Boston: Published by J. Norman, 1814. [2],xiv,179pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with leather label. Binding moderately rubbed, ink stamps on fore edges. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage; top corner of titlepage torn away with no loss of text. Light foxing and soiling. Good plus. An interesting compendium of trade secrets.....

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.....

Philadelphia: Lydia R. Bailey, 1831. 36pp. Dbd. Lightly foxed. About very good. Second edition, published the same year as the first. An essay by Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey on the subject of "internal improvements" such as canals, roads, and railways. Published by order of the Society for the Promotion of.....

[New Haven]: T.J. Stafford, [ 1859]. 97pp. plus frontispiece. Oblong. Original brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth lightly faded, extremities lightly worn. Front inner hinge cracked. Minor wear and soiling to text, heaviest to titlepage. Very good. Handsomely illustrated catalogue of carriage-maker G. & D. Cook & Co.....

New York: John C. Totten, [ 1813]. Broadside, 11 1/2 x 18 inches. Light fold lines. Minor edge wear and foxing. Expertly matted, and protected with mylar sheet. A broadside announcement advertising Luther Gale's purchase of Cornelius Tobey's patent for an improved bark mill. The bark was used by tanners.....

New York. 1826. 13pp. Dbd. Slight foxing, very good. Untrimmed. An addendum to Hassler's report which was published in 1820. Hassler was a noted geodesist and scientist who initiated the U.S. Coast Survey. This pamphlet is the addendum to his first reports published before 1818, when the legislation for the.....

[London. 1813]. [1]p., measuring 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. Lightly creased, very minor soiling. Near fine. A trade advertisement declaiming "The superiority of the American Fluid over oil," as manufactured and distributed by W. Webb of 46 King Street. The advertisement contains a testimony from an officer at the.....

Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph James, 1788. 26pp. plus final blank leaf. 19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Extremities somewhat worn, chipped at spine ends, joints cracked. Contemporary ownership signature and touch of dust soiling on titlepage, else a very good, untrimmed copy. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and.....

Georgetown, Columbia: Printed and Published by J.M. and J.B. Carter, 1813. 296pp. Antique-style polished calf, gilt, gilt leather labels, t.e. red. Minor foxing, titlepage and index leaf trimmed. Very good. The rare first edition. A strongly political and ideological work by the greatest of the agrarian states' rights theorists. Some.....

New York. 1800. 18pp. Lacks map. Stitched as issued. Some light wear and soiling. A few later pencil marks on titlepage. Very good. Attributed by Evans to Charles Williamson, a Scottish emigrant to America who surveyed a large portion of Steuben County, New York and helped establish the town of.....

[New Haven. 1929]. [3],66,[3] leaves, plus two inserted sections of typed notes, eleven leaves containing programs or pamphlets, two leaves containing four photo-postcards, and one large photograph. Original blue cloth. Front hinge heavily cracked, cloth fraying, board nearly detached. Corners heavily worn. Contemporary manuscript corrections to typescript. Internally clean. Most.....