Philadelpia: C. & A. Conrad, 1809. Octavo. Quarter Leather. 400pp. Backed in contemporary red sheep with marbled paper covered boards; textblock is untrimmed (generous margins) and is a bit larger than the boards making this appear to be a publisher’s.....
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New York | Richmond: West, Johnston & Co. | Published by the Society, [1881-1882]. Half Leather. A sammelband of four Richmond imprints, on early American history, or proceedings of historical societies. Contemporary owner’s name on the front endpaper, of Dr.....
![Item #286572 [AUTOGRAPH ALBUM] LYDIA A. EDWARDS. 1870-1880’s](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/286572.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591217940)
A small autograph album (8 cm. x 12.5 cm.) belonging to Lydia A. Edwards, who name is penned floridly on the silk moire endpaper. Most of the autographs are signed without comment, with the name of some Florida locale (though.....
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;.....
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.....
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1842, 1843, 1844, 1846. Octavo. Half Leather. 15 different 19th century magazine's bound together: 6 issues of THE SYMBOL AND ODD-FELLOW'S MAGAZINE [Vol. III, No. IV, June 1844; Vol. III, No. VIII, Oct. 1844; Vol. IV, No. VII, July 1845;.....
![Item #291599 [BROADSIDE] MEMORIAL BROADSIDE PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/291599.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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.....
![Item #296390 [CALIFORNIA] [EPHEMERA] SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION BULLETIN. VOL. I, No. 5](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296390.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670198574)
[San Diego Exposition News Pub. Co.], 1915. Soft Cover. Stapled magazine; in printed wrappers; [1], 26 pages; “An Independent Journal Containing Reliable Information About the Panama-California Exposition and Devoted to the Interests of the Stockholder, Homeseeker and Tourist”.~~With advertisements, and.....
![Item #294779 [CHRISTMAS PARTY] [MAD MEN] MEMCO 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/294779.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638749002)
Self-published. Four 8vo; in comb bindings with printed card stock covers; each booklet approximately 8 pages printed only on the rectos, and with two photographs of Christmas jollity; other than the covers, there is no text.~~Though we would love to.....
New York: David H. Gildersleve, 1887. An early issue of The Eccentric, the yearbook of the Stevens Institute of Technology, published by the students there. The first volume was issued in 1874.~~Worn leather binding with titling stamped in silver; with.....
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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. Hard Cover. Quarto; in government issued blue cloth binding; 5 Volumes of hearings in 1912, bound together, and numbered sequentially; 1290 pages in total. With call numbers on the spine, and a rudimentary pocket at.....
Nashville, Tenn. The Illustrated Youth and Age, 1899. Soft Cover. First Edition. First Edition of Governor Taylor’s Love Letters to the Public, with in text illustrations throughout. Previous owner’s name and staining to the front cover, else no marks. Printed.....
New York: 1910. Octavo. Hard Cover. A handsome, bright copy with no markings of any kind; sound binding with only very light edgewear. Binding protected in a hand cut mylar cover.
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A handbill from 1818 promoting the candidacy of one Penrose Robinson, who was seeking to be elected Sheriff of York County, Pennsylvania. Robinson was a prominent local merchant. The handbill has been trimmed, affecting the border but not, we believe.....
San Jose [New York]: J. Winchester, State Printer, 1850. Half Leather. First Edition. First Edition of the Journal of the Senate of the State of California. The record of the first session of the newly incorporated State of California, 1850.....
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[Richmond, Virginia]: [1950]. Stapled Pamphlet. An uncommon history of Richmond’s Dove Lodge, produced by members for the celebration of its centennial. “Much of what is written of the first fifty years is taken from an historical address delivered by Past.....
1920. Hard Cover. The January through September issues of The Mississippi A&M Forum, Volume II, 1920. With detailed information about the college, and statistics from the post World War I era. With a few namestamps on the preliminaries, bookplate on.....
M. C. Spaulding. Hard Cover. Previous owner's name written at top of title page. No pencil or ink markings in text. Maroon cloth binding with gilt lettering. Boards are soiled. Small tears and closed tears at top and bottom of.....
New York: Harry D. Copp, [1939]. Soft Cover. A pocket guide book for New York and the World’s Fair, in 1939. With a folding map of the World’s Fair. Housed in the publisher’s paper sleeve.
New York: Printed and Published by John Bull, 1796. Half Leather. The complete first year of John Bull’s New-York Weekly Magazine. Published from July 1795 to June 1797, this being Volume I, covering July 1795 to June 1796. With literary.....
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Newport: Rousmanier & Barber, 1811. With lengthy address by Timothy Pickering who had been in a Senator from Massachusetts as a member of the Federalist Party, and was censured in 1811 for breach of confidence. In the address Pickering attempts.....
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Dating from December of 1954, this assemblage of material is together in a comb binding. It consists of (1) a typed letter from Edwin Conklin from ABC News to O. W. Reigel Curator for the Alfred I. duPont Awards Fellowship.....
San Francisco: John H. Carmany & Company, 1872. Half Leather. Volume IX only of The Overland Monthly, a San Francisco periodical active in the heyday of the city’s expansion. With selections of poetry, literature, and essays of many sorts, including.....
![Item #284120 [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] 1870’s. THOMAS FAMILY. OHIO](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/284120.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591217187)
Philadelphia: William M. Harding, [1870’s]. A deeply embossed morocco photograph album with clasps; all edges gilt and gauffered. Sadly, a number of the mounts are torn and with loss at the bottom. The album is about half full, with approximately.....
Dover, Delaware: Printed by James Kirk, 1863. Original Sewn Wrappers. First Edition. A report on potential military interference in the Delaware general election of 1862, published just after the announcement of the Emancipation. The Democratic party elected officials of Delaware.....