Denver: Daily Times Steam Printing House and Blank Book Manufactory, 1880. [2],197,[11]pp. Modern three-quarter orange morocco and cloth, spine gilt with raised bands. Photostat of original front wrapper bound in at front. Ex-Denver Public Library, with ink stamp and identification numbers on verso of titlepage; a previous inked identification mark.....
New-York: T. Kinnersley, 1825. 18,[2],19-22pp., including three full-page plates. Modern patterned leather. Light tanning, a few scattered stains. Very good plus. An exceedingly rare prospectus for a high-concept geographical garden and seminary complex, to be built in the heart of New York City. As exhaustively detailed on the titlepage, this.....
Estancia, N.M. News Print Shop, [1908]. 50pp. 12mo. Original textured red wrappers printed in gilt. Wrappers a bit rubbed, chipped at spine ends. Upper right corner of first few leaves with very slight wear. Very good. The first edition of this rare little classic of the open range, the first.....
London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1832. 44pp. Original printed brown wrappers, stitched. Wrappers a bit creased and worn. Occasional minor foxing and creasing throughout. Very good plus. Untrimmed. The first separate printing of this passionate and oft-republished argument against slavery in the British colonies. The author, Charles Stuart, was actually born.....
Londres. 1784. [4],xiv,320,viii pp. Half title. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, leather labels stamped in gilt. Half title stained at gutter, scattered light foxing heavier to last few leaves. Very good overall. An account of the tribulations experienced by a French Protestant in Canada at the hands.....
London: J. Almon, 1766. 86pp. plus 2pp. of advertisements. Half title. Modern plain blue wrappers, paper label. Moderate age-toning, else internally clean. Very good. Argues the questions of England's right to tax its dependencies, and addresses the issue of the Stamp Act with reference to America. Attributed to one Mr.....
London. 1586-1603. Circular wax and resin medallion, 5 3/4 inches (14.61 cm) in diameter, cast from a matrix created by Nicholas Hilliard. Wax browned, rubbed along the edges. Harp of Ireland on the verso obscured by contemporary manipulation of the wax. Ends of a parchment tag protruding from opposite sides.....
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[New York. ca. 1860]. 15pp. plus eleven color views, 3¾ x 6½ inches, one folding, with an extra eleven views, 3¾ x 5½ inches. 12mo. Stitched pamphlet and loose in cards in an open-ended cardboard sleeve with printed label. Closed end of cardboard sleeve loose, small 20th-century bookplate. Lacks one.....
Louisville. 1926. cxxxix,172pp. Original green cloth. Light shelf wear, minor spotting. Very good. Published by the Filson Club. The text also includes a very long introduction by Temple Bodley. Littell was an early Kentucky resident and lawyer who was almost single-handedly responsible for compiling and publishing the legal history of.....
Waukegan, Il. Published by E.G. Howe, 1852. 112pp. plus errata leaf and folding frontispiece view of Waukegan. 16mo. Original printed yellow wrappers. Light soiling, minor scattered foxing and staining. Graff bookplate on inside front wrapper. Very good. The Graff copy of the rare first edition of the earliest history of.....
London. 1779. [4],50,[1]pp. Half title. Dbd. Light tanning to edges. Near fine. Galloway, a leading Loyalist, criticizes the actions of Admiral Viscount Richard Howe, brother of Gen. William Howe, during the American Revolution. In 1780-81, Galloway printed a series of eight letters which appeared in the LONDON CHRONICLE, signed "Cicero,".....
Reading, Pa. Gedruckt für den Verfasser, 1820. 100pp. Contemporary half calf and patterned paper boards. Boards worn and scuffed, heavily at corners, spine rubbed, ends lightly chipped. Light foxing and staining. Very good. A legendary work of Pennsylvania German folk magic and remedies, in its exceedingly rare first edition. This.....
