Cincinnati: Published by N. & G. Guilford. T. Surguy, Printer, [1837]. First edition. Original pictorial blue wrappers, stitched, 8.13 x 4.88 inches, [36] pages, untrimmed. Woodcut illustrations throughout. With the wrapper title and imprint, The Freeman’s Almanac for the Year 1838: Edited by Solomon Thrifty. Cincinnati: Published by Guilford and..... More

Boston: Published by Wells & Lilly, 1816. First edition thus. 12mo, contemporary full sheep with multiple decorative blind-rolled ornaments, 72 pages. "Twin Carolinas, through your forests green, / In sixteen hundred sixty three began, / Where none but savage foot had ever been, / The new-born empire of the cultur'd..... More

Libanon, (Penn.): J. Schnee für M. Carey in Philadelphia, 1810. First edition in German. 12mo, contemporary full calf, brown leather spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 210 pages. Engraved frontis and six engraved plates (including a portrait of Washington). The Weems life of Washington (cherry tree anecdote and all), here..... More

[N.p., but Boston: n. p., 1847]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched as issued, 7.5 x 4.63 inches, 11, [1] pages. A detailed program with the lyrics to 21 songs, all from a two-part vocal concert extravaganza that Johnson had mounted in Boston in 1847; a puff in the Boston Musical..... More

[N. p. n. p.], 1931. Sixth edition. 12mo (scant 7 x 5 inches), original printed pictorial wrappers, 132 pages. With numerous inserted plates (included in the pagination), illus. “This is the sixth catalogue that has been made and while with its index showing eighteen classifications and its Appendix with over..... More

Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858. First edition. 12mo, original gilt-stamped red morocco, 538 pages, a.e.g. Two folding charts (diagrams of the Assembly Chamber and the Senate Chamber) tipped in. Everything a legislator needs to know, from Agricultural Society, Officers of, to Villages, General provisions for erecting. The..... More

Philadelphia: Printed from the London Edition by John Humphreys, 1799. First American edition. 8vo, mid-19th century blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering, 196, [2] pages. In a curious later binding that appears almost as a remainder binding (though may well be a well-executed private binding), this volume in Robertson’s History was..... More

Salem: Printed at the Office of "To-Day," Oct. 31, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial glazed white wrappers, 15 pages. Pictorial title page, illus. "If you ask the touris why he visits Salem, he will tell you that he has four reasons: to see the old houses, to feel the..... More

Chicago: S. S. Boyden, Publisher, 1868. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 200, [3] pages. Verses from a resident of Bostwick Lake, Michigan (outside Grand Rapids), with much occasional verse (Independence Day celebrations, an address to the Progressive Lyceum), as well as the lengthy narrative title poem recounting..... More

[Washington, D. C. n. p., 1850]. 8vo, removed, 15 pages. Benton argues against the Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave bill: "No sir! no more slavery compromises. Stick to those we have in the Constitution, and they will be stuck to!" With much detail on the topography of..... More

Hartford, Conn. Published by Subscription Only, Hartford Publishing Co., 1869. First edition. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), recent half leather and marbled sides, 524 pages. Frontis, 13 plates (including a map). An account of travel in the West subsequent to the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad from the editor of..... More

New York: Derby & Jackson, 119 Nassau Street, 1859. First edition. 8vo (7.5 x 5.25 inches), original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 329, [1] pages. Double frontispiece: two lithographic portraits by Sarony inserted before the title page. A popular account of travel among the Acadians of the Maritimes in eastern Canada;..... More

[Washington, D. C.]: Blair & Rives, printers, [1840]. First edition. Removed unbound pamphlet, scant 9 x 5.75 inches, 4 pages. With the accompanying map, a sketch chart of Chicago Harbor, “showing changing shore line of Lake Michigan, 1821, 1838, and 1839” (Claussen & Friis), scant 9 x 11.75 inches, engraved..... More