Chicago: Published by Acme Publishing and Engraving Co., [1891]. xv, [1], 33-280, [1] pp, plus original illustrated chromolithographic wrappers bound into original publisher's cloth [gilt-lettered title stamped on front cover, with some rubbing]. A clean text, with many illustrations and advertisements. Very Good plus. The beautifully illustrated wrappers are featured..... More

Richmond: 1832 [May 27]. [4] pp, bifolium, each page 8" x 9-7/8." All pages filled with Ellis's letter. One closed tear to the final leaf, without any loss. Very Good. "I shall greatly regret if the Bank bill passes, in its present shape, in opinion I am clear that..... More

[New York: Published by the American Missionary Association, 1888]. 32pp. Disbound [bit of loosening]. Original printed front wrapper, decorated border, with wrapper title as issued. Lacking the rear wrapper. Except as noted, Very Good with a pristine text. BAL records this 1888 pamphlet as a predecessor to the 1890 printing..... More

[Philadelphia: Printed at the Office of the Bond of Peace, 403 North Sixth Street, 1866]. 4pp bifolium. Caption title, as issued. At head of title: "Universal Peace Union Tracts, - No. 1." Fine. Signed in type at the end, "Alfred H. Love." The Universal Peace Union, at its convention in..... More

Nashville, Tenn. S.G. Mercer, Printer to the State, 1865. Later tan institutional cloth, title stamped on spine with institution's name stamped on spine base. No other library marks. 12, [2 blanks], xiii, [1 blank], 178 pp. A clean and bright text. Very Good. A record of significant activity in Tennessee's..... More

Nashville, Tenn. E.G. Eastman, Public Printers, 1861. viii, 127, [1 blank] pp, plus a large folding chart printed to show strength of infantry companies [information left blank]. Later institutional cloth and old bookplate on front pastedown. Else Very Good. This Confederate Imprint leads with Governor Isham Harris's Message of..... More

Rikers Island, Draft Rendezvous, New York: 30 December 1863. [4] pp, bifolium, written in neat ink manuscript on recto and verso of first leaf only. Two unused 3 cent postage stamps [portrait of G. Washington] in upper blank corner of first page. Fine. The Letter is to General Ruger, although..... More

New York: Printed and Published by C.S. Van Winkle, 1821. viii, [9]-226, [1- publisher advt], [1 blank] pp. Lacks map (not issued with all copies), facsimile plan laid in back. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, rebacked with gilt-stamped morocco spine title. Untrimmed. Very Good. "Copies of this work with..... More

Tallahassee: N.M. Bowen, State Printer, 1885. 631, [1 blank] pp. Bound in contemporary sheep [rubbed] with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. A clean text, Very Good. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Judge Thomas Settle from your friend Philip Walter." Settle was a Federal court judge in Northern Florida, appointed in 1877..... More

[np: nd]. Small etching, 3" x 4-1/4". Full length portrait of Jackson in full uniform, facing left. Accompanied with a small typed note which identifies the piece [brittle and chipping]. The etching is Fine. Volck described the circumstances of this engraving in a letter to McHenry Howard as follows..... More

New York: Published by H. & W. Voight. Lith. by Kimmel & Forster, 254 & 256 Canal St. [1865]. Broadside illustration, 9" x 10-3/8". Brightly colored. Small spot at top blank margin. Upper margin of blank verso shows remnants from former taping. Lower blank forecorner chipped. Very Good. "From..... More

New York: George F. Nesbitt & Co., Printers and Stationers, 1860. 32pp. Stitched, lightly worn. Very Good. This is the 1907 reprint, "almost indistinguishable from the original," of Lincoln's great Cooper Union speech, originally published in September 1860, during that year's chaotic presidential campaign. Unlike the original, page 32..... More

Macon: Burke's Linotype Printshop, 1904. Original stapled and printed gray wrappers with wrapper title, as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed above the caption title: "With compliments of Emory Speer." Fine. [With] Typewritten letter laid in, signed by Judge Speer, written from his Chambers in Mt. Airy, to William Sayre, Editor..... More