1865. Single sheet folded in half to 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" Original handwritten letter dated March 27, 1865, from the "Rooms of the Y.M.C.A." in Washington, DC. The letter organizes a "Special Relief Corps" of short term nurse volunteers standing ready to travel from Washington, DC to Annapolis to..... More
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Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1853. First Edition. Three wood-engraved plates with tissue guards. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. viii, 263 pages. Important collection of anti-slavery testimonies by eminent authors. Includes facsimile signatures of most contributors, which include Horace Mann, William Seward, Charles Sumner, Annie Parker, Gerrit Smith, Miss..... More
[New York]: [National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations], [c.1946]. First Edition. Black and white photographs, drawings. Stapled pictorial wraps. Quarto. [36] pages including covers. Col. Greening was one of the 'Doolittle Raiders' who was shot down later in the war on a bombing mission over Naples, Italy. Sgt. Spinelli..... More
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1852. First Edition. Frontispiece engraving of Murray. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [i-v], vi-viii, [9]-167 pages. Foundational American Spiritualist work, in which John Murray Spear purports to reveal messages received from the spirit of Universalist pioneer (and Spear's namesake) John Murray. A blend of biographical..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857. First Edition. Original full calf over boards. Octavo. [4], [393]-633, [1], [leaf of publisher ads]. Dred Scott was the most controversial Supreme Court decision of the 19th century, and is its most famous decision involving slavery. In Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled..... More
Washington: Published by the Author (Press of Byron S. Adams), 1918. First Edition. Black and white photographic portraits, illustrations, maps. Cloth over flexible card covers. Octavo. 412 pages. Rich narrative of Mills' youth in Texas, military service in the Civil War, Indian campaigns on the Western frontier, and various experiences..... More
Durham: Carolina Academic Press, (1995). First Edition. Black and White Photographs, Illus. Full cloth. Octavo. xxxvi, 421 pages. Study of the admiralty system as it was transmitted from England to America, with an emphasis on Maryland. Based on extensive manuscript research on both sides of the Atlantic. Includes appendices on..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1903. Limited edition, #44 of 100 copies on large paper. Photographic frontispiece plus 19 black and white plates, all with tissue guards. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall Octavo. x, 598 pages. Handsome volume on the natural history and hunting of ducks, geese, swans, rail..... More
[Annapolis]: Maryland State Archives, 2009. First printing. Well illustrated in color and black and white. Softcover. Quarto. [ii], 46 pages. The only detailed account of Abraham Lincoln's passage through Annapolis on his way to and from the Hampton Roads Conference in early February, 1865. The extensive research for..... More
London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicolas edition. Black and white engravings throughout. 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Quartos. ccxii, 129 and [130]-436, [32] pages. A handsome set of the large paper first Nicolas edition of Walton, acclaimed as the finest "Angler" ever published. Sir Harris Nicolas not only secured excellent..... More
London: Printed for Philemon Stephens the younger, at the Kings-Arms, 1661. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine. Quarto. [24], 1-108, 1-96, 1-83, [9] pages. Controversial work by Anglican Bishop of Ossory, Griffith Williams, in which he identifies the Westminster Assembly of Divines as the "mystical soul" and the Long..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., (1917). First edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. xiv, 141 pages. An indictment of what the author believed was America's woeful unpreparedness for World War I, followed by his solution--a program of Universal Military Training. Well documented, with a brief bibliography. Col. Jennings C...... More