Brooklyn: D.S. Holmes, [1864]. Near fine. A scarce pro-Lincoln political broadside couched in (pseudo) biblical language, supporting "Father Lincoln" over McClellan in the election of 1864. It recounts the Democratic nomination of McClellan (who is "ill-advised" and listens to "evil counsels") and implies that he will violate the "people's new... Item #20531
![ABRAHAM LINCOLN BROADSIDE] The People's New Ten Commandments](/pictures/thumb/20531.jpg?v=1556299518)
6 x 9 inches, approx. 150 pp, illustrated, bound in green cloth. A few pages have light pencil marginalia, one page with a short tear, slight cover soiling; very good. An interesting collection of articles on preservation of the redwoods published by John C. Merriam (founder of the Save the... Item #20448
Very good. Nineteen original black and white photographs, each measuring 4 x 5 inches (including white border), and each with a handwritten caption on the back identifying the location. All are clear and in very good condition. Fourteen images are of Long Beach locations (e.g., Bank of America, Continental Bakery... Item #19748
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 248 pp, indexed, in original black cloth boards. Light shelf wear to boards; binding tight, text clean. Established by Congress in 1869, the Board of Indian Commissioners was authorized to provide advice on the conduct of federal policy regarding... Item #2927
St. Paul: Riley Brothers, 1886. Hardcover. Very good. 5 x 7 inches, 370 pp + 3 pages of ads. Original flexible brown cloth, titled on the cover "Guide to the Northern Pacific Railroad and its Allied Lines. Official Edition, 1886-7." Light rubbing to extremities, a bit of dust soiling, else... Item #20458
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. First... Item #20149
[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
Boston: Boston Chemical Printing Company. Undated, but ca. 1835. Handkerchief printed in black on white cotton. 10.25 x 11.25 inches. Text in three columns, decorative border, small illustration at the head of each column. A very good example, with some scattered foxing. Technological developments of the early nineteenth century made... Item #20039
[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
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
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in the rarest binding state (without Burton’s name or FRGS on the spines), but with a “second edition” slug on the title pages. This state was apparently unknown to Penzer and was probably the result of an attempt to boost sales..... Item #13920
[Washington]: [1848]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Senate Executive Document No. 23, 30th Congress, 1st Session. 132 pp + folding map and 24 plates. Modern buckram binding with leather spine label; original wrappers not bound in (although, according to the Streeter catalogue (168) some copies were issued without wrappers). This... Item #16526
Trail's End Publishing: Pasadena, CA, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good+ dust jacket. xii, 350 pp, with 150 illustrations, including 12 color plates; colored pictorial endpapers. A fine copy with no markings or wear. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has two short, closed tears and some minor... Item #14340
Rampart, AK: 1901. Softcover. Very good-. 11.5 x 15 inches. Four-page newspaper insert dated September 1, 1901, promoting mining and investment opportunities in Rampart, presumably distributed with a regular issue of the weekly Alaska Forum. Rampart City was founded in 1897 as a supply point for gold placer mines south... Item #20407
Salem, MA: Newcomb and Gauss, Printers, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 251 pp, with frontispiece and many sketches by the author (which are rather amateurish, but charming). Mild marginal dampstain to the first few pages, boards a bit scuffed, rubbed at corners and spine ends. The author joined the... Item #12740
New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 368 pp, indexed, with 66 illustrations from photographs and a large folding map of Sierra Leone. Publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Spine sunned but legible, corners bumped, name on bottom edge and front pastedown. Internally clean and sound... Item #12961
London: Richard Phillips, 1809. Hardcover. Good. Second edition (first published 1808). pp 316, [4] (index). Re-bound in quarter cloth and marbled boards. Spine slanted; significant dampstain (not affecting readability) to pages 87-123, otherwise clean. Ashe (1770-1835), an Irish novelist and travel writer, was unfailingly critical of all he saw in... Item #2436
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 18361837. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, pp. 4 (ads), viii, 456, with folding map as frontispiece. Bound in later cloth-backed boards with paper spine label (resembling, but not a facsimile of, the original binding). Second American edition, which is apparently identical to the first of... Item #19173
London: T.Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto. pp. ix, [3], 632, with 8 plates (including frontispiece), five of which are hand-colored. Recent full calf with new endpapers, original red spine label preserved, three armorial ink stamps on the top edge of the text block. Tissue... Item #15505
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1836. Hardcover. Good+. Second edition, revised (first published 1835). 119 pp, with index, two plates, and a large folding panorama of the mountain. Ex-library, with discard markings, in a modern red buckram binding. Inscribed on the original front endpaper "To Dr. Neill, with much respect... Item #13030
![Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc [INSCRIBED]. Martin Barry](/pictures/thumb/13030.JPG?v=1474055271)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 493 pp, illustrated, in publisher's plum cloth, sunned to brown at the spine. Wear to edges of boards. Binding sound, contents clean, other than the author's name being written in ink under "A Haole" on the title page and... Item #20528
Philadelphia: National Publishing, (1873). Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, pp 823 + [8] (ads), with map, many engraved illustrations. Original purple cloth with gilt decoration. Spine sunned, boards edgeworn, binding sound and text clean. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of the Berry family of Trumbull County, Ohio and Nevada County, California on front... Item #1954
[Washington]: 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 35th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 124. 87 pp, with large folding map in rear pocket covering. Modern blue buckram with gilt title on spine. Old archival tape repair to final two leaves at gutter; map has one old... Item #16534
[Washington]: 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 36th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 42. 91 pp, with folding map showing Beale's route from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Albuquerque in 1858-9. A fine copy in modern black buckram stamped in gilt on spine and upper board. In 1857... Item #16533
