Slavery Agitation in Virginia 1829-1832
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1930. 1st Edition. 8vo. Green cloth. Square tight binding. 162pp. Ex-library with usual markings, but generally clean throughout. More
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1930. 1st Edition. 8vo. Green cloth. Square tight binding. 162pp. Ex-library with usual markings, but generally clean throughout. More
Portland, ME: Chrishiln Brothers, c.1870s. Duodecimo. A lovely late 19th-century book of historic photographs and illustrations of the White Mountains, published during the infancy of the Cog railway and the Summit House as the region was beginning to experience the first boom of regional tourism following the Civil War... More
New York: Committee of the Regimental Association, 1896. 8vo. Gorgeous 1st Edition of this storied Civil War unit. The 11th served with distinction during the Peninsula Campaign through the Petersburg Campaign, encompassing approximately two-dozen battles. Blue cloth. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Very mild edge wear and a text..... More
Columbia, SC: Historical Archaeology Forum, 1970. 1st Edition. Quarto. A VERY COOL work on the archaeological history of this strategic and very important Revolutionary War backcountry South Carolina outpost, including three detailed maps. 195pp. This work also details existing original structure and artifacts. Illustrated with black and white photography..... More
New York: New York Graphic Society, 1986. Quarto. A spectacular set of five volumes in exquisite condition, each in original dust jackets and each in publisher slipcases. The five titles are Architecture; Manuscripts, The Treasury, Textiles, and Carpets. Profusely illustrated with full-page color plates. Books and dust jackets..... More
Field Camps in Virginia: 1864-1865. Two original 1864 and 1865 MARYLAND CIVIL WAR UNION ARMY CHAPLAIN Requisition Forms, submitted by Arthur Brickman, a U.S. Army Chaplain for the 3rd Maryland Infantry and the 1st Maryland cavalry. The 1864 document is for a horse for use in the field in..... More
Fort SIll, OK: The Artillery School Dept. of Communication, 1950. 8vo. An incredibly interesting relic of the early Cold War era, as the U.S. was just getting involved in Korea, trying to stop the spread of communism around the world and Joseph Stalin still ruled the USSR with an iron..... More
New York: U.S. Navy, 1943. Quarto. 1943 WW II Naval Reserve yearbook. Blue cloth with black, blue & silver embossed illustration to front board. Tight binding. A few signatures to various graduate pictures inside. Loaded with historic WW II era photos. Light foxing and a mild slant to spine. More
1859. A large 1859 facsimile printing of the grant of Pennsylvania by King Charles II of great Britain to William Penn. Charles granted the large tract to settle a debt to Penn's father. This historic piece is dated 1681and features the King's coat of arms. "In 1677..... More
folio. A large bound volume of facsimile issues of the New York Evening Post, one of the earliest newspapers printed in North America, dating from January 6, 1746 - December 29, 1746. Each leaf is printed on one side only, making each page of each newspaper, in effect, a...... More
folio. A large bound volume of facsimile issues of the New York Evening Post, one of the earliest newspapers printed in North America, dating from January 1, 1750 - December 24, 1750. Each leaf is printed on one side only, making each page of each newspaper, in effect, a...... More
Timothy Cole, 1928. A beautiful 1928 Woodcut engraving of a beardless Abraham Lincoln by master craftsman Timothy Cole, signed in pencil underneath the image. The image is after Roderick Cole's c.1858 ambrotype of Lincoln taken during the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates. This image is in Fine condition and printed..... More
Philadelphia, Pa: Sanford, Everts & Co., 1872. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful 1872 hand-colored map of Alfred, Maine and surrounding area in York County, ME, including the villages of South Waterborough and Littlefield's Mills. This map includes property owner names, building footprints and lines of the defunct Portland..... More
Philadelphia, Pa: Sanford, Everts & Co., 1872. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful 1872 hand-colored map of Alfred, Maine and surrounding area in York County, ME. This map includes property owner names, building footprints and lines of the defunct Portland and Rochester Railroad. "Abenaki Native Americans called the..... More
Philadelphia, Pa: Sanford, Everts & Co., 1872. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful 1872 hand-colored map of Berwick, Maine in York County, ME This map includes property owner names, and lines of the defunct Great Falls Branch Railroad. "Originally part of Kittery, the area later comprised by Berwick..... More
Philadelphia, Pa: Sanford, Everts & Co., 1872. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful 1872 hand-colored map of Berwick, Maine and surrounding area in York County, ME This map includes property owner names, and lines of the defunct B&M Railroad. "Originally part of Kittery, the area later comprised by..... More
Philadelphia, Pa: Sanford, Everts & Co., 1872. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful 1872 hand-colored map of Buxton, Maine in York County, ME This map includes property owner names. "The first permanent settlement commenced in fall of 1750 near Salmon Falls, which was within protection of the stockaded..... More
Philadelphia, Pa: Sanford, Everts & Co., 1872. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful 1872 hand-colored map of Hollis, Maine. This map includes property owner names and lines of the districts, and the now defunct Portland and Rochester Railroad line. Featuring the Saco River. Includes the Waterborough, North Hollis and Hollis..... More
Philadelphia, Pa: Sanford, Everts & Co., 1872. 1st Edition. Folio. A beautiful 1872 hand-colored map of Bar Mills, Maine and Salmon Falls, New Hampshire (Now Rollinsford), and surrounding area in York County, ME This map includes property owner names, and lines of the defunct P&R Railroad. "The..... More
Milverne Publishers, 1928. 1st Edition. A beautiful 1928 pictorial map of New York City and State, illustrated by William Rogers. This vibrant and colorful map features illustrations of important historical sites and people dating back through 400 years of New York history. The map features a centerpiece of..... More
Kenosha, Wisconsin: The Kenosha Evening News, 1945. An original and quite STUNNING 1945 Advertising Poster for the Kenosha (Wisconsin) Comets of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), advertising the opening of the 1945 season as America's men were still overseas embroiled in WW II. The AAGPBL was..... More
Sanborn Insurance Company, 1912. Elephant Folio. A vibrant and exceedingly rare 1912 Sanborn Insurance Map of the historic business district of Easton, Maryland, depicting detailed building footprints as well as property owner names. This beautiful piece is matted and framed under UV-protective glass. While on the..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Aaron Blake Publishers, 1986. "The exotic international locales of Ernest Hemingway's real-life travels and fictional adventures are compiled and vividly illustrated here. Follow Hemingway through the backstreet Parisian haunts of his expatriate years and into the sidewalk cafes he frequented with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein..... More
Privately Printed, 1977. 1st Edition. Quarto. An exceptionally scarce piece of Massachusetts Quaker history, possibly a one-off. Palmers Meeting was the first meeting house in the second precinct of Rehoboth. Construction started in 1717 and completed November 29th 1721, with Reverend David Turner as pastor. Fifty pounds was..... More
New York: Harper's Weekly Illustrated Newspaper, 1865. Folio. An 1865 Civil War newspaper with tremendous Abraham Lincoln history This issue features a large front-page engraving of Abraham Lincokn taking the oath of office to begi n his 2nd Term as US President. Inside pages feature a large, double-page..... More