New York: New York Peace Society, [1909]. Softcover. Good. Single sheet 12.5 x 18 inches, folding to 9 x 6.25 inches, printed in red and black. Short tears along folds, a few small splits at intersections; good. Scarce illustrated circular advocating allocation of government fund "for productive, humane, and enlightened..... Item #21322
Hartford: E.T. Pease & Co., 1854. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Pamphlet, 51 pp, sewn binding, original printed wrappers. Some paper loss to spine and at corners, binding tight, text clean. On March 2, 1854, a recently installed 50-horsepower steam boiler exploded at the railroad-car factory Fales & Gray Car..... Item #21005
Quarter-leather album, 9.5 x 12 in., containing 97 large (almost all 7" x 9" or 8" x 10") black and white photographs mounted one per side on 43 leaves, with the final photo on the rear pastedown. Most are affixed to the page at only one edge, so the backs..... Item #21338
Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1829. First Edition. Wraps. Good. 4-1/2 x 7" sewn plain-paper (later) wrappers, pp. 24, wraps soiled, the whole pamphlet faintly creased vertically, but good and sound, with intriguing pencil notations throughout (see below). A straightforward listing of the adminstrators, faculty, and students (under- and post-grad) at..... Item #20299
Good. Twenty-two black and white photographs measuring ca. 7 x 9.25 inches, each with a hole punched at one corner and varying degrees of soiling. Each shows a different model or view of a Carver Cotton Gin. The Carver Cotton Gin Company had its origins in 1806, when Massachusetts native..... Item #21397
Denver: Tribune Book and Job Printing House, 1876. Softcover. Near fine. 65 pp, in original printed wrappers. A few chips, finger smudge on front wrap, internally fine. First edition of the Constitution that brought Colorado into the Union as the hundredth state. Eberstadt notes that "the address to the voters..... Item #20633
Philadelphia: J.H. Johnson. Broadside. Very good. Song sheet, 6 x 9.5 in., with wood engraved vignette of a bearded man (king?) removing the hat of a supplicant, decorative border. Undated, possibly late 1850s. Light foxing. A song descrying the ineffectiveness of Philadelphia's city council and the overzealous use of the..... Item #20742
Very good. Three-page manuscript letter, approximately 800 words, from Dr. G.A. Hinnen of Cincinnati, Ohio, to his parents. Dated March 22, 1937 and written on letterhead of the National Association for the Elimination of Home Work, of which the Hinnen was on the Advisory Committee. Writing more than a month..... Item #21323
New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1978. Softcover. Very Good. Part One: Unpaginated, approximately 150 pp, with b/w illustrations. Part Two: Unpaginated, approximately 120 pp, with b/w illustrations. Top edges toned, light handling wear; contents clean. Auction catalogues for Sotheby Parke Bernet sales 4114 and 4179. Item #2479
Broadside, 27 x 40 inches, printed in a deep, vibrant red and black. Undated, but ca. 1886. Features captioned images of 24 different wagons, carriages, and buggies, each with a caption briefly describing the model and its specifications. Two text panels describe the materials used for construction (first-class, thoroughly seasoned..... Item #20858
Trenton: James Oram, 1811. Hardcover. Fair. Early edition (believed to have appeared first in 1807). 106 pp., ca. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Fair condition only. Includes the complete text, but lacks endpapers, part of the title page, and the rear board, and the front board is only hanging on by..... Item #21193
Austin: University of Texas, 1916. Softcover. Good. 172 pp. Original wrappers present but heavily chipped, front wrapper detached. Binding sound, text unmarked. Old dampstin to lower outer corner of last 65 pp. Relatively scarce report resulting from Texas Governor James E. Ferguson's efforts to have several people he disliked for..... Item #21463
Softcover. Very good. Collection of 25 pieces of sheet music issued as Sunday supplements to the San Francisco Examiner, each 4 pp, 14 x 10.5 inches, printed on thick newsprint. All with the name "R. James" in ink on the cover, a few with short tears at margins or light..... Item #21298
[Germantown, PA]: [Germantown Print Works]. Textile. Good. An appealing illustrated broadside on cloth bearing a very early appearance of the famous "I cannot tell a lie" cherry tree story. Collins (Threads of History) says it was printed by the Germantown Print Works in Pennsylvania, ca. 1806. The story itself, which..... Item #20532
[Concord, NH]: [1918]. Two items -- a handbill or small broadside (11.25" x 6") titled "What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander! Do in 1918 What You Were Urged to do in 1898. Stand by the Administration that is Waging the War!" and a circular (11.25" x...... Item #21374
[Mobile, AL]: 1923. Softcover. Very Good. 90 pp, in original wrappers. Light soiling and shelf wear to wrappers, some rusting to binding staples; contents clean. Interesting report including a variety of statistics and details of the accomplishments and work performed by vaious city departments over the course of the year..... Item #2376
Cincinnati: Feicke-Desch Printing Co. Softcover. Very good. Undated, ca. 1912. Oblong 8-1/4 x 5-1/2" brown paper wraps printed in black and copper gilt, with a photo-gravure lozenge depicting the Covington suspension bridge tipped onto the upper wrap; [64} pp, each illustrated with a photograph colored in blue (imitating cyanotype) in..... Item #20300
New York: Ludwig & Tolefree, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8.5 x 5.25 inches, 151 pp, with engraved frontispiece and four additional illustrations. In original boards, with what appears to be later (but not recent) cloth over the original cloth spine. Boards worn, front board only just attached, some losses..... Item #21128
4.75 x 6 inches, 16 panels of photolithographic views, accordion-folded into brown cloth boards decorated in gilt. Edgewear, two sets of facing panels with a small spot of abrasion where the pages stuck together, otherwise very good. Uncommon view book, dating from a time when Knoxville's population was only a...... Item #20051
[1855]. Softcover. Very good. Folio, 7 pp, printed on blue paper in two unsewn (unbound) gatherings. Minor handling wear; near fine. The Rogue River Indians were not a single tribe, but a conglomeration of several groups living in the Rogue River Valley of southwestern Oregon. This treaty was concluded by..... Item #20479
Two large photograph albums showing rural scenes along the route of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, which was completed in 1897 and ran 754 miles from Kansas City, Missouri, to Port Arthur, Texas. Together the albums contain 97 clear, professional gelatin silver photographs, about two-thirds of which are..... Item #21343
[Philadelphia]: Ives pr. & stationer, 1862. Folding trade card, 2.5 x 3.75 inches, with views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and the attached hospital on the front and back and text inside. Light soiling; very good. The Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon was "staffed by volunteers and provided relief for..... Item #21231
Holliston [MA]: Parker & Plimpton, 1851. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Title continues "Also, Statistics ofthe Town Returns in 1850, as Required by the Act to Ascertain the Ratable Estates within this Commonwealth. Also, Statistics of the United States Census, as Taken and Returned by the Marshall, for June 1850." 51..... Item #19531
Visiting Nurse Association. Very good. Undated (c. 1920s) trade/advertising card for the Visting Nurse Association of New Britain, Connecticut. 3.5 x 6 inches. Light soiling and edgewear, about very good. Text on one side describes what visiting nurses do, including offering in-home care to the sick, advising expectant mothers "on..... Item #20961
Tacoma: F.T. Houghton, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 14 pp + [1] (membership application). Original printed wrappers are chipped and detached; text is clean. Explains the need for a state historical society, as "Washington was thirty-six years a territory and now nearly two years a State; having thus reached a...... Item #20634
