![Item #7500 [Autograph letter by a private in the 4th Texas Regiment.]. J. M. Adams](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7500_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1653420076)
A letter written by a Confederate Second Sergeant from Texas to a sweetheart on a range of subjects relating to the Civil War, both Northern and Southern. J. M. Adams enlisted as a private in Company C of the 4th Texas Infantry Regiment in Robertson County, TX on 15 July.....
Bartlett reports on techniques for reviving or re-animating persons thought to be no longer breathing. The Acts of Incorporation for the Society appear in an appendix. William Baylies (1776–1865) of Dighton, Mass. was an attorney and U.S. Representative. He served as a Federalist in the 13th and 14th Congresses (1813–1817).....
![Item #8298 [Boston Silver Company letter archive.] Letters From Colorado [spine-title]. Col....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8298.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694526178)
A rich and extensive archive comprising 117 letters documenting two years of the Boston Silver Mining Company’s operation in Saints John, Colorado, including much content relating to labor and the concurrent mining boom in Leadville, Colorado. The bulk of these letters are written by a company manager, who ran the.....
This pamphlet of a talk presented at the 1822 annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society argues that physicians ought to have a thorough liberal education—in geography, natural philosophy, the science of numbers, and ideally also “poetry, drawing, and every other kind of polite literature”—before training in medicine, surgery, and.....
First edition. A history of mining throughout the world, fortuitously published at the beginning of the California gold rush. “The discovery of California gold made Comstock’s world survey appeal to a much wider audience. He hurriedly included information on California and added a final chapter entitled ‘Estimated Expenses of Outfits.....
![Item #7629 $750 Reward! A Reward of $250 for each, will pe [sic] paid at the office of Wells...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7629_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661541174)
An exceptionally rare and quintessential Wells, Fargo & Co. stagecoach holdup broadside, issued by the company’s office “at Kelton, Nevada” (i.e., Kelton, Utah) and printed in Salt Lake City. Wells Fargo agent H. M. Ellsworth advertises a reward of $750 for the arrest and conviction of robbers ($250 for each).....
A scarce photograph of Cornelia Adele Fassett’s noted painting of the meeting of the Electoral Commission of 1877, accompanied by a broadside key. The 1877 Electoral Commission was a temporary body created by Congress to resolve the disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J......
A powerful account of William Wilberforce’s introduction of the motion to immediately abolish the English slave trade in the British House of Commons, and a response to objections and counter-proposals, including “gradual abolition.” English Anglican priest, poet, and natural philosopher Thomas Gisborne (1758–1846) was a central figure in the Clapham.....
![Item #9671 [Can It Be That My Tail Is Trying to Wag Me?]. Louis M. Glackens](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9671.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744632958)
A delightful pen and ink political cartoon map showing California as the “tail that wags the dog,” drawn by a notable cartoonist. This original drawing was published in the May 14th, 1913 issue of Puck and makes reference to the growing influence of California in national politics during the first.....
![Item #2691 Hore intemerate virginis marie secundu[m] vsum Romanum cum pluribus orationibus tam in...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2691_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1560462958)
An unsophisticated copy of this handsome book of hours, the earliest dated production of Anabat’s press. Anabat was a native of Brittany; his press was active in Paris between 1505 and 1510. All of the books that he printed were done for other publishers; the vast majority were books.....
A letter detailing preparations for the upcoming Kansas City Sanitary Fair—auxiliary to the grand Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair held in St. Louis—as well as the author’s recent dental treatments. The author of this letter opens by detailing the severe toothache that has incapacitated her for the past month:For the last.....
A scarce illustrated guide to Colorado’s famed Manitou Caverns, recently opened as a tourist attraction and, after a swarm of sightseers stripped neighboring caves of their stalactites, fitted out with protective “screens” so that future visitors might see the caverns “as left by the hand of God.” The guide begins.....
First and only edition of this scarce account of a shipwreck in the treacherous waters of the Bay of Tramore, notable for the loss of 264 soldiers of the 59th Regiment, which was much distinguished in the Napoleonic Wars. Following the signing of the peace treaty with France on 6.....
![Item #8889 [Autograph letter, signed, from a California gold miner to his brother in Maine.]....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8889_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729109613)
An earnest letter by a gold miner from Maine on the difficulties and hopes of his new life in California, as well as the broader gold rush scene. Writing from Mormon Island to his brother John H. Oliver, who lived in Bath, Maine, Henry M. Oliver (1808–1876) begins this letter.....
An unrecorded promotional booklet for the town of Cocoa, Florida, located along the east coast’s Indian River. Compiled by the Cocoa Board of Trade, this appealing promotional begins with a geographical and historical sketch of the city of Cocoa, which is popularly known as the “Gem City of the.....
A sheet of four precisely drawn lithographic views of one of America’s first resort towns, based on photographs taken by Frederick M. Smith. The topmost view, from “The Inner Ledge off Phillips Point,” shows Lincoln House, Ocean House, and Whale Beach. Below this is “View from Lincoln House towards Lynn,”.....
Abridged pamphlet version of the second edition of Judge Stroud’s groundbreaking work surveying the slave codes of the period in all twelve slave-holding states and reviewing Constitutional provisions bearing on slavery. First published in 1827, this work greatly influenced national thinking on the issue of slavery by using slave law.....
A delightful original work of documentary folk art depicting the construction of the ill-fated Chenango Canal Extension, intended to connect the New York canal system with the vast coal fields of Pennsylvania and built in part by a notoriously corrupt contractor later dubbed the “canal boss” for his prominent role.....
A letter from a Vermont-born schoolteacher in present-day West Virginia describing the deplorable state of education in the region, where illiteracy was pervasive, despite the wealth of the state. Tyrrell, a former “agent and overseer of the stage line and plantation” in Cabell County had by the first of August.....
A rare lithograph by a Saratoga artist, showing the famous High Rock Spring, with its distinctive mineral deposit. The strange, shell-shaped mineral deposit of High Rock Spring appears in the foreground, its healing waters distributed to two fashionable visitors by a dipper-bearing woman extending a mug to a fashionable gentleman.....
A scarce guide to the leisure destinations in the Boston Harbor region, including a map of the routes and a brief history of steamer travel between Boston and Hingham. “Fortunate, indeed, it is” for the poor and laboring classes of the Boston area that “there is an Elysium, and that.....