Providence, R.I.; Boston, Ma.; and Saratoga Springs, N.Y. 1825-1864. Thirty-eight autograph letters, signed, many docketed on verso, a few retaining wax seals; three documents; thirty-nine pieces of ephemera, including receipts and insurance certificates. Plus a 28pp. pamphlet. Old folds, occasional small closed tears, a few tears related to rough openings.....

Austin, Tx. W. Thomas Taylor, [ 1993]. xvii,[3],213,[3]pp. including illustrations (most in color). Quarto. Original half green cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Fine. In a cloth clamshell box. The deluxe edition, limited to 225 copies, of Ron Tyler's excellent account of the conception, production, and distribution of the "petit.....

New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. [4],xliv,[4],64,[2],[65]-82,[2],[83]- 92,[2],[93]-115,[2]pp. Half title. Original green cloth, ruled in blind, spine gilt. Moderate rubbing. Clean internally. Very good. An uncommon and important collection of slave songs published in the aftermath of the Civil War. The text brings together 136 slave songs, dividing them.....

[Various locations in the Pacific Northwest and Foochow, China. ca. 1895 to the 1920s]. 195 photographs, 3 x 4 inches or smaller, of varying formats including silver gelatin prints and cyanotypes. Narrow oblong quarto photo album. Contemporary black textured cloth. Minor edge wear, soiling, and rubbing. Occasional minor soiling to.....

[Various locations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California. ca. 1910-1915]. Eighty-one mounted silver gelatin prints, fifty-two of which measure 8 x 10 inches, the remainder slightly smaller, several with original manuscript annotations. Plus six pages of typed documents, signed. Oblong quarto photograph album. Flexible textured cloth. Minor wear to album.....

Pittsburgh: Allied Printing Trades Council for the National Miners Relief Committee, [ca. 1928]. Letterpress poster, printed in red and black, 25 x 19 inches, illustrated with two halftone photographs. Edges a bit frayed, a few short closed edge tears. Overall very good. Matted. A rare and striking (in more ways.....

Iowa City: Printed by Abraham H. Palmer, 1846. 120pp. Original printed pink wrappers. Minor edge wear and soiling to wrappers, corners creased. Minor scattered foxing. Contemporary ink ownership signature of John Ronalds and pencil note on front wrapper (see below). Very good. A rare printing of the constitution by which.....

Salinas, Ca. Green Studio, 1926. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph, 8 x 44 inches. Captioned in the negative in Japanese. Minor bumping, creasing, and some spotting along the right edge including a short closed repaired tear, a few creases, a tiny hole in the grass portion of the image area, light.....

Riverton, Wy. Press of Riverton News, [ca. 1907]. 16pp. Illustrations and map. Original self-wrappers, stapled. Soft center vertical fold throughout, minor foxing. Small tear in lower edge of final leaf, and with a small ink stamp written over in black marker on rear wrapper. Overall, very good. A rare land.....

Boston: Russell & Gardner, 1820. 24pp. Dbd. Moderate staining, ink ownership inscription of J.B. Dearborn on titlepage, even toning. About very good. A number of printings and editions of this popular pamphlet were issued the same year as the first; McDade lists this printing first, as does American Imprints. "Even.....

[Oaxaca. December 17, 1861]. 10pp. Later plain white wrappers. Minor foxing, a few small wormholes in text just touching some letters, one wormhole in lower margin not affecting text. Overall very good. An unrecorded Mexican imprint containing the rules for the Mexican National Guard, issued the same day that the.....

Paris: Éditions du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle [wrapper imprint], 1958. 322pp. plus 36 plates in sequence with captions in glassine interleaves. Small folio (32.5 x 25 cm). Tan cloth, gilt lettered spine label, original wrapper bound in. Illustrations in text (including colored illustrations), color frontis. Folding table. Cloth a trifle.....

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, [1763]. xxxi,[1 errata],268pp. Octavo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Old divinity school stamp on title, minor foxing, but a very good copy, very neatly bound. First edition. The pseudonymously published prelude to Tucker's magnum opus, THE LIGHT OF.....