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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED]. ALS from Julia Ward Howe to "Mr. Duncan" (i.e. William Addison Duncan)...

Howe, Julia (Ward)

[AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED]. ALS from Julia Ward Howe to "Mr. Duncan" (i.e. William Addison Duncan) dated June 29, 1884 (4 half-pages), referencing her recently departed brother Samuel ("Uncle Sam") stating: "I cannot half believe that he is gone"

Newport, RI: 1884. Four half-pages with mourning borders, each page filled with. A.L.S. from Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), American abolitionist and social reformer whose "Battle Hymn of the Republic" continues to be sung to the present day. The present letter contains excellent content relating to the death of her brother..... More

Price: $1,100.00

AUTOMOBILES, 1902]. The Mishaps of an Automobilist. De Witt Clinton Falls

Falls, De Witt Clinton

[AUTOMOBILES, 1902]. The Mishaps of an Automobilist

New York: Stokes, 1902. First Edition. Oblong folio. 25 ff. 25 leaves, printed on recto only, 12 full-page color plates. Oblong 4to, original flexible green burlap cloth (soiled and frayed, the lower cover significantly so), color illustration affixed to upper cover (soiled and chipped, touching outer margin), string-tie binding. Edges..... More

Price: $200.00

OREGON]. Oregon. Memorial of Citizens of the United States, Residing in the Territory of Oregon,...

U.S. Congress (House of Representatives), 1845

[OREGON]. Oregon. Memorial of Citizens of the United States, Residing in the Territory of Oregon, Praying for the Establishment of a Distinct Territorial Government, to Embrace Oregon and Its Adjacent Sea Coasts, &c. House of Representatives 29th Congress, 1st Session, Doc. No. 3 (Dec. 2, 1845)

Washington DC: Richie & Heiss, Printers, 1845. 8vo. 5, [3] pp. (last 3 pages blank). Single sheet folded twice (splitting along folds), uncut. AN APPEAL TO CONGRESS BY RESIDENTS IN THE OREGON TERRITORY IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH A GOVERNMENT. The writers draw attention to the vast commercial opportunities, as well..... More

Price: $250.00

COMPLETE TOY THEATER]. THE BRIGAND, a Romantic Drama, in Two Acts. Pollock's Juvenile Drama /...

Pollock, Benjamin (publisher)

[COMPLETE TOY THEATER]. THE BRIGAND, a Romantic Drama, in Two Acts. Pollock's Juvenile Drama / Characters & Scenes

London: Printed and published by B. Pollock, at his wholesale and retail Theatrical Print Warehouse, 73, Hoxton Street, 1876 (after). First Edition. COMPLETE SET. Text booklet: 12mo., 16 pp. Original printed self-wrappers (browned and brittle, chipped with loss of a few letters, several pages detached; fair condition only). TOGETHER WITH..... More

Price: $440.00

COMPLETE TOY THEATER]. KING HENRY, or The Miller of Mansfield. A Comic Drama, in One Act....

Pollock, Benjamin (publisher)

[COMPLETE TOY THEATER]. KING HENRY, or The Miller of Mansfield. A Comic Drama, in One Act. Pollock's Juvenile Drama / Characters & Scenes

London: Printed and published by B. Pollock, at his wholesale and retail Theatrical Print Warehouse, 73, Hoxton Street, 1876 (after). First Edition. COMPLETE SET. Text booklet: 12mo., 16 pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched (a little creased, some light wear, paper-clip stain on title). TOGETHER WITH: all 10 hand-colored plates, measuring..... More

Price: $400.00

COMPLETE TOY THEATER]. THE WATERMAN, or The First Part of August, in Two Acts. Pollock's Juvenile...

Pollock, Benjamin (publisher)

[COMPLETE TOY THEATER]. THE WATERMAN, or The First Part of August, in Two Acts. Pollock's Juvenile Drama / Characters & Scenes

London: Printed and published by B. Pollock, at his wholesale and retail Theatrical Print Warehouse, 73, Hoxton Street, 1876 (after). First Edition. COMPLETE SET. Text booklet: 12mo., 16 pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched (a little creased, some light browning, paper-clip stain on title). TOGETHER WITH: all 7 hand-colored plates, measuring..... More

Price: $400.00

COMPLETE TOY THEATER]. THE LORD MAYOR'S FOOL. A Comic Burletta, in One Act. Pollock's Juvenile...

