Boston: 1876. Folio, 13-1/4" x 18." 8pp [9-16]. Printed in five ruled columns per page. Disbound, narrow vertical browning along the third column, and a small pinhole. Else Very Good. The Editors explain that their Journal was "A Weekly Newspaper, published every Saturday in Boston, devoted to the interests of..... More
Boston: 1876. Folio, 13-1/4" x 18." 8pp [217-224]. Printed in five ruled columns per page. Disbound, Very Good. The Editors explain that their Journal was "A Weekly Newspaper, published every Saturday in Boston, devoted to the interests of Woman -- to her educational, industrial, legal and political Equality, and especially..... More
Frederick, Md. E.S. Riley, Printer, 1861. [Document F] BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. May 9, 1861. 22, [2 blanks] pp. Disbound, else Very Good. This Report is a significant piece on the Civil War's opening in Maryland. The first serious bloodshed of the War occurred when a mob of Baltimoreans..... More
[New York? @1880s]. [4] pp, 3" x 4-3/4". Folded, on brown paper. Illustration on first page: Illustration of Sam'l, well-dressed, and caption, "The Drummer Up to Date." Old folds, else Very Good. A rare promotional for this immensely popular, long-running play about a Polish Jew who immigrates to America, achieves..... More
Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, 25 Cornhill, 1846. [2], vi, [7]-126 pp, with three full-page engravings plus a frontis portrait of Walker. Title page illustration of 'The Branded Hand.' Some persistent margin spotting, text with scattered foxing. Bound in original publisher's cloth [bookplate on front pastedown], with gilt-stamped title..... More
[Boston: 1848]. Broadsheet, 8" x 10, printed on blue paper, with illustration at the head of the letter depicting Taylor, holding an American flag and sitting on a rock. "Taylor & Fillmore" is printed on the flag. Old folds, a few small chips to blank edges. Foremargin singed or otherwise..... More
[Philadelphia]: Jas. B. Rodgers, Pr., 52 & 54 North Sixth St. [1865]. Oblong broadside, 7" x 8-3/4." Text surrounded by decorative mourning border, printed on white coated card stock. Near Fine. The "Epitaph," a poem in ten lines, begins, "Gentle stranger, drop a tear, / The C.S.A. lies buried here..... More
New York: Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau Street, 1864. Lithograph broadside, 13-1/2" x 17-3/4," on white wove paper. Mild edge toning, Very Good plus. "The unlikely teaming of military leader George B. McClellan with Peace Democrat (Copperhead) George Hunt Pendleton as presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 1864 election..... More
New York: 33 Spruce Street, [1844]. Hand-colored lithograph broadside, 10" x 13" [to sight], in a contemporary wood frame. Light dusting, Very Good. Dorr, with a Napoleonic haircut and seated in front of blue drapes, holds a copy of the "Constitution of Rhode Island" in his right hand. The only..... More
New York: N. Currier, 1841. Hand colored lithograph, oblong 11" x 14." Framed in attractive contemporary wood. The people surrounding his deathbed are identified beneath the lithograph. Light spotting at lower left corner, mostly in blank margin. Very Good. Currier depicts the death scene of President Harrison on April 4..... More
Washington: 39th Cong., 1st Sess. HED123, 1866. 21, [3 blanks] pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound, one light persistent spot, else Very Good. Secretary of War Stanton reports on the operations of the Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina, particularly concerns that the Bureau had been administered incompetently, indifferently, and by..... More
Columbia, S.C. Printed and Published by E.H. Britton & Co., 1856. 323, [1 errata], vii [Index], [1 blank] pp. Pages 35-38 are repeated. The original cloth covers are present but detached; leaves are loosening, text is complete. The volume prints the daily record of the entire Second Session of the..... More
Portsmouth, N.H. [1819]. [4], 406pp. Bound in later cloth, with title stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Text lightly toned and generously margined, with occasional margin chipping and a stabilized closed tear at leaf 59-60. Very Good. Farrar's Report-- on one of the most significant and influential cases..... More
