THE CHARTER AND BY-LAWS OF THE ANDROSCOGGIN RAILROAD COMPANY.
Farmington, Maine: 1865. 26pp, disbound. Several manuscript corrections, Good+. The Company was incorporated in 1848. More
Farmington, Maine: 1865. 26pp, disbound. Several manuscript corrections, Good+. The Company was incorporated in 1848. More
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. 25 West Fourth Street. 1860. Original cloth [rubbed at extremities, spine lettering dulled]. Port. frontis of a clean-shaven Lincoln, 'Middleton, Strobridge & Co.' in small lettering. Port. of Hamlin after page 194. 216 pp. Foxed, lacks endpapers, some doodling on blanks. Good+. "Barrett had..... More
4.5" x 7". [2], [2 blank] pp, folded, ink manuscript. Light folds, minor wear. Very Good. More
Boston, New-England: Printed by T. Fleet, for T. Hancock, 1731. 30, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched as issued, with the half title and final blank leaf. Very Good. With a contemporary inscription on the half title: "James Cushing's. The Gift of the Revd Author." A scarce, early 18th century Sermon, in..... More
Boston: Printed and Published by E.B. Tileston, 1815. 32pp. Stitched, title page lightly foxed, a few other scattered fox spots. Untrimmed. Very Good. "Dr. Adams was acquitted of the murder of his wife, who had been killed with an ax in her kitchen at Ellsworth, Maine" [McDade]. "There was evidence..... More
Boston: B.B. Russell, 515 Washington St.; Engraved by J.C. Buttre, 48 Franklin St., New York, 1862. Lithograph, 11" x 15". Six uncolored oval portraits of the New England Governors in 1862 arranged around an engraving of the Bunker Hill Monument: Israel Washburn, Jr., Maine; Nathaniel S. Berry, New Hampshire; Frederick..... More
[Portland? 1884]. Broadside, 5-3/4" x 11-3/4". Printed in two columns separated by a rule. Near Fine. Chamberlain, the Hero of Gettysburg, and five other members of a Republican Committee in Portland refuse to vote for Thomas B. Reed for Congress, because he is not a friend of civil service reform..... More
Belfast, Maine: 1864 [November 7]. Printed document, completed in ink manuscript, oblong 10-1/4" x 8." Very Good. Signed in ink by the Provost Marshal and President of the Board of Enrollment; A.G. Crocker, a member of the Board of Enrollment; and the Surgeon of the Board of Enrollment. Collins's Substitute..... More
Oblong printed folio, completed in manuscript. Old folds, else Fine. Willard Lincoln, from the Town of China in Maine, enlisted as a First Lieutenant in Co. H of the 19th Maine Volunteer Infantry, in 1862. He was wounded on the second day of Gettysburg, recovered, and was promoted to Captain..... More
Newbury-Port: John Mycall, 1783. 40pp, with the half title. Lightly toned and worn, mild foxing, in a later cloth binding [bookplate of W.S. Appleton]. Very Good. A scarce sermon, with the half title, which is apparently lacking in AAS's copy. Evans 17877. NAIP w013078 [9]. Williamson 2266... More
[Augusta ME: 1848]. 40pp, caption title (as issued). Disbound. Double columns. Light wear, minor spotting to title page. Good+. Dr. Coolidge "dispatched him with a shot of brandy laced with prussic [hydrocyanic] acid" [McDade]. The "overextended, badly pressed doctor" killed Mathews for money, and was found guilty. Before being arrested..... More
Washington: 1816. Autograph letter signed by A.J. Dallas as Secretary of the Treasury, to the Collector of Machias, Maine. Single page, entirely in ink manuscript. Old folds, Very Good. Dallas [1759-1817] was President Madison's Secretary of the Treasury from October 1814 to October 1816. He died the following year. He..... More
[Bangor? 1848]. Folio sheet, folded to 7-3/4" x 10". Printed on first page only; second page blank; third page with a manuscript letter urging the recipient [whose last name is Chandler] to campaign vigorously for the Taylor-Whig ticket. Very Good. A plea to get out the vote for Taylor. "If..... More
Boston: Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1747. [2], ii, 37, [1 blank] pp, lacking the half title. Scattered foxing, bit of inner margin chipping [no text lost], one corner chip knocks out the last two letters in the title word 'obedience.' Good+, in contemporary plain drab..... More
Washington: Congressional Globe Office, 1850. 8pp, untrimmed, uncut, folded. Light tanning, minimal dustsoiling of untrimmed edges. Very Good. More
Portland [ME]: Thomas Baker Wait, [1796]. [3]-32 pp. Lacking the half title. Disbound. Hole in last leaf costs several letters. Good. Evans 30491. More
Maine: 1882. [2] pp plus integral blank leaf. Old hinges from prior mounting on blank last page. Very Good. Writing to "Hon. F. Haines," Hamlin explains that he has "no time to look over files of letters to see what I can find that you would want." He's "very busy..... More
5" x 8". Laid into a crude mat. Recto is glued to the mat, which is cut to expose the areas of text and to cover the blank areas. Some light glue stains [not affecting legibility]. Except for the choice of matting, Very Good. Vice President Hamlin's Letter suggests the..... More
[Washington, D.C.? 1858]. 16pp. Caption title [as issued], printed in double columns, disbound. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. Lincoln's Vice Presidential running mate opposes Southern attempts to take Kansas into the ranks of slave states by fraud. More
Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1792. 123, [1 blank] pp. Disbound [leather spine remnant remaining]. Title page lightly foxed, else a clean text. Good+. Hemmenway was the pastor of a Congregational Church in Wells, [now] Maine. The Discourse includes a Table of Contents. Hemmenway reviews the New Covenant, the..... More
[Kennebec, Maine? 1849]. Pale blue folio sheet, folded to [4] pages, printed on the first two pages. Final leaf filled with pencil numerical calculations. Very Good. The recipients of this printed mailing were [names in manuscript] T.D. Millett, L. Lothrop, and J. Lane, the Whig Committee of the Town of..... More
[South Berwick, ME?]: 1840. Broadside, 11-3/4" x 14-1/2." Text as recited above in bold type of various sizes. Beneath are the printed signatures in smaller type of about 200 local citizens endorsing the call for assembly. Old folds as usual, with several small pinholes along the folds which do not..... More
Washington: Case, Walrad & Baker. Lith. of Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, New York, [1863]. Broadside. 22x18." Iconic Screaming Eagle and draped American flags at top center. Text surrounded by engraved scenes of battles, camp life, flags, soldiers and families. Lightly toned, light spotting. Worn with discoloration at upper 1-1/2"..... More
Chicago and New York: [1888]. 4" x 6.5." Original printed wrappers, stitched. 31, [5] pp + attractive color folding map at rear. Very Good. More
[Augusta]: Wm. T. Johnson, Printer to the State, 1845. 141, [1] pp. Light rubberstamp in top margin of page [3], widely scattered light foxing. Senate Document 34, 25th Maine Legislature. Very Good. Bound in modern cloth [bookplate on front pastedown], with gilt-lettered spine. The claims are for Maine's expenditures "for..... More