(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
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1911. First edition. Original full cloth. Octavo. 144 pages. Groundbreaking work on labor efficiency. Taylor was the first to lay down principles of Scientific Management, which sought to increase industrial efficiency by studying and standardizing the movements of workers and machines. He famously systematized..... More
[London]: Royal Society of London, [1908?]. Black and white photographs. Softcover. Quarto. [17 pages, 5 plates]. Systematic description of the sulci and gyri of the brain of the distinguished mathematician, Charles Babbage (1791-1871). Babbage is considered the father of computers, and this study of his brain was part of a...... More
New York: Whittlesey House, (1948). First edition. Black and white photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. x, 238 pages. Autobiography of Adolphe Menjou, early 20th century film actor and Hollywood man-about-town, famous for his wardrobe and his wit. Foreword by Clark Gable. More
1766. Single sheet. Handwritten 18th century document authorizing future Founding Father, John Dickinson, to act on behalf of three men in the settlement of a debt in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The three men--James Martin, Samuel Martin, and Amos Jones all can be found as soldiers in Revolutionary War militia units..... More
[Baltimore]: (S.n.), [1924?]. First edition. Black and white photographs, map. Embossed paper covers over side-stapled binding. Oblong quarto. 68 leaves, printed on rectos only. A remarkable and quite scarce visual record of the western Chesapeake and Patapsco River shorelines from just north of Annapolis through the industrial and commercial docks..... More
Baltimore: W. J. Groeninger, 1904. Black and white photograph. Approximately 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" photograph on a 9 3/4" x 12 5/8" mount. Large format photograph showing 13 men standing amid the ruins of the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. Each man is identified in the lower margin of..... More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [c.1836]. Broadside. 7 1/2" x 10 1/8" Satirical broadside poking fun at British politician and racehorse owner Lord George Bentinck for his move from the Whig Party to the Conservative Party with the Derby Dilly faction in Parliament. Bentinck represented the King's Lynn constituency in Norfolk and was..... More
Brunswick: 1923. Broadside. 6" x 9" President Warren G. Harding suffered a heart attack and died in San Francisco while on a tour of the western states. This broadside is the program for the memorial service held in Brunswick, Maine on August 10, 1923--the same day as Harding's funeral in..... More
1946-1954. Loose sheets. 8 1/2" x 11" and smaller. 8 individual items. This group of items originated with the impact Nimitz's 1946 speech had on one member of the USNA class of 1947. That graduate obtained a copy of the speech, and years later wrote to Nimitz and requested that..... More
Hartford: [Pope Press], [c.1906]. Black and white photographic illustrations. Wrappers. Approximately 5 1/8" x 4 1/4". 40 pages. Illustrated trade catalogue and priced parts list for Colt handguns, circa 1906. The page for the Automatic Colt Pistol Military Model Calibre .45 is stamped at top "NOT READY FOR DELIVERY." This..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First edition. Black and white photographs, fold-out route map. Original cloth. Octavo. xx,188 pages. Hudson Stuck was an Episcopal archdeacon of the Yukon who co-led the first expedition to summit Denali in 1913. A British native, he immigrated to the United States in 1885..... More
Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937. First printing. Black and white photographic plates. Original cloth. Octavo. xii, 500 pages. Forrester vividly shares her family memories, traditions, and relics in this account of Booth's escape and survival after the Lincoln assassination. She argues that Booth was a tool of the Knights..... More
[Montana]: [1920s-1940s]. Spiral bound with pictorial covers. Quarto. Al Madson was a traveling salesman of school classroom furniture whose territory seems to have been Rocky Mountain and Midwestern states. His scrapbook contains lots of colorful and illuminating bits related to his working travels. There are letters, ticket stubs, newspaper clippings..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1944. First edition. Illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 31 pages. Scarce first edition of the story that was adapted into the beloved holiday classic film, "It's a Wonderful Life." Philip Van Doren Stern was an accomplished Civil War historian and author but perhaps his most..... More
[Tenafly, NJ]: [1885]. Single leaf, 5.5" x 8.5" Handwritten letter by pioneering suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, mentioning fellow activists Lucy Stone and Lucretia Mott. Mrs. Stanton is responding to a gentleman named Greene who apparently had requested contacts from her. The letter is penned in a dark blue..... More
(s.l.): NASA, 1980-1983. Loose leaf pages, generally 8.5 x 11 inches, punched at left margins for 3-ring binder. A treasure trove of information on the early operational space shuttle program, in the form of materials intended for the press. Separate pieces include "Space Shuttle News Reference," STS-5 Fifth Space Shuttle..... More
New York: Howard Lockwood & Co., 1894. First edition. Black & white engraved plates, in text diagrams. Full cloth. Tall octavo, vi, 517 pages [+ads]. Practical and authoritative resource on the chemical arts in making paper. Illustrated throughout, and with some interesting ads for alum, alkali, etc., at rear. More
New York: Privately printed, 1928. First edition. Frontispiece caricature portrait of Peirce, by Rockwell Kent. Hardcover, quarto. The rare suppressed 1928 edition of Peirce's satiric poem on Rockwell Kent. Of the 100 copies printed, all but 13 were reputedly destroyed because of the many typos in the text. This..... More
Nashua: J. W. Pease, [1868?]. Single leaf, approximately 5.25" x 5.75" Nineteenth century advertising notice for patent medicine hair product. Pease, of Nashua, New Hampshire, claimed his product would restore gray hair to its natural color, More
(S.l.): (S.n.), [1942?]. One map, one diagram. In flexible folder affixed with three brass split-pins. Quarto, 32 pages. The USS Wakefield (former the luxury liner SS Manhattan) was a World War II transport ship that caught fire 200 miles off Halifax, Nova Scotia on the evening of September 3, 1942..... More
[Brooklyn]: (S.n.), [c.1848]. Woodcuts. Wrappers, octavo, [16] pages. Interesting and uncommon patent medicine piece featuring one of the earliest claims of "Indian" cures. The first 4 pages of this promotional pamphlet recount a thwarted Indian ambush of a cattle drive from Niagara to Detroit at the end of the 18th..... More
Philadelphia: J. Magee, 1864. Single sheet, folded. Union Civil War songsheet commemorating the Battle of Cedar Creek. Printed in red and blue, with double-line border and two flags at top corners. Folded once along short dimension. WOLF 97b. More