[Virginia City, Montana: 1864.]. Bifolium, 12¼" x 7¾" (31 x 19.5 cm); single page of text in triple column; embossed seal at the top of the first column; small scallop tear at the top of the third column, barely touching 1 letter; all else very good. Streeter IV, 2211: "This... More about Charge of Chief Justice Hosmer, to the Grand Jury of the First Judicial District, M.T.,...

[New York]: privately printed [by Charles J. Amm Co.], 1941. Edition limited to 52 copies printed on Kelmscott Crown & Sceptre laid paper (this, no. 14) and signed by Frederick H. Merserve; small 4to, pp. [2], 21, [1]; photographic portrait frontispiece, fine in original blue cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards, printed... More about The photographic portraits of Abraham Lincoln. A descriptive list of the portraits in the Meserve...

New York: Harper & Bros. 1835. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. xi, [1], [13]-276; xi, [1], [9]-294; original brown cloth, paper labels on spine; volume I with cloth cracked and chipped along joints and a small piece missing at the top of the spine; volume II with front free... More about The south-west. By a Yankee. In two volumes

New York: Charles B. Norton [John F. Trow, printer], 1850. 8vo, pp. 64; original tan wrappers printed in black and red; occasional light spotting, the wrappers a bit toned; very good. Includes an address by the president, Peter C. Baker, an oration by W. L. S. Harrison, an address by... More about Proceedings at the printers' banquet, held by the New York Typographical Society, on the occasion...

[Newburyport, Mass.]: print. of Hiram Tozer, 1835. 16mo (approx. 7" x 4¼"), pp. 12; stitching perished, sheets loose, some foxing, else very good. Lyrics to about 20 songs, without music. Not in OCLC or American Imprints. More about Juvenile concert, of vocal music, in Titcomb Street Church, Newburyport, on Thursday evening,...

New York: M. J. Ivers & Co., n.d., [ca. 1886]. 8vo, pp. 95, [1]; 30 wood-engraved illustrations, many full-page; original rear wrapper present, front wrapper perished; the text considerably toned, and with chips at the edges; good. See Wright II 2245 for an 1873 edition published in New York by Collins & Small. More about Fred Douglass and his mule; a story of the war. By Bricktop

Paris: J.-B. Bailliére, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 435, [1]; [4], 527, [1]; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; lightly rubbed and spotted; very good. H.-A. Frégier (1789-1860) "was a French political economist and civil servant whose views on poverty and criminality were representative of prevailing opinion during... More about Des classes dangereuses de la population dans grandes villes, et des moyens de les rendre...

Philadelphia: from the press of Matthew Carey, 1792. 12mo, pp. x, [1], 12-167, [1] ads ("Books and pamphlets printed by Mathew Carey"); light dampstaining to the prelims and terminals; original full sheep, covers dampstained and sheep peeling at the corners, spine with small chips out; all else good and sound... More about Letters to married women on nursing and the management of children ... First American edition...

Philadelphia: Joseph James, 1787. First edition, 12mo, pp. 202, [2](ads); original speckled calf, the occasional spotting, light rubbing to boards, upper joint just starting, very good. Printed endorsement by Benjamin Franklin at the end of Preface. With a number of ownership signatures on endpapers and preliminaries, the most prominent being... More about Miscellanies, moral and instructive in prose and verse; collected from various authors, for the...

Boston: printed by John Wilson and Son, 1861. 8vo, pp. 29, [1]; original printed pink front wrapper, back wrapper perished; one of two small breaks at the edges, but otherwise very good. Laid in is a 2-page leaflet headed "Rooms of Massachusetts Institute of Technology," dated Boston, January 24, 1865... More about Objects and plan of an institute of technology including a society of arts, a museum of arts, and...

Philadelphia, et al. J. M. Stoddart & Co., [ca. 1874]. 8vo, pp. 226, 29 (ads), [1]; original red publisher's cloth stamped in black and gilt; lower boards with damp at bottom edge, light wear, text clean and sound. With a calling card of Mrs. Irving H. Trowbridge, likely wife of... More about Woman to the rescue. A story of the new crusade

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1937. Large 8vo, pp. 128; text illustrations throughout; original blue cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; fine in fine original glassine dust jacket an original box. Prospectus and retrospectus divided into 4 sections (sectional titles on orange paper), including Arthur Waugh's "Charles Dickens and his Illustrators"... More about The Nonesuch Dickens: retrospectus and prospectus

[Worcester: 1837]. 8vo, pp. 40; out of binding as issued, light foxing and wear, very good. An enumeration of principles put forth by the Whigs for the voter to consider. Among these are a condemnation of executive overreach, support for a national bank, and objection to the annexation of Texas. More about To the electors of Massachusetts [drop title