Haddam Neck, CT: 1825-1856. A Connecticut Shoemaker's Account Book 1825-1856. A wonderful look at a craftsman's life in early 19th century Connecticut. Most of Clark's trade came from mending shoes, for which he averaged 40 cents a pair, his steadiest customers being members of the Brainerd family, an old and... Read More

Waltham, MA: Metz Company, 1916. First edition. 1916 Metz Car Advertising Broadside. In 1893 C.H. Metz began working for Waltham Company, early auto manufacturers; in 1909 he bought the company and instituted a plan whereby the public could buy 14 separate packages and build their own car. This approach was... Read More

München: Mit churfürstlich akademische Schriften, [1776]. German edition of Bailey's Advancement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce with 55 plates in Volume II. Read More

New York: May 13, 1912. “Truly the way of the filanthropist [sic] is hard”. To John A. Stewart of the National Committee for the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of Peace, “Congratulations upon your success so far. You may be sure that I will do all in my power... Read More

New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1885. Second edition. Wall St. Novel, 1885. A novel of Wall Street speculation, first printed in the previous year anonymously. This second edition has a new "Publisher's Note" which quotes a review of the Philadelphia Evening Sun identifying the author by name, and adding... Read More

Paris: Nov. 14 1832. Read More

Paris: Éditions Pierre Tisné, [1967]. First edition. Engelhard - Pirie Copy, inscribed by the three Barons Rothschild. Inscribed to Jane Engelhard on the title-page by the three Barons de Rothschild (Guy, Alain, and Elie), with a presentation card tipped in, and with a TLS from Baron Alain de Rothschild to... Read More

Paris: Anselin et Pochard, 1827. First edition in French. Public Roads and Transportation. Barbier attributes the translation to "Bailliet, maître des requêtes,"who perhaps also authored the substantial, original section (pp. 285-469) entitled "Considerations et Recherches sur Les Voies Publiques de France."Edgeworth (1744-1817), the father of novelist Maria Edgeworth, first published... Read More

London: Printed by J. Streater, for Livewell Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop at the Crown in Popes-Head-Alley, 1656. First edition, variant with “Livewell Chapman” in the imprint. A Classic of Utopian Thought. A celebrated work of political philosophy, which had a profound influence on America’s founding... Read More

Pittsburgh, Penna: [H.J. Heinz Company], 1919. Issued by the Heinz Company to commemorate its founder's life. Read More

[Philadelphia?]: November 10, 1815. From the Author of “Hail, Columbia”. Hopkinson (1770 - 1842), a U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania and a highly esteemed jurist who argued several landmark cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, is more popularly known as the author of the words to “Hail, Columbia”, which he wrote... Read More

Netherlands East Indies: 1914-1925. Transportation in the Cloudlands of Java, 1914-1925. Compendious visual archive of photographs of aerial (cable) tramways for transportation of tea, coffee, gutta percha, firewood, and building materials — as well as the occasional group of workers — on mountainous plantations in the cloudlands of Java, Netherlands... Read More