Paris: 1862. Engraving on paper, 16-1/2" x 22-1/2"; image 8" x 10-3/4" . Beneath image is the caption: "Metzmacher del et sc./ 1862." Minimal edgewear. Fine. Pierre Guillaume Metzmacher [born 1815], a French engraver, was active from about 1845-1872. This variant, unlike the copy at the National Portrait Gallery and..... More
Berlin: Verlag v Isidor Rocca in Berlin, Charlottenstr 25, [1861?]. Hand-colored lithograph, 13" x 17-3/8". Mounted on stiff paper. Minor edgewear and two short closed tears in blank margin. Minimal spotting. Very Good. This lithograph's caption below the picture is in elegant typescript: German [on the left] and English [on..... More
[Washington DC]: S.H. Smith, 1800. Printed invitation card on thick paper stock, with the name "Miss Wheeler" in ink script. Oblong 4-3/4" x 3-1/8." Written on verso: "--- Simmons." Fine. Samuel Harrison Smith (1772–1845) was one of the earliest printers in Washington City [distinct from Georgetown]. After a successful Philadelphia..... More
[Hartford: 1776]. Single leaf, entirely in neat ink manuscript. Signed at the end, "By George Wyllys". Early archival repairs on blank verso. Signed by Wyllys, of the prominent Connecticut Wyllys family. Good+. Ebenezer Strong, tax collector for the Colony in the town of Colchester, was the victim of a theft..... More
[Washington DC? 1910?]. Broadside, 8-3/8" x 12-1/4." One light fox spot; one closed tear at upper left corner expertly repaired without loss. Very Good. The broadside celebrates victory in "the long bitterly contested law suit that has been in the court nearly four years between the two colored Grand Lodges..... More
Albany: 1841 [8 April]. Folio sheet, folded to [4] pp, each page 7-3/4" x 12-3/8." Entirely in neat ink manuscript. Folded for mailing, and addressed with Albany postal cancel to Junior at Warsaw, Genesee County, N.Y. Old folds, light wear, with a note in ink by a former owner. Very..... More
Boston: 1800. 28pp, with the half title, as issued. Disbound. Half title with some fox spots, else clean. Good+. French says Kendall has been "called into the work of the ministry at a period when vice and infidelity abound; and the enemies of God are numerous, artful, and busy in..... More
Springfield: William Walters, Public Printer, 1840. 156, [4], xxxii pp. Including the Auditor's Report and a detailed index. Original cloth, scattered light foxing, else Very Good. As a member of the Sangamon County delegation in the Illinois House of Representatives since 1837, Lincoln held his first elective office. The Session..... More
Worcester: Published at the Spy Office, March - 1810. 23, [1 blank] pp. Stitched, untrimmed. Scattered foxing. Title page with a closed blank margin tear and chipped blank inner margin [no text affected]. Ownership stamp, "Charles D. Boynton" at blank bottom margin of title page. Good+. The anonymous author hopes..... More
Chicago, Illinois: Tribune Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1861. 54, [6 advt] pp. Disbound without wrappers, slight chipping to penultimate advertising leaf. Good+. Pre-Fire Chicago was truly the mighty engine of the West. This scarce pamphlet bristles with data and tables about the Canadian Trade, "Trade with the South" on..... More
[Baltimore: Foley, 1883]. Original printed wrappers, the front wrapper with portrait of a bearded and fierce Lieut. Gen'l Jubal A. Early. The portrait repeated in the frontis. 52, [1], 38 pp, as issued. Ownership signature on front wrapper, "Wyatt Aiken, March, 1904." This is probably Congressman Wyatt Aiken [1863-1923] of..... More
[np. Milwaukee? Berlin WI? 1864]. Broadside, 6-1/8" x 11." Spotted, small chip to blank upper corner. Good+. Ezra Wheeler, Wisconsin Democrat, was serving his only term in Congress when he wrote this October 15 letter to his constituents in the Berlin Courant. He retired from Congress at the end of..... More
Washington, D.C. Taylor and Maury, Booksellers and Publishers, [1860]. Quarter sheep and pictorial paper over boards [rebacked]. [46- advertising], vi, [4], 34-232, [6- advertising] pp, as issued. Boards and endpapers with advertising material. Very Good. Boyd's first such Directory issued in 1859. This scarce Washington Directory promises improvements in completeness..... More
