![[GOVERNMENT IMPRINT] PARCEL POST. HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON PARCEL POST OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICES AND POST ROADS UNDER S. RES. 56. TESTIMONY OF POSTAL OFFICIALS AND FORMER POSTAL OFFICIALS ..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/337/255/1506255337.0.l.jpg)
[GOVERNMENT IMPRINT] PARCEL POST. HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON PARCEL POST OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICES AND POST ROADS UNDER S. RES. 56. TESTIMONY OF POSTAL OFFICIALS AND FORMER POSTAL OFFICIALS ..
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in government issued blue cloth binding; 5 Volumes of hearings in 1912, bound together, and numbered sequentially; 1290 pages in total. With call numbers on the spine, and a rudimentary pocket at the rear of the book. Very Good binding.
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![A LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE CLEAN AIR AMENDMENTS OF 1972; VOLUME 1 & VOLUME 2, 1974 [PARTS I AND II BOUND TOGETHER] | A LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE CLEAN AIR AMENDMENTS OF 1977; A CONTINUATION OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1970 TOGETHER WITH A SECTION BY SECTION INDEX PREPARED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY DIVISION OF THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; PARTS 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 [BOUND TOGETHER]. 8 PARTS BOUND IN 6 VOLUMES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/830/295/838295830.0.l.jpg)
A LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE CLEAN AIR AMENDMENTS OF 1972; VOLUME 1 & VOLUME 2, 1974 [PARTS I AND II BOUND TOGETHER] | A LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE CLEAN AIR AMENDMENTS OF 1977; A CONTINUATION OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1970 TOGETHER WITH A SECTION BY SECTION INDEX PREPARED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY DIVISION OF THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; PARTS 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 [BOUND TOGETHER]. 8 PARTS BOUND IN 6 VOLUMES
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Eight parts, bound in 6 Volumes, altogether comprising over 9100 pages of the legislative history of the landmark Clean Air Act. These were bound up by the Government Printing Office for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and are thus uncommon. An invaluable resource for understanding this most significant environmental legislation. Very Good binding.
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![[GARDENING] THE VILLA GARDENER (2 Volumes)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/344/273/988273344.0.l.jpg)
[GARDENING] THE VILLA GARDENER (2 Volumes)
London: Simpkin Marshall & Co, 1871. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Two bound volumes of this periodical. published monthly beginning in 1870 throught 1881. With numerous in-text illustrations of fruits, flowers, vegetables, structures, implements and the like. In publisher's terra-cotta cloth, stamped in blind with titling and decorations blocked in gold on the spine; Volume II with some fade. A wealth of rather charmingly presented information on late Victorian gardening practice. Very Good binding.
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![[VIRGINIA] [RICHMOND] JAMES DOUGLAS FREEMAN WEDDING PHOTO](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/132/562/1674562132.0.l.jpg)
[VIRGINIA] [RICHMOND] JAMES DOUGLAS FREEMAN WEDDING PHOTO
Richmond, VA, 1947. 5"x7" black and white photo of the wedding of James Douglas Freeman and his first wife, Janice Sue Miller, in 1947. Bride and groom look radiant, with 4 smiling wedding party members on each side, including Douglas Southall Freeman to the right of his son. The photograph has some cracks due to wear, and has been folded to isolate James Freeman from everyone else, perhaps after the divorce.
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![[ENGLAND] THE COMPLETE GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND AND WALES; OR AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES, IN THE KINGDOM. [COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/845/409/1581409845.0.l.jpg)
[ENGLAND] THE COMPLETE GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND AND WALES; OR AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES, IN THE KINGDOM. [COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES]
London: G. Robinson and R. Baldwin, 1775. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Two 12mo. volumes in speckled calf with raised bands and crimson morocco labels; cracked at the gutters but boards are holding well; each volume with a contemporary signature “Lucy Herring” on the front endpapers; each volume with title leaf; there is minor loss to the extremities of the spines.~~This Gazetteer in two volumes touts itself as containing an accurate description of all the cities,... Read More
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![THE MIRROR. A PERIODICAL PAPER ... VOL. II OF THREE [WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/253/622/852622253.0.l.jpg)
THE MIRROR. A PERIODICAL PAPER ... VOL. II OF THREE [WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION]
London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1787. Seventeenth Edition. Very Good binding. A copy with a Washington association. On the pastedown is the signature of S. Tayloe Washington, signed again on the title page as Sarah Tayloe. Sarah Tayloe Washington was the third wife of Capt. William Augustine Washington, whose father, Augustine Washington II was the half-brother of George Washington. Very Good binding.
