Washington: 1881. Single leaf, oblong card, 4" x 6-3/4." Apparently unrelated writing on verso. Very Good. Morrison Remick Waite [1816-1888] graduated from Yale in 1837, became a well known Ohio lawyer, and served as Chief Justice of the United States from 1878-1888 after his appointment by Ulysses S. Grant... More
VP: 1929-1954. Each as described below. Some rubberstamps, Very Good. 1. JEWISH DAILY BULLETIN. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1929. Disbound, 8pp, printed in three columns per page. 2. YUGNT. OFFICIAL MONTHLY ORGAN OF THE YOUNG POALE ZION ALLIANCE OF AMERICA. NEW YORK. 20pp. Light rubberstamp. 3. YUGNT. OFFICIAL MONTHLY ORGAN OF..... More
New York: 1893. 16pp. Folio. Profusely illustrated, the front cover with a Nast cartoon: "The Almighty Bob," depicting a balding, overstuffed man with a halo above him: "Thou shalt have not Other God But ME." Very Good with light wear. This illustrated Weekly Newspaper, which commenced publication in 1888, became..... More
New York: Associated Press, 1948. Photograph, 6-7/8" x 9." Accompanied by Associated Press typed description. "Caution: Use Credit." Very Good. The photo depicts weary passengers, displaced persons from wartorn Europe, entering the "SHIP TO FREEDOM!" More
Washington, D.C. 24th Cong., 2d Sess. [75], 1837. 3, [1 blank] pp. Single leaf, folded. Caption title as issued. Lightly foxed. Very Good. During the 1830s antislavery groups flooded Congress with petitions to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Congress had plenary authority over the District of Columbia including..... More
New York: The Railroad Gazette, 1882. Original publisher's cloth, with gilt engraving of a locomotive on front cover. Binding firm but spine is damaged. Three folding plates frontis. 609, [1 blank], [21- publ. advts.] pp. Illustrations. Good plus. The Railroad Gazette entered the copyright in 1874... More
Tallahassee: Dyke & Son, Book and Job Printers, 1871. 41, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Minor wear, Very Good plus. Financial difficulties during Reconstruction dominate this Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Reverend Scull reported that during the year he had "celebrated the Rites of Matrimony on..... More
Washington: Gideon, 1848]. 8pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound, else Very Good. 'Please Circulate' at head of the title. Letters from the Massachusetts and Connecticut Whigs John Davis and Truman Smith, written in June and July 1848, support Taylor's presidential nomination on the Whig ticket. Pages 7-8 treat aspects of..... More
New York: Samuel Colman. . . 1839. Original printed title wrappers [chipped along spine]. Stitched. [4], [97]-192. The first leaf [a publisher's advt] is clipped at the upper right corner, affecting a few letters on page [2]. Otherwise Very Good. Two full-page plates: after page 100, "The march to the..... More
vp: vd. Paginated variously, oeriginal printed wrappers, staples or stitched, overall Very Good to Fine. 1. Lamont, Corliss: SOVIET RUSSIA AND THE POST-WAR WORLD. National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. np, nd. 24pp. 2. Lamont, Corliss: SOVIET AGGRESSION: MYTH OR REALITY? NY: nd. 16pp. A few spots to front wrapper. 3..... More
New York: Charles N. Baldwin, 1817. Tan paper-covered front board, detached and spotted. Lacking the rear board and half title. xi, [1 blank], [15]- 150 pp. Text untrimmed, generously margined, spotted. Good. A poetic attack on Federalists for their opposition to the War of 1812 and the scheme of disunion..... More
New Haven: Published by Durrie & Peck, and J. W. Barber, [1838]. Frontis engraving of Boston with original tissue guard. viii, folding map [handcolored, of Connecticut], 9-576 pp. Illustrations. Contemporary ownership signatures of Charles Stiles Phelps. Text clean, Very Good in later quarter brown morocco with gilt-stamped spine title, marbled..... More
