[Santa Rosa and San Francisco, Ca. ca. 1907-1915. [43]pp., in a ruled notebook, plus two small photographs. 12mo. Limp black textured split-grain leather, a.e.g. Covers well-worn, with some loss to extremities, binding still strong. Internally near fine. Very good overall. This is the diary of Clara Van Wormer, a young.....

Mandan, Dakota Territory: Z. Gilbert, [ca. 1880s]. Albumen photograph, 5 1/4 x 4 inches, mounted on printed card, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Card edges gilt, signature and location on recto printed in gold. Caption label affixed to verso. Minor dust soiling. Near fine. In an archival sleeve. A.....

Boston: Reprinted: Sold by Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill, 1715. Testimonial leaf, title-leaf, 116pp. 12mo. Original calf covered birch boards, boards ruled in blind. Hinges cracked, boards rubbed, spine extremities bumped. Waste paper pastedowns, free endpapers excised. Later ownership inscriptions on initial and final blanks.....

San Francisco. 1851. Lithographed map, 24 x 19 inches. Old fold lines, moderate chipping and wear at the edges. Some light soiling and foxing, several very minor losses at folds. Good. An important map of southern Oregon and northern California, described by Thomas Streeter as "one of the first, if.....

New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1914. Thirteen volumes. Half titles, all but the last two volumes with two titles per volume (one title in each of these volumes printed in red and black). 452 plates including one tinted lithograph, two lithographs printed in.....

Paris: Au Bureau des Antiquités Mexicaine, Imprimerie de Jules Didot L'aine, 1834. Two text volumes plus atlas volume. Text: [4],xiv,[2],20,56,40,88; 82,224,[4]pp., printed in double columns in first volume. Atlas: [23]pp. (interspersed throughout as section titles), plus 167 plates (one double- page) on 162 leaves, with many plates containing more than.....

[Beaumont & Houston, Tx.; Johnsonburg, Pa.; Plainfield, Ct.; Salamanca, N.Y. ca. 1925-27]. Eighty-seven photographs and photo postcards (all but eleven corner mounted), ranging in size from 2 3/4 x 2 inches to 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, plus two pieces of ephemera and two typescript lists. Quarto. Limp pebbled.....

New York. September 28, 1775. Broadside, approximately 9 x 8 inches. Marginal chips and tears, adhesive residue on blank verso. Light tanning. Good. In a half morocco box. An extremely rare revolutionary-era New York broadside, promulgated by the Friends to Liberty in September 1775, encouraging electors to reject sitting pro-British.....

Mexico: Impreso por Ignacio Cumplido, 1837. 98pp. Original printed tan wrappers. Light soiling, minor toning, and slight edge wear to wrappers. Text a bit toned, but clean. Very good plus. "This is a hasty review of the history of Texas to after San Jacinto, written with considerable venom by Tornel.....

Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1848/1849/1850. Three volumes. 120 handcolored lithographed plates, many heightened with gum arabic, by J.T. Bowen chiefly after Charles Bird King, one handcolored lithographed dedication leaf "To the memory of Washington." Original three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, a.e.g. Extremities lightly worn, corners worn, spines rubbed.....

Chicago: Hemlandet's Print, 1876. 32pp. Text in Swedish. Original printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, light soiling to wrappers. Ink stamps of the Historical Society of Montreal on titlepage and lower margin of last page. Overall very good. A rare Iowa promotional pamphlet imploring emigrants to take advantage of newly-opened lands.....

Puebla, Mexico. August 16, 1854. Letterpress broadside, 24 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches, printed in parallel Spanish and English. Minor chipping with loss of all or part of about a dozen words along central fold lines, with expert repairs to verso. Minor chipping in left margin. Withal, a very good.....

[Various locations, including Philadelphia, New York, Salem, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and others. 1861-1865]. 119 unused postal covers, all but one of them illustrated, almost all printed in color or hand-colored. Generally minimal wear. Ranging from very good to near fine condition. An interesting and substantial grouping of Civil War-era patriotic covers.....