Chicago: Published by Root & Cady, 67 Washington Street, [1866]. 10" x 13-1/4." 5, [1] pp. Disbound, couple of minor fox spots. Else Very Good. Title page with a caricature illustration of President Johnson; a Free Negro with hoe on his shoulder, and "Hail Columbia" written above him; and, in..... More
San Francisco: San Francisco Co-Operative Printing Company, 1871. 4to. Bound in modern cloth without the wrappers. Frontis portraits of Fair and Crittenden. [8], 4, 325, [1 blank], xvii, [1 blank] pp. Printed in double columns. First two gatherings sprung, with crude tape repair and loss of several letters in the..... More
[Washington: 1867]. Folio, 8" x 12-1/2." 6, [2 blanks] pp. Shallow blank inner margin spotting. Very Good. The Treaty, issued as a Proclamation signed in type by President Johnson, was made at Sprague River Valley in Oregon. It ceded to the United States the Territory [described here] occupied by the..... More
[Washington: 1869]. Folio, 8-1/2" x 13-1/4." 6, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched. Short, persistent closed tear at blank upper margin. Very Good. "Treaty concluded at Ruby Valley, Nevada Territory, October 1, 1863 by James W. Nye and James Duane Doty, opening the routes of travel, permitting the establishment of military posts..... More
New York: Currier & Ives 152 Nassau St. 1865. Broadside colored engraving, oblong 13-7/8" x 10." Light toning, several fox spots, moderate foxing to the blank verso. Good+. "This print celebrates the formal surrender of Johnston's army to Sherman on April 26, 1865, near Greensboro, North Carolina" [online Civil War..... More
Boston: J.A. Collins, 1841 [1840?]. Original printed and illustrated green wrappers [ink stain along half the front wrapper's blank inner margin], with engraving of Lady Liberty surrounded by slaves and freedom-loving white people. Stitched. 36pp. Title page and text illustrations. Lightly foxed. Very Good. A scarce Almanac, also appearing..... More
Plymouth: Memorial and Rock Press, 1868. 52pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers, with wrapper title, as issued. Near Fine. "Holmes was beaten to death with stones by Andrews, whom he had named as his heir in his will. The defendant pleaded insanity and self-defense, for he had had to..... More
Boston: Printed and Sold by John Boyle, 1773. 31, [1 blank] pp, as issued. Disbound, toned, light blank edge wear. Good+. Death's-head ornament above the title. With a running title, "Christ's Promise to the penitent Thief." Contemporary ownership signatures: "Wm. Jenks's" and "Joseph Butler." Eliot, an influential proponent of..... More
Albany: David W. Barnes and W.S. Hevenor, 1853. Stitched in original printed blue wrappers. Frontis illustrations of murderer and murderee. [7], [1 blank], 176 pp. Light wrapper wear, Very Good. "Hendrickson, twenty years old and a wastrel, poisoned his nineteen-year-old wife in the first case of aconite poisoning in..... More
Boston: S.N. Dickinson, February, 1840. Folio printed broadside, 11-1/4" x 18-1/4." Printed in two columns: the left column prints the communication from S.N. Dickinson, publisher of the Boston Almanac; the right column prints information about town officers, post offices, travel, banks, lawyers, public houses, physicians, churches, and other data; seeks..... More
Decatur [Tennessee]: March 16, 1862. 4pp bifolium, each page 3-3/4" x 5-3/4." Entirely in ink manuscript, faded but legible. Good. M[adison] R. Hailey [1843-1862] was from McNairy County, where he joined Company I, 154th Tennessee Volunteers, in May 1861. He was the son of William Carrol Hailey [1822-1887], a farmer..... More
[Sumter County GA: 1861]. Manuscript document, 7-1/2" x 25." Neat ink manuscript listing, after the prefatory sentence quoted in our title, 57 names in the first column, and names 58-64 in the second column. Similar flourishes in the names suggest that at least many were written in an identical hand..... More
