James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present an Americana catalogue featuring many new arrivals. Highlights include a Tom Thumb sized miniature edition of Barnum's autobiography dedicated "to the Bearded Lady and her hairs forever;" a Bleeding Kansas cartographic rarity which visually represents the slavery conflict and the events leading to the Civil War; and an important early Texas work recording the abortive colony of exiled Napoleonic loyalists established on the Trinity River in 1818, here in original condition.
Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute, 1885. An early American work on Duglad Clerk's two-stroke internal combustion engine. Read More about 1884 International Electrical Exhibition ... Franklin Institute ... Reports of the Examiners of...
Price: $350
Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1789. The Ninth Edition, Corrected and Amended. The first America edition of Aesop was Samuel Croxall's translation published in Philadelphia by Aitken in 1777; the first American editions of Robert Dodsley's translation and that of Robert Burton were published the same year by Robert Bell of Philadelphia..... Read More about Fabulae Aesopi Selectae, or Select Fables of Aesop; with an English Translation, more literal...
Price: $750
New York: May 14-15, 1783. Letter, signed by Brigadier General Guy Carleton, written to Brigadier General Alured Clarke regarding clemency for deserters from the British Army at the end of the American Revolution; together with orders for General Clarke from Deputy Adjutant General Frederick Mackenzie, dated May 14th, to deny..... Read More about Letter signed, to General Clarke, regarding deserters at the close of the Revolutionary War, with...
Price: $2,500
Boston: John Gill, 1778. An election sermon by the noted Congregationalist minister in the midst of the Revolution, on liberty, the role of government, the attributes of good leaders and the importance of religion to civil society and government: "The battles we have already fought, the victories we have won..... Read More about A Sermon Preached before the Honorable Council, and the Honorable House of Representatives, of...
Price: $450
[Philadelphia: Nov. 4, 1780]. List of requisitions for specific supplies, as issued by the Continental Congress on Nov. 4, 1780, extracted and signed by Charles Thomson as the Secretary of that body. At this time, General Nathanael Greene was about to be appointed to relieve Horatio Gates. After departing from West..... Read More about Manuscript document Signed by Charles Thomson, as Secretary of the Continental Congress, listing...
Price: $4,500
Providence: John Carter, October 11, 1777. Battles of Saratoga and Brandywine. Includes news of both the ongoing Battle of Saratoga (under the dateline Kingston, Sept. 29), as well as an account dated September 25 of the Battle of Brandywine. The front page includes a printing of a letter by Edmund..... Read More about The Providence Gazette; and Country Journal ... October 11, 1777
Price: $950
October 1860. In the autumn of 1860, Andrews accompanied the 19-year-old Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, on an extensive tour of the United States and Canada. As the excursion’s official artist, he produced numerous sketches for the Illustrated London News. On October 1, the Prince left Pittsburgh..... Read More about Junction of the Potomac and Shenandoha ... Harper's Ferry [graphite and wash drawing, signed,...
Price: $1,500
Washington, D.C: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1538 Ninth Street, N. W, [circa 1943]. Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (in 1915), and Associated Publishers (in 1924). Original publisher's catalogue of "Valuable Books on the Negro" with the "New Books" section dating..... Read More about Valuable Books on the Negro. The Publications of the Associated Publisher's, Inc
Price: $300
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...
Price: $2,000
London: John Baskett, 1719. First edition. First Collected Laws of Bermuda. Read More about Acts of Assembly, Made and Enacted in the Bermuda, or Summer-Islands, From 1690, to 1713-14
Price: $3,500
Andover: Printed and published by Gould & Newman, 1837. First American edition of the Tyndale translation. “As regards the diction of Tindale’s translation, it is remarkable to what an extent this first printed English New Testament fixed the phraseology of all its successors. Even in the Revised Version of 1881..... Read More about The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. By William Tyndale, the Martyr. The...
Price: $1,500
Washington, D.C: Thomas Allen, Printer to the House, 1837. Pages 111-222 comprise Thomas Jefferson's Manual on Parliamentary Practice. From the library of James Murray Mason, member of the House of Representatives from Virginia who authored the Fugitive Slave Act; his house in Winchester was destryed by Union soldiers during the..... Read More about Constitution of the United States of America: Rules of the House of Representatives, Joint Rules...
