Boston. 1814. viii,31pp. Dbd. Some light foxing and tanning. Overall very good. This pamphlet relates to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams' A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799), which Jedediah Morse had anticipated by producing his own school history. Adams, whose eyesight was failing, felt.....
Boston. 1814. viii,31; 4; 42pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Lacks wrappers. Leaves a bit tanned. Pinhole to lower margin barely affecting a few letters. Else very good. An interesting set of tracts relating to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams's A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799).....
Boston: Charles Bowen, 1834. 352pp. plus plates. 19th-century maroon morocco with elaborately blindstamped boards, spine gilt and elaborately stamped in blind, a.e.g. Head of spine chipped, upper joint partially split. Minor occasional foxing to text. Very good. In a maroon half morocco slipcase and chemise, spine gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed.....
Quincy, [Ma.]: November 24, 1813. [2]pp. Quarto. Old fold lines. A few small spots of foxing, faint stain from wax seal. Very good. In a folio-sized half morocco and cloth clamshell box, leather labels. A warm letter from former President John Adams to his dear friend and writer, Mercy Otis.....
[South Carolina? ca. 1940]. Poster printed in red, black, and green on thick card stock, 28 x 22 inches (71 x 56 cm). Minor toning and soiling, some light edge wear. Very good. Rare poster for the popular and well- travelled magician Ellen E. Armstrong (1914- 79), the first African-American.....
![Item #WRCAM55212 PORTRAIT OF THE LATE PETRO ANDAYI MBIRIKA [manuscript title]. African...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55212.jpg?v=1593711998)
Nairobi, Kenya. September 10, 1960. [37]pp., consisting of a manuscript narrative interspersed with seventy-four vernacular photographs (twelve 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches, the remaining sixty-two approximately 3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches) all with extensive captions, and four mounted telegrams. Oblong quarto. Contemporary blue leatherette photograph album, string-tied. Minor.....
New York: David Longworth, 1808. 56pp. Dbd. Faint institutional ink stamp and embossed blindstamp to titlepage, minor toning, light foxing. Overall, very good. A curious and rare account of the trial of Alexander Whistelo, a Black man accused of leaving Lucy Williams, a mulatto, with child. A controversy ensued as.....
![Item #WRCAM55457 CITY OF NEW YORK HARLEM HOSPITAL H.H.S.N. 1959 [cover title]. African-American...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55457.jpg?v=1593712045)
[New York. 1959]. 64pp. Quarto. Red textured cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear. Occasional ink notations by original owner, else internally clean. Very good. Yearbook commemorating the graduation year for the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing's Class of 1959. This copy was owned.....
![Item #WRCAM55456 PROFECTUS 1956 [cover title]. African-American Nursing](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55456.jpg?v=1593712045)
[New York. 1956]. 80pp. Quarto. Contemporary black cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively tooled and titled in gilt. Minor edge wear and rubbing. Contemporary ink ownership signature of "Joan Ryan '59'" on verso of front free endpaper (likely a future graduate of the same nursing program). Internally clean. Very.....
Washington, D.C. [ca. 1891]. Albumen card-mounted photograph, image approximately 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Light wear to card. Faint line of older adhesive substance in center of photograph. Minor wear and fading. About very good. A large photograph of a well-dressed African- American woman posing with four white children.....
![Item #WRCAM54582 [TWO STEREOVIEWS FEATURING AFRICAN-AMERICAN SUBJECTS]. African-American...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM54582.jpg?v=1593711917)
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.....
[Various locations. ca. 1941-1945]. Approximately 100 photographs, the great majority mounted, most captioned in white ink on the album leaves. Oblong octavo. Contemporary brown textured boards, string tied. Moderate wear to album. Occasional heavy wear to photographs, a few removed, a handful loose. Overall very good. A charming collection of.....
[Various places in Vietnam. ca. 1968-1972]. 145 photographs (all but thirteen in color), most approximately 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Majority of photographs mounted on black paper stock with non-archival adhesive tape, some photos retain remnants of tape at corners. Some images a bit faded, but generally in very.....
Montgomery, Al. Richards Film Services, Inc., 1918. Panoramic photograph, 16 x 61 1/4 inches. A few creases and moderate wear. 13 1/2-inch closed horizontal tear into the image area from left edge, 2 1/2-inch closed horizontal tear at right edge just touching image area. Overall good condition. A substantial and.....
[Various locations in Oregon and Alaska. ca. 1922-1930]. Approximately 325 photographs, twenty postcards and real photo postcards, a linen- backed map of Alaska, and a few assorted ephemeral items, all housed in a contemporary leather satchel. Generally minor wear, some chipping to about twenty photographs. Overall very good. A treasure.....
New York and Cincinnati: Hunt & Eaton and Cranston & Stowe, 1891. xvi,161pp., including frontispiece portrait. Original blue cloth, spine and boards stamped in black and gilt. Cloth a bit worn and soiled, corners bumped. Partially removed bookplate on front pastedown. Faint offsetting onto titlepage. Very clean internally. Very good.....
Charleston Harbor. April 13, 1861. [5]pp. Significant tanning, expertly de-acidified. Very good. A fascinating letter from Dr. Aldrich to his widow's sister, relating the events of the critical opening battle of the Civil War. Edward Sherman Aldrich was born in 1811 in Providence, Rhode Island. He married Corrine Brown and.....
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. xxviii,244pp. Illus. Text in England and French. Quarto. Pictorial softcover. As new. An excellent study, with extensive annotations. Contains 104 entries of views and portraits printed in Canada up to 1850.
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.....
![Item #WRCAM57802 THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Vol. X. No. 3. [with:] THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Vol. X....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM57802.jpg?v=1666629104)
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.....
London. 1712. [2],323-324pp. Folio. Dbd. Small tear to fore edge of p.323, not affecting text. Lightly soiled. Very good. An act "for the incouragement of the trade to America," alleviating duties on incoming goods from the colonies. Mainly aimed a relieving duties on goods seized in the then on-going war.....
New York. October 4, 1869. [1]p. in purple ink on a folded quarto sheet, with original envelope (addressed in Anthony's hand) including canceled stamp. Old folds, a few light fingerprints, light soiling to envelope. Very good. A brief note from Susan B. Anthony, part of a larger conversation discussing a......
Little Rock. 1870. vi,[2],16,xxv-lxxxii,54,cxxxvii-clxxvi pp. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards. Leather rubbed, worn along joints, some paper loss to boards. Scattered light foxing, otherwise quite clean internally. Bookplate of C.G. Littell on front pastedown. Very good. The Littell copy of Arkansas' unsurprisingly contentious Reconstruction Constitution. While it allowed.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Two volumes. xiv,532; viii,554,[1]pp., plus frontispiece portrait in each volume, and numerous plates. Original black cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Cloth lightly rubbed and edge worn, scuff and three small dents in backstrip of first volume. Clean internally. About very good. A handsomely-produced compilation of John.....
Baltimore. 1949. xxix,219pp. plus many facsimiles. Thick quarto. Gilt cloth. Fine, in a slightly worn dust jacket. One of 300 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press. With an introduction by Lawrence Wroth. A superb reference for early Americana.