New Orleans: Published by Rev. W. Stuart, 1848. [5]-31pp. plus four full-page plates Titlepage vignette. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. A bit of light spotting. Very good. A rare account of robbery, murder, and patricide, printed in Louisiana. Copyrighted by E.E. Barclay in Ohio, this (possibly) fictional.....
London: T. Cadell, 1777. 16pp. including half title. Quarto. Dbd. Light scattered foxing, minor marginal damage at gutter where disbound. Very good. A firmly anti-American sermon delivered by Richard Hurd, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, on a day of general fasting and prayer appointed by George III at the end.....
Paris: Chez Ballière, Libraire, 1852. 22pp. Later paper wrappers. Light tanning and foxing. Very good plus. A scarce, lesser-known work by the celebrated French botanist and North American traveller, François-André Michaux. Michaux (1770-1855) journeyed extensively in America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, first with his father on.....
[South Carolina? ca. 1940]. Poster printed in red, black, and green on thick card stock, 28 x 22 inches (71 x 56 cm). Somewhat tanned and soiled, horizontal crease at upper third. Good plus. Rare poster for the popular and well- travelled magician Ellen E. Armstrong (1914- 79), the first.....
New York: Lewis P. Clover, 1836. Aquatint with additional handcoloring, 19¾ x 27 inches (50½ x 68¾ cm). Small repaired marginal tears, just touching black border on top and bottom. Overall a very good, bright and clean copy. A scarce and dramatic aquatint view of New York in the midst.....
New York: Lewis P. Clover, 1836. Aquatint with additional handcoloring and black border, 19½ x 26¼ inches (49½ x 66½ cm). Repaired tears to upper and lower margins, just touching the black borders. Otherwise a bright and clean copy. Matted. A striking aquatint view of New York in ruins after.....
Richmond. January 1864. [1]; [4]; [1]pp., printed on two folio leaves, stitched together. Evenly tanned, light foxing. Small square of final leaf excised without loss. Addressed in manuscript on final blank to the Clerk of the County Court of Botetourt, Fincastle, Va. Very good. A unique set of apparently unrecorded.....
Hop Bottom, Pa. May 3, 1815. [2]pp. autograph letter, signed, on a folded folio sheet, addressed for mailing on the fourth page and with “paid 18¾” crossed out and replaced with “paid 15” in the address panel. Old folds. Small holes at a few cross- folds. Very good plus. A.....
San Francisco: Taber Photo. [ca. 1885]. Two albumen prints, each approximately 7¾ x 9½ inches and mounted on card stock 11½ x 14 inches. Images a bit faded. Mounts lightly soiled and wavy. Upper left corner of mount of second image with a small chip. Overall very good. Two photographs.....
Fort Chiles, Indian Territory, and “Upper California.”: May 24, 1849 & November 10, 1849. Two autograph letters, signed, [5]pp. total; plus [2]pp. fragment of a third letter, dated April 5, 1857, at San Francisco. Old folds. Scattered staining and soiling (heavier to second letter). Still very good. A pair of.....
New York: H.R. Robinson, 1836. Lithographic print, 14¼ x 20 ¾ inches (36½ x 52¾ cm). Tanned and lightly foxed. Small closed tears in the margins, some repaired with tape on verso, one slightly longer tear just into the right edge of image. About very good. A rare political print.....
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New York: H.R. Robinson, [1846]. Lithographic print, 11 x 17 inches (28 x 43 cm). Mounted to card stock. Ex-Library of Congress Prints Division, with their small ink stamp and pencil note reading “Dup” on the verso; small red ink stamp at bottom edge of recto reading “Microfilmed.” Near fine.....
New York: H.R. Robinson, 1837. Lithographic print, 12¾ x 18 inches. Light foxing and soiling, slightly tanned. Very good. A very scarce political print from the first dedicated political caricaturist in the United States, Edward Williams Clay. MAJOR JOE BUNKER'S LAST PARADE was printed hot on the heels of the.....
