![Item #5824 [Autograph letter on the reconstructed and reopened President’s house.]. Mary Ashmun](/pictures/thumb/5824_1.jpg?v=1579535605)
An important first-hand account of the interior of the reconstructed President’s House, which had to be rebuilt following its destruction by the British Army during the Burning of Washington, providing important details of the layout and décor (wallpaper, lighting, furnishings, etc.), Mrs. Monroe’s New Year’s attire, and more. Addressing.....
A handsome, privately printed edition collecting the author’s Civil War letters. As stated in the title, Auchmuty served in the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac, setting aside a career as an architect when the war broke out. The only son of a wealthy family, and a......
![Item #5864 Our Stay At The Flying V [cover-title]. L. Austin, compiler](/pictures/thumb/5864_1.jpg?v=1585670404)
A photo album comprising 181 images documenting a wealthy family’s eight-and-a-half month stay at a dude ranch in Tucson in the 1940s. This album chronicles the Austin family’s time at the “Flying V” Ranch, featuring images of the ranch and its lodgings; dudes on the trail; a “chuckwagon” with African-American.....
![Item #6148 [1920s Hawaii photo album with “The Big Kahuna” content.]. Ray Jerome Baker,...](/pictures/thumb/6148.jpg?v=1611604763)
An album of over 100 original photographs documenting a French tourist’s trip to Hawaii at the time of the centennial of the arrival of American missionaries, with images of apparently related celebrations, two photos of Duke Kahanamoku—the noted father of modern surfing and Olympic swimmer—and an engaging variety of other.....
One of 325 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator, Leonard Baskin. Copy #161. With a portrait etching of Baldwin printed on blue paper and an etching of a pomegranate printed in red. From the colophon: “Three hundred & twenty-five copies of ‘Gypsy & Other Poems’ were printed by The Gehenna.....
The second edition of this important 1860s map of California and Nevada. First published in 1864, Bancroft’s detailed and striking pocket map of California and Nevada constitutes one of the best maps of Western America published west of the Mississippi during this period. Extracted from Bancroft’s Map of the.....
![Item #7526 [Brothers in the 12th Missouri Cavalry write to their parents back home in Missouri.]....](/pictures/thumb/7526_1.jpg?v=1656439307)
An engaging group of six letters written by two brothers to their parents, both brothers seeing action in the pivotal 1864 Battle of Nashville, and one of them later dying from wounds received there. Born in McDonough County, Illinois, Joseph Gilmer Banning (1843–1908) and Pinkney “Pink” Asa Banning (1845–1865) moved.....
A massive return for all ordnance stores belonging to the Continental Army on hand at Boston at the opening of 1777. Though similar returns for smaller units appear with some frequency on the antiquarian market, it is rare indeed to encounter one for such a major component of the Continental Army, and with such.....
A unique and truly delightful Arts & Crafts illumination of an account of the pursuit and capture of wild horses in Nevada, calligraphed, illustrated, and bound by San Francisco artist Otis Oldfield. This seems to be the only example in book form of horse-breaker Charles “Pete” Barnum’s vivid, first-hand account.....
![Item #3662 [Cover title:] Japanese Russian War 1904. [A personal album of hand-captioned...](/pictures/thumb/3662_1.jpg?v=1560463357)
A significant and captivating photographic archive recording the first modern war from the perspective of an important figure in its documentation, pioneering American war correspondent and photojournalist Richard Barry. This remarkable archive contains half stereographic photographs taken and captioned by Barry during the Russo-Japanese War, some of which illustrate his.....
The rare first edition of one of the classic accounts of southern natural history and exploration, with much material on the southern Indian tribes. This copy bears the ownership signature on the front free endpaper of Lawrence A. Washington (dated 1818), the nephew of George Washington. Lawrence Augustine Washington, (1775–1824).....
An important early study of Manet, illustrated with two original Manet etchings, “L'Odalisque Couchee” and “La Convelescente,” as well as three etchings by M. H. Guérard after Manet, and six gravures. Both Manet etchings are nice, strong impressions. Inscribed to etcher and poster artist Ernest Haskell on the ffep as.....
A rare issue of the Bar Harbor Blue Book illustrated with three mounted photographs. Includes routes to and from, tables, and individual chapters on Topography and History; Literature on Mount Desert; Laws concerning Carriages; Bar Harbor and Boating, Walks, Hotels, and more. Folding maps of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert.....
Second edition of this important pre-Revolution abolitionist text by “the single most prolific antislavery writer and the most influential advocate of the Negro’s rights on either side of the Atlantic,” published a year after the first edition and appearing both separately and, as here, in a sammelband with various other.....
An important copy of an extraordinary retaliatory order issued by the Confederate Government during the Enchantress Affair, instructing the head of prisons in Richmond to select for possible execution a number of captured Union officers being held as prisoners there. This copy was obtained by Col. Milton Cogswell in an.....
![Item #5692 [Beppo Wallenda Circus Tour photo album.]. Beppo, compilers Mary Wallenda](/pictures/thumb/5692_1.jpg?v=1580334844)
A delightful photo album evidently compiled by Beppo and Mary Wallenda, chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the U.S. Vividly depicted in this album is the world of European and American circuses and traveling circus troupes with a mixture of publicity shots and intimate candid photos.....
A substantive group of three manuscript journals with additional scrapbook content, vividly documenting the naval career of Jens O. Berggreen and the extensive combat he experienced during the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War from 1898 to 1900. Born in Sandefjord, Norway, Jens Olaf Berggreen (1873–1928) emigrated to America as.....
A rare bird’s eye view drawing of Johnson’s Island Prison created by a Corporal in the Alabama 30th Infantry who was imprisoned after being captured at the Second Battle of Franklin in Tennessee in 1864. This drawing shows the entirety of Johnson's Island Prison, situated in Lake Erie just off.....
A fundraising circular for Mary McLeod Bethune’s all-black Bethune Cookman College in Florida. Celebrated African-American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955)—fondly known as “The First Lady of The Struggle”—is best known for founding this private college for black students in Daytona Beach, Florida. Born to.....
A large and boldly graphic map, centering on the Ottoman Empire and depicting various missionary outposts therein, and as such a powerful visual tool designed to promote the missionary cause. The map extends from the Caspian Sea in the northeast to southern Bulgaria in the northwest, and from the.....
A scarce Panther item, published both separately and also as an insert to the June 1970 issue of The Black Panther newspaper. During the late 1960s and early ‘70s, the Black Panther Party attained the height of its influence and underwent a shift from exclusively black-oriented concerns to a more.....
Blanchard’s map of Missouri and eastern Kansas with a portion of southwestern Illinois, published as the country turning the page on the era of Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War. A key on the lower left identifies both proposed railroads and those in operation, state capitals, county seats, state.....
First edition in French of Blome’s guide to British North America, first published in English in 1687, written to encourage settlement and to advise prospective settlers "on measures they should take to settle and to provide themselves with a comfortable subsistence…” (Preface). A noted compiler and publisher of geographic works.....
First edition, one of fifty copies printed. A rare account of the libraries of six Bangor gentlemen, including those of Col. J. W. Porter (genealogy and local history), Fred H. Parkhurst (history, science, literature, constitutional law, etc), C. E. Bliss (Websteriana), Prof. D. S. Talcott (early printed books), Frederick H......
A fine copy of this charming pocket atlas of 18th century France. Rigobert Bonne (1727–1795) was an engineer, mathematician and cartographer. In 1773 he succeeded Jacques-Nicolas Bellin as royal hydrographer at the Depôt de la Marine. This is one of his earlier cartographic publications. In its original and very.....