Americana

Civil War Memorial

The Heroes of Albany, A Memorial of the Patriot-Martyrs of the City and County of Albany, Who Sacrificed Their Lives During the Late War in Defense of Our Nation, 1861-1865

Clark, Rufus W

Washington Territory Ephemera: Trade Card, Prescription, Registry Bill, Stationery

$40

The Barbizon: “The Hotel That Set Women Free” Midcentury Brochure

(MARK TWAIN) American Academy of Arts and Letters

MEMORIAL CEREMONIES. MARK TWAIN. SAMUEL LANGHORN CLEMENS. 1835 - 1910.

"The Only High Class Vaudeville Circuit"

[Los Angeles] Orpheum Theater Vaudeville Poster from 1915

Mutiny

False Reports Of 1886 Mutiny On Board Maine Schooner Henry S. Woodruff Debunked By New York Times

F. Woodruff & Co.

First National Jamboree Letter

1937 – A letter from a Boy Scout attending the First National Jamboree in Washington D.C., List price has been discounted for this show.

Harold Segerstrom, Jr.

Frank Leslie’s Budget: Railroad Literature for Women (1892)

The Wings of the Dove, small print run: one of 3000 sets

with contemporary/original glassine wrappers

Henry JAMES (1843-1916)

[Herman MOLL (d. 1732, engraver)]. – Thomas SALMON (1679-1767)

excellent maps of the Americas inter alia

Modern History: or, the Present State of all Nations, 1755 Dublin edition, 5 volumes bound in six

$3200

GEORGE H. W. BUSH to BRUCE GELB: Archive of 1984–1998 Correspondence, Photographs, and Invitations from Vice Presidency to Post-Presidency (10 signed items + related ephemera)

$3500

unlicensed medical ineptitude in Cuiba

Robert HOGAN (b. 1800)

[Cuba] Strictures on the present state of the medical profession among the foreign practitioners in Havana, only three other copies recorded

The Moon Hoax; or, A Discovery that the Moon has a Vast Population of Human Beings. Illustrated with a View of the Moon, as Seen by Lord Rosse’s Telescope. New York: William Gowans, 1859., An iconic piece of American literary hoax history.

(LOCKE, Richard Adams.)

Prospectus of an American Edition of Dr. William Smith’s “Dictionary of the Bible.”

Prospectus Of A New Magazine For Youth, Entitled Robert Merry's Museum...., Boston. Bradbury & Soden, January, 1841

(GOODRICH, SAMUEL G.)

New London, A Seaport for the North and West (1877) With Two Folding Maps Promoting New London’s Commercial Potential

BOLLES, John R.

John L. Zieber ; T. M. Scroggy, Publisher

BROADSIDE The Paupers, by John L. Zieber, Civil War–Era Working-Class Song, Published by T. M. Scroggy, Cincinnati

$35

Wigglesworth, Edward, M.D.

MEDICAL / SCIENCE Auto-Inoculation of Vegetable Parasites of the Skin and the Clinical Testimony for Their Identity or Non-Identity, Early Microbiological Theory and Medical Experimentation

Lynn Hospital Charity Ball Souvenir, 1885

Paid by Federal Revenue Stamps - 4 Different Issues, National Express Co and American Express Co, 4 different sign above front entry door and at windows. 8X10 Mount Photo

National Express Trip Book - American Agency Photo

National Express Company

American Board of Commissioners Foreign Missions

1866 Missionary House Boston - Missionary Packet Morning Star - 1 Share $1, The Morning Star was built for missionaries working in the Hawaiian islands

Langdon S. Ward

Civil War Multi-Color Birds Eye View

1860s Columbia College and Carver Barracks Hospitals, Illustrated Military Camp - Wagons - Camp Sites - Soldiers

Stationer

Il Manifesto di Dallas (The Dallas Poster), Printed envelope (20 x 30 cm), containing a folded poster (73 x 57 cm unfolded) printed in red and black on both sides with a front and profile picture of President JFK Kennedy.

studio montespecchio

(Kennedy, JFK)

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN: (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).

EARLIEST STATE IN LOVELY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE BINDING

Twain, Mark.

$9500

Ohio Railway Map 1903 32" x 28" Folded

J C Morris

1903 Folded Ohio Railway Map by J C Morris 32 ¼” x 28”, Linen backed in Original Buckram Covers

"MAGENTA DINNER, APRIL 30th, 1875, OBER'S"; [Menu card for Harvard University's "Magenta" newspaper's 2nd (and last) "Annual Dinner of the Editors"].

PRECURSOR TO 'THE HARVARD CRIMSON'

[Restaurant Menu].

BLOOD MERIDIAN: Or The Evening Redness in the West.

DARK EPIC WESTERN, CONSIDERED GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL

McCarthy, Cormac.

$4500

POETS OF THE YEAR SERIES

UNIQUE GLIMPSE OF HARVARD'S PAST

(Harvard University); Kingsbury, H. P. D., editor.

THE HARVARD CLUB BOOK 1897-98: Containing Historical Sketches and Lists of Members of the Social, Literary, and Athletic Organizations of Harvard University.

Down Home

Bottles

A Photographic Guide for Bottle Collectors

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF BREWING: With an Illustrated History of American Beer.

TO COMMEMORATE HELL GATE BREWERY OF MANHATTAN

Ehret, George.

Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain1st ed 1882 Deluxe binding

Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain1st ed 1882 Deluxe

Mark Twain

$235

Business View of City

H. J. Sutherland, compiler

The City of Syracuse and its Resources: Illustrated

The Albany Rural Cemetery: Its Beauties, Its Memories

Henry P. Phelps

$600

1857 Detroit Riverboat Paddle Wheeler Sailing Ship

Signed by Refus Brown

Letter sheet design showing various boats and paddle wheel steamer in foreground, datelined Detroit letter, 2 Page Letter engraved illustrated river city view

FEBRUARY 22, 1797 - RARE ENGRAVED INVITATION to BALL COMMEMORATING the 65th BIRTHDAY of PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON

1797 WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY BALL - NEW YORK CITY

$1950

CROSS DRESSER VAUDEVILLE PERFORMER STELLA “JIMMY” ROMIG - LOT OF TWO PHOTOGRAPHS

$285

Multi-Color Sutton Clipper Ship Card To California

Nesbitt & Co. Printers

1860s Garibaldi Sutton & Co. Clipper Ship Card Emery Master at New York for San Francisco, 4 1/8 X 6 1/2 inches multicolored enamel card depicting Garibaldi wearing a red shirt. Horsemen leading troops to battle ,Popular Ship! sharpest best clippers up!, some wear at corners ,minor creases

1871 Oakland Bank Illustrated Miners Working Claim

Wilbur & Hastings, Stationers New York - Printer

Oakland Bank of Savings, Duplicate of Exchange - 2c Federal Revenue Stamp cancel dated Aug. 25 1871 blue oval cancel

Litho. Britton & Co. San Francisco Printer

Nevada California Exchange Miner Tools Illustrated

1860 George W Kidd Banker Second Of Exchange Miner Tools Illustrated Pay To Jacob Saltgaven, Nevada California exchange for $433. dollars value received and placed account of Fretz and Ralston San Francisco as advised to Eugene Kelly and Co. 164 Fulton Street , New York

W.G. Altenburg Portrait Photographer Phoenix Arizona Territory

Wells Fargo Express Sign Cochise Royal Post Office

Clay Brick Building Express Office - Spanish Musician with parcel in hand, Locals of the small town getting in on the picture with express and mail wagon.

1872 SHEET MUSIC WITH TIPPED IN ALBUMEN IMAGE PUB BY GRAFTON TYLER BROWN AND BOOK

CIVIL WAR To the Memory of Lieut. Luther T. Hutchinson., Elegy for a Fallen Union Officer, Port Hudson, Louisiana 1863

Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana

(Anonymous) “Mary”.

Promo Booklet Ox Yoke Ranch Emigrant Montana 1940s

Souvenir Promotional and View Booklet from Ox Yoke Ranch in Emigrant Montana c1940s

President Zachary TAYLOR (1784-1850) & President James Abram GARFIELD (1831-1881).

uncut and unopened

[Two important speeches - excellent copies], before and After: 1849 (the storm on the horizon) and 1866 (what now?)

1910s C.W. Parker Carousel Marinette WI RPPC Photo

1893 Everett (Boston) Massachusetts Town Souvenir Illus. Book

Sir Joseph BANKS and George DIXON

original wash drawing

['Dish and Daggers' original pen and wash drawing], objects from Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands).

$1500

Native Languages

Native-American Indian Language Preservation

Statement and Reports concerning the Uncle Sam Senior and Gold Canon Silver Lodes in Nevada 1865 with Map

SCARCE UNALTERED VERSION

Dreiser, Theodore.

SISTER CARRIE.

$9500

Reports on Silver Lodes in Nevada 1865 w/ Map

Matted c1872 New Hampshire Republican Ticket Handbill or Broadside – Ezekiel A Straw for Governor + Other Candidates

1872 N H Republican Ticket Handbill Straw for Gov

Potomack & Shenandoah Navigation Lottery

Early Lottery

George Washington's Company Sold Lottery Tickets To Finance Growth Of Agricultural Sales Along East Coast

Early Albany Merchant Writes Friend About William Henry Harrison's Untimely Passing

William Henry Harrison's Death

John A. Bardwell

[War-Date] Revolutionary War Soldier Stoddard, Served In Col. Wyllys Regiment, Seeks Pay For Service

Revolutionary War Pay

Samuel Stoddard

Notable Rhode Island Merchant William Vernon Gets Product Sales, Shipping Information From Son

Rhode Island

William Vernon

WHOLE PLATE AMBROTYPE – NIAGARA FALLS

$1450

Pedder's paddler (in Canada)

John PEDDER RI, RBC (1850-1929, artist).

“W.S. and Hannah Caine on the Bow River - Rocky Mountains – Canada”, a tarific image in the Canadian Rockies

Revolutionary War Patriot Seeks Provisions From Military Stores Commissary William Porter

Revolutionary War Provisions For 12th Virginia

William Porter

New York Christian Prohibitionist Calls Alcohol An Awful Effect On Morality, Religion, Poverty

Christian Endeavor -- Temperance Address

Prohibitionist

c. 1845 LADIES TICKET for a SOCIAL EVENT HELD by the WASHINGTON RIFLEMEN - ENGRAVED on COATED STOCK by W.L. ORMSBY

WASHINGTON RIFLEMEN LADIES TICKET - W.L. ORMSBY

$185

Lancaster, PA, Lutherianism

George Henry Trabert

Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Minister Writes Of Internal Politics, Reformation Movement, Expanding Religion: Archive

Maine's Future 10th Governor Writes His Attorney Brother About Local Firm's Creditors

Maine

Samuel E. Smith

[Trail Of Tears] Eccentric Clergyman, Founder Of NYU, Writes Of Jacksonianism Demise, Pleads For Funds From President Van Buren For University

Death Of Jacksonianism

Samuel Hanson Cox

Express Rider Trip Ordered By Gen. Silliman, Who Had Been Captured By British

Revolutionary War Intelligence Delivered On Horse

General Silliman

Forgotten Founding Father Richard Varick Appoints Prominent New York Federalist To City Position -- Signed Twice

Federalist Appointed In New York

Richard Varick

American Board Of Commissioners' Missionaries Strove To Promote Christianity Among Native Americans -- Howling In The Wilderness

