[Nashville. 1860]. Small printed form, approximately 8 1/4 x 5 1/4. Encased, previously folded. Small area of loss along fold, slightly affecting text. Light tanning. A printed invitation to a meeting of the Tennessee Agricultural Bureau, set to take place on September 10, 1860. Attendance is "earnestly requested."
[Knoxville? 1857]. Broadside, approximately 17 x 8 inches, printed in two columns. Previously folded. A couple of short separations along old folds, several slight chips and closed tears at edges. Several scattered fox marks. About very good. The only known copy of a campaign broadside circulated by James W. Newman...
![ANDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS, WANTED NOTICE FOR BURGLAR C.H. CROWSON, WITH AFFIXED PHOTOGRAPH]. Texas](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM52766.jpg?v=1491406165)
Palestine, Tx. [ca. 1909]. Printed form, 5 x 8 inches, plus 1 x 1-inch photograph. Two old vertical folds, left edge tanned, lower right corner chipped. Photograph fine, but somewhat crudely affixed. About very good. A "Wanted" notice from the City Marshal of Palestine, Texas, offering a fifty dollar reward...
![GALVESTON BAY & TEXAS LAND COMPANY. No. [803]. 4428 402/1000 ACRES. THIS CERTIFIES, THAT THE...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM52782.jpg?v=1523627473)
[New York. 1830]. Printed broadside, approximately 12 1/2 x 8 inches, completed in manuscript. Previously folded, with slight wrinkling near fold lines. Light dust soiling at edges. Printed on light paper. Very good. A handsome and most important Texas stock certificate of the colonial era, one of only a few...
London: Hughes, [nd, likely ca. 1800]. Broadside, 10 x 7 inches. Printed on blue tinted paper, mounted onto a large later sheet. Near fine. Expertly matted, and protected with mylar sheet. An engaging broadside for a theatre performance centered around a drama called "The Africans." The scenery for the play...
Omaha. [1898]. Broadside advertisement, approximately 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. Previously folded, some separations along old fold lines. Tanned, corners slightly chipped. Good. A curious survival from the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition held in Omaha, promoting the sale of Mongolian jade carvings at a booth in the International Hall of...
London. 1901. Broadside, 81 x 51 cm. Old creases, with almost negligible tears at some folds, light foxing in upper left corner, else very good. A royal proclamation, with the handsome arms of Great Britain at the top, making Groats or Fourpences legal tender in Trinidad and Tobago. Ends with...
Boston; Independence, Mo. 1959. [3]pp. plus typed card. Loose sheets, previously folded. Slight wear and tanning. Very good. Two typed letters, signed, by former President Harry Truman regarding a 1959 dinner for Matthew Connelly. The event, at a subscription cost of $100, was held to defray the legal expenses incurred...
Philadelphia: Printed for the Society, 1834. 63,[1]pp. Original plain blue wrappers. Very minor chipping on spine, lightly edgeworn, mild darkening of foredges. Internally clean and bright. Very good. Job Roberts Tyson, a Philadelphia-born teacher, lawyer, and writer, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1855 to 1857 as a....
![A BILL AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL ARMOURY [caption title]. United States Congress](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM51596.jpg?v=1488345382)
[Washington. December 2, 1818]. Broadsheet, 12 x 7 1/4 inches. A few minor chips, several stabholes along the left margin, tanned. Good. A "slip bill" printing of an 1818 act directing the President "to select and locate a position suitable for a national armoury, on the western waters, for the...
New York. Dec. 28, 1809. 22pp. Dbd. Lightly edgeworn, else bright and crisp. Very good. Extracts from a U.S. Military Philosophical Society meeting in 1806. Founded at West Point in 1802, in the same year of the Military Academy's establishment, the Society reflected a growing American nationalism following the Revolution...
Puebla. May 31, 1869. Broadside, 17 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches, printed in Spanish and English in double-column format. Small portion (about 2 x 2 inches) torn out of upper margin affecting title line words "Gobernador Constitucional." Dampstaining. Tanned. Overall just about good. This Mexican broadside prints the text of...
Philadelphia. 1840. 24pp. Gathered signatures. A trifle worn, light vertical fold. Very good, untrimmed and largely unopened. The first twenty pages, each printed in four columns, list the names of the Democratic citizens of the city and county of Philadelphia called to meet at Independence Square to adopt measures to...
[San Francisco. 1856]. Printed form, unused, 9 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Allegorical engravings of "Liberty" and "Eye." Some minor dust soiling, else very good. The Vigilance Committee was an extra-legal organization which evolved in California in the mid-1850s with the goal of ending the lawlessness then rampant. This is...
Boston: T. and J. Fleet, 1765. [4]pp., printed a folded sheet, plus an envelope with contemporary manuscript description. Folio. Folded, and separated horizontally, with several other chips along fold lines, somewhat affecting text. Some browning and foxing. About good. Untrimmed. THE BOSTON EVENING-POST was a weekly newspaper originally published by...
![LATE 19th-CENTURY RESTRIKE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BOOKPLATE]. George Washington](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM50166.jpg?v=1488345340)
[N.p. ca. 1870]. Bookplate, 4 1/2 x 3 inches. On heavy stock. Light soiling and foxing. About very good. A later restrike of the armorial bookplate of President George Washington, bearing the Latin motto, "Exitus acta probat" (roughly, "the outcome proves").
![LATER RESTRIKE OF A PRINTED INVITATION FOR DINNER AT THE PRESIDENT'S TABLE]. George Washington](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM50232.jpg?v=1488345342)
[N.p. late 1800s]. 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. Printed on heavy card. Lightly soiled. Good plus. Later restrike of an engraved invitation to dine with President and Mrs. Washington, with blanks left to be completed in manuscript. It reads: "The President of the United States and Mrs. Washington, request...
Pittsburgh, Pa. 1848. 16pp. Printed self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Small pinholes in upper margin, not affecting text, slightly edgeworn, mild tanning. Very good. An interesting 19th-century catalogue issued by S. N. Wickersham's Seed Store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wickersham's catalogue, for farmers and gardeners alike, provides planting and maintenance instructions for...
New York. 1928. 31,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers edgeworn and chipped, with a few small closed tears. Tanned, and printed on poor paper. Good. This installment of the popular series finds the heroes facing peril in the North Pole, including a strange magnetic mountain and a tumble down a crevasse...
Milwaukee: Cramer, Aikens & Cramer, [ca. 1907]. 31pp. plus seven plates and folding view. 16mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Light chipping to spine. Minor soiling internally. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folder, spine gilt. Promotional booklet for the Wisconsin Central Line, advertising service to the resort town of...
[N.p., but possibly Massachusetts. n.d., but ca. 1810-1820]. Broadside, 7 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Old folds. Separated at center fold, minor soiling. Contemporary manuscript notations. Else about very good. A recipe for removing the grease or lanolin from wool, with contemporary notations amending the recipe. The recipe reads, in...
![EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF BROTHERS OF UNITY, MARCH 31st, 1836 [caption title]. Yale University](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM46527.jpg?v=1505320222)
[New Haven. 1836]. Broadside, 18 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Old folds, some light dampstaining at edges, a few small tears. Light wear and wrinkling. Good. Broadside advertising a theatrical exhibition put on by the Society of Brothers in Unity, a debating society at Yale University, established in 1768. The...
[London]. Aug. 8, 1817. Broadside, 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Printed in two columns. Old fold lines. Minor scattered foxing and soiling. Very good. A lengthy broadside advertising and describing an exhibition of four American elk, or wapiti, which are to be sold for the purpose of introducing the...
