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.....
![MISS BRONZE CALIFORNIA BEAUTY PAGEANT [cover title]. African Americana, California](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM56779.jpg?v=1625588651)
[N.p., likely Los Angeles. 1964]. 28pp., profusely illustrated. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor edge wear, a few tiny edge chips. Tiny amount of chipping to bottom corner of last few leaves. Very good. The official program for the 1964 Miss Bronze California beauty pageant, a beauty contest for single African-American.....
![COLORED BRANCH YWCA [wrapper title]. African Americana, Pennsylvania](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55451.jpg?v=1593712044)
[N.p., but likely Philadelphia. ca. 1926]. [8]pp. Oblong 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor wear and soiling. Very good plus. A rare ephemeral calendar of events for a local "Colored Branch" of the Y.W.C.A. in or near Philadelphia for the year 1926. Events include a "Mothers' Club Supper" where Rev. Matthews.....
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.....
![CITY OF NEW YORK HARLEM HOSPITAL H.H.S.N. 1959 [cover title]. African-American Nursing](/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.....
![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.....
![LARGE CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH OF AN AFRICAN- AMERICAN WOMAN AND FOUR WHITE CHILDREN]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM52746.jpg?v=1593711852)
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.....
[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.....
![TWO STEREOVIEWS FEATURING AFRICAN-AMERICAN SUBJECTS]. African-American Photography](/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.....
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.....
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.....
![AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM BENEDICT ARNOLD TO MRS. HENRY KNOX]. Benedict Arnold](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM42359.jpg?v=1593711632)
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.....
Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1912, 1928. x,120; vii,[1],49pp. Original brown printed wrappers bound into modern three-quarter red morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Some insect damage to cloth. Light toning and foxing to supplement. Very good. The catalogue and supplement of the Ayer collection, still the best reference for Indian captivities.....
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.
New York. 1837. 24pp. Later three quarter calf and boards, rebacked. Some foxing. Good. This is the third edition listed in Howes, after the first of 1835. A melancholy tale, as the title indicates. The titlepage vignette depicts a forlorn Baldwin sitting outside his hut, wrapped in a blanket...
New York. 1866. [31]pp., printed on recto only. Each page embellished with decorative border in combinations of gold and rich colors. Quarto. Original heavily gilded calf, beveled edges, expertly rebacked in cloth, a.e.g. Some minor edge wear, but exterior gilt is bright. Internally fine except for almost negligible library blindstamp.....
Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1918. Three volumes. 667; 652; 659pp. Profusely illustrated. Vol. 2 lacks pp.9-14, Vol. 3 lacks pp.411-12, and 425-26. Frontispiece in first volume. Later mottled cloth with gilt stamping on front boards, spines gilt, all edges marbled. Small chip in upper edge of Vol. 3 titlepage.....
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.
Paris: Amédée Bédelet, Libraire-Éditeur... [ 1858]. 51,[1]pp. plus twenty-three chromolithographs and in-text illustrations. Frontis. Half title. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Slight offsetting on text; illustrations clean and bright. Occasional light foxing and soiling. A lovely copy. The handsome lithographs by J. Bocquin, after drawings by Leloir and Fossey.....
New York. 1961-1999. 173 issues, each 16 to 24pp. Paper wrappers. Most issues heavily annotated by Mary A. Benjamin. Very good. An extensive archive of this magazine and dealer catalogue from the nation's oldest dealer company, begun in 1887. Most are Mary Benjamin's personal copies, with her initials and extensive.....