Working With Native Americans

Galen Holbrook

1986 Presidential Series First Day Issue, Era Of Unification, Signed By President Gerald R. Ford

Presidential Series

Gerald Ford

$245

Gettysburg: "Romance In Verse"

Clyde Chester Balston

Early 20th Century Typescript Details Battle Of Gettysburg, Lee's And Hooker's Movements -- Prose And Poetry

Elizabeth Smith Trueheart

Nursing In The Confederacy

Sister Of Confederate Congressman Offers Nursing Services To Alabama Gov. Moore: "Woman's Mission Is To Soothe"

$795

Texas Secession

Trenton A. Patillo

Confederate Newspaper Pioneer Acted As Receiver In Lawsuit Gone Awry Due To Texas Secession Convention

Methodist Minister Compliments Unionist For Significant Civil War Missouri Speech: Southern Traitors Plunged America Into Horrors Of War

Southern Traitors

Tobias Finkbine

Sherman's March From Goldsboro To Raleigh, Capture Of Raleigh, Insane Asylum Filled

Sherman's March

Albert Whitley

Confederate Forage Master Sends Supplies From Georgetown, South Carolina, To Troops; Asks Corn To Be Replaced

Confederacy Georgetown, SC

W.W. SHACKELFORD

Award Winning English Actor, Theatre Director Sends Letter, Inscribed Photograph To Holyoke College Student -- Archive

English Actor In Boston Archive

Sir Arthur John Gielgud

Colonel Ford's Abandonment Of Maryland Heights Forced Major Union Surrender To Stonewall Jackson's Confederate Troops

Civil War Union Surrender

E.D. Townsend

Gold Rush Miner Attempts To Register Claim In dispute; Involved Miner Who Served In Mexican War

Gold Mining Claim

Matthew T. Leary

Deceased Gold Rush Miner, MA Ship Builder Leaves Behind Family Responsibilities

Gold Rush

W. Bradstreet

[U. S. Presidential History].

Only LoC Has a Copy

The PRESIDENTS Of The UNITED STATES Of AMERICA. South. North. 1732 - 1883.

[Aviary] Vintage Lot 1960s-1970s American BORDER FANCY CANARY Show Ribbons & Awards

Ulysses S. Grant Appoints Marshall Jewell Postmaster Of New Orleans

Ulysses S. Grant Appointment

Ulysses S. Grant

$1395

GARFIELD ASSASSIN & the MAN who TRIED to KILL HIM

THREE ITEMS RELATING to PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S ASSASSIN CHARLES GUITEAU & SERGEANT MASON, GUITEAU'S ATTACKER

And the Waters Kept Rising...

Photographic “Close-ups” Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Historical Flood Disaster January, 1937

$40

1853 INAUGURAL BALL INVITATION - PIERCE and KING

SOUTHBRIDGE MA - INVITATION to 1853 INAUGURAL BALL HONORING PRESIDENT FRANKLIN PIERCE and VICE-PRESIDENT WILLIAM R. KING

[Alcohol] Original Manuscript 1794 Canaan Ct. RETAIL WINE LICENSE Signed Wolcott & Chester

Beran, C. Raymond, printer; Bret Harte, James Mangan, David Warren Ryder.

COLLECTION OF 5 ITEMS BY ENIGMATIC PRINTER

TYPE FACES (Beran/Franciscan Press) | THE HEATHEN CHINEE (Harte) | THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT (Harte) | DESIGN (Mangan) | THE STORY OF TELEGRAPH HILL: A Bit of Old San Francisco (Ryder).

A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA, WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF PRINTERS & AN ACCOUNT OF NEWSPAPERS

Thomas, Isaiah

$10

Architecture

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EARLY AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE WRITINGS ON ARCHITECTURE CONSTRUCTED BEFORE 1860 IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL UNITED STATES

Roos, Frank J.

$10

Scarce "Iron Horse" Advert

Corliss, George Henry [1817 - 1888].

The TELEGRAM And PROVIDENCE. Price 25¢ / CORLISS STEM ENGINE CO.

What Can Your Federal Government Do For You? (1976), Exhibition poster for a show opening February 25, 1976.

Les Levine

LOT OF TWO (2)- MCLOUGHLIN BROS – CAMP FIRE GIRLS AND THE BOYS SCOUTS

$245

GAME OF ENDURANCE RUN – MILTON BRADLEY 1930S –ART DECO

$135

American Pioneer Daguerreotypist

Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the Dawn of Photography, Contributing authors: Marian S. Carson, M. Susan Barger

William F. Stapp

$45

Uncle Sam vs the 99%

Occupy Wall Street Broadside: For Freedom Peace Truth Love Life

$140

Original Fraktur Eagle Art in 1800s Babbitt Family Register (Genealogy) of Ohio

Collection of Eight Manuscript Letters Signed from Union Soldier G. A. Empie

Civil War Letters with Description of Hospital

Empie, Garret A.

$650

Union Defeat at First Manassas (Bull Run)

John Owen Lashley

1861 – An exceptionally detailed letter from a Confederate soldier regarding the defeat of the Union Army at the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), List price has been discounted for this show.

$1500

Philadelphia High Society

Lydia Leming Smith

1847 – Letter from a Philadelphia socialite discussing balls, a visit with Henry Clay, concerts, Parisian fashion, the new custom of using envelopes to mail letters, and a catastrophic shipwreck, List price has been discounted for this show.

1840 – A political letter describing America’s first major nation-wide campaign rally, held in Erie, Pennsylvania for William Henry Harrison, the Whig candidate for president in the 1840 election, List price has been discounted for this show.

America's First Political Campaign Rally

B. F. Fuller

$800

Wisconsin Territorial Economy

Eph Perkins

1837 – Letter from an interstate exporter to his partner in New York discussing the status of their shipments to the recently established Wisconsin Territory, List price has been discounted for this show.

