Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, n.d., ca. 1830s. Small 12mo; publisher's black cloth over marbled boards; 88pp.; illus. throughout. Boards quite scuffed and binding starting to separate from binding, many pages dog-eared, closed tear to fore edges of pp. 77/8 and 79/80 affecting text without loss of meaning. A Good only..... More
Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1827. Small octavo; contemporary gilt-ruled rainbow calf, red gilt spine label; xiv,[15]-360pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and added title page signed in image by J.B. Longacre, six (6) leaves of plates. Leather a bit dried and scuffed, brief peeling to rear cover, textblock toned and foxed, else a...... More
New York: Collins & Brother, [1834?]. Stereotype Edition. 12mo; publisher's full sheep, black gilt-lettered spine label; [2],228pp.; folding chart frontispiece. Leather rather scuffed and dried, textblock foxed, and soiled with a number of signatures proud, long closed tear to folding chart touching text without loss of meaning, slightly later ownership..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1853. Octavo; publisher's full brown morocco elaborately tooled in blind and gilt, all edges gilt; [10],276pp.; color chromolithographic presentation leaf and half title page, four leaves of engravings (tissue guards present). Leather rather dried and quite scuffed at extremities, most notably at spine crown, lacking..... More
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1851. Fifth Edition. 12mo. [12]; vi; 7-130 pp. Blind-stamped brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards scuffed and lightly chipped. Binding is sound. Dampstain to top page edges not touching text and largely diminishing halfway through; generally light but occasionally heavy foxing throughout..... More
Philadelphia: William B. Evans & Co., 1873. First Edition. Octavo. 349 pp. + 2 pp. ads. Black and white frontis with tissue guard. Publisher's brick red cloth stamped decorated in black and gilt. Brown endpapers. Corners and spine ends bumped and boards scuffed along edges, with an inch..... More
Fairbanks and Chatanika, Alaska: Huey Foto / Huey and Hyland Foto, 1909-1910. Two original photographs from the 1909 and 1910 midnight baseball games held in Chatanika and Fairbanks, Alaska. Mounted on black cardstock with "Chatanika Alaska July 4th One A.M. 1909" to first and "Midnight Ball Game Fairbanks-vs-Chatanika. June 19-1910..... More
N.p.: Franklin Benefit Association, 1866. Unused sheet of ten pictorial lottery tickets (23.5x8cm.) printed in black, red and green. Old folds, top half of verso discolored and soiled, contemporary manuscript note at top margin of verso ("Humbug - Humbug"), else a Very Good example of an exceedingly uncommon survival... More
New York: Printed for the Author by Houel and Macoy, 1844. First Edition. Octavo. 197 pp.; iv pp.; [38] tables. Frontis portrait; 4 large fold-outs at rear. Publisher's blind-stamped dark brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Ex- Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College library with their bookplate to front..... More
New York: James Parker at the New Printing Office, 1768. Monday, February 15, 1768 issue. Folio. 4 pp., printed in three columns. General spotting, light chipping to edges, with tears to folds though remains intact. Pen inscription to front margin. Colonial newspaper from Parker, who worked closely with..... More
Boston, MA: Benjamin Russell, 1790. Saturday July 17, 1790. Folio. 4 pp., printed four columns per page. General wear and light spotting with some chipping to edges. Includes what would come to be known as the Copyright Act of 1790, passed by Congress the previous Spring and signed..... More