[Washington: February 15, 1837]. Broadside, 8" x 10". Text of the broadside printed in typescript. A few short fold splits in the margin, no loss. Else Very Good. Signed by Secretary of War Butler in type and dated at the end. The regulations announce "the mode of procuring admission..... More
Berlin: Heinrich August Rottman, 1792. 12mo. 214, [2 blank] pp. Original plain blue stiff wrappers [light staining; spine wear, with some cover loosening], untrimmed, wide margins, clean text. Very Good plus. The first edition in German of Franklin's celebrated autobiography. Howes F323. Sabin 25517. Ford 384. More
[n.p. n.d.]. 5 3/8" x 7 3/8" printed area on 9" x 11 3/4" thick paper. Oval bust portrait of Franklin wearing his spectacles, a thick fur hat and coat, his body and head turned right with his eyes facing front. Portrait surrounded by oval frame with caption directly below..... More
[n.p. 1778]. 5-1/2" x 8-1/4". Mounted to 8-1/2" x 11" buff paper backing with two tape tabs on verso. Right edge reinforced with archival tape on blank verso. Very Good The scarce first edition of Haid's mezzotint portrait of Franklin. Haid made two portraits of Franklin using the same..... More
[np: 1856]. 8pp, stitched, light wear and folds. Caption title [as issued]. Very Good. Inscribed in ink on title page, 'With respects of B.F. Hallett.' During the 1850s Hallett-- in his early years a Jacksonian reformer and advocate of Indian rights-- was "a 'Doughface' steering by Southern charts." DAB. This..... More
Boston: Beals & Greene, 1848. Large 8vo. 71, [1 blank pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers [lightly dusted]. A clean text. Near Fine. Rhode Island authorities, acting under a decree of martial law, arrested Martin Luther, a shoemaker, for acting as moderator of the Warren Town meeting, which was..... More