Geneve [Switzerland]: Photographie C. Boesch, [1924]. Black and white photo, 23 x 29.5 cm., of assemblage of men and one or two women seated at tables in a meeting hall, all with stacks of paperwork in front of them. The photographer's name is stamped in the lower right corner and..... More
Oklahoma City, OK: Vanguard Publishers, [1946]. Fabrikoid (?) cover embossed with the title and an American flag. 28 cm., unpaginated [approx. 150pp.], with photo illustrations and brief biographies. Head of spine chipped, front joint starting. A separate section at the back has [5] pp. African-Americans who served, and a quote..... More
Baltimore, MD: Markiewicz Photos, nd [1930s?]. Black and white photo, 20 x 24.5 cm. of a group of older men in dress uniforms, with swords at their sides and ribbons on their chests, posed on the front steps of a brick building. Two of the men are holding flags, one..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: Ho[use] of Reps. March 19, 1850. Exec. Doc. No. 51, 31st Congress, 1st Session. 23.5 cm. 55pp. Disbound. Includes supplemental reports from Henry M. Rice, G. A. Belcourt, missionary priest, and Brevet Captain, John Pope of the Topographical Corps. More
London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, poutlry; and J. Archer; R. Dugdale; M.N. Mahon; M. Keene; C. Legrange; and L. Tuggis; Dublin, 1808. London, England: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, poutlry; and J. Archer; R. Dugdale; M.N. Mahon; M. Keene; C. Legrange; and L. Tuggis; Dublin, 1808. A New [ie: Second] Edition..... More
NP: nd [1943?]. Two volumes bound in red morocco, gilt decorated spines, boards panelled in gilt floral designs. 22 cm. 67; 90 pp. A specially bound typescript in Spanish, rectos only, of Ardavin's [unpublished?] play "La Hija Que Yo Mate," ["The Daughter I Killed"]. A bit of wear to spine..... More
NP: J. Green, Print, nd [1839]. Partly printed broadside, completed in manuscript. 27 x 41 cm., text enclosed in a decorative border. Docketed on verso, and signed by Aza Beall, clerk. Old fold lines, with separations along folds archivally repaired on verso; a few shallow chips and holes, one affecting..... More
Alexandria, VA: Gazette Book and Job Office, 1883. 23cm. 140pp. Frontis. map by C.B. Graham, Lithographer, a bit worn at edges. Brown cloth with title stamped on cover in gilt. Front hinge cracked, title page edge worn, with some loss at margins (apparently loose at one time and tipped back..... More
[Washington, DC: 1896]. Original photograph, 23 x 18 cm., laid down on a backing board. In 1895, President Grover Cleveland's White House Christmas Tree was the first there to have electric lights. This tree was decorated the following year. In 1896, Frank Boteler (1858-1935) was working in Washington, DC in..... More
![Item #68323 THE IMPROVEMENT OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT [From The Christian Union. October 9, 1890.]...](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68323.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699219174)
NP: np, [1890]. Broadside. 40 x 27 cm. First separate printing. Text in three columns. Some soiling and spotting, old fold lines. Accompanied by a typed note signed by Ely, dated November 6, 1890 from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore saying he is sending this broadside. Ely was a progressive..... More
[Harrisburg, PA]: Printed by R. B. Wilkins & G. Sweney, [1817]. Broadside on silk. 35 x 28 cm. Text in two columns enclosed in ornamental border. Signed in type William Findlay. Harrisburg, December 16th, 1817. Very good some darkening on edges, a slight defect in type where the silk was..... More
[Pittsburgh, PA]: 1918. A 2 pp. letter in French, approx. 90 words in ink, on letterhead of "Madame Yvette Guilbert's Recitals." Lightly creased from folding, accompanied by a postmarked envelope, addressed to Mrs. Eliot Norton in New York City. The pair are framed with a printed sketch (removed from a...... More
