[Pennsylvania: 1780]. One page, 7-1/2" x 5-1/2", scalloped left edge. Printed broadside, completed in manuscript [ink manuscript entries signified by their enclosure in parentheses]. Lightly tanned, minor wear. Very Good. With contemporary interest calculations in manuscript and the contemporary signatures of Solomon Wildman. Docketed on verso: "No. 125. | Bucks..... More

[Washington: Towers, 1861]. 16pp. Caption title [as issued], bound in 19th century stiff plain wrappers. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. After David Yulee of Florida, Benjamin was the second Jew to serve in the United States Senate. He "was one of the earliest of the Southern senators to advise secession..... More

New Orleans: Printed at the Job Office of "The Daily Delta." 1851. [36- advertisements], [xvi], 232 pp + unpaginated advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled red boards [front cover stamped in gilt], rebacked. Leaf 225-226 spotted and worn. Many advertisements from local establishments. Except as noted, Very Good. The title page is preceded..... More

New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Illustrated broadside, lithograph on wove paper. 17-1/2" x 13-1/4". Light toning at blank margins from prior matting, else Fine. The 1860 presidential nominating competition split the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern branches, paving the way for the election of Abraham Lincoln. Southern Democrats..... More

New York: Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau Street, 1864. Lithograph broadside, 13-1/2" x 17-3/4," on white wove paper. Mild edge toning, Very Good plus. "The unlikely teaming of military leader George B. McClellan with Peace Democrat (Copperhead) George Hunt Pendleton as presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 1864 election..... More

Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland, for S. Gerrish, 1720. [2], 36 pp, as issued. Stitched into modern plain wrappers. Trimmed closely at the margins, occasionally shaving a catchword or a signature number. Else Very Good. This is the only 18th century American printing. Foxcroft "was learned, devout, and a good..... More

[New York: Underwood & Underwood, 1926 or 1927]. Frontal photograph of Henson [1866-1955] to his waist, in suit and tie. 6-1/2" x 8-1/2." Very Good. With typed caption beneath, on stationery of Underwood and Underwood, with that firm's rubberstamp on the otherwise blank verso. The Underwood caption reads: "MATTHEW A...... More

[New York? Washington? 1918?]. Folio broadside, printed in red and black inks, photo illustration of about thirty-five middle-aged and elderly gentlemen, including Felix Warburg, sitting around a long table, on which rest many documents. Light soil to a portion, Very Good. At the outbreak of World War I, 60,000 Jews..... More

Cambridge: Published by John Owen, 1842. 31, [1 blank], [7- publ. advts.], [1 blank] pp. With the half title, as issued. Half title preceded by two free endpapers. Glossy plain rear wrapper present, lacking the front wrapper. Stitched. Clean text. One advertisement leaf with a short blank margin repair. Very..... More

[New Orleans]: 1827. 28pp. Disbound, significantly dampstained in earliest leaves, less so thereafter. Else Good+. A Louisiana State Senator, Louaillier opposed Andrew Jackson's decision to perpetuate martial law in New Orleans even after the British withdrawal. In March 1815 the Louisiana Courier published letters by an anonymous writer who refused..... More

Boston: Printed for S. Gerrish in Cornhill, 1726. [2], iv, 10, 207, [3-- Postscript, Errata, Contents], as issued. Attractive contemporary calf, tooled in blind, neatly rebacked with the title and imprint in gilt, in a neat hand. Blank front free endpaper laid down [several ownership signatures: Giles Merrill, Moses Merrill..... More

Washington: A. & G. Way, 1809. 53, [3 blanks] pp. Disbound, else Very Good. Jean Gravier, a major landowner in New Orleans, claimed title to a river bank, known as a batture. The Mississippi River covered it for three months of the year, but during the other nine months it..... More

Albany: 1821. Folio, stitched with caption title as issued, 'No. 64' at head of title. 24pp. Untrimmed. First six leaves with a light but persistent spot. Some toning. Else Very Good. New York Governor Clinton transmits Ohio's Report, dated 22 January 1821, protesting a federal court decision favoring the Bank..... More