..... More
![BUSINESS CIRCULAR TO MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS. [caption title]. Book Trade Circular](/pictures/thumb/65548.jpg?v=1612826002)
[Boston, MA? nd] [ca.1860-65]. Single sheet, folded, printed on blue paper. 20 cm. [4] pp. One page of text, [3pp. blank]. Signed in type by George W. Bungay. Old fold lines, light stain at right margin, not affecting text. Very good. Bungay solicits merchants and manufacturers for business profiles which..... More
[Philadelphia (PA): Rice & Hart, Publishers, No. 27 Minor Street, 1854]. Single sheet, folded. 25 cm. [4] pp., text on 2 outer pages only. Old fold lines, else very good. Text in two columns, printing the notices for this publication from the National Intelligencer of Feb. 11, and the Washington..... More
[Cincinnati (OH): H.W. Derby & Co., 1849]. Single sheet, printed on blue paper, folded. 26 cm. [4] pp., including one page of text, [2pp. blank], addressed on fourth page to G. & C. Merriam, Springfield, Mass., with a round stamped red postal mark. Old fold lines, a few closed tears..... More
[Boston (MA): M.M. Ballou, Publisher and Proprietor, 1859]. Single sheet, folded. 25 cm. [4] pp. One page of text, [2pp. blank], docketed on 4th page in manuscript "Ballou's Pictorial circular, Feb. 1, 1859." Old fold lines, else very good. Signed in type by M.M. Ballou, Publisher and Proprietor, Boston, February..... More
![PROPOSED DUTY ON BOOKS. [caption title]. Book Trade Circular](/pictures/thumb/65547.jpg?v=1612826001)
[Washington (DC): Feb. 2, 1867]. Small broadside. 20 x 13 cm. Old fold lines, some minor rumpling and toning along top margin, else very good. Docketed in manuscript on verso. Proposed duties on various kinds of imported books are listed: 20% on English language books printed before 1840; 20% on..... More
New York, [NY]: John Bradburn (Successor to M. Doolady), 49 Walker Street. Cincinnati: Rickey & Carrol, 73 West Fourth Street. Boston: A. Williams & Co., 100 Washington St. [MA printed] by Geo. C. Rand & Avery, Stereotypees and Printers, 3 Cornhill, Bost, 1864. First edition. 8vo. xvii, (2), 19-328 pp..... More
Washington, [DC]: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1814. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo. 90 pp. Closed tear to title page, some scattered foxing and overall toning to text. Hay, a Virginia jurist, was appointed by Jefferson to be U.S. Attorney for Virginia, in which capacity he conducted the unsuccessful prosecution of Aaron..... More
[Boston: Jany. 9, 1843]. Contemporary copy (lithograph printing of a manuscript?) of an epistle-style letter written at a meeting of abolitionists in Boston. 36 x 22 cm. 2 leaves, including 2 pp. of text, approx. 1200 words, a page of 15 (lithograph?) signatures, and addressed on the final page to..... More
[Boston, Mass. C. Benj. Richardson, nd] [1856]. Single sheet, folded, printed on blue paper. 24 cm. [4] pp., text on two outer pages only. Text in two columns. Old fold lines, else very good. Signed in type by Richardson at the conclusion, with a [blank] form for subscribers' names below..... More
[Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott & Co., nd] [ca.1856]. Single sheet, folded, printed on grey paper. 23 cm. 3, [1] pp. Old fold lines, a bit of spotting, else very good. The editors of the publication The North American Medico-Chirurgical Review, issue "on the first day of every alternate month a...... More
[Philadelphia, PA]: Brown and Merritt, Printers, [1818]. One page document on vellum, 38 x 60 cm., partly printed, completed in manuscript. Signed by Condy Raguet, and witnessed by James Dundas and G. Bartran [sp?]. Folded, red wax seals, docketed on verso. Pratt rents to Condy Raguet this lot on Walnut..... More
![AYRSHIRE STOCK FOR SALE. [caption title]. Geo Randall](/pictures/thumb/65537.jpg?v=1612825984)
[New Bedford, MA? 1846]. Advertising circular. Single sheet, folded. 25 x 19.5 cm. [4]pp., printed on light grey paper, signed in type by Geo. Randall. One page of text, [2pp. blank], addressed on fourth page to E. Corning Esq., Albany, NY, with a round stamped postal mark for New Bedford..... More
[NP: np, [nd] [1835?]. Ten strips of period printed lyrics, in dialect, cut in various lengths, from 12 1/4 to 1 1/2 in., all roughly 2 in. wide. Two strips strengthened with old cello tape, one preserves some amateurish stitching, all have uneven stitch marks in their left margins, as..... More
Laconia, NH: John J. Lane, [nd, 1891 or after]. 23cm. 32 pp. Original wrappers laid down on stiff boards, wrappers heavily chipped on edges, with a significant corner loss on rear wrapper affecting part of publishers name. McDADE 852: "Isaac was anxious to possess himself of his brother's property. Hiram..... More
New York: Sinclair Tousey, Wholesale Agent, No. 121 Nassau Street. Press of Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas, 113 Fulton St., NY, 1863. First edition. 8vo. 40pp. Printed pink wrappers, moderately soiled. Critical observations of Wilkes, publisher of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, on McClellan's military maneuvers. More