Pollock, Benjamin (publisher)

[COMPLETE TOY THEATER]. THE LORD MAYOR'S FOOL. A Comic Burletta, in One Act. Pollock's Juvenile Drama / Characters & Scenes

London: Printed and published by B. Pollock, at his wholesale and retail Theatrical Print Warehouse, 73, Hoxton Street, 1876 (after). First Edition. COMPLETE SET. Text booklet: 12mo., 16 pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched, paper-clip stain on title. TOGETHER WITH: all 8 hand-colored plates, measuring approximately 7 by 8.5 inches: 4..... More

Price: $550.00

COMPLETE TOY THEATER]. THE BLIND BOY. A Drama in Two Acts. Pollock's Juvenile Drama / Characters...

Kenney, James (dramatist). Pollock, Benjamin (publisher)

[COMPLETE TOY THEATER]. THE BLIND BOY. A Drama in Two Acts. Pollock's Juvenile Drama / Characters & Scenes

London: Printed and published by B. Pollock, at his wholesale and retail Theatrical Print Warehouse, 73, Hoxton Street, 1876 (after). First Edition. COMPLETE SET. Text booklet: 12mo., 16 pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched (spine area with evidence of drab paper wrapper formerly affixed); text a bit foxed / slightly brittle..... More

Price: $750.00

MANUSCRIPT]. [JAPANESE FOLKTALE]. "Momotaro" (Cover title). "Nippon Mukashi-banashi" (caption...

[Anonymous]

[MANUSCRIPT]. [JAPANESE FOLKTALE]. "Momotaro" (Cover title). "Nippon Mukashi-banashi" (caption title)

S.l. (Britain?): 1920s (ca.). Slim 8vo. 43 unnumbered pages + one full-page drawing. Handmade notebook tied with string, covers of gilt sprinkled card-stock (some surface scratching and wear to extremities; some unobjectionable foxing and staining). Curious homemade manuscript of what appears to be an unpublished English translation of the beloved..... More

Price: $500.00

OREGON, 1845]. The Oregon Territory, and the British North American Fur Trade. With an Account of...

Dunn, John

[OREGON, 1845]. The Oregon Territory, and the British North American Fur Trade. With an Account of the Habits and Customs of the Principal Native Tribes on the Northern Continent

Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber, 1845. First American edition. Small 8vo. viii, [1], 14-236 pp. + 8 pp. (advertisements). Collates complete as per the Stanford copy. Forms Part VIII of "The Home & Travellers Library Semi-Monthly." Original cloth (spine chipped and partially defective, extremities rubbed), hinges perfectly sound. Small marginal stain on..... More

Price: $200.00

Twenty Years Among the Mexicans, A Narrative of Missionary Labor. Melinda Rankin

Rankin, Melinda

Twenty Years Among the Mexicans, A Narrative of Missionary Labor

Cincinnati: Chase & Hall, 1875. First Edition. 8vo. 199 pp. Bound in original green publisher's cloth, title in gilt on spine with gilt floral ornament and triple ornamental roll in gilt at head and foot of spine. Corners slightly bumped, cloth rubbed away in bottom right corner of front cover..... More

Price: $300.00

FEBRONIANISM]. Anti-Febbronio osia apologia polemico-storica del primato del Papa. Francesco...

Zaccaria, Francesco Antonio

[FEBRONIANISM]. Anti-Febbronio osia apologia polemico-storica del primato del Papa

Pesaro: Amatina, 1767. First Edition. 4to. 2 vols. Vol 1: [6], I-CXXXVI, 1-307 = 449 pp. Vol 2: [I-II], III-XVI, 1-465 = 481 pp. Nineteenth century quarter-calf with marbled paper covered boards, quite worn along hinges and binding extremities, foot of spine with covered with black marker which extended onto..... More

Price: $500.00

Woman Author]. Collection de vingt portraits du siècle de Louis XIV que l'on peut joindre à la...

