Chicago: Kurz & Allison, 1890. Color lithograph. Image size: 18 1/2 x 25 inches; sheet size: 22 x 28 1/4 inches. Matted to an overall size of 25 x 31 inches. Some moderate chipping and edge tears, not affecting image. Reinforced with older tape along top edge. Lightly toned, though.....
Charleston Harbor. April 13, 1861. [5]pp. Significant tanning, expertly de-acidified. Very good. A fascinating letter from Dr. Aldrich to his widow's sister, relating the events of the critical opening battle of the Civil War. Edward Sherman Aldrich was born in 1811 in Providence, Rhode Island. He married Corrine Brown and.....
London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1776. 210,215-250,253-330,333-370,373-442,445- 470,473-614,617-654,657-678,681-828pp. Folio. Modern calf, spine gilt, raised bands. Each Act has separate general titlepage; pagination and register are continuous. Slight shelf wear, occasional tanning, lacking one general titlepage and several blanks (see below). Very good. An impressive collection of the.....
Geneva. 1780. [2],[97]-144,[1]pp. plus a 4pp. Supplement laid in. Gathered signatures, stitched. Fine. Untrimmed. With original printed advertising band. The July 15, 1780 issue of the French political periodical, JOURNAL HISTORIQUE ET POLITIQUE.... This issue contains political news from Turkey, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, and France. The.....
Charleston: J. Hoff's Wholesale and Retail Book-store, 1810. 428,[4]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, maroon gilt morocco label. Rubbed, front joint cracked, scattered foxing. Very good. Prayer for dummies. An interesting and uncommon South Carolina imprint. Shaw & Shoemaker locate only four copies. Not in Turnbull. Scarce.
London. 1794. xxiv,520pp. plus eight plates (one folding) including portrait, plus folding map, [6]pp. index, and leaf of binding directions. Frontispiece portrait. Antique-style half speckled calf and marbled boards, red gilt morocco label, ornate gilt spine. Frontispiece, titlepage, and following five leaves with rough repair to fore-edge, slightly affecting text.....
Philadelphia. 1872. xvi,[25]-557pp. Contemporary publisher's cloth, gilt. Cloth spotted, extremities worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. About good. History written by the pastor of the St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wilmington, N.C.
Morrisania, N.Y. 1870. 13pp., printed in double columns. Folio. Original printed front wrapper, bound into later three quarter green morocco and cloth, gilt morocco spine label. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Wrapper chipped and soiled. Fore-edge of each text leaf reinforced with tissue. Good. Field has very kind words for this.....
New York. 1862. 65pp. plus three plates. 20th-century plain blue wrappers. Internally clean. Very good. Reprint of the autobiography of Capt. Tarleton Brown, originally published in 1843. With anecdotes of his days in the Revolutionary Army, serving under Francis Marion in South Carolina.
Columbia, S.C. 1849. 37pp. Original pink printed wrappers. Wear and soiling to wrappers. Moderate foxing. Good. Brumby is identified on the titlepage as professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology in the South Carolina College. In this pamphlet he attempts to broaden the range of studies available to students in the.....
London. 1777. Two volumes. [6],xii,324; xii,308pp. Folding frontispiece map in each volume. Later speckled calf, maroon and black gilt morocco labels, ornate gilt spines. Front board of second volume detached, but present. Covers slightly bowed. Armorial bookplate and early 19th-century ownership signature on front paste down of each volume. Later.....
Londres. 1755. xxiv,336pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt tooled, leather label, edges painted red. Boards lightly rubbed, corners and edges somewhat worn, two small chips to spine extremities. Light tanning, scattered foxing. About very good. An important survey of the state of the British colonies, quickly translated into a......
New York. 1836. Two volumes. [2],lxxx,[9]-533;576pp. plus folding map. Original brown cloth, paper labels. Cloth soiled and stained, label on volume one chipped off, label on volume two rubbed and chipping. Edges of spine and corners bumped. Map with two small tears, fore-edge toned and scuffed. Light scattered foxing but.....
Charleston: Walker, Evans, & Cogswell Co.:, 1901. 57pp. Modern half red morocco and cloth boards, spine gilt. Original printed wrappers bound in. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Text moderately tanned, otherwise clean. Very good. A revision of the charter and a short history of the Charleston Ancient Artillery Society from 1901.....
London: William Faden, Aug. 10, 1776. Engraving, 12 x 19 1/2 inches. Small old ink stamp on verso. Near fine. A profile view of Sullivan's Island, the main fort guarding the mouth of the Charleston harbor, with a key indicating the main features, ship locations, and gun emplacements. Below the.....
Charleston, S.C. Archibald E. Miller, 1818. 268,[1],36,22,[1]pp. Titlepage vignette of the city seal. Loose sheets, guillotined by The New York Public Library, then discarded, with their stamp on the verso of the titlepage, a.e.g. Top edge of titlepage trimmed, not affecting text. Internally clean and very good. Prints the ordinances.....
Paris. 1837. [4],xvi,439; [4]504pp. plus folding map. Two volumes. Contemporary red half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Corners rubbed. Unopened. Near fine. Fourth edition, augmented and corrected. Chevalier, later a well known economist, went to America to study public works for the French government. He spent two years in.....
Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839. iv,467,[1]pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind, gilt title on spine. Spine ends a bit chipped, small gouge in front cover. Scattered foxing. Withal, just about very good. First American edition, translated from the third Paris edition of the previous year. Chevalier, later a well-known.....
[N.p., but possibly Williamsport, Pa. November 8, 1863]. Broadside, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Minor wear and soiling. One small tear in left margin. Very good plus. A vivid Civil War broadside showing the immediacy of the news from the front, as well as how garbled or false information.....
Hilton Head, S.C. May 31, June 6, June 16, 1865. [1],[1],[3]pp. Each disbound from a larger volume, with two stab holes along the left margin. Overall, very good. A fascinating trio of printed general orders and circulars issued from Hilton Head by the Union Army's Department of the South in.....
[Charleston & Morris Island, S.C. April 6 - May 1, 1861]. Twenty-nine manuscript documents, a few on Confederate military stationery, the remainder on plain paper, totaling [37]pp. Original folds. Minor edge wear, chipping to four letters resulting in minor loss. Overall very good. An uncommonly-early collection of Confederate manuscript military.....
[Various locations in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina. Early September 1861 to late June 1865]. [219],87pp. Large folio. Contemporary three-quarter maroon calf and black cloth boards, gilt spine titles reading: "PENN. CLOTHING BOOK COS. C & D 52nd INFANTRY P[?]. & P. OFFICE." Spine partially split, chipped, and rather worn;.....
New York. 1862. xxii,385pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt leather spine spine labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, spine labels slightly chipped. Paper shelf label on spine, institutional blind and ink stamps on titlepage. Light tanning. Good plus. Rare report on the trial of the prisoners taken from the Confederate privateer Savannah.....
[Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, late March or early April, 1861]. Lithographic broadside, 33 3/4 x 26 1/2 inches. Mild creasing, toning, and spotting. Very minor repaired marginal tears, small chip in lower left corner. Near fine. Matted and framed. The very rare lithographic facsimile of the South Carolina Act of.....
Raleigh; Charlotte, N.C. Commercial Printing Company; Honeycutt Printing Co., 1907. 8; [29]pp. Two issues. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth boards, spines gilt. Second part with original wrappers. Small bookplates on rear pastedowns. Wrappers slightly creased, with a small tear at foot of rear. Front wrapper with ink ownership and provenance.....