[St. Catherine's Hospital] Wm. A. Lagé, photographer

Golden Jubilee... St. Catharine's (sic) Hospital, First Edition

1837 – A letter from the first Collector of Tolls for the Erie Canal reporting its poor state of repair, navigational issues, and other significant problems, List price has been discounted for this show.

Report on the Erie Canal

John Staats

$120

St. Louis Land Agents Help Find a Relative

Aaron T. Crane and Abraham Beck

1819 – Reply by two early St. Louis land agents to a man in Ohio searching for a relative who had gone west, List price has been discounted for this show.

LOT OF THREE (3) P.T. BARNUM JUVENILE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS – 1888 – WHITE & ALLEN

Uncommon to Rare Item of Texas Ephemera

[Texas][Cattle Ranching] King Ranch Centennial Edition of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Various Printing Companies

U.S. Printing Company Stock Certificates

1864-1906 – Collection of five scarce stock certificates relating to the U.S. printing industry, List price has been discounted for this show.

Circa 1864– Multi-Color Charles Magnus Bird's-Eye Map Lettersheet with an illustration of the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument, List price has been discounted for this show.

Multi-Color Map Lettersheet

Charles Magnus

1861 – An early soldier’s letter describing the bittersweet march through his hometown as his unit left to muster into service and the inedibility of bread provided by the camp kitchen, List price has been discounted for this show.

A Militia Unit Enters the Confederate Army

"Willie"

To William Shepard Wetmore

Old China Trade Correspondence

1832-1837 – Four letters to William Shepard Wetmore concerning his business operations in South America, China, and New York, List price has been discounted for this show.

$1250

Battle of New Orleans Cavalry Report

Major Thomas Hind

1815 – Morning Report for a Cavalry Squadron at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812, List price has been discounted for this show.

$1000

Disinfecting Tuberculosis Patient Letters

1955 – Letter from the Pennsylvania Department regarding the unnecessity of disinfecting mail originating at a Tuberculosis Sanitorium, List price has been discounted for this show.

Dr. R. H. McCutcheum

Following the Equator Salesman's dummy

Following the Equator Salesman's Dummy Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Notable New Yorkers of 1896-1899. A Companion Volume to King’s Handbook of New York City

New York History inscribed by the author!

Moses King

1864 – Letter from a Union sergeant on the battle lines near Petersburg describing mortar bombardments how Northern and Southern troops would call cease-fires so they could have friendly conversations, List price has been discounted for this show.

Battle Line Conversations between Enemies

Sergeant Aaron Crouch

1863 – Letter from a New York soldier reporting that he had spent two weeks destroying Virginia railroad tracks and relating a ‘friendly-fire’ incident caused by drunken officers, List price has been discounted for this show.

Two Weeks Destroying Southern Railroads

A. [Aaron] Crouch

John Sanderson, Robert Waln, Jr., and Henry D. Gilpin

Beautiful nine volume Leather bound set

Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence

$900

Civil War Kanawah Campaign Letter

S. B. Robinson

1862 – A Union soldier’s letter describing the short and important, but little-remembered, Confederate Kanawha Valley campaign that drove the Northern Army out of western Virginia and into Ohio, List price has been discounted for this show.

Discourses on Intemperance Preached in the Church in Brattle Square, Boston, April 5, 1827, The Day of the Annual Fast, and April 8, the Lord's Day Following

Signed by the Author!

John G. Palfrey

Probably the Democratic Party

Satirical Salt River Ticket

1856 – A terrific ‘Salt River Ticket’ ridiculing the supporters of John C. Fremont and Millard Fillmore after their candidates' defeat in the 1856 presidential election, List price has been discounted for this show.

$675

Collection of pamphlets relating to New England

Various

Leather Bound Collection of Pamphlets Relating to New Hampshire and Massachusetts

1829 – Letter from an early lead miner encouraging friends to join him in Galena, Illinois via St. Louis where he could receive assistance from the not-yet-famous gunsmiths, Jacob and Samuel Hawkens, List price has been discounted for this show.

Lead Miner's Letter from Galena, Illinois

Joseph Mace

My First Days in the White House

My First Days in the White House

Huey Pierce Long

[MARITIME PHOTO ARCHIVE] Portfolio Original 1930s-40s Silver Prints BOSTON T WHARF Workers By Photojournalist ARTHUR HANSEN

$1650

Last recorded at auction in 1917.

Legislative Council of the State of New Jersey (1796)

Journal of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the State of New-Jersey, in General Assembly Convened, at Trenton...the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six., Bring the first and second sittings of the twenty-first session.

$3500

No copy found at auction

General Assembly of the State of New Jersey (1796)

Votes and Proceedings of the Twenty-First General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey, at a session begun at Trenton on the twenty-fifth day of October, seventeen hundred and ninety-six..., ...and continued by adjournments. Being the second sitting.

$3000

Jonathan Y. Stanton (1834–1918)

BATES COLLEGE “Uncle Johnny” Stanton to Rev. George S. Dickerman: 3 Autograph Letters Signed and 3 Signed Note Cards, 1900–1910, Small archive.

MANUSCRIPT A Disputation, Read before the Moral Society, May 4, 1802., The Immortality of the Soul Defended Citing Native Beliefs, Brahmins, and Mahometans

Lyman, Samuel.

(Children’s Book) Lothrop’s Letters / Miscellaneous Poems Composed for the Amusement and Benefit of Pious Youth. Meredith, N.H., 1815?, Scaleboard Binding.

Scaleboard binding

Lothrop, Jason.

Lieutenant Theodorus H.M. Mason, United States Navy

Nitrate Deposits in the Atacama Desert

The War on the Pacific Coast of South America between Chile and the allied republics of Peru and Bolivia 1879-81

William D. Kempton ("Star" of Porkopolis.)

