[Philadelphia]: Published at the Temperance Office, No. 3 North Eighth Street, [@1842]. Certificate, oblong 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Ornately printed in gilt on black glazed stock, with elaborate bank-note border. Subscriber's name is blank. Faded in a few spots but always visible, Very Good. The 'Cold Water Army' was a juvenile..... More

[Concord: 1848]. Elephant folio broadsheet, printed in seven columns on recto and verso. 19-1/2" x 26-1/2". Old folds, Very Good, with illustration of a sailing vessel, "Ship New Hampshire", flying the flags "No More Slave Territory", and "One Country, One Constitution, One Destiny." Illustration of Nathaniel S. Berry, "the man..... More

[Concord?]: Given at the Council-Chamber in Concord, this twelfth day of June... 1800. Broadside, 7-1/4" x 12-1/4". Old folds, a short fold split at blank left margin. Scattered foxing. Good+. With the typed signature of John Taylor Gilman, Governor; and the manuscript signature of Joseph Pearson, Secretary. Gordon was a...... More

[Richmond? New Orleans? 1864?]. Broadside, 8-1/4" x 12-3/8", printed without caption title [as issued] in three columns. This rare broadside begins with the sentence quoted above. It defends General Lovell, who had been tasked with the defense of New Orleans, from charges that his poor leadership caused the City's capture..... More

[New York: 1817]. Printed in typescript, completed in manuscript, "To the Treasurer of the City of New-York," instructing payment of Fifteen hundred dollars,"By order of Common Council." Signed as well by the Comptroller [G.N. Bleecker] and Clerk. Text surrounded by decorative border. A colorless indented 'X' mark is present, evidently..... More

[New York: Francis Childs], 1794. Large folio broadside, 19" x 26". Old folds, light wear, Very Good. The broadside prints "An Account of Cash Paid Out by Order of Common Council, from the Tax Granted the Seventh Day of December, 1792, for the Maintenance of the Poor and other Contingent..... More

New York: October, 1854. Broadside, 9" x 14 3/4". Printed in three columns. Lightly margin-spotted, old folds, else Very Good. A rare broadside, issued by Northern Democrats opposed to the Kansas- Nebraska Act, which authorized the entry of slaves into that Territory and, its opponents feared, would nationalize slavery. The..... More

[New York: Printed by William Bradford, 1723]. [4] pp, folio. Caption title, as issued. Loose and lightly toned, else Very Good. Housed in a modern cloth binder, with gilt-lettered spine title. This rare item is the first statute establishing New York chancery fees, thus curing "the Inconveniences that may..... More