New York: G.E. Perine & Co. (engraver), 1880s. Engraving (160 x 103 mm) foxed; floated in frame slightly thicker paper, apparently extracted from a book judging from the left margin. Signature quite clear and unblemished. Fine signature Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), the formidable American abolitionist, social reformer, and women's rights activist..... More

Lowell, Mass. [Printed by Joel Taylor for] Misses Curtis & Farley. Boston: Jordan & Wiley, 1845. Tall 8vo. [4], 284. Complete in the ORIGINAL 12 PARTS (Jan. 1845 - Dec. 1845), original illustrated wrappers (lacking in Parts 2, 6, 11), each wrapper with DIFFERENT texts by the editors on verso..... More

San Francisco: Edward A. Weed, 1882. First Edition. 8vo. 33, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers (soiled, fragile spine worn and partially defective, upper wrapper starting). NOT ex-library! TOXIC, BIGOTED "SONGS OF WARNING" WRITTEN BY A RABID ANTI-CATHOLIC KNOWN AS "THE CALIFORNIA POETESS." The inexplicably gushing Wikipedia entry for Eliza Pittsinger was..... More

New York: Stereotyped for and printed by order of the Trustees of the Residuary Estate of Lindley Murray. M. Day, Printer, n.d. [after 1839]. 8vo. vi, [1], 8-408 pp. Contemporary American sheep, worn, spine defective; gatherings 27 and 28 sprung and held by thread; stain between pp. 334/5 spread through..... More

Lampasas, TX: ca. 1890-1892. Cabinet card photograph mounted on thick studio paper (163 x 105 mm). Faded and slightly scuffed, otherwise very good condition. A beautiful and important photograph executed by the first professional female photographer in Texas, which in addition may be linked two other early women photographers of..... More

Korea and Japan: 1946-1953. Altogether: 130 photographs (98 in the album + 32 in mylar sleeves). ALBUM: contemporary hand-painted Japanese (?) string-tied album (masking tape on spine): on upper cover a map of Japan with rooster and hen, Mount Fuji, and bamboo, containing 98 photographs affixed with corners to both..... More

Portland, Oregon: 1940. 8" x11" paper binder containing Front-page (1 f.), Title-page (1 f.), Color-Coordination (1 f.), and 10 card-stock pages on which have been pasted various fashions, pencil annotations at the foot, each with tissue guard, Budget (2 ff.). Paper covers with soiling on upper right corner, internally in..... More

Randolph, NY: 1890-1893. 8vo. 88 leaves, on the rectos (and some verso) are pasted newspaper cuttings, texts, portraits, MS notes, and some drawings; at end three newspaper cuttings loosely inserted. Contemporary Japanese side-stitched leather binding (see below). In excellent condition. This album -- compiled by the author herself -- represents..... More

Washington DC: T. Barnard, Printer, 1846. 8vo. 16 pp. + final blank. Extracted from a bound volume. Title-page inscription cropped, but clearly signed by the author, another inscription on verso of final blank. Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve. THE WIDOW OF SOUTHWEST EXPLORER GEN. ZEBULON MONTGOMERY PIKE SEEKS HER RIGHTFUL..... More

Cleveland, Ohio: Ingham & Bragg, n.d. (ca. 1860-1870?). 64mo. (4.25" x 3"). 56 pages. With a steel-engraved frontispiece of "Biddy's Family" and engraved historiated initial letters at the beginning of each of the five chapter. Original beige cloth (worn and quite soiled, gilding on spine completely faded; text evenly toned)..... More

Stanford [New York]: Printed and Sold by Daniel Lawrence, 1804. First Edition. 16mo. 12 pp. Extracted from a binding, later wrappers (at one time the wrappers had been affixed to the pamphlet). Foxing and age toning as is true with almost all American imprints of this date. Preserved in a...... More