Boston: Friday, June 1, 1860. 24½" x 18", pp. [85]-88 (i.e. 4 pages); 6 columns per page; folds in eighths, some toning, mild waterstain at the top of all pages. Ownership signature at the top of A. W. Weston, almost certainly Anne Warren Weston (1812-1890), the noted Massacchusetts abolitionist. This..... More
Orange, [New Jersey]: Wednesday, October 7, 1863. 21½" x 15¼", pp. [4]; 6 columns per page; folds in quarters, central fold slightly stressed, back page a bit wrinkled. Robert Larter, publisher and proprietor; H. L. Abbey, editor. Jubal, the Ringer; Aerial Locomotion; An Unexpected Marriage; A Pickpocket's Explanation; A Highland..... More
New York: Wednesday, December 8, 1802. 19¼" x 13½", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, lightly toned. Prints a two-and-a-half-column "Second Letter from Thomas Paine to the Citizens of the United States," from The Aurora; notices from London, Paris, and Lausanne, theatre revues, prices current, ads, etc...... More
Boston: published by Benjamin Russell, near the State-House, Wendesday, February 6, 1788. 14½" x 9½", pp. [163]-166 [i.e. 4 pages]; 3 columns per page; removed from binding, lightly toned, trimmed close at the top but no loss. Long article on the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention which occupies two-and-a-half pages; also, a...... More
London: From Thursday Jiune 23 to Saturday June 25, sold by John Morphew near Stationers-Hall; where advertisements are taken in, 1709. Broadsheet, 13¼" x 7¾", pp. [2]; 2 columns per page; trimmed close but no loss; slight toning and spotting. "The Tatler was a British literary and society journal begun..... More
London: printed for Sam Buckley, at the Dolphin, in Little-Britain and sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane, Wednesday, February 20, 1712. Broadsheet, 11½" x 6¼", pp. [2]; 2 columns per page; trimmed close but no loss; slight toning and spotting. "The Spectator, a periodical published in London by the essayists..... More
New Orleans: Tuesday morning, July 27, 1869. 29½" x 23", pp. [4]; 9 columns per page; central fold, removed from binding. Auction sales, bankrupcies, numerous ads, many with cuts, state of American trade, lotteries, return of Confederate colonists from Brazil, crops, livestock, city intelligence, river intelligence, business directory. More
Newton, Mass. Saturday, February 3, 1877. 27" x 20", pp. [4]; 8 columns per page; central folds in quarters with some wear and tiny tears, small mild dampstain on first leaf; removed from binding. Actions of the city council, municipal affairs, sheriff's and mortgagee's sales, advertisements, some with cuts, biographical..... More
Boston: printed by Young and Minns, printers to the Honorable the General Court, Tuesday, April 16, 1799. 20" x 12½", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; light wear and toning, removed from binding. Numerous ads and notices, 11 with cuts; naval register, marine diary, real estate sales, auctions, etc.... More
Augusta, (Maine): October 29, 1825. 19" x 12½", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; light wear and toning, removed from binding. Numerous ads, 3 with cuts; on the first page is the poem "Lines written at Alnwick Castle, Seat of the Duke of Northumberland," by Fitz-Greene Halleck; and, the governor's..... More
New York: Saturday, December 23, 1876. 16" x 11½", pp. [497]-536 (i.e. 40 pages); 3-4 columns per page; light wear and cracking along spine, last page stained, the whole a little toned. Illustrated ads, illustrations of race horses, portraits from the French and English stage, the art of rowing, Christmas..... More
New Bedford: Tuesday morning, July 13, 1858. 20" x 14", pp. 4; 4-6 columns per page; removed from binding. Clean. More
From the Proceedings of the British Academy, volume XX. London: Humphrey Milford, First edition, 8vo, pp. 53, [1]; original printed wrappers; a few short breaks at the edges, small cellotape repair at top of spine, all else generally very good or better. Tolkien's second book. Ownership signature inside front wrapper..... More
Philadelphia: printed for Benjamin Davies, no. 68, High-street, by Henry Sweitzer, no. 85, Race-street, 1798. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [6], 342, xxiv; folding table; contemporary full calf; neatly rebacked in brown paper; shallow dampstains on edges, signature of Howel Davies on title page and flyleaf; good. Patrick Colquhoun..... More
Macao: Presbyterian Press, 1844. 4to, pp. 110; printed on delicate, poor quality paper; later full red morocco (a prior record for this copy identifies the binder as Albert Oldach, Philadelphia), gilt rules and title on upper cover; original upper wrapper bound in; four leaves and upper wrapper fully and neatly..... More
Boston: Charles W. Slack, 1865. 8vo, pp. xi, [3], 15-430; portrait frontispiece, title page printed in red and black; original full brown cloth, gilt title on spine; spine rubbed and top of spine cracked; frontispiece foxed, the occasional spotting in text, front hinge cracked at title page; but largely clean..... More
Oakland: William Halley, 1876. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 586, [6]; wood-engraved frontispiece of the Alameda courthouse and 13 wood-engraved plates; illustrated ads throughout; original pictorial black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; upper joint cracked and weak, ex-Odd Fellows library, with call number on spine..... More
Burlington: J. L. Powell, 1841. First edition, 8vo, pp. 56, original brown printed paper wrappers; owner's signature on cover, ex-New Jersey Historical Society, very good and clean. The sermon is accompanied by an appendix and historical footnotes. There is text inside both wrappers and the 24th Psalm on the verso..... More
[New York]: University Settlement, 1908. Broadside advertisement, approx. 10" x 6"; listing the actors for two separate performances on Nov. 5th and 9th; near fine. The University Settlement was established in New York in 1886 to provide an all-around social resource for incoming immigrants, and was the first settlement house..... More
Lowell, MA: 1865. Broadside, 7.75" x 6"; eight stanzas of verse, small woodblock illustration, text in two columns; trimmed close to ornamental border at top and bottom, (left and right border lost), old folds, tear neatly repaired, signature of Stephen Emerson 1874 and some calculations in pencil on verso. The..... More
Norwich: Thomas Hubbard, 1795. First American edition, 12mo, pp. xxii, 240; modern full calf, gilt fillets on spine; early owner's signature on title page, textblock lightly toned but clean and sound. A compendious manual for processes of all kinds, including engraving, metallurgy, painting, dying, varnish, glass art, gilding, the confectionary..... More
Kentucky: 1925-1928. Two completed forms for alcohol prescriptions during US prohibition, one a pink broadsheet duplicate stub prescribing whisky to a Geroge G. at Coughton Ky, the other a US Treasury Prescription blank filled in for a Joe Young of Co-Operative, Ky. for one Pt. "Spirits Frumenti" aka whisky. Both..... More
London: printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1766. 6 volumes, vol. 5 from the 1763 edition, 8vo, each volume with an engraved vignette title page and engraved headpiece, in vol. 3 and 6, an engraved tail-piece; full page engraving in vol. 3, plus a plate of music in vol. 4;..... More
Seattle: The Mail Publishing Company, 1900. First edition, 12mo, pp. 304; original maroon cloth covers; gilt lettering on spine and front cover; spine faded; otherwise near fine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Mrs. Swanberg, June 11th, 1900. More
Providence: The Rhode Island News Company, 1891. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 298; portrait frontispiece, the bottom margin erose; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; very good and sound. The second authoritative history. Includes transcriptions of playbills and an extensive index. More
