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
[New York]: Geo. Borgfeldt & Co., 1905. Hardcover. Very good. [84] pp, extensively illustrated with portraits and views of the company's various branches and departments. Bound in half-cloth and dark-green paper-covered boards with lovely art nouveau design stamped in black, endpapers patterened with the company logo, attractive design features throughout..... Item #21408
Evanston, IL: 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Volume 1, No. 1 (January 31, 1914) and Volume 1, No. 14 (May 2, 1914) of "The North Shore Review," a little-known weekly newspaper published in Evanston, Illinois that billed itself as the first paper with an all-female staff. Ironically enough, it was..... Item #22006
Softcover. Very good. Two publications: "The Chief Needs of Adult Blind Persons and the Chief Aims of the Michigan Employment Institution for the Blind (7 pp); and "A Free Lending Library for the Sightless, Circular of General Information (4 pp). Both published by the Institution in 1904, both with old..... Item #21820
[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
New York: Nomad Publishing, 1925. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 5 x 7 pp, 53 pp, with a map and two tipped-in half tone photographs--one a portrait of Stefansson and one showing him with Robert E. Peary and Adolphus Greely. Wrappers lightly toned, some chipping and short tears to the..... Item #21525
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
Oregon City, OR: Grant B. Dimick, 1913. Softcover. Very good. 9" x 12", pp. 171-194, stapled binding. Light soiling, old dampstain to back cover, but still very good. Single issue of this scarce magazine, which billed itself as the "only journal on the Pacific Coast published in the interests of..... Item #21854
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
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: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 221 pp, with folding map (Hyposometric Map of the South West, or New Spain with Lines of Railways West of the Mississippi River in Operation 1877 also The Ocean Warm Streams). Publisher's green cloth with map printed on cover..... Item #21006
San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1892. Hardcover. Very good. 384 pp, in original brown cloth decorated in black and gilt. Rubbing to edges, dent to top edge of front board, otherwise very good. Binding tight, text clean. Beautifully illustrated with engravings of various hot springs and scenic locations in California..... Item #20811
Milan, IL: Rail Splitter Press. Sixteen pamphlets in original wrappers, averaging around 40 pp each, some with illustrations; all in very good condition, most quite scarce. William Lloyd Clark was a venomous anti-Catholic who founded the Rail Splitter Press to publish tracts, handbills, and postcards elaborating his views and those..... Item #20685
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910. Hardcover. Very good. Volume VIII: pp ix, 238, indexed, with color frontispiece and 16 other plates, as well as figures and line drawings in the text; Volume IX: pp ix, 284, indexed, with photogravure frontispiece and three plates. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Volume XIII..... Item #21727
London: John Murray, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. xi, 378, 38 (Appendix), with folding map, 8 plates, and additional illustrations in the text. Marbled boards with later leather spine, new endpapers. Stamp of the Isle of Wight Insitution on several pages. Title page, frontispiece, and some plates foxed (as..... Item #21534
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
New York: J.C. Derby, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 359 pp, in publishers's blind-stamped cloth. Spine faded and chipped at head and foot, corners rubbed through. Binding tight, text clean. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "Miss Esther Church with the kind regard of the Author, H.W. Beecher." Esther Church..... Item #21548
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New York: William Morrow, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited edition, signed by Bartlett on the limitation page, which page states that there were 210 copies for sale; this copy is numbered 217 (so perhaps was a hors commerce copy). There is also a previous owner's gift inscription on..... Item #21453
San Antonio, TX: 1902. Softcover. Very Good. 131 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, in original wrappers. Light handling, two small chips to rear cover; text clean. Nicely illustrated little survey of the early history of Texas, the Missions, and the Alamo. Item #2987
Nueva York: Polhemus y Compania, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Title continues: Tomadas, por parte de México, Bajo la Dirección del Ingeniero Jacobo Blanco, Jefe de la Sección Mexicana de la Comisión Internacional de Limites que Restablecio los Monumentos en Anos de 1892 a 1895. 11 x 14 inches, oblong..... Item #21432
Philadelphia: Thayer, Merriam & Co. Undated, ca. 1889. Publisher's broadsheet prospectus, 9.5 x 12 inches, for "Barnum's Own Book," apparently one of many editions of The Life of Barnum, the World-Renowned Showman, which came out under several different imprints in 1890. Printed on very thin paper, it has old tape..... Item #20775
