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)

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)

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)

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)

[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)

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)

Boston: James R, Osgood and Company, 1872. Softcover. Very good. 5 x 3.5 inches, 64 pp, with fine folding map by Louis Prang, in original printed wrappers. Cover has some mild creasing, one small ink stain, and one closed tear; interally clean and sound. Very good. The map, credited "L..... (Item #21191)

[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)

[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)

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)

New York: S.W. Benedict, 1840. First Edition. 4.75 x 3 inches, pp. vi, 265, including index of first lines. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Corners lightly bumped, very slight scattered foxing, nineteenth-century ink stamp of H.J. Jones and penciled signature of Samuel Jones on front free endpaper;..... (Item #20881)

Sacramento: State Office, 1881. 72 pp, illustrated with small wood engravings, in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine, old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper, else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California’s apple crop was devastated..... (Item #20560)