Price: $1,250
London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784. Second edition. A vigorous argument in favor of trade between the United States and Europe. Bingham argues that Great Britain, especially, is in a position to promote American trade and to benefit from it. Bingham, founder and director of the Pennsylvania Bank, lived in..... Read More about A Letter from an American, now Resident in London, to a Member of Parliament, on the Subject of...
Price: $950
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...
Price: $850
Albany: Published by B.D. Packard, No. 51 State-Street. R. Packard, Printer, 1811. First edition of both parts together, with additions. Privateer, Counterfeiter, Rogue, and Schoolteacher. Notable account of an American scoundrel. Stephen Burroughs (1765-1840) was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, enlisted in the army at age 14. He soon deserted..... Read More about Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs. To which is added, Notes, and an Appendix
Price: $1,000
San Francisco: Joseph W. Gregory, 1851. A lovely example of an unused Gold Rush letter book, intended to advertise Joseph Gregory's California and New York Express Line by means of a convenient way for gold seekers in California to communicate with friends and family back home. According to the wrapper..... Read More about Gregory's Express Pocket Letter Book, Designed to Facilitate Correspondence between Cities and...
Price: $850
Denmark, South Carolina: February 15, 1917. "I know you will be interested to know that we had a great conference here yesterday, many more than the assembly room would hold. A number of prominent white people were present. Mr. Montgomery (Ted) of Tuskegee told me that some Montgomery people were..... Read More about Autograph letter signed, to E. J. Scott, on a farmer's conference held at the Voorhees Normal...
Price: $1,750
London: C. Dilly, H. Payne, and J. Phillips, 1781. Third and best edition. Carver penetrated further West than any other pre-Revolutionary explorer in his search for a Northwest Passage, mapping several tributaries of the Mississippi, and making many observations of flora and fauna, Indian tribes, etc., which were to prove..... Read More about Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 … To...
Price: $5,000
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1862. Second edition. The second edition, after the first of 1853-56, with the same content, of this important American color plate and ornithological work. Cassin intended his work to supplement that of Audubon. He had originally suggested to Audubon's sons a plan for extending the..... Read More about Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America
Price: $7,500
A Manate: De la Presse Cramoisy de Jean-Marie Shea [Printed at Albany by J.Munsell], 1858. First Edition, one of 100 copies printed from a manuscript in the collection of Francis Parkman. This relation supplements Joutel and Tonty in describing the ill-fated expedition of 1685, in which La Salle landed at..... Read More about Relation du Voyage Entrepris par feu M. Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, pour découvrir dans...
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![Item #353792 Hymns in prose for children. By Mrs. Barbauld. To which are added, Watt's [sic]...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/353792.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690413686)
Boston: Printed and Sold by W. Spotswood; Philadelphia: William Spotswood, 1797; 1791. Read More about Hymns in prose for children. By Mrs. Barbauld. To which are added, Watt's [sic] Divine songs and...
Price: $4,500
Augusta: Published by Blackmar & Bro. [and others] ... B. Duncan & Co. Lith. Columbia SC, [1861-1864]. Confederate Sheet Music. Hosmer's song, with music and lyrics, comprises the inner two pages; the pictorial cover printed in green advertises 37 songs published by Blackmar in Augusta, as well as publishers in..... Read More about The Exotics. Flowers of Song Transplanted to Southern Soil ... O Give Me A Home by the Sea ......
Price: $150
Raleigh, [North Carolina]: W.W. Holden, Printer to the State, 1863-1864. Confederate Imprints. Read More about Public Laws of the State of North-Carolina, passed by the General Assembly at its Adjourned...
Price: $600
Hingham Centre, [Massachusetts]: Dec. 1, 1870. Photographically Illustrated. A humorous (if not non-sensical) annual letter and program for the annual meeting of the Clams, Oyster & Plum Pudding Corporation of Hingham, Massachusetts – presumably a social or supper club. Read More about C.O. & P.P. Corporation ... A profound study of the Solar System has taught me that the...
