Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1916. First printing. Black and white photographic plates. Cloth hardcover. x, 205 pages. This is an account of a hunting expedition to the St. Elias Range in the region of the Donjek and White Rivers. the quarry was caribou, mountain sheep, goat, bear, and moose..... More
Los Angeles: Sawyer Press, 1967. Color cartoon. Poster. 22 1/2" x 33 1/8" Ron Cobb began freelancing as a cartoonist for the radical Los Angeles Free Press in 1965, and was regarded as one of the finest political cartoonists of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. This poster was done..... More
London: J. Almon, 1766. Second edition. Disbound. Octavo. [vi], 81, [1] pages. Daniel Dulany's highly influential pamphlet in opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765. He argued that while inhabitants of England were properly represented by members of Parliament (elected by other inhabitants of England), the same was not be..... More
Concord / Boston: Private letter / James R. Osgood and Company, 1859 / 1874-1875. Two volumes have engraved frontispiece portraits. Half calf over marbled boards. Duodecimos. Handsome group of volumes accompanying a nice Emerson letter discussing the practical business of publishing. The nearly 3 page letter is entirely in Emerson's..... More
(Denton): (Rue Publishing Co.), (1941). Cloth over boards. Octavo. 326 pages. Genealogical record of the venerable Hall Family of West River, Maryland. Among the kindred families covered are Prather, Duval, Watkins, Giles, Loney, Keller, Stockton, Mulliken, and several others. SIGNED by Thomas John Hall, III on front free endpaper. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First printing. Black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 200 pages. Matthew Henson was an African American explorer who was Robert Peary's indispensable right-hand man on his seven Arctic expeditions over nearly 23 years. It is now generally acknowledged (as he..... More
Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1919. First printing. Profusely illustrated, including eight color plates of flies. Cloth hardcover. Duodecimo. xvi, 264 pages. Contents include selection, care, and rigging of the rod, the art of casting, trout habits, the angler's flies and how to tie them, description of trout-fly patterns, and..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, [c.1935]. Color plates of flies by Alma W. Froderstrom, black and white illustrations. Original cloth, in slipcase. Octavo. xxii, 190 pages. The first reprint of the original Derrydale edition. Jennings' work represented a giant step forward in American fly-fishing literature, in terms of identifying insects and..... More
(Baltimore): (Meyer & Thalheimer), (1938). First printing. Photographs by the author. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xviii, 127 pages. The author spent ten years researching and photographing this fascinating history of St. Mary's County--Maryland's "Mother County." He sought out unusual and obscure anecdotes, legends, and traditions not found in ordinary historical..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1927). First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 317 pages. Mencken's acerbic wit and good sense applied to topics like journalism in America, metaphysicians, faith, poets, sex hygiene books, Ambrose Bierce and much more. A nice looking copy. Errata slip tipped in. More
Newark: Provost Marshal's Office, 1864. Single sheet. 4.75" x 8.5" Receipt for the payment of $400 for the privilege of furnishing an acceptable substitute for service in the Union Navy during the Civil War. Issued to draftee John Dooley by Provost Marshall Henry J. Mills of Newark, New Jersey... More
Philadelphia: 1795. Framed item. 21 1/8" x 27" overall. Robert Morris, the influential financier of the American Revolution and signer of the United States' three most important documents--the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution--here signs a stock certificate as President of The North American Land Company..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1970). First printing. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. 141 pages. Jim Morrison's only book published during his lifetime. From the jacket, Morrison "sees and speaks of contemporary America--the cities, the drug scene, the movies, the money hustle, the old hang-ups and new freedoms in love." The verses..... More
Washington: (S.n.), 1863. Wraps. Octavo. 8 pages. Frederick Law Olmsted--pioneering American landscape architect and co-designer of New York's Central Park--here gives a very interesting report in his role as General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Olmsted gives a good outline of the activities..... More
(Washington): (Government Printing Office), (1950). Samples of black and color inks. Comb-bound boards. Octavo. About 200 pages (not paginated). This book was compiled to show the basic ink colors stocked by the Government Printing Office Ink Section, with each given a unique number. The idea was to simplify requests for..... More
[New Market, NJ]: [Sons of Liberty], [1960s]. Diagrams. Comb bound softcover. Octavo. [vi], 40 pages. This odd and rare little booklet is essentially a handbook on the practical operations of resistance movements through guerilla warfare. It seems to be contemplating a Communist invasion of the United States and what patriotic..... More
Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1935. Color pictorial map. Single sheet, approximately 34" x 25" Schruers was a graduate of Harvard and created this architectural bird's-eye view of his alma mater in celebration of its tercentenary in 1936. It is therefore less comical than other college pictorial maps of the era..... More
Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co., (1914). First printing. Black and white frontispiece portrait. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. vi, 284 pages. An important and uncommon biography of one of Maryland's most distinguished lawyers and politicians. Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876) was born in Annapolis and graduated from St. John's College there in 1812. He..... More
New York: New York City Transit Authority, 1972. First printing. Color-coded route map. Single sheet approximately 18" x 21" printed on both sides. Folds to about 3 1/2" x 7" Here is the important first printing of Massimo Vignelli's 1972 NYC Transit Authority map. Vignelli sacrificed geographic accuracy for simplicity..... More
New York: (S.n.), 1813. Broadside. Approximately 5" x 8 1/8" An accomplished certificate for 1 share in the privateer Paul Jones, in the amount of $250, signed by Samuel Adams and others. More