Los Angeles: December 10, 1962. Read More about Typed Letter, Signed, To Mr. T. Roy Pitts, sending autograph

Barnstable County, Mass: [1864]. Barnstable County, MA. Read More about An ambrotype of a young man, seated with a lap robe at a table with a bottle of wine

Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co, 1925. First edition. The "America" won the Royal Yacht Club Cup at Cowes, and was the winner of the first "America's Cup", the trophy having been named after this yacht. Read More about The Yacht "America." Together with material from contemporary records. With a...

[Philadelphia]: 1866. Read More about Soiree Gymnastique...Calisthentics with Music. Gymnasium for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children......

places: 1960-1970s. Columbia Writer's Conference. Much of the correspondence relates to the Writers Conference that Humphreys directed for Columbia University, authors sending in acceptances and regrets, some relate to grants and others from friends such as Leoni Adams Troy consisting of seven cards with notes (some additional leaves inserted) and..... Read More about A group of letters from American authors consisting of 36 typed and autograph letters and 7...

[Boston]: Office of the Daily Commercial Gazette, n.d. [August, 1830]. Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution. This Boston broadside, published by the [Boston] Daily Commercial Gazette, contains extracts from the London papers detailing the July 1830 Revolution in France that overthrew Charles X. It is presumably one of the..... Read More about Revolution in France! [drop title

[Mattapoiset, MA]: Busyhaus Publications, 1983. One of 200 hardbound copies. Essays and specimens by Don Guyot, Faith Harrison, Iris Nevins, Kay Radcliffe, Sage Reynolds & Colman Rutkin, Donna Seim, Peggy Skycraft, Pamela Smith, Jim & Pamela Talin and Christopher Weimann. One thousand two hundred copies printed by Naiman Press, with..... Read More about American Decorative Papermakers: The Work & Specimens of Twelve Craft Artists

Chambersburg, [Pennsylvania]: Printed for the Author by Geo. K. Harper, 1828. Second (?) edition (preceded by Baltimore, 1827). "When a country so idolizes its old forms as to tremble at an appeal from their use, the avenues to improvement, are closed; national reputation sickens; the expiring rattle is heard in..... Read More about The American Grammar, Abridged and Simplified

Norman [OK]: University of Oklahoma Press, [1963]. First edition. No. 66 in The Civilization of the American Indians Series. Read More about The Southern Cheyennes

Various places: 1962 - 1972. Read More about Small archive of 6 Letters signed (5 Typed, 1 Autograph) to the New York photographers PACH BROS,...

Akron, Ohio: Photo Survey Press Publishing, 1982. First edition, clothbound issue (limited, signed); limited to 50 numbered copies, signed by Stephen Paterlite [also issued in paperback (2000 copies were published simultaneously in wrappers)]. ONE OF 50. This deluxe, signed issue has an original mounted photograph (gelatin silver print) by Paul..... Read More about AMERICAN INFRARED SURVEY: A Celebration of Infrared Photography. Edited by Stephen Paternite and...

New- York: Printed by Friar McLean, No. 41, Hanover-Square, 1793. First edition (printed in an edition of 200 copies); the introduction states: "In Friary, Wednesday, November 13th 1793, On Motion, resolved, That the Thanks of the Society be presented to Brother Samuel L. Mitchill... That two hundred copies of Brother..... Read More about AN ORATION, Pronounced Before the Society of Black Friars, at their Anniversary Festival, in the...

Lunenburg, Vt: The Stinehour Press, 1994. One of 200 copies. Contributions made by Dwight Agner at the Press of the Night Owl, Mark Argetsinger, Lowell Bodger, John DePol at the Endgrain Press, Morris Gelfand, Darrell Hyder at the Sun Hill Press, Steve Miller, Henry Morris, David Pankow, Gaylord Schanilec, Neil..... Read More about The American Printing History Association. A Type Miscellany Twentieth Anniversary Broadside...