[np: 1917]. Original printed and illustrated title wrappers, with portrait on front wrapper of Moorfield Storey, white Boston lawyer and first President of the NAACP, who was lead counsel in the landmark, recent case of Buchanan v. Warley [1917], in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that State-mandated racially segregated..... More
[Washington?]: 1857. Single page, written in neat ink manuscript on recto only, 4" x 6-1/4." Minor wear, mounting remnants on verso, with docket entry: "Mr. Meehan | Law Library." Repaired closed tear, not affecting any text. Very Good. Taney, born into a wealthy slaveowning family in Calvert County, began practicing..... More
London: January 17, 1811. One page, 7" x 9," written on recto in neat ink manuscript. With a four-line ink manuscript note on verso, signed by the activist Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan: "This letter was addressed to my father William Frend who had worked with Thomas Clarkson some years before..... More
[Philadelphia?]: William Harrison, Dealer in Frames, Chromos, Stereoscopes, Views, Albums, &c. No. 345 South Street, Philadelphia." [c 1870s?]. Two nearly identical stereoview albumen prints, mounted side-by-side on cardstock. Oblong 7" x 3-1/4." Applied paper title-- "The White Slave" -- and publisher/vendor label on verso. In each print, a young African-American..... More
Washington: 40th Cong., 2d Sess. H.Rep.No.30. 1868. 30pp. Disbound, else Very Good. The Committee recommends that the life of the Freedmen's Bureau, which would otherwise sunset in July 1868, be extended. Eliot's report is a thorough analysis of the Bureau's accomplishments since its creation in 1865, and lauds its fostering..... More
39th Cong., 1st Sess. HED120. 1866. 72pp. Disbound as usual, with light toning. Else Very Good. President Johnson transmits Secretary of War Stanton's Reports concerning Freedmen's Bureau agents in Virginia and North Carolina, with a close examination of charges of misconduct and bribery in North Carolina. Commissioner O.O. Howard stands..... More
London: Printed for D.I. Eaton, No. 74, Newgate-Street, 1794. Caption title, pages [161]-176, as issued. Disbound, some margin foxing. Good+. "Political satire and invective, radical politics, poetry, letters; primarily attacking Edmund Burke’s conservatism. Eaton was jailed at least once for the political views expressed in this publication" [ESTC]. "Eaton, a...... More
Berks County PA: C.F. Egelmann, 1807. 12-1/2" X 15-1/2." Baptism certificate in a wooden frame, engraved by C.F. Egelmann. Light foxing to the margins. Illustrated with several religious images, as well as iconic Screaming Eagle illustration, with "E Pluribus Unum." Very Good. With the legend, in German, "Go forth in..... More
[Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1848]. [4] pp. Folded bifolium. Very Good. A scarce Whig 1848 campaign pamphlet prints Taylor's letters assuring wary northerners that this Louisiana planter and slaveowner could be trusted with the Nation's destiny. Taylor says he is "not engaged to lay violent hands indiscriminately upon public officers, good..... More
[Pennsylvania: 1780]. One page, 7-1/2" x 5-1/2", scalloped left edge. Printed broadside, completed in manuscript [ink manuscript entries signified by their enclosure in parentheses]. Lightly tanned, minor wear. Very Good. With contemporary interest calculations in manuscript and the contemporary signatures of Solomon Wildman. Docketed on verso: "No. 125. | Bucks..... More
[Philadelphia: c. 1849-1851]. Single sheet, folded to [4] pp. Undated and unsigned. Each page 7-5/8" x 9-7/8." Written on recto and verso of first leaf, page 3 blank, docketed on page [4]: "To the Hon. Finletter | Harrisburg." Probably written to Thomas Finletter of Philadelphia, who served in the State..... More
New York: Published by James Baillie, 1848. 9-1/8" x 13-1/2." Hand-colored print by Baillie, in a wood frame. Very Good, with light dusting. "This full-length, hand-colored print depicts a young man wearing a badge on a ribbon around his neck that hangs to his waist. He is holding a scroll..... More