"Colonization Rooms," Washington, D.C. August 29, 1844. [2]pp., with integral blank addressed on last page. Folio. Original mailing folds, light toning along one rear fold. An informative fundraising letter for Liberian land purchases and African-American emigration on behalf of the American Colonization Society and the African Repository, written in a...... More

New York: July 6, 1878. [1]p., on G.P. Putnam's Sons letterhead. Original mailing folds, pencil notation on verso. A short but informative letter sent by Irving Putnam of G.P. Putnam's Sons regarding a potential book order by Mr. L.B. Hildreth. Irving Putnam was one of three sons of George Palmer..... More

Nellore: March 17, 1871. Broadside, 8.25 x 5 inches. Old horizontal folds, minor toning. An unrecorded broadside calling a meeting of the General Committee of the Jaffna Auxiliary Bible Society (JABS) at the Wesleyan Mission House in Jaffna in March, 1871. The Jaffna Auxiliary Bible Society is an arm of..... More

New York: [New York Protestant Episcopal Press], 1829. Broadside, 10.5 x 9 inches. Old folds, foxing, creasing, and toning, with substantial but irregularly-trimmed margins. An unrecorded New York broadside advertising the opening of the New York Protestant Episcopal Press (NYPEP) and related activities at No. 46 Lumber Street in New..... More

Philadelphia: Universal Book and Bible House, 1913. [100]pp. Extensively illustrated. Original orange publisher’s cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Lightly sunned, corners bumped and lightly worn, lightly soiled. Light soiling and wear internally. Subscribers’ lists torn away at rear. Salesman’s sample of this work on doomsday calamities endured by various..... More

Philadelphia & Chicago: P.W. Ziegler & Co., 1898. [136]pp., in various paginations, plus forty plates and four blank subscription leaves. Original quarter sheep and stamped cloth. Spine somewhat worn, boards slightly scuffed; corners bumped, minor edge wear. Text block cracked and loosening. Contemporary ownership inscriptions in front endpapers. Light tanning..... More

Chicago: Coburn & Newman, 1882. Various paginations. Original red cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed, light soiling. Ownership inscription on front pastedown. Internally clean. A salesman's dummy for this life of the James Brothers, published hot on the heels of Jesse James' death. The work is..... More

San Publito, Puebla: August 10, 1978. [28]pp. Small quarto. Accordion-folded amate paper, with original wrappers and orange silk ties. Twenty-eight cut-out paper figures tipped in throughout, manuscript text accomplished in red ink, with the artist's signature in black on the front wrapper. Light fading to silk ties, scattered faint spotting..... More