Price: $2,500
Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, Junior, 1796. First edition. "A general promotion tract on Northeastern Pennsylvania and Southwestern New York with an emphasis on the importance of the Susquehanna as a means of reaching the back country and the desirability of improving its navigation. Probably issued in the interests of the Schuylkill..... Read More about A Description of the River Susquehanna, with Observations on the Present State of its Trade and...
Price: $1,500
Guadeloupe: January 29, 1759. A firsthand account of the bombardment of Basse-Terre. Lt. Colonel Cunninghame's journal outlines the early days of the invasion of Guadeloupe, a pivotal action in the Seven Years' War, in which the British would ultimately take control of the island from the French. Beginning on 13..... Read More about Journal & Plans from Lt. Colonel Cuninghame. Chief Engineer on the Expedition with Major...
Price: $2,500
New York: B. Frodsham, 548 Broadway, 1861. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Dr. E. Parmly from the author. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dr. E. Parmele [sic, Eleazar Parmly] / Presented by / The Author." Eleazar Parmly was a prominent 19th-century dentist. A rare presentation copy..... Read More about The Prince's Visit: A Humorous Description of the Tour of His Royal Highness, the Prince of...
Price: $1,500
New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co, 1860. Originally published 1856, Eastwood is sometimes referred to as the first historian of the fruit. Read More about A Complete Manual for the Cultivation of the Cranberry
Price: $150
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1948. First edition, #367 of 1426 copies, Signed by Eisenhower on the facsimile of the D-Day Order of the Day opposite the colophon page. Signed by Eisenhower. Read More about Crusade in Europe
Price: $6,000
New Providence, Bahamas: July 13, 1767. Florida Shipwreck. The Brigatine Apollo left the bay of Honduras on 11 June 1767 bound for Rhode Island on a course through the Gulf of Florida. "That about one of the clock in the morning of the day following, the said Brigantine got on..... Read More about Contemporary true copy of a manuscript document signed by notary William Bradford, deputy...
Price: $650
Hudson: Sampson, Chittenden & Crowwell, August 17, 1802. Hamilton's Letter to the Editor – one of very few such newspaper letters which appeared under his own name and not a pseudonym – was first published in the Evening Post, responding to the baseless charges of John Wood in his History..... Read More about Letter refuting charges that Lafayette and Washington had ordered the execution of prisoners at...
Price: $950
Honolulu: American Mission Press, 1852-1863. The Hawaiian Missionary Society aimed to send missionaries from Hawaii to other Pacific islands. "The first annual report states that preparations were being made to send two missionaries, Rev. Mr. Snow and Rev. Luther H. Gulick, and their wives to Micronesia. A list of contributions..... Read More about The First Report of the Hawaiian Missionary Society, Presented by the Board of Directors at the...
Price: $2,500
[Honolulu]: [1830]. "The text of this was drawn up in Boston just prior to the departure of the first American Protestant missionaries to Hawaii. Although issued without an imprint or colophon, it can be dated to 1830. The last signatories on this are those of the Third Company of missionaries..... Read More about Constitution of the Original Hawaiian Church
Price: $1,750
![Item #332948 [The Kings of Hawaii] [full-page wood engraved plate within the Feb. 1, 1876 issue...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/332948.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690411129)
Honolulu: February 1, 1876. "The illustrations accompanying this number of the Friend we could wish were better executed. The plate was made in New York, from the best photographs we could procure in Honolulu. The original of Kamehameha 1st was executed in 1817 by a Russian artist, who accompanied Kotzebue..... Read More about The Kings of Hawaii] [full-page wood engraved plate within the Feb. 1, 1876 issue of The Friend
Price: $450
Hartford: William S. Marsh, 1820. First edition. The First African-American Ordained Minister Preaches on a Wrongful Conviction. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1753 to a white woman and a black man, Lemuel Haynes was adopted by Deacon David Rose. He received a formal education, and following service as a...... Read More about Mystery Developed; or, Russell Colvin, (Supposed to Be Murdered,) in Full Life: and Stephen and...
