[Wisconsin? @1878-1880]. Broadsheet, 5 1/2" x 15 1/2". Docketed on verso in type, "Petition of N.H. Wood, of, Wisconsin." Very narrow area of blank margin singeing; a split in an old fold has been expertly repaired on the verso, without loss. Otherwise, Very Good. Wood's former broadside, to which..... More

[New York: @1876]. Oblong 4 1/2" x 3", with chromolithograph original illustrated and printed wrappers. 8pp plus wrappers. Lightly foxed, else Very Good. The covers depict colonial gentlemen and gentlewomen riding in horse-drawn carriages. The Company makes "Carriages and Road Wagons of the Best Quality." Each of the eight pages..... More

New York: Holman & Gray, 1855. Original printed wrappers stitched, 20pp. Light upper blank margin spotting, Very Good. The Georgian King puts his spin on his disaster-filled tenure as Collector of the Port of San Francisco. "The custom-house was destroyed in the fire of May 4, 1851, and it..... More

Chicago: John Gager & Co. for Chicago Mechanics' Institute, June, 1857. Pages [293] - 372, [4 advt] pp, plus eight full-page engravings frontis. Original printed, decorated and illustrated green wrappers. Bound in later marbled cloth, with gilt-lettered spine title [light scuffing]. Very Good. Only five issues of this magazine were..... More

[Galena, IL: 1863]. 4pp, printed with caption title [as issued], folded. Light foxing, old folds, Good+. Reverend Henry Whipple, Pastor of the Bench Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Galena, married Emma Weigley in July 1862. Less than a year into the marriage, Emma claimed the Reverend had treated her..... More

New Orleans: Picayune Steam Press, 1873. Original printed wrappers [clean, but with a bit of corner wear] with wrapper title [as issued]. 27, [1 blank] pp. Minor wear, clean text, Very Good plus. [offered with] Typescript Letter, laid in, from New Orleans, March 22, 1873, [1] page: 'Dear Sir..... More

Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1840. Original printed brown wrappers, with portrait of Harrison. Stitched, 72pp. Light foxing, private owner's rubberstamp, Very Good. Enthusiastic Boston Whigs dedicate these campaign songs to Harrison, "the gallant soldier, the enlightened statesman, the consistent republican, and the honest man." Most of the songs..... More

Boston: Oliver Johnson, 1843. 12mo. Original printed yellow wrappers, stitched, 64pp. Lightly foxed, bottom third of rear wrapper [blank] torn away, Good+. Pierpont, staunch abolitionist and poet, was also at various times a Unitarian minister, lawyer, and teacher. Among the poems printed here are The Liberty Bell, The Fugitive Slave's..... More

Chicago: Church, Goodman & Cushing, 1859. 93pp, bound in modern cloth. Inner margin reinforced, numerical rubberstamp at bottom of title page. Else a clean and Very Good text. The Report is by the Congregational General Association of Illinois, protesting that Presbyterians have frozen out Congregationalists from the College's governance..... More

[Washington City: Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee. McGill & Witherow, Printers, 1860]. 8pp, folded. An untrimmed and uncut folio sheet, entirely unsophisticated. About Fine. This is the first of the Breckinridge and Lane Campaign Documents, a series to advance the 1860 presidential campaign of the Southern wing..... More

Philadelphia: Re-Printed by James Humphreys, from the Sixth London Edition, 1800. 3 1/2" x 5 1/4". 14, [2 blanks] pp, plus two leaves of plates [one of them folding, entitled, 'A Table of the manner of joining the Characters']. Stitched in contemporary plain wrappers [ownership signatures] Wrappers detached but present..... More

Philadelphia: Printed by the Author, November 30, 1793. 112, [8], 16 pp. The final 16 pages list the dead. Disbound, light wear, a couple of marginal rubberstamps by a private owner, trimmed closely at the top margin of the last several leaves [affecting page numbers but not the text]. Good+..... More