London and New York: John Tallis, [1851-]. Three volumes. 4to. 275 x 201 mm. (10 3/4 x 8 inches). [2] blanks, iv, 5-268 pp.; [1] blank, [iv], 5-262 pp.; [2], 110 pp. Illustrated with a folding chromolithographic plate, 3 engraved frontispieces, and 138 engraved plates. Bound in contemporary black pebble..... More

Wayland (MA): John B. Wright, 1853. Printed Circular. 4to. 275 x 213 mm. ( 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches). No title. 3 pp. Printed on blue paper. Folded. Printed Circular. 4to. 275 x 213 mm. ( 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches). No title. 3 pp. Printed on blue paper..... More

Quincy (Illinois): Gibson & Warren, Books and Job Printers, December 1853. Folio Broadside. 560 x 405 mm. (21 3/4 x 16 inches). Text in numerous fonts and sizes. Decorative border enclosing text. Folded. Light tide marks in corners and margins, but paper quality is very good. Very attractive promotional broadside, advertising..... More

Edgefield District, South Carolina: ca Winter 1863 - 1864. A rare autograph affidavit signed, by six witnesses. Highly legible. 4to. 290 x 185 mm. (11 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches). 1 1/2 pp. Written on lined paper. Folded with tears at a number of folds, but sound; small holes caused..... More

New York: H. A. Thomas, Lithographic Studio, ca. 1875. Color lithographic plate. 22" x 28". Printed on paper and mounted to board and varnished; small scuffs & gouges, some pieces of the print are missing, edges worn, but the colors are strong and the images well preserved. An evocative print..... More

Lancaster, PA: 1856. Folio broadside. 495 x 330 mm. (19 1/2 x 13 inches). Text printed in five columns. Matted. Several tiny holes, affecting a few words. Substantial reportage, with text printed in six point type, of an anti-Fremont, pro-Buchanan rally, held at the home of James Buchanan. This was..... More

Chicago: Root and Cady, Publishers, August, 1868. Single issue. 335 x 260 mm. (13 x 10 inches). 8 pp. folded and unopened, some light soiling to the paper, otherwise very good. Rare musical newspaper published by Ebenezer Toner Root and Chauncy Marvin Cady, the leading music publisher's in Chicago before the..... More

Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Morning Leader, April 28, 1865. Large Folio. 610 x 500 mm. ( 24 x 20 inches). 4 pp. Illustrated on page 2 with a Funeral Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln. Folded with minor breaks at folds, otherwise very good copy. Volume XIX, No. 102, of the..... More

Philadelphia: January 22, 1790. Autograph Letter Signed. Folio sheet folded. 1 page of text with address on the verso. Folded, with small tears at the folds blank piece missing at the wax seal. Highly legible hand. Watermark paper " I R ". Letter from Adam Zantzinger concern the receipt of money..... More

London and Bath: Isaac Pitman & Sons; Phonetic Institute, 1887. 8vo. 210 x 135 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches). viii, 244, [4] pp., plus 8 pp. ads. Original decorated green cloth; text block a bit cocked, but sound and attractive. Westby-Gibson finished his bibliography to celebrate the International Shorthand..... More

(Rochester, N., Y.): Collins and Pratt, 1866. Printed broadside with manuscript inserts and addition. 4to. 305 x 186 mm. (12 x 7 1/4 inches). Illustrated with a 4 1/2 x 1 3/4-inch woodcut of the design of the patented Hop-Yard trellis. Broadside was folded, with a few minor tears at..... More

New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. 4to. 325 x 250 mm. (13 x 9 3/4 inches). 17 (table of contents and list of illustrations bound out of order), 119 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title-page, 6 full-page lithographs, 7 full-page engravings, and 99 woodcut illustrations in the text. Bound..... More

Pavia: nella Stamp. Bolzani, 1792. 8vo. 220 x 140 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches). [2], 291, [1] pp. Original blue paper wrappers; some soiling and expert repair to spine of wrappers; otherwise sound and attractive copy in original wrappers. More