A scarce, early photograph of Frost seated in his writing chair, inscribed in the lower left corner “Your friend R.F. at home.” This image is reproduced in Jay Parini’s Robert Frost : A Life, where it is described as taken at Frost's home in Franconia, New Hampshire in 1915.....
![3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry manuscript archive]. George S. Fuller, compiler](/pictures/thumb/6037_1.jpg?v=1603289347)
An archive of three manuscript volumes documenting this storied Maine Regiment, which saw much action serving in the Army of the Potomac. These records were compiled by 1st Lieut. George S. Fuller (1835–1913) of the 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry’s Company E. Composed chiefly of Kennebec lumbermen, the 3rd Maine.....
Archaeologist William Gell’s marvelous volume of hand-colored etchings and aquatints depicting “that part of the Troad, which is more particularly connected with the Iliad of Homer.” The introduction includes Gell’s account of his journey, and is followed by the plates and maps, each of which is accompanied by descriptive text.....
![George Gershwin photo-illustration signed by Ira Gershwin, et al.]. Ira Gershwin](/pictures/thumb/6975_1.jpg?v=1630774264)
A sheet music cover inscribed by Ira Gershwin and the stars of the 1945 biopic of George Gershwin to dancer and actress Ann Miller—a prolific performer in the classic Hollywood musical era of the 1940s and ‘50s. Released eight years after his premature death, the movie Rhapsody in Blue (1945).....
A brief but interesting letter from an important period in US–Indian relations, with mention of William Clark. George Gibson, then the Commissary General of Subsistence responsible for feeding the military, informs Lieutenant A.M. Wright that “deputation of Indians amounting to 28 persons will pass Mackinaw on their return from.....
MacDonald Gill’s iconic and foundational pictorial map of London and its underground railways. This is the third of three states of this map, indicated by the greyhound in the upper-left, located in the triangle of land above the sign reading "On to Wembley." Houses appear in the same triangle in.....
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.....
A rare sheet music requiem with a fine lithographic portrait of Custer on the title-page, published in the same year as the Battle of Little Bighorn. Although written without lyrics, this memorial composition commences with the directive, Maestoso, meaning intended to be played in a stately and majestic manner.....
A scarce pocket map of Kansas City accompanied by an inserted guide-book, providing much information on the development and potential of this important midwestern commercial hub in the 1880s. The map provides a comprehensive view of the city, situated at the confluence of the Missouri River and the Kansas River.....
First edition of this short biography of the writer Anne Gilchrist emphasizing her friendship with Whitman, as well as other significant literary figures. With a fine photogravure frontispiece portrait of Whitman printed by A.W. Elson & Co., Boston after a photograph by Frederick Gutekunst. Elson & Co. turned out some.....
An issue of the first newspaper published on Pike’s Peak, with a vivid front wrapper, extensive text, and photomechanical illustrations mostly from photos. The cover features a chromolithograph of a woman dressed all in red, looking through binoculars at a sunset just beyond Pike’s Peak. The railway can be.....
The scarce, first edition of this influential work advocating the use of whole grain flour for bread-making. Reverend Sylvester Graham (1794–1851) was a vegetarian and the inventor of “Graham bread,” known to us today in the rather corrupted form of the Graham cracker. His advocacy of whole grains and.....
A scarce Grand Army of the Republic broadside honoring veteran and Medal of Honor-recipient, John F. Chase, apparently in part to marshal support for 1888 presidential nominee Benjamin Harrison who supported veteran and disability pensions; with textual emphasis on Gettysburg and the G.A.R.’s Massachusetts wing. The Grand Army Record.....
A rare and impressive locomotive trade catalog illustrated with original photographs of engines and parts, providing comprehensive and detailed photographic documentation of locomotive construction. The photographs were taken by the firm of noted New York City photographer George Rockwood. Included here are portraits of the Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad.....
First edition of the first book devoted entirely to parrots in captivity, and one of the finest illustrated works on the order. Intended as a guide for keeping parrots as pets, the work features handsome hand-colored plates of macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. The plates were created by.....
Previously unrecorded map by Moses Greenleaf of Washington County Maine, intended for a never-realized second volume of his Survey of the State of Maine. The map is stripped to its essentials, showing Washington County and its state-representative districts in outline, presumably based on reapportionment following the Census of 1830. The voting population for.....
An atlas documenting improvements to the Chicago River, conducted between 1896 and 1899, toward the construction of a new sanitation and commercial shipping system, a project capping a decade of growth that saw the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893) and an increase of 600,000 in the city’s population. This atlas begins.....
An exceptionally rare War of 1812 map, conceived and issued while Hales was living in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the effects of the War were keenly felt. This map depicts the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River theater of the War, extending from Lower Canada (i.e., the lower St.....
Two letters of a Quaker woman living in Maryland and holding down the fort in her husband’s absence, recounting to him the aftermath of the 1864 Confederate attack on Washington. “Good news, good news,” begins the first of these two letters from Margaret Hallowell (née Stabler) to her husband James.....
The illustrated catalog for the Harmon Foundation’s 1935 exhibition of works by three contemporary black artists, held at the Delphic Studios. In addition to featuring the works and biographies of artists Malvin Gray Johnson, Richmond Barthé, and Sargent Johnson, the catalog is both a retrospective of the Harmon Foundation’s efforts.....
![President Harrison’s Inaugural Address. [caption title]. William Henry Harrison](/pictures/thumb/7384_1.jpg?v=1649102748)
A quite uncommon and unusual broadside printing on silk of William Henry Harrison's famous inaugural address. Harrison was the first president-elect to arrive in Washington by train, and for well over a century remained the oldest president-elect. On a snowy and blustery day Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address in.....
![Historical Notes of Burlington [Connecticut.] Written by J.C. Hart in 1871, formerly a resident...](/pictures/thumb/5920_1.jpg?v=1603315503)
An archive of materials bearing on the early history of Burlington, Connecticut, particularly interesting for its accounts of many citizens of whom little or nothing would otherwise be known. At the center of this archive is the manuscript text Historical Notes of Burlington by one Mr. J. C. Hart (1792–1881).....
![Manuscript Journal of a Boston Merchant]. Ralph Haskins](/pictures/thumb/2100_1.jpg?v=1560463139)
Manuscript journal of a Boston merchant—an uncle of Ralph Waldo Emerson—illuminating trade, shipping, and life in Boston during the early years of the American republic. Ralph Haskins, born in Boston on April 5, 1779, was apprenticed to Theodore Lyman, a well-established merchant, at a time when Boston was a......
A striking stereoview by Savannah photographer O. Pierre Havens showing a black woman in her dooryard regarding a dead chicken at her feet, with a gently satirical caption in the image reading “Who Kill Dat Chicken.” After the Civil War a considerable genre emerged depicting African Americans in stereoviews, often.....
An impressive image of Yellowstone Park’s Giant Geyser, with a burst of steam surrounded by mud and snow. F. Jay Haynes (1853–1921), nicknamed the Professor, was the official Yellowstone photographer from 1884–1921 and took the first known winter photographs of Yellowstone Park in 1887 on a 29-day, 200 mile epic.....