Price: $3,750
Holly Springs, Miss: August 17, 1894. UNRECORDED. Small broadside or handbill circular letter from school President Charles E. Libby notifying community members that the school is preparing to open "with better facilities than ever for good thorough work" and further asking recipients "Will you please make a special effort to..... Read More about Rust University, Holly Springs, Mississippi 17 August 1894. Dear Brother: Rust University opens...
Price: $1,250
New York: Macmillian Company, September 1932. Signed and inscribed by the photographer on the front flyleaf, “Lewis W. Hine, To Dr. Charles C. Adams who started me on the right economic road. 1/10/39”. Read More about Men At Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines
Price: $10,000
Boston: W. B. Clarke Company, 1908. Extra-Illustrated. An engaging history of this controversial Revolutionary war officer, chiefly remembered for being the first to finger Benedict Arnold. Originally presented as an address to the Fort Rensselaer chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Scarce. Read More about Colonel John Brown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold. An Address...
Price: $500
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Robert Aitken, 1784. First edition. Important Description of West Florida. One of the most valuable works on Florida and Louisiana in the Revolutionary period. Hutchins (1730–89) was an officer in the British Army during the French and Indian War who later surveyed..... Read More about An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West-Florida,...
Price: $6,000
Kansas City, MO: George Miller, Jr, [1898]. First edition. Rare Survival in Wrappers. The extensive proceedings of one of the most famous western outlaw trials. "The complete record of the trial, with testimony, addresses to the jury, and the pleas of the attorneys" (Six-Guns). Also published in cloth, copies in..... Read More about Trial of Frank James for Murder. With Confessions of Dick Liddil and Clarence Hite and History of...
Price: $750
Philadelphia: Printed for Childs and Swaine, 1793. First edition. Jefferson's Commerce Report, His Last as Secretary of State. This important report on the commerce of the United States was the last report made by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State, transmitted to the House of Representatives on Dec. 16, 1793..... Read More about Report of the Secretary of State, on the Privileges and Restrictions of the Commerce of the...
Price: $9,500
Fort Lincoln, Kansas: June 18, 1867. A strong content letter by a western settler in the post-war period: "... Geo. & I returned from our long journey last evening safe and sound which will allay mother's apprehensions. We traveled between 900 and 1000 miles through all kinds of country boundless..... Read More about Autograph letter signed, to his sister Phebe, with a detailed account of travels across the...
Price: $1,250
Lecompton, Kansas Territory: July 11, 1858. On the Events of Bleeding Kansas. The letter begins by updating Denver on reports from Major Sherman and Captain Weaver before turning to events in the territory: "The Territory appears quiet and your resignation is deprecated by all parties. Calhoun still withholds the certificates..... Read More about Autograph letter signed, to territorial Governor James W. Denver in Washington, in the midst of...
Price: $2,000
Philadelphia: Benjamin C. Bacon, 1866. One of two apparently simultaneous editions of this forceful argument against segregation in Philadelphia in the early days following the Civil War. Significant agitation in favor of desegregation of street car transportation, something which had been effected in New York in 1861, began in Philadelphia..... Read More about Why Colored People in Philadelphia are Excluded from the Street Cars
Price: $2,500
Hartford: Plimpton Print, [circa 1885]. In 1832, noted Canterbury, Connecticut schoolmaster Prudence Crandall admitted a young African American woman to her all white school. After refusing to rescind the acceptance upon pressure from the community, the white parents withdrew their children from the school. In response, Crandall opened an all..... Read More about Connecticut's Canterbury Tale. Its Heroine Prudence Crandall, and its Moral for To-day
Price: $500
Chicago: The Chicago Record Co, 1897. "Souvenir Edition" stamped in gilt on upper cover. Bright Copy in the Very Rare in Dust Jacket. "The Chicago Record newspaper published what is arguably the best known of all the Klondike guidebooks. The advertising matter in the back of the volume proudly narrates..... Read More about Klondike. The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers
Price: $3,500
Paris: Ladvocat, 1819. First edition, first issue. Texas Rarity. An important early Texas work recording the abortive colony of exiled Napoleonic loyalists established on the Trinity River in 1818, here in original, unsophisticated condition. Along with accounts by Hartmann & Millard and the anonymous "C.D.," this work comprises one of..... Read More about Le Champ-D'Asile, Tableau Topographique et Historique du Texas
Price: $9,500
Wheeling, VA: David & M'Carty, 1825. First Wheeling edition. Published in West Virginia during Lafayette's Tour. First published in Philadelphia in 1824, the present edition no doubt published in Wheeling during Lafayette's tour (he visited Wheeling in May 1825). Very rare in commerce. Read More about An Authentic Biography of General La Fayette. In which many errors and deficiencies existing in...
