Boston: Printed for D. Gookin, 1745. Boston: Printed [by Rogers and Fowle] for D. Gookin, 1745. First edition, printed posthumously. Small octavo (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches; 145 x 95 mm). [8], 176 pp. Printers' names supplied by Evans. We could find no copies at auction in over 50.....
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1835. Full Description: ADAMS, John Quincy. Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier De Lafayette. Delivered at the Request of Both Houses of the United States, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington. On the 31st of December, 1834 Washington: Gales and.....
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & co., 1825. [ADAMS, John Quincy, author]. [SOMERVILLE, William]. Suggestions on Presidential Elections, With Particular Reference to a Letter of William C. Somerville, Esq. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & co., 1825. First edition of pamphlet attributed to John Quincy Adams in support of a letter that was written.....
New York, 1846. New York: 1846. A very interesting one-of-a-kind autograph album. The autograph book is titled in manuscript ink on the second leaf, "In Convention to Revise the Constitution. September 21st, 1846." Octavo (8 3/8 x 7 5/8 inches; 210 x 195 mm). Album has 69 leaves. Of these.....
Philadelphia: William F. Geddes, 1839. HAZARD, Samuel, [editor]. Schooner Amistead. [within] United States Commercial & Statistical Register Philadelphia: William F. Geddes, 1839. Full Description: [ANTI-SLAVERY]. HAZARD, Samuel, [editor]. Schooner Amistead. [The Amistad Affair] [within] United States Commercial & Statistical Register. Philadelphia: William F. Geddes. Wednesday, September 11, 1839. An early.....
London: Printed for John Wyat, 1707. Full Description: ARCHDALE, John. A New Description of that Fertile and Pleasant Province of Carolina: With a brief account of its discovery, settling, and the government thereof to this time. With several remarkable passages of divine providence during my time. London: Printed for John.....
New York, 1841. Autograph Letter Signed "John J. Audubon" to "Charles C. Little." New York: February 1, 1841. One quarto page, lettered in ink on recto only (9 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches; 246x198 mm). Dated at the top "February 1, 1841" and addressed to Charles C. Little of Little.....
New York: The Bancroft Company, 1896. Full Description: BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. Achievements of Civilization: The Book of Wealth. Wealth in Relation to Material and Intellectual Progress and Achievement. Being an Inquiry into the Nature and Distribution of the World's Resources and Riches, and a History of the Origin and Influence.....
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1854. First edition, issued simultaneously with the two volume edition. Octavo. Two volumes bound in one. Publisher's original brown cloth, decoratively blindstamped. Illustrated with 2 folding frontispieces, large folding map of US and Mexican border area, 14 tinted lithograph plates (including the Tucson plate.....
Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1794. . The Continental Harmony. Containing a Number of Anthems, Luges, and Chorusses, in Several Parts. Never Before Published. Composed by William Billings, Author of Various Music Books...Published According To Act of Congress. Printed, Typographically at Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews.....
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by R. Aitken, 1781. Rare Second American Edition and Earliest Attainable of the First Book Published that was Devoted to Women and Printed in the Colonies [BOUDIET DE VILLEMERT, P.J.]. The Ladies Friend; being a treatise on the virtues and qualifications which are the brightest ornaments.....
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London: Printed by Charles Eyer and William Strahan. 1785. First edition of a collection of 46 parliamentary acts from the second, third, fourth and fifth sessions of the Sixteenth Parliament of Great Britain. Many acts relating to America. One quarto volume (11 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 301 x 184.....
London: John Joseph Stockdale, 1808. Considered the best edition of this work, which was first published in 1757. Quarto. [1-5]6-482[-484, ad leaf]. Two engraved maps. Contemporary calf, gilt, with two black morocco spine labels. Marbled endpapers and matching edges. Minor wear to binding; rubbing to joints. Some browning and offsetting.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. Full Description: BURKE, Edmund. Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on American Taxation, April 19, 1774. The second edition. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. Second edition. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 208 x 130 mm). [i]-iv, 5-96 pp. Disbound but stitched together.....
Paris: Hippolyte Souverain, 1839. First edition, Published in a Very Limited Number of Copies for Distribution Among Friends [CABET, Etienne]. Voyage et Aventures de Lord Villiam Carisdall en Icarie. Traduits de l'Anglais de Francis Adams par Th. Dufruit. Paris: Hippolyte Souverain, 1840 [1839]. First edition, published in 1839 in a......
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea- Chesnut Street, 1822. First collected edition. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 214 x 135 mm). ii, [4], [iii]-x, [2], [9]-546, [10, index] pp. With general title-page and title-pages for all essays except The Farmer's & Planter's Friend which is not required for.....
New York: Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1862. New York: Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1862. A complete deck of 52 Civil War playing cards. Each card standard size (3 9/16 x 2 1/2 inches; 91 x 63 mm). The usual suits are replaced with "National Emblems" including blue Federal eagles, blue 13-star shields.....
Mexico: Offcina Tipogragrafica de la Secretaria de Fomento. 1892. . Antiguedades Mexicanas. Publicados Por La Junta Columbina De Mexico. En El Cuarto Centenario Del Descubrimiento De America. Laminas. Mexico: Offcina Tipogragrafica de la Secretaria de Fomento. , 1892. Large Folio. (Measures 20 x 13 1/2 inches). Half red morocco over.....
Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1533. An Important Early Edition of Columbus' First Letter. The Original Printing of this Letter was the First Publication Concerning America [COLUMBUS, Christopher]. The Columbus Letter to Rafael Sanchez. [pages 116-121]. earliest printing in the sixteenth-century of Columbus's first letter. When this letter was first published in.....
Boston: Printed and sold by Kneeland and Adams, 1768. Second and Best Expanded Edition [Croswell, Andrew]. Part of an Exposition of Paul's Journey to Damascus, Acts XXVI: in which the author having cautioned against shedding blood, shews that giving more than the forty stripes allowed Deuteronomy XXV. ver. 3. is.....
Boston: George Girdler Smith, 1841. Boston: George Girdler Smith, [n.d.c.a. 1841]. First Edition of George Smith's engraved broadside of the Declaration of Independence. Broadside (11 15/16 x 9 3/8 inches; 303 x 239 mm). With engravings of the first ten presidents and the seals of the thirteen original colonies. Printed.....
Manchester, N.H. Wm. H. Fisk, 1856. Manchester N.H.: Wm. H. Fisk, 1856]. First edition (?). Broadside. Measures 28 1/2 x 22 inches. Paper is a bit toned. Some moderate edgewear. A few small marginal holes and marginal closed tears. One closed tear approximately 3.5 inches, but none of the tears.....
Philadelphia: Illman & Sons, 1859. Philadelphia]: Illman & Sons, n.d.c.a. 1859]. Large broadside (20 1/2 inches; x 16 inches; 510 x 410 mm). Engraved. The text in a small script within an elaborate vine and floral border. The engraving includes portraits of the Presidents from Washington to Buchanan. As well.....
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Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1777. First edition, first issue of Volume II of the Journals of Congress with the rare Aitken imprint and the first Congressional printing of the Declaration of Independence (found on pages 241-246). Aiken took over the printing of the Journals from Bradford before the 1776 Bradford edition.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1871. contributor]. GRANT, Ulysses S., [contributor]. Dominican Republic. Report of the Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo. with the Introductory Message of the President; Special Reports made to the Commission, State Papers furnished by the Dominican Government, and the Statements of over seventy witnesses. Washington: Government.....