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.....
First edition of this important collection of conduct and morality tales for African American children, written by a leading member of the “emancipation generation” and illustrated by an artist who would go on to work extensively with W. E. B. DuBois. Advertised as “the only book ever published for negro.....
A large illustrated circular promoting a Wild West-cum-circus show in New York City produced by Adam Forepaugh. Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890) was one of the great circus organizers of 19th century America from immediately after the Civil War until his death in 1890. Forepaugh is generally credited with devising the “Wild.....
Third and best edition. "One of the first published accounts of the gold discovery in book form "--Streeter. The first and second editions were published in 1848, and included only a small woodcut map. Included here is a larger folding map entitled “Map of the United States Mexico &c Showing.....
A scarce account based on a diary kept by Col. Charles B. Fox who served with the 55th Mass. Infantry Regiment—the second African American regiment formed during the Civil War—with important content on the company’s black volunteers. Massachusetts Governor John Andrew created the 55th in 1863 in response to the.....
First edition. A work of didactic fiction chronicling the demise of a young atheist. It was evidently popular. Wright records four editions. Mary Anna Fox's only other recorded work is The Discontented Robins (1842). OCLC records eight copies. REFERENCES: Wright 999. CONDITION: Very good, early ownership inscription dated.....
![Item #5344 A NEW AND CORRECT MAP of the WORLD According to the latest Discoveries. [with:] W.G....](/pictures/thumb/5344_1.jpg?v=1560464364)
A remarkable pair of schoolboy maps, drawn concurrently at the Washington Academy. Two nearly-identical schoolboy maps of the United States, large in size, detailed in content and refined in execution. Remarkable for having been produced at the same school on the same date. Aside from the intrinsic appeal.....
An account of the founding and initial operation of the first hospital established in the English colonies, with a revealing autograph letter of transmittal and solicitation to one Thomas Worth signed by Hospital managers John Smith and John Reynell. Written by Franklin at the request of the Hospital trustees, the.....
Centennial edition. Limited to 41 copies, 26 being lettered copies bound in full calf. This copy letter “K.” With two evocative photographic illustrations by Larry Hayden, one illustrating Home Burial and the other After Apple Picking. The third illustration, which appears at the head of the colophon page, reproduces an inscribed.....
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.....
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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.....
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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 letter-sheet showing the Gold Rush town of Springfield, California during its heyday. This is the first and only nineteenth century view of Springfield, California, as noted by Reps. The image depicts the “town square, flagpole in center surrounded by scattered dwellings; goats on low knoll in foreground” (Peters.....
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.....