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Dubuque: Nonpareil Job Printing and Publishing House, 1858. 40pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Two frontis plates, "View of Dubuque, Iowa"; "Dubuque Female Seminary." Plate of 'Ward School House' at page 33. Closed tear [no loss] at pages 15-16. Light uniform toning. Good+. The pamphlet, the first of two editions, describes public lands available for purchase by… Read more about this item

Albany, New-York: Published by Luther Tucker, 1846. 8, 8, [2], [1]-72, 105-392 pp. Issues 1-2, 4-12, lacking issue No. 3. Scattered light to moderate spotting. Illustrations. Good+. Engraved bookplate of Maurice Robert Des Marais on front pastedown. The Cultivator was one of the "most prominent of the scores of periodicals devoted to farming, stock raising, horticulture and allied… Read more about this item

[Fredericktown, Ohio?, 1834. Folio broadside, 15" x 18-1/2." Printed in several bold type faces. Signed in type by Henry Gaddis, Jr., and dated March 12, 1834. Text and illustration surrounded by decorative border. The margins are chipped, intruding once into a portion of the border, but the text is unaffected. Vertical fold. Good+. The broadside features a large… Read more about this item

[np, 1800. Folio sheet folded to 8" x 9-3/4." Three pages of neat ink manuscript, final page blank. Chained paper with watermark "Munn & Simmons 1798". Split along main fold [no text involvement]. Very Good. Probably in Pettit's hand, this document traces land titles from the 1780s in Harrison County, Virginia. Some of the properties had been owned… Read more about this item

Griggsville, Illinois, 1840. Broadside, printed in bold type, 7-1/2" x 9-3/8." A couple of blank corner chips and small blank margin holes. Ink manuscript notations on the otherwise blank verso. A remarkable survival. Very Good. Griggsville is a little town in Pike County, between the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, in west central Illinois. We are not surprised that… Read more about this item

Auburn, (N.Y.): Printed by David Rumsey, 1819. Original sheep [some rubbing]. [2], 320, [1- errata], [1 blank] pp. Folding frontis Map of the United States. Some spotting to endpapers, else light scattered foxing and toning. The map is lightly toned. Except as noted, Very Good, with contemporary ownership signature of Eliza Remintor. "An important account of the early… Read more about this item

New York: George W. Southwick, 1871. Original printed wrappers [worn, spotted, blank extremity chips], bound into modern cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine title. 40pp. Outer margins spotted, especially the final ten pages. The rear wrapper advertises the Chicago and Northwestern Railway as "the Pioneer Line between Chicago and Omaha and the direct route from the East to Colorado." Good… Read more about this item

New York: Samuel N. Gaston, 1857. 7" x 7.5". 56 hand-colored maps and charts, including engraved title page, additional in-text illustrations. Contemporary calf, front hinge starting, inner hinge cracked]. Smooth spine gilt with gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. Extra-illustrated title page ['Morse & Gaston's Diamond Atlas']. vi, [7]-239, [1] pp, plus maps and charts. The final page [240] is… Read more about this item

New Orleans: Printed at the Job Office of "The Daily Delta., 1851. [36- advertisements], [xvi], 232 pp + unpaginated advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled red boards [front cover stamped in gilt], rebacked. Leaf 225-226 spotted and worn. Many advertisements from local establishments. Except as noted, Very Good. The title page is preceded by many advertisements from area merchants in this… Read more about this item

New York: 112 Broadway, 1845. Folio broadside, 8" x 12-5/8." A few light spots; blank upper margin lightly worn [a closed tear, no loss]. Very Good. This rare broadside explains, to immigrant settlers and to land owners, the utility of Moulton's newly established Agency. Moulton was a New York lawyer who "retired to Roslyn and devoted himself entirely… Read more about this item

New Orleans: Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Job Office, 1867. 60, [25- advertisements], [3 blanks] pp. Original printed yellow wrappers [some extremity chipping]. Originally stitched, now loosened. Illustration on rear wrapper: 'Front Entrance, Gentilly Road]. Several institutional stamps, scattered foxing and dusting. The final [25] pages are advertisements from various commercial enterprises, mostly from New Orleans. Good+. The… Read more about this item

Milwaukee: Cramer, Aikens & Cramer, Printers, 1888. 32 pp. Original pink printed title wrappers [detached but present, front wrapper's upper blank corners chipped]. Rear wrapper is a "Condensed Map of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Dakota." Illustrated with 7 full-page engraved plates [including a map]. Text clean with original staple,… Read more about this item

Omaha, Neb.: Republican Printing House, 1882. 16pp, stitched in original printed wrappers, with wrapper title as issued. Light scattered spotting, short closed upper margin tear throughout [through the running title, but no loss of text]. Else Very Good. The pamphlet prints detailed information, garnered "from personal interviews with farmers at their homes," about "homes in Western Nebraska,… Read more about this item

[Cincinnati]: Published by the Cincinnati Gazette Co., 1870. Original printed, illustrated and decorated wrappers, stitched. 108pp. One chip at a blank margin, Near Fine. Pages 1-12 consist of advertisements, primarily for Cincinnati merchants, followed by an enormous amount of information on a variety of matters. The Gazette celebrates the Republican Party, which "has now been in power ten… Read more about this item

Northampton: Printed at the Gazette Office, 1843. 20pp. Stitched, lightly dusted, Very Good. The Convention expresses "strong confidence in the ultimate triumph of the silk cause in this country." Edward Dickinson of Amherst, the Treasurer of Amherst College and father of Emily Dickinson, was President of the Convention. Animated discussions of silk worms and silk are printed. … Read more about this item

[Racine? Virginia City?, 1880. Broadside, 8.5" x 11". Brilliant illustration of the Mitchell Wagon in red and green colors, at the head of the broadside. The name and address of the Buford Company of Virginia City, Montana, Agents for the Mitchell Wagon, are in red type. Printed with different typesettings. The broadside lists nine reasons for buying the Mitchell… Read more about this item

New York: American Bureau of Mines, 1866. 44pp, stitched. Original printed wrappers [front wrapper detached but present]. Else Very Good. A Report, by Thomas Egleston on behalf of the American Bureau of Mines, on the topography of Omaha; the Platte and its tributaries and their valleys; the geology of the Nebraska Territory; bluffs, drifts, boulders, climate, soil, formation… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Publie par le Departement D'Agriculture, 1875. Original printed front wrapper, stitched. 39, [1 blank] pp. Folding lithographed 'Map of Canada and Part of the United States, 1874' [with rail routes]. Light foxing throughout, with wrapper chipped along spine and blank corners. Good+. At head of title: 'Seconde Edition Revisee et Augmentee.' The pamphlet, preceded by the 1874… Read more about this item

[England], 1735. Elephant folio, 24-1/2" x 30-1/2". Completely in ink manuscript on stiff vellum, some words written in larger lettering or bolder print. Bottom edge folded up and held with five red wax seals and vellum strips. Strip of three embossed blue Sixpence Royal tax stamps at left edge, "Colony to Saml Clarke" in manuscript directly beneath it. The… Read more about this item

Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Son, 1884. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title, as issued. Stitched, 16pp. Very Good plus. The rear wrapper includes a map of the L&N's route, "The Great Through Line Between the North and South." 300,000 acres of land are for sale "at the most favorable terms." OCLC 7530007 [6] as of March 2023. Owen… Read more about this item