Colonial American documents including The Declaration of Independence from the Chew Family Papers.
New York: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1982. 8vo, pp. 54; folding frontispiece, illus.; fine in original blue paper covered boards gilt. More
New York: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1982. 8vo, pp. 54; folding frontispiece, illus.; fine in original blue paper covered boards gilt. More
New York: J. H. Colton, 1854. Large folding pocket map of the United States and southern Canada east of 99 degrees west longitude, approx. 27" x 31" , nicely hand colored in outline and within an agricultural motif border, with insets of New England, the United States (coast to coast)... More
Boston: Joseph Teal, printed by J.H.A. Frost, 1822. First American edition, large folio, text in double column, unpaginated, 4 p.l., [604] leaves; A-Z-2 in 12 alphabets, A13-1-B13-2; 2 engraved frontispieces and an engraved title page (these rather waterstained in the margins), plus 34 engraved plates, 3 engraved maps, 1 engaved... More
St. Anthony & Minneapolis: Croffut & Clark, 1859. First edition of the first directory of Minneapolis, 8vo, pp. [6], [15]-162, [2]; numerous advertisements throughout; later black cloth, with the insertion of 5 postcard photographs (one with the stamp of Edward Bromley) on the endpapers and paste-downs, a number of early... More
London: Charles Whiting, 1846. 2 volumes, small folio, pp. x, 960 (continuous pagination); orig. green cloth; joints split, covers nearly loose on vol. I; ex-MHS. With long sections on the manufactures, agriculture, fisheries, whale fishery, m ining, climate, population, etc. of the U.S.A. More
Chicago: Henry Taylor & Co., 1915. First edition, small folio, pp. [iii]-viii, 342; text in double column; 7 plates; one signature extended, several pages toward the back with occasional annotation in the margins, good and sound in publisher's half morocco, gilt-lettered spine. More
St. Paul & Philadelphia, 1860-1920. Volume I, 1902 (being a republication of the original "Annals," (all scarce in original editions, 1850-56); Vol. II, 1889 (a republication of Major Stephen H. Long's Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of St. Anthony in 1817, with Introductory Note by Edward D.... More
St. Paul & Philadelphia, 1860-1920: 1902-1920. Volume I, 1902 (being a republication of the original "Annals," (all scarce in original editions, 1850-56); Vol. II, 1889 (a republication of Major Stephen H. Long's Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of St. Anthony in 1817, with Introductory Note by Edward... More
n.p. 1926. 8vo, pp. [4]; blue cloth on boards with red label stamp, slightly worn. Not in OCLC. Bound with Comments on some current criticisms of land-value taxation reprinted from The taxation of unearned incomes by Harry Gunnison Brown. [Columbia, Mo.: Lucas Brothers, [ca. 1925]]. More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. 8vo, pp. 532; charts, tables throughout; original cloth, gilt-lettered spine; upper cover damp stained, spine toned, corners a bit bumped; first and last few leaves heavily foxed, else interior fine. "Lurid details of Chivington's sickening massacre of unoffending Indians at Sand Creek, Colorado" (Howes C665)... More
New York: Committee to Defend the Panthers, 1970.]. 11" x 8½" bifolium, 4 unnumbered pages, text in double column, portraits Ericka Huggins, Bobby Seale, and Lonnie McLucas; lightly toned but fine, without folds. More
Red Wing: Red Wing Printing Co., 1882. 8vo, pp. 14; orig. pink printed wrappers; slight fading at extremities, old library rubber-stamp on cover, else very good. Unusually nice copy. More
[Washington, D.C., G.P.O.]: 1858. First Federal printing of the Minnesota Constitution, issued as Rep. Com. No. 21, 35th Congress, 1st Session, 8vo, 56pp., removed. Includes an abstract of the votes polled for and against the Constitution, hotly debated in the legislature, but here overwhelmingly approved by the voting population, 30,055... More
Harrisburgh: Boas & Coplan, 1839. First edition of the revised Pennsylvania Constitution of 1838, 8vo, 19-[20], 28 & [20]pp. (Sabin 60020 calling for just 28pp.), this copy adding the U.S. Constitution, and lists of members of the Pennsylvania Senate, House, Standing Committees, etc.; institutional bookplate marked withdrawn, old library sticker... More
Windham, Ct. Hawthorn House, n.d., [1938]. 12mo, printed in a limited edition of an unspecified number, pp. viii, 50, [2]; 2 postage stamps mounted as chapter vignettes; fine copy in orig. gray cloth, gilt label on spine. Ransom, Selective Checklists, p. 37. More
Germantown: gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur, 1763. 12mo, pp. [4], 679, [5]; text in double column; leaf O1 with a very small piece missing from the lower corner touching the beginning and end of 3 or 4 lines; contemporary full calf, brass catches present but clasps wanting; some... More
Philadelphia: 1936. Large folio, pp. 394; chiefly illustrations and color advertisements, photographic portrait plaits of members of the Roosevelt presidential cabinet, with tissue guards; original white pictorial wrappers; some wear from handling, else very good and sound. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1917. 7th revised edition, 8vo, pp. 77, [1]; 3 plates, 2 folding; blue cloth, light soiling to covers, else near fine. More
Dorchester, MA: Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., 1913. Oblong 8vo, pp. 39, [1], followed by 6 high-quality chromolithograph plates of Walter Baker products; 5 other full-page illustrations; fine in original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover. The educational exhibit consists of what presumably is a salesman's wooden lacquered case (approx... More
Detroit: Daily Free Press Printing House, 1860. 8vo, pp. 29; original printed wrappers (lightly soiled), some signs of edge wear, otherwise a very good copy. Annual report for the now long defunct Society, listing the presidents and officers of the board and addressing topics such as real estate, finances, lectures... More
Neu-Berlin, Pa. verlag von Heinrich Fischer, fur die Evangelische Gemeinschaft, 1848. 32mo, pp. [2], 286; full contemporary sheep; label wanting, else good and sound. Not found in OCLC. More
Chicago: Chicago Library Club, 1933. 8vo; pp. 160; very good copy in original orange paper wrappers, pencil annotations throughout. More
Buffalo: Foster-Milburn Co., n.d., [ca. 1922]. 20.4 cm, pp. 32; illustrated; pages browning, else near fine in original pictorial wrappers. Directory for 1923. More
London: H.M.S.O., 1939. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 195; some soiling else near fine in orig. blue printed wrappers. Issued as Miscellaneous Document No. 9 (1939). More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. First edition, limited to 2000, 4to, vol. 2, pp. 5-329, [21]; original black cloth, gold lettering on spine faded, small piece of front paste-down torn away near fore-edge not affecting cloth; else near fine. Includes articles by Beatrice Warde, Lawrence Wroth, Elmer Adler, D.B.... More