Chicago: Kurz & Allison, 1890. Color lithograph. Image size: 18½ x 25 inches; sheet size: 22 x 28¼ inches. Matted to an overall size of 25 x 31 inches. Some moderate chipping and edge tears, not affecting image. Reinforced with older tape along top edge. Lightly toned, though colors are.....
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1775. [12],464pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Half title. Quarto. Contemporary half green calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands. Boards rubbed and shelfworn, spine sunned. Offsetting from map to half title, occasional pencil annotations, but quite bright and clean.....
Cambridge, Ma. 1905. 46pp. Original printed wrappers, slightly frayed at edge of front wrapper, else fine. Presentation copy to Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton,this essay is a critical review of Rhodes' history covering the Civil War between the months of December, 1864 and August, 1866, and was reprinted from The.....
Washington: Printed by Davis and Force, 1822. 256,3pp. Original tan and blue paper boards, printed paper label, expertly rebacked retaining most of the original paper backstrip. Label a bit chipped, corners bumped, early manuscript title on front board. Contemporary presentation inscription on front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepage.....
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New Jersey; [n.p.]: Underwood & Underwood; [n.p.], [ca. 1895]. Two stereoviews on card, each 3 1/2 x 7 inches. Minor edge wear. Very good. A pair of stereoviews featuring African- American subjects. The first was published by Underwood & Underwood in New Jersey, and features several men, women, and children.....
Washington, D.C. Washington Photo Co., 1942. Panoramic photograph, 32½ x 10½ inches. Black- and-white photograph with captions printed below the image. Mild toning and fading. Three one-inch tears and two three-inch creases starting to split, not affecting image); moderate insect damage to upper left and rear (where rolled photo had.....
Boston. 1922. x,371pp. plus plates. Portrait. Maps. Large octavo. Half cloth and paper boards, paper label. Some edge wear, else near fine. Lyman served on the staff of Gen. Meade, who commanded the Army of the Potomac, from 1863 until the end of the Civil War; this volume consists of.....
Montgomery: Montgomery Advertiser Book and Job Office, 1862. 112,81-96,129-303,[1]pp. Contemporary half calf and paper-covered boards, gilt morocco label. Binding worn, with a few small contemporary ink doodles. Contents tanned. Good. With an extra sixth gathering and no eighth gathering, therefor lacking pp.97-128. The majority of the present acts concern Alabama's.....
Montgomery: N.B. Cloud, 1858. 468pp. Original half sheep and paper boards. Spine almost perished, boards somewhat soiled and nearly detached, edges and corners worn. Light foxing and tanning. Good. A scarce printing of state laws from the Alabama legislature just prior the Civil War. Only six copies located by OCLC.....
Tuscaloosa; Montgomery; Jacksonville, Fl. 1841-1899. Twelve imprints in eleven volumes. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt leather spine labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, Labels chipped. Paper shelf labels on spines, institutional ink and blind stamps on titlepages and several initial leaves. Gutter tape repairs and contemporary bookseller's label on titlepage of one.....
Washington: Printed at the Great Republic Office, [1867-1868]. 16; 4pp. CONSTITUTION...: Original self-wrappers. First leaf detached, small corner chip in upper outer corner of first leaf, light edge wear throughout, upper edge of final leaf chipped. ELECTION ORDERS: Printed on a single folded sheet. Light edge wear. Very good. In.....
Washington: Printed at the Great Republic Office, [1867-1868]. 16pp. Original self-wrappers, removed from a sammelband. Spine somewhat ragged with stab holes from prior sewing, ink stains to first page, otherwise only scattered staining and soiling. About very good overall. Untrimmed. A scarce contemporary printing of Alabama's "Reconstruction" constitution of 1867.....
Montgomery. 1861. 64,[4],xcvi pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrap detached, slightly chipped. Moderate foxing and tanning. Good. A Confederate imprint. This booklet reports on the annual meeting of this lodge of Masons, with an appendix printing correspondence from other lodges all around the country. Most of the content is quite.....
Montgomery, Al. Richards Film Services, Inc., 1918. Panoramic photograph, 16 x 61¼ inches. A few creases and moderate wear. 13½-inch closed horizontal tear into the image area from left edge, 2½-inch closed horizontal tear at right edge just touching image area. Overall good condition. A substantial and striking large-format panoramic.....
London. 1812-1815. Five volumes. [2],xl,[16],574; [4],597; [4],512; [4],636; [4],462,[2],105pp. Modern black cloth, spines gilt. Front hinges of several volumes cracking, shelf numbers in white ink on spine, institutional stamps and markings on titlepages, top edges, and rear pastedowns. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Good plus. First English translation, after the.....
New York. 1814. Five volumes. Frontispiece in volumes one through four, frontispiece in volume five lacking. Original printed boards. Front board and frontispiece lacking from fifth; front hinge tender on other four volumes, spine on third volume heavily chipped. Later inscriptions on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing, embossed library stamp.....
New York. [ 1938]. 309pp. Cloth. A fine copy in dust jacket with slight edge wear, with the original glassine jacket as well, very chipped and torn. First edition of this Civil War novel.
Nashville. 1897. [6],152pp. plus plates. Frontis. Original front printed wrapper bound into modern cloth. Very good. Prints some little-known facts about early Tennessee history, by a native of the state. Contains a good deal of material on Andrew Jackson.
Boston & Cleveland: Damrell, Moore, G. Coolidge and John P. Jewett, [ 1856]. 128pp. including four full-page wood-engraved illustrations with green-tinted backgrounds plus twenty pages of advertisements, primarily illustrated, before and after the text. 16mo. Original red publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Spine worn at top and.....
New York: Williams Gowans, 1869. 125,[3],40pp. Large quarto. Original gilt-stamped cloth. Some fraying at extremities, else very good, partially unopened. Later edition, after the original of 1666, with an introduction and notes by John Gilmary Shea, issued as the fifth entry in Gowans' "Bibliotheca Americana" series. One of only sixty-four.....
Madrid: En la Oficina de Antonio Fernandez, 1778. 196pp. Small quarto. Modern calf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt leather labels. One raised band scraped of its leather, bookplate on front pastedown (see below). Faint contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Very good plus. A compilation of material.....
[New Haven: Sherman Converse, 1823]. 23pp. Printed self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Review of the reports for the years 1818 through 1823, gathered from the Christian Spectator. The Society attempted to alleviate the problem of slavery and degradation of free blacks by establishing a colony for them outside the United States.....
Livorno: Marco Coltellini, 1763. Three volumes. xxiii,216,[1]; 256,[1]; 253,[2]pp. Seventy-eight engraved maps and plates (twenty-four of them folding). Frontis. Half title in first volume. Large quarto. Contemporary vellum, spines gilt. Some wear and light staining to boards, spine ends of first and third volumes repaired, spines a bit darkened. Occasional.....
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New York: Published by the American Missionary Association, March & April 1866. pp.49-72; 73-95 [pagination consecutive across issues]. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled and worn. Both issues quite clean internally except for minimal foxing and stain at top of gutter, not touching text. Very good. Two consecutive postwar.....
Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid His Majesty's Printer, 1764–1776. Five separately printed acts, pagination given below. Folio. Dbd. Numbering in ink to head of titlepage of first four of the five acts. Ink inscription cropped at head of A2 of the final act. Some soiling. Overall very good. A collection.....
