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[DuPont, Samuel F.]. Official Dispatches and Letters of Rear Admiral Du Pont, U.S. Navy. 1846-48.1861-63. [2], 531pp. 8vo, Wilmington, DE: Press of Ferris Bros., Printers, 1883. First edition, one of 50 copies. Contemporary three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Extremities worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on front flyleaf. Internally quite clean. Very good. Item #248440. (full details)

Goodman, Benny. Signed Photogtraph of Benny holding his clarinet. Stock photo. , New York: James Kriegsman, Fine. Item #248437. (full details)

Duff, E. Gordon. Fifteenth Century English Books. A Bibliography of Books and Documents Printed in England and of Books for the English Market Printed Abroad. Note by Alfred Pollard. [x],136pp. 53 facsimiles. 4to, [Oxford]: The Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1917. First edition. Illustrated Monograph XVIII. Cloth and boards. Fine. Item #248427. (full details)

(Bird & Bull Press) . The First Fine Silver Coinage of the Republic of San Serriffe: The Bird & Bull Press Commemorative 100 Coronas. With a separate folder, containing a proof silver example of the 100 Coronas medallion. 8vo, Newtown, Pa: Bird & Bull Press, 1988. Number 55 of 350 copies. Quarter black morocco and boards by Claudia Cohen. In slipcase. Fine. Item #248425. (full details)

Chase Moves West, but “In my Veins Runs the Blood of the Pilgrim”

Chase, Salmon P. Autograph Letter, signed (“S.P. Chase”), to is cousin, Dr. Joseph A. Denison, Jr., of Royalton, Vermont. 3-1/2 pp., on single folded sheet. 4to, Cincinnati, Ohio: August 3, 1830. Some old dampstains, occasionally affecting legibility, one perforation from wax seal, with loss of 3 letters, not affecting legibility; old folds. In green cloth chemise. Item #248423. (full details)

Waterhouse to the Army Surgeon General: “there will be hard fighting & many a wound”

Waterhouse, Benjamin. Autograph Letter, signed (“Benjn. Waterhouse HS”), to Dr. James Tilton, Surgeon General of the United States Army. 5 pp. pen and ink on 3 leaves. , Cambridge: September 7, 1814. In green and brown morocco-backed clam shell box. Item #248420. (full details)

Stoneback, H.R. Cartographers of the Deus Loci: The Mill House. [24] pp With illustrations by William Osborne. 8vo, Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. One of 240 numbered copies. Printed on Dard Hunter"s 1930 Lime Rock "dog" watermarked paper. vellum spine and Morris' paste-paper sides. Fine. Item #248416. (full details)

wolfe, Richard J., editor. Three Early French Essays on Paper Marbling. 1642-1765. with 13 original marbled samples tipped in. 106 pp. 8vo, Newtown , Pa: Bird & Bull Press, 1987. First edition. Limited to 310 numbered copies and hand-printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press on Umbria handmade paper... Item #248413. (full details)

FORD, TIP O'NEILL AND CARL ALBERT

Ford, Gerald R. House Minority Leader; Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr., Majority Leader; and Carl Albert, Speaker of the House. Typed Letter, signed by all three, to Congressman Charles A Vanik (“Dear Charlie”), asking for his support for a motion by the House to authorize funds for the extension of the West Front of the Capitol Building. One page, on official letterhead of “The Speaker’s Rooms / U.S. House of Representatives”. 4to, Washington, D.C: April 16, 1973. Stamped “Received” by recipient in blank margin. Fine, in green cloth folder. Item #248411. (full details)

“ … will probably undertake a mad publishing venture in a few months”

Luce, Henry R. Autograph Letter, signed, to Henry Justin Smith, the Managing Editor of the Chicago Daily News, who gave Luce his first job as a cub reporter. 4 pp., on a single folded sheet of “Manhattan Club, Madison Square” stationery. 8vo, [New York]: n.d. [ca. 1922]. In red cloth folding case. Item #248401. (full details)

Recueil des Loix Constitutives des Colonies Angloises, Confédérées sous la Dénomination d’États-Unis de l’Amérique-Septentrionale. Auquel on a joint les actes...du Congrès General, traduit de l’anglois. [10],370pp. Half title. , En Suisse [i.e. Paris]: 1778. 19th-century blue half morocco and marbled boards. Item #248399. (full details)

The “Father of the Nuclear Submarine” in Praise of GW Carver

Rickover, Hyman George, Admiral. Typed Letter, signed, to U.S. Representative Seymour Halpern, reporting the first sea trials of the nuclear submarine, the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER, giving a lengthy and detailed account of Carver’s life. 3 pp., single spaced, on letterhead of the “USS George Washington Carver”. , “At Sea, North Atlantic”: 8 May, 1966. In grey morocco-backed clam shell box. Item #248391. (full details)

The Allied Occupation of the Rhine -- The American Point of View, 1921

Stone, David L, American Representative to the Interallied Rhineland High Commission. Two Typed Letters, signed, to Edward A. Filene, of the American Chamber of Commerce, regarding the work of the Commission in Germany. 10 pp., and a 3 pp. cover letter, on “Interallied Rhineland High Commission” stationery; the first with numerous corrections in ink; both marked “Personal” in pencil. 4to, Coblenz, Germany: 14 October, 1921. Some wear at edges, slight soiling, old pinholes;... Item #248381. (full details)