MARSHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS MANUSCRIPT MAP

A skillfully drawn manuscript map, which appears to have been compiled for an official purpose, but does not appear to have been published.  This map focuses on the waterfront villages of Marshfield, Massachusetts, a town perhaps best known as the home of Daniel Webster, whose house in Green.....

IN THE MAINE WOODS
WITH ‘AN INDIAN GUIDE’

Second edition, revised, with no date on the title page, a copyright date of 1883 (the date of the first edition) on the copyright page, and a preface dated 1888. Hubbard notes in the introduction that his intent is to offer “a true and circumstantial delineation of the camper’s life.....

SIGNED LIMITED ALDUS HUXLEY

One of ninety-one copies signed by Huxley, this copy un-numbered; also inscribed by the binder, James Wells, as follows: “For Laurence Lee who has never known ‘an’ erratum from his friend James Wells August 15th 1933.”.

A YOUNG JAPANESE-AMERICAN WOMAN
AT THE POSTON INTERNMENT CAMP

The personal album of Fusako Imoto featuring over 260 photographs chronicling life at the Poston (Camp II) Relocation Center, Arizona, and including photos of other Japanese-American internees at other relocation camps. When approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans were forcibly relocated at the onset of WWII, it was common for families and communities.....

A BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD CLASSIC

A classic down-east guide-book in the form of an entertaining narrative of three travelers enjoying the sights along the Boston & Maine Railroad, mixing droll humor with local history and anecdotal details about train and steamship travel in the 1880s.   The Latch String refers to an old Yankee.....

NEWSPAPER FOR THE SIOUX, IN DAKOTA AND ENGLISH

A scarce run of this long-lived publication targeted at both the Sioux and white Christian readers.  Iapi Oaye was begun by Reverend J. P. Williamson in 1871 for the people of the Dakota Mission, which was founded in 1835. It was printed in Chicago until 1883, when it moved.....

JACKSON’S LANDMARK FIRST REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF MAINE

First edition of the first of Jackson’s three reports on the geology of Maine. This copy originally belonged to noted Maine educator John Merrick (1766-1862). Born in Plymouth, Mass., Charles T. Jackson (1805–1880) was a physician and pioneering geologist and mineralogist who played an important role in the emergent state.....

LURAY CAVERNS IN THE 1880s

A set of four dramatic images of Luray caverns, entitled (clockwise from upper left): Throne in Cathedral, Saracen’s Tent; Campbell’s Hall; and Brand’s Cascade.Two of the cavern titles reflect their discovery and early exploration. Local tinsmith Andrew Campbell and nephew Billy discovered the draft of cool air leading to the.....

“A MAGNIFICENT HERD OF AMERICA’S
GREATEST ANIMAL WILL BE PERPETUATED FOREVER”

A compelling letter involving two men whose efforts did much to save the buffalo from extinction, both of whom had close ties to President Teddy Roosevelt.  A noted professional hunter (turned preserver) of bison, Charles Jesse “Buffalo” Jones (1844–1919) gained international attention for capturing, taming, and breeding the endangered.....

A RARE OPIUM WAR LITHOGRAPH

An exceptionally rare lithograph depicting The Battle of the Pearl River Forts, also known as the Battle of the Barrier Forts, in late 1856, at the beginning of the Second Opium War. The USS Portsmouth is shown in the center of the river exchanging fire with four forts visible at.....

RARE POSTCARD SALES
AND HOTEL PROMOTION ALBUM

A rare and impressive promotional album advertising twenty-four first-class resorts and hotels located predominately in the Northeast, featuring related postcards offered for sale by the compiler.  Accomplishing both promotion and self-promotion, the present album was compiled and assembled by salesman and publisher George W. Ketchum, who maintained offices at.....

NERO; OR, THE DESTRUCTION OF ROME
AT BARNUM & BAILEY’S

A striking, dramatic program for a historic spectacle produced and directed by Imre Kiralfy for Barnum & Bailey in New York City.  Credits for this show are given on page one: music composed by Sgr. Angelo Venanzi of Milan; costumes and accessories by Wilhelm of London; as well as.....

A MARVELOUS COLLECTION OF VIENNESE VIEWS

A spectacular set of engravings after drawings by Salomon Kleiner picturing one of the most extraordinary estates of the eighteenth century, Prince Eugene of Savoy’s Belvedere, in Vienna, designed by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, court architect to the Hapsburgs.  Residences Memorables comprises a series of engravings published in ten.....