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My Cave Life in Vicksburg. With Letters of Trial and Travel
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1864. First printing. Extra engraved title page, 1 map. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 196, 8 (ads) pages. An important firsthand account by a woman who experienced the siege of Vicksburg by Union forces in 1863. Ref. Nevins vol II, p. 195. More
Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York
New York: John A. Gray, Printer, 1860. Wrappers. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. 29 pages. Correspondence related to accusations of libel made by Gerrit Smith against Royal Phelps and Watts Sherman of the New York Democratic Vigilant Association. The dispute arose from the latter publishing a "Manifesto" in which it..... More
The Raymond Orteig $25,000 Prize: Paris - New York -- New York - Paris
New York: Aero Club of America, 1919. Broadside. 8.5" x 14". Printed both sides. Scarce entry form for the $25,000 Ortieg Cross-Atlantic Flight Prize, which was ultimately won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927. Augustus Post of the Aero Club of America approached hotelier Raymond Orteig to sponsor the prize, which..... More
1899 Photograph of Trout Fishermen with their Catch in Downtown Skagway, Alaska
Skagway: Case & Draper, 1899. Photograph is 4 3/4" x 6 3/4", mounted on thin board of 7" x 9" Lovely photograph showing a string of 30 trout caught on the Skagway River, April 20, 1899. The fishermen, posing at each end of the string, are F. F. Clark and..... More
Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (with Part Second)--complete in two volumes
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869 and 1870. Early printings. Black and white illlustrations. Cloth over boards. Duodecimos. 341 (+ads) and 359 (+ads) pages. The classic coming-of-age novel about four sisters in New England during the Civil War, by Louisa May Alcott. These are early printings of both volumes, within a year..... More
Series of Four Broadsides Advocating Repeal of Prohibition
[Chicago]: Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, [1930?]. Single sheets. 6 1/8" x 9 1/8" Women in the early 20th century were assumed to favor Prohibition, and indeed had been a powerful force--in the form of the Women's Christian Temperance Union--in getting it passed. By the late 1920s, however, Pauline..... More
Go to the Polls! June 20th, 1933
New Haven: Connecticut Branch, W. O. N. P. R., 1933. Broadside. 7" x 10 1/4" This is an original handbill from a major women's group soliciting votes to repeal Prohibition in 1933. Women's organizations--particularly the Women's Christian Temperance Union--are strongly associated with passage of the 18th Amendment to the..... More
Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the Translation, and on the Original; and Two Dissertations, on Poetical, and Musical, Imitation
London: Luke Hansard & Sons, 1812. Second edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavos. xxxii, 344 and [iv], 499 pages. Thomas Twining had produced the first useable English translation of Aristotle's Poetics in 1789. This is the second edition of 1812, edited by his nephew. This 2-volume set has..... More
Increasing Returns and the New World of Business [in Harvard Business Review Vol. 74, No. 4]
Boston: Harvard Business Review, 1996. Magazine. Pages 100-109. Theoretical economist W. Brian Arthur's article in this issue of the Harvard Business Review popularized a concept that has forever changed Silicon Valley, and is one of the HBR's most influential articles ever. And it was edited by Arthur's friend, Cormac McCarthy..... More
The Speeches of Mr. Bacon and Mr. Nicholson, in the National House of Representatives, in Defence of the Bill Received from the Senate, Entitled, "An Act to repeal certain Acts respecting the organization of the Courts of the United States." February, 1802
Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1802. First edition. Octavo. 44 pages. Loose signatures. Two Jeffersonians--Bacon of Massachusetts and Nicholson of Maryland--argue in favor of the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, which stacked the federal judiciary with Federalists appointed by the departing President John Adams. Joseph Hopper Nicholson..... More
Curtis' Bay; Its Superior Advantages and Admirable Location as the Only Existing and Available Deep Water Harbor Contiguous to the City of Baltimore, in Connection with Its Rapidly Increasing Local Manufactures, the Development of Its Coal Traffic, and the Accommodation of Its Western and Souther Railroad Connections
Baltimore: The Patapsco Land Company, (1874). First edition. Large fold-out map. Hardcover. Octavo. 100 pages. This is a detailed prospectus seeking investment in the newly reorganized Patapsco Land Company, which intended to turn its holdings at Curtis Bay into a major seaport and railhead. The background information included therefore gives..... More
The Art of the Sabre and the Épée
