A marvelous pictorial map of the fresh and saltwater fish found in North and Central America and the surrounding seas, with illustrations of a multitude of species, vignettes of anglers, text regarding numerous records, and four additional inset maps showing Panama, New Zealand, Tahiti, the Hawaiian Islands, and the fish.....
An anti-Vietnam War booklet featuring two notable speeches of Martin Lither King, Jr. which brought him to the fore as an important voice in the movement. In October 1965, a group of 100 clergymen gathered in New York to consider how best to challenge U.S. policy in Vietnam. They believed.....
A scarce Florida Keys promotional broadsheet featuring two maps and identifying over thirty points of interest in Key West and the broader Keys, as well as reflecting the naval buildup in Key West following World War II. The recto map shows Key West situated between the Gulf of Mexico and.....
![Item #10132 Journal of a Voyage in Bark Marion [Log of the Whale Ship Marion]. Clothier...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10132_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779197408)
A log from the golden age of American whaling, kept—unusually—by the ship’s captain, the notorious “Crazy Peirce,” the “Prince of the Pessimists,” including sixty whale and fluke stamps and offered, even more unusually, with a long, minutely detailed letter of instruction from the ship’s owner regarding the voyage. The logbook.....
A scarce and striking broadside, effectively two broadsides in one, published upon the execution of a trio of murderous brothers who were hanged in Buffalo, New York just a few months before the opening of the Erie Canal. Nelson, Israel, and Isaac Thayer—known in the small town of Boston, New.....
![Item #5233 [Originial Illustrations for The Red Napoleon.]. Harold Von Schmidt, John...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5233.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563890988)
Six original illustrations for Liberty magazine’s serialized publication of the novel The Red Napoleon (1929), an early fictional account of a full-scale Soviet invasion and attempted conquest of the world. The acclaimed war correspondent, journalist and novelist Floyd Gibbons (1887–1939) first published The Red Napoleon in Liberty magazine, which commissioned.....
Weld, an Irishman, arrived in Philadelphia in late 1795 at the age of nineteen. His observations during two years of travels through eastern North America and Canada, told through a series of letters, comprise one of the most popular narratives of the day. Story wrote that “his account of Canada.....