Edinburgh, London, and New York: Myles Macphail, Simpkin Marshall, Appelton, 1861. Hardcover. First American Edition. Complete with 72 pages. 4.5” x 7.5”. Sound binding; rear hinge starting. Light soiling to some pages. Sunned cover with gilded, stamped title. Spine covering has all but perished. An excellent example of an abolitionist... More
[Philadelphia]: 1795. Unbound. This partially-printed parchment land patent issued to James Wilson measures 21” x 11”. It is signed by Thomas Mifflin as the Governor of Pennsylvania and Alexander James Dallas who was the state’s secretary. It bears three state seals: a 6” star on the front and two smaller..... More
Various locations: 1863-1867. Unbound. Four letters and one stereoview. The first two letters are from Cooper to his family, one of which cautions against allowing a younger brother to become prey to full-grown seamen by joining the navy. The third is a manuscript copy of an official letter (with secretarial... More
Greenpoint (Brooklyn), New York: 1861. This 3-page letter and endorsement measure approximately 8” x 9”. It was apparently delivered by courier between Rowland’s Continental Iron Works and the Providence Tool and Armory Company, which employed both Borden and Andrews, as there are no postal markings. The letter has two horizontal..... More
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1901. First Edition, Limited. Hard Cover. 12mo. 10 volume first printing set limited to 250 copies. Each volume is in red cloth with gilt lettering and uncut pages. Tight bindings with sound hinges. Clean pages with occasional finger smudges or pencil annotations. Some minor wear... More
London: D. Henry and R. Cave, 1754. Newspaper. 8vo. Four-page article within the entire June edition of The Gentleman's Magazine. Tight binding with clean pages. Very light wear. Removed from a bound volume. A scarce and important account providing one of the earliest descriptions of 21-year old Major George Washington's... More
Canon City, Colorado: 1916. Letter. The letter is written on United States Post Office stationery from a man named Allen, probably a post worker, and addressed to a friend named Lewis. Although no envelope accompanies the letter, its first page is postmarked, Canon City Colo. / M.O.B (Money Order Business)... More
Unidentified: Unidentified, [1864]. Unbound. Unidentified place, publisher, and year, but probably somewhere in Ohio shortly after the Presidential election of 1864. The small broadside measures 6.5” x 9” and features a large image of a balloon ascension. The thin, fragile paper has been expertly backed with silk tissue. It is... More
Sheep Camp on Chilkoot Trail near Dyea, Alaska: 1898. Unbound. This four-page, unsigned letter was sent to “Friend Alice” by a prospector while in route to the gold fields from the Alaskan port of Dyea. Two stereoviews of the climb are included. In the late summer of 1896 when news... More
Hartford, Connecticut: The Connecticut Courant, January 26, 1803. Unbound. Two pages of this four-page newspaper are devoted to Louisiana and the debate in the House of Representatives following Jefferson’s Second Annual Report to Congress. Two names have been written in the upper margin of the first page: Elihu Thomas and... More
Various New England Locations: 1920s. Photograph Album. The album contains 58 vernacular b/w photographs, most measuring approximately 2.5" x 4.5". Most photographs are in nice shape and held to the page with corner mounts; a few have light corner creases. Album and pages have some minor wear. The highlight of... More
Siberia: Circa 1919. Album. This album contains 127 photographs and 28 mostly real photo postcards (RPPC). Various photographic and photomechanical processes including silver gelatin, collotype, carbon, half-tone, etc. All but two of the photos and eight of the postcards relate to the U.S. Army’s participation in the occupation of Siberia... More
New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio: 1923 (from a vehicle license plate). Album. This 8” x 6” album contains 37 b/w photographs, each measuring approximately 4.75” x 3”. The crisp, well-composed snapshots are chronologically arranged and neatly glued to the album pages. Most have been captioned in white, but much of... More
Mississippi Gulf Coast: 1969. Album. This 9.5” x 11.5” three-ring binder contains 48 pages of vernacular photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, maps, and a hand-written essay. There are 43 color and black-white photographs in the album. Most measure 4.25” x 3.5 or 5” x 3”. Everything, but the essay, is... More
Arlington, Vermont: 1905. Photograph Album. This album contains of 175 photos of a young woman, her family, and her friends at various locations in Vermont and the northeast. The album is approximately 7" x 10". Most of the photographs are 2.5" x 3.5". A larger photo (3.5" x 6.0") is... More
Vittel, France: 1917. Envelope or Cover. This envelope is addressed to East Orange, New Jersey and franked with a manuscript “soldiers letter” annotation in the upper right corner. It bears both blue French “Hopital Complementaire (Supplementary Hosptial) No 10 bis” and purple A.E.F. “Passed as Censored No. 24" handstamps. A...... More
Rochester, MN: 1947. Photograph Album. Album with 25 mounted (glued) 5" x 7" photographs and ten additional 3.5" x 3.5" laid in. Seven of the smaller snapshots duplicate the larger photographs. Includes several ephemera pieces (booster tags, a large newspaper article, and basketball playoff programs). The tags are mounted, the... More
Richmond: 1890s. Card. The photograph measures 9.5” x 75” and the mounting card, 11.75” x 10” The photo is in nice shape. The card has minor wear at the bottom corners. The photograph shows about thirty members of Richmond Local #10 of the United Association of Journeymen Plumbers. Gas &... More
Richmond, Virginia: 26 July 1861. Envelope or Cover. This 5.5” x 3.25” envelope has two Richmond, Virginia postal markings: a circular city postmark dated “Jul 26 1861” and a circular “Paid 10” handstamp indicating Confederate postage was paid at the time of mailing. There is also a bold strike of... More
Boston & Charlestown, MA: Free Democratic State Committee & Republican Club, 1854. Leaf. Two early contribution receipts; one from the Boston Republican Club in 1856 and the other from the Free Democratic State Committee of Massachusetts in 1854. The Free Democratic Party was one of several splinter political parties (e.g.... More
Budapest: Zrinyi Nyomdaban, 1970. First Printing. Hardcover. Limited edition of 200. In Hungarian. 60 pages of text. Color and b/w illustrations including a four-page facsimile of a medieval manuscript in rear. Approximately 2.5" x 1.35".Light shelf wear. Biography of King Stephen I, the founder of the Kingdom of Hungary. Stephen... More
Portland, Oregon: Lewis & Clark Exposition Company, 1905. Envelope. Multicolor advertising cover for the exposition features America with her arms resting on the shoulders of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as all three gaze at a Pacific Ocean sunset. This cover is franked with Scott #319 and postmarked at Colfax... More
Unlisted Publisher, 1861. Map. Map size - 7.75"x9". Leaf size - 9"x10.5". Clean with some folds; probably from a book. Very short closed tear at right margin; small piece of tape on reverse. Uncommon Civil War map showing the Battle of Port Royal. Publisher unknown, but probably contemporary. The Battle... More
Hanover, NH: The Dartmouth Press, 1901. First Printing. Printed Wrapper. 8vo. This is an actual program from the ceremonies, which were held on 14-15 September 1901; it as not the reprinted monograph of 1902 nor a modern copy. 8 pages including the cover; bound with golden-brown thread at the spine... More
Omaha: Beacon Press, 1919. Wraps. This oblong, saddle-stapled, softcover photo-booklet measures 7.5” x 5.25” and is “Copiously illustrated.” It contains 26 pages of text and 14 images of the riot, its victim, and some of the perpetrators. The binding is sound; cover and several leaves have some edgewear and short... More
