Newburyport: Daniel Bayley, 1771. The Seventh Edition, with Additions. Bayley published "editions and issues of Tans'ur's The Royal Melody Complete, Williams's Universal Psalmodist and Tansur-Williams-Bayley's The American Harmony that appeared in New England between 1767 and 1774, thereby creating a major bibliographic tangle. Because some of the same engraved plates..... Read More about The American Harmony: or, Royal melody complete ... The Seventh Edition, with Additions. By...

New York: The Aldine Book Company, 1903. First edition. Author's Edition, printed throughout on imperial Japanese vellum, and full bound in crushed levant, limited to 75 numbered copies signed by the author. Additionally inscribed by the author to Henry Clay Frick II, "In memory of the grandfather whose name he..... Read More about History of Carnegie Steel. An Inside Review of Its Humble Origin and Impressive Growth

Boston: Independent Chronicle Office, May 11, 1802. News of the Treaty of Amiens Reaches America. The broadside continues in two columns below praising the treaty as is "disarms a war-faction in America of their last hope of involving [the] United States in a controversy with France and an alliance with..... Read More about Glorious News! Chronicle-Office, May 11, 1802. 4 o'Clock, P.M. The subsequent Intelligence was...

Boston: Office of the Christian World, 1844. First edition. Streeter: "The intensity of the feeling among many in the North on annexation is shown by Clark's statement here (p. 15-16): 'The one thing . . . which can prevent this event . . . is the universal expression by the whole..... Read More about The Annexation of Texas. A Sermon, delivered in the Masonic Temple on Fast Day. By James Freeman...

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1866]. First edition. Includes sections on euchre, whist, bezique, all-fours, pitch, commerical pitch, French fours, all fives, cassino, cribbage, straight poker, draw poker and whiskey poker. Read More about The American Card-Player: Containing Clear and Comprehensive Directions

New York: Redfield, 1854. First edition in English. Presentation copy, inscribed by Franchere on verso of the title to John Lane. Presentation Copy. "Most important source on the Astor adventure" (Howes). Franchère was with the party John Jacob Astor sent to the Pacific Northwest to establish a fur trading base..... Read More about Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814...

New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Read More about The Artillerist's Manual, compiled from various sources, and adapted to the Service of the United...

[Buffalo]: [1846]. The recto includes the schedule between Buffalo and Chicago; the verso includes a list of distances between the two cities. Richardson, who has signed the woodcut, is noted as working in Buffalo. An early Great Lakes sailing card. Read More about Buffalo & Chicago. The Splendid Steam Packet Empire, Capt. D. Howe, will run during the...

Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street, 1774. First edition. To "perpetuate the memory of that wanton and bloody massacre to all Generations", Bostonians fanned the flames of Revolution by holding an oration each year on the anniversary of the Boston Massacre. In 1774, just a few months..... Read More about An Oration; Delivered March 5, 1774, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston: to...

Barrie, Ont: The Barrie Examiner Printing and Publishing House, 1891. First edition. Scarce early biography of George McDougall (1821-1876). "In 1880, after his ordination on 6 June and his wedding four days later, Maclean and his wife left for a new Methodist mission near Fort Macleod (Alta). They spent nine..... Read More about The Hero of the Saskatchewan. Life Among the Ojibway and Cree Indians in Canada ... Reprinted...

New York: George Dearborn, 1837. First edition. The first literary interpretation with Pocahontas as the protagonist, and an important proto-feminist depiction of Native American women published anonymously by the noted utopian and abolitionist reformer Robert Dale Owen. Read More about Pocahontas: A Historical Drama, in Five Acts; With an Introductory Essay and Notes. By a Citizen...

San Francisco: J. Dewing, 1888. Artist's Proof Illustration by Frederic Remington. Inscribed in pencil on verso, "Artists proof from Picturesque California / Merle Johnson". Johnson was the author of American First Editions, High Spots in American Literature, You Know These Lines!, and similar works. Read More about "Miners Prospecting for Gold": artist's proof of the illustration for John Muir's...

Andover: Printed by Flagg, Gould, and Newman, 1833. First edition. Inscribed on the upper cover, "Oliver Holden, Esqr. from his sincere friend the Author" "Joshua Seixas, the son of Gershom Mendes Seixas (the minister of New York's Shearith Israel congregation), was born in New York in 1802. Little is known..... Read More about A Manual of Hebrew Grammar