A list of items recently cataloged, ephemera, books, photos...
Philadelphia: 1785. 17 x 11 inches, one sheet folded to make 4 pp, very good with light edgewear. Agreement between Zachariah Endress and George Sanft, both brewers, to partner on a brewery located at Wood St. between 2nd and 3rd St (Wood St. now ends at 9th St.) in the.....
In a modern binder, with 38 photos, almost all mounted on backing sheets and most of them measuring 8 x 10", a few smaller photos and mid-sized, and a few in duplicate. From the light pencil notations, etc., we surmise that these were possibly taken for a souvenir viewbook (there.....
33 x 22 inches, fine condition, with some printer's marks that makes us think this might have been a page proof. Great graphics and color! Sent rolled, well packed.
Hardcover. 12.25 x 8 inches, half leather and drab boards, fair condition with heavy rubbing, wear and loss to binding, pages in good condition. Unclear the name of the business, but most of the customers were in the central Philadelphia area (Spruce, Arch, Walnut, Market, Buttonwood, Callowhill, Vine). Begins on.....
11 x 8.5 inches, souvenir sheet for "Breaking Barriers Night," July 21, 1999 at Milwaukee County Stadium in honor of the Negro Leagues, wtih sheet HAND SIGNED (definitely not printed) by Hank Aaron, Carl Long, Dennis Biddle, Sherwood Brewer, Marvin Price, Jimmy Dean, Jim McKnight, Joe B. Scott, John "Mule".....
New York: N. Bangs & J. Emory for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1826-1827. 21.5 x 15.5 inches, each paper is 4 pp, good with some edgewear, stains, tanning, light separation, creasing and corner folds, owner names, the last issue (no. 44) in poor condition with substantial portion missing, all others.....
Baltimore: Baltimore Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1859-1861. 18 issues from the first three volumes of the newspaper, edited by the pro-slavery Methodist Thomas E. Bond with the specific intent of moving border sections such as Baltimore into the Southern conference, with content and articles specifically tailored for that object.....
London: T. Osborne, 1764. Double-page map with handsome hand-coloring, measuring 20 x 15.5 inches, very good. Finely engraved map of the continent that is notable for its indications of the various wind directions that were so important to early explorers. In South Africa the settlements of Hellenbok and Drakenstein are.....
London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, green cloth in dust jacket and in black cloth slipcase. Book near fine with just a touch of tiny fox marks sprinkled on fore-edge of text block and light offsetting to endpapers; jacket is fine, crisp and bright. Author's second book.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First Printing. Hardcover. Mid 19th century half leather and marbled boards, very good, light rubbing and wear, minor restoration to spine head, contents very good and clean. 346 pp, 2 pp. ads, frontispiece tinted slightly green, 3 additional plates.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First Printing. Hardcover. First printing, second state of publisher's address in title page imprint as is almost always the case, of the "New Edition," the first to include "Sonnets from the Portuguese." 2 volumes, 7.25 x 4.5 inches, finely bound in modern half dark green.....
New York: Currier & Ives, 1865. Sheet measures 27.5 x 19.5 inches. Condition is good with general darkening and tanning, has been amateurishly lined with white tape and matted; we see that the white tape can be peeled off and won't take much with it, but it would take some.....
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. First Printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, bound in contemporary full polished tawny calf, raised bands, gilt spines. Very good, spines a little dull, some darkening along joints and edges, minor wear and rubbing, some old inscriptions on first blank, first volume; texts clean and.....
New York: Colton, 1883. Sheet measures 31 x 45 inches, good, loose, without the original cloth folder, with some browning, light splitting at many of the intersections of folds, and some splitting along folds themselves; paper residue to verso of one panel by which it must have been attached to.....
Richmond: Rev. Wm. Brown, D. D., 1864. 27.5 x 19.25 inches, single sheet (2 pp.); probably the complete newspaper was 4 pp, but there's a chance it was issued as a 2 pp. newspaper; most issues in early 1864 were 4 pp. but one at least (Feb. 25) seems to.....
Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, C. 1930. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good, light tanning to contents, jacket very good with light wear, loss and soil. Rare in the trade. 330 pp. This one is more genealogical and historical rather than white supremacist "replacement theory" in.....
London: James Cawthorn, 1814. First Printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, in early 20th century half dark red morocco and red cloth boards, very good copy with light wear, darkening and rubbing to binding, mild restoration to front outer joint, contents very good, half title page present but with some small spots.....
Bomba / Mumbai: 1904. 13 x 11 inches, printed stock certificate sheet filled in by hand on both sides, good, light wear and two tiny pin holes, some splitting along one fold, one very small hole. Entitles Phiraysha Bomanji Petit to one share for 500 rupees. Transfers on the verso.....
Norfolk, VA: 1861. 2 1/2 page letter dated March 14, 1861, from Rev. LeRoy M. Lee of the Granby St. Methodist Church in Norfolk VA to Rev. J. S. Martin, pastor at the Central Methodist Church in Staunton, VA (about 200 miles NW of Norfolk), requesting a few single men.....
Baltimore: F. E. Marine, 1880. These little newspapers measure 11.5 x 9.5 inches, 4-8 pp. each. Generally very good, with folds for mailing. We have: Vol. 1 nos. 1-9 (May 5, 1880 - December 1, 1880); Vol. 3 nos. 1 (January 2, 1882), 3, 4, 5, 7 & 10 (October.....
Pittsburgh: 1930. Wraps. 9 x 6" in felt paper wraps, string tied, very good, light wear and rubbing, slight loss to lower outer corner of rear wrap, signed by Andrew Mellon on the first page. 10 pp. with menu, program, etc. Also includes ribbon identifying its wearer as a guest.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1818. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. 9 x 5.5 inches, contemporary blue calf gilt, very good, light rubbing to edges and joints, contents very good and bright, with hand colored frontispiece of King Zaide and full page engraving of the raft of the Medusa. 360 pp. Bookplate.....
Rainelle WV: 1915-1916. Hardcover. 7.5 x 4.75 inches, leatherbound, very good with general rubbing and wear to binding, some darkening to edges, contents very good. 140 pages filled with numerical notes in pencil. Done by J. V. Snyder of Richmond, VA. The predecessor to the Nicholas, Fayette & Greenbrier Railway.....
Luxor: Gaddis & Seif, Ca. 1920. 7 postcards, color cartoons satirizing English or American tourists in Egypt: Serious Study in Egypt, "And a little Guide shall lead them," "The Battle of the Nile," Well and truly Mounted in Egypt, Stormy Donkey ride in Egypt, "Dividing the Spoils," "The Photography of.....
Pittsburgh: Arsenal Binding and Finishing, 2007. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in bellyband dust jacket, very good, light wear, pencil note (on medications, nothing to do with the book) on flyleaf. Inscribed by Taylor to Horace Lee Turner and his wife Mary (Horace was a Black musician who was a contemporary.....
New York: Knopf, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1985. Hardcover. All first editions and very good or better in dust jacket. Celestial Navigation is very good in a very good dust jacket, no major flaws but signs of having been read and used. Accidental Tourist is fine in dust jacket. Morgan's.....
Washington DC: US Navy, Government Printing Office, 1947. Wraps. Self wraps, 27.5 x 20.5 inches, very good, light wear and soil to cover, various paginations, probably 150 color maps. Rare catalog with OCLC locating only 8 holdings.
Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Company, 1789. First Printing. Hardcover. Contemporary brown calf, good with general rubbing and wear to binding, light warping, lacking spine label, contents good with light-to-moderate waviness to text, general tanning and occasional light brown stains, minor restoration to inner hinges. Well bound, clean and unmarked; the.....
Collection of over 75 separate documents: dues sheets, receipts, minutes, reports of meetings, by-laws, dues to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, letters on masonic subjects, etc, dated 1816-1836 and all relating to the Greensburg PA Lodge no. 64 of the Ancient York Masons. Condition ranges from poor to very good.....