Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1824. 34, [2 blanks] pp. Disbound, light foxing. Good+. Pro-Greek, anti-Turkish. AI 16023. More
[np: 1864]. Broadside, 9-1/4" x 11-3/8". Printed in two columns. Some chipping to blank margins. Good+. "On Monday and Tuesday nights, Aug. 29 and 30, at the City of Chicago, a number of distinguished Democratic orators entertained the members of the Chicago Convention and others with their views of..... More
[New York? 1865]. 10-1/2" x 13". Light uniform toning; trimmed at the margins; minor wear. Surface cracked at right edge affects one portrait but without loss], else Very Good. President Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin [the Lincoln-Johnson Administration would begin on March 4, 1865], and the Senators and Representatives..... More
Baltimore: From the Press of James Lucas & Son, [1860? 1861?]. Original printed yellow title wrappers, stitched, 34pp. Wraps with some dusting, Very Good. This pamphlet was originally published in De Bow's Review for December 1860. It was written before South Carolina seceded later that month. Memminger, South Carolina's..... More
Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1783. 28, [4 advt] pp. Scattered spotting, especially at upper corners. Good+ The author, one of the Society's founders, calls a free press "the PILLAR that supports the whole fabric of freedom." But, he observes, "The fairest blossom is the reptile's food," and a licentious press..... More
Philadelphia: 1856. xii, 125 pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers [chipped at extremities and along spine]. Later staples and blank margin punchholes; bit of loosening. A couple of leaves with some marginalia. Good+. This Philadelphia judge's book, normally found in cloth rather than wrappers, is an essential reference for..... More
[San Francisco]: Publ. by I.N. Choynski, Antiquarian, [@1877]. Oblong illustrated broadside, 14" x 11". Light dusting, Very Good. I.N. Choynski was among the first antiquarian booksellers in San Francisco. "The Chinese Must Go!" was the slogan of the Working Man's Party of California during the 1870s. Denis Kearney, its leader..... More
Utica, NY: December 22, 1868. Autograph Letter Signed to German-American newspaper publisher George Saul of Syracuse, NY. [3] pp, 8 x 5 inches, on 2 detached leaves; the second leaf tipped into a mat, slightly obscuring the extreme lower portion of Seymour's signature. Good+. Seymour, the wartime Governor of..... More
[Philadelphia]: Published by F. Bouclet, 1861. Rare, beautifully colored, 20" x 25-3/4" lithograph printed on wove paper, titled "Presidents of the United States". Displays all the Presidents through a beardless Lincoln, surrounding a vignette of Lady Liberty , the American eagle, a steamboat, and the Capitol (the dome complete as..... More
[Raleigh? North Carolina Standard? 1856]. Folio Broadside, 19-7/8" x 11-3/4". Text printed in three columns beneath title. Old folds, light soil, couple of short closed tears along folds expertly repaired without loss. Very Good. Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick [1827-1886], born and raised in North Carolina and a chemistry professor at its..... More
New Orleans: Printed at the Crescent Office, 1852. 100pp. Toned with some foxing, light rubberstamp on title page. Upper blank corners of last two leaves renewed, couple of small holes in last leaf affecting about five letters. Good+ in modern boards. The new Constitution mandated that "the Legislature shall apportion..... More
New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. Oblong 4to. Original card boards [rubbed, spine and portion of covers reinforced, front cover illustrated with two young Negro children looking over a fence]. 64pp, consisting entirely of stereotyped illustrations of African-Americans, with captions in dialect. Printed on glossy paper, on rectos only. A couple..... More
[New York: 1898]. Folio Broadside, 12-1/2" x 17", printed in five columns. "With compliments of C. Schurz" written in ink at top margin. Some wear in the third column affecting several letters. Else Very Good. The Wisconsin German-American, whose advocacy had been important in securing German immigrants to the..... More
[Washington: T. McGill, Print. 1860]. 8pp. Caption title as issued, disbound, Good+. Lamar catalogues the North's aggressions. Active in the Confederate Government and its Army, he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1888. More
New York: Robert LeCouver, Printer, [1897]. Original printed gold wrappers [separated from text block] and staples. [4], 138pp. Folding map and folding chart. Some separation from text block and bleedthrough of staples on blank margins. Else a clean and Very Good text. The event was favorably reviewed in The Tammany..... More
Boston: Nathaniel Willis, 1781. Folio. 53, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, untrimmed, occasional fox mark; small holes at leaf 23-24 affect several letters. Good+. The Resolves focus on many Revolutionary war matters: Resolve on the petition of Col. Josiah Brewer, and of Orana and other chiefs of the Penobscot tribe that..... More
Washington: Jany 3, 1850. 7-3/4" x 9-3/4". Single page. Old folds, Very Good. "On the receipt of your note of the 26th I [---] it to Prof. Henry who said he would write to you at once-- I look forward with great pleasure to your visit here. We will talk..... More
[London: Printed and Sold by John Nichols... 1788]. Folio. Pages 189-219, [1 blank], as issued. Disbound, else Very Good. The recorded matters include protests from Scotland, asserting that the Parliament of Scotland has overturned "the Ancient Constitutions of the Royal Boroughs of Scotland" by enacting "unjust and illiberal Systems" pertaining..... More
[Waterloo, MO]: June 8, 1840. Large folio, folded to 7-1/2" x 12-1/2". [3], [1 blank] pp. Completely in ink manuscript. Old folds, Very Good. Clark County is located in farthest northeastern Missouri, along the Des Moines and Mississippi Rivers, bordering Iowa to the north and Illinois to the east..... More
[Washington DC: M.B. Brady, 1876]. Large albumen print, 12-1/2" x 13-3/4", mounted on 17" x 21" backing. With thin border on matting and credit in ink to "M.B. Brady Photo / Washington, D.C." on the matting below the bottom left corner of print. Light toning. Some facsimile signatures are faded..... More
[Cincinnati: Cincinnati Gazette, Feb. 25, 1863]. Broadside, 17-1/2" x 6". Tide mark along inner margin, closed tears expertly repaired [no text affected]. Else Very Good. This rare broadside is an incisive analysis of the political dynamics of Secession in the South. The author, identified only by his initials "E.H.L." at..... More
Cotton bandana, 27" x 23-1/2", printed in pale red. Equestrian portrait of "William Henry Harrison" holding his saber, at center, surrounded by six oval vignettes [two military scenes, the famous log cabin at North Bend, Harrison treating with the Indians, Harrison at his plow, official building] and floral patterns. Light..... More
Boston: Engraved by E. Tappan & A.C. Warren, 39 State St. [1840]. Broadside, 4-1/2" x 5-3/4". With a head-and-shoulders cut of Harrison in military uniform; another of Harrison at his plow [his famous log cabin in the background]; and two other engravings of Harrison astride his horse with sword in..... 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
London: Printed for T. Cooper... [1739]. 63, [1 blank] pp. Bound in modern vellum. Early leaves dusted, minor scattered foxing. Else Very Good. "In Spanish and English, and relates principally to affairs in America" [Sabin], with particular emphasis on Florida. The book charges that the King of England authorized..... More