[Burlington]: 7 April 1783. Entrepreneurs of the Revolution. The lands contained all the necessary materials for shipbuilding, and in the Revolutionary War its "bog iron" made cannon balls while its hidden coves sheltered privateers. Blast furnaces, sawmills, glass factories, and brick and tile works followed until the Industrial Revolution drew..... Read More about Autograph Letter signed ("Rich Wescoat") to Major JOSHUA MERSEREAU in Elizabeth Town...

Hartford [CT]: June 28th 1777. SMALL COMPENSATION FOR A LIFE AND FORTUNE LOST. An important testament offering proof of the sacrifice and hardship of a memorialized Connecticut hero signed by one of its favorite sons, reading: "Sir pay to Hannah Douglas Executrise (sic) to the Estate of Col. William Douglas..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Order, Signed "James Church" and "O[liver] Ellsworth" ...

Hartford & Windham [CT]: 1785. A SOLDIER FOR JUST FIVE WEEKS. Too young for marriage and children, but old enough to join the fight for independence, these documents may be the last few remaining records of a largely forgotten soldier of 1776. Samuel Robinson III (1757-1776) was born in the..... Read More about A Group of Two Manuscripts and One Document, Attesting to the Service of Samuel Robinson in the...

New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street, [1890]. UNRECORDED. Rare and presumably earliest edition of these standard rules for trap shooting. Preceding the two recorded editions, published at Boston in 1893 and 1898, the latter described in Riling 1449. OCLC records only a single location..... Read More about Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association (Limited). Revised January 7th, 1890....

New York: October 29, 1930. ‘Skittles and Beer’. A sincere letter a man considered one of the most versatile actors of his day that opens with the mention of a recent illness (Mann died less than a year later from cancer) and touches on his early days acting alongside actors..... Read More about Typed letter signed "Louis Mann" (to Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry...

Champlain, [New York]: Privately Printed at the Moorfield Press, 1931. First edition, limited to 58 numbered copies. Thomas Nye's 1837 account of his journey to marry Corrina Bowman of Duncklee's Grove, Illinois, describing his travels from Montreal to Chicago, through the Great Lakes, including mention of Cleveland, Detroit, Lake Michigan..... Read More about TWO LETTERS OF THOMAS NYE, Relating to A Journey from Montreal to Chicago in 1837. Edited by Hugh...

Baltimore and New York: 1829-1844. Ware-Maclay-Andrews Copy of the American Turf Register. A complete set of this rare sporting magazine, the earliest and most important to appear in America. It was founded in 1829 by John S. Skinner, who writes in his introduction to the first number: “The want of..... Read More about American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine … Edited by J.S. Skinner, Allen J. Davie, Gideon...

Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association, 1884. First edition, Boston imprint; variant issue (unrecorded by OCLC), with Massachusetts Man Suffrage imprint [also seen with no publisher's imprint and variant title]. Issued by Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association. OCLC lists no holdings of this issue, published by the Boston Man Suffrage Association;..... Read More about LETTER FROM MRS. CLARA T. LEONARD: Formerly Member of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and...

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. Read More about The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in...

Hildburghausen & New York: Bibliographischen Institut, 1857. Twenty-three Great American Views. 23 American plates, including 2 of Cuba; 1 of Central America; 1 of Mexico; and Mt. Jefferson; Wall St.; St. Louis on the Mississippi; The Palisades; Harper's Ferry; St. Charles on the Mississippi; Independence Court House (Missouri); Urkwald-Landschaft am..... Read More about Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildun und Beschreibung des Sehenswertheften und Merkwürdigsten der...

Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1796. First edition, with half-title. Ames's speech was one of the most important regarding Jay's Treaty with England, effectively saving it. Read More about The Speech of Mr. Ames in the House of Representatives of the United States, when in Committee of...

Amherst: J.S. & C. Adams, 1838. Read More about Horae Collegian: a Literary Periodical Conducted By the Undergraduates of Amherst College. Volume...

