Washington, [D.C.]: Duff Green, 1832. Printed self-wrappers newly bound in marbelized papers with a linen spine. The British report on steam carriages reprinted by the House of Representatives. From the era when Congress was actively interested in the development of.....

1906. Four mounted photographs from the Richmond funeral and interment of former Confederate States of America First Lady, Varina Davis. Davis died of pneumonia in her post-war home in New York City and honored with a funeral procession in her.....

[1848-1892]. Hard Cover. A collection of 19 Virginia pamphlets, published from the 1840’s to the early 1890s. Being three female college catalogues, nine ‘Proceedings’ of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Virginia, three issues of the ‘Educational Journal of Virginia,’ a......

A substantial scrapbook from the late 19th century, packed with chromolithographed advertising cards, die-cuts, and other pretty Victorian items. There are about 26 leaves -- measuring 13 12 x 10 12” -- with each side covered with cards. There are.....

Chicago, Illinois: 1933. Postcard from the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair showing Lillian Anderson, Queen of the Century of Progress Exposition. The 23 year old from Racine, Wisconsin won the beauty competition and is seen here in the “Home Planning Hall”.....

Boston: Thomas B. Wait, 1817. Full Leather. Second Edition. Volume 8 only of this 10 volume set; the Second Edition from 1817. In contemporary calf, with wear to the spine and a morocco label. There is an old paper name.....

Washington, DC: Highway Education Board, [1930]. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition of the Tours of the International Highway Engineers, October 1930. With photographic illustrations. A chronicle and travelogue of the international delegation of highway engineers, touring American infrastructure back.....

Koln: H. Siebenhar, c, 1900. Perhaps from the turn of the century, a Rheinpanorama, printed in blue with black and white, postcard-like photographic images of sites along the course of the Rhine. The Rhine Valley was a tourist mecca, and.....

Exeter: Henry Besley, circa 1850. Hard Cover. A New Edition. 24mo; original cloth with gilt decoration; 403 pages including the index; four folding maps or plans as called for, plus an additional folding plan of Torquay; illustrated with 26 steel.....

Chicago: Rand-McNally & Company, 1891. Map of Canada -- British America. 13 1/2” x 19 7/8”. Extracted from Rand-McNally & Co.’s Enlarged Business Atlas of 1891.

London: Baldwin & Cradock, c. 1830. A map of the city of Toulon, with an engraved panoramic view of the city at the bottom edge. Measuring about 14 x 16.5 in.

London: Baldwin & Cradock, c. 1830. A map of a few of the southern states, mainly Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, with hand colored borders. Measuring about 14 x 16.5 in.

New York: Rand-McNally, 1903. 19.25 x 26”; folding map; with a couple of small chips -- one to the top and the other to the bottom edge, neither affecting text or map; with an inset detailed “Map of the Valley.....