Monroe, N.Y. s.n., 1845. [approx. 120] p. book, with writing on the first half. Original calf back board. Attached is the official printed order to Samuel Pelcer, the collector of Monroe, for tax collection based on the assessment roll, with directions for the distribution of the collected money to the..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for the Committee, 1888. Paperback. 86 p., 6 leaves of engraved plates; 28 cm. Lacking wrapper. In observation of the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1787, a banquet was held by eight learned societies in Philadelphia: the University of Pennsylvania..... More
1825. 1 handwritten letter, dated Boston, 27 Nov. 1826, from Benjamin Rich & Sons, to Nathaniel Cushing & Co., Hanson, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Benjamin Rich & Sons are ordering from Nathaniel Cushing & Co. one anchor and one kedge for a new brig of Putnam and Pratt at Briggs yard..... More
Lancaster, Pa. Pennsylvania-German Society, 1908. Paperback. First published in 1893; reprinted 1908. 292 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of H.L. Fisher, 1 tissue-guarded leaf of a portrait of Geo. C. Heckman: 1 full-page illustration; 25 cm. Original brown wrapper printed in black. Title page printed in red and black. Pages are..... More
San Francisco: Bolerium Books, 1985. Paperback. 42 p.; 22 cm. Light grey card cover printed in blue; stapled. The inside of front and back covers are included in pagination. No date of publication. Lists 844 items relating to American labor history. In Near Fine Condition: clean and bright... More
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1935. Paperback. 18, [6] p.: illustrations, map; 21 cm. Green wrapper printed in black. Wrapper title: Ralegh's Roanoke Colony of 1585: A Guide to an Exhibition upon the Three Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary. In Good Condition: wrapper is slightly dusty with significant loss at fore-edge..... More
Philadelphia: Filadelfijas Brivo Latvju Biedribas, 1982. Paperback. 76 p.: illustrations, portraits; 28 cm. Stapled paperback with brown cover with silver cover title. The history of the Brivo Latvian Society in Philadelphia from 1892 to 1982. Known today as the Philadelphia Society of Free Letts, the Society is the oldest Latvian..... More
New York: Brooklyn Fire Department, 1890. Hardcover. 400 p.; 36 cm. Half calf with morocco-grain cloth over boards. The handwritten daily record book of Engine Co. No. 12 of the Brooklyn Fire Department. The list of members, with street addresses, attached to the front free endpaper names Stephen Allen as..... More
Miami Beach, FL: T. L. C. Genealogy, 1991. Paperback. [2], 89 p.; 28 cm. White comb binding with clear covers. Contains "detailed abstracts of all documents found in Bucks County Deed Book 5, including the names of all 1674 individuals mentions anywhere in the 229 documents in the deed book."..... More
Philadelphia: Evening Bulletin, 1948. Paperback. 576 p.: illustrations, tables, map; 20 cm. Paperback with front cover illustration of William Penn looking at a blueprint of Independence Hall, shown in the background; back cover has illustration of the Pep boys as babies riding an elephant in an advertisement for Cornell tires..... More
Washington, D.C. German Historical Institute, 2017. Paperback. 165, [11] p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Paperback with yellow cover. Publisher's advertisements on final unpaginated pages. Contents: Benchmark Europe: Liberalism and Cultural Nationalism in the United States, 1900-1930 by Adelheid von Saldern -- Liberalism and Cultural Nationalism in the United States, 1900-1930: A...... More
Washington, D.C. German Historical Institute, 2008. Paperback. vi, 144 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. Contents: Cosmopolitanism and Philanthropy in the Early American Republic by Amanda Bowie Moniz -- Anointing the "Uncrowned King of Ireland": Charles Stewart Parnell's 1880 American Tour and the Creation of a Transatlantic Land League Movement by..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901. Hardcover. Printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge. xliii, [1], 205, [1] p., engraved frontispiece; 24 cm. Brown linen spine with red spine title: "Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Catalogue of Authors." Brown paper over boards with paper label on front board printed in red and..... More
