[New York]: ca. 1900. Original Manuscript of a “Mr. Dooley” Piece Concerning TR. Written at the time of the 1900 Presidential Convention, this amusing piece, in “Mr. Dooley’s” Irish dialect, deals with the prospect of Theodore Roosevelt's nomination as McKinley's vice-president, which time has shown to be an epochal event..... Read More about “Mr. Dooley on the Convention.” Original manuscript of this humorous piece concerning...

N.p. [Colonial America]: August 6, 1767. An Early American Manuscript Posting Announcement. An intriguing document, written in various hands on fine laid paper on which appears to be a French watermark of an elaborate cartouche over the words “V. Guerevin”. It is titled “Advertisement” and reads: “This is to Give..... Read More about Autograph Notice forbidding hunting on the lands of 15 subscribers, headed “Advertisement”...

New York: Probably originally printed in Appleton's Journal, [Ca. 1864-65]. Original Wood Engraving Blocks of Robert E. Lee. Two very fine engraved blocks, used to illustrate a periodical of the day. Both are well-composed, with numerous figures, and featuring Lee in a central role. The "Prayer Meeting" block is signed..... Read More about "Lee at Petersburg" and "Lee at the Soldiers' Prayer Meeting": two original...

New York: Francis Harper, 1893. First edition, limited issue, copy number 925 of 800 copies of fine book paper of a total edition of 1000 copies. Read More about History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri...

(Paris: Contact Publishing Co, 1926. First edition. Printed in Dijon by Darantiere. " 'Post-Adolescence', actually McAlmon's first book, having been written previously to 'A Hasty Bunch', continued the story, with the scene shifting to Greenwich Village, where McAlmon had lived briefly in 1920, and where he had met four of..... Read More about Post Adolescence

[New York: Privately Printed, 1880; 1881]. One of a few copies printed. A Shakespeare New York Calendar: "...one of a few copies printed..." Rare and charming little calendars compiled by this New York antiquarian, member of the New York Historical Society, and co-founder of the Bradford Club, which was a...... Read More about Events in the History of New York City with Illustrations from Shakespeare by a New Yorker

Benninghoff Run, Pennsylvania: ca. 1865. Benninghoff Run Oil Derricks. Vintage albumen print showing the oil derricks and pump house of Benninghoff Run, an important early oil field in Pennsylvania’s Oil Creek Valley. The site’s Ocean Well, dug in 1865, was the first to prove that oil could be extracted from..... Read More about “Binninghoff [sic] Run”

London: J. Buckland …, 1761. First edition, state unknown. Gibbons Funeral Sermon on the Death of Rev. Samuel Davies, President of Princeton. Gibbons (1720-1785), an Independent minister, wrote an important biography of Issac Watts, kept an entertaining diary of his active London life, and wrote poetry and hymns. Like the..... Read More about Divine Conduct Vindicated, or The Operations of God shown to be the Operations of Wisdom: in the...

New York: Published by E. Weyhe, 1919. Fine Ruzicka Wood Engraving. A fine and early work by the celebrated book artist, designer, calligrapher, and type designer, who was instrumental in the survival of the woodcut as a medium for book illustration. Read More about "East River, Evening"

New York: D. Appleton, 1894. First Appleton edition. Mint in Original Plain Dust Jacket. One of the earliest and most important books on the game by the "grand old man" of American Football, athletic pioneer and legendary coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg. This Appleton edition of 1894 is revised from the..... Read More about A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges ... Revised to...

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street [Colophon:] London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street, 1836. Hervieu, Auguste. First edition. Compared by many critics compare Trollope's anti-slavery novel favorably to Beecher's Uncle Tom's Cabin, which it precedes by almost 15 years. Probably her rarest novela and very scarce in..... Read More about The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw; or Scenes on the Mississippi