Franklin [N.H. ?]: 1847. Single sheet broadside, typographical border, 17 lines of text. 17-3/8" x 14-5/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The broadside continues: "Also, All kinds of Imported and Domestic Liquors. Also, A large Stock of West India Goods & Groceries, of the best quality, for sale..... More
San Francisco: The History Company, Publishers, 1887. 1st Edition. xxxi, [1 (blank)], 792 pp (including Index). Original publisher's printed 1887 Prospectus Leaflet laid-in. Fold-out map at front. Numerous other intratextual maps. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8". Original full publisher's deluxe full black morocco binding, with elaborate gilt stamping to spine. AEG..... More
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1925. 1st edition (Cowan, p. 571). 127, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece. 5 inserted plates on coated paper. Small 8vo. Mustard colored cloth binding over marbled paper boards. Printed yellow paper dust jacket. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1923. 1st edition (Cowan, p. 293). [11], 221, [4 (blank)] pp. Frontis + inserted plates. 10" x 6-1/2". Quarter bound blue cloth spine and light blue paper wrapped boards. Gilt stamped lettering to spine. TEG. More
Sacramento: H. S. Crocker Co., Printers. 1907. 8th edition (cf. Cowan, p. 406; Howes M-102). 261, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated, though lacking the frontis. 8vo. Lacks printed wrappers. According to Howes, McGlashan's the "best account" of this infamous incident. More
Amherst, Mass., U. S. A. Press of J. E. Williams, 1886. 1st Edition. 785 pp. Frontispiece, plates, portraits, color coats of arms. Thick 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-7/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding with black & gilt stamping. More
San Francisco: The Murdock Press, 1907. 1st Edition. [2], 62 pp. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/8" Parchment spine over grey paper-wrapped boards with gilt stamped lettering to front board. More
New York City: Hoggson Brothers, Seven East Forty-fourth Street, (1910). 1st Printing. 38 pp. Illustrated with 33 b/w half-tone photographic images of houses & their interiors. Floor plans. 9-1/2" x 6-1/8". Parchment spine, black stamped spine lettering, off-white paper-wrapped boards with printed paper title onlay to front board. An excellent..... More
Carlisle: From the Press of A. Loudon, 1805. 1st edition (American Imprints 8617). xviii, [3] - 386, [4] pp. 4 pages of Subscribers' Names conclude volume. 12mo, signed in 6s. 6-5/8" x 4". Period full calf binding with maroon leather title label in 2nd compartment. Flat back. Stephens's account of..... More
New York: The Hampton Shops, 1922. 1st Printing. 19, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with 10 plates. 8-1/2" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's parchment binding with black & red lettering to front board. More
Oakland, California: (n. d.). 1st printings, ca mid-1930s. Pamphlets 2 - 8 pp in length, most 4 pages. Most with drawings, primarily by Kay Grove. 7-3/4" x 5". Self-wrappers, mostly printed bifoliums, nested (if more than 4 pp), 3-ring binder holes to left side. An envious, and uncommon, collection of..... More
Detroit: Cadillac Printing Co., (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1935. Unpaginated, though 10 pages. Filled with illustrations of various body styles, as well as mechanical systems. Landscape format: 8-3/4" x 11-1/4". Dark blue paper covers, with color image of the LaSalle to the front cover, white lettering underneath. "LaSalle was..... More
Gettysburg, PA: W. H. Tipton, Photographer. (n. d.). Ca 1880s. Series number hand inked to recto, under the lower right corner of the right view. Two square b/w albumen photographs one a yellow mount, grey verso, with printed series label of images affixed to verso. 3-1/2" x 6-7/8". Now housed..... More
Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani and Co., No. 18, Rue Vivienne, 1839. 1st edition thus. Not on Sabin, though see 44696 for many other 1839 editions. ASSOCIATION Copy, with the bookplate of Horace Marryat. [4], 345, [3] pp. Contents page at rear. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5" Period tan..... More
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[Boston ?]: Leander Baker, Photographer, (n. d.). Ca 1874 / 75. Two square albumen images of cannons in the Navy Yard. 3-9/16" x 6-15/16. Slightly concave orange mount, round corners, with blank violet back. "The Charlestown Navy Yard, later the Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of the oldest shipbuilding facilities..... More
[Boston ?]: (n. d.). Ca 1870s / 1880s. Two domed albumen images of stacked cannonballs in the Navy Yard. Photographer not identified. 3-7/16" x 6-15/16. Flat yellow mount, round corners, with printed yellow description slip affixed to verso. "The Charlestown Navy Yard, later the Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of..... More
(Lebanon ?): (n. d.). Ca late 1920s. Unpaginated, though 12 pp. Adverts throughout. 9-1/8" x 4". Original publisher's printed brown card-stock paper covers, stapled. Local business adverts to both front & back. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Scarce ~ 100 year old guide to Lebanon, KY, including a...... More
Troy, N. Y. A. W. Scribner, Book and Job Printer, Cannon Place, 1865. 1st Printing (Monaghan 802). 47, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Original printed self-wrappers, stiched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "If it be that the South is avenged in his death, she will find..... More
New York: Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St. Cor. of Spruce, Ca 1849. Cf. Conningham 5770, C&I Catalogue Raisonné 6180. Ship specifications to left (4 lines); engine specifications to right (4 lines). Hand colored. Entire litho: 9-1/8" x 12-5/8". Image: 8-1/16" x 12-5/8". Now housed in an..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. 1st edition. [6], 307, [7] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's decorative green cloth binding. More
Brooklyn: "The Union" Steam Presses, 10 Front Street, 1864. 1st Edition. [6 (blank)], [3] - 189, [7 (blank)] pp. T.p. printed in red & blue. Illustrated with a folding "Plan of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and adjacent Grounds as prepared for the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair. In aid..... More
Divers places: divers dates. Includes 3 diaries: 1916, 1918 & 1942. The 1942 diary is written while Chandler was a Colonel assigned to New Guinea, it mentions a Japanese air raid while hiding out in a slit trench, meeting with General Clark preparing anti- aircraft installations etc., etc. The early diaries are..... More
[Saxton's River, VT ?]: [1900]. 1st Printing. Single sheet, printed recto only. 8 lines. Verso franked, with One Cent stamp, circular cancel from Saxton's River VT, dated of August 21, 1900. 16-13/16" x 10-7/16". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Across the top of the broadside, the printer proclaims..... More
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Franklin, N.H. Published by Peabody & Daniell, (1852). 1st printing of this issue (Wheat, Maps of the Gold Rush, 212). Cf Drake 4698, for the 1797 first edition. 48 pp, including wrappers, untrimmed. CA descriptive text p. 39, providing details on local gold rush municipalities: San Francisco ["principal port of..... More
Detroit: Evans - Winter - Hess, [1924]. 6, [2] pp (including wrappers). Illustrated with 7 color lithograph vignettes. 7-1/2" x 5-1/2". White paper covers, printed in black, oval color vignette to front cover, stapled. Rear cover with imprint of Loomis-Williamson Co, West Chester PA, presumably an automobile delearship. Now housed..... More
