An Indian Rights Association broadside calling attention to the plight of starving Chippewa people at Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota in 1887. This broadside reprints a letter to the editor by J.B. Harrison of the Indian Rights Association originally published in the Boston Evening Transcript. Harrison, a churchman.....
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 handsome brochure promoting the award-winning Tiger, King of Rakes, as the “Perfect Self-Discharging Sulky Rake,” with a 3” x 5” engraving of the J. W. Stoddard Farm Machinery factory complex on one panel, a 2” x 3” engraving of a farmer perched on the rake being pulled by a......
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 set of four dramatic images of Luray caverns, entitled (clockwise from upper left): Throne in Cathedral, Saracen’s Tent; Campbell’s Hall; and Brand’s Cascade.Two of the cavern titles reflect their discovery and early exploration. Local tinsmith Andrew Campbell and nephew Billy discovered the draft of cool air leading to the.....
Johnson’s proclamation lifting the blockade against foreign trade at U.S. ports—with the exception of ports in Texas, issued a month after the end of the Civil War. Opening with a reference to President Lincoln’s proclamation closing certain U.S. ports to foreign commerce, Johnson explains that events have since occurred which.....
![Alaska As We Saw It [cover title]. George L. Johnson, Levy Smith, photog., compiler Dr. E. O. Hay](/pictures/thumb/5112_1.jpg?v=1560464197)
A substantial photo album documenting a tour up the west coast through Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Vancouver, B.C, and Victoria, B.C to Alaska, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, and the Canadian Rockies. This album was compiled by one Dr. E. O. Hay as a member of an excursion organized by the Criswell-Adams.....
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 poetic eulogy for the murdered student Josie Langmaid, also relating the circumstances of her horrific death as well as a description of the public memorial created for her. On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke.....
An exceptionally rare lithograph depicting The Battle of the Pearl River Forts, also known as the Battle of the Barrier Forts, in late 1856, at the beginning of the Second Opium War. The USS Portsmouth is shown in the center of the river exchanging fire with four forts visible at.....
![Typed Letter Signed by Jackie Kennedy]. Jacqueline Kennedy](/pictures/thumb/4148_1.jpg?v=1560463549)
A letter from Jackie Kennedy composed shortly after her husband’s election thanking the president of the Shelburne Museum for a gift. In this letter typed on White House stationary, dated December 15, 1961, Jackie thanks J. Watson Webb, Jr., the president of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, for “the handsome.....
First edition limited to 500 copies. Some copies were signed by Sally Kent Gorton. This copy is not signed. Facsimile edition and first publication of this illustrated manuscript fairy tale based on Kent’s relationship with the German-American follies dancer Hildegarde Hirsch. The companion volume consists of a note by editor.....
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.....
![Journal of a Harvard student and teacher at Phillips Academy, Andover.] Diary from Jan. 1, 1803,...](/pictures/thumb/5163_1.jpg?v=1572624622)
A journal kept by noted Ipswich, Massachusetts minister David T. Kimball during his final year of studies at Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School, and a year of teaching at Phillips Andover Academy. Rev. David Tenney Kimball (1782–1860) was a prominent abolitionist and Pastor of the First Parish in.....
![Narrative of a voyage to California]. Theodore H. Klages](/pictures/thumb/4577.jpg?v=1560463842)
An engaging manuscript narrative of a California gold rush voyage, including a harrowing account of passage through the Straits of Magellan and lively descriptions of places visited along the way. Theodore H. Klages left Hamilton, Ontario for California on 17 August 1858. The narrative offered here appears to be.....
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.....
A scarce chromolithograph depicting the death of Sitting Bull at Standing Rock Reservation on December 15th, 1890, published shortly after the event. This lithograph dramatizes the capture and death of Sitting Bull (1831–1890) as a full-scale battle between the Lakota followers of the Chief, on the one hand, and.....
Set of ten imaginative color aquatints in the Art Nouveau style, depicting various erotic scenes from the playfully fanciful to the grotesque. One of 20 copies on Japan within the larger edition of 110, each plate signed by the artist in pencil with the pseudonym “Remigius Eques” and numbered 12/20.....
![Two California gold rush letters]. Peter Later](/pictures/thumb/2826_1.jpg?v=1560463190)
A pair of letters written during the winter and spring seasons in gold rush era California, commenting on the steep costs of living and relating various forms of labor the writer has undertaken for modest pay. These letters span a period of three months, January–March, 1857; each is addressed.....
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.....
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.....
![Burning Daylight Part I How He Made Eleven Million Dollars [with] Burning Daylight [Part II] His...](/pictures/thumb/3786_1.jpg?v=1560463421)
An unrecorded pair of broadsides advertising an early silent film adaptation of Jack London’s novel Burning Daylight, produced by and starring film industry pioneer Hobart Bosworth. Burning Daylight tells the story of one Elam Harnish, an enormously energetic and successful Klondike Gold Rush miner, better known as “Burning Daylight,”.....
![A sammelband of abolitionist tracts]. H. W. Longfellow, Amasa Walker, Esq., Alvin Stewart, James...](/pictures/thumb/3817_1.jpg?v=1560463428)
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.....