Washington: Roger C. Weightman, 1814. 20pp. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Very light foxing and toning to outer leaves, else near fine, untrimmed and unopened. A summary of the arguments of the New England Mississippi Land Company to their rights in the Yazoo lands, printed for the use of the United States...
Boston: Sewell Phelps, 1819. 22pp. Gathered signatures, string-tied, as issued. String loosening. Intermittent tanning and a bit of spotting. Good. Untrimmed and partially unopened. This scarce memorial was written by a committee chaired by Daniel Webster, at the request of the inhabitants of Boston and vicinity. Written at the height...
Racine, Wi. W.D. Harney Photogravure Co., 1907. Nine parts, each bound separately and uniformly, complete with titlepage in first volume. 27pp. of text printed rectos only, and eighty-one photogravure plates. Folio. Publisher's rosewood cloth backstrip and burgundy wrappers, front covers gilt. Minor fraying to spine cloth, some wear, discoloration, mild...
[N.p., but almost certainly America. N.d., circa 1785 - 1800]. Partially handcolored engraving, 10 3/4 x 14 inches. Backed on later paper. Edges worn and a bit chipped, mostly in the lower edge. Minor separations at cross-folds; a few short, closed tears. Some old staining, later ink inscription in bottom...
Madrid: Lucas Antonio de Bedmar y Narvaez, 1701. Engraved "frontispiece," [32] leaves, 660pp., [17] leaves. Folio. 19th-century Spanish sheep ("pasta española"). Covers abraded, pinhole-type worming in spine, loss of lower inch of spine leather to insects. Text tanned (due to impurities in water during paper manufacture). Small insect damage to...
Columbia, S.C. 1878. 60pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine chipped, some gnawing to lower edge of first few leaves. Nearly very good. A rare and impressive southern nursery trade catalogue for all manner of fruits, trees, and flowers, including apples, peaches, cherries, nectarines, strawberries, and evergreens. Many exotic fruits and flowers...
Racine, Wi. W.D. Harney Photogravure Co., 1907. Nine parts, each bound separately and uniformly, complete with titlepage in first volume. 26pp. of text printed rectos only, and eighty photogravure plates. Folio. Publisher's rosewood cloth backstrip and burgundy wrappers, front covers gilt. Mild fraying to spine cloth, some wear, mild chipping...
Puebla, Mx. Imprenta del Gobierno, July 23, 1836. Letterpress broadside, approximately 16 3/4 x 12 inches. Printed in Spanish in two columns. Old folds, short closed tear in bottom margin. Small portion of left margin clipped to allow for folding into a binding, a few small stab- holes. Near fine...
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804-1807. Five volumes. xxxii,458; vii,[1],541,[2]; viii,460; vii,[1],589,[2]; vii,[1],669,[4]pp., including one in-text illustration, plus twelve folding maps and three frontispiece plates. Extra-illustrated with twelve manuscripts and over 240 plates. Quarto. 19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, raised bands. Moderate shelf wear, mostly to bottom...
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804-1807. Five volumes. xxxvi,579,[1]; viii,633,[1]; viii,572; viii,684; viii,843,[1]pp., including one in-text illustration, plus twelve folding maps. Frontispiece in three volumes (two of them folding). Contemporary tree calf, gilt spines, gilt leather labels, all edges marbled. Moderate wear to bindings, corners bumped and worn, a few.....
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[Hickman, Ky.?]. January, 1847. Broadside, 14 x 6 inches. Docketed in manuscript on verso. Early folds, mild tanning, but overall very good. This apparently unrecorded broadside describes a public meeting in Hickman, Kentucky in which a committee of five men was appointed to "memorialize" the legislature on the subject of...
[Boston]. 1863. Engraved broadside, 11 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. Minute chip at right edge (image not affected). Slight toning, one small spot of foxing. Near fine. A sharp satire of the slave trade, Jefferson Davis, and the Confederacy consisting of twelve engraved vignettes parodying the nursery rhyme, "This is...
