A fascinating unrecorded broadside for the Delaware and Hudson Canal listing its twenty-two rules, regulations and by-laws, illustrated with a wood-engraving of a canal boat being towed by a team of horses. Built between 1825 and 1829, the 108 mile-long Delaware and Hudson Canal was built to transport anthracite coal.....
An unusually handsome, wide-margined copy of this marvelous collection of views of early eighteenth-century Vienna. The series begins with a beautifully designed allegorical plate consisting of a panoramic view of the city in the form of a relief panel on a monument surmounted by an eagle, with two figures.....
An unrecorded broadside advertising excursions on a thirty-person sailboat on a lake in Marlborough, Mass., illustrated—rather incongruously—with an engraving of Old Ironsides. Claiming experience and skill in the management of sailboats, George C. Dennis of Marlborough, Mass. here notifies the public that he has acquired a sailboat and placed her.....
![Item #5709 Vues du Parc de Nogent [cover title]. Isidore-Laurent Deroy, artist](/pictures/thumb/5709_1.jpg?v=1672765475)
A lovely and historically valuable “estate portrait” album of original watercolor views by painter and lithographer Isidore-Laurent Deroy depicting the grounds of the Parc de Nogent and its residence, noted for its incorporation of the façade of a 16th century château, rescued at the eleventh hour from demolition in 1833.....
![Item #3547 [Penobscot Bay to Blue Hill Bay, Maine]. J. F. W. Des Barres](/pictures/thumb/3547_1.jpg?v=1669739002)
A rare chart depicting the Penobscot Bay region of Maine, from the most celebrated maritime atlas of the eighteenth century, The Atlantic Neptune. CONDITION: Good, trimmed close at top and bottom, with loss of a portion of neat line at top and all of neat line at bottom, lower portions.....
![Item #7796 [Uncut sheet of four Hartford & New Haven Turnpike tickets]. Amos Doolittle, engraver](/pictures/thumb/7796_1.jpg?v=1673202970)
A rare uncut sheet of four different passes for the Hartford & New Haven Turnpike in Connecticut, engraved by Amos Doolittle and illustrated with charming vignettes of various forms of transportation. During the 1790s many banks were formed throughout Connecticut and the nation. Sensing an opportunity in this trend, Doolittle.....
First edition of this play set in a mythical ancient Egypt. Alexander Dow (d. 1779) spent much of his life serving in the British army in India. According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature in 1768 Dow “joined the fashion for Oriental Tales with Tales....of the Inatulla of Dehli.....
![Item #7195 [A letter from a young Ziegfeld Follies hopeful.]. Dumbris?, Betty](/pictures/thumb/7195_1.jpg?v=1640792262)
A vivacious letter from a soon-to-be Ziegfeld Follies girl, capturing the voice and excitement of “the glory days” of American theatrical revue. This letter, written by young woman in the midst of a multi-part audition for Ziegfeld’s Follies, provides a breathless glimpse of the gateway to Florenz Ziegfeld’s “fairy-tale.....
![Item #3415 Narrative of Thirty-Four Years Slavery and Travels [Bound with:] De May, R. Narrative...](/pictures/thumb/3415.jpg?v=1560463310)
A pair of African shipwreck/captivity narratives, both published as part of no. 3, vol. II of the publisher's [New] Voyages and Travels (1819–1823), but also sometimes found as separate pamphlets or bound together, as here. “Dumont was wrecked in Oct. 1782, on the coast between Oran and Algiers. He was captured.....
A rare discharge certificate relating to the aftermath of the Spirit Lake Massacre which saw a frontier volunteer party undertake a treacherous winter expedition to pursue the hostile Sioux, guard against further attacks upon settlers, bury the dead, and attempt to recover four female hostages seized by the Indians...
A scarce and vivid lithograph illustrating the tensions surrounding the passage of the fugitive slave law. The Library of Congress provides an excellent description of this evocative print: “A satire on the antagonism between Northern abolitionists on the one hand, and Secretary of State Daniel Webster and other supporters of.....
An unusually decorative and lively photo album documenting the recreational and romantic life of a group of central Illinois friends in the early 20th Century. This album is striking for its attractive, neatly accomplished manuscript captions and illuminations—with cobwebs and other patterns and devices—in white ink, enhancing a lively.....
A promotional broadside centering on “poet-prospector” Clarence E. Eddy’s evocative narrative of his discovery of a new mine in central Idaho, which he now announces to the public. Featured at the top is “one of the few pictures thus far taken at the new Monte Cristo mine” in Custer.....
A striking post-WWII panoramic map of the Southwest including portions of Nevada and Arizona, as well as California’s Death Valley and Utah’s Zion, Bryce and Cedar Breaks areas, depicting the vast region accessible via the Union Pacific Railroad, including its mountains, cliffs, washes, plateaus, mines, Hoover and other dams, Nellis.....
An interesting letter revealing some of the difficulties involved in the life of an itinerant artist in the first half of the nineteenth century, addressed to Abraham Bell & Son, a Quaker shipping firm located in New York City. Edouart, writing from Saratoga, is inquiring about his supply cases which.....
![Item #7629 $750 Reward! A Reward of $250 for each, will pe [sic] paid at the office of Wells...](/pictures/thumb/7629_1.jpg?v=1662669908)
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).....
![Item #7941 [Archive of early American missionaries to Hawaii.]. John S. Emerson, et. al, Ursula...](/pictures/thumb/7941_1.jpg?v=1674142860)
An extraordinary archive of a noted Hawaiian missionary couple, including over thirty years of epistolary journals, firsthand accounts of voyages to Micronesia and the Marquesas, numerous letters, a substantial collection of Hawaiian photos, several manuscript maps, and a charming original watercolor of the Emerson house in Waialua. Also embracing materials.....
First American edition, first issue. BAL 5211. CONDITION: Good, lightly soiled, two small ink spots on rear cover.
First American edition, first issue. BAL 5211.
![Item #7378 [Album of Northern California lumbering real photo postcards.]. A. W. Ericson, J. H....](/pictures/thumb/7378_1.jpg?v=1648594504)
An evocative album documenting the Northern California lumbering industry in the early 20th century. Comprising images by at least eight identified photographers, this album begins with a range of photos of lumberjacks posing in front of massive felled, or soon-to-be felled, Redwood trees in Humboldt County. Images show the transportation.....
A rare and delightful lithograph advertising a nineteenth century Italian weight-lifting champion and performer. Sali is shown here in a central portrait, with three medals pinned to his chest, one of which appears to be dated 1885. Below him are the various weights and clubs used in his act.....
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 rare broadside for James Ferguson’s British collection of exotic “curiosities of nature” and wax exhibition. Proprietor Mr. James Ferguson here announces he has just engaged the following "celebrated curiosities of nature": Senor & Senora Santiago de Los Santos, the former from Philippina Island, near China; The Smallest Man in.....
An exceedingly rare pictorial broadside advertising Turner Brothers wines, syrups, and cordials. The broadside was drawn by John Ffooks, who depicts the manufacturing facilities of the Turner Brothers in New York City, Buffalo, and San Francisco in three separate insets. The latter depiction is especially interesting, as it sets.....
A scarce and very fine engraved view of Harvard, based on a painting by early American view and landscape painter Alvin Fisher. This evocative 1820s engraving depicts the campus from the south, showing the six halls that constituted the campus at the time: Massachusetts Hall, Harvard Hall, Stoughton Hall.....