[Barre, MA? c.1835-1840]. 18" x 21-1/2", visible printed area. Woodcut illustration, matted behind glass in attractive wood frame 27-1/2" x 30-1/4". Printed with black ink. Several closed tears repaired without loss; loss right blank upper corner. Good+. A seven-figure image featuring seven stages of a woman's life: ages 1..... More
Richmond: Jan. 24, 1861. Broadside, 4-7/8" x 8-1/4," laid down on plain paper. Light spotting, Good+. Williams Carter Wickham reluctantly agrees to candidacy as a delegate to Virginia's upcoming Secession Convention. "Should you elect me, I will devote myself to secure all our rights as Virginians and as Southern men..... More
[np: 1867-1876]. Beautifully handcolored engraving, depicting four eye-level views of Howe Machine Company factories surrounded by busy streets, ferries, and carriages. A coin with profile of Elias Howe, Jr., is at center left. Attractively framed and matted. Image 13-1/4" x 15-1/4" by sight. Not examined out of frame. Fine... More
[Richmond? New Orleans? 1864?]. Broadside, 8-1/4" x 12-3/8", printed without caption title [as issued] in three columns. This rare broadside begins with the sentence quoted above. It defends General Lovell, who had been tasked with the defense of New Orleans, from charges that his poor leadership caused the City's capture..... More
New York: Currier & Ives, [1868]. Lithograph illustrated broadside by Currier & Ives, oblong 11" x 15-1/2". Matted. Light dusting, Near Fine. Cartoon characters identified by name; in lower right corner, "on Stone by Cameron." John Cameron was a talented artist employed at Currier & Ives. In lower left corner..... More
New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Illustrated broadside, lithograph on wove paper. 17-1/2" x 13-1/4". Light toning at blank margins from prior matting, else Fine. The 1860 presidential nominating competition split the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern branches, paving the way for the election of Abraham Lincoln. Southern Democrats..... More
Richmond, Va. Published by Hargrave White. 1861. 24pp. Disbound, scattered foxing, Good+. A Panglossian sermon in which Moore recalls "that fatal election which opened Pandora's box in our land." He gives "thanks to Almighty God for that wonderful triumph of Manassas, where the destinies of our young Republic hung..... More
[Atlanta: Printed for the Author, by Wood, Hanleiter, Rice & Co.], 1861. viii, [9]-336, 339-464, [2 blanks], xii [Index] pp. As issued [the text is continuous]. Modern brown cloth, with gilt-letttered spine title, original endpapers retained. Uniformly browned, scattered spotting. Good+. With the bookplate of "Charles R. Sanders, Jr. of..... More
[Atlanta: Printed for the Author, by Wood, Hanleiter, Rice & Co.], 1861. viii, [9]-336, 339-464, [2 blanks], xii [Index] pp. As issued [the text is continuous]. Modern half morocco and marbled paper over boards, with raised spine banks and gilt-lettered morocco spine title. Clean text. Very Good plus. This..... More
New Orleans: Jas. S. Cosgrove, Convention Printer, 1879. 337, [1 blank], 156 pp, plus two folding tables. Each page printed in two columns. Bound in buckram with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, light rubberstamp on title page. Clean text. Very Good. Last leaf with a tear affecting about five letters of..... More
[Philadelphia: 1797]. Folio Broadsheet, 7-3/8" x 12." Old horizontal folds, three chips at blank edges, some foxing in the upper blank margin. Good+. This apparently unrecorded imprint of the Fourth Congress prints three Acts, two of them approved March 3, 1797 [the day before the inauguration of President John Adams]..... More
New Orleans: F.F. Hansell & Bro., Ltd., [1902]. Original printed decorative and pictorial wrappers, entitled [in pink and black lettering], 'Hansell's Guide to New Orleans Historical Descriptive.' Wrapper spine title. Detailed folding map frontis, listing places and points of interest. Frontis engraving of area around Jackson Square [one closed tear..... More
Omaha, Neb. Republican Printing House, 1882. 16pp, stitched in original printed wrappers, with wrapper title as issued. Light scattered spotting, short closed upper margin tear throughout [through the running title, but no loss of text]. Else Very Good. The pamphlet prints detailed information, garnered "from personal interviews with farmers..... More
