Annapolis: Geo. W. Jones, Bookseller and Stationer, 1906. Black and white photographs. Disbound, oblong duodecimo, [16] pages. Souvenir album of 16 photographic views around Annapolis and the Naval Academy. The photographer is not identified, but the images apparently were the property of The Albertype Company. The album was published by..... 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
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
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.): Wisconsin History Commission, 1911. First edition. Maps. Hardcover, octavo, xiv, 255 pages. Account of the important battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga in late 1863, by an active participant from Wisconsin. 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
[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
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
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
Chicago: D F Keller & Company, 1925. First edition. Black and white photographs, endpaper maps. Hardcover, quarto, 218 pages. The story of the Chicago Yacht Club's great annual sailing contest. This race was first sailed in 1898 and then regularly scheduled in 1904. The course runs 330 miles from Chicago..... 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
[Waterford?]: Oxford County Advertiser Press, [1880?]. Wrappers, 32mo, 20 pages. Dr. Shattuck was a gynecologist and the superintending physician and operating surgeon at the Maine Hygienic Institute in Waterford, a facility "devoted exclusively to lady patients." One of Dr. Shattuck's famous cases--that of Miss Gussie Rackett--receives much attention herein. No..... 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
Baltimore: J. D. Ehlers & Co.'s Engraving and Printing House, 1873. First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Hotchkiss, two fold-out maps, numerous ads at rear. Octavo, full cloth, 144 pages. Interesting observations of North and South shortly after the Civil War, compiled from many letters and papers produced by the newspaper..... 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