(Bicycles / Midwest) Star dust; satire, humor and pathos, in prose and verse,, The Poet-Wheelman of Cincinnati

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LIEBER CODE

Plantations for Slave Labor., The Death of Yeomanry

Lieber, Francis

$35

All aboard!

Kunhardt, Charles P.

Small Yachts. Their design and construction exemplified by the ruling types of modern practice. With numerous plates and illustrations, First edition.

Colonial Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley

The Commonplace Book of Margaret Lynn Lewis

Andrew Price

Woodbridge, F. E. (For the Committee)

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

John H. Surratt REPORT, The Committee on the Judiciary, ...message of the President of the United States, communicating a report of the Secretary of State relating to the discovery and and arrest of John H. Surratt.

SHEET MUSIC – CARTES DE VISITE – 1864 – JOSEF STUEHLER PUB BROOKLYN

DISSECTED MAP OF THE UNITED STATES – MCLOUGHLIN BROS. CA 1890 – COMPLETE W/ BOX

AMBROTYPE - MAN ON HORSE – SIXTH PLATE – CASED.

The Method of Teaching ... Belles Lettres... Vol.I [only], intriguing provenance - Henry Lee & A. Burr.

A Burr / Lee copy

Charles ROLLIN

Marshall HALL (1790-1857).

An incunable of neurology

Lectures on the Nervous System and its Diseases, first US edition - rare on the market: no copies currently for sale, the last copy listed at auction was in 2007

N.C. WYETH (artist). – John FOX jr.

Boxed - very rare thus.

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come with pictures by … Wyeth., 1st ed. with “A" & Scribner's seal denoting 1st issue. Rare with the box

A.B. LAWRENCE [and others?]

Very early view of Austin

A History of Texas, or the Emigrant's Guide to the New Republic, 3rd issue: Austin view. Texas for would-be settlers

North Carolina Imprint

P. F. White, Sh'ff

Taxes! Taxes!, Taxes!

(INSANITY) Annual Report of the Massachusetts General Hospital for the Year 1842, Includes the 25th Annual Report of the McLean Asylum for the Insane

Luther V. Bell, et al.

Alvin Jewett Johnson; J. H. Colton

IMPORTANT STEEL ENGRAVED & COLORED MAPS

Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical

$1500

Guide to Plymouth, Mass.

What to See at Plymouth, The Tourist's Guide, with Maps and Illustrations

J. F. Murphy

1854 STOVE BROADSIDE – CHARTER OAK – WARSAW ILLINOIS

DAGUERREOTYPE – 1/6 PL. ANTEBELLUM MILITIA – SHAKO - RIFLE

$895

Rare March 1926 Art & Beauty Magazine- Lots of 1920's Style Women Posing

$102

1885 TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA TERRITORY QUITCLAIM – NOTED TOMBSTONE FIGURES

Today's Tickets are a Bit More $$$

[Burning Man Ephemera / Event Ticket].

2015 BURNING MAN. Carnival of Mirrors. Admit One Grifter., Black Rock City, Nevada. August 30 - September 7, 2015.

$47.50

Getcher newspaper heah!

[Burning Man Festival]. Olds, Vicki - Publisher.

BLACK ROCK GAZETTE. The Naked Truth Since 1992., Set of 4 Daily issues, 29 August 2001 - 1 September 2001.

The Things You'll See @ Burning Man!

'Bertrand' - Former Owner

GENITAL STUDIO PORTRAIT IDENTIFICIAN BADGE.

OUTSTANDING LARGE PHOTOGRAPH TRIPOLI PATROL (SHRINER CHAPTER) MILWAUKEE

JESSE JAMES MELODRAMA POSTER - CA; 1900 – LINEN BACKED

$925

Scarce 1830s Cincinnati Periodical

Western People's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 - Vol. 2, No. 24; 1834-35

$375

George Washington

The Christian Character of George Washington

William Stevens Perry

The Plantation, The Royal African Company and the Slave Trade

Edward D. Collins

Notes of a Journey on the James (River), together with a Guide to Old Jamestown

William G. Standard

Civil War: Sgt. Amos Humiston & 'Children of the Battlefield' CDVs

Humiston, 'Children of the Battlefield'

Signed first edition 'Voyages of Nicholas Ball'

First 1895 edition, signed ‘Voyages of Nicholas Ball’ of Block Island

$99

Norman Mailer’s ‘Huck Finn, Alive at 100’

Norman Mailer’s ‘Huckleberry Finn, Alive at 100’

$99

Perfect Present for Any Fan of Baseball

Mize, Johnny

[Manuscript] How to Hit

Stengel, Casey with Harry T. Paxton

The Great Casey Stengel

[Baseball Hall of Fame] Manuscript Casey at the Bat: The Story of My Life in Baseball as told to Harry T. Paxton.

Ivan Doig Limited and Signed Broadside--Excerpt from "Inside This House of Sky"

One of America's Great Writers

Doig, Ivan

[Tony Awards] Three Working Manuscripts for the Play "Undine"

Audrey Hepburn as Best Actress

Watts, Schuyler

Collection of Advertising Covers from New York

[Philately] Collection of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Advertising Covers (23) Saratoga Springs, New York

[Pawnee Scout] Archive of Captain Luther North Correspondence

Life and Career of Pawnee Scout Luther North

North, Luther

$1250

More Political Ephemera--This One from Oregon

"Regular Democratic State Ticket" 1886 Oregon, Multnomah County and South Portland Precinct Election

Political Ephemera from Illinois 1876

[Rutherford B. Hayes] 1876 Illinois Republican Ticket for President and State Offices

Court Case Over Loss of Cattle, Opelousas, LA

Supreme Court at Opelousas September Term, 1867

$35

Something For All the Trekkies

Star Trek Deep Space Nine "Babel" Original Script, Signed, Final Draft October 7, 1992, October 16 Revision

Behr, Ira Steven

20th Century Lynching in Oklahoma

Lynched at Ada, Oklahoma, April 19, 1909 Postcard

Inventor of Baseball or Pure Mythology?

