San Francisco: P. J. Thomas, Printer and Publisher, 1885 [pamphlet]; San Francisco: Engraved and Printed by Bosqui Eng. and Print. Co. [1885]. First edition, first issue, with the first issue large-format version of the map by Bosqui laid in, as issued. With the Large Format Map of Chinatown. An inflammatory..... Read More about Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco on the Condition of...

Chicago: Jevne & Almini, 1866-1867. First Edition. Plates Documenting Chicago Before the Fire, with the Original Prospectus. A marvelous collection of views of Chicago - drawn, described, and published by Chicagoans - providing the best visual description of the city before the destruction wreaked by the Great Fire of 1871..... Read More about Chicago Illustrated. 1830. 1866. Literary Description by James W. Sheahan Esq. Illustrations by...

Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. First edition. "In 1799 [Cleveland] visited the northwest coast, including Alaska, and in 1803 California ... [he] was at the Old Sitka site of the first Russian establishment the day following Baranov's making a deal with Katleut, a Sitkan chief, which enabled him to start building..... Read More about A Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises

Washington, D.C: George S. Gideon, July 6 to November 16, 1848. Whig Campaign Newspaper for Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. Scarce complete run of the weekly political newspaper "devoted to the support of Taylor and Fillmore" published during their campaign in the Election of 1848, which pitted the Whig Zachary..... Read More about The Battery

[Great Britain]: [circa 1761]. Towards the end of the French and Indian War, William Pitt started a specie grant program to reward colonies for raising troops, thus putting the colonies in competition with each other for a share of an annual 200,000 pounds. With specie scarce in the colonies, the..... Read More about Manuscript document signed "George R" authorizing payment of £60,634 to the Province...

London: Printed for W. Johnston [and others], 1769. Second and best edition including her correspondence with Benjamin Rush. Catharine Macaulay (1731-1791), sometimes referred to as the "Celebrated Mrs. Macaulay" and described as the first English female historian, proved an influential Whig political theorist, best remembered for her multi-volume History of..... Read More about Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes’ Philosophical Rudiments of...

Swanzey [i.e. Swansea], Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay: March 14, 1718/9. Hall owed money for "team works done in hauling a cannew and for one jackit sold and delivered..." Read More about Manuscript document signed, as Justice of the Peace, ordering the arrest of Joshua Hall, "an...

Philadelphia: Printed for the Navy Department, by T.K. and P.G. Collins, 1852. First American Uniform Book for the U.S. Navy. A rare color plate book describing and illustrating the uniforms and dress of officers in the United States Navy and Marines. Contains several pages of detailed regulations on the dress..... Read More about Regulations for the Uniform & Dress of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States

Philadelphia: Published by Kennedy & Lucas Lithographers ... R. H. Hobson and S. M. Stewart, [circa 1830]. First American edition. One of the Earliest American Lithographic View Books. The exceptionally rare American edition of this series of lithographic view of Niagara Falls, pirated from the British edition published in London..... Read More about Views of the Great Falls of Niagara [wrapper title

Glasgow: J. Bryce and D. Paterson, 1758. "...the most popular of all Indian captivities" - Vail. The self-styled "third edition, with considerable improvements," issued the year after the superlatively rare first, of what Vail calls "the most popular of all Indian captivities." Peter Williamson was born in Scotland, but was..... Read More about French and Indian Cruelty: Exemplified in the Life and Various Vicissitudes of Fortune, of Peter...