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...
Washington: National Intelligencer, 1825. Broadside, 23 x 19 inches. Several hundred lines of text printed in five-column format. Minor creasing, occasional foxing. Very good. An impressive copy of a rare piece. Expertly matted, and protected with a mylar sheet. Adams' first State of the Union address. Before becoming president, Adams...
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...
Washington, D.C. Dec. 4, 1827. Broadside, 19 x 24 inches. Minor edge wear, light scattered foxing. Some small perforations along fold, a few small holes, affecting lettering in sub-headline and text block. Overall good. Expertly matted, and protected with a mylar sheet. A broadside printing of John Quincy Adams' message...
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...
Toldeo, Oh. Nov. 8, 1913. Broadside, 11 x 5 1/2 inches. Contemporary processing stamps from the Toldeo Police Department, very faint staining, light original horizontal folds. Very good. A fascinating wanted poster for a 30 year-old African- American man named "John Sefears, alias John Leworth, alias Joseph Brown, alias 'Poor...
[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...
Nottingham, England: Stafford & Co., [nd, but ca. 1880s]. Large color woodblock poster, approximately 27 x 37 inches. Clean and bright. Overall condition is excellent. Archivally matted, protected with mylar sheet. A large woodblock poster, printed in color, boldly announcing Chase & Bachelder's American Art Museum in England. The lower...
[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...
[Woodbury, Ct. 1858]. Printed broadside, 18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Old folds, some foxing and toning, mild staining, a few short fold separations. About very good. A striking broadside advertising an Independence Day celebration in Woodbury, Ct. in 1858. The event included a picnic, a 33- gun salute, prayers...
[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...
[Providence]: Printed by Southwick and Wheeler, 1779. [2]pp. Quarto broadsheet, printed in two columns. Minor wear and soiling. Very good. This extra, issued the day after the first issue of this newspaper, has intelligence extracted from "Yesterday's Boston Paper" containing news from Pennsylvania that 14,000 freemen "have expressed, by petition...
[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...
[Boston. March 17, 1776]. Broadside, 17 x 10 1/2 inches. Large woodcut of a harbor fortress and naval vessels exchanging cannon fire (2 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), text in two columns. One vertical and three horizontal folds. Edges mildly frayed with small losses; several small losses at fold intersections...
[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...
[Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes], Nov. 2, 1776. Broadside, 15 x 9 1/2 inches. Several folds, minor staining, fold lines reinforced with archival tape on verso. Good. Early November, 1776, was a dark moment for the American side in the Revolution. Washington had been routed from New York, the victory...
[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...
[Buenos Aires. Feb. 11, 1820]. Broadside, 7 1/2 x 12 inches. Moderate edge wear. Old library stamp on recto and verso. Very good. A broadside proclamation regarding the Bando Oriental, recently annexed by Brazil during Buenos Aires' struggle for independence. Not on OCLC.
[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...
[Buenos Aires. Jan. 16, 1812]. Broadside, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Small piece lacking from left corner of lower blank margin. Old library stamp on recto and verso. Minor dust soiling. Small repair in upper left corner, slightly affecting text. Very good. A broadside decree by the royal government...
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...
[Np]. 1914. Printed broadside, 56.5 x 37.5 cm. Minor chipping at extremities. A good copy. A supplementary poster to the daily, "LA GUERRA," with the latest available details on the war in Europe, and declaring the retreat of the Kaiser's army from the French border. An interesting South American perspective...
[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...
[Philadelphia. ca. 1836]. Broadside, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Some light edge wear. A bit of soiling. Very good. A scarce broadside advertising the Philadelphia exhibition of sculptures copying art from the Parthenon which had been absconded by Lord Elgin and put on display at the British Museum. The...
[ 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....
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