An engaging letter in two parts by an early Indiana settler, written two months before Indiana formally became a state (on 11 December 1816). Born in Burlington County, New Jersey, Joseph Lame (1766–1839) was a tanner by trade and is believed to have emigrated west in the company of his.....
A scarce, handsome view of New Bedford and its harbor by celebrated lithographic artist and marine painter Fitz Henry Lane, after a sketch by A. Conant, with original contributions by Lane. This view depicts the harbor and city as seen from Fairhaven, Mass. on the eastern shore of the Acushnet.....
A fascinating document recording the sale of whiskey to the Wyandotte, bearing the name of Christopher Miller, who was captured by Native Americans as a child and lived among them for many years, then rejoined the white community and fought in the Northwest Indian War. This document reads in full.....
A large broadside facsimile of the final manuscript draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued to raise funds for the U.S. Sanitary Commission and the Soldiers’ Home in Chicago. After composing the final draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln wrote to the women organizing the 1863 Northwestern Sanitary Fair notifying.....
The first separate printing and first separate facsimile of Lincoln’s famed autobiographical sketch, originally composed in response to a request from his friend Jesse Fell, printed with a brief account by Fell of the circumstances under which it was written and extracts from a few of Lincoln’s speeches. Lincoln and.....
A handsome guide to the Eden Musée wax museum, concert hall, and amusement center in New York City. A vivid, theatrical illustration printed by lithographers Mayer, Merkel and Ottmann graces the front wrapper. It depicts a military figure drawing back a curtain to reveal the stately, Second Empire style museum.....
A sweet photo of a handsome Black boy on a donkey, intended to riff on a popular comic trope, although we find no trace of humor in the image. North Carolina photographer Thomas Lindsey included this photo in the “Character and Comic” section of his Western North Carolina views: “In.....
Manuscript documents relating to the apprehension in New York of the thief who carried out the famous 1829 Prince of Orange jewelry heist. On the night of September 25th, 1829, chests of “court jewels” were stolen from the palace of the Prince of Orange in Brussels. The value of the.....
An entertaining account of cowboy, army scout and Wild West performer Lone Star Harry, including a thrilling cattle-drive narrative and instructions on gun-fighting technique; likely distributed as a Wild-West Show souvenir for Harry’s gun-toting act. Featuring a wood engraving of Lone Star Harry on the front wrapper, this pamphlet begins.....
First American edition, first printing. With publisher’s catalog A, as described in BAL: “On p. 11 Tales of a Wayside Inn is unpriced and described as Nearly ready.” Contains the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the first book printing of The Children’s Hour. BAL 12136.
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.....
First edition. Limited to one hundred copies.
A scarce plan of the former Confederate capital, created and published there shortly after Union forces took the city in April of 1865, depicting in black the parts of the city that were burned to the ground by the fleeing Confederates. On Sunday morning April 2nd 1865, news reached.....
A rare and bold view of “Old Iron Sides” by the noted and influential engraver Abel Bowen, published in the immediate wake of the ship’s rise to fame during the War of 1812. Built in Hartt’s Navy Yard in Boston and launched in 1797, the USS Constitution earned widespread admiration.....
A broadside advertising Mack & Arnold’s minstrel show at the Windsor, Vermont town hall, with an original ticket to the show. The public is advised that “this Troupe is not composed of one or two legitimate performers and several amateurs but that each and every member is an Etheopian Artist.....
A Charles Magnus broadside featuring a narrative of Gen. Hugh J. Kilpatrick’s assault on Richmond (conducted in tandem with Col. Ulric Dahlgren), and a chronology of the major events of the Civil War. The first part of this broadside, entitled “Mirror of Events 1861–62–63–64,” records events of the war up.....
No. 930 of 1000 copies on vélin of an edition of 1025. Poster artist and etcher Ernest Haskell’s copy of Maindron’s second history of the poster, illustrated with seventy-two chromolithographic plates reproducing works by Jules Cheret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Mucha, Pal, Steinlen, and others. “Ernest Maindron was the great poster collector of.....
One of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator Robert Gibbings. This copy number 1241.
A handsomely produced brochure illustrating the Manitou Grand Caverns, with pictures of the following caves and formations: “the Narrows,” “Grant Monument,” “The Interior Cascades,” “The Dairy and Churn,” “The Organ,” “The Seven Columns,” “The Card Rack” and “In Grand Concert Hall.” The text, apparently a reprint of a 1 September.....
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.....
A compelling group of letters, all retained copies, written in response to the upcoming election of 1848 by a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Lewis Cass. Marshall argues for the removal of the Quartermaster General of New Orleans, Major Daniel D. Tompkins (1798–1863), whose scheming on behalf of Whig.....
A three-quarter length profile portrait of Toussaint L’Ouverture known for having “the best claim to veracity” of the various extant portraits of the hero of the Haitian Revolution. While no portraits of Toussaint (1743–1803) taken from life are known to survive, and there is no single authoritative likeness, the present.....
An extensive and captivating archive of more than 135 drawings compiled by an artist-officer in the U.S. army serving at various locales in the American West in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. These drawings relate to McCauley’s time in Colorado and New Mexico, including, most significantly, a fascinating.....
This letter by slaveowner and future North Carolina legislator Thomas David Smith McDowell (1823–1898) charges its recipients to sell “my man Harry” as soon as Harry arrives, via raft, in Wilmington: If you can get five hundred dollars, you can take it, nothing less than that sum, and as much.....
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A compelling brigade battlefield report composed in the immediate wake of the Battle of Port Gibson (Mississippi, 1 May ‘63), an assault that set the stage for Grant’s pivotal siege of Vicksburg; the eight reports of Army of the Tennessee regiments and batteries chronicle extensive combat; the capture of Confederate.....