[Various places]. January 1 - November 20, 1866. 117pp. Approximately 17,500 words written in neat pencil and sepia ink. Small quarto. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked with modern linen, new endpapers. Contemporary lithographic print of the ship La Oriental pasted on p.84, with text composed around print. A few pages dampstained.....

Bermuda. [ca. 1895]. Forty-four silver gelatin photographs, each 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Maroon pebbled cloth album. Light shelf wear, some water damage to front board. Photos mounted directly to thick card stock. Light wear to edges of a few images. Very good. An engaging photograph album that documents.....

Berlin: J. Hesse, [ca. 1851]. Handcolored lithographic print, 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Minute browning and edge wear in margins. Color bright and clean. Very good. Archival matting, and protected with mylar sheet. Variant issue, without priority, of this delightful early view of Sacramento, showing the city inland from.....

[St. Louis. 1865-1869]. Handcolored lithograph, after George Catlin. Sheet size: 18 x 23 7/8 inches. Two old, soft diagonal creases, mat burn in the margins, tape remnants to verso of top edge, small tape reinforcement to bottom right corner, a couple of marginal small chips and very short closed tears.....

Boston. J.H. Bufford, [ca.1867]. Tinted lithograph, 17 x 21 inches. A few small chips and short closed tears at edges, not affecting image. Browned, a few patches of light dampstaining at top edge, horizontal line of dust soiling across upper quarter of sheet. Good. Matted. A rare lithograph of the.....

Buffalo: Dodge Art Publishing Co., [ca. 1882]. Ten chromolithographic views, each 3 1/2 x 6 inches, nine of them printed on a single accordion-fold sheet and the tenth mounted on cloth portfolio, plus one page of text mounted to portfolio interior. 12mo. Original printed blue paper over cloth boards, chromolithographic.....

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.....

Silver Creek, N.Y. Greenleaf & Montgomery, 1853. Letterpress broadside, 12 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Moderate edge wear, minor loss near top edge. Some creasing, minor soiling and staining. Overall, very good. A seemingly-unrecorded early industrial broadside from the town of Silver Creek, New York. Silver Creek, on the shore.....

Liverpool & Philadelphia. 1850-1852. Five items, detailed below. Overall very good. A small but important collection of documents recording the immigration of Western Europeans to Philadelphia, California, Canada, and other North American locales aboard the ship CITY OF GLASGOW in 1852. Starting in the 1820s, Philadelphia became a leading port.....

[Mexico City: F. Diaz Leon y S. White, December 30, 1867]. [3]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old horizontal folds. Short splits at the ends of the central horizontal fold, small closed tear in lower margin of both leaves. Very good plus. An unrecorded contract between the newly- restored Mexican.....

London. 1852. vii,[1],[2],320,32pp. plus folding map and four plates. 19th-century three-quarter calf and cloth, spine gilt, leather labels. Modern bookplate on front pastedown, light foxing, even toning to text. Very good. In 1850, Osborn was appointed commander of the Pioneer steam-tender in the Arctic expedition under Captain Austin aboard the.....

[Edo. ca. 1853]. Two sheets joined at the center to create a single woodblock broadside (16 x 24 1/2 inches), with an additional contemporary attachment below each of the larger sheets for a full unfolded size of 23 x 24 1/2 inches. Original folds, light foxing and staining. Near fine.....

Fort Randall, Nebraska Territory. 1859. Watercolor, pen, and ink on a sheet of very lightly-ruled paper, 12 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Captioned in ink in upper margin, dated in lower margin. Several small chips in outer margin, not affecting image. Central vertical fold. Several closed tears, expertly mended on.....