[Macao. March 6, 1868]. [3]pp. Partially-printed forms on two leaves, completed in manuscript. First leaf 16 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches, second leaf 13 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. Old folds. Minor separations and some chipping to edges of first leaf. Minor loss along folds of second leaf costing a....
Atlanta, Ga. Hy-Beaute Chemical Co., [ca. 1950]. Photographic broadside, 19 1/4 x 25 inches. Advertising broadside printed in red and black on glossy paper. Vertical creases. Slight wear and a few small closed tears to edges (not affecting text or images). Very good. A well-preserved advertising poster for Hy-Beaute Cosmetics...
Atlanta, Ga. Hy-Beaute Chemical Co., 1949. Free-standing advertising board, 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Thick cardstock printed in red, blue, and sepia, with attached folding cardstock stand. Corners bumped, holes at corners from hanging, one scratch at upper left slightly affecting one image. Some toning and several faint water...
Atlanta: Photo by Kelly, 1939. Original photographic print, 12 x 18 1/4 inches. Black and white unmounted photograph captioned in the negative. Right and left margins trimmed; three closed tears at margins slightly affecting image. Old tape at corners, minor creasing. Good. A large photographic portrait of the twenty-two "undaunted"...
Puebla, Mx. July 10, 1836. [2]pp. on a folded folio sheet, with integral blank leaf. Text in Spanish. Old folds, old dampstain in upper outer corner of first leaf and upper edge of central vertical fold. Tear in upper outer corner of first leaf, not affecting text. Contemporary ink notation...
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[Various places, as noted below. Late 1800s - early 1900s]. Thirty-five pamphlets, six periodical issues, and one standing desk calendar. Individual details provided below. Pamphlets all in original wrappers. Several with minor toning, occasional chipping, creasing, or small tears, calendar partially perished. The majority very good to fine. The majority...
Washington, D.C. April 21, 1838. [1]p. on a quarto sheet. Old folds, minor smudging to a few words. Near fine. An elegant and humble correspondence from a potential presidential candidate regarding the current leadership situation in post- Jacksonian America. At the time he penned the current letter, Henry Clay was...
[Japan. 1853-1859]. [354]pp. including twelve full-page or double- page ink and watercolor wash illustrations. Contemporary Japanese wrappers, string-tied, paper label completed in manuscript on front cover. Noticeable wear and rubbing to the binding, newer string. Uneven worming throughout, mostly unobtrusive. About very good. Large bound collection of contemporary manuscript papers...
New York: Privately printed, 1907. 61pp. including a map and illustrations from photographs, plus folding map. Frontis. Original printed green wrappers bound into contemporary half burgundy cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Boards rubbed, spine ends chipped. Bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamps of Long Island Historical Society to titlepage...
Philadelphia: P.S. Duval, [ca. 1849]. Handcolored lithograph, 14 3/4 x 23 inches. Old four-inch repaired diagonal closed tear in upper left corner not touching image. Previously mounted with old tape and paper remnants on verso and at corners, two vertical folds, minor edge wear, and toning. Overall, very good. An...
Ayapango, Mx. 1805-1816. [1],194,[1]pp. plus leaves 195-287 numbered rectos only, ending with one unnumbered page. Folio. Contemporary limp Mexican calf wallet- style binding, manuscript titles and illustrations on covers. Noticeable wear and rubbing to covers, small paper label reading "Libro=25" affixed to front cover. Some foxing and staining to text...
London: Printed for David Henry, and sold by Francis Newbery, 1769. [2],iv,[2],496[i.e. 510, accounting for mispagination, plus four extra pages where the page numbers have been duplicated, i.e. page numbers 112-113 and 416-417 appear twice],[16]pp. including leaf of errata and advertisement "concerning this fourth edition," plus seven engraved plates (two.....
Washington. 1836-1846. Four volumes. 20th-century linen backed boards, printed label. Bindings slightly worn and faded, with occasional minor soiling. Moderate scattered foxing throughout, minor age-toning at edges. A good set, untrimmed. An important collection of accounts of the early history of the American colonies, gathered by the assiduous Peter Force...
