[Various locations in Oregon and Alaska. ca. 1922-1930]. Approximately 325 photographs, twenty postcards and real photo postcards, a linen- backed map of Alaska, and a few assorted ephemeral items, all housed in a contemporary leather satchel. Generally minor wear, some chipping to about twenty photographs. Overall very good. A treasure.....

New York. 1809. 380pp. plus 10pp. (of 20pp.) of index. Lacks final ten pages of index. Contemporary calf. Rubbed, spine extremities worn. Uniformly tanned. Good. A useful compendium of trade secrets covering most fields of interest. Includes advice on engraving, cements, colored stones, paper, gilding, the confectionery business, removing stains.....

Ephrata: J. Georg Zeisiger, 1763. 198,[4],14pp., including a second titlepage within the pagination and a full-page plate on p.187. Contemporary ruled calf, raised bands. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, chipped at spine ends, small chip in front board. Lightly tanned and foxed. Overall, very good, in original condition. In a half.....

New York. 1816. 79pp. plus folding table. Original boards, printed paper label. Spine decayed, front board detached. Several old library stamps. Internally clean. Good. An early American astronomical and navigational work, setting out the author's theories in detail. Scarce.

New York: Edmund Blunt, 1822. xvi,497,114pp. plus eighteen plates (eleven folding), and 9pp. of advertisements. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Corners bumped and lightly worn. Light wear to boards. Contemporary advertisement pasted to front pastedown. Manuscript note regarding a lighthouse tipped in at p.128. Moderate foxing, though plates are.....

Philadelphia. 1827. x,103,[1]pp. including tables. Engraved frontis. Half morocco and paper boards. A few 19th-century library stamps, else very good. Bull's paper was read before the American Philosophical Society in April 1826. An early investigation into energy sources, comparing the efficiency of wood and coal as heat sources. Bull provides.....

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.....

Philadelphia. 1824. 15pp. Frontis. Later marbled wrappers. Bit tanned, slight paper loss from corner of frontispiece not affecting image, ex-Franklin Institute. Good. Mathew Carey chaired the meeting to discuss the invention, which proposed to use towboats which could winch flatboats upstream through areas of rapids. Rink locates five copies, with.....

[New Haven]: T.J. Stafford, [ 1859]. 13,[1]pp.,17-88 leaves (paginated on rectos only, including two leaves of advertisements),89-97,[1]pp. Oblong octavo. Frontis. Original brown publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth lightly faded, extremities worn. Spine very weak. Front inner hinge cracked. Minor wear and soiling to text, missing pp.15-16 (but.....

Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1798. Eighteen volumes. With 542 copperplate engravings, some folding. Large quarto. Contemporary red calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Some shelf wear, minor chipping to some spine ends, short splits to a handful of joints, front joint of volume nine holding by cords. Minor toning and foxing. 19th-century.....

New York. May 13, 1813. [3]pp., on a folded folio sheet. Plus separate engraved portrait of Fulton. Second leaf inlaid into later paper. A few small stains and tape shadows, neat separation along lower half of vertical fold, else near fine. A truly remarkable letter from steamboat and torpedo pioneer.....

[N.p., 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.....

Philadelphia. January 23, 1796. [1]p., 9 1/2 x 8 inches, with integral address leaf, with frank marks. Light fold lines. Paper age-toned. Old paper repair and remnant of wax stamp on integral leaf. Integral leaf cleanly separated from letter along fold. In very good condition. An autograph letter, signed, from.....