London: Archibald Constable and Co, 1819. First edition. 18cm. viii, 170pp. Disbound. Joseph John Gurney and his sister Elizabeth Fry's investigation of prisons recorded in this book had political effect on prison reform. More
![Item #68318 7th EXTRA SUP. TO THE CANAL GAZETTE. / CANALS, NO. 14. [caption title]. Wm HOLLINS](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68318.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699219165)
[Baltimore, MD: np, 1826]. 44.5 x 28.5 cm. Broadsheet, [2] pp., printed in three columns. Hollins states he has been "incessantly engaged in obtaining information on the subject of Internal Improvements for nearly three years -- publishing 5000 copies of many of thirteen different numbers, issued in the form of..... More
Anadarko, OK: N. T. Plummer Printing Co., [1933]. 27 cm. 227pp., illustrations. Green wrappers with title stamped in gilt on front cover. Very good. A history of Lawton, Oklahoma in the early 20th century. More
New York: Charles Lohman, 1838. Two volumes. 8vo. [6], (17) - 202pp.; (4), (15) - 178pp. Drab blue paper boards, rose cloth spine with paper label chipped on vol. 2, and missing from vol. 1. Soiled with wear to joints and spine ends, foxing to text. A good copy. "It..... More
Baltimore [MD]: Geo. Willig Junr. 1828. Second edition. Sheet music, composed and arranged for the Piano Forte and "[d]edicated to the Directors of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road." Disbound. 34 cm. 3 pp. Illustration below title shows three open railroad cars, an early engine and engineer, and a fireman..... More
New York: Printed at the DeVinne Press, 1896. 26.5 cm. xviii, 295pp. Color frontispiece, map, facsimiles, and illustrations. One of 600 hundred copies. Limp vellum, with brown cloth ties, blind embossed arms on front and rear covers, gilt stamped title on spine. Some pencil notations in margins. Very good. More
London: John Bell, British Library, Strand, 1795. 14.5 cm. (7), 78pp. Bound in a sammelband with three other plays: 1) THE SIEGE OF DAMASCUS by John Hughes. (8), ix, (1), - 98pp. [London: John Bell, 1793]; 2) TAMERLANE by N. Rowe. (3),iv -x, (3), 14 - 106pp.[London: John Bell, 1792];..... More
Chicago, Illinois: National Association of Housing Officials, 1939. 30 cm. [pagination various]. Mimeograph sheets, with tables, diagrams and forms. WPA material. Loose leaf notebook dark blue paper wrappers, title stamped on front cover. Ex-library, with stamp on last page of text and pocket removed from rear endpaper. The foreward states..... More
NP [DeWitt Colony, Gonzales County? ca.1840]. Single sheet of lined paper, 32 cm., old fold lines, docketed on verso. A manuscript list of jurors, some 48 names, with a few others struck through. Written in ink in two columns in a clerical hand. The jurors include several men known to..... More
Washington, DC: U.S. Naval Photographic Center, 1968. A group of U.S. Naval Station press release photos, 35 black & white images, 8 x 10 in., all stamped on verso by the U.S. Naval Photographic Center, J.E. Pfeifer, photographer. Leo [Leveo] Sanchez, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director of the Office of Economic..... More
Philadelphia: Richard C. Schirmer, 822 North Broad Street, 1910. Dark olive green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover. 18 cm. 37pp. of text and numerous photo illustrations. Front hinge cracked, else very good. More
[Los Angeles, CA]: nd [ca.1940s]. Black & white photo, 5 x 7 in., of a celebratory group enclosed in a buff colored souvenir photo folder, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in., printed in blue, from the Last Word Night Club in Los Angeles. The group of African Americans, four men..... More
Troy, [NY]: F. Adancourt, 1826. 18 cm. xiii, [1],188, [4] pp ads. plus frontispiece, eight numbered plates and two unnumbered. Period leather binding with gilt stamped black morocco spine label. Rubbed. American Imprints 23482. Austin 1860. Henderson pages 28-29. More