[Amherest , Mass: 1874]. Melvil Dewey was the Class of 1874. Read More about Amherst College. Class of 1874

Amherst, Mass: Published by J.S. & C. Adams, 1838 & 1839. First edition. Read More about Hoaræ Colleginæ. A Literrary Periodical conducted by the Undergraduates of Amherst College

New York: Putnam's, 1881. First Edition thus. Read More about Spain...Translated from the Italian by Wihelmina W. Cady

Paris: Desnos, 1764. Read More about Generalites d'Amiens. [Atlas

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1957). First American edition. Review Copy. With Advance slip tipped in. Read More about A Case of Samples. Poems 1946-1956

London: Jonathan Cape, [1969]. First edition. Read More about The Green Man

The Hague: 's-Gravenhage, 2 October 1958, 31st July 1959. ¶The noted historical writer provides more recent biographical information for Hartley. Hartley had enquired how valuable to his creative writing was his formal education. To which he responded that “high school” was certainly important but that he sees “the most important..... Read More about Two typed letters, signed “Jo van Ammers-Kuller” and a typed synopsis entitled “Diana. The...

In 1967, Amory founded the Fund for Animals, with a planned focus on protecting animals from hunters and creating animal sanctuaries. The Fund struggled during the first years of its existence, but became known in 1979 for sponsoring a removal by air and land of 580 Grand Canyon burros slated..... Read More about Photo of Cleveland Amory with Grand Canyon burro in his arms: Inscribed: "For Richard...

Rand McNally, (1929). In Radio's Heyday, Its Most Popular Program. Signed on the first blank by the creators. Read More about All about Amos ’n’ Andy and Their Creators Correll and Gosden

London: The Tryon Gallery, in association with George Rainbird, 1971. First Edition, No. 354 of 550 numbered copies. Axel Amuchastegui was born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1921. He was self-taught and developed his own technique using Chinese inks and brushes. His work appeared in a number of publications including Pajaros..... Read More about Some Birds and Mammals of North America

London: William Bulmer, 1802. Bulmer's Greek type is perfectly complemented by the simple head and tailpiece vignettes. Read More about Odaria. Ad textus Bernesiani fidem emendata

Lausanne/ Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1976. First edition. Read More about Francois Boucher, avec la collaboration de Daniel Wildenstein. Peintures. Catalogue raisonneé

London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition. Colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana With 2-page ad for Pickering's "Books on Angling" at the front. Read More about The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling

[N.p: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 25 large paper copies printed. One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on half-title “To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon, 7th Nov. 1845”, of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and..... Read More about The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of...

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1845. First Edition in English. Read More about The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy, from the Danish...translated by Mary Howitt

New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. The Merrrymount Edition. Read More about The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912]. Dulac, Edmund (1882-1953). Second Edition. Read More about Stories from Hans Andersen

Copenhagen: Andreasen & Lachmann, 1940. Number 668 of 800 copies, signed by Grosserer Marius Maurinen on colophon, and by Andreasen on preface. With 12 wonderful illustrations, by Anton Hansen, Thor Bógelünd, Erik Stockmarr, Magnüs Bengtsson, Sikker Hansen, V. Steoft, Carl Jensen, Ebbe Sadolin, Albert Naür, Harald Hansen, Arne Ungermann, Herlief..... Read More about Tolv med Posten

New York: Printed by G. & E. Waite, No. 64, Maiden-Lane, 1804. Anderson, Alexander. First American edition. The first American edition of a classic work, with the cuts re-engraved (usually in reverse) from the original Bewick edition. Dr. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) was America’s first wood engraver. Pomeroy identifies the fourth..... Read More about A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures engraved on wood chiefly copied from the original of...

Sidney, Montana: 8 April 1995. Anderson describes her advent into writing following a successful medical career. Her study of Genesis and subsequently of man brought her to a better understanding of man both medically and psychologically and what she terms “the truly insightful fusion of science and religion–which can open..... Read More about Typed letter, signed “Camilla M. Anderson”

Allahabad: The Pioneer Press, 1921. “I simply write from twenty years’ experience of the ‘Galloping Game,’ and the hope that my few remarks may benefit the novice and make him realise that ‘unselfishness, self-effacement, and playing for the side’ counts as much in polo as they did i nthe Great..... Read More about Hints on Polo and the Care of Polo Ponies in India

London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place, 1856. Second Edition. Read More about The History of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire