Washington. Oct. 11, 1822. [1]pp. Minor toning, old folds, two separation neatly mended, tipped to a larger sheet. Very good. A warm and conciliatory letter from a future president of the United States to a former president. During his time as Secretary of State under Monroe, Adams writes to Madison...
Washington. 1848. 40pp. plus engraved portrait frontispiece. Original printed wrappers. Removed. Spine perished. Some foxing. Else very good. Collection of addresses by members of Congress upon the death of John Quincy Adams. With a small but pleasing engraved portrait of Adams.
[Philadelphia]. 1799. 7pp. Modern half cloth and marbled boards, leather label. About fine. Adams' third state of the union address. Gives thanks for the generally favorable condition of the nation, but painfully notes the violent outbreaks in Pennsylvania as a result of the housing law. Looks forward to renewing commerce...
Washington, D.C. 1879. 16,[2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Mild spotting to wrappers. Light foxing. Very good. A rare report for a little-known organization formed in the American capital in 1863 to support "aged or indigent colored women and children." The present work includes the charter, by-laws, a list of officers, the...
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Washington, D.C. ca. 1891. Albumen card-mounted photograph, image approximately 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Light wear to card. Faint line of older adhesive substance in center of photograph. Minor wear and fading. About very good. A large photograph of a well-dressed African-American woman posing with four white children. The...
Washington. 1834. 22pp. Dbd. An occasional fox mark, else very good. One of the first detailed proposals for national patronage for the arts, including in-depth descriptions of forty paintings displayed in the rotunda of the Capitol to encourage the establishment of a national gallery of art. With a testimonial by...
New York and Washington. 1902. [29]pp. plus 34 color plates. Oblong octavo. Original cloth backed boards. Pasted illustration to front cover. Negligible shelf wear. Very good. A color plate book illustrating the mural art in the Library of Congress.
Georgetown, Territory of Columbia: Green and English, [ 1801]. 75pp. Modern calf, spine gilt. Minor foxing. Very good plus. Letters by Stephen Bloomer Balch, a Presbyterian minister at Georgetown, addressing the issue of infant baptism and refuting a pamphlet by Rev. Adam Freeman on the subject. Freeman opposed baptising the...
[Washington. 1819]. 17pp. Folio. Dbd. Lightly tanned. Very good. Rare slip bill printing of an interesting bill establishing and limiting the number of banks in the Washington, DC and the surrounding area. For twenty years forward the only banks allowed in the District are the Bank of Washington and the...
[Washington. 1814]. 15pp. Folio. Dbd. Lightly tanned. Very good. Scarce slip bill printing of this Congressional bill incorporating the "Bank of the Metropolis" in Washington, D.C., capitalized at a million dollars and with shares therein valued at forty dollars each. Also included are the rules for the Board of Directors...
London. 1840. Two volumes. [2],iv,140pp. plus sixty-six plates, frontispiece portrait, and engraved title; iv,106pp. plus fifty-two plates and engraved title. Quarto. Contemporary black morocco, gilt extra, a.e.g., silk endpapers. Minor shelf wear. Foxing to a few plates, light tanning to some leaves, more pronounced in second volume. Near fine, an.....
Washington & Boston. 1877-1882. Approximately 150 documents comprising 250pp., plus one CARTE DE VISITE. Mostly quarto and octavo sheets. Some light wear. Near fine. A remarkable archive of service reports and other documents related to the Bell Telephone Company, from the papers of George C. Maynard (1839-1918), related to his...
London. 1853. Two volumes. xxi,[1],313pp. plus folding table; viii,328pp. Half title and color frontispiece in first volume. Original gilt cloth. Extremities rubbed, spines darkened, neat bookplate in each volume. Very good. Alfred Bunn was a theatrical manager who, according to the DNB, "is best remembered on account of his literary.....
Washington. July 31, 1848. 14pp. Folio. Stitched as issued. A few minor edge tears. Near fine. In a large red cloth folder, gilt leather label. Slip bill for the 1st Session of the 30th Congress, concerning land claims in the newly acquired territories of California and New Mexico. At the...
Philadelphia. Oct. 3, 1829. [2]pp. on a folded folio sheet, third page blank, fourth page with manuscript address and docketing. Old fold lines. Near fine. A pessimistic and despairing letter from the famed Philadelphia publisher and editor, Mathew Carey. The letter is written to Philip R. Fendall, Jr., a Washington...
Washington. 1836. 58pp. Later three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Extremities worn and scuffed, bookplate removed. Some light foxing, else internally quite good. Cass was president of the Society, and here espouses the need for American history written by Americans.
London. 1853. Two volumes bound in one. xi,[1],282,viii,325pp. plus ads. Thick octavo. Original cloth. Cloth soiled and rubbed, extremities worn, inner front hinge broken but cords sound. Some light scattered foxing, else internally quite good. Remainder issue. One of the rarest British accounts of the Battle of New Orleans, and.....
Washington. 1864. Three sheets, each 7 1/4 x 5 inches. Loose sheets. Two slits at gutter margins for intended binding. A couple of small creases at corners. Very good. Three interesting General Orders from the War Department at the end of 1864 relating to freedman and the organization of black...
Washington. 1861-1862. Three volumes, with over three hundred individual imprints. Contemporary three-quarter roan and marbled boards, gilt leather labels. Wear to leather and edges, boards somewhat rubbed, front hinges loosening. Contemporary ownership inscriptions and binder's tickets on front endpapers of second and third volumes; later bookplate on front pastedown of...
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1895. 9pp. Original printed wrappers. Ex-lib., with call number inscribed in upper inner corner of front wrapper, else near fine. Discusses the Capitol, Capitol terraces, Capitol grounds, United States Botanic Garden, the Court House, and the Pension Office Building, and gives a statement of expenditures...
Washington. 1808. 54pp. Dbd. Near fine. An interesting pamphlet supporting the candidacy of George Clinton for president in the 1808 election. Clinton, the popular former governor of New York and vice president during Thomas Jefferson's second term, was part of a group of northeastern Democratic-Republicans of New York opposed to...
New York: Hermann J. Meyer, [1855]. Two volumes. 180,154pp. plus seventy-nine steel-engraved plates. Extra engraved titlepages. Tissue guards. Quarto. Original blue publisher's cloth. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Minor scattered foxing. Very good plus. Dana's work contains handsome steel engravings of scenes throughout the country, many of them...
New York: Herrmann J. Meyer, [ 1855]. Two volumes. 180; 154pp. Extra engraved titlepages plus seventy-nine steel-engraved plates. Tissue guards. Quarto. Original black morocco, stamped in gilt, expertly rebacked with original spines laid down. Scattered foxing. Very good. Dana's work contains handsome steel engravings of scenes throughout the country, many...
London. 1817. 96pp. Later half calf and marbled boards, backstrip perished. Titlepage and final page soiled, else very good. Later edition, abridged. "Davis came to the United States in search of literary employment, and had much intercourse with Col. Burr, Jefferson, and others, concerning whom he gives many new facts"...
Boston: Printed Privately, 1910. Two volumes. 181; 175pp. Original vellum backed paper covered boards, spines gilt. Very good. First printed in 1803. Davis travelled throughout the east coast, living for a year and teaching in Charleston, S.C., and also for a time in Virginia. He includes passages about slavery, American...