S.l. s.n., 1942. 1 sheet (38 x 28 cm.), printed in black on one side. "NE-Reg--9190 156" -- in upper left-hand corner. Stamped "Duplicate" in upper right-hand corner. Shows the interconnected Marbury, Hutchinson, Wentworth, and Rishworth families from the 16th and 17th centuries, with coats-of-arms. No date of publication; the..... More
Durham, N.C. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., 1943. Paperback. [8] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Printed in black and white. An advertisement for Chesterfield cigarettes and Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians. Includes photographs of Waring and various performers with the Pennsylvanians, as well as advertisements for Chesterfields. Among the performers profiled..... More
Cleveland, Ohio: Tarr Publishing Co., 1902. Paperback. 151, [1] p.: illustrated advertisements; 15 cm. Brown card covers printed in black, with "J.S. Pushaw," who has an advertisement inside the front cover as bookseller, news dealer, and stationer. Includes illustrated advertisements for Gustav Schaefer, buggies and wagons; Oscar Klotzbach, chiropodist; Dainz..... More
Concord, N.H. Printed by Asa McFarland, for the Society, 1850. Hardcover. 336 p., engraved frontispiece portrait of John Farmer: tables; 24 cm. Brown ribbon-grain cloth with blind-stamped decoration on spine and both boards. Gilt-stamped circular medallion on front board. Gilt-stamped spine title: New Hamphire Historical Collections. Oval stamp on title..... More
Boston: National Publishing Co., 1902. Map. Black pebble-grain cloth covers with gilt-stamped publisher's emblem on front cover. Attached accordian-style to color, folded, canvas-backed map (91 x 142 cm. [36 x 56 inches]); 13 x 27 cm. folded. Scale: 3 miles to an inch. Includes tables showing the population of Vermont..... More
New York: Crusader, 1957. 15, [1] p.: illustrations; 35 cm. Printed in black and red. Includes the program for the upcoming American Baptist Convention to be held in Philadelphia from May 29 to June 4, 1957. The cover photograph is of Tabea Korjus, a missionary for Christian Friendliness in New..... More
West Chester, PA: Daily Local News, 1874. [8] p.: illustrations; 47 cm. Printed in 5-column pages. Most of the newspaper concerns the murder of Winfield Scott Goss by William Udderzook following their involvement in insurance fraud. Udderzook's conviction rested on the novel use of a photograph to establish the identify..... More
1918. 1 real photo postcard showing the body of Quentin Roosevelt next to his wrecked plane. Quentin Roosevelt (1897-1917) was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a pilot during the First World War and was killed in aerial combat over France on July 14, 1918. The postcard..... More
New York: Pacific Coast Borax Co., 1935. Paperback. 24 p.: illustrations; 29 cm. Script is stapled and loose inside orange folder with exterior photograph of Boulder Dam and interior photographs of Radio City in Rockefeller Center, N.Y., and of Death Valley. The first page of the script bears facsimile signatures..... More
New York: The Common Good Foundation, 1981. Paperback. 139, [5] p.; 25 cm. Paperback. Contents: The Politics of Reindustrialization by William E. Connolly -- Reindustrialization: Brownfield or Greenfield? by Staughton Lynd -- Thatcherism by Michael Best and Jane Humphries -- In Defense of the State (II) by Philip Green --..... More
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly, 1820. Hardcover. "Printed for the Trustees of the Assembly by R.P. McCulloh." 391 p.: 1 form; 19 cm. Contemporary tree calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: The Assembly's Digest. Two paper labels..... More
New York: A. R. Keller, 1930. Hardcover. Second Edition. This is no. 112 of a limited edition of 2,000 copies. 250 p.; 18 cm. Publisher's red and black cloth with gilt-embossed spine title; gilt- and blind-embossed decoration on spine and front cover. Decorated endpapers. American Social Registry emblem on title..... More