Annapolis: R. R. Goodman, Printer, 1869. Single sheet. 28 1/4" x 10 1/2" Original printed list of qualified voters in Annapolis--i.e., U.S. citizens who were male, white, and residents of the city--as of September 27, 1869. There are 652 names on the list, broken down into alphabetical segments, which includes..... More

[New York]: [United Negro College Fund], [1947]. Black and white photographs. Saddle-stapled softcover. [16] pages. Scarce booklet promoting the 1947 fundraising campaign for the United Negro College Fund, taking its cover title from a line by Abraham Lincoln in his 1842 address to the Springfield Washington Temperance Society--"...They teach hope..... More

Newport News: The Mariner's Museum, 1937. First printing. Black and white plates, scale drawings. Hardcover. Octavo. 113 pages (Part I) and Wraps. Oblong folio. Unpaginated plates (Part II). Brewington's first book. An excellent study of the region's early log canoes, canoe building methods, sailing rigs, and log canoe racing..... More

London: J. and R. Tonson, S. Draper, and R. Dodsley, 1749. Second edition. Engraved plates. Hardcovers. Octavos. Over 800 pages. Nice early edition of this foundational work of Western literature. Don Quixote is considered the first modern novel, and on par with the works of Shakespeare. Translated from..... More

[Bandera, TX]: [Rose and Hunter, Publishers], (1951). First printing. Black and white photographs, illustrations. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xiv, 236 pages. Photographs and illustrations of numerous western outlaws and lawmen, some of which are rare images. Noah Rose spent decades collecting over 3,000 old photographs of frontier characters, outlaws, gunmen..... More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. First printing, thus. Black and white plates. In original wraps. This is a collection of four articles on early mechanical aviation by Samuel P. Langley. These were originally printed in various Smithsonian Reports between 1897 and 1904 but were collected and published here together for..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First American edition. Numerous illustrations, some color. Folding maps. 3/4 leather. Quartos. Over 1,300 pages. Nansen's account of the three year arctic expedition on which he achieved the record-setting northern latitude of 86°14′. Well illustrated, including 16 colored plates from Nansen's own sketches..... More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1933. First printing. Color and black and white illustrations. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 171 pages. An important book, believed to be the first on the history and art of American tattooing. Tattoos were mostly worn by sailors, criminals, and prostitutes when this work first..... More

New York: Privately printed by the Knickerbocker Press, 1905. First printing. Black and white photographs, fold-out map. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 41 pages. Stimson owned the Burgess-designed schooner Fleur-de-Lys, and hired Capt. Thomas Bohlin of Gloucester to fit her out and command her for the 1905 racing season. This is..... More

(S.l.): (S.n.), [1942]. Black and white illustrations, map drawings. Wrappers. Twenty-fourmo. 31 pages. This was a handbook for newly arrived recruits at Camp McQuaide during World War II. Camp McQuaide was on the coast of the Monterey Bay just west of Watsonville, California, and home to the Coast Artillery Replacement..... More