Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, [1961]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 269, [1]; illustrated with more than eight hundred facsimiles and other reproductions; fine in original white cloth, good or better jacket with chips on the spine. More
[Pawtuxet?]: March 10, 1730/31. Two sides of a single sheet approx. 9" x 8", docketed at a later date on the verso by Christopher Lippitt as clerk, June 4, 1774; recorded in the first bound book of the proprietors in folio 3. Folds & edges worn. Browned. Early original deed..... More
London & New York: The Studio Ltd., 1937. First edition, 4to, pp. 48 plus 24 mounted color plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text; some browning of the text but generally a very good copy in orig. dec. printed boards, dust-jacket with chips out at the extremities and a...... More
New York: the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1937. First edition, 4to, pp. [2]68, [1]; color frontispiece, b&w plates; fine in original cardboard printed wrappers, original cardboard mailer with the bookplate of Jacob L. Chernofsky on the inner flap. "Probably executed in the Premonstratensian Monastery of Louka in Moravia, at the instance..... More
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953. 4to, pp. xxii, 79, 78 plates (some mounted and in color), [1]; fine in orig. green cloth, red label stamped on spine, orig. glassine (split at folds and with short tears) and publisher's slipcase. Introduction by Bernard Berenson. More
Hazardville, Conn. August 28, 1862. 4to, 10 lines, approx. 45 words, in ink and legible; previous folds else very good. Potter places an order with Colt's Cartridge Works: "Will you please send us (with bill) a thousand balls for each size - Army, Navy & Police Pistol - and six..... More
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[Richmond]: Auditor's Office, March 22, 1823. Folio bifolium (approx. 14" x 8¼"), address panel on verso of integral leaf to William Sterrett, Esq., Mason County; pp. [2-3] containing two proforma tables for listing fines and penalties; previous folds, very good. The new act herein announced "is intended to enforce a...... More
Bristol: Feby. 20th, 1816. 4to (approx. 9¼" x 7½"), mild dampstain in the left margin and entering the text; all else good or better. A 15-line invoice, in ink: "Mr. Allen Miller to C. F. Herreshoff" for items purchased from December, 1810 to February, 1814, largely for hay, hogs, and..... More
Bristol: August 19, 1937. 8vo, approx. 20 lines and 100 words, to "Brother Leahy" thanking him for the gift of Jeff Davis's log. Autobiographical Reminiscences of the Yachting Editor of the Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin which had been published earlier that same year. "I ... have days of 'ups..... More
Coconut Grove, Fla. M[ar]ch. 21, 1930. 8vo, approx. 30 lines and 140 words, to a Mr. Rigg regarding the building of a yacht. "[Y]ou are considering having the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. build you a duplicate of Haswell. For a fast cruiser, I have always considered Flying Cloud (and Haswell which..... More
n.p. [1781?]. Oblong colonial sight draft approx. 3¾" x 8¼ (95 x 205 mm); printed in green and black, with manuscript additions; green floral border at left edge docketed by a scallop cutting; previous folds; near fine. Sight Note directing U.S. Commissioners in Paris to pay "At Thirty Days Sight..... More
Lowell, MA: 1848-1849. 8vo, approx. pp. 92, soft reverse calf, Hodgman's name in manuscript on upper cover along with a paper label "47," very good. With over 40 manuscript plats and surveys of various properties around Lowell, as well as estimates of requisite quantities of slate and gravel for specific..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [1890]. 8vo, pp. [iii]-xi, [5], 403; text in double column; engraved frontispiece portrait and 11 plates; slightly later full turquoise crushed morocco by MacDonald Bindery, NY, with single gilt rule on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered in 2, a.e.g.;..... More
[Newport? n.d., ca. 1750.]. Autograph manuscript approx. 9" x 7" accomplished in ink on both sides of the sheet. At the bottom of the verso in another (contemporary) hand: "This is all in the handwriting of Esek Hopkins the first Admiral of the American Navy--in the Rev. War." Light foxing..... More
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[London: ca. 1810]. Square manuscript notebook, 7.75" x 6.5"; pp. 20 plus a number of blank pages; seven finely executed illustrations in pen and ink, depicting the solar system, movement of sun spots, the surface of the moon, and so on; paper wrappers, manuscript title on upper cover; wrappers detached..... More
[New York] 130 West 57th St. January 19, n.d., [1909]. Both 12mo, The manuscript poem, 12 lines, is signed in full at the bottom and accompanys a 2-p. letter to a Mr. Russell. There appears to be no relationship between the poem (likely a World War I composition), and the..... More
[Providence, n.d. ca. late 1820s -1830s?]. 4to, pp. [32], plus a 2-page autograph "anecdote" laid in; first page a little soiled, the ink varying in tone but the hand is legible throughout; very good. According to an old pencil note on the first page, this is his "2nd lecture before..... More
N.p. 1881. Approx. 10" x 8", previous folds, with a tear at the center fold (no loss); good. A traditional folk song variously know as "The Old Granite State" or, "The Mountaineer's Farewell," attributed to Jesse Hutchinson, Jr. (1813-1853). There are several other similar versions, indeed one biographer wrote: "Hutchinson..... More
[Providence]: Industrial Trust Company, 1939. Small 4to, 13 leaves of fine calligraphy by Henry B. Hagen of Providence, attesting to the life and service of Nicholson (1861-1939), chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Industrial Trust, and president of the Nicholson File Company, also in Providence. Limp black leather..... More
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, [1968]. First compiled edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [3], 90, [2], 13-32; frontispiece portrait and 8 plates; fine in original light gray cloth stamped in black on spine. Two important NYPL publications on Irving brought together; the bibliography first appeared separately in 1933, and the census..... More
Providence City: June 9, 1841. 4to, approx. 125 lines and 1800 words; previous folds, address panel on verso of integral leaf; very good and legible. A complete typed transcription accompanies the letter. This is a letter written by Rev. E. W. Jackson to his wife during the Episcopal conference of..... More
Riga: Liesma, [1982]. Small 4to, pp. 149, [3]; 27 leaves of facsimile text with modern Latvian transliteration and explanatory text, brief summaries in Russian, English and German; full pattered brown cloth, brown printed dust jacket; light and shallow dampstain on top edge, light rubbing to jacket, very good. Jekabs of..... More
Baltimore: 33 W. North Ave, 1893. 8¼" x 13½"; lightly toned; otherwise very good. "I thank you for sending me your beautiful book Red Leaves and Roses. I wish I was critic enough to tell you why I like so well your verses." "I have been much impressed by their..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1902. First edition, 8vo, pp. 316; frontispiece and 16 plates; hinges cracked else a very good copy in original cloth, More
n.p., n.d. [likely Chicago, late 1890s?]. Small octavo, single leaf folded forming 4 pages, the poem, on 3 in 3 stanzas of 12 lines each, signed in full at the end and with an appended note in her hand, "Copied by the author for Frederick M. Steele" - likely Frederick..... More
