In this “Statistical View,” published as a companion volume to his seminal Map of the District of Maine, Greenleaf attempted to provide a geographic and economic overview of Maine, which at the time remained a district of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Greenleaf focused on the interior portion of the District.....
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.....
The scarce, classic work on the state gemstone of Maine—an exhaustive study not only of the mineral’s physical properties, but also the history of its discovery, understanding, and the origins of its name. Hamlin was a Bangor-based physician who took a keen interest in geology, the tourmaline in particular. In.....
A handsome copy of this scarce, finely-illustrated volume on Maine’s famous tourmaline deposit. Augustus C. Hamlin M.D. (1829–1905) was a physician in Bangor, Maine and medical inspector for the U.S. Army who wrote on a variety subjects. Hamlin was the son of Elijah Hamlin, one of the discoverers in.....
The illustrated catalog for the Harmon Foundation’s 1931 exhibition of fine art by contemporary black artists. Illustrated on the front wrapper is a bust of an African-American boy entitled “Chester” by Sargent Claude Johnson. This catalog was produced in connection with the 1931 Harmon Foundation exhibit that took place.....
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.....
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.....
First edition. Hitchcock, a New York socialite, and her friend Edith van Buren traveled with their Great Dane Ivan from San Francisco to Alaska by steamer, up the Yukon River by barge, and settled on land outside Dawson. Both women become free miners amid the Gold Rush of 1898, in.....
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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.....
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An unsophisticated copy of this handsome book of hours, the earliest dated production of Anabat’s press. Anabat was a native of Brittany; his press was active in Paris between 1505 and 1510. All of the books that he printed were done for other publishers; the vast majority were books.....
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.....
The rare autobiography of Louis Hughes, who was born into slavery, escaped near the end of the Civil War, and after the war worked as a professional nurse, having acquired his initial knowledge of medicine from his owner while a slave. Louis Hughes (1832–1913) was born on a plantation.....
An early promotional pamphlet for a hernial truss, featuring a folding-plate of the patented apparatus and directions for use. A prominent and influential doctor in New York, Amos G. Hull (1775–1835) was a pioneer physician, surgeon and inventor of the “Patent Hinge Truss,” for the treatment of Prolapsus Uteri.....
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.”.
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A rare financial statement of the Illinois Central Railroad Co. with a fine, large railroad map of the entirety of Illinois and portions of Missouri and Indiana. The Illinois Central Railroad Company was established in 1851 as the first land-grant railroad in America. Here the Directors present an end-of-the-year Report.....
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.....
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.....
A pamphlet advocating for the enlistment of African-Americans in the Union army during the Civil War, citing historical precedent and addressing the bias against their service. This pamphlet opens urgently with the following pronouncement: “We are in the midst of a great war for the existence of free institutions.....
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.....
First edition. Inscribed by the author. This is the third of Jackson’s three reports on the geology of Maine. 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 geological survey movement of his day.....
A delightful volume of trial drawings, many of them satirical, for an illustrated alphabet featuring a variety of humorous and imaginative characters complimenting Johnston’s limericks. The volume begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one consisting of the phrase “The Envelope” graced by an angelic figure holding a brush and canvas.....
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.....
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.....
An exceptionally handsome monograph on the work of British illustrator Walter Crane, and still the most authoritative work on the artist. Richly illustrated with chromolithographs, two tipped-in facsimile leaves from the Kelmscott Press edition of The Story of the Glittering Plain, and examples of Crane’s paintings, book illustrations, wallpaper designs.....
First and only edition of the second collection of poetry by this African-American poet from Cincinnati, with illustrations of ancient African art and other African-American imagery throughout. Clay (also known as Kwame Mwanafunsi) dedicates this volume to several women including his daughter and mother, as well as “to all my.....