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1936). First American edition. Frontispiece portrait, black and white photographic illustrations, many line drawings. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xviii, 170 pages. Barbasetti's excellent instruction on fencing, well-illustrated with line cuts by Ciro Barbasetti. While the noble art of swordsmanship cannot be learned..... More
250th Coast Artillery, Army of the United States, Camp McQuaide, California, 1941
[Baton Rouge]: [Army and Navy Publishing Company, Inc.], 1941. Black and white photographs, one color cartoon. Hardcover. Folio. [vi], 89, [26] pages. Uncommon book on this California coastal defense regiment during World War II. Camp McQuaide was located near Watsonville, California, and the site is now occupied by Monterey Bay..... More
Beatles Map: John, Paul, George, Ringo
[Liverpool]: [City of Liverpool], [1974]. Single sheet. 16" x 18" This scarce pictorial map is a guide to all sites of Beatles interest in their native city of Liverpool. It is featured in the book "A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps," by Tim Bryars and Tom Harper..... More
The Amphibian
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, [1960?]. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 285 pages. Alexander Belyaev was Russia's first sci-fi writer, sometimes called the Russian Jules Verne. Here he spins the story of a reclusive doctor on the coast of South America who gives his son shark gills in a life-saving operation. The son..... More
Forging His Chains. the Autobiography of George Bidwell, the Famous Ticket-Of-Leave Man…his Trial and Incarceration in English Prisons Fourteen Years on a Life Sentence for "The $5, 000, 000 Forgery on the Bank of England"
New York: Bidwell Publishing Company, 1889. Black & White Frontispiece Portrait, Illus. Full cloth. Octavo. 560 pages. Bidwell recounts his Puritan upbringing, successful struggles against poverty, his career as a merchant, his commercial misfortunes and temptations, and his ultimate fall. Well illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and many woodcut..... More
California Gold-field Scenes: Selections from Quien Sabe's Gold-field Manuscripts
Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1886. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 283 pages. Reverend Bigham went to California as a missionary in the early years of the Gold Rush. The dramatized scenes and sketches here are loosely based upon his actual experiences as a preacher and miner. HOWES B444. More
John Hay, Scholar, Statesman An Address Delivered before the Alumni Association of Brown University, June 19, 1906
Providence: (Standard Printing Company), 1906. Wrappers. Octavo. 29 pages. Memorial to Hay, Brown University class of 1858, secretary to Lincoln, diplomat, journalist, biographer, and Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Bound in tan paper covers stitched to textblock, Yapp edges, front cover titled in black. A few edge wrinkles..... More
The National Prohibitory Amendment Guide
Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, 1889. First edition. Wrappers. Duodecimo. .x, 104 pages + 1 leaf publisher ads. The first part of this manual gives a history of National Prohibitory Amendments and Congressional action in relation to them, including arguments, indorsements of organizations and newspapers, etc. The second part consists..... More
Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro
London: Trübner & Co., 1864. First British edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 91 pages. This anonymously published pamphlet first appeared in New York. This is the London edition from the same year. The title is a coined word in this work to describe intermixing of races. While this is the..... More
The Commissioners of the Alms-House, vs. Alexander Whistelo, a Black Man; Being a Remarkable Case of Bastardy...
New York: David Longworth, 1808. Disbound. Octavo. 56 pages. The courtroom proceedings as a Black man is charged with bastardy in New York at the beginning of the 19th century. Alexander Whistelo was claimed by the mother herself to be the father of her female bastard child, which she had..... More
The Panorama of Torquay, a Descriptive and Historical Sketch of the District Comprised between the Dart and Teign
London: Simpkin And Marshall, 1832. Second Edition. Black & White Plates, Colored Map. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xii, 288 pages. Illustrated with numerous lithographic and wood engravings and a double spread map. Bound in original paper over boards with title label at head of spine. Minor wear and rubs to extremities. "From..... More
De Renunciatione Vulnerum, seu Vulnerum Lethalium Examen. Exponens horum Formalitatem & Causas, tam in specie ac per singulas Corporis partes
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Viduam Sebastiani, & Christianum Petzoldum, 1710. Second edition. Vellum. Duodecimo. [xvi], 296, [8] pages. Dr. Johannes Bohn was a noted 17th century German physician, professor of medicine, and pioneer in forensic science. He introduced the policy of thorough autopsies of the deceased. Bohn's specialty was the investigation of..... More