A clarion call for anti-slavery action by women, with arguments to persuade reluctant women of the necessity of participating in the abolitionist cause, with mention made of contemporary anti-slavery literature. First edition. Founded in 1834 by Maria Weston Chapman (1806–1885), three of her sisters, and eight other women, the.....
A charming broadside advertising the services of American silhouettist Moses Chapman, illustrated with silhouette cuts of a man and a woman and specifying costs and other particulars. Chapman informs the public that he is available from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm, and takes “correct Profiles, reduced to any size.....
A rare and striking broadside issued by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, advertising the Rock Island through-express route and promoting the railroad’s numerous destinations, connections and amenities. Featuring the eye-catching mix of typefaces and colors that characterised railroad advertising in this era, this attractive broadside promotes the.....
![A mammoth album of circus photographs]. James V. Chloupek, compiler](/pictures/thumb/4607_1.jpg?v=1560463873)
An extraordinary album of over 1000 extensively captioned photographs evidently compiled by circus devotee, collector, and amateur photographer James Chloupek or someone close to him, chronicling the American circus scene in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly around the time of World War II. This remarkable album.....
First edition, first state (no ad on back wrapper). Includes such works as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract, The Undertaker’s Chat, and ten other stories. The upper wrapper, featuring an illustration of the Jumping Frog seated beneath a......
![PUBLISHER’S PROSPECTUS / CANVASSING BOOK]. The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim’s...](/pictures/thumb/3183.jpg?v=1560463268)
A rare salesman’s dummy for the best-selling of Twain’s books during is lifetime, and one of the best-selling travel books ever written. With binding samples affixed to the paste-downs, representative content, and subscriber’s forms at the rear. CONDITION: Very good, worn at extremities.
First edition of Alvin Langdon Coburn’s celebrated volume of highly evocative photogravures of authors and artists. Coburn’s work as a portrait photographer was initially spurred in 1904 by Perriton Maxwell, editor of the Metropolitan Magazine, who—“Out of the kindness of his heart, or, perhaps, more to get rid of.....
First edition of Coburn’s second volume of portraits of eminent men of the early twentieth century. Among the subjects included are Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Anatole France, Augustus John, Georges Clemenceau, and Coburn himself. Coburn’s work as a portrait photographer was initially spurred in 1904 by Perriton.....
First American edition. An appealing copy of Conrad’s 2nd book, inspired by his experience as mate of the steamer Vidar. Appleton’s Town and Country Library series, No. 198. REFERENCES: Keating 6; Cagle A2(b)2. CONDITION: Very good, with early ownership inscription in ink at head of chapter one.
![Carte Particuliere de l'Amerique Septentrionale. [Secondary title:] A Map of the British Empire...](/pictures/thumb/3395_1.jpg?v=1560463307)
This is the Dutch edition (title in French, the rest of the map in English) of the index map for Henry Popple's monumental 20-sheet map of North America, the first large scale British map of the American Colonies, and the first English map to name all thirteen. The map.....
A most unusual patriotic manuscript map by an American schoolgirl remarkable for its Kentucky origins, interesting subject matter, pleasing design, relatively good condition, and superb provenance. “School” maps are frequently encountered on the antiquarian market; indeed, we have handled perhaps two dozen in the past decade. However, the vast majority.....
A promotional map for the newly built White Sulphur Spring Park Hotel near Saratoga Springs, a popular resort for over 200 years and famed for the mineral springs next to which it was built. This map depicts Lake Saratoga bordered by the towns of Saratoga, Saratoga Springs and.....
A real estate map promoting property at Lands End in Rockport, Massachusetts, a popular seaside summer community for Bostoners. Beginning as a village on Cape Ann, known for its rocky coast, fishing industries, quarries, coves, and granite production, Lands End was promoted as a summer community beginning in the.....
A remarkable and extremely rare broadside developed in 1785 by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for a remarkably ambitious mortality survey of Massachusetts towns. BACKGROUND The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was (and is) an honorary society chartered in 1780 by the Massachusetts General.....
![Sermon on the theme of Galatians 3:23.]. Manasseh Cutler](/pictures/thumb/5152_1.jpg?v=1572463206)
A manuscript sermon on the Divine Law by this noted Massachusetts clergyman, man of science, and co-founder of the Ohio Company. The first page bears four dates spanning over 20 years, the earliest being 20 Aug. 1774. Cutler would deliver this sermon again on 16 Nov. 1783, 12 Feb.....
A fascinating broadside with map promoting trips by rail up Mount Penn, whose summit boasted scenic views and entertainment such as live music and dancing. This publication was issued during the railroad’s first year of operation. Conceived in 1881 by a group of Reading citizens, the Mount Penn Gravity.....
![Surveyor General of Kansas Mark W. Delahay Procures Labor to “Work in the Field.”]. Mark...](/pictures/thumb/5502_1.jpg?v=1563809017)
An interesting letter by the Kansas Territory politician and abolitionist Mark W. Delahay, an old friend and political ally of Abe Lincoln who appointed him to a handful of high-ranking governmental positions in Kansas. Born in Maryland, Mark William Delahay (1828–1879) was a fellow lawyer of Abe Lincoln during.....
An unusually handsome, wide-margined copy of this marvelous collection of views of early eighteenth-century Vienna. The series begins with a beautifully designed allegorical plate consisting of a panoramic view of the city in the form of a relief panel on a monument surmounted by an eagle, with two figures.....
![Penobscot Bay to Blue Hill Bay, Maine]. J. F. W. Des Barres](/pictures/thumb/3547_1.jpg?v=1560463334)
A rare chart depicting the Penobscot Bay region of Maine, from the most celerated maritime atlas of the eighteenth century, The Atlantic Neptune. CONDITION: Good, trimmed close at top and bottom, with loss of a portion of neat line at top and all of neat line at bottom, lower portions.....
A landmark in Maine mapping, being the first large-scale navigation chart of Portland Harbor and environs. The chart centers on the environs of Falmouth, Maine, including present-day Portland, the Cape Elizabeth peninsula, and the inner reaches of Casco Bay. Falmouth was at the time the largest town in Maine.....
![Dickens Readings [spine title]. Charles Dickens](/pictures/thumb/4070_1.jpg?v=1560463507)
Ticknor and Fields published a series of extracts of Dickens’s works, as edited and read by the author on his 1867–1868 tour of America. Included in this volume are A Christmas Carol; Bardell and Pickwick; Doctor Marigold; Bardell and Pickwick [duplicate]; Nicholas Nickleby; Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn; David Copperfield;.....
A rare and wonderfully vivid poster depicting Edith Clifford’s remarkable sword-swallowing act. In his Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, Ricky Jay offers perhaps the best and most extensive account of Clifford’s act, making reference to this poster, which is illustrated in color: Houdini states that Mlle. Clifford was.....
An attractive promotional pamphlet describing the route of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad from Chicago to Denver, celebrating the natural wonders, resources, and business possibilities of the vast, vigorous, growing empire of the west and southwest. Compiled from the original manuscript of Col. P. Donan, and narrated from.....
First edition of this play set in a mythical ancient Egypt. Alexander Dow (d. 1779) spent much of his life serving in the British army in India. According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature in 1768 Dow “joined the fashion for Oriental Tales with Tales....of the Inatulla of Dehli.....
A lively pictorial map of Portland, Maine “designed, drawn and colored by Katherine Dudley” evidently to raise funds for the cause of baby welfare. A banner flying over Casco Bay reads “The Country of Aucocisco at the Bottom of a Large Deep Bay Full of Many Great Isles Capt.....