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A scarce clipper ship card advertising the Talisman of the Cooley packet ship line, illustrated with a vivid image of Columbia printed in red and blue along the left side. Cooley boasts of a 111 day voyage to San Francisco, a guarantee of “prompt dispatch,” and the announcement that the.....
A rare 1806 Pro-Federalist broadside mocking printer James Cheetham and New York Democrat-Republicans. In this lyric broadside, New York Federalists deride fractious author and printer James Cheetham after learning he had farmed out printing work, then charged the state government at a 300+ percent markup as the way to “Cheat’em!”.....
A revealing gathering of receipts, payroll sheets, vouchers, and other documents spanning four years of operation at Fort St. Philip—a location of immense strategic importance to New Orleans—and including a large payroll sheet listing the names, terms of service, and compensation for over thirty enslaved laborers, as well as the.....
A stately engraving of Lincoln in which his head has been substituted for that of John C. Calhoun, the original subject of this engraving. Likely printed after his assassination, this portrait is a composite piece, with Lincoln’s head superimposed by New York printmaker William Pate “on the figure and background.....
A highly partisan account, including eyewitness descriptions, of the infamous Astor Place Riot—a deadly display of nativist sentiment, sparked by a rivalry between a beloved American thespian, Edwin Forrest, and his British rival, William Macready. Edwin Forrest was born in Philadelphia in 1806, and made his theatrical debut at the.....
A fascinating album documenting life at several missionary stations of the Zulu branch established by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in what is now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Among the mission stations pictured here are Umzumbe and Inanda, both of which were home to two of the earliest.....
An apparently unrecorded War of 1812 broadside, featuring a series of vignettes depicting American naval victories, evidently published in response to Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory on Lake Erie in September of 1813, an image of which takes pride of place at the top. Included here are twelve vignettes, ten of.....
A rare broadside printed for distribution at the 4th of July gathering of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Abington, Massachusetts in 1848, an event attended by some 3000 to 5000 (according to The Liberator) and featuring a number of prominent abolitionists, including William Wells Brown and William Lloyd Garrison. This.....
An early 19th century pyrotechnical manual, comprising ingredients, recipes, and construction details. With a delightful hand-colored frontispiece depicting all manner of fireworks entertaining observers. OCLC records just five holdings of the Derby edition, as well as holdings for two London editions published in 1825 and 1835. CONDITION: Good, frontispiece recently.....
A rare and urgent set of resolutions issued by the citizens of Troy, New York in opposition to James Madison’s embargo on trade with Great Britain, requested by the President on April 1, 1812. These resolutions were pronounced by the citizens of Troy just a month after that and directly.....
A promotional pamphlet for Atchison, Kansas, issued by the city’s Board of Trade and treating “in detail of the magnificent resources of the vast territory naturally tributary to this city, and the advantages of Atchison as a commercial and manufacturing centre.” The contents consist of a map emphasizing the centrality.....
An apparently unrecorded Reconstruction-era campaign broadside urging New Jersey voters to cast their ballots against African American suffrage. Warning that “Every vote for the Republican Ticket is a vote in favor of Negro Suffrage,” that is, “of Congress compelling us to let the Negro Vote,” this broadside announces that “Every.....
This richly printed cigar advertisement was produced during the height of cigar production in Key West, a hub of the industry, by the New York lithographic firm of George Schlegel. A second-generation lithographer, Schlegel specialized in cigar box labels and advertising posters for the tobacco, liquor, and toiletry industries. The.....
A rare map showing the procession routes for the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in June of 1911, accompanied by a ticket to the coronation service for a prominent young woman whose affair with the future Prime Minister contributed to her husband’s rise in power. Beneath the.....
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A delightful Pennsylvania-German birth and baptism certificate featuring a hand-colored “typotecture” border incorporating elements of the fraktur tradition. This broadside records the birth, on 29 June 1859, of one Allen Albert, the son of one David Bemer and his wife Maria (née Miller). The text is enclosed within an ornamental.....
An informative and attractive album depicting life—theatrical life in particular—at this now defunct women’s college on the Hudson River in the early twentieth century. Originally established as Mrs. Dow’s School in 1903 at Briarcliff Lodge, a premier resort hotel in the Hudson Valley, in the late 1910s the institution came.....
A broadsheet issued by the California campaign office of Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy shortly before the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., featuring endorsements by some twenty prominent Black Californians. At the top of this campaign handbill is a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the March.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside printing of a fearmongering letter written from the storied Nitta Yuma plantation just a few months before the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, defending slavery, the Southern spirit, and all Southern states from hostile takeover by a “black avalanche.” Citing economic and population statistics—both Black and.....
A scarce broadside advertising a performance by a noted American humorist and author, “Mr. Burnett…the only living man that can, at the same time, laugh on one side of his face, and cry upon the other!” Mr. Alfred (so-called Alf) Burnett was known as a “fine elocutionist” whose “changes of.....
Includes a “History of the Clydesdale horse” by James M. Hyatt and a descriptive list of various stallions and mares.
One of the more impressive American trade catalogs of the nineteenth century. Most of the catalogs published by Mott between 1873 and 1905 are described in Romaine, who states that the company "issued many of the finest pictorial catalogs of ornamental ironwork." The variety of fountains, urns and other iron.....
An attractive timetable for the “Maple Leaf Route” of the Chicago Great Western Railway. Includes schedules, rates, and general information, as well as a large map illustrating the Route through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas, with a green maple leaf printed over the area of service. The map shows.....
An impressive brochure and itinerary for Southern Railway System tour of the Battle of Chickamauga battlefield with five routes noted through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia to Chattanooga. Includes detailed accounts of various aspects of the battle (corresponding to segments of the tour); nine monuments are pictured; also entrances to the.....
A visually captivating manuscript consisting of mathematical exercises, songs, and poems, illustrated with folk watercolors, mainly depicting naval subjects, including War of 1812 sea-fights. Two of the naval scenes carry full titles and are based on known illustrations: “The Hornet Blockading the Bonne Citoyenne,” from a wood engraving in Horace Kimball’s American.....
A scarce view book of copper-mining boomtowns Clifton and Morenci, with images of smelters, offices, railways, and hillside and roadside residences of the Shannon, Arizona, and Detroit copper companies; also public buildings such as the Morenci Club, Morenci Hotel, South Clifton High School, and Detroit Copper Mining Store. Estimated dates.....