1864 ANTI-LINCOLN CAMPAIGN PAMPHLET
ON BREACHED CIVIL LIBERTIES
AND LINCOLN’S “HIGH POLITICAL CRIMES”

A fascinating pamphlet issued during the 1864 presidential campaign, printing an address by the Chairman of the National Democratic Committee protesting violations of civil liberties under Union/Republican military rule amid the ongoing Civil War, along with a searing speech by Abraham Oakey Hall taking President Lincoln to task for his.....

EXTENSIVE PHOTO ALBUM OF NEW ENGLAND
BANK INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS, 1920s

An unusually rich document of bank architecture and bank interiors in New England and elsewhere, evidently for the use of a firm involved in bank design. Stamps on the versos of several photos suggest that this album was compiled and owned by the General Bank Equipment Co., which at the.....

EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF BREWER, MAINE AND VICINITY

A substantial archive of manuscript documents and letters, many of which relate to the early development of the town of Brewer, Maine and the role of Samuel B. Stone as “father of the town,” with letters concerning the administration and development of land in nearby Eddington, etc. The earliest document.....

A REMARKABLE 18TH-CENTURY
AMERICAN MEDICAL BROADSIDE…
ONLY THE SECOND KNOWN EXAMPLE

A remarkable and extremely rare broadside developed in 1785 by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for a unusually ambitious mortality survey of Massachusetts towns. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was (and is) an honorary society chartered in 1780 by the Massachusetts General Court with the broad.....

ARCHIVE OF MATERIALS RELATING TO EXPLORER,
ARTIST AND AUTHOR CHARLES W. FURLONG, 1908–1940s

An engaging collection of materials reflecting the wide-ranging interests and activities of a noted twentieth century adventurer. Born in Massachusetts, Charles Wellington Furlong (1874–1967) was an explorer, soldier, artist, photographer, cowboy, and author. He studied at L’École des Beaux Arts in France, was a private art instructor, and became head.....

18TH CENTURY SAMMELBAND
WITH RARE AMERICAN DRAMATIC IMPRINT

A sammelband of five 18th century plays, four of them British imprints and one American, bound for Chauncey Whittlesey (1743-1812) of Middletown, Connecticut, whose name appears on the first two endpapers and each title-page. The one American imprint included here, the first American edition of Thomas Morton’s Secrets Worth Knowing.....

ARGUING FOR ENLISTMENT
OF ‘NEGRO SOLDIERS’ IN THE CIVIL WAR

A pamphlet advocating for the enlistment of African-Americans in the Union army during the Civil War, citing historical precedent and addressing the bias against their service. This pamphlet opens urgently with the following pronouncement: “We are in the midst of a great war for the existence of free institutions. No.....

‘DOGS OF WAR’ PERSUASIVE MAP,
PUBLISHED SHORTLY AFTER
THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR I

A rare “serio-comic” map of Europe in 1914 with warring nations represented as dogs and other countries represented as caricatured soldiers displaying their attitudes toward the war.  Issued shortly after the French and British forces stopped Germany’s advance at the Battle of Mons on 23 August 1914, this map represents.....

DR. KING’S ANTI-WAR VOICE

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.....

MASSACHUSETTS MINISTERS ON SLAVERY

A report on slavery from a Committee of nine Congregational ministers from Massachusetts, each member writing a section. Contents include: Historical Sketches of Slavery, particularly in the United States; How Treated by Christ and the Apostles; Efforts in Opposition to Slavery; The Connection Between Slavery and the Constitution of the.....

MANUSCRIPT REPORTS
FOR THE BATTLE OF PORT GIBSON

A compelling brigade battlefield report composed in the immediate wake of the Battle of Port Gibson (Mississippi, 1 May ‘63), an assault that set the stage for Grant’s pivotal siege of Vicksburg; the eight reports of Army of the Tennessee regiments and batteries chronicle extensive combat; the capture of Confederate.....

PHOTO ARCHIVE OF THE OASIS RANCH
AND THE PIPER FAMILY OF
MONO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, 1860s–1910 

A collection of fifty-five photographs documenting the noted Oasis Ranch in Mono County, California, its environs, and the affluent Piper family.  Born in Battle Creek, Michigan, Noah T. Piper (1843–1910) was the eleventh of fifteen children of a British family that emigrated to the U.S. in 1842. Piper came to.....

A STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENT
FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN RAILROADS

A rare, presumably unique, and truly splendid in-house photograph album documenting engines manufactured by the Brooks Locomotive Works from 1871 to 1880. Founded in 1869 by Horatio G. Brooks, the former chief engineer for the New York & Erie Railroad, the Brooks Locomotive Works built locomotives for many of the.....