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.....

Boston. 1839. [2],179,8pp. plus frontispiece. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities rubbed, front hinge tender. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light scattered foxing. About very good. An interesting work on early American technology, the autobiography of Timothy Claxton, English mechanic and inventor. Claxton spent several years in America, during.....

[Washington. 1847]. 14pp. plus folding plate. Original printed wrappers, rear cover lacking, stitched as issued. Moderate staining to lower edge of text. Good. Patent issued to Samuel G. Cornell of Greenwich, Ct. for the invention of "a new and useful improvement in lead pipe machinery." Includes the description of Cornell's.....

[Np, but likely Washington. 1813]. Broadside, 11 1/2 x 18 inches. Large woodcut seal of the United States in upper blank margin. Backed with tissue paper. Light fold lines, light foxing. Good. Expertly matted, and protected with Mylar sheet. This copy bears the faint signature in the lower margin of.....

Hartford: D.W. Kellogg, 1834. Two volumes in one. [3]-20; 55pp., plus thirty-six and thirty-two (of thirty-four) plates. Large folio. Modern half green morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Titlepage to second volume with loss along fore edge and several small closed tears; laid down on later paper. Several leaves with.....

[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.....

Cambridge: Published by the Author, 1889. Three volumes. [1],xxiv,766pp. plus color frontispiece portrait; [1],x,[1],[767]-1774pp. plus folding map and tinted frontispiece portrait; [1],vi,[1],[1775]-1958pp. plus eighty-nine plates (ten in color), each with corresponding text leaf, two color folding maps, one color map with corresponding text leaf, and engraved frontispiece portrait. Quarto. Later.....

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.....