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
San Francisco: Colonel Warren, 1858. Complete single issue (Volume X, Number 13) of the first agricultural journal published on the West Coast. [8] pp, 14.5 x 21 inches. Moderate foxing, one page roughly opened at the top; good to very good overall. The California Farmer was founded in 1854 by..... Item #21262
Very good. Fifteen black and white photographs, of which thirteen measure 4 7/8” x 3 ¾”; the other two measure 4” x 6”. Four of the smaller size images have typed descriptions attached to them. Bernard R. Hubbard was a Jesuit priest, explorer, photographer, and lecturer who did much to..... Item #21379
185 real photo postcards dating from the 1910s-1950s, showing various images of Oregon’s Breitenbush Hot Springs and Spa. Most unposted, and some with message and postmark and/or writing on the reverse. Generally very good condition. May include a few duplicates. Some of the earliest cards in the archive are 20..... Item #21254
Approximately 150 black and white photographs, almost all either 7 x 9.5 or 5 x 7 inches, showing various aspects of a 1949 archaeological expedition led by Walter Fairservis Jr. (1921-1994), then a graduate student at Harvard. About half with old (now inert) glue residue visible on the backs, most..... Item #21340
Modern three-ring binder containing 27 black and white 8” x 10” photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie of Pasadena. Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per..... Item #20563
Middletown, Ohio: Journal Printing Company, 1911. ime, Law, & Justice. 6 x 4 inches, 16, [1] pp, in stapled wrappers with illustration of a horse on the front. Very good, with some general handling wear. The Monroe Horse Ranger Company was organized under an 1887 Ohio law that allowed "any..... Item #21112
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
Hardcover. Very good. Large cloth album (11.5" x 14.5") containing two lithographed hand-drawn maps and 294 photographs mounted on both sides of 27 thick cardstock leaves (3 additional leaves unused). Also includes some small half-tone tourist views not included in the photo count. Some leaves loose from binding, otherwise very..... Item #21375
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
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
Sacramento: State Office, 1887. Softcover. Good. Second edition. 8vo, 24 pp, including a full-page map. Original printed wrappers have several small chips and tears, pamphlet has an old vertical folding crease and a quarter-inch in the front wrap that also affects the first three leaves, text has occasional foxing and..... Item #20149
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
[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
[Kansas City, MO]: [Verne O. Williams, Photographer], [1911]. Flexible leather album, 8 x 11 inches (oblong), stamped in gilt on cover "National Biscuit Co's Plant / Kansas City MO. / George A. Fuller Construction Co. Builders / A.G. Zimmerman Architect." Contains 38 linen-backed gelatin silver prints, 7.25" x 9.25", many..... Item #21376
String-tied album, 10.5 x 15 inches, with photographs and ephemera mounted to both sides of 14 cardstock leaves, accompanied by additional loose photos, most dating from the 1920s. There are a total of 151 photographs, of which 71 are mounted and 80 are loose. Sizes vary, most in the range..... Item #21030
San Francisco: Frank Eastman, 1859-1873. Hardcover. Good. Seven volumes bound together. Three-quarter maroon leather over cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Moderate external wear, including staining, chipping to leather and cloth, mild bow to boards. Dampstain to margin of somepages (text unaffected), some damage to endpapers. Binding sound..... Item #2462
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
Collection of 21 manuscript financial documents from one of the first American companies dedicated to extracting and selling oil outside the United States. Known variously as the Peruvian Refinery Company, Peruvian Refining Company, Peruvian Petroleum Company and Peruvian Petroleum and Refinery Company, the company was founded by James Bishop --..... Item #21378
Jerusalem: Government Printer, 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 59 pp, stapled wrappers. Light abrasion to front cover, upper corner bumped, owner's initials in ink on title page, otherwise unmarked. Chapter I (the first 25 pages) offers "an historical summary of the principal political events in Palestine since 1st January..... Item #21178
[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