Sevigne, Madame de

[Woman Author]. Collection de vingt portraits du siècle de Louis XIV que l'on peut joindre à la nouvelle édition des Lettres de Madame De Sévigné imprimées par P. Didot, l'aine

Paris: J.J. Blaise, 1818. 8vo. 20 ff. + 20 full-page engravings. Contemporary French emerald-green glazed boards, red morocco spine label (trifle rubbed). PRINTED BY PIERRE DIDOT L'AINE (1761-1853). "Pierre published acclaimed editions of Virgil, Horace, La Fontaine, and Racine. Firmin designed the Didot typeface. He also invented stereotypes (plates cast..... More

Price: $150.00

SUMO WRESTLER - ORIGINAL 1857 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT]. Kimenzan Tanigaro. a. k. a. Utagawa...

Toyokuni IV, a.k.a. Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880)

[SUMO WRESTLER - ORIGINAL 1857 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT]. Kimenzan Tanigaro

Edo (Shiba Myojin-mae), Japan: Wakasaya Yoichi, 1857. Broadsheet (364 x 245 mm). Censor seal is dated "1857 Fourth Month" (巳四). Three horizontal folds, wrinkled, edges frayed, two holes filed with japanese tissue on verso. This is an original woodblock print; NOT a reproduction! When Utagawa Kunisada II (i.e. Toyokuni IV)..... More

Price: $200.00

FIRST EDITION]. Riders of the Purple Sage. Zane Grey

Grey, Zane

[FIRST EDITION]. Riders of the Purple Sage

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. First Edition, 2nd printing. 8vo. [8] 334 [1] pp. Complete with frontispiece and 3 full-page illustrations. Original brown decorative cloth with pictorial onlay (somewhat worn, spine dulled, top edges dust-soiled; slight shelf lean; some offsetting to pages opposite the three plates; title-page tissue guard..... More

Price: $480.00

METHODIST MISSIONARY'S VOYAGE TO INDIA, TYPESCRIPTS 1920-1921]. "Travel Letters August 1920 -...

WALKER, F. Deaville

[METHODIST MISSIONARY'S VOYAGE TO INDIA, TYPESCRIPTS 1920-1921]. "Travel Letters August 1920 - January 1921. My own personal Private Copy"

1921. Quarto (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches). 46 leaves, including 4-page "Circular Letter" to friends (detached) and 1-page text "What Drought Means in India" (detached, text incomplete). With a few handwritten corrections and additions. WITH: Autograph letter signed: Deaville Walker to his son, written from Ceylon, dated Sept. 20..... More

Price: $1,400.00

PRESENTATION COPY]. My Winter in Cuba. W. M. L. Jay, pseud. of Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff

Jay, W.M.L. (pseud. of Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff)

[PRESENTATION COPY]. My Winter in Cuba

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1871. First Edition. 8vo. 296 pp. + 4 pp. ads at end ("New Books to be Published in the Fall of 1871" which also includes the present title). Original publisher's green cloth, blocked and gilt, abrasions on front fore-corner and upper joint, affecting cloth, other binding..... More

Price: $450.00

THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE LIZZY BORDEN TRIAL]. The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the...

Porter, Edwin H.

[THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE LIZZY BORDEN TRIAL]. The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders

Fall River: Press of J.D. Monroe, 1893. First Edition. 8vo. [2], 312 pp., numerous illustrations in the text including portraits, diagrams, and photographs of the crime scene (soiling and signs of age and use throughout). Title-page detached, lacking pp. 249/250 (facsimile leaf loosely inserted) otherwise complete with all illustrations. Original..... More

Price: $250.00

COMPLETE WITH THE ATLAS]. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Being the Results of a Survey for a...

Williams, John Jay

[COMPLETE WITH THE ATLAS]. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Being the Results of a Survey for a Railroad to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Made by the Scientific Commission under the Direction of Major J. G. Barnard, U.S. Engineers. With a Resume of the Geology, Climate, Local Geography, Productive Industry, Fauna and Flora, of that Region... Arranged and Prepared for the Tehuantepec Railroad Company of New Orleans. [ATLAS VOLUME]: Maps Illustrating the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1852. First Edition. Together 2 volumes including Atlas. Text volume: 295 [1 blank] pp. (small errata slip bound in between pages 294 and 295). COMPLETE with 1 folded lithograph map of the world, 1 folding diagram (thermal curves), 1 plan, 14 tinted lithograph plates..... More

Price: $1,000.00

NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN AUTHOR]. Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. Edited by Mrs....

