![SIAMESE TWINS. FOR [ ] DAY ONLY. THE UNITED BROTHERS, CHANG-ENG, VERY RESPECTFULLY ACQUAINT THE...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM54747.jpg?v=1561313788)
New York: J.M. Elliott, [ca. 1832]. Broadside, 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Woodcut illustration in upper portion, text surrounded by ornamental border. Light, even tanning, a bit lighter at the edges where covered by an earlier frame. Very good. A rare promotional broadside for Chang & Eng, the original...
New York City: National American Woman Suffrage Association, [ca. 1908]. Small broadside, approximately 10 x 7 inches. Noticeably tanned, minor edge wear, a few short repaired tears. Very good. Backed on linen. A rare handbill version of an important women's rights pamphlet written by Susan Walker FitzGerald and published by...
London. 1834. [2],viii,48,[4]pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern cloth, blank paper label affixed to front cover. Later ownership inscription to front free endpaper, modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Wrappers tanned, ink ownership name on front wrapper. Very good. A condensed version of the scarce London edition issued a year...
Boston, Ma. May 14, 1946. [2]pp. on letterhead of "Naval Department / Office of the Chief of Naval Operations." Accompanied by the mailing envelope. Quarto. Fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, leather labels. An engaging and informative letter, in which Richard Byrd describes some of his World...
Rochester, N.Y. July 22, 1900. [1]p. Likely clipped from a larger sheet of paper for display in an album, pasted to card stock along top and bottom horizontal edges, minor toning. Very good. A brief but punchy autograph note, signed by the legendary women's suffrage leader and social reformer. Susan...
London: J. Almon, 1766. [2],42,[1]pp. Dbd. Very minor foxing. Very good. In a tan half morocco and cloth folder. Erroneously attributed by some to John Dickinson, the anonymous author urges patience and understanding when considering the increasingly rebellious behavior of the American colonies in the wake of the Stamp Act...
Chicago: Kurz & Allison, 1890. Color lithograph, image size: 18 1/2 x 25 inches. Sheet size: 22 x 28 1/4 inches. Matted to an overall size of 25 x 31 inches. Some moderate chipping and edge tears, not affecting image. Reinforced with older tape along top edge. Lightly toned, though...
Baltimore: John W. Woods, Printer, 1848. 96pp. plus three wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece), one in-text illustration, and a facsimile manuscript. Modern morocco in an antique style, spine gilt, raised bands, edges tooled in gilt. Contemporary institutional gift inscription on front free endpaper. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Second...
London: Printed for H. Bonwicke [et al], 1703. Two volumes bound in one. [24],280; [2],302,[15]pp., (including advertisement leaf at the end of the second volume) plus twenty-four maps and plates (many folding), including frontispiece in second volume. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with leather label; rebacked, with original spine laid...
Cincinnati: Devol & Haines, 1887. 300pp. plus five plates (including frontispiece portrait). Original gilt pictorial blue cloth, spine gilt. Spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a bit worn, rear hinge cracked but still holding firmly. Very good. The true first edition of this classic memoir of the notorious 19th-century...
Madrid. March 27, 1651. [2]pp. Folio. Minimal edge toning, else fine. An important letter from the King of Spain, Philip IV, regarding Indian revolts on the California border in the mid-17th century. The King is also asking the Viceroy's opinion as to whether it would be advisable to place the...
![AVAKIAN SNAPS [cover title]. Armenian-American Photographica, Marion Avakian](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM54891.jpg?v=1560807416)
[Various locations in California and Texas. ca. 1940]s. 445 black-and-white photographs in mounting corners (a few photographs loosely laid in). On average measuring 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 or 4 x 6 inches, with a handful in a smaller format and a few as large as 8 x 10 inches...
![SPECTACULAR FIVE-FOOT PANORAMA OF SALT LAKE CITY IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY]. Utah Photographica](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM54686.jpg?v=1559667669)
Los Angeles: West Coast Art Company, 1910. Panoramic albumen photograph, approximately 9 x 58 inches. Professionally washed and backed, some chipping to extremities, a few instances of minor repaired damage and some abrading in the image, two tape repairs. Overall good. A rare and impressive image of Salt Lake City...
