[Mainly Chicago, Il. 1948-1975]. Spiral-bound sketchbook, with nineteen full-page sketches, some in color and some in pencil, 12 x 9 inches; plus a finished color painting on art board, 14 x 9.75 inches; twenty-eight photographs, 3 x 3 inches to 8 x 10 inches; fourteen printed art exhibition catalogues; and..... More

Nagano: Shinano Overseas Colony, 1927. [2],3,[1],6,316,[2]pp., plus seven folding leaves reproducing calligraphy, fifty-two pages of inserted halftone portraits, and five folding maps (one quite large) printed in two colors. Original cream cloth printed with a map of South America on front cover. In original printed cardboard slipcase. Noticeable but faint..... More

Mexico City: Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1715. [24]pp. 12mo. Contemporary plain wrappers, sewn. Small stain to upper margin of first leaf, light foxing. Two pairs of leaves not wholly opened along top edge. An attractive and quite scarce early Mexican novena produced by the noted Mexico City printer Francisco de..... More

[N.p., probably Boston: ca. 1887]. [8]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor dust-soiling and edge wear, soft vertical crease throughout. Internally clean. An apparently unrecorded prospectus for Woodward Underground Telephone and Telegraph Company, an early New England telephone service provider that proposed underground lines between various cities in Massachusetts and New..... More

Washington, D.C. Gales & Seaton, December 4, 1828. 4pp., folio, in bound volume of forty-seven issues, all 4pp., dated between August 13 and December 30, 1823. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Front board detached, spine mostly perished, rear board holding by one stitch. Occasional toning, spotting, and edge wear..... More

Habana: 1943. Broadside, 8.75 x 6 inches. Minor toning, creasing and foxing, date stamp and pencil markings to upper corner, a few short closed edge tears. A rare Yiddish language broadside published in Havana, Cuba, announcing a meeting of Jewish youth to be held at the Centro Israelita De Cuba..... More

[Tulsa, Ok. 1924]. 23pp., plus halftone portrait frontispiece and a plate reproducing a letter by S.J. Soldani at rear. Original red pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor rubbing to front wrapper, small bump to bottom edge of rear wrapper. Internally clean. A rare pamphlet containing the proceedings and a fair amount of..... More

Nueva York: Imprenta de Hallet y Breen, 1870. Two volumes: xvi,576; [2],488,vii pp., plus engraved portrait frontispiece and one additional plate in volume one. Original green pebbled cloth, blindstamped boards, spines stamped in gilt. Small shelf label on each spine. Minor edge wear, spine ends a bit frayed, corners worn..... More

Montgomery, Al. 1958. [92]pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Quarto. Original textured wrappers, printed in blue and gilt, stapled. Moderate soiling and minor edge wear. Some foxing to initial and terminal leaves, but mostly clean internally. An unrecorded souvenir program from the seventy-fifth annual convention of the Alabama State Teachers Association..... More

[Nelson County, Ky. 1792]. [1]p., docketed on verso, on a quarto sheet. Old folds, minor edge wear. A manuscript survey document for a 6,000 acre tract near the confluence of Blackford Creek (a tributary of the Ohio River) and the North Fork in Nelson County, Kentucky. The text details the..... More

Lexington, Ky. August 16, 1884. [1]p., on Southern Exposition pictorial letterhead. Quarto. Very minor edge wear. A unique manuscript letter written by the fifth Bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Isaac Lane (1834-1937). The main thrust of Lane's letter, written while he was attending the 1884 Southern Exposition in..... More

[Mainly Georgia and Tennessee: ca. 1896-1897]. 102 miniature cabinet card photographs, each 1.75 x 2 inches, each mounted on card measuring 2 x 3 inches, all sequentially numbered 1-105 (with no #44, 62, 98, or 100, but with an additional image numbered 51 1/2) and all but five with short..... More

Baltimore: Published by John F. Weishampel, Jr., [1859]. 86,[4]pp., including two engraved plates. Original brown cloth decoratively blindstamped, with gilt titles on front cover. Minor edge wear and moderate staining to boards, spine ends scuffed. Occasional foxing to text. The rare first edition of Reverend Noah Davis's redemptive autobiographical "emancipation..... More