Washington, D.C: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. First edition. "When in 1843 Congress approved the construction of an experimental telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington, Vail acted as Morse's chief assistant and received Morse's 'What hath God Wrought' message on May 24, 1844 ... [The present pamphlet] containts one..... Read More about Description of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation Between the Cities of Washington...

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First edition. One of the author's several trips in the Old Northwest, this expedition was especially important in that during the journey the party discovered what proved to be the actual source of the Mississippi. The text includes numerous observations on the Indians of..... Read More about Narrative of an Expedition through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of the...

Philadelphia: D. Hall and W. Sellers, [1768]. Includes an essay on Fruit Trees on p. 2-3, being passages extracted from Thomas Hitt's Treatise (1755), as well as numerous health related recipes. The second Poor Richard's almanac issued after Benjamin Franklin's involvement with the publication ended. Read More about Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris..for the year of our Lord 1769

Amwell. Read More about Another Tear for Somalia

London: 1923. First edition. Read More about Equatoria, The Lado Enclave

Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, SC: April 3, 1861. Fort Sumter Nine Days Before the Fall. In December 1860, just days after South Carolina seceded, Major Robert Anderson relocated his small command from Fort Moultrie to the more defensible Fort Sumter, working over the coming months to complete mounting its guns..... Read More about Autograph letter signed by Snyder and additionally signed by Seymour, to Major Robert Anderson,...

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1897. First Edition. First American Book of Golf Instruction & First Action Golf Photos. A very nice copy of the first book of golf instruction published in America, and the first to contain “action” photographs of golfers making their shots. The cornerstone to any golfing library..... Read More about How to Play Golf

Philadelphia: Geo. W. Jacobs & Co, [1911]. Second edition. IN DJ. Read More about Advanced Golf: Or, Hints and Instruction for Progressive Players

Portland, Oregon: David Steel, 1890. First Edition. Includes chapters on the Oregon Alpine Club, with its constitution, as well as accounts of Crater Lake, Mt. Hood etc. Read More about The Mountains of Oregon

New York: Derrydale Press, [1939]. Boyer, Ralph L. First edition, no. 990 of 1075 copies. Spectacular Copy. A spectacular, unopened copy of this collection of fishing lore by Connett. Read More about Random Casts

Newark: Printed and Sold by S. and I. Ridge, 1801. First edition, with hlf-title. Read More about Practical Observations on Angling in the River Trent. By a Gentleman Resident in the Neighbourhood

[Cambridge, Mass.]: Privately Printed [by the Harvard University Printing Office], 1951. First Edition. with "Compliments of the Author" card laid in, inscribed to Margaret Doves in 1951 Discursive account of highlight of the author’s partridge shooting experiences, chiefly in New Hampshire, with extensive references to his shooting journals during a...... Read More about Partridge Adventures

New York: Little , Brown and Company, [October 2013]. First edition. SIGNED. Read More about The Goldfinch