The scarce autobiography of the first African American to graduate from West Point, primarily chronicling his four years there, with the ownership inscription of Otelia Cromwell, the first black woman to graduate from Smith College and the daughter of early civil rights activist John Wesley Cromwell, as well as the.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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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.....
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.....
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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.....
First edition. #553 of 1050 copies, signed by both Laughlin and Cohn. Born in Louisiana, photographer Clarence John Laughlin (1905–1985) is best known for his photographs of the American South and his beloved New Orleans French Quarter. After working as a photographer for Vogue (with then-editor Edward Steichen) and for.....
The proceedings of the 1860 convention that nominated Lincoln for President, perhaps the most consequential political convention in the history of the United States. Described by Monaghan as the “stenographic report.” Records the speeches, official roll, balloting, platform, etc. REFERENCES: Monaghan 76; Sabin 65894. CONDITION: Very good, removed from.....
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A sammelband of 12 anti-slavery tracts from a variety of authors and sources, attempting to catch wavering minds and elucidate the many moral, patriotic, and financial disadvantages of slavery. Tract No. 1, Poems on Slavery by H. W. Longfellow, includes seven poems, among them To William E. Channing, The.....
A report on slavery from a Committee of nine Congregational ministers from Massachusetts, each member writing a section. Contents include: Historical Sketches of Slavery, particularly in the United States; How Treated by Christ and the Apostles; Efforts in Opposition to Slavery; The Connection Between Slavery and the Constitution of the.....
Stated second edition, inscribed by the author to ‘radical’ congressman Bill Ryan as follows: "To Bill Ryan for his courage, integrity and consistency. Best wishes M. A. "Spike" Harris 2/5/68." Harris’s ‘tour’ consists of a preface entitled, “Meet Uncle Spike, the Negro History Detective,” an introduction, and the following.....
Sixth edition. First issued in 1867, this fine guide-book went through six editions, only four of which (the third through the sixth) were illustrated with photographs. The five images in this sixth edition are different from those that appear in the other photographically illustrated editions. The photographs are large half.....
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A somewhat misinformed attempt to dispel the “ridiculously absurd” media reports of the death of Sitting Bull written by the Indian Agent who ordered his arrest. McLaughlin’s statement was solicited by the Indian Rights Association, a group composed largely of former abolitionists. Although their rhetoric of “civilizing” native peoples grates.....
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A rare complete run of this Civil War hospital newspaper, composed and published at Knight Hospital in New Haven, CT, offering insight into the lives of hospitalized soldiers during the War. Knight Hospital was one of nine Union hospitals where a newspaper was composed, edited and published on site.....
The scarce first edition of this early book of road maps, the second such work published in America, after Christopher Colles’s Survey of the Roads of the United States (1789), and the first to depict in detail the roads connecting New York, Philadelphia and Washington. The text begins with.....
The first edition of this important book on the culture of the Penobscot people of Maine. Nicolar undertook in this work, as he states in his preface, to answer the question “where did the red man come from?” and to “remove the fear that the life of the red.....
Stated “First American From the Third London Edition,” published in the year that Owen established the utopian community of New Harmony, Indiana, in an attempt to implement the principles outlined herein. One of two American editions published in 1825. The other edition was published in Cincinnati, as the “First American.....
One of a number of eighteenth-century editions of this popular captivity narrative, all of them rare in the market-place today. A spurious account in the form of an epistle, it relates the story of a beautiful young woman born in Albany, New York in 1760, whose father disapproves of.....