Albany: Websters & Skinner and Daniel Steele, [early 1800s]. Oblong 5-1/4" x 9." 104pp. Quarter sheep and pale green paper over boards [inner hinges cracked, boards rubbed]. Scattered spotting. Good+. More
Richmond: Macfarlane & Fergusson, 1852. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 51, [1 blank] pp. Minor wrapper wear, Very Good. "Henry Augustine Washington was born at Haywood, Virginia on 24 August 1820, the son of Lawrence Washington and Sarah Tayloe Washington. He attended Georgetown College and the College of New Jersey (now..... More
[South Berwick, ME?]: 1840. Broadside, 11-3/4" x 14-1/2." Text as recited above in bold type of various sizes. Beneath are the printed signatures in smaller type of about 200 local citizens endorsing the call for assembly. Old folds as usual, with several small pinholes along the folds which do not..... More
Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1791. 203pp. Folio. Modern leatherette, minor toning and light scattered foxing, Very Good. This was an eventful Session of the first Senate. In late December 1790, the Journal records the receipt from Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, of a report "containing a plan for a...... More
Various dimensions, from 3-3/4" x 4-1/2" to 8" x 10-1/4." With frequent captions or notes on the blank verso identifying the location and time, or notes at the base of the photograph. Frequently with the logo of Underwood & Underwood, press photographers of the day. Occasional minor corner or edge..... More
Columbia: 1866-1878. Various bindings [some sheep, some later buckram], usual institutional marks. Condition of bindings varies, with several covers detached. Text normally clean and Very Good. The books include: a. ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. PASSED AT THE REGULAR SESSION OF 1866. Columbia: 1866..... More
Columbia, S.C. R.W. Gibbes, State Printer, 1859. vi, [2 blanks, 745-835, [1 blank], ix, [1 blank], xx pp. Bound with the following documents, in modern tan buckram, all in excellent condition, all with detailed Indexes. Near Fine. REPORTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901. 25, [1] pp. Stapled as issued. Wrappers absent, otherwise complete and Very Good. An appreciation of General Lee's decision to surrender, and to refrain from guerrilla warfare. More
[np: 1921?]. Original staples and printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued. Pages [231]-249 as issued. Loose, chipped along spine and blank edges. Text clean. Good+. More
New York: A. Benziger, [c. 1917]. Original staples and printed decorative wrappers [some dulling], 48pp. Dozens of portraits of famous people. Title page with a portrait of Charles Schwab, "the genius of the steel magnates." Very Good. More
Tallahassee, Fla. Printed at the Floridian Book and Job Office, 1881. XVI, 1302 pp. Bound in modern legal buckram with title stamped on spine. Margins of title and a couple of other leaves reinforced. Rubberstamp on title page. Else clean and Very Good. The Digest includes the Constitutions of the..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by John Page, 1796. 352, [4] pp, 1 folded table. Later cloth [some wear], original red gilt-lettered red morocco spine label laid down. Good+. The Second Session of the Fourth Congress convened on December 5, 1796 and closed on March 3, 1797. Volume I reports in detail on..... More
[n.p. 1861-1865]. All uncancelled, generally 2-3/4" x 4-3/4". Occasional light dusting, a blue mounting remnant frequently appears on the blank verso. Otherwise Very Good. All the envelopes depict an American Flag in the left portion. Some are in the form of a shield, others adjacent to a cannon, or..... More
Single page, entirely in ink manuscript. Old folds, irregular inner margin, light wear, Very Good. "I have a Battn. of six Companies of Foreigners and will be glad to have you with me as 1st Lt. to rank 1st or 2d. I would have offered you a Captaincy had..... More
Quarto broadsheet, printed and completed in manuscript on recto and verso. Signed by Crews and Massengale on recto and verso. Toned uniformly. Very Good. The verso is the affidavit of Crews, signed and sworn to before Massengale, attesting his entitlement to the funds. The printed 'Atlanta' location has been..... More
San Francisco: Winterburn & Co.'s Print, 417 Clay Street, [1869]. Broadside, 7" x 8-1/2". Receipt letterhead printed in green. Columns and Lines printed in blue and red. "PAYABLE IN U.S. GOLD COIN," The letterhead describes the Company as "Importers of Clothing, Domestics, Rubber Boots, Duck, Etc.", and gives its location..... More
New Haven: Thomas Green and Son, 1800. Disbound. 55, [1 blank] pp, as issued. Title leaf spotted and dusted, otherwise Good+ with some toning and foxing, in later red cloth binding. Dwight's Discourse, a sketch of Washington's life and an assessment of his character and achievements, is followed by a...... More
London: Printed for P. Meighan... 1731. iv, 19, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, else Very Good, with elaborate and attractive type ornamentation. "First issued in 1713 as 'A poem on the peace'." [ESTC]. The treaty ceded to Britain Gibraltar, Minorca, Hudson Bay, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland; and accorded Britain the..... More
Raleigh: Cannon & Holden, Printers to the Convention, 1865. 94, [2 blanks], iii, [1 blank] pp, [bound with] JOURNAL OF THE CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA, AT ITS ADJOURNED SESSION OF 1866. Raleigh: Cannon & Holden, Printers to the Convention. 1866. 192, III, [1 blank] pp [as issued]..... More
Single leaf, written in ink on recto and verso. First page with engraved illustration and printed letterhead of "The Cloister | Sea Island, Georgia." Stone has crossed out "The Cloister" and written above it "Cottage 71." Signed in ink "Harlan F. Stone" at bottom of the verso. Very Good. "Dear..... More
Single folio leaf, folded to [4] pp, entirely in ink manuscript on all pages and signed "M.W." Some bleedthrough but entirely legible, small loss. Very Good. The Ohioan Waite [1816-1888] was Chief Justice of the United States from 1874 until his death in 1888, by appointment of President Grant..... More
New Orleans: Rea's Steam Book and Job Printing Office, 1876. Stitched in original printed wrappers. 28pp. Postal cancel on rear wrapper, with manuscript address to "Lewis Sterling | "B[ayou] Sara, La." Wrappers dusted. A persistent discoloration appears on each leaf at the upper blank corner, with archival repairs. Otherwise, Good+..... More
New Orleans: Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Job Office, 1867. 60, [25- advertisements], [3 blanks] pp. Original printed yellow wrappers [some extremity chipping]. Originally stitched, now loosened. Illustration on rear wrapper: 'Front Entrance, Gentilly Road]. Several institutional stamps, scattered foxing and dusting. The final [25] pages are advertisements from various..... More
Washington: William M. Morrison and Company, Law Publishers and Booksellers. 1857. ix, [1 blank] 662 pp. Later cloth, inner hinges reinforced, widely scattered foxing, old bookplate and 'duplicate' stamp on front pastedown. Very Good. Pages 393-633 print the official report of Dred Scott v. Sandford. This is the printing..... More
Washington: Department of State, 1924. Single typed page, on State Department letterhead, signed boldly, "Charles Evans Hughes." Fine. Hughes had a remarkable career at the highest levels of government. He was Governor of New York at the time President Taft originally nominated him for the U.S. Supreme Court. The..... More