Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, 1991-1996. 8 volumes, 8vo; original pictorial wrappers; occasional ink underlining, else very good or better. Includes Vol. 15, nos. 1, 2-4; Vol. 17, no. 2; Vo. 19, nos. 1-2; and Vol. 20, nos. 1, and 3. Articles include Nathan E. Bender's "Cherokee Shorthand"; Sidner..... More
Philadelphia, etc. 1860s. A collection of family letters, totaling 48 leaves, exchanged among a large American clan during the later 1860s and into the early 1870s. The majority of the letters are addressed to an Anne, (maiden name likely Chipman), although some are also addressed to William C. Starr, likely..... More
New York: T. Mason and G. Lane, 1839. 36mo (3" tall); pp. 623, [1]; original full calf, black morocco label on spine, boards scuffed, contemporary gift inscription on upper pastedown, text clean and sound, very good. Not in American Imprints. More
V.p., v.d., as below. An interesting collection of early USPS ephemera and manuscript ledgers recording postal business. The collection includes three ledgers and 17 items of office ephemera, primarily from Pennsylvania and Maine, comprised of the following. Ledger, small 4to, pp. [62]. Quarter calf over paper covered boards. Records dated..... More
St. Paul: Pioneer Printing Co., 1867. 8vo, pp. [2], 62; original printed tan wrappers, slightly chipped and cracked; very good. Contains articles on the "Mineral Regions of Lake Superior," the disgraced explorer "Constantine Beltrami," "Historical Notes of the United States Land Office," and perhaps most important, "Dakota Supersitions," by Gideon..... 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: Benjamin Russell, Wednesday, July 10, 1793. 19 " x 12", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name at top. Extracts from the "Patriot of the World", political state of Europe, domestic miscellany, latest European intelligence mentions Barcelona: our army on this side Catalonia, is..... More
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Saturday, July 13, 1793. 19 " x 12", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding. Extracts from the "Patriot of the World" (continued), political state of Europe, Spain's necessity to go to war with France, Portugal also in the league against France, the Swiss cantons..... More
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Wednesday, July 24, 1793. 19 " x 12", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name at top. Politcal miscellany from the Gazette of the United States Pacificus no. II concerning treaties between the United States and France, domestic miscellany, values of merchandise..... More
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Wednesday, August 21, 1793. 19 " x 12", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name above masthead, p. 2 trimmed close with minor loss. Good reasons for war, (followed by) an anonymous letter by a US citizen in favor of strict neutrality..... More
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Printer, Wendesday, May 16, 1798. Approx. 19" x 12", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding. "Address to the Young Men of Philadelphia", with an answer from the President John Adams, as well as an address to the young men of Boston; also in this..... More
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Printer, Saturday, July 6, 1799. Approx. 19¼ " x 12¼ ", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; owner's name at top, removed from binding. Public notice to prevent fires; also in this issue, law published by Congress of an Act to regulate the collection of duties on..... More
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Printer, Wednesday, September 24, 1800. 19" x 12", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding. Laws enacted, an act to establish the district of Kennebunk, cheating in play never prospers, military review, naval affairs, proclamation by the governor of the province of West Florida he..... More
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Saturday, August 1, 1807. 19¾" x 13¼", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name above masthead, two inch tear with creased fold on upper edge, with all text present but paper mutilated. Miniature almanack, price of stocks, political miscellany, War-is it necessary..... More
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Saturday, June 4, 1808. 19¾" x 13¼", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name above masthead. Miniature almanack, foreign articles, Bonaparte's journey, anti-embargo resolutions, marriages, deaths, shipping list, Boston Theatre, Harvard College lottery, ship announcements (with cuts), public announcements, new publications, farms..... More
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Saturday, June 11, 1808. 19½" x 13¼", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name above masthead, trimmed close with loss at bottom of second and third page, as well as edge of second page. Massachusetts government, an answer from the House of..... More
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Saturday, April 1, 1809. 19½" x 13½", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name above masthead. Washington and the real whig nominations, democratic patriotism or the plunder of fity-eight thousand dollars, Napolean and his troops in Spain, Martinique captured, Massachusetts Federalists!, general..... 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-Z2 in 12 alphabets, A131-B132; 2 engraved frontispieces and an engraved title page (these rather waterstained in the margins), plus 34 engraved plates, 3 engraved maps..... More
St. Anthony & Minneapolis: Croffut & Clark, 1859. First edition of the second 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 pastedowns, 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
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
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
[Confederate States of America, 1863.]. Broadside bond, 14" x 14"; with 7 tickets attached; engraved decorated border with vignette of a Confederate soldier resting at a campfire. No. 4177. Prior folds, a couple of ink stains, good. Signed by C. A. Rose with the tickets signed by C. S. Read..... More
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, Monday, March 24, 1788. 16" x 10", pp. [4]; 3 columns per page; light wear and toning, spine partially split, removed from binding. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, and "The Landholder, No. 13," by Oliver Ellsworth; a reward for a runaway slave, and an ad..... More
