Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1897. Royal Octavo. Hard Cover. First Edition. 638pp. Rare; copiously illustrated with black and white photos of prominent citizens; no pencil or ink markings evident in text; black leather binding, light edge wear to extremities;..... More
Richmond: E. Thompson Baird, 1874. Hard Cover. Engraved frontispiece. Foxing throughout, and two leaves with small chips to the fore edge, not affecting the text. Contemporary inscription on the front endpaper in pencil. Minor shelfwear and sunning to the binding..... More
New-Haven: Peck & Newton, 1833. Soft Cover. Reprint of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine for January, 1833. With seven short stories. Namestamp and owner’s name on the front wrapper; minor foxing; edgewear and some creasing. Printed paper wrappers. Good. More
![BLUE BOOK OF MODEL RAILROAD PRACTICE [WITH] SPECIAL HANDBOOK SERIES](/pictures/thumb/292106.JPG?v=1598304685)
The Blue Book is in a binder with several issues of Model Railroader’s Special Handbook Series. The sections included in this Blue Book are: Benchwork; Track Measurements and Elements; Electrical; Locomotives; Cars; Bridges & Structures; Scenery; Painting & Finishing; Special..... More
Chicago, New York, Toronto: Bauer & Black, [1908]. Early 20th century bunion plasters, advertised to drifters and families alike. Trifold instructional pamphlet, with advertisements in color and polyglot instructions. With two of the bunion plasters in their original packaging. Held..... More
St. Louis: Heine Safety Boiler Co., [1919?]. Original Wrappers. With a frontispiece of Plant No. 1 in St. Louis, and a splendid folded color plate of a Heine Boiler as set with Stoker of the Forced Draft Underfeed type. A...... More
Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the University, 1777. Full Leather. Two volumes bound together for Clarissa Oliver, with her initials stamped at the center of the boards, and her nameplate, with chipping to the edges..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860. Full Leather. A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads. With floral borders to the text, numerous engraved illustrations, frontispiece, and additional title page, illustrated with black, gray, and gilt. Scattered foxing. Contemporary inscription on..... More
Saml. Gabriel. Quarto. Soft Cover. “Linenette”; edgeworn, but a sound copy. More
![BOOKPLATE] [US ATTORNEY GENERAL] BENJAMIN B. BREWSTER. BOOKPLATE](/pictures/thumb/294449.JPG?v=1633536490)
3 11/16” x 2 7/16”; the armorial bookplate of Benjamin H. Brewster, member of an old New England family and politician who was appointed Attorney General of the United States by Chester Arthur in 1881, serving in that office until..... More
An albumen photograph of a major snowstorm in February 1898, showing a most wintry view of the State House and Boston Common, and a very early image of the Park Street Subway stop. The Park Street Station was one of..... More
Philadelphia: Thomas T. Ash, 1835. 32mo. Full Leather. A gift book from 1835. The Bouquet, or Spirit of the English Annuals. Frontispiece. Lacking endpapers; scattered foxing; personal inscription on the recto of the frontispiece. Embossed calf, with a chipped leather..... More
![BRAZIL] [CHILDREN’S BOOK CATALOG] CATALOGO INFANTIL 1949](/pictures/thumb/294253.JPG?v=1630353731)
Sao Paulo | Rio de Janeiro; Brazil: Companhia Melhoramentos de Sao Paulo, [1949]. Stapled Pamphlet. 8vo.; in the publisher’s red and cream printed wrappers; 32 numbered pages; with “Indice” printed on the recto of the rear cover; the text is..... More
[Bremen]: Johann-Gunther Konig, 1995. Soft Cover. A miniature guidebook for Bremen, in pictorial wrappers.. 2 1/4” x 2 1/8”. More
