Milwaukee: Cramer, Aikens & Cramer, Printers, 1888. 32 pp. Original pink printed title wrappers [detached but present, front wrapper's upper blank corners chipped]. Rear wrapper is a "Condensed Map of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Dakota." Illustrated with 7 full-page engraved..... More

New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Lithograph broadside, 13-1/2" x 18." Several closed tears, two of them repaired with old tape on verso [tear line affecting Seward's midsection]. Good+. This scarce lithograph is a detailed, humorous "parody on the field of presidential candidates and their supporters in the 1860 campaign."..... More

Cincinnati: Bloch & Co., Publishers and Printers, [1872]. 270 [i.e. 135] pp, each page an even number. This edition [Singerman 2338] issued without the parallel, odd-numbered pages with English translations. Original dark publisher's cloth [some wear], inner hinges cracked. Else minor occasional wear and Very Good. Wise [1819-1900] was called..... More

Letterpress broadside, 11-1/4" x 6-1/2" on thin paper. Text 10-stanza text, each stanza in four lines, surrounded by decorative border. Some light wrinkling [no text obscured], a couple of margin chips and a couple of fox spots, untrimmed. Good+. Born in Ireland, Cosgrove (1841-1912) enlisted at Vandalia in the 7th..... More

Portsmouth, (New-Hampshire): Thomas Furber, 1765. [4], 42 pp, with the half title. Disbound and lightly worn, lacking the final blank. Good+, with errata at the base of page 42. This is the only 18th century edition. Pastor of the First Church in Kittery, Stevens preaches "when religion is in a...... More

Cincinnati: Lodge, L'Hommedieu, and Hammond, Printers, 1828. [4], 400 pp. The ten issues, from January through October 1828, are the entire output of this engaging monthly. Contemporary cloth-backed boards [front hinge detaching] with gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. The first four pages are the general title and an Index. Light..... More

Boston: 1746. 38, [1], [1 blank] pp, with the half title. Disbound, light foxing to the half title, small JCB release stamp at lower corner of final blank. Slightly clipped contemporary ownership signature of John Dolbear on half title. Except as noted, Very Good Prince celebrates the victory "over..... More

Folio broadside, 8" x 12-1/2". Partly printed form completed in ink manuscript. Light toning, old folds, a few short fold splits [no loss]. Signed by A.J. Wheeler as Deputy Clerk and Anna M. Cogswell. Very Good. This claim was brought just days after Tennessee voted to join the Confederate..... More

January - April 1861. Each letter 1-4 pp, in legible ink manuscript, and usually docketed. The supplicants write from Demopolis, Marion, Montgomery, Haynesville, the Exchange Hotel [Montgomery]. Very Good. Alabama seceded on January 11, 1861. Our first letter is dated January 28, from several Demopolis citizens [Nathan B. Whitefield, Howard..... More

Pale blue folio sheet, folded to [4] pp. Written in ink manuscript on lined paper. Old folds, couple of closed tears. Else Very Good. The Petition on the first page, Morris's certification and oath on the second page, third page blank, final page docketed with notes: "Petition of George N...... More

[np: 1780-1820]. Etching and engraving, after Simon van de Passe. 4-3/4" x 8." Near Fine. "Copy of the portrait of John Smith on his 1616 map of New England; half length, to the right, in oval frame with emblems. Inscription content: Lettered around oval 'The Portraictuer of Captayne Iohn..... More