Nashville, Tenn. Press of Foster & Webb, Printers, 1897. Original staples and printed and decorated glossy wrappers. 63, [1 blank] pp. Text uniformly toned, else Very Good. The President was "Mrs. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee." The pamphlet lists delegates and prints reports from the Chapters in the Southern States; these included..... More
[Springfield: 1876]. Printed broadside, 8-1/4" x 11-3/4." A variety of bold type sizes and fonts. At head of title: "1876. 1876. 1876." Very Good. Smith, a Springfield merchant, married Ann Todd, a younger sister of Abraham Lincoln's wife Mary. Smith's correspondence with Lincoln is held at the Library of Congress..... More
Chicago: Illinois Central Rail Road Office [Chicago Daily Press, Print, 45 Clark St.], 1857. 80pp, stitched into original printed and illustrated yellow wrappers. Frontis maps and plate: Outline Map of Illinois; double-page map, entitled Railway Guide to the Illinois Central Railroad Lands; engravings in text. LACKS the frontis engraving entitled..... More
New York: Amerman, 1856. 44 [of 64] pp, stitched in original printed wrappers. Outline Map, and double-page map frontis. Some leaves foxed, light edge wear. INCOMPLETE. "The work is, in effect, a guidebook to Illinois." Eberstadt. Byrd records an 1855 Chicago imprint offering 2,500,000 acres, and notes that [in 1855]..... More
Boston: Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son`1865, 1865. Stitched. 38pp, light scattered foxing. Illustration entitled, "Draught of the Pilgrim Ship Sparrow-Hawk," on verso of title page. Lacking wrappers, else Very Good. At head of title: "Ye Ancient Wrecke." The pamphlet documents the discovery of the wreck of the Sparrow Hawk..... More
[New York: 1945]. 4to. iv, 343, [1 blank] pp. Profusely illustrated. Bound in original cloth [minor wear], gilt - lettered spine and cover title. Very Good. The book was written "by staff members of the Naval Damage Control Training Center, Philadelphia, with the assistance of the Bureau of Ships and..... More
Springfield, IL: State Register Steam Press, April 14, 1854. Broadside, 8-1/2" x 14." Text enclosed in decorative border. Iconic Screaming Eagle at head of text. Several type fonts and sizes, completed in neat ink manuscript. Docketed on verso in manuscript, with attestation by Clerk of the Marion County Court. Very..... More
New York: Published for the Author by C.T. Geslain, [c. 1828?]. [3], [1 blank] pp. Music only, unaccompanied by words. Disbound. Lithograph portrait of Calhoun by Endicott. Some spotting, two repaired closed tears with cloth tape [no text loss]. Good+. This item dates from the early years of George Endicott's..... More
New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832. xv, [1 blank], [25]-335, [1 blank] pp, as issued. Bound in later cloth, rebacked, new spine label. Contemporary ownership signature of Cyrus Barker at top blank margin of title page. Foxed lightly to heavily, two closed tears expertly repaired without loss. Good to..... More
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[Washington: 1897]. 55th Cong., 1st Sess. SD167. Caption title as issued. 194pp, disbound [last several leaves detached but present]. Else Very Good. With evidence and detailed testimony. More
[Hartford: 1856]. 4to, folded. [3], [1 blank] pp. A few fox spots, old tape remnants, Good+. This scarce item records the beginning of the Republican Party in Connecticut. Its organizers claim that Democrats and Whigs lack acceptable programs to resolve the great questions of the day; indeed, "the Administration in..... More
New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Uncolored lithograph broadside, 18" x 13-1/2." Several blank margin smudges, from prior mounting or old fingerprints. Very Good. An excellent description from the Christie's 2006 auction of the Forbes Collection: "LINCOLN EVICTS BUCHANAN. A witty comment on the unexpected victory of Lincoln and the..... More