Price: $1,750
Ogdensburgh [N.Y.]: Published by J.C. Sprague, 1855. First edition, likely a presentation copy to the publisher inscribed on the front blank "To my good friend/Sprague/From the Author/Nov. 1855." INSCRIBED FROM AUTHOR TO PUBLISHER. An important overland narrative and a significant early account of Gold Rush life. "This account is acclaimed..... Read More about Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines: or a Diary Kept upon the Overland Route to...
Price: $1,250
New York: April 15, 1865. The full eight-page edition, published between the time Lincoln was shot and his death a few hours later. Read More about The New-York Times ... April 15, 1865 ... Awful Event. President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin. The...
Price: $4,500
[Springfield, IL]: [May 1865]. President Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865. His body lay in state in the White House on April 18 and a ceremonial funeral service took place in Washington, D.C. around noon on April 19. Two days later, President Lincoln's casket was loaded on a funeral..... Read More about Obsequies of President Lincoln. Order of Funeral Procession
Price: $10,000
[Portland]: [1881]. First edition. Read More about Sketches of an Excursion to Southern Alaska
Price: $200
Philadelphia: [1801]. America Looks to the Future: An Unusual Early American Perpetual Calendar. The Explanation running arount the outer border of the lower portion of the Calendar details its use: "Intersect the Column of the Month by the circle in which the Year stands & the Day you there find..... Read More about Calendar for the Nineteenth Century
Price: $1,500
Boston: Benjamin Edes & Sons, 1780. The John Carter Brown Copy. Final version of the first Massachusetts state constitution, a document of capital importance in the framing of subsequent state constitutions and the United States Constitution as well. A slightly more radical constitution was proposed in 1778 which, for example..... Read More about A Constitution or Frame of Government, Agreed upon by the Delegates of the People
Price: $3,000
[Braintree or Boston]: [mostly circa 1650s-1760s]. Two documents, undated but likely from the mid-17th century, are believed to be in the hand of Richard Brackett (with one signed by Brackett and the other signed by Samuel Bass [John Adams's great-great-grandfather], Martin Sanders, Steven Kingsley, James Penniman and William Allis), dated..... Read More about Small group of documents relating to the founding of Braintree and a legal dispute concerning the...
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Wilbraham, Mass: [1763 to ca. 1774]. Attribution to Merrick is based on comparison to sermon notes in the Finley letters at Ohio Weslyan University (https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/829/). In addition, the verso of the final manuscript includes the following note: "Simeon Chaffe and his wife Desires the Prayers of this Congregation to God..... Read More about Autograph manuscript, being notes for sermons
Price: $1,250
![Item #346510 Partly-printed document signed by Monroe, appointing John Coulter [i.e. Coalter],...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/346510.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690412724)
Richmond, VA: July 29, 1800. Election of 1800. The Election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the Revolution of 1800, was a significant moment in American political history, being the first election in which the power of the Federal government transferred from one party (John Adams's Federalists) to the other..... Read More about Partly-printed document signed by Monroe, appointing John Coulter [i.e. Coalter], William...
