![A mammoth album of circus photographs]. James V. Chloupek, compiler](/pictures/thumb/4607_1.jpg?v=1526741456)
An extraordinary album of over 1000 extensively captioned photographs evidently compiled by circus devotee, collector, and amateur photographer James Chloupek or someone close to him, chronicling the American circus scene in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly around the time of World War II. This remarkable album...
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...
An exceptionally rare colonial map of the Kennebec River region in Maine, relating to the contest for land ownership between two Boston-based land investment companies, the Brunswick Proprietors (also known as the Pejepscot Company) and the Kennebec Proprietors (also known as the Plymouth Company). This is the earliest extant map...
A rare portfolio of photographs documenting Schliemann’s discovery of the great treasure at Hissarlik. One of 500 copies. “Apart from the value of the Atlas caused by its extreme rarity, it also has the additional interest of being the first archaeological work illustrated with actual photographs…The plates forming the.....
![N.Y. Vols at Petersburg, Va. [and] Winter Camp of the Third Brigade N Y. Vols. . H. Shorey,...](/pictures/thumb/4055_1.jpg?v=1506519437)
A handsome and vividly detailed pair of eyewitness Civil War watercolors executed by a member of the Third Brigade of the New York Volunteers. Edwin H. Shorey of Utica, New York enlisted as a private on October 5th, 1861 and was mustered into Company “B” of the New York 57th.....