New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Lithograph illustrated broadside, 17" x 13-1/2." Uniform mild toning, shallow blank upper corner chip, light wear. Very Good. The Republicans depicted Lincoln as a familiar, iconic figure in American life: the self-made frontiersman who had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and climbed the..... More
New York: Peter Smith [i.e., Nathaniel Currier], 1848. Lithograph on wove paper, folio broadside. 12-3/4" x 19." A few fox spots, Very Good. "A comic portrayal of the alliance between Free Soil Democrats and Whigs and the more extremist abolitionist Liberty Party interests during the election campaign of 1848. The..... More
[New York]: 1792-1793. Three printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt..... More
New York and Washington: Printed & Published by H.R. Robinson 52 Courtland St. Y.N. [sic] & Penns Avenue Washington D.C., [1840]. Broadside lithograph, 12-1/2" x 15-3/4". Signed 'Boneyshanks' in the lower left corner. A rare lithograph brilliantly and humorously portraying the Democrats' and Van Buren's predicament in the 1840 presidential..... More
[np: 1856]. 4pp. Edges chipped with occasional slight loss. Good only. Caption title [as issued]. Printed in double columns. "Let us impartially examine the evidence." True, "in one of his exploring expeditions he made a cross upon a rock"; but even though "he was married by a Catholic Priest," these..... More
Lansingburgh [NY]: Printed by Silvester Tiffany, for, and sold by, Thos. Spencer, at his Book Store, in Albany. 1794. 346 [i.e., 336] pp. Original calf [rubbed], hinges firm. Light scattered foxing. Lacks the rear free endpaper. Very Good, with the Erratum note at page 334 explaining that "the printer thro'..... More
New-York: Printed by John Patterson, for Robert Hodge, 1788. xv, 539, [1 blank] pp. Page 286 is misprinted '186,' as issued. The final leaf torn at the bottom, costing the letter "S" in "FINIS." One [of two] front free endpapers torn away. Scattered and generally light foxing. Bound in attractive..... More
Cincinnati: Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., Lithographers, [1863]. Folio lithograph broadside, 18" x 22." Matted in a wood frame. Some soil and closed tears. The lists of Regimental Officers, Company Officers, Musicians, Wagoneer, and Privates are surrounded by lithograph vignettes of battle flags and rural, household, and battle scenes. Good+. The..... More
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[Augusta, Maine: 1814]. Folio leaf, folded to [4] pp, printed on recto of first leaf only. 8-1/4" x 9-7/16." Signed in type by Samuel S. Wilde, Jeremiah Perley, Pitt Dillingham, and Peter Grant. Dated in ink along upper edge, "Oct. 22d 1814," and addressed on verso to "Mr. Robert Foy..... More
[np: c. 1865]. Folio,19" x 24," half-length lithograph portrait with tintstone on paper, as described at the Smithsonian Institute's National Portrait Gallery. Some toning and light spotting at the margins, Very Good. The artist is probably "Peter Kramer, a painter and lithographer from Bavaria, who emigrated to the United States..... More
Burlington: Printed by Samuel Mills. Sold at his Bookstore, by Mills and White, Middlebury, and by the Principal Booksellers in the United States, 1808. 48pp. Disbound with some separated gatherings lightly foxed, Good+. "The victims were two revenue agents who tried to intercept smugglers taking potash into Canada. They were..... More
[Philadelphia: 1797]. Pages [45]-74. Minor wear. Modern plain wrappers. The second part of ESTC 39158. Except as noted, Very Good. The complete imprint begins with the title, "Indian Deeds to William Murray and Others Styled the Illinois Company and to Lord Dunmore and Others Styled the Wabash Company, Dated 5th..... More
London: Printed by Mr. Webb, near St. Paul's, 1740. 24,9-16,33-34,[3],34-56, page 39, [1 blank] pp. Page 15 misnumbered '51,' as issued. Bound in later dark plain wrappers. Very Good. ESTC records four variants, all determined by the craziness of the pagination. In all printings, the text is continuous. None of..... More