Newburyport: Bro. C. Nason, Printer, Watchtower Office, [1849].  Folio Broadside.  370 x 190 mm., [14 ½ x 7 ¾ inches].  Woodcut of Masonic symbol at the top center of the broadside, text within a decorative border.  Some discoloration to the paper, left edge with a few tears and a small..... More

New York: T. Noakes, ca. 1920. 4to.  265 x 340 mm., [10 ½ x 13 ¼ inches].  Color lithograph highlighted with red watercolor.  Printed on card stock; tear to center repaired with tape, without loss; edges bumped, with piece missing from lower edge.  Striking image of an Eagle and Shield. More

Worcester, 1842. 4to. 250 x 200 mm., [10 x 8 inches].  2 pp., plus integral blank leaf. A vertical fold, else about fine.   Probably a retained copy (or never sent). Interesting letter that pits the Sampson Wilder, the founder of the American Tract Society against the Rum Distiller’s group of..... More

Transylvania University: (Lexington, Kentucky): 1824. 4to.  8 ½ x 11 inches.  Letter in ink, legible hand; fourteen lines; set into a paper border at a later date.  Fine letter announcing a position opening for a professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics at Transylvania University. Holley asks Prof. Cleaveland if "you..... More

(Philadelphia): No publisher, ca. 1805. 4to. Single sheet.  230 x 200 mm., [9 x 7 3/4 inches].  Drop-title followed by 27 lines of type. Folded, with pinholes tears throughout the text with some loss of individual letters, but still without loss of meaning.  Foxed and stained in places.  Rare medical broadside..... More

Chicago: P.L. Hanscom & Co., Printers, 1867. 8vo. 220 x 145 mm., [8 ½ x 5 ¾ inches].   76 pp., Illustrated with one image in the text and 5 plates. Orig. printed wrappers; some light soling and minor wear; sound and attractive copy.   Scarce genealogy of a pioneering family in..... More

New York: Printed for the Booksellers, 1836. 12mo.  145 x 95 mm., [5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches].  288 pp.  25 full-page woodcut illustrations, a few on colored paper, plus woodcuts in the text.  Publisher's embossed black leather gift book binding; joints cracked yet sound, head of spine chipped; some..... More

Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, 1863. Small 8vo.  185 x 117 mm., [7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches].  77, [1] pp.  Wood engraved frontispiece.  Original green publisher's cloth; head and tail of spine frayed, joints rubbed with some wear, paper label worn away.  Book plate rubbed away.  With faults a...... More

New York: Charles B. Richardson & Co., 1861. Large 8vo.  275 x 210 mm., [10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches].  224 pp.  Engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved title-page, and seven engraved plates of portraits.  Publisher's terra cotta cloth, gilt with title set with a decorative border on both boards. Some light..... More

Philadelphia and Boston: Carey & Hart and Hill & Broadhead, 1847.  4to.  275 x 225 mm., [10 ¾ x 9 inches].  99 pp.  Illustrated with an engraved mezzotint title-page and 9 mezzotint engravings by John Sartain.  Brown publisher’s cloth, gilt title and decoration on the upper board and in blind..... More

Albany: Printed by Croswell, 1833, 1834, 1837, 1838 and 1839. Together five reports plus three miscellaneous government documents, concerning the sovereignty of South Carolina (1833) and the other referencing the banking system. Thick 8vo.  240 x 150 mm., [9 ½ x 6 inches].  Contemporary calf spine and tips over marbled..... More

New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Printers, 1851. 8vo. 230 x 140 mm., [9 x 5 ½ inches].  32 pp.  Three tables, one folding.  Original printed wrappers; a bit of soiling to wrappers and preliminary leaves and a few stains in the margins. The report for 1851 provides details..... More

Boston: William Ticknor, 1844. 12mo.  180 x 115 mm., [7 x 4 ½ inches]. 42 pp.  Original blue printed paper wrappers. Charles Northend was the Principal of the Aborn Street School in Salem Massachusetts.  His essay outlines his reaction to new theories of education that were circulating in the public..... More