[Abner Doubleday][Nathaniel P. Banks] General Orders No. 135--Mustering Out Generals After the Civil War, August 24, 1865

Townsend, E.D.

First Person Narrative Crossing the Plains in 1845

[Washington and Oregon Territories] Recollections

Chambers, Andrew Jackson

[National Parks] Death Valley National Monument Entrance Pass Windshield Sticker 1936 through 1940

Rare Unused Windshield Decals Death Valley NP

Minnesota Ephemera from the Governor

Campaign Ribbon, Signed Note and Biography of Minnesota Governor and Senator Knut Nelson

Nelson, Knute

$65

Willis Tinted Photo Petrified Forest Arizona 1920s

J R Willis

J R Willis Large Format, Hand Tinted Photograph of a Petrified Forest Arizona Landscape Scene c1920-30s

Receipt for Sale of Slave Girl, Rowan County, North Carolina 1817

Girl for $200 dollars to be Paid in Land

Lawrence, Jospeh

Lot of 18 Different H H Bennett Wisconsin Stereoviews with Underwood Sun Sculpture Stereoscope

18 H H Bennett Steroeviews & Underwood Viewer

H H Bennett

Treating STDs in St. Louis, 1878

Practische Beobachtungen uber Nervenschwäche und körperlicher Erschöpfung (Practical Observations on Nervous Debility & Physical Exhaustion)

Agee, James, and Walker Evans.

"A VIOLENT & BEAUTIFUL BOOK"

LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN: Three Tenant Families.

$1750

Sacred Songs, Native Tongue

Riggs, Stephen R. and Williamson, John P.

Dakota Odowan, Hymns in the Dakota Language

Silas R. Howe; Fanny Palmer (Illustrator)

A Treasured & Tragic Love Token, 1844-45

Flower Tokens - Friendship Album Made by a Young Man for His Beloved, Completed by his Mother After His Untimely Death

Twenty - Six Gasoline Stations by Edward Ruscha 1969

Twenty - Six Gasoline Stations Edward Ruscha 1969

$550

Springs of Virginia, West Virginia

John Brown's Raid

When Tidewater Invaded the Valley, A Tribute to the Men of Lower Virginia in the Days of The John Brown Raid

Southern Workman, Volume X, No. 10, October 1881

"Interests of Negro & Indian Civilization"

Sutherland, Th. Jefferson

Canadian Rebellions of 1837-1838

A Letter to her Majesty the British Queen: With Letters to Lord Durham, Lord Glenelg and Sir George Arthur, to which is added an appendix embracing a report of the testimony taken on the trial of the writer by a court martial, at Toronto in Upper Canada

They Hacked the Clearings

Mt. Lookout, West Virginia

Crosby McClung et. al.

How to Beautify the Human Hand

Professor N. Frederick

Martinsburg, West Virginia

Views of Martinsburg, West Virginia

M. S. Burdette

Mt. Lookout Family Record

West Virginia Genealogy

C. A. McClung

1845 Republic of Texas Letter to President James K. Polk Regarding Political Appointment of Richard Bache

Texas Letter About Benjamin Franklin's Grandson

The Life of John Jay: With Selections from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers, by his Son

Bio & Correspondence of John Jay, 1833

Anticipations of the Future to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time, In the Form of Extracts of Letters from an English Resident in the United States, to the London Times, from 1864 to 1870.

1860 - Edmund Ruffin - Anticipations of the Future

Edmund Ruffin

Alaska Miner's Memorandum Book With Handwritten Notes, containing Mining Laws, Homestead Act, Legal Forms and Other useful Information for the Miner and Prospector. Compliments of Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska.

Gold Mining in Alaska

Anon

$650

Very Early and Rare National Park Ephemera

[National Parks] Yellowstone National Park Entrance Pass Windshield Sticker 1929

Life and Adventures in California and Scenes of the Pacific Coast

SCARCE FARNHAM IN CALIFORNIA

Farnham, Thomas J.

Topical Real Photo Postcards of Musicians

Musicians on Real Photo Postcards (3 cards)

[L. P. Hardy; Allison Company]

FOR THE COUPON SAVER

140 Unused Coupon Books in Original Hardy's Indexed Coupon Book Box. Including 113 Coupon Books for Mogollon Mercantile Company, Mogollon New Mexico, Also 27 Coupon Books for W. C. Silsby, Tyrone New Mexico.

[California Lettersheet].

No copies found elsewhere.

MOUNT LOWE TAVERN. On Lines of Pacific Electric Railway. Mount Lowe, California.

Louisiana Purchase Debate in Hudson NY Newspaper

[Louisiana Purchase] Balance and Columbian Repository Newspaper, Hudson, New York

South Atlantic Directory. The Physical Geography and Meteorology of the South Atlantic; Together with Sailing Directions for the Principal Ports and Harbours of Brazil, the Rio Plata, and S. W. Africa

Comprehensive Navigational Guide, 1870

W.J. Rosser; J.F. Imray

Map of the Route Pursued by the Late Expedition under the Command of Col. S. W. Kearny, U.S. 1st Dragoons By W. B. Franklin, Lieut. Corps Topl. Engrs. attached to the Expedition 1845

Map of Early Expedition to the Rocky Mountains

Kearny, Stephen

[Brigham Young] Manuscript Letter from J.P. Taylor, Office Commissary General of Subsistence to Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War Recommending Payments for Utah Militia Feb. 1863

Utah's Role in the Civil War

J.P.Taylor

A Directory of the representative Business and Professional Men of Augusta County and Staunton, Virginia

