Salem, Oh. Homestead Print, [ca. 1850]. Broadside, 16 x 10 3/4 inches. A few short closed edge tears, light toning and foxing. Very good plus. A rare and striking abolitionist broadside from Salem, Ohio, the seat of the Western Anti-Slavery Society, and a small but important center of progressive movements... More

Chambersburg, Pa. Thursday, Dec. 6, 1827. Large folio broadside, 15 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches, printed in six- column format. Folded, wear at folds with some slight loss of text, foxed, a couple stains. A serviceable copy. Prints the President's Message to the Senate and House of Dec. 4, 1827... More

Detroit. 1952. Broadside, 14 x 11 inches. Minor dust-soiling, rubbing, and toning. Very good. A delightful pictorial broadside advertising a Methodist church concert in Detroit on Sep. 12, 1952. Photographs include portraits of the choir director, Marvin Dupre, the narrator, Rev. Poole, and twenty-seven members of the co-ed Dupre Victorian... More

[Np, but possibly St. Louis? ca. 1872]. Broadside, 10 1/2 x 8 inches. Single horizontal crease, flattened. Near fine. Broadside promoting the agricultural production of hemp for the use of making sails and rope for the Navy. Marsh cites importation statistics from 1871, noting that over $4,000,000 in hemp was... More

[New York or Philadelphia? n.d., ca. 1830]. Broadside, 9 x 8 inches. Old folds, a few small edge tears, light soiling and foxing. Good plus. An early decorative American broadside providing directions for "Grecian painting", describing ways to color engravings. Printed in two columns, the text includes a supply list... More

[Boston: Benjamin Edes, ca. Jan. 28, 1777]. Broadside, 13 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Expertly repaired separation along upper horizontal fold, short fold separation to left side of middle horizontal fold, moderate marginal dampstaining. About very good. Untrimmed, docketed on verso. A rare recruitment broadside attempting to entice Massachusetts recruits... More

[Holland. ca. 1780]. Broadside, 12 x 13 inches (image size approximately 10 x 11 inches). Early vertical and horizontal folds, else near fine. Matted. Title from George and Stephens, who list a captioned variant; the present engraving is not captioned. A fabulous Dutch satirical cartoon engraving depicting an embattled England... More

[N.p. n.d., likely 20th century]. Single large sheet of textured rag paper, 36 x 25 inches. Mild edge wear and light wrinkling. Very good. A striking gravestone rubbing of the original slate headstone of William French, one of two young colonists killed by British troops in Westminster, Vt. on March... More

[Buenos Aires: Imprenta de los Expositos, July 14, 1820]. Broadside. 11 1/2 x 7 inches. Dbd. Trimmed close at top without loss of text, minor worming, more particularly towards lower foredge with loss of approximately four words. Very good. "Bando" or proclamation printing of this Argentine broadside which reiterates Dorrego's... More

[Buenos Aires. March 30, 1815]. Broadsheet, 12 x 7 1/2 inches. Trimmed close, occasionally affecting text. Old library stamp on recto and verso. Overall quite clean. Very good. A lengthy broadsheet description of the activities of Banda Oriental liberator Don José Artigas, and the tenuous hold of the independence fighters... More

Buenos Aires. 1814. Folio broadsheet, 12 x 7 1/2 inches. Red crayon numerical inscription in upper margin. Some chipping at edges not affecting text, foxed. Good. An early piece of Buenos Aires printing. In 1814 troops from Argentina, attempting to unite Uruguay and Rio Plata with Argentina, invaded and seized... More

[Mexico City. Oct. 18, 1830]. Folio broadside, 8 x 12.5 inches. Slight edge wear, faint browning. Very good. An early printing of this important Mexican government decree, dividing the former state of Sonora y Sinaloa into separate states of Sonora and Sinaloa. At this point, the new state of Sonora... More

[ Philadelphia?]. 1869. Large folio broadside, 25 x 17 1/2 inches, printed in eight- column format. Archivally matted, protected with mylar sheet. Minor staining and creasing. Heavy tape residue marks in several places across width of broadside, affecting text. Pencil annotations, slight wear to extremities. A good copy. Listing a.... More