Paris: L. Vivien Geographe, 1834. Unbound. Approximately 20.5” x 13.5” including the margins. Text in French. A nice map with a strong, clear image. Minor wear and soiling at lower left tip of margin; top margin is a little rough where the map was removed from the atlas... More about Carte Generale des Etats Unis de L’Amerique Septentrionale (Map No. 33 from Atlas Universel...

Youngstown, Ohio: 1930. The band photograph is approximately 8” x 10”. Four other letter carrier photos (approximately 3.5” x 5”) are also included The photographs include portraits of father and son letter carriers (John and Nick Harber), the two men as tourists at the Yuma Federal Prison, and John Huber... More about Letter Carrier’s Band Photograph with Four Other Postal Photographs: National Association of...

London: Hinton, Simpkin & Marshall, 1832. Unbound. Approximately 16.5” x 11” including margins. A nice map with a clear and strong image. Attractively hand-colored. Wide margins. Publisher’s fold. A very attractive early statehood map (Missouri became a state in 1821) published prior to the Platt Purchase and showing... More about Map of the State of Missouri from An Atlas of the United States of North America

[Fort Trumbell], New London, Connecticut: 1945-1964. Unbound. This grouping consists of material belonging to E. F. King who worked at the U.S. Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory from World War II until the 1960s. It includes the last newspaper-magazine published by the BuShips Field Engineering Group in 1945, a tongue-in-cheek award... More about Small archive (including photographs of Admiral Hyman Rickover) pertaining to a technician, E. F....

Philadelphia: International Printing Company, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Complete. 97 pages plus frontispiece. Signed by the author on the title page. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Almost no wear to cover. Somewhat scarce biography about a staunch supporter of... More about Thomas Earle as a Reformer

Cincinnati: 1810. Unbound. This stampless one-page folded letter measures 15.5” x 12.5” unfolded. It was sent from Sedam’s farm near Bold Face Creek about three miles west of Cincinnati and is dated November 11, 1810. The cover is addressed to McHenry at Baltimore, Maryland. It has a manuscript Cincinnati postmark... More about PLEA FROM A HERO OF THE NORTHWEST INDIAN WARS TO RECEIVE HIS ARMY PENSION; Folded-letter from...

Philadelphia: George W. Taylor, 1853-1854. Half leather. 24 monthly issues bound together. Complete; each volume contains 104 text pages. Half-leather with marbled boards; 6.75” x 10.25”. Sound binding. Clean pages with light intermittent foxing. Old pencil annotation at top of the first title page. Light dampstain to the first six... More about The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes 1 and 2 bound together

[Thomas County, Georgia]: 1843. Unbound. This document measures 9.5” x 3” and is in nice shape. It reads, “Bryan minor of Joseph Bryan dc’d: / Hire of negro woman Patience 80.00 / Hire of Old woman Mary 50.00 / Hire of Girl Sal 48.00 / [Total] 178.00 / Subscribed &... More about Slave-hiring record

London to New York and Boston: 1813. Unbound. This two-page stampless folded letter measures 15.75” by 10” unfolded. It is datelined “duplicate London 30th January 1813.” The letter was forwarded to New York after originally having been addressed to Boston. It bears a straight-line “SHIP” handstamp and two receiving postmarks..... More about Commercial letter from London to the United States discussing the prospect of continuing the War...

Newport News, Virginia: 1906-1907. Notebook. This 5.5” x 8.5” leather-covered journal contains 89 photographs; eight measure approximately 5.5” x 3.25”; the remainder measure approximately 3.5” square. Six negatives are laid in. Almost all of the photos are dated. Fourteen of the pages contain detailed descriptions of the construction. The photographs... More about An exceptional photo-journal documenting construction at the Newport News Shipbuilding and...

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1839. Unbound. Approximately 14” x 17.5” including the wide margins. Includes three inset maps of Pensacola, Tallahassee, and the St. Augustine Harbor, as well as “water route” distance tables for Pensacola and St. Augustine. Strong, clear image with attractive hand coloring. Very light soiling... More about Florida (Map No. 17 from A New Universal Atlas

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1841. Unbound. Approximately 14” x 17.5” including the wide margins. Includes a distance table for St. Louis Steam Boat Routes. Strong, clear image with attractive hand coloring. Light soiling. A little rough along the left edge where it was removed from the atlas. This... More about A New Map of Missouri with its Roads & Distances (Map No. 28 from A New Universal Atlas

New York City: 1869. Unbound. In this three-page letter to Stewart, Little asks to borrow money to pay off a loan for equipment he purchased to re-establish his business after Confederate authorities in Mobile, Alabama seized his entire inventory. A stereoview of Stewart’s four-story, cast-iron, full-block retail “Palace” in New..... More about Loan request sent to the preeminent retailer and one of the wealthiest men in the United States...