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1828. xx, 551, [1 blank], 16 publ. ads dated April 1828. Bound in original cloth [some rubbing and light chipping, rebacked in cloth with new spine title label. Front inner hinge cracked but binding holding well. Prior owner's bookplate, "Lyndhurst." Very Good. This is the..... More
Boston: N. E. Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams, and to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street, 1767. 204pp. Disbound. Scattered foxing. Good plus. The book's title is the title of the first sermon. Succeeding sermons are identified by caption title, and SERMON II. . . SERMON VII. "Hemmenway, Moses..... More
Boston, New-England: Printed by Thomas & John Fleet, 1764. [iv], iv, 566 pp. Original sheep, raised spine bands, front cover detached but present. A Very Good text with mild foxing. This is the first edition of the first volume of Hutchinson's history of Massachusetts, "a work of permanent value...indispensable in..... More
Boston: Russell and Gardner, 1821. 36pp, with pages 33-36 in facsimile. Fair. Martin was a highwayman, active in the border region between England and Scotland. He fled to American in 1819 and resumed his life of crime. In 1821, convicted of highway robbery in Massachusetts, he was executed. The indictment..... More
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, and Thomas Cadell, 1776. 48pp. Margins trimmed closely but no text affected. Bound in half red morocco and red cloth. Very Good. The ninth edition of this work by the British friend of American liberty. It was printed at least thirteen times during..... More
Cincinnati and New York. . . 1871. Frontis illustration of Chicago in 1820. Folding map of Chicago. 528pp. Illustrations. Original cloth [worn], library gum label. Fore-edge with ink blotch and rubberstamp. Good plus. More
Philadelphia: Printed for and Published by Mathew Carey, 1809. [2], 533, [1 blank], [14- Index], [2 blanks] pp. Foxed. Original sheep [rubbed, front cover detached but present, rear cover starting.] Good only. Carey's first edition of this title, printed earlier in 1809, did not have the 14-page Index at the..... More
Walpole, Newhampshire: Printed, for Thomas & Thomas, by David Carlisle, 1801. The two volumes bound in matching full sheep [rubbed, bit of chipping at lower spines], ribbed spines and gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels. Front inner hinge of Volume II is cracked but binding holding firm. Volume I: xlviii, 426..... More
London: Printed for James Crokatt, at the Black Horse in Fleet-street, near Fleet-Bridge, 1742. 4to. [6], 14 pp, as issued, with the half title. Disbound, else Very Good. Help the Widows and "the poor destitute children" of deceased ministers. Our Church is "so opposite to that seducing Spirit which forbids..... More
London: Printed for J. and H. Pemberton, at the Golden Buck against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1741. 84pp. Clean text. Disbound, else Very Good. Secker was a staunch defender of the Society and its efforts to establish the religion of the Church of England in the Colonies. He became..... More
Tenleytown, DC: 1864. Octavo leaf, folded to four lined pages. Pages 1-3 written in neat ink manuscript, page 4 blank. Accompanied by the postal envelope with July 26 cancel, no postage stamp but with rubberstamp "Due 3." Addressed to "Mrs. Millicent Foreman, Canal Fulton, State of Ohio." Envelope is dusted..... More
Helena, Arkansas: 1864. Single leaf of lined paper, 7-3/4" x 12-1/4," entirely in ink manuscript. Verso and recto are filled with text, which continues along the sides and margins. Old folds, Very Good. With the original torn, orange envelope addressed to "Miss Hattie ---- Painesville, Lake Co. Ohio." A most..... More
Washington, War Department: Office of the Adjutant General, 1850 [Aug. 16]. Manuscript document on lined paper, signed at the end, "R. Jones | Adj. Genl." Folded for mailing and addressed-- with August 20 postal cancel, "Free" Frank stamp, and red circular seal-- to "His Excellency Millard Fillmore | President of..... More