Price: $2,500
[St. Paul, MN]: [ca. 1910]. Likely created around the time of the opening of Glacier National Park, as Brown's Photo Craft produced promotional materials for the Great Northern Railway. Read More about Pair of seated portraits of Native Americans, likely members of the Piegan Blackfeet
Price: $1,000
![Item #365586 [Curly Bear, Chief of the Piegan Blackfeet, bust portrait seated in profile]. Native...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/365586.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691010305)
[Montana]: [ca. 1900]. "Relatively little is known about Fred R. Meyer (1874-1939), but from his photographic record it is clear that he was an amateur photographer who traveled extensively throughout the western United States, particularly in Montana and North Dakota possibly from 1890 to 1915. A handful of his Montana..... Read More about Curly Bear, Chief of the Piegan Blackfeet, bust portrait seated in profile
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[Newark, NJ]: 1804-1822. The initial entries from the summer of 1804 are largely recording his costs of boarding, followed by an accounting cabinet making done for Caleb Bruen, a cabinetmaker and distiller in Newark. This included the building of picture frames, trunk boxes, a portable desk, a bedstead, dining table..... Read More about Manuscript account book kept by Newark carpenter and cabinetmaker Aaron Ogden, recording sales...
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New York: June 12, 1827. The cartographer of this map, Edwin Smith, was appointed to the office of the City Surveyor in 1831. The map depicts the region with landowners named, including William James, James Patten, Robert Halliday, S. Thompson, Alexander Knox and J. Hazlet. Interestingly, the map shows the..... Read More about Manuscript map of Greenwich Village, from West 11th Street to West 15th Street, from Hudson...
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New York: Pudney & Russell, 1850. OCLC records only the New York Historical Society copy. Read More about By-laws of the Fifteenth Ward Hose Company, Stationed at No. 199 Mercer Street between Bleeker...
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[New York?]: [ca. 1864]. At a time when overland travel remained slow and costly, the fastest and most inexpensive way to transport people from New York to San Francisco was by steamboat to Central America, a brief trip over the Isthmus, and then by boat again to California. The route..... Read More about Charter of the Central American Transit Company, by special law of the State of New Jersey
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Philadelphia: Printed by R. Folwell, for Benjamin Franklin Bache, [1797]. First American edition. First American Edition of Paine's Proposal for a National Fund, a Forerunner of Today's Social Security Administration. On the title-page, Paine states plainly the objectives of his National Fund: "To Pay every Person, when arrived at the..... Read More about Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly; Being a Plan for Meliorating...
Price: $3,750
Cambridge, [Massachusetts]: Printed by William Hilliard for Cambridge University, 1802. First Edition of the first Hebrew lexicon printed in America. Read More about A Compendious Hebrew Lexicon, Adapted to the English Language, and Composed Upon A New Commodious...
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[New York]: 1895-1898. A mugshot gallery of criminals created by the Pinkerton agency for the use of banks across the country. Commissioned by the American Banker's Association for the use of its members, the volume was issued with 180 mugshots and descriptions and with the remaining as a partially blank..... Read More about American Banker's Association. Book of Photographs. Descriptions. General Information
Price: $3,750
[Princeton]: October 7, 1784. An 18th century record of membership in the the oldest college literary and debating club in the United States. Read More about Manuscript vellum document signed, a certificate of membership in the American Whig Society...
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London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Millan, 1765. First Edition. Classic Account of the French and Indian War. First edition of this classic narrative of the French and Indian War. Rogers acted as a scout for the 1755 expedition against Crown Point, and in 1756 became captain..... Read More about Journals of Major Robert Rogers: Containing an Account of the several Excursions he made under...
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Philadelphia: Pictorial Bureau of the Press, 1888. First edition. Presentation copy by McCulloch's brother. Life of a Famous Texas Ranger. A scarce biography of the "most famous Texas Ranger," according to Howes. Ben McCulloch went to Texas from Tennessee with Davy Crockett (his neighbor growing up in Dyersburg), fought in..... Read More about The Life and Services of Gen. Ben McCulloch
Price: $5,000
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1853-1856. One of the most important and massive works concerning indigenous Americans, a foundation stone of ethnological studies in America, and by far the most extensive single work on the subject issued in the 19th century. Schoolcraft, the general editor, was commissioner of Indian Affairs..... Read More about Information, Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United...
Price: $2,750
Hancock: Josiah Tallcott, Junior, 1813. The second printing of the first Shaker hymnal (the first edition of 1812 is very scarce). Read More about Millennial Praises, Containing a Collection of Gospel Hymns, in Four Parts; Adapted to the Day of...