Philadelphia: 1829. [4], 236 pp. Untrimmed and generously margined. Early leaves margin-spotted; otherwise lightly foxed or dusted, generally in the margins. Else Very Good in modern quarter calf and speckled pale boards, with gilt-lettered spine title on black morocco. Brackenridge had a remarkable career-- as a lawyer in Maryland and..... More
[n.p.]: 1865. Folio, oblong broadsheet, 11" x 16". Preprinted form completed in manuscript, signed twice by Charles Beggs; signed and certified by L.T. Thurston, Paymaster. Old folds [a few folds had separated, restored with archival and pressure sensitive tape]. Good+. Beggs claims service pay and reimbursement for rations for..... More
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New York: Published by the National Union Executive Committee, Astor House, [1864]. Broadside, 8-3/4" x 11-1/4". Light wear and a bit of foxing. Very Good. This scarce broadside rebuts Copperhead claims that the War is a disastrous mistake, requiring that "immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." Issued..... More
Charleston, S.C. Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1851. 12mo. Original publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered spine title [spine sunned]. 151, [1] pp. Text lightly foxed, Very Good. The Essays, which "contain matter worthy of the profound and prayerful consideration of the owners of slaves," won the prize offered by the Baptist..... More
Milwaukee: Rufus King & Co., [1855]. Original printed wrappers [rear wrapper detached and edge-chipped, without text loss]. Stitched. Light foxing. Old historical society bookplate at blank portion of title page verso, which also contains the errata note. Good+. "First Wisconsin almanac" [Howes]. Actually, the first Wisconsin almanac of this series..... More
U.S.S. 'Metacomet' off Mobile: May 16, 1864. [4]pp, folio sheet folded to 12-1/2" x 8", printed on rectos only. Fine. Signed at the end, "Very Respectfully &c | Your obdt Servt | Jas. E. Jouett | Lieut Comdr | U.S.N." Jouett, known as "Fightin Jim" Jouett, ended his illustrious career..... More
Washington City: Rothwell and Ustick, 1829-1830. Folio, 582pp plus general title leaf. Volume I comprises 73 issues, from December 5, 1829 through November 24, 1830. Beginning as a weekly, The Banner would appear on Wednesdays and Saturdays starting in January 1830. The final six pages of our copy are bound..... More
Albany: 1821. Folio, stitched with caption title as issued, 'No. 64' at head of title. 24pp. Untrimmed. First six leaves with a light but persistent spot. Some toning. Else Very Good. New York Governor Clinton transmits Ohio's Report, dated 22 January 1821, protesting a federal court decision favoring the..... More
Washington: Friday, January 18, 1833. Elephant folio broadsheet, 15-1/2" x 17-1/2". Printed in five columns on each page. Lightly toned, Very Good. Except for the last 1-1/2 columns, the entire Supplement prints President Andrew Jackson's Address of January 16, 1833, the most outspoken defense-- until Abraham Lincoln-- of the supremacy..... More
Richmond: Printed and Published by T.W. White, 1830. viii, [1]-49, [1 blank], [55]-65, [1 blank] pp [as issued]. Bound into attractive modern two-toned cloth. Scattered foxing, Good+. "An arraignment of General Andrew Jackson" [Swem], accusing him of "a temper at once vindictive and tyrannical," of offering "the bribe of..... More
[Philadelphia: 1798]. 8pp, caption title [as issued]. Bound in modern marbled wrappers, mild foxing, Very Good. President Adams says, "I will never send another Minister to France, without assurances, that he will be received, respected and honored, as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and Independent Nation." He..... More
Boston: S. Kneeland, for J. Winter, 1753. [4], 26, [2 blanks] pp, with the half title. Disbound, lightly toned with occasional spotting, else Very Good. Attractive type ornamentation. Inscribed on the half title: "Saturday morning 1/4 past 1 O'Clock Sept. 29th 1753-- this date is the date of the birth..... More