[Joliet: 1872]. Caption title, as issued. 4pp, each page printed in two columns separated by a rule. Very Good. In 1872 the Democratic Party endorsed Horace Greeley, the newspaper editor and gadfly, for President. Greeley, formerly a Whig, was also endorsed by the Liberal Republican Party, composed of Republicans offended..... More
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New Haven: Printed by William Storer, Jun. [1841]. 4pp. Folded octavo sheet, untrimmed and generously margined with blank extremity chipping. Good+. With a Dirge and a Requiem by James G. Percival, a Hymn by James Montgomery, and a Mourner's Hymn by Percival. OCLC 13693368 [6], 702328440 [1] as of June..... More
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[New York?]: Central Conference of American Rabbis, [1906]. 29, [3 blanks] pp. Original staples and printed title wrappers, as issued. Light to moderate wear, Good+. Holdheim, a German Rabbi, was one of the pioneers of the modern Reform movement. OCLC 37551720 [6], 233986909 [2], 970974638 [1] as of June 2023..... More
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Philadelphia: T.K. and P. G. Collins, Printers, 1854. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 24 clean pages. Very Good. The "Colored Department" of the House of Refuge had opened its doors in December 1849. The House of Refuge's Board of Managers thanks Governor Bigler for his remarks "delivered at the new building..... More
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Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee, [1868]. Caption title [as issued], 8pp. Printed in two columns per page. Disbound and loosened. Good+. A Republican attack on the Democratic Party and its 1868 presidential ticket of Seymour and Blair, emphasizing that the disloyalty of the Democratic Party caused the Rebellion; that the..... More
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Wilberforce, Ohio: [1945]. 4to. Unpaginated, about 100 pages on glossy paper with many illustrations. Lower portions spotted, fully legible. Comb binding. Good+. "Wilberforce University is the nation's oldest private, historically black University owned and operated by African Americans. Its roots trace back to its founding in 1856, a period of..... More
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Hinds County, Mississippi: 1833. [4]pp. Entirely in ink manuscript, folded with expert repairs to fold splits. Good+. John W. Blunt, Justice of the Peace, takes the appraisers' oath on January 3, 1833. "In conformity to an order of the orphans cort of hinds county, we have this day appraised the..... More
[np]: 1847. Single page in ink manuscript, oblong 5-3/4" x 7-3/4." Very Good. On verso, in ink: "Recd of David Wilson Ninety-Two dollars 42 c in full o'c within note. Ap. 3. 1849 Jane Neely." More
Chester District, South Carolina: 1868. Folio leaf, folded to [4] pp, each page 8" x 10." Page [4] blank. Entirely in ink manuscript. Dated April 11, 1868 on page [3], and signed by Ned Glover and James Moore, with witnesses' signatures of J.S. Wilson and Nathan Thomas [his mark]. Very..... More
London: Printed by John Haddon. . . 1837. 36pp. Stitched. Title page lightly spotted, Very Good. The author awakens the British public from its complacent belief "that slavery had been utterly abolished; and that the negro was quietly and contentedly enjoying the blessings of that freedom for which the British..... More
[np: 1862]. Folio broadside, 8" x 20." Printed in two columns separated by a double rule. Generously margined, with chip at blank lower right margin. Old horizontal folds expertly strengthened. Good+. A Pennsylvanian and West Point graduate, Duncan resigned from the Army in 1855 to live and work in New..... More
Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co., 1847. 312pp. Widely scattered foxing. Frontis with original tissue guard, plus six full-page plates. Plates toned. Front pastedown with old bookplate remnant. Original tan cloth, stamped in blind, spotted at upper forecorners, rebacked with portion of original spine laid down. Good+. This second edition is..... More