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).....
Dedham, Ma. Printed for the Author, by H. Mann and J.H. Adams, 1799. 513,[3]pp. Antique-style calf, spine tooled in gilt, gilt leather labels. Titlepage, subscriber's leaf, and two contents leaves worn at the foredge, with small tears. Even tanning. Good plus. Hannah Adams is considered probably the first professional female.....
![AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JOHN ADAMS TO MERCY OTIS WARREN]. John Adams](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM42352.jpg?v=1488345205)
Quincy [Ma.]. Nov. 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.....
New York. 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 sundry doctors.....
Atlanta: Photo by Kelly, 1939. Original photographic print, 12 x 18 1/4 inches. Black and white unmounted photograph captioned in the negative. Right and left margins trimmed; three closed tears at margins slightly affecting image. Old tape at corners, minor creasing. Good. A large photographic portrait of the twenty-two "undaunted".....
![LARGE CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN AND FOUR WHITE CHILDREN]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM52746.jpg?v=1491406164)
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. The.....
Atlanta, Ga. Hy-Beaute Chemical Co., 1949. Free-standing advertising board, 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Thick cardstock printed in red, blue, and sepia, with attached folding cardstock stand. Corners bumped, holes at corners from hanging, one scratch at upper left slightly affecting one image. Some toning and several faint water.....
Montgomery, Al. Richards Film Service, Inc., 1918. Panoramic photograph, 16 x 48 1/4 inches. Black and white unmounted photograph, captioned in the negative. Minor fading, tears at middle of right and left edges due to tight rolling of photo (image not affected), a few chips and minor creasing at bottom.....
Boston & Cleveland: Damrell, Moore, G. Coolidge and John P. Jewett, [ 1856]. 128pp. including four full-page woodengraved 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.....
![AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM BENEDICT ARNOLD TO MRS. HENRY KNOX]. Benedict Arnold](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM42359.jpg?v=1488345206)
Watertown. March 4, 1777. [1]p. plus integral address leaf. Folio. Small loss in margin from wax seal, repaired. Minor soiling. Silked. Very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. An anxious letter written by a smitten Benedict Arnold to Boston society matron Lucy Flucker Knox.....
Cedar Rapids, Ia. 1941. 58pp. Portrait. Original paper boards, printed paper label to front board. Near fine, in original (chipped) glassine wrapper. Extracts from the Kansas journal of Miriam Davis Colt. Privately printed for the friends of the Torch Press.
Los Angeles. 1919. 317pp., including illustrations and frontispiece portrait. Original yellow pictorial cloth. Very faint evidence of call number removal from lower portion of spine. Very clean and fresh internally. Overall, a very attractive copy, much nicer than usually found. A presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Mrs. Beasley to "Mr.....
![AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM DOUGLAS BOARDMAN TO MARTHA BRADSTREET]. Ithaca, N.Y. Jan. 19,...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM29329.jpg?v=1549643776)
Deposit, N.Y. L.P. Allen, [ 1866]. 7pp. Letter folded for mailing, splitting at the main vertical fold, and along one horizontal fold. Pamphlet browned, some marginalia and underlining, vertical crease. Both items very good. Douglas Boardman was a Circuit Court judge in New York State. In this letter to Martha.....
Dedham, Ma. H. & W.H. Mann, [ 1829]. 36pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Front hinge detached, cloth somewhat dust soiled, labels slightly chipped. Institutional blind and ink stamps, ownership inscription; blind stamps on subsequent two leaves. Light tanning, an occasional fox marks, final leaves with small patches of.....
Chayanta, Bolivia. 1834. 9pp. Quarto. Stitched sheets. Light creases and scattered soiling. Very good. Funeral sermon for Señora Magdalena Sotomayor, whom the text refers to as an illustrious woman of the town. The first page of the oration features an elaborate manuscript frame around the text.
Boston. 1794. [388],244,[4]pp. 12mo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt. Hinges worn, some wear to boards and spine. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepage and several internal leaves. Some light soiling and wear, heavier to front few leaves. Good plus. The Book of Common Prayer for the Episcopal Church, printed by Manning &.....
Boston: James Walden, 1821. 108pp. with folding woodcut frontispiece and full-page woodcut illustration. 12mo. Contemporary half leather and marbled boards. Extremities worn, some loss to paper on front board. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf and titlepage, light staining on endpapers. Very good. An unusual American edition, with the.....
[Philadelphia. 1766-1825]. Four volumes, approximately [400] total manuscript leaves. Folio ledgers, 13 x 8 inches, oblong 12mo. receipt books, 4 x 6 1/2 inches. First ledger in calf, tooled in blind: front board detached, rear hinge broken; boards and spine scuffed and stained; scattered foxing, but contents generally very good.....
[V.p., mostly Maryland and North Carolina. 1914-1927]. 401 photographs, varying sizes, on [50] leaves, plus over two hundred pieces of ephemera, mostly cards, news clippings, correspondence, and clipped signatures. Oblong quarto. Black leatherette album, string tied. Leaves neatly detached, slightly worn at edges. Contents mounted directly to leaves, many photos.....
[Liverpool: Wm. Budge, 1879]. 16pp. Self-wrappers. Punch hole in blank gutter. Stained. Very good. Delivered by Budge at a London Conference at Goswell Hall, Dec. 9, 1879, and frequently reprinted and published abroad in several languages.
San Francisco. 1886. 166pp. Original publisher's cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Light soiling and wear to extremities. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good. Biography of Mary Ann Bickerdyke, a Union hospital administrator during the Civil War, written and published for her benefit. "Every one who buys.....
Dublin. 1842. 60pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt spine labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, spine labels slightly chipped. Paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink and blind stamps, ownership inscription on titlepage. Upper corner of final leaf torn away, not affecting text, titlepage slightly chipped. Light tanning and foxing. Good plus.....
Lima: En la Imprenta de los Huerfanos, 1783. [116],144pp. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum, printed paper label. Ex-lib. ink stamp on titlepage, covered over with white out. Some light scattered foxing. Very good. Funerary work for Maria Antonio de San Josepha (1718-81), which includes a labyrinth poem in the shape of.....
Lima: En la Imprenta de los Huerfanos, 1783. [116],144pp. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum, remnants of printed paper label. Light soiling to titlepage. Minor scattered soiling and foxing. Slight worming in center of text block, minutely affecting text. Corners trimmed off of two leaves toward front. Good. Funerary work for Maria.....
