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
[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
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: 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
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
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: Charles Magnus, [1863?]. Colored woodcut headpiece. Single leaf approximately 5" x 8" Union Civil War songsheet with Copperhead sentiments. "Abraham Lincoln...stop this war, It's all played out..." Also references the Conscription Act which was passed in March, 1863: "The Conscription act it now is passed, and we'll be..... 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