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
[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
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
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
[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
New York: William Farquhar Payson, (1931). Limited edition. Black and white sketches. Hardcover, quarto, xii, 127 pages. Copy #13 of 47 autographed copies of this collection of sketches of sailing ships and life aboard them. Boldly signed by Grant on limitation page. Comes in the original box, with title label..... More
Salem: Marine Research Society, 1928. Limited edition. Black and white plates. Vellum backed boards, quarto, 478 pages. A history of shipbuilding in Massachusetts, followed by 215 plates taken from ship portraits from the Peabody Museum and private collections. This is copy #43 of 97 on American Vellum. Handsome nautical bookplate..... More
(S.l.): The Walpole Society, 1929. Limited edition. Black and white plates. Full cloth, octavo, xviii, 325 pages. Useful reference that gives brief sketches of a wide variety of craftsmen and manufacturers, including silversmiths, cabinet makers, stone cutters, sign painters, engravers, glass ware makers, upholsterers, clock makers, and much more. One..... More
Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, 1929. First edition. Black and white frontispiece. Octavo, full cloth, 66 pages. A tribute to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment of United States Colored Troops in the Civil War. The author, who was married to an officer in a U.S.C.T. regiment, identifies..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited edtiion. Illustrated by Everett Henry. Bound in cloth over boards with gilt-stamped leather spine, top edge gilt. Quarto. xx, 257 pages. Beautiful edition of Mary Shelley's classic horror story. This is copy #313 of 1500. Illustrated with plates and chapter heads by Everett..... More
[Chicago]: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., [1970]. Facsimile. Broadside, 15 3/4" x 19 1./2" In the early hours of July 5, 1776, Philadelphia printer John Dunlap set the Declaration of Independence in type under the supervision of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams. He printed a small number..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1929]. Limited edition. Color plates, black and white drawings. Vellum over boards. Quarto. 232 pages. Beautiful copy of this classic, with 12 full page color plates by Arthur Rackham. This is #38 of 200 copies in the American edition, and is SIGNED by Rackham under the..... More