A fine brassfounder’s trade catalogue illustrating over 600 objects on eighty-one plates (twelve folding), each numbered and (most) priced in manuscript, dating around 1811 as one leaf has a dated watermark (most likely from a Birmingham manufacturer)—this copy turned up in Spain, where it appears to have been kept for.....
An extraordinary collection of illustrated envelope covers produced during the Civil War, featuring a cornucopia of themes relating to the war and its effect on everyday life, as mounted and bound by an early twentieth century collector. These envelopes feature a remarkably wide range of subjects: American flags; eagles; military.....
The first British edition of the proceedings of the first Continental Congress, “one of the most important documents of the American Revolution” (Reese). These Extracts represent a condensed version of the activity of the Continental Congress’s first session, between September 5th and October 26th, 1774, and it is through them—reprinted.....
A scarce supplement to An Empire Illustrated, a special issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, intended at last in part to promote real estate investment in Texas. This supplement consists mainly of an article entitled “The Lone Star State”—a narrative of a two months’ trip through Texas taken by.....
This appealing and apparently unrecorded broadside advertises hiking excursions up Mt. Tamalpais, some 22 miles north of San Francisco in Marin County, California. “Personally conducted” by one Dawson Mayer, these excursions accommodated up to 60 people and cost $2.50, including a luncheon at the Tavern of Tamalpais. Offered between May.....
Volume 2, No. 2 in this celebrated series of almanacs, containing a variety of tall tales in backwoods dialect, illustrated with wood engravings. The contents include The Heroine of Kaintuck; Col. Crockett and the Bear and the Swallows; Gum Swamp Breeding; A Goose Pulling; Severe Courtship; The Way They Travel.....
A captivating and very rare satire of the presidential campaign of 1844, employing the popular metaphor of “Up Salt River” to denote political peril or defeat. Whig nominee Henry Clay and his running mate Theodore Frelinghuysen, in their boat Tariff, lead the other candidates in the race up Salt River.....
An unrecorded publisher’s handbill advertising an 1860 campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln and his running mate Hannibal Hamlin. This prospectus suggests that an unprecedented demand for Joseph H. Barrett’s book on Lincoln and Hamlin, Life of Abraham Lincoln… (1860), has prevented the publishers from announcing the day of the work’s.....
An account of the infamous Northampton heist; the robbers' treatment of their captives; how they escaped; the losses endured by the bank, etc., complete with a floor plan of the house of the cashier Whittelsey, who was held captive. Dubbed the "greatest burglary on record," on the morning of January.....
An engaging promotional brochure for the brand new town of Chula Vista, with a map of the San Diego Bay region. This very engaging brochure promotes the land, climate, crops, and cost of living in the San Diego Bay area and, particularly, the San Diego Land & Town Company’s newly-built.....
An 1878 printing of the first complete translation of the four Gospels in Seneca, which first appeared in 1872. This translation of the Gospels is by Asher Wright (1803–1875), a missionary on the Seneca reservation from 1831 to 1875 who helped organize opposition to the corrupt 1838 Treaty of Buffalo.....
The first folio Bible printed in America, by the country’s “patriot printer,” Isaiah Thomas. Dubbed “the Baskerville of America” by Benjamin Franklin, Isaiah Thomas issued a folio and a quarter Bible simultaneously, and Wright notes that “The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any.....
Program for Marian Anderson’s pathbreaking 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial, a landmark event that threw American segregation into sharp relief and inaugurated the Lincoln Memorial as a symbolic venue for Civil Rights. When the Daughters of the American Revolution barred Marian Anderson, already an internationally-acclaimed singer, from performing at.....
A handsomely illustrated painting and art supply catalog including products such as China palettes, Tin boxes, Easels, Bronze powders, Putty knives, Vellum cloth, German drawing papers, Chinese Water Closet Paper, Sketch books, Camel’s Hair Mottlers, Badger Hair Blenders, and Red Sable Lettering Pencils. The numerous brushes offered include French Bristle.....
A land promotion broadside advertising transportation via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway to the company’s land grant and elsewhere. Promising the “shortest and quickest route” to points in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this broadside publishes the “liberal rates and allowance of baggage for Seekers of land in.....
An iconic satire of a gold-hunter, published at the height of the California Gold Rush. This scarce print depicts a prospective gold miner as an inappropriately well-dressed man in a knee-length coat, absurdly laden with mining tools, cookware, knives, and food as he walks overland to California along a body.....
A scarce volume of World War II anti-Japanese propaganda with a dramatic cover illustration depicting a Japanese soldier poised to butt strike a fallen Caucasian lady, while another soldier looks on. Text on the inside of the front cover suggests that the author of this work was a Danish-American journalist.....
The official account of the trial of the Jefferson Borden mutineers, held in the Circuit Court of the United States, District of Massachusetts. In the spring of 1875, the vessel Jefferson Borden—built on the Kennebunk River in Maine—departed from New Orleans and was making way for London under the command.....
A rare lithograph honoring John Mitchell—here dubbed “The Miner’s Champion”—who served as the President of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898–1908, with vignettes of coal mining scenes, including depictions of child labor. This print consists of a central portrait of John Mitchell set against a background of.....
First and only edition of this songster for Lincoln's second campaign, with a portrait on the cover depicting a beardless Lincoln, in spite of the fact that Lincoln had a beard at the time. Included here are eleven campaign songs, among them Shout Aloud For Lincoln, Hurrah! For Lincoln and.....
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A delightful Depression-era board game in the form of a treasure hunt map promoting the Little Orphan Annie radio show and the flavored milk supplement Ovaltine. This fantasy map depicts nine islands, various lands and rocks, vessels, hazards, and a multi-colored course snaking across the map. The players (between one.....
A contemporary manuscript copy of the declaration of intent of the patriots of present-day Portland, Maine to support the Continental Congress and oppose the “evil designs” of Parliament, made in Falmouth (now Portland) - one of the early hotbeds of the American Revolution. Dated more than a year before the.....
A manuscript record of prisoners held during the first four years of the newly built Washington County Jail in Rhode Island, including many prominent names of the county, as well as the first two African Americans in the county to sue white employers. This manuscript volume records the prisoners committed.....
A scarce and appealing map of Lake Hopatcong showing the various developments that sprang up around this vacation destination for New York city-dwellers. Depicting the lake lying along the border between Morris and Sussex Counties, this detailed and multi-colored map indicates along a forty-five mile shoreline hotels, steamboat landings.....
A rare and early map of the city of Pierre, published eight years after it was founded, and one year before it became the capital of the newly formed state of South Dakota. Founded in 1880, during the Great Dakota Boom of 1878-1887, Pierre began as a ferry landing on.....