Winnemucca, Sarah (Hopkins)

[NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN AUTHOR]. Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. Edited by Mrs. Horace Mann

Boston: For sale by Cupples, Upham & Co.; G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York; and by the Author, 1883. 8vo. 268 pp. Bound in green publisher's cloth with Greek-style printed border in black along top and bottom of covers. Edges slightly worn, corners bumped, minor tears at head and foot of..... More

Price: $1,200.00

MEDIEVAL CRIMINAL LAW]. De Maleficiis (full title of Part 1: Angelus de maleficiis / repertorium...

Angelus Aretinus / Angelo Gambiglioni

[MEDIEVAL CRIMINAL LAW]. De Maleficiis (full title of Part 1: Angelus de maleficiis / repertorium primi voluminis Maleficiorum, in quo continentur tractatus [...] Do. Angeli de Aretio, Domini Alberti de Gandino, ac Domini Bonifacii de Vitellinis de Mantua; full title of Part 2: Bonifacius de maleficiis: preclarum ac utile opus domini Bonifacii de Vitellinis de Mantua super maleficiis)

Lyons: Benoist Bonyn for Jacques and Francois Giunta, 1544 (Part 1) and 1542 (Part 2). 8vo. 2 volumes in one. Collation: [pi]8 aa-cc8 dd12 a-z8 [et]8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-CC8 DD12 (O8 blank); AA-BB8 aa-nn8 oo12. Pagination: [36], ccccxxviii, [16], cxv, [1] ff. Upper corners of four leaves (fols. clxxxiii-clxxxvi) have..... More

Price: $1,000.00

MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY CATALOGUE 1831]. Bibliotheque de Fourqueux / Catalogue des livres de la...

Bouvard de Fourqueux

[MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY CATALOGUE 1831]. Bibliotheque de Fourqueux / Catalogue des livres de la bibliotheque de [Chateau de] Fourqueux

Chateau de Fourqueux (Yvelines, France): 1831. Large folio (418 x 263 mm). Manuscript on paper. 1 f. (calligraphic title-page) + 1 f. (Avis) + 64 pp. catalogue entries written on ruled paper (the majority of the pages are completely full) + 8 blank pages (numbered 65-72) + 1 fol. ("Table..... More

Price: $3,200.00

GONE POSTAL, 1892]. Death in The Mail. A Narrative of The Murder of a Wealthy Widow and The Trial...

Day, Martin C.

[GONE POSTAL, 1892]. Death in The Mail. A Narrative of The Murder of a Wealthy Widow and The Trial and Conviction of The Assassin, Who was Her Physician, Attorney and Friendly Adviser

Providence, RI: The Providence Journal Print, 1892. First Edition. 8vo. 421 pp., with numerous illustrations. Recent wrappers. THE FIRST MURDER IN U.S. HISTORY COMMITTED THROUGH THE POSTAL SERVICE. THE SENSATIONAL TRIAL OF DR. THOMAS THATCHER GRAVES FOR THE MURDER (BY POISONING) OF JOSEPHINE A. BARNABY. DENVER, COLORADO, 1891, ILLUSTRATED WITH..... More

Price: $950.00

HORSES]. The History and Art of Horsemanship. Richard Berenger

Berenger, Richard

[HORSES]. The History and Art of Horsemanship

London: For T. Davies and T. Cadell, 1771. 2 vols. in one, 4to. vii, [1], 319, [4]; [4], 246, [2] pp. COMPLETE with 2 frontispieces and 15 plates (numbered 1-9 and 1-6), several engraved ornaments in the text, some dust-soiling or light browning; occasional staining (not objectionable). Contemporary calf, rebacked..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Poems, on different subjects. To which is added, a descriptive account of a family tour to the...

Hastings, Sally

Poems, on different subjects. To which is added, a descriptive account of a family tour to the West; in the year 1800 in a letter to a lady

Lancaster, PA: Printed and sold by William Dickson for The Benefit of the Authoress, 1808. 12mo. 220 pp. Bound in full contemporary mottled sheep. Wear and tear along edges, corners bumped, front hinges cracked but holding. Smooth spine with double gilt roll dividing compartments, red morocco spine label in the..... More

Price: $300.00

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