Enthralling narrative of Englishman John Browne, detailing his journey with five fellow military deserters from St. Helena Island, three of whom make their way to Brazil, ending with Browne’s visit to Cape Town and return to St. Helena where he delivers this narrative under oath . John Browne’s narrative—the.....
First edition of Collins’s account of his overland journey and other western adventures. “The author was a post trader at Fort Laramie for 10 years. His book is a most valuable journal of his trip across the plains and adventures among the Indians; hunting, mining, and trading experiences” (Eberstadt). In.....
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...
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.....
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.....
A splendid image of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River from the U. S. Geological Survey series. J. K. Hillers (1843-1925) was an important early photographer of the West, and one of the first to photograph the Grand Canyon region. He began his career as a boatman on John.....
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A sammelband of five 18th century plays, four of them British imprints and one American, bound for Chauncey Whittlesey (1743-1812) of Middletown, Connecticut, whose name appears on the first two endpapers and each title-page. The one American imprint included here, the first American edition of Thomas Morton’s Secrets Worth Knowing.....
First edition of this scarce 17th-century description of New England, including valuable observations on the natural history of the region: "the earliest work on the Natural History of New England" (Rich). Josselyn visited America in 1638-39 and again from 1663 to 1671, spending most of his second sojourn with his.....
A substantive letter by a Confederate Colonel from Virginia featuring content on taking Yankee prisoners; a distressing episode of a pregnant woman fleeing a shelled home; and an impassioned and lengthy attack on substitute brokers who profited off the war through fraud and other means. Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.....
First edition, limited to 400 copies, this copy number 343. Inscribed by Marin on the half-title: “To Stanley Clifford write some more, John Marin.” A volume of letters written to Alfred Stieglitz between 1910 and 1930, reflecting the close relationship between the artist and the gallerist. Stieglitz was a crucial.....
Galley proof of a rousing indictment of the Grant Administration delivered at a convention in Abraham Lincoln’s hometown by John McClernand, a Civil War general and Grant’s former subordinate. McClernand’s oration assails Grant’s use of the military as part of reconstruction, specifically citing the installation of William Pitt Kellogg.....
A group of papers documenting book donations made by the Maryland State Library to the Library of Congress in 1841, including personal correspondence between librarians John S. Meehan of the library of Congress and D. Ridgley of State Library of Maryland. A form issued by The Committee on the.....
A rare and important eighteenth century chart of the waters around Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, being the first chart to focus on Nantucket published in the United States and the first to incorporate original material compiled by Americans. Drawn by Paul Pinkham, a shipmaster and the Keeper of Nantucket’s Sandy.....
First edition of Reed’s first book. One of 500 copies printed. Inscribed on the flyleaf: “To darling Alice with the profoundest respect of the unworthy Author John Reed Jan. 12, 1916.” CONDITION: Very good, old pencil inscription on terminal endpaper.
An engaging group of letters between the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Maine historical novelist and a former marine Captain stationed in Haiti turned author, concerning research for the former’s novel, Lydia Bailey. Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1885–1957) of Kennebunk, Maine, was a renowned journalist and author of American historical fiction. His Lydia.....
A fascinating colonial house construction contract, detailing architectural specifications and terms of labor, between New Jersey and Pennsylvania landowner John Rodman (1679–1756) of Burlington, New Jersey and two consecutive carpenters he hired to construct a house in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. This memorandum records agreements between Rodman and carpenters Joseph Ketcham.....
Stated second edition. A rare farrier’s manual, first published in 1825. OCLC records only five copies of the first edition and no copies of this second edition. CONDITION: Very good, some rubbing and stains to covers, multiple previous owners’ names written on paste down and title page.
A handsomely colored example of the first state of Speed’s fine map of Virginia and Maryland, engraved by Francis Lamb, one of several maps of North American subjects first introduced into The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britiain in the 1676 edition. As noted by Burden, this was.....
A rare manuscript playbill, with appealing calligraphic lettering, advertising a shipboard theater performance given on the USS Port Royal while off the coast of Florida during the Civil War, accompanied by two letters by a Navy man and performer in the production. John A. Stammers was living in Boston when.....
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Six original illustrations for Liberty magazine’s serialized publication of the novel The Red Napoleon (1929), an early fictional account of a full-scale Soviet invasion and attempted conquest of the world. The acclaimed war correspondent, journalist and novelist Floyd Gibbons (1887–1939) first published The Red Napoleon in Liberty magazine, which commissioned.....
A scarce and appealing pocket map published early in the Civil War showing the locus of conflict and featuring portraits of two Union Navy commanders who played pivotal roles in the first year of the war. Extending from Norfolk, Virginia in the south to Baltimore in the north, and the.....
The publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 resulted in a virtual explosion of books, broadsides, sheet music, posters and other ephemera. Boston publisher John P. Jewett (1814–1884) published this song for voice and piano in the same year that he published the first edition of the novel. The price.....
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An intriguing letter to Sam Houston as a U.S. Senator, from a party of Virginia democrats, docketed by Houston. This is an ostensibly routine invitation to a July 28th and 29th 1848 mass meeting at the Orange Co., Virginia Court House, written by several prominent Virginia Democrats. Though the real.....
The scarce first American edition of this juvenile emblem book first published in England in 1772. Erastus Corning (1794-1872) was a four-time Mayor of Albany and served as President of the New York Central Railroad. Evans 22854; Welch 1457.1. Rosenbach cites only the 1815 Hartford edition. Only one copy recorded.....