Washington, D.C: Farnham, 1857. Second Edition. Inscribed. Inscribed on the half-Title: "Edmund Flagg Esq./ with the regards of/ C.C. Andrews." Second edition is printed in same year as the first. Read More about Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the North-West, in 1856
Price: $300
Hanover, Ind: Published by Joseph G. Monfort Hanover College Press, 1835. Read More about Oxford Addresses: Being the Inaugural Address, and Address to the Graduates of Miami University
Price: $200
n.p. (Washington, D.C): Feburary 8th, 1930. ‘It Was Not Luck, But Hard Work’. A plucky letter from the first blind US Senator. Reading in part: “Through an electric shock I lost my sight. Then it was the beginning all over as a blind man to make myself into a successful..... Read More about Typed letter signed "Thos. D. Schall" (Thomas D. Schall) to "S.H." (Seymour...
Price: $250
Washington, D.C: December 21, 1947. “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master”. “… I am glad to know that Mr. Justice William O. Douglas of this Court will speak at the public dinner to be held in observance of the 100th Anniversary of..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Harold H, Burton”) to Harry Barnard of the Altgeld Centenary Committee...
Price: $500
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First edition. Read More about The Growth of Chicago Banks
Price: $600
Chicago: 35th and Iron Streets, 1909. The company was started for the dismantling odf the Chicago World's Fair. They became “Harris Brothers’ Homes” in 1913. Of the six national companies, selling kit homes through mail-order catalogs, Harris Brothers was probably the least-well known. Read More about Chicago House Wrecking Co. Catalogue No160A. 1909-1910
Price: $250
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...
Price: $35,000
[Chicago: Kaufmann-Fabry Photographers, 1934]. Copy no. 3. “This edition consists of two hundred and fifty-seven copies printed on photographic paper from the official negatives made by Kaufmann and Fabry and are autographed by the president and the general manager of a Century of Progress in recognition of this splendid pictorial..... Read More about A Century of Progess International Exposition, Chicago, 1933-1934
Price: $1,750
Washington, D.C: 1862. Copperheads and Unconditional Unionists. This compelling, historical manuscript was penned during the contentious and hostile political environment that was pervasive during the Lincoln Administration. The subscription is for a speech by Pendleton arguing the constitutionality of the proposed “Legal Tender Act,” authorizing the government to issue paper..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Subscription for copies of a speech made by Rep. George H. Pendleton Before...
Price: $750
Fort Chartres, Illinois Country: December 31, 1766. The Fur Trade with Native Americans on the Western Frontier. Following the French and Indian War, the Treaty of Paris (1763) extended British control of the frontier as far west as the Mississippi River and transferred the French forts along the river to..... Read More about Autograph document signed, a bill of exchange for £100 Pennsylvania currency drawn on Baynton,...
Price: $4,750
Cleveland, Ohio: THE SAPERSTEIN GREETING CARD CO, 1939. Read More about Postcard: "Grounds of the Great Lakes Exposition at Night, Looking North Toward Lake Erie....
Price: $200
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, [ca.1906]. "Author's Autograph Edition" With an Autograph Manuscript Leaf. A handsome and finely illustrated set of Cooper's works, number 21 of 63 copies, with an original autograph leaf of 42 lines from the manuscript of Cooper's 1848 novel, "The Oak Openings;..... Read More about The Writings
Price: $7,500
New Haven: by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1795. With an untitled poem on page 38. Read More about The Heavenly Mansions. : A Sermon preached May 14, 1795, in the City of New-Haven, at the...
Price: $150
Decatur, Ill: 1910s. Showing mostly women sports (Field hockey) and sorority life probably at Millikin College founded in 1901. Read More about Decatur Illinois College Album
Price: $350
[Richmond, Missouri: The Missourian Pess, 1937]. First Edition. Privately printed memoirs of the Ozark rvers., The Black River, The Current and the Wilma. Read More about Three Ozark Streams. Log of the Mocassin and the Wilma
Price: $250
Washington, D.C: Globe, 1844. Read More about Speech of Mr. Duncan of Ohio on the Tariff ... May 6, 1844
Price: $50
Springfield, Missouri: H.S. Jewell, [c. 1911]. "The Mollyjoggers" was the name of a hunting and fishing club in Southwest Missouri along the James River, after a species of minnow found in the river and streams of the area. The author was asked by the proprietor Mr. H.S. Jewell of The..... Read More about The Mollyjoggers. Tales of the Camp-Fire. A Brief History of the origin and experiences of an old...
Price: $400
St. Louis, Missouri: 1935. Written by T.S. Eliots's Uncle by marriage. Read More about The History of Washington University
Price: $750
New Athens, Harrison County, Ohio: 1898-1899. Read More about Seventy-third Annual Catalogue Franklin College
Price: $65
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1844. First edition, first issue. Margaret Fuller's account of a trip to the Great Lakes region in 1843 is her first separately-published work of her own pen, with her preceding separate publications being translations of works by others. "Organized as a series of..... Read More about Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
Price: $1,500
Washington. D.C: 21 November 1869. Hard Times for Congressman Garfield from Ohio. Ezra B. Taylor, a Republican lawyer and judge from Garfield's home state of Ohio, was elected Republican Representative to the 46th Congress to fill the vacancy created by Garfield's resignation to seek the Presidency. Taylor served several terms..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed ("J.A. Garfield"), as Congressman from Ohio, to Ezra Booth...
Price: $1,250
Philadelphia: Chas. C. Rhodes, 1857. First edition. Read More about Geary and Kansas. Governor Geary’s Administraion in Kansas: With a Complete History of the...
Price: $150
London & New York: G. Routledge & Co, 1858. Second edition, after the first of the previous year. The author's impressions of Bloody Kansas during the mid-1850s. The folding map shows Kansas Territory. Read More about Kansas; or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare in the Far West
Price: $200
[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...
Price: $450
