[Philadelphia?]: (Democratic National Committee?), [1937?]. Limited Edition. Color and b&w illustrations, ads. Full leather. Folio. 384 pages. The signed limited edition of the souvenir book that recapped Roosevelt's reelection victory and Democrat gains in the 1936 national election. A souvenir book recapping President Roosevelt's victory and Democrat gains in the... More about The Democratic Book 1936 (Signed by FDR
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[Philadelphia?]: (Democratic National Committee?), [1937?]. First Edition. Color and b&w illustrations, ads. Softcover. Folio. 384 pages. A souvenir book recapping President Roosevelt's victory and Democrat gains in the 1936 national election. Contains campaign speeches, profiles of candidates and cabinet members, records of accomplishment for departments in Roosevelt's first term, and... More about The Democratic Book 1936 [cover title
[Washington]: (S.n.), 1908. Broadside. 16" x 19" This commission appointed Alva B. Court an Assistant Naval Constructor with the rank of Lieutenant, junior-grade, in the U.S. Navy. Theodore Roosevelt remains one of America's most popular presidents, even after more than a century since leaving office, and this is a very... More about Signed Naval Commission
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1867. First Edition. First Printing. Full cloth. Octavo. xvi, [17]-492 pages. Early account which tends to mythologize Mosby, but which also contains valuable personal insights into the man, his rangers, and their part in pioneering the tactics of harassment during the Civil War. More about Partisan Life with Col. John S. Mosby
Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Co., Inc., 1907. First American Edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 99 pages pages. Service's first book, published a few months earlier in Canada under the title "Songs of a Sourdough." Includes the favorites--read by countless dads to their kids around the campfire--'The Cremation of Sam McGee' and... More about The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
Philadelphia: I. R. & A. H. Diller, Republishers, 1843. First Edition. Wood engravings. Original cloth. Octavo. 119 pages. First edition of this uncommon swordsmanship manual. It was re-issued in 1861 at the start of the Civil War. Includes nearly 3 pages at rear with numerous recommendations of Col. Stephens and... More about A New System of Broad and Small Sword Exercise,... Comprising the Broad Sword Excercise for...
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First Edition. Original cloth. Octavos. A lovely copy of one of the most impactful books of the American 19th century. There is little doubt that Mrs. Stowe's book and its widespread readership in the North solidified abolition sentiment and hastened the oncoming Civil... More about Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly
New York: The Bradstreet Company, 1882. Colored maps, advertising cuts. Flexible leather. Oblong twenty-fourmo. [x], 50, [vi] pages. Scarce pocket atlas published exclusively for Boston haberdashers Macullar, Parker & Company. In addition to the colored maps of the states and territories, there are 15 maps of mining districts within various... More about Bradstreet's Pocket Atlas of the United States Published exclusively for Macullar, Parker &...
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. First Edition. Map. Original cloth. Octavo. 357, ads. pages. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came... More about Walden; Or, Life in the Woods
(s. L. ): (S. N. ), [1942]. Black & White Cuts, Map Drawings. Wrappers. Twenty-fourmo. 31 pages. Handbook for new recruits to the Coast Artillery Replacement Training Center which operated at Camp McQuaide from 1942-1943. There is information on the facilities and activities at the post as well as a.... More about CARTC Camp McQuaide
Washington: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. Wood engravings. Disbound. Octavo. 24 pages. Vail was an engineer and inventor who collaborated with Samuel B. Morse in the development and practical application of the telegraph. Some have argued it was actually Vail who invented the telegraphic alphabet named after Morse, but... More about Description of the American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation Between the Cities of...
London: Samuel Bagster, 1808. Seventh Edition. 3/4 leather. Octavo. Beautiful 200 year old copy of this great English fishing classic. Binding by Root & Son. More about The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds,...
[New York]: (S.n.), [1813?]. Broadside. 5 1/4" x 7 7/8" Blank printed form to certify ownership of shares in the privateer Yorktown during the War of 1812. The Yorktown operated out of New York against British ships beginning in 1813. This scrip is for her second cruise. She did manage... More about Yorktown Scrip, for Shares in Privateer During the War of 1812
New York: Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Black & white plates. Original cloth. Octavo. [xvi], 217 pages. A history of the adventures of Gen. George Washington's Aides and secretaries through the Revolutionary War, from which emerges a delightfully human picture of Washington himself. Much of the information comes... More about Washington and His Aides-de-Camp
Lyon: A. Bordet & Cie. 1914. Black & white plates. 1/2 leather. Octavo. 240 pages. Reproduces in facsimile much of the French propaganda and official documents produced in relation to the outbreak of World War I. Preface by Edouard Herriot, Mayor of Lyon, where these documents were accumulated. Several tissue-guarded... More about La Guerre Européene: Bulletin des Communes et Documents Officiels