San Francisco. 1891. 63pp. Illus. Original green printed wrappers, detached and split at spine. Edges chipped. Internally clean and nice. Discreet cancelled library booklabel tipped inside back wrapper. Overall good. Extensive promotional work for Alaska tourism, issued before the Gold Rush. Describes the resources, agriculture potential and natural beauty of...
Boston: Printed and sold by Mills and Hicks, at their Printing- Office in School-Street, next door to Cromwell's-Head, [1774]. 108pp. Pages 31 and 74 misnumbered 13 and 47 respectively. 12mo. Contemporary marbled paper on paper wrapper. Wrappers worn, portions of marbled paper lacking on front wrapper, portions of spine lacking...
Boston. Printed and Sold by R. and S. Draper... [1764]. [24]pp. Dbd., stitched. Contemporary notation on one leaf. Light toning and soiling. Very good. The first almanac made following Dr. Nathaniel Ames' death. This almanac was completed by his son, Nathaniel, who continued writing the almanac until the Revolutionary War...
[St. Louis. nd, ca. 1893]. 30pp. Original printed wrappers. Some light dampstaining in margins. Still very good. This promotional tract for the southern states was issued by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company. Sets forth the agricultural, mineral, manufacturing and commercial advantages of the region, but with...
[N.p. 1828]. 8pp. Folded half sheet. Some foxing. A very good, unsophisticated copy. Untrimmed and unopened. A scarce anti-Jackson pamphlet from the 1828 presidential campaign. According to the preface, the author, Dr. James L. Armstrong, is, "A gentleman of irreproachable character in the State of Tennessee, near the place where...
New York. 1849. [4]pp. Minor creasing to edges. Near fine. Promoting "the taste for the Fine Arts", this small pamphlet outlines the General Plan of the International Art-Union. In exchange for an annual fee of five dollars, the subscriber received an engraving equal to the value of the subscription as...
Philadelphia. 1852. [4]pp. Single folded quarto sheet. Illustrated. Small chip to top margin, a few marginal stabholes, soft creasing. Very good. A rare promotional work advertising a new engraving by Alfred Jones, after Rothermel's famous painting, commemorating Patrick Henry's famous "If this be treason, make the most of it..." speech...
[New York: William H. Coyler, 1836]. [29]-56pp. Lacking initial twenty-eight pages. Antique-style half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Good plus. The second half of an important pamphlet that was instrumental in bringing detailed information about the Texas Revolution to the United States, containing the second printing of Stephen F....
![PRINTED CERTIFICATE, SIGNED BY JOHN BARRY, ENTITLING THE BEARER TO PRIZE MONEY]. John Barry](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM50246.jpg?v=1488345342)
[N.p. ca. 1780]. [1]p., 3 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Minor wear and soiling. Very good. Printed certificate signed by Capt. John Barry, captain of the first ship in the Continental Navy. The document reads: "I do hereby certify, That the Bearer, [blank] late [blank] on board the [blank] under...
[New Haven]: Price, Lee & Co., [n.d., but ca. 1890]. Broadside, 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Matted and framed under plexiglass, 15 x 12 inches. Quarto. Old folds, a few minor chips along folds (just affecting a few letters), moderate browning, moderate dampstain at bottom. A good copy, in...
![A SECOND VINDICATION OF GOD'S SOVEREIGN FREE GRACE INDEED.... [bound with:] AN ATTEMPT TO PROVE...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM51755.jpg?v=1561997043)
Boston: Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-street, 1748. 82; 23,[1]pp. Half titles. Later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Hinges and spine rubbed, light edge and corner wear. First half title somewhat soiled and with ownership inscription, minor paper loss to several leaves not affecting text, light dampstaining...
![BILLY PATTISON [caption title]. Black Minstrel Song Sheet](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM23859.jpg?v=1540915892)
London: H. Disley, [nd. but ca. 1850]. Single sheet, about 4 x 10 inches. Some slight marginal dustiness. Else very good. British song sheet with Black minstrel theme and song. With woodcut vignette of a Black man with pipe. "Oh, white folks listen unto me, / Oh, Billy Pattison, /...
![THE BOATMAN OF THE OHIO [caption title]. Black Minstrel Song Sheet](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM23860.jpg?v=1540915892)
London: H. Such, Printed and Publisher, [nd, but ca. 1850]. Single sheet, about 4 x 9 1/2 inches. Overall condtion is very good. Rather incongruous woodcut vignette of a Chinese man with pagoda and ship in the background. British song sheet with black minstrel song: "A Boatman leads a fearful...
