We are pleased to present a fine selection from our stock of printed and manuscript Americana. Highlights include a rare Wells Fargo directory of Chinese businesses in California, an important Elizabeth Cady Stanton letter arranging a meeting of suffragettes in Seneca Falls, one of only three known examples of the first Catholic catechism published in America, the first American edition of John Adams's Defence of the Constitutions, and a rare Texas handbill expelling Union troops at the start of the Civil War.
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Quincy, [Mass.]: 24 November 1813. A warm letter from former President John Adams to his dear friend and writer Mercy Otis Warren, with whom he had been recently reconciled after their long falling out. Throughout the Revolutionary period, historian, poet and dramatist Mercy Otis Warren actively corresponded on political matters..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed, from John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren
Price: $35,000
Sag-Harbor, N.Y: Printed by Alden Spooner; Corrector Office, 1806; 1850. First editions. Read More about Sermon, containing a General History of the Town of East-Hampton, (L.I.). From its first...
Price: $1,500
Charleston: Joseph Walker, Agt., Stationer and Printer, 129 Meeting-st, 1866. First edition. A resident of Charleston from 1796 onward, he became editor of the Southern Patriot and later its publisher. A Sephardic Jew, both he and his brother Isaac were influential among the Reformed Society of Israelites in Charleston. The..... Read More about Reminiscences of Charleston
Price: $850
nd. [c. 1880-90s]. A remarkable collection of newspaper dispatches, maps, plans, portraits and illustrated scenes of battles and views. The maps, portraits and illustrations are drawn from a variety of published sources, including The New York World, but many are coloured or engraved and on heavier stock. This set provides..... Read More about Remarkable bespoke bound collection of Civil War extracts, illustrations and ephemera
Price: $8,500
Philadelphia: December 9, 1784. Letter Between Two Founding Fathers in the Confederation Period. "I received with great pleasure your kind congratulations on my return & shall be happy in every opportunity to express how much & how truly I value your obliging friendship. Your acceptance of a seat in Congress..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed, "Jos: Reed," to Elbridge Gerry, expressing pleasure at the...
Price: $1,850
![Item #319881 [Photographic yearbook for the Dartmouth Class of 1859]. Dartmouth, George Kendall...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/319881.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669654728)
Hanover, New Hampshire: 1859. Among the Earliest Photographically Illustrated College Yearbooks. George Kendall Warren (1824-1884) "began his long and prolific photographic career in 1851 in Lowell, Massachusetts, opening one of the city's first daguerreotype studios. He was celebrated for his portraiture and frequently photographed celebrities, and he also specialized in..... Read More about Photographic yearbook for the Dartmouth Class of 1859
Price: $2,250
Philadelphia: 1850. Original Sample of California Gold. Included as illustrative material is a sample of genuine gold from the California mines, as well as an inserted leaf illustrating California and Mormon coins, in gilt. The authors were the official assayers for the Philadelphia Mint at the time of this work's..... Read More about New Varieties of Gold and Silver Coins, Counterfeit Coins, and Bullion; With Mint Values
Price: $7,500
Newport, Rhode Island: 1 April 1791 - 1 April 1795. Contemporary gathering of customs records for "dried and pickled fish and salted provisions" exported from Rhode Island principally to the West Indies, between 1791 and 1795, with the signature of William Ellery appearing 11 times. Ellery (1727-1820) was the representative..... Read More about Copies of Abstracts of Bounty on fish, &c. paid from January 1st, 1791, to March 31, 1795, as...
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New York: Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, 1811. First edition. THE DEDICATION COPY INSCRIBED BY FRANCIS TO DAVID HOSACK. Submitted to the public examination of the trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the state of New-York, Samuel Bard, M.D. president, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine..... Read More about An Inaugural Dissertation on Mercury, Embracing Its Medical History, Curative Action, and Abuse...
Price: $1,500
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Hiram, Ohio: June 17, 1873. Introduction of the suffragette Mrs. Helen M. Barnard to the U.S. Minister of France. In this letter Garfield writes as an Ohio Congressman to introduce Mrs. Helen M. Barnard to the US Minister in Paris during her survey of conditions for emigrants on board steamships..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed, to Hon. E.[lihu] B.[enjamin] Washburne, U.S. Minister at Paris, France
Price: $1,250
Philadelphia: Printed by Henry Miller, in Second-Street, 1765. First edition. The first play produced by an American. First edition of The Prince of Parthia which was "the first drama written by a native American to be produced upon the professional stage" (DAB). The play debuted on 24 April 1767 at..... Read More about Juvenile Poems of Various Subjects. With the Prince of Parthia: A Tragedy by the late Mr. Thomas...
Price: $8,500
Paris: Chez Buisson, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, 1792. Second edition overall and first French. Variant issue. Second edition: The ‘Federalist’ in the French Revolution. The first French edition of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay's celebrated collection of articles supporting the ratification of the United States Constitution. The other issue of this printing..... Read More about Le Fédéraliste, ou Collection de quelques Écrits en faveur de la Constitution proposée aux...
Price: $10,000
Jersey City, NJ: May 3, 1916. Autobiographical Manuscript Memoir of a 19th Century American Photographer. Born on November 9, 1841, in Constance, Baden-Württtemberg, Germany, Gubelman arrived in New York in May 1854. The following year he found work with famed mapseller J. H. Colton "as pupil to Jos. Schedler who..... Read More about Autograph memoir of a noted New Jersey photographer, including his work as an itinerant...
Price: $4,500
Philadelphia: John Binns for C.&A. Conrad; Petersburgh: Somervell & Conrad; Norfolk: Bonsal, Conrad & Co.; and Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr, 1810. First edition. A Rare Issue with Separate Atlas. First edition of the first U.S. government exploration of the Southwest. Pike's narrative includes his account of his travels to explore..... Read More about An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and Through the Western Parts of...
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1926. First Edition of the author’s first commercially produced book. His First Book, Inscribed. Inscribed "To Mr. Walter MacDonald/Franklin D. Roosevelt/ Executive Mansion/Albany, July 31 1930" Read More about Whither Bound?
Price: $2,250