Business Directory from the Shenandoah Valley ofVA

Alcoholics Anonymous 1948 First Edition Twelfth Printing with Dust Jacket

Alcoholics Anonymous 1948 First Ed 12th Printing

$765

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925

$825

All the Sad Young Men Fitzgerald 1926 1st Ed DJ

F. Scott Fitzgerald

All the Sad Young Men Fitzgerald 1926 1st Ed with ORIGINAL DUST JACKET

$950

PIONEER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT FLORENCE YOCH'S COPY

George A. Martin (editor)

Fences, Gates And Bridges: A Practical Manual, Early printing

Morton Downey and Paul Whiteman (jigsaw puzzle)

RARE JIGSAW PUZZLE TO ADVERTISE 'RCA RADIOTRONS'

New York's Great Industries. Exchange and Commercial Review, Historical and Descriptive Sketch of the City, Its Leading Merchants and Manufacturers

Detailed NYC Business Directory, 1885

An American Life only 2000 Copies Signed by Ronald Reagan 1990

An American Life Signed by Ronald Reagan 1990

$2000

Book of Mormon 1852 Joseph Smith Third European Ed

Book of Mormon 1852 F.D. Richards Joseph Smith Third European Edition

$5500

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS PRINTED PRIOR TO 1821, Six volumes.

Welch, D'Alte A.

Thomas W. Streeter

AMERICANA-BEGINNINGS, A SELECTION FROM THE LIBRARY OF THOMAS W. STREETER, Shown in honor of a visit of the Hroswitha Club on may 3, 1951.

Streeter, Thomas W.

Thomas W. Streeter

THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF AMERICANA FORMED BY THE LATE THOMAS WINTHROP STREETER

Compiled by Roger E Stoddard and edited by David R Whitesell

A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS OF AMERICAN VERSE PRINTED FROM 1610 THROUGH 1820

Shaw, Ralph R. and Richard H. Shoemaker

A complete set of AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY A PRELIMINARY CHECKLIST. [with:] A CHECKLIST OF AMERICAN IMPRINTS. [1801 - 1846]

WASTE NOT TIME FOR TIME IS THE STUFF THAT LIFE . .

1932 Twelve Piece Calendar Advertising John H. Pfenninger, Electrical Contractor, Lancaster - Pennsylvania, . . . THAT LIFE IS MADE OF.

[Postal Ephemera]

$60

Miniature Books

Bradbury, Robert C.

ANTIQUE UNITED STATES MINIATURE BOOKS, 1690-1900

Maps

AMERICAN MAPS AND MAPMAKERS, COMMERCIAL CARTOGRAPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Ristow, Walter W.

$45

THE DUTCH IN THE AMERICAS, 1600-1800

Klooster, Wim

THE BOOK IN THE AMERICAS, THE ROLE OF BOOKS AND PRINTING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA, With a foreword by Norman Fiering

Johnson, Julie Greer

$25

The Laughing Horse

$4895

New York Office Buildings

A FEW OFFICE BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK - 1895

THE FIRST MENNONITE HYMNAL COMPILED IN AMERICA (1803)

THE FIRST MENNONITE HYMNAL

$575

THE PEOPLE ARE A SETT OF FAWNING OBSEQUIOUS EMPTY HEADED, DULL BRAINED WOULD BE SNOBS…

ANSON A. BROOKS STONE-MASON LEDGER - WESTBROOK, CONNECTICUT

Anson A. Brooks Stone-Mason Ledger

SAILING FOR MAURITIUS: THE DIARY OF AMERICAN CONSUL GEORGE FAIRFIELD

Sailing For Mauritius

$4795

Ohio Promotional in Welsh

YR AMERICAN, YR HWN SYDD YN CYNNWYS NODAU AR DAITH O DDYFFRYN OHIO I GYMRU, GOLWG AR DALAETH OHIO

Ill Girl Wishes Only for a Doll for Christmas

Christmas Eve in a Mining Camp in Early 20th Century Business Ledger/Cookbook/Scrapbook Spokane, Washington

Paine, Albert Bigelow

$25

Zane Grey Ephemera

Draft Contract between Zane Grey and RKO Studios--1934

Grey, Zane

[Hawaiiana] CDV's of Queen Emma and Hanniakamalama circa 1860's

Very Early CDV's of Queen Emma of Hawaii

As New 1945 Seattle Map and Guide--Just Beautiful!

Seattle Map and City Guide 1945: Interesting Facts about Seattle and the Pacific Northwest

Rare San Juan Islands Washington Travel Pamphlet

Kwan Lamah San Juan Island-- A Summer Camping Resort that is Different

$45

Musicologist's Dream Document

Raymer, Morell

Yodeling Kid's Collection of Songs--Old Time, Cowboy and Mountain Ballads

$1200

Holy Grail of Patent Medicine Advertisements

Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer Chromolithograph Advertising Sign on Tin

LANGWITH'S MICHIGAN

LANGWITH'S MICHIGAN - THE WORLD'S GREATEST MAP SERVICE

TWO EARLY TEMPERANCE LETTERS

BURLINGTON ROUTE - EAST-BOUND EXCURSIONS

AFRICAN COLONIZATION: AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, IN WASHINGTON,D.C., JANUARY 19, 1875. BY REV. JOHN ORCUTT, D.D. OF NEW YORK.

