An unusually decorative and lively photo album documenting the recreational and romantic life of a group of central Illinois friends in the early 20th Century. This album is striking for its attractive, neatly accomplished manuscript captions and illuminations—with cobwebs and other patterns and devices—in white ink, enhancing a lively.....
A promotional broadside centering on “poet-prospector” Clarence E. Eddy’s evocative narrative of his discovery of a new mine in central Idaho, which he now announces to the public. Featured at the top is “one of the few pictures thus far taken at the new Monte Cristo mine” in Custer.....
A striking post-WWII panoramic map of the Southwest including portions of Nevada and Arizona, as well as California’s Death Valley and Utah’s Zion, Bryce and Cedar Breaks areas, depicting the vast region accessible via the Union Pacific Railroad, including its mountains, cliffs, washes, plateaus, mines, Hoover and other dams, Nellis.....
An interesting letter revealing some of the difficulties involved in the life of an itinerant artist in the first half of the nineteenth century, addressed to Abraham Bell & Son, a Quaker shipping firm located in New York City. Edouart, writing from Saratoga, is inquiring about his supply cases which.....
First American edition, first issue. BAL 5211. CONDITION: Good, lightly soiled, two small ink spots on rear cover.
First American edition, first issue. BAL 5211.
Second edition of this important regimental history, first published in 1891, revised and corrected, with an appendix on the treatment of African American POWs. An account of the first regiment consisting entirely of free black volunteers from the North, and the most renowned of the African American units to fight.....
A rare and delightful lithograph advertising a nineteenth century Italian weight-lifting champion and performer. Sali is shown here in a central portrait, with three medals pinned to his chest, one of which appears to be dated 1885. Below him are the various weights and clubs used in his act.....
Probable eighth edition overall of Farrar’s Moosehead Lake and the North Maine Wilderness series and apparent second edition under this title, revised from the 1884 ed. Includes chapters on Greenville, Monson, Mt Kineo, Mount Katahdin, Camping Out Advice, Game and Fish Laws, Lists of Hotels, Rail and Steamboat Routes, Table.....
A delightful 1884 travel guide that includes chapters on Greenville, Mt Kineo, The Ascent of Mount Katahdin, Camping Out Advice, Game and Fish Laws, Lists of Hotels, Rail and Steamboat Routes, Table of Fares and more. The fine fold-out map by M. M.Tidd, dated 1884, is entitled Farrar’s Map of.....
A rare broadside for James Ferguson’s British collection of exotic “curiosities of nature” and wax exhibition. Proprietor Mr. James Ferguson here announces he has just engaged the following "celebrated curiosities of nature": Senor & Senora Santiago de Los Santos, the former from Philippina Island, near China; The Smallest Man in.....
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.....
A scarce comic almanac featuring monthly astronomical data, accompanied by witticisms and advice. E.g.: “What kind of essence does a young man like when he pops the Question? Acqui-essence.” Or, “What is the cause of many a bender? Too much Whiskey Straight.” Data includes Aspects of Planets, Latitudes, Moon’s Signs.....
A rare and very fine engraved view of Harvard, based on a painting by early American view and landscape painter Alvin Fisher. This evocative 1820s engraving depicts the campus from the south, showing the six halls that constituted the campus at the time: Massachusetts Hall, Harvard Hall, Stoughton Hall.....
A large illustrated circular promoting a Wild West-cum-circus show in New York City produced by Adam Forepaugh. Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890) was one of the great circus organizers of 19th century America from immediately after the Civil War until his death in 1890. Forepaugh is generally credited with devising 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.....
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An exceedingly rare set of 1840s instructional maps of the continents and hemispheres, devised by Boston educator, reformer, and author William B. Fowle specifically for use in the classroom. The maps consist of simplified representations of their subjects with numbers and letters assigned to various features, including countries, states.....
First edition. A work of didactic fiction chronicling the demise of a young atheist. It was evidently popular. Wright records four editions. Mary Anna Fox's only other recorded work is The Discontented Robins (1842). OCLC records eight copies. REFERENCES: Wright 999. CONDITION: Very good, early ownership inscription dated.....
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A remarkable pair of schoolboy maps, drawn concurrently at the Washington Academy. Two nearly-identical schoolboy maps of the United States, large in size, detailed in content and refined in execution. Remarkable for having been produced at the same school on the same date. Aside from the intrinsic.....
An account of the founding and initial operation of the first hospital established in the English colonies, with a revealing autograph letter of transmittal and solicitation to one Thomas Worth signed by Hospital managers John Smith and John Reynell. Written by Franklin at the request of the Hospital trustees, the.....
Centennial edition. Limited to 41 copies, 26 being lettered copies bound in full calf. This copy letter “K.” With two evocative photographic illustrations by Larry Hayden, one illustrating Home Burial and the other After Apple Picking. The third illustration, which appears at the head of the colophon page, reproduces an inscribed.....
A scarce, early photograph of Frost seated in his writing chair, inscribed in the lower left corner “Your friend R.F. at home.” This image is reproduced in Jay Parini’s Robert Frost : A Life, where it is described as taken at Frost's home in Franconia, New Hampshire in 1915.....
First limited edition, printed from the same plates as the trade edition in the same year. Limited to 350 copies signed by Frost; this copy #16. One of Frost’s earliest and most memorable books, including such classics as Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can Stay, and Stopping By Woods on.....
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An archive of three manuscript volumes documenting this storied Maine Regiment, which saw much action serving in the Army of the Potomac. These records were compiled by 1st Lieut. George S. Fuller (1835–1913) of the 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry’s Company E. Composed chiefly of Kennebec lumbermen, the 3rd Maine.....
Archaeologist William Gell’s marvelous volume of hand-colored etchings and aquatints depicting “that part of the Troad, which is more particularly connected with the Iliad of Homer.” The introduction includes Gell’s account of his journey, and is followed by the plates and maps, each of which is accompanied by descriptive text.....