![HAPPY ARE WE US NIGGERS SO GAY [caption title]. Black Minstrel Song Sheet](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM23822.jpg?v=1540915891)
[Np. n.d. but ca. 1850]. Single sheet, 10 x 3 1/2 inches. Woodcut vignette. Some very minor edge nicks. Very good. British black minstrel song sheet with small vignette of two smoking West India slaves, with a ship in background. "Happy are we us Niggers so gay / We'll laugh...
![I'M OFF TO CHARLESTOWN [caption title]. Black Minstrel Song Sheet](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM23825.jpg?v=1540915892)
[Np]: Disley, Printer:, [ca. 1850]. Single sheet, about 10 x 3 1/2 inches. Some slight edge dustiness. Else very good. British song sheet with black minstrel-style song: "My massa and my missus have both gone away, / Gone to the sulphur springs the summer months to stay; / And while...
![I'M OFF TO CHARLESTOWN [caption title]. Black Minstrel Song Sheet](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM23826.jpg?v=1540915892)
[Np. nd. but ca. 1850]. Single sheet, about 9 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Some slight edge wrinkles and dustiness. Else quite good. Black minstrel song sheet printed in England, with a charming woodcut vignette of a white man smoking a pipe riding a mule: "My massa and my missus...
![MASSA'S IN DE COLD GROUND [caption title]. Black Minstrel Song Sheet](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM23824.jpg?v=1540915892)
[Np]: W.S. Fortey, [ca. 1850]. Single sheet, about 9 x 3 1/2 inches. Beehive woodcut vignette. Some slight edge dustiness. Else very good. British song sheet with black minstrel-style song. Chorus: "Down in de corn fields. / Here dat mournful sound, / All de darkies am a weeping, / Massa's in de cold, cold ground."
![MISS LUCY LONG [caption title]. Black Minstrel Song Sheet](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM23828.jpg?v=1540915892)
Birmingham: Printed and Sold by T. Watts, [nd. but ca. 1850]. Single sheet, about 10 x 3 1/2 inches. Some slight edge wrinkles and dustiness. Overall quite good. Minstrel song sheet printed in England, with a charming woodcut vignette of a street peddlar surrounded by several children: "Since you wish...
New York. 1970. [8]pp. Folio. Previously folded. Tanned. About very good. An informational newspaper published by the Committee to Defend the Panther 21 that broadly states the goals of the Black Panther movement, and prints a long letter on the unfairness of the charges against the Panthers, addressed to the...
[Chelten, Hills, Pa. 1864]. Single sheet, 4 1/4 x 7 inches. Clean and very good. A blank printed pass for visitors to Camp William Penn, a camp of Black soliders during the Civil War.
![BOLETIN N. 1º COCHABAMBA, DBRE. 28 DE 1887 [caption title]. Bolivia](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM51532.jpg?v=1488345378)
[Cochabamba. 1887]. Broadside, 8 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Several minor edge tears, some weakness along fold lines, otherwise very good. An amusing late-19th century political leaflet from the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, in which the writers accuse their liberal opponents of being sore electoral losers and of raving "like...
![PROCLAMA. EL CONGRESO A LA NACION, ¡BOLIVIANOS! [caption title]. Bolivia](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM51534.jpg?v=1488345379)
[Chuquisaca. 1837]. Broadside, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Several chips and tears, one two-inch tear at lower right edge. Light foxing and tanning. About good. Nationalist broadside issued by the Bolivian congress in 1837, addressed to the people and exhorting them to have faith in the strength of the...
Sucre: Tipografia de la Libertad, September 23, 1887. Broadsheet, [2]pp., 12 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Several chips, small tears, and moderate tanning at edges. Top two corners torn away, and two further top edge tape repairs, not affecting text. Several tears along fold lines. About good. A Bolivian broadside...
![PROCLAMA EL PRESIDENTE PROVISORIO ALA NACION [caption title]. Bolivia, José Miguel de...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM51533.jpg?v=1488345378)
[Chuquiasca. 1839]. Broadsheet, [2]pp., 12 3/4 x 8 inches. 2 1/4 inch tear at lower right edge, minor soiling and tanning. Good. A short address to the Bolivian people by newly elected president José Miguel de Velasco in 1839, denouncing the previous ten years of dictatorship under Andrés de Santa...
Boston. May 1853. 32pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Foxing and dampstaining to titlepage, lower outer corner of textblock dampstained throughout, affecting small portion of text, else just about very good. A catalogue of law and miscellaneous books offered by Little, Brown & Co., the leading American law book publisher through the...