![THIRTY-FIVE ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY CHARLES WELLINGTON REED, ARTIST AND MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM52140.jpg?v=1559667668)
[Various places. ca. 1880s]. [30] leaves, 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches each, graphite on paper. Loose leaves, original stitching perished. A few minor chips, and notches from old stitching. Moderate tanning. About very good. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise. A small sketchbook containing thirty-five pencil...
Sacramento: Oyama Studio, [ca. 1930s]. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 28 1/4 inches. Minimal wear, a couple of areas of slight fading. Near fine. An extraordinary image capturing the somber mood of a Japanese-American funeral in Sacramento, Ca. in the 1930s. Dozens of attendees are ranged around and behind a decorated...
[Various California locations, including Monterey, Long Beach, San Diego, and Santa Catalina Island. ca. 1920s]. Eighty-one panoramic photographs, each approximately 3 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, and eighty- eight smaller photographs, either 6 1/2 x 4 inches or 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Oblong folio. Patterned cloth over paper...
Washington. March 20, 1827. [1]p. Previously folded, separated along horizontal center fold, with smaller separations at lower edge. Previously mounted, with strip of mounting material along upper edge. Tape repairs to lower corners. Lower three quarters tanned. Fair. A letter from the beginning of John Quincy Adams' third year in...
Portsmouth, N.H. 1843-1846. [1],118pp. including a handful of blank pages numbered in manuscript. Folio. 20th-century three-quarter crushed morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor edge wear. Internally clean. Near fine. George Washington Storer's letter book, containing manuscript copies of letters he sent while in command of the Portsmouth Navy Yard.....
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849. 585pp. plus four plates. Half title. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Damage to leather spine label. Light scattered foxing. Very good. An interesting overview of early American botany through the correspondence of John Bartram and Humphrey Marshall with such contemporaries as Peter Collinson, Franklin, Mark...
Akron, Ohio: The B.F. Goodrich Company, 1916. 112pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Tape repairs to spine, edges, and last few leaves. Text tanned. Good. A scarce travel guide for the tourist making his or her way around southern California in the early years of motoring. Includes several detailed maps of popular...
[N.p. N.d., 1907]. Unpaginated, [46]pp. Illustrated with twelve plates from photographs. Stitched. Titlepage verso with repair along spine, else very good. In a morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. Privately printed account of a Texas hunt, in late December 1906 and early January 1907, out of Houston, organized by oilman John S....
![LIFE OF GENERAL SCOTT [caption title]. Winfield Scott](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM29987.jpg?v=1558286330)
[New York. ca. 1852]. 32pp. printed in double columns, plus many illustrations. Dbd., string-tied. Faint old stain at fore- edge, else very good. Campaign biography of Winfield Scott, who ran for president as the Whig party candidate in 1852. Recounts Scott's life from birth to 1852. Scott achieved his greatest...
[Philadelphia. 1818]. Engraved map with full period hand-coloring, dissected into forty sections and backed on linen, as issued. Inset of the West Indies, statistical table. Sheet size: 36 3/8 x 58 1/4 inches. Very good. In a blue morocco box, spine gilt. This very rare issue of the first large-scale...
[N.p. but Arden, N.Y.]: Privately printed, [1938]. 74pp. plus tipped-in folding map of British Columbia. Illustrated with photographs. Original blue cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded. Near fine. Inscribed on the front flyleaf: "For Jane from GFH." A detailed account of a hunting trip to the Sikanni and Opskia rivers in.....
Honolulu. 1860. [4],48,8,49-96pp. Quarto. Dbd. Mild foxing and toning. About very good. A year-long run of this important periodical, comprised of Volume 17, issues 1-12 (January- December, 1860). This copy with an eight- page supplement bound in after issue No. 6 (June). THE FRIEND is a gold mine of information...