Bibb County, Georgia: 17 December 1862. Neat ink manuscript on recto and verso of a single leaf, folded for recording, 7-1/2" x 12-1/2." Written entirely as a contemporary duplicate copy by the Notary Public. With docketing sheet [old folds separating]. Very Good. The deed was made "in the second year..... More
Single leaf, in neat ink manuscript on recto and half the verso. Signed, "JJ Crittenden." Very Good plus. Crittenden held nearly every office Kentucky could bestow upon him: State legislator, Governor, Congressman, U.S. Senator; he was also U.S. Attorney General in the Harrison, Tyler, and Fillmore Administrations. As an influential..... More
[np. San Francisco? nd. 1893?]. 198pp. Bound in original publisher's blue cloth, with gilt-lettered title stamped on spine [light rubbing at the extremities]. Repair to blank endpaper. Very Good. Gorham was, as stated in the Publisher's Note, "a lifelong friend of Justice Field," and spent much of his career in..... More
San Francisco: W.A. Slocum, 1882. xiii, [5], [17] - 710 pp, as issued. With photo illustration frontis and numerous other plates, all as listed, some with facsimile signatures. Occasional minor spotting. Attractive modern quarter calf and marbled paper over boards. Raised spine bands and gilt spine title. Very Good plus..... More
San Francisco, Cal. Continental Publishing Company, 1892. Original black half morocco and pebbled brown cloth, with gilt spine title and decoration, gilt rules [lightly rubbed]. Marbled fore-edges. Portrait frontis of Terry, xvi, [15]-526 pp. Five full-page Plates including frontis. Clean text, Near Fine. "Best biography of a violently eccentric Californian"..... More
Single lined leaf, 8" x 12." Written in ink manuscript on recto; docketed on verso, adding names and addresses of Captain White and Lieutenant Jay. Signed in ink, "J.L. White Capt. Co. H 19th SC Regt."; and "Wm Jay Lieut Co H 19th SC Regt." Browned, Very Good. The Letter..... More
Camp Sumter, Anderson GA: July 21, 1864. Bifolium, [4]pp. Lined paper. Written on recto and verso of first leaf, docketed on final page. Toned. Very Good. "General John Winder, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Mexican War, resigned his Federal commission in April 1861 when the Civil War..... More
[np: c. 1930]. Set of twelve postal envelopes [complete] in the "Jury Report On Prohibition" series. Each envelope depicts a Juror, numbered 1 through 12, in satiric fashion, with printed commentary. Minor occasional dusting, Fine. Examples: Juror No. 1-- the foreman, "A PROFESSIONAL REFORMER, also active in the "anti-smoking crusade..... More
Macon, GA: January 17, 1901. Printed broadsheet on pale blue paper, completed in manuscript and docketed on verso. Very Good. James H. Birch [born c.1834] was born in Maryland and was working as a watchmaker and jeweler in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, by the start of the war. He enlisted with the..... More
[np]: April 26, 1900. Printed broadsheet on pale blue paper, completed in manuscript and docketed on verso. Very Good. The application is endorsed by T.L. Massenburg, Captain of Jackson Artillery, Georgia; and D.S. Wright, also a former Confederate. Phillip Bender [born c.1839], a German immigrant, lived in Macon as..... More
[np]: May 11, 1910. Printed broadsheet on pale blue paper, completed in manuscript and docketed on verso. Very Good. Samuel R. Birdsey [born c.1835] was a North Carolina merchant. Robert Alexander Nisbet [1848-1919] of Macon, Georgia, enlisted with Georgia's Nelson Rangers at the age of 15 and performed courier..... More
[np: 1863]. Single leaf, neatly written in ink columns on verso. Old horizontal folds, with expert repairs to two short closed fold tears. Very Good. Chaplain Patterson [1828-901] signs at the end, assuring that he has not been absent without leave, that he has not previously been paid for his..... More
[Guilford, NC: 1826]. Folio sheet, folded to [4] pp, each page 7-3/4" x 12-1/2." Entirely in ink manuscript, with columns listing purchaser, item purchased, and price. Toned, Very Good. Captain Hugh Wiley purchased "Black boy Bob hired for 12 months to be delivered when called for by his owner Wm..... More