![Henry Dearborn family association sammelband.]. Henry Dearborn](/pictures/thumb/5785_1.jpg?v=1592060703)
An intact and appealing sammelband of eleven pamphlets including two orations by army officer, congressman, and secretary of war Henry Dearborn, of Gardiner, Maine, as well as an interesting pamphlet on the Louisiana Purchase. This sammelband was evidently compiled by Dearborn’s son-in-law Joshua Wingate, who served under Dearborn: three presentation.....
A beautiful copy in original boards of the first printing of the first furniture finisher’s manual published in the United States, reprinted from the first British edition of the same year. Described on the title-page as a “New Edition, with considerable Additions,” this first American edition provides concise instructions on.....
A rare thumb Bible, being two works in one volume, as issued. First published in 1614, Verbum Sempiternum was one of the first thumb Bibles. The last copy of the present edition recorded at auction in ABPC sold for $9500.00 plus the buyer’s premium in 1993. The only copy recorded.....
![The Worcester Magazine. [An uninterrupted run of nine issues from April to June of 1786.]. Isaiah...](/pictures/thumb/2968_1.jpg?v=1560463226)
The first nine issues of this continuation in magazine form of Isaiah Thomas’ newspaper The Massachusetts Spy, a format to which Thomas resorted as a means of avoiding recently instituted tariffs on paper and taxes on newspaper advertisements. In a broadside he published addressing the matter Thomas observed “The.....