Mt. Morris, IL: Brethren Publishing Co., 1897. Soft Cover. 80pp. Paper binding with very light edgewear at bottom spine and bottom corner front cover. Stapled at spine; no markings in text. More
New York | London: Thomas Nelson and Sons | S. W. Partridge and Co., c. 1880. 16mo. Hard Cover. Delightful glazed chromolithographic boards backed in maroon cloth. Illustrated throughout with black and white engraved images on the rectos of each..... More
Philadelphia: J. G. Brill Company, 1914. Octavo. Stapled Pamphlet. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Binding sound with minor closed tears to spine; covers mildly soiled; text is clean of markings; front picture of Springfield, Mass.; wonderful technical drawings, photographs, detailed plans..... More
![BROADSIDE | FLYER] STAR PARLOR ORGAN. 1870’s](/pictures/thumb/291377.JPG?v=1591220404)
Small broadside (9 14 x 6”) advertising the “Star Parlor Organ” -- “Equaled by Few” “Surpassed by None”. The Star Parlor Organ was manufactured in Washington, N.J. and and was being marketed sold through the Washington N.J. firm of Alleger..... More
![BROADSIDE; FRAMED] THE SOLDIER’S RECORD. 1861](/pictures/thumb/286733.JPG?v=1591218007)
New York: Currier & Ives, 1862. A framed color lithographic broadside, recording the Soldiers mustered into “United States Service, October 15, 1861”, comprising the Second Regiment, Company H, N. Y. Volunteer Artillery. Listing as Captain, Charles L. Smith, the officers..... More
![BROADSIDES] TWO POEMS PRINTED AT THE DESERT ROSE PRESS](/pictures/thumb/291335.JPG?v=1591220370)
Two attractive broadsides of poems printed at the Desert Rose Press in Galisteo, N.M. n.d.: 1. Solstice Hah! by Clifford, printed on heavy white paper against an abstract yellow ground “for our Circle of Friends”; 2. Skagit City by Georgia..... More
![BROADSIDE] DAS KLEINE VOLKSBLATT. INAUGURAL](/pictures/thumb/268400.JPG?v=1591215964)
Vienna: 1945. A “Wandzeitung” or “Wall-Newspaper” simultaneously promoting the reeemergence of “Das Kleine Volksblatt” and the newly formed Austrian People’s Party (or Osterreich Volkspartei).“Wandzeitung” were generally produced in quantity and affixed with glue to walls.~~The Kleine Volksblatt,or “The Little People’s..... More
![BROADSIDE] MEMORIAL BROADSIDE PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE](/pictures/thumb/291599.JPG?v=1592519684)
James D. McBride | Columbian Publishing Company, 1974. Centennial Memorial, 1776-1876. In Congress, July 4, 1776. Engraved broadside on rice paper, 19 1/2 x 13 1/2”; with folds, and minimal wear. With an inset advertisement at the lower right for..... More
![BROADSIDE] BOWINKEL’S ART STORE AND ART EXPORTATION](/pictures/thumb/286200.JPG?v=1591217790)
Naples: Bowinkel’s Art Store, [c. 1900]. A broadside advertising the Bowinkel Art Store and Art Exportation, Piazza dei Martiri 24-25, Naples. Established 1879, selling photographs, engravings, maps, vases, and other Italian art pieces and tourist items. Folded horizontally in four..... More
![BROADSIDE] COMMUNIST PARTY CANDIDATE](/pictures/thumb/268414.JPG?v=1591215965)
A political poster advocating the election of Judith LeBlanc as the Communist Party Candidate for the State Senate for the 1st Suffolk District in New York City.~~Judith Le Blanc is a long-term organizer for peace and social activism .Judith LeBlanc..... More
![BROADSIDE] STOP THE TERROR IN CHILE](/pictures/thumb/268412.JPG?v=1591215965)
The Young Workers Liberation League is the youth-oriented arm of the American Communist Party. Since 1922, the YWLL, despite undergoing various organizational changes, has taken aggressive and effectual action in a variety of contexts.~~Relatively recently, the YWLL led solidarity campaigns..... More