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New York. September 28, 1775. Broadside, approximately 9 x 8 inches. Marginal chips and tears, adhesive residue on blank verso. Light tanning. Good. In a half morocco box. An extremely rare revolutionary-era New York broadside, promulgated by the Friends to Liberty in September 1775, encouraging electors to reject sitting pro-British.....
[Washington]. 1850. Broadsheet, 21 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Woodcut illustration on recto, text in double columns on verso. Old folds. Minimal foxing, a few small edge chips, tear in lower left corner not touching text. Very good. Encapsulated between mylar sheets. A very scarce broadside advertisement for an exhibition.....
Boston: F.A. Searle Printer, [ 1863]. Broadside, 13 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. Old folds, minor edge wear, light scattered foxing. Near fine. A handsome broadside advertising John Wilkes Booth as the lead in two Shakespeare productions to be performed at the Boston Museum in February, 1863. Booth played Shylock.....
[New Orleans. 1871]. Broadside, 17 1/2 x 12 inches, printed in four columns. Light edge wear, scattered faint stains, two small holes in the sheet, touching a couple letters of text. Very good. An unrecorded broadside printing a lengthy diatribe by former Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner against the New.....
[N.p., but likely St. Louis. 1863]. Broadside, 13 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Remnants of tape at top edge and ink mark in top margin. Slight tanning and spotting, old folds. Very good. A rare Civil War broadside recounting Confederate General John S. Marmaduke's second raid into Missouri. It gives.....
[N.p., perhaps Philadelphia.]: ca. May 5, 1870]. Letterpress broadside, 10 x 6 inches. Short closed tear at top margin. Very good plus. A scarce and decidedly racist broadside advertising a faux rally to oppose African- American suffrage achieved through the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had been.....
![Item #WRCAM55573 INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLANTING AND CULTIVATING FRUIT TREES [caption title]. Fruit...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55573.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712084)
Dayton, Oh. Gazette Print, October 29, 1852. Letterpress broadside, 12¾ x 8¾ inches, with ornamental border. Old folds, minor foxing, two ink spots in left margin. Very good. A seemingly-unrecorded broadside detailing instructions on the planting, cultivating, culturing, pruning, gathering, and preserving of various fruit trees in Ohio in the.....
Washington. December 10, 1832. Broadside, 23 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, printed on silk in six columns within an ornamental border. Silk slightly frayed at head and foot; occasional foxing, almost entirely in margins. Very good. Framed. This proclamation is President Jackson's famous response to the nullification ordinance recently passed.....
![Item #WRCAM56513 THE CASE OF JOHN WOODS [caption title]. Andrew Jackson, Election of 1828](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM56513.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1618245079)
[N.p. 1828]. Broadsheet, 19 x 9 inches, text printed in two columns on both sides. Old folds, some chips to edges, minor loss to upper left corner and closed tear to bottom edge (no text affected). Two small holes (affecting just one word), a few areas of soiling, light foxing.....
Washington, D.C. April 11, 1865. Broadside, 13 x 8 1/4 inches. Faint dust-soiling, minor edge wear, with a few short marginal tears repaired on verso. Very good. A rare first broadside printing announcing two of President Lincoln's three final proclamations, "Closing Certain Ports" and "Port of Key West to Remain.....
![Item #WRCAM55213 OBSEQUIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. ORDER OF [FUN]ERAL PROCESSION [caption title]....](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55213.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1603901320)
[N.p., but almost certainly Springfield, Il. ca. May 3, 1865]. Broadside, 12 x 9 inches. Printed in three columns, edged with a printed black border. Old folds, center vertical fold with some separation. Moderate staining. Still, very good. Framed. Likely a proof copy of the exceedingly rare broadside announcing the.....
[Boston. 1821]. Broadside, 20 x 16 inches. Old folds. Horizontal fold splitting on the right side (touching a few letters of text). General edge and corner wear, with some chips and tears. Good plus. A very scarce broadside proclaiming the results of the 1820-21 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. Governor John Brooks.....
[Boston: Printed by Adams and Larkin, 1795]. Broadside, 15 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. Old folds, some with light tanning. Light wear and a few small chips to edges, minor dustsoiling on verso. Ink annotation in a contemporary hand on verso. Very good. In grey cloth chemise and half red.....
[Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes, 1777]. Broadside, 14 x 8 3/4 inches. Old folds. Minute loss at one intersection, affecting a few characters of text. Very small chips and tears at edges; one larger chip at lower edge, measuring 1 x 1 inch, not affecting text. Light soiling and foxing.....
Washington. December 7, 1824. Broadside, 23 1/2 x 19 inches. Folded horizontally, with several old vertical folds. Slight wear and a few separations along folds; one chip at head, not affecting text. A couple patches of light staining. Very good. The rare first printing of James Monroe's final State of.....
New York: Crane Co., [ca. 1890]. Illustrated broadside, printed on linen, 13 3/4 x 12 inches. A very clean copy. Near fine. Rare broadside advertising the Parsons & Pool's "Famous Ideal UNCLE TOM'S CABIN Company," with a woodcut depicting a scene from the story, with a seated Tom holding a......
[Philadelphia]. April 3, 1809. Letterpress broadside, 10 x 8 inches, docketed in manuscript on verso. Minor wrinkling, old folds, some mathematical computations on verso. Very good. [with:] [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JOHN HEINER TO SAMUEL JOHNSON OF NEWTON, NEW JERSEY, COMMENTING ON THE SNYDER REBELLION]. Indiana, Pa. May 8, 1809.....
Puebla, Mexico. February 11, 1854. Letterpress broadside, 12 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. A few marginal chips (one with a small burn mark), a short worm track in lower margin, not affecting any text. Slight offsetting from another printed document. Overall very good. An exceedingly rare broadside decree by Mexican.....
![Item #WRCAM56340 SIAMESE TWINS. FOR [ ] DAY ONLY. THE UNITED BROTHERS, CHANG-ENG, VERY...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM56340.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656003720)
New York: J.M. Elliott, [ca. 1838]. Broadside, 13 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Woodcut illustration in upper portion, text surrounded by ornamental border. Moderate edge wear and soiling, few small tape remnants to edges, couple of expert repairs to verso. Very good. A rare promotional broadside for Chang & Eng.....
[Springfield, Il. 1834]. Broadside, 16 1/4 x 11 inches. Printed in four columns. Old horizontal fold. Slight chipping at edges, a few dark ink spots. Contemporary manuscript annotation on rear bleeding through. Moderate tanning and scattered light foxing. Good plus. A scarce broadside response that was part of a bitter.....
Puebla. October 24, 1825. Broadside, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Minor worming near top edge, just touching one letter of the caption title. Minor staining, bottom edge and corner chipped. Still, very good. An apparently-unrecorded provincial printing of a Mexican colonial decree establishing Galveston, provisionally, as an official port.....
[Utica: Utica Saturday Globe, ca. January 5, 1889]. Pictorial broadside printed on blue paper, 4 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Tiny chips at bottom corners, small hole between the "D" and "A" of "SATURDAY" in title. Still, a very good copy. A small broadside or handbill advertising the publication of.....
[N.p., but likely either Philadelphia or Baltimore. ca. 1814]. Letterpress broadside, approximately 17 3/4 x 11 inches. Dark stain in lower margin, minor spotting. Very good. Untrimmed. One of only three located copies of this land lottery broadside pertaining to York-Haven, Pennsylvania, located on the Susquehanna River, about fifty miles.....