Price: $1,200
Baltimore: Yundt and Patton, 1793. "When the anti-slavery movement began to organize nationwide petitioning campaigns Sharp was at the forefront. The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was founded in 1787. When its London committee was set up on 22 May 1787 he was one of its twelve..... Read More about Letter of Granville Sharp, Esq., of London, to the Maryland Society for Promoting the Abolition...
Price: $4,750
Philadelphia: J. L. Smith, 1899. A detailed map with an inset table giving a list of colliers in operation with their outputs. Read More about General Map of the Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania and Adjoining Counties Showing the...
Price: $550
New York: William A. Davis, No. 26, Moore Street, for the Author, 1797. First Edition. The author was a captain of artillery during the American Revolution under Gen. John Lamb, who provides herein a recommendation for the book. William Rollinson, a line and stipple engraver in New York, executed the..... Read More about A System for the Discipline of the Artillery of the United States of America, or, the Young...
Price: $2,750
Boston: Printed by David Carlisle for Joseph Nancrede, 1801. First edition. Sullivan (1744-1808) was a leading jurist and politician in Massachusetts, serving on its supreme court, practicing as one of the state's leading lawyers, and acting as attorney general from 1790 to 1796. He became governor in 1807 and died..... Read More about A Dissertation upon the Constitutional Freedom of the Press in the United States of America. By...
Price: $4,500
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1871. Scarce, with six examples located by OCLC and no copies in the auction records for the last half century. The Texas & Pacific Railroad was organized in March 1871 to build a southern transcontinental route from Marshall, Texas to San Diego, California. The present..... Read More about Report Made to the President and Executive Board of the Texas Pacific Railroad
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New York: Powell and Co, 1865. A photographic montage featuring portraits (mostly from Mathew Brady's studio) of Lincoln, Vice President Hamlin, and the 157 senators and congressmen who voted to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. The man in the center of the montage is Schuyler Colfax, the journalist and..... Read More about Photomontage of Lincoln, Hamlin and the Congressmen who passed the thirteenth amendment,...
Price: $1,750
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1891. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Ninth Series, XI-XII. Rare separately-issued offprint of an early work by Turner on the fur trade, preceding his famed frontier thesis. The work began as his master's thesis, presented before the State Historical Society of..... Read More about The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin
Price: $450
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
Price: $6,500
Whitehall: November 30, 1694. On The Northern Neck Proprietary. Written to Virginia colonial governor Andros, in the present letter Lord Shrewsbury grants his support to Thomas Fairfax for his 1689 claim on nearly 5,000,000 acres of land between the heads of the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers, known as the Northern..... Read More about Colonial Governor Edmund Andros's retained copy of a manuscript letter sent to him from Lord...
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Philadelphia: April 2 to December 30, 1812. Among the newspaper extras is one dated June 18, 1812 on the Declaration of war. The following extra covers the June 20 attack by an angry mob on the offices of the Federal Republican in Baltimore for the newspaper's anti-war stance. A Federalist..... Read More about United States Gazette for the Country [Bound volume of semiweekly issues from April to December 1812
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New Orleans: [Bradford & Anderson], 1807. The Farewell Address for Louisiana Territory. A very scarce early New Orleans imprint, attributed to the press of Bradford & Anderson by both McMurtrie and Jumonville on the basis of typography. This is sometimes found bound with Acts Passed at the Second Session of..... Read More about Farewell Address, of General Geo. Washington, to the People of the United States
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Newcastle: J. Mort ... And sold for the Benefit of the North Staffordshire Ladies Anti-Slavery Society, 1828. Second edition. "The object of this compilation is to give a general notion of the condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies" (Advertisement), particularly relating to the harsh conditions of the West..... Read More about British Slavery Described
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[Philadelphia]: [Childs and Swaine], 1794. In 1791, as part of Alexander Hamilton's economic program, the Federal government issued a tax on distillers of whiskey. After several years of tension and hardships faced by farmers on Pennsylvania's western frontier (for whom whiskey was a principal source of income), violence began spreading..... Read More about Third Congress of the United States ... An Act directing a Detachment from the Militia of the...
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