(Tokyo): Suntory Ltd., (1976). Black and white illustrations. Oak boards, leather spine, housed in a clamshell box. Tall octavo. 362 pages. A fantastic production to commemorate Suntory's 50th anniversary as the originator of quality whisky production in Japan. The book consists of 20 works from well known authors from 5..... More
[New York]: [U.S. Army Corps of Engineers], [1946?]. Diagram, fold-out maps. Side-stapled leaves. Quarto. ii, [3] illustration + maps. Detailed early report on the effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945. The Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb Investigating Group was dispatched just two days after..... More
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited edition. Colored engravings. Full leather. Octavo. x, 631 pages. A beautiful copy of this collection of Walton, done in an edition of 1100 copies, of which this is #905. On laid paper with portraits engraved by Charles Sigrist and color-stencilled drawings by Thomas L. Poulton..... More
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856. First edition. Tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait. Full cloth. Octavo. 131 pages, (ii) ads. Robert Field Stockton (1795-1866) served in the U.S. Navy during both the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, and captured California during the latter. Stockton was later elected to the..... More
[London, for D. Henry]: [The Gentleman's Magazine], [1776]. Map. Framed, approximately 17 3/4" x 13". Map approximately 12 3/8" x 7 5/8" Original map, published in the October, 1776 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine in London. It shows the general area of operation during the important August, 1776 Battle of..... More
Washington: McGill & WItherow, Printers and Stereotypers, 1864. First edition. Stitched signatures. Octavo. 68 pages, + [2] page Appendix. A group of eight vividly descriptive letters from the battlefield and from Washington during the Civil War. Bloor was an architect and a gifted writer, and travelled with the Army of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. Full leather. Sixteenmo. 483 pages. A genuine American classic. Dana was a gifted observer and writer, and his memoir paints a colorful portrait of Mexican California in the 1830s, including the ports of San Diego, San Pedro (Los Angeles), Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912. First edition. Black and white plates. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 185 pages. Probably the first book to analyze the naval architecture and design shortcomings in the Titanic, published within a few months of the Titanic disaster. Walker demonstrates that the much earlier ship..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1952). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 276 pages. Scarce first printing of this highly influential early self-help book. Norman Vincent Peale's suggested methods were a combination of self-hypnosis and religious faith, and certainly had detractors, but this book forever stamped the nascent self-help genre. More
[Annapolis?]: [1865?]. Photograph, signed by King. Single card, approximately 7.5" x 5" Oval photographic portrait of Nurse Ruth S. Ellis of Bridgewater, MA, mounted on a printed card. Text gives brief biographical information on Mrs. Josselyn and her time in Annapolis from August 1863 to May 1865. She apparently worked..... More
Washington: Sold by Wilder & Campbell, 1825. First edition. Frontispiece by Charles Wilson Peale. Original binding, Octavo, viii, 364 pages. The first biography of John Paul Jones by then Register of the U.S. Navy, John Henry Sherburne. The frontispiece is the first reproduction of the famous portrait of Jones done..... More
Annapolis: 1865. Folded sheets, with original envelope. Incredible 6 page manuscript letter from a Civil War Chaplain posted at Annapolis, discussing St. John's College Hospital Chapel, visiting hospitals, and the work of the U.S. Christian Commission in Annapolis during the war. Partial transcript: "At 2 P.M. I preached..... More
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
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1934. First edition. Photographs, cartoons, some with color. Hardcover. Folio. 88 pages. A stunning collection of photographs of people and sights in early 1930s Peking, augmented with charming drawings by the Austrian expat cartoonist, Friedrich Schiff. Scarce, particularly so in the original dust jacket. Contemporaneous..... More
(Shanghai): (North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd), (1937). First edition. Cartoons. Softcover. Quarto. Not paginated [36 leaves]. Rare collection of cartoons and humor from the Japanese attack on Shanghai in 1937. "Sapajou" was the pen name of Russian cartoonist Georgii Sapojnikoff, whose cartoons began appearing in the North-China Daily News..... More
[Washington]: [Buell & Blanchard, Printers], 1858-1890. Pamphlet. Octavo. 8 pages [+single sheet, card]. John Bingham was an important anti-slavery politician and lawyer before the Civil War. In this speech he vigorously opposes a bill that would have admitted Kansas as a state, provided they adopted the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution which..... More
Wilmington: 1787. Single sheet, folded once to approximately 7 1/2" x 9 1/4" Charming letter from Founding Father John Dickinson to a Daniel Clymer, then a member of the Pennsylvania State Assembly. In the letter, Dickinson acknowledges a prior gift of books from Clymer and belatedly presents a gift of..... More
[New York]: 1893. Single sheet, 5 3/4" x 8 7/8" Suffragist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton here responds to Ohio manuscript collector Dr. Charles Elmer Rice, who had apparently requested of her letters of noteworthy individuals. He seems to have sent her an abolitionist's letter, possibly to entice her to accede..... More
North East and Annapolis: 1864. Loose sheets. Dr. Charles T. Simpers and his wife, Eliza, lived in the town of North East, in Cecil County, Maryland. This group of letters from late 1864 opens a window into the trials and feelings of a couple separated by the Civil War. Eliza..... More
Washington: Mathew Brady, [1862-1863]. Black and white photograph. Mounted on a 2" x 4" card. Original albumen photographic profile vignette of a seated General Hooker, facing left. Imprint of Brady Studio, Washington, in bottom margin. Inscribed on back of the mount "Joseph Hooker / Maj. Genl." General Hooker's aggressive..... More
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
Baltimore: Sands & Neilson, 1837. First edition. Original wraps. Octavo. 90 pages. Scarce pamphlet on the Maryland Constitutional crisis of 1836. The Maryland Senate was chosen by an electoral college at this time, and the crisis arose when the state's 19 Democrat electors, angry that they were in the minority..... More
(Philadelphia): Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, 1883. First edition. Engraved cuts, fold-out map. Printed wrappers. Duodecimo. 96 pages. Rather scarce booklet which describes the fishing and waterfowling delights to be found on the Delaware and Maryland peninsula in the Chesapeake Bay, with many engraved cuts of different species and..... More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., (1957). First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. viii, 275 pages. A fascinating guide to the dawn of the Age of Manipulation, when motivational researchers were learning all sorts of things about people's subconscious urges, fears, frustrations, and wish fulfillments, and the Mad Men employed this..... More
[New York]: [City of New York?], [1856]. Single sheet. Approximately 7 1/4" x 10 3/4" This map was originally produced circa 1813 by David Grim, and this hand-colored facsimile was reprinted in the "Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1856." More