Florida: 1890s. Five bromide photographs measuring 4 3/4" by 4" mounted on a 13 ¾ x 10 ¾ album leaf. Excellent contrast, near fine overall. A collection of five images showing scenes along the Ocklawaha river in the 1890s. The Ocklawaha had been a popular steamboat route in the nineteenth.....
New York: Late 1920s. First Edition. Gelatin silver print measuring 8 x 10 inches. Some editorial marks to verso, very good contrast, very good overall. The Dunbar Apartments were one of the first developments built for African-Americans, in a period in which there was a shortage of housing in Harlem.....
Boston: JE Farwell, 1863? Single sheet 16mo programs, double sided. Fine condition. Two programs for performances by Morris Brothers Pell and Trowbridge shows in Boston, advertising Saturday afternoon performances at their Opera House before the fire of 1864 which led to their move to St. Louis. The performances feature Thomas.....
Marysville: R.A. Eddy, 1851. First Edition. Lithograph by Justh, Quirot & Co. Illustration measuring 7 x 10 ½ inches on folded sheet measuring 8 ½ x 10 ⅞ folded. Fine condition. A striking lettersheet illustration of the conflagration in Marysville in 1851, which, according to the city of Marysville, originated.....
London: 1924. First Edition. Single sheet measuring 11 x 6 ½ inches with text to both sides. Near fine condition. Emma Goldman lived in the United Kingdom for two years beginning in September of 1924, a period in which she tried to revive her career as a lecturer and writer.....
London: Edmund Paxton, 1656. 8vo, contemporary calf, 359 (2) pp. Front board detached, binding split at center, text block complete and otherwise fine, good condition overall, unrestored. An uncommon work by Benjamin Woodbridge, the first graduate of Harvard University, written in response to William Eyre, which “promoted a science of.....
New York: 1910. First Edition. Album containing ten 6 x 8 inch photographs. Photographs near fine with one showing some foxing, some normal wear to album, very good or better. A collection of ten images of the Bushwick Hospital, which was located at 41 Howard Ave. in Brooklyn, taken shortly.....
Burdeos [Bourdeaux]: Carlos Lawalle Sobrino, 1832. 8vo, full calf, 598 [2] pp. Chips to head of spine, ex-libris stamp to preliminary page, text block fine, very good to near fine overall. A nice first edition copy of Tadeo Ortiz’s second historical work, written during his time as Consul in Bourdeaux.....
New York: Fisher and Brothers, 1851. 16mo, wraps, unpaginated. A few small holes to front wrap, fraying to spine, slight tanning, very good plus overall with a tight binding and bright contents. An uncommon songster with woodcut illustrations published in 1851, marking the likely first appearance of “Old Folks at.....
Mostly New England: Various Photographers, 1880s-1890s. Cabinet cards measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¼ inches. Various settings, showing the band members posed with their instruments including banjos, violins, trumpets, drum, and tubas. Varying wear, but generally very good with some normal age-related fading. Originally from Lawrenceville, New York, the Shepard.....
Providence: 1893 or 1899. First Edition. 4 pages, 12 x 9 1/4 inches, on one folding sheet; thin paper, light chipping at edges. A broadside advertising an appearance by Margaret Shepherd, a nativist speaker who passed as an ex-nun, lecturing prolifically on Catholicism and helping fuel nativist sentiment in the.....