AFRICAN COLONIZATION

$335

Americana

CHECKLIST OF UNITED STATES PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 1789-1909

Marine Album - Pisco's Cure

HALF HOUR DETOURS IN THE 4 KENNEBUNKS

Kennebunk, Maine Tours

Louisiana - Land Claims

Louisiana - Land Claims

Evolution Of The Fall River Line

Fall River Line

$115

MINNESOTA: ITS ADVANTAGES TO SETTLERS

MINNESOTA: ITS ADVANTAGES TO SETTLERS, PUBLISHED BY THE STATE (title page)...A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF ITS HISTORY AND PROGRESS, CLIMATE, SOIL, AGRICULTURE AND MANUFACTURING FACILITIES..RAILROADS, HOMESTEAD

History Of The 112Th Regiment Of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, In The Great War Of The Rebellion, 1862-1865

The 112Th Regiment Of Illinois Volunteer Infantry

$545

The Empire State Of The New North-West

The Empire State Of The New North-West. The Commercial, Manufacturing And Geographical Centre Of The American Continent

LYFORD'S CATALOGUE. HARDWARE AND CUTLERY

Lyford's Catalog - Hardware and Cutlery

$205

Mississippi Valley Missouri

The Agricultural, Manufacturing, Commercial And Geographical Center Of The Mississippi Valley, Missouri, The Imperial State, Its Wealth And Resources

Valley Of The Upper Wabash, Indiana, With Hints On Its Agricultural Advantages: Plan Of Swelling; Estimates Of Cultivation, And Notices Of Labor-Saving Machines

Valley Of The Upper Wabash, Indiana

$995

Minnesota's Timber Lands

LIBERTY GRAIN BLOWER

WINGS FOR YOUR GRAIN. LIBERTY GRAIN BLOWER

Walter A. Wood Trade Catalog

1878 WALTER A. WOOD WORLD RENOWNED HARVESTING MACHINES

Utah - Polygamy - Slavery

Utah - Polygamy - Slavery

$65

Wild Scenes And Wild Hunters

Wild Scenes And Wild Hunters Or The Romance Of Sporting

Connecticut

SPEECH OF TRUMAN SMITH, OF CONNECTICUT, ON THE NEBRASKA QUESTION.

$65

Maine Central Railroad

Maine Central Railroad - Time Table No. 88, June 17, 1883

$120

Nelson Miles - Serving The Republic

SERVING THE REPUBLIC. MEMOIRS OF THE CIVIL AND MILITARY LIFE OF NELSON A. MILES, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL, UNITED STATES ARMY

Connecticut Militia Records - 1835-1846

$1595

Criticisms on the Hon. John Quincy Adams

Remarks and Criticisms on the Hon. John Quincy Adams

OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE KLONDYKE COUNTRY AND GOLD FIELD OF ALASKA

Klondyke Country - Alaska

The Anglo American

THE ANGLO AMERICAN. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1845

$85

Brass Fireplace Fixtures

Brass Fireplace Fixtures Trade Catalog - C. 1910

North Carolina Times

HINTS ON HOUSEHOLD TASTE. 1877

Eastlake Architecture

Alaska and the Yukon Territory

New Orleans - Merchant Samuel Wright Oakey letters

Rare documents from one of Virginia’s founding fathers - Pendleton, Edmund. (1721–1803)

Virginia's Founding Fathers

$3875

Masonic Directory of the District of Columbia-1865

Masonic Directory of the District of Columbia

$845

Robert L. Stevenson - Architect - 1923

HOMES OF CHARACTER. ONE-HUNDRED DESIGNS by ROBERT L. STEVENSON, ARCHITECT

Lieut. Elisha Nye Peirce Civil War Archive

$6895

Daily Richmond Examiner - March 28, 1864

The Siege of Fort Erie

Louisiana - Recent Disturbances

REPORTS IN RELATION TO RECENT DISTURBANCES IN LOUISIANA

$85

East Haddam, Connecticut

Connecticut - East Haddam - 1804

Canada - The Challenge of the Mountains

Canada

OBSERVATIONS SUR LA BROCHURE DE MM

OBSERVATIONS SUR LA BROCHURE DE MM. LES ABBES LAVERDIERE ET CASGRAIN RELATIVEMENT A LA DECOUVERTE DU TOMBEAU DE CHAMPLAIN PAR STANISLAS DRAPEAU.

Partisan Life With Col. John S. Mosby

$445

ELECTION MAP AND 1960 PRESIDENTIAL FACT SHEET

A List of Canadian Taken Prisoner Just After The Battle of Quebec In The American Revolution

Battle of Quebec Prisoners

New York Times - October 7, 1862 - Second Battle On Hatchie River

New York Times - Civil War

The Philadelphia Inquirer - February 10, 1862 - The War In Tennessee

Civil War - Tennessee

Canyon City, Colorado Telephone Directory - 1938

Colorado Telephone Books

$135

The Philadelphia Inquirer - August 16, 1862

The Philadelphia Inquirer - August 16, 1862. Virginia

$185

The Civil War - 52nd North Carolina

The Civil War - The Fighting Boys - Company "K" of the 52nd NC

PETITION OF LEWIS A. TARASCON. (AND OTHERS) PRAYING THE OPENING OF A WAGON ROAD, FROM THE RIVER MISSOURI, NORTH OF THE RIVER KANSAS, TO THE RIVER COLUMBIA.

Wagon Road From The River Missouri....1824

North Carolina Letter Describing Battles By a Soldier In The 5th MA.

Civil War Letter - The 5th Ma.

$375

Chicago, Alton and St. Louis - Texas Short Lines

CONDENSED TIME CARDS OF CHICAGO, ALTON AND ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY AND DENVER AND TEXAS SHORT LINES AND CHICAGO, MEMPHIS, MOBILE AND NEW ORLEANS LINE.

Weyerhaeuser - 4 Square Farm Building Service - Farm Homes - Service Buildings - Equipment - 1954

Weyerhaeuser - 4 Square Farm Building Service

$2175

Texas Highway Map

OFFICIAL AUTOMOBILE HIGHWAY AND ROUTE MAP OF TEXAS, S.W. ARKANSAS, S. OKLAHOMA AND E. NEW MEXICO.

$1675

Herb Quick's Christmas Portfolio, 1970

Herb Quick

Herb Quick's Christmas Portfolio, 1970, 10 Photographs

"Cyclone" Fence Business Advertising Postal Card