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![[HISTORY] [PANAMA] LA ESCUELA PANAMENA AL EXCELENTISIMO SR. EMBAJADOR DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTE AMERICA CON OCCASION DEL 4 DE JULIO](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/504/516/1603516504.0.l.0.jpg)
[HISTORY] [PANAMA] LA ESCUELA PANAMENA AL EXCELENTISIMO SR. EMBAJADOR DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTE AMERICA CON OCCASION DEL 4 DE JULIO
Panama, 1943. La Escuela Panamena al Excelentisimo Sr. Embajador de los Estados Unidos de Norte America con Occasion del 4 de Julio. Panama: July 4, 1943. 152 leaves. Very good condition. ~~12.75” x 8.5” x 1.75” burgundy leatherbound hard cover book with gold embossed title and gold/red decorative ribbon on spine; gorgeous floral brown/cream inner lining; pencil notation at top first page; light discoloration around edges of pages. ~~The United States owned the Panama Canal from 1904-1999, and was... Read More
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ARMY APPROPRIATION ACTS. 1861 - 1885
Government Printing Office, 1885. Appropriations for the Army as passed at sessions of Congress, excised from the volumes of the Government Printing Office, and bound together in three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, with a morocco label letters in gilt to the upper board. There are dividers with morocco tabs for each year (some have broken off, though all are present).~~An interesting and comprehensive record of how the savants of the Congress handled military appropriations beginning in 1861 and continuing... Read More
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, TOGETHER WITH THE JOURNAL OF THE COMMITTEE, AND THE TESTIMONY TAKEN BEFORE THEM, IN REGARD TO THE INTERFERENCE BY UNITED STATES TROOPS WITH THE GENERAL ELECTION HELD IN THE STATE ON THE FOURTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1862
Dover, Delaware: Printed by James Kirk, 1863. First Edition. Original Sewn Wrappers. Fair binding. A report on potential military interference in the Delaware general election of 1862, published just after the announcement of the Emancipation. The Democratic party elected officials of Delaware argued that the Union troops were favoring Republican militias and party activities, and also debated whether the governor had the Constitutional right to invite Union troops into the state in the first place. This work is... Read More
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![[AMERICANA] [WOMEN] [THEATER] CABINET CARD OF MISS IRENE WOODWARD](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/851/543/1680543851.0.l.jpg)
[AMERICANA] [WOMEN] [THEATER] CABINET CARD OF MISS IRENE WOODWARD
Richmond, VA, 1875. Chicago, IL: 1880s. 6 ½" x 4 ¼". Fair.~~Cabinet card with printed signature of Miss Irene Woodward, "America's Original Tattooed Lady". Known as La Belle Irene, she toured America and Europe. She claimed variously to have been tattooed by her father or abducted by tribesmen in the "South Seas", she was actually tattooed by Samuel F. O'Reilly. Woodward's fame traces to the golden age of the "freak show", in which iconic figures considered strange by the... Read More
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![[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] PETERSBURG RAIL ROAD ONLY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/070/188/1723188070.0.l.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] PETERSBURG RAIL ROAD ONLY
[Richmond]: Confederate States of America War Department, 1864. Very Good binding. 3 3/4” x 6 1/8”. Printed Confederate pass, dated in pen July 25, 1864, and issued to one “Master C. W. Montague” granting permission to visit Petersburg, and who swears on the verso printed “that I will bear true faith and yield obedience to the Confederate States of America and that I will serve there honestly and faithfully against their enemies.” It is signed by I. H.... Read More
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![STAUNTON MILITARY ACADEMY. CATALOGUE. [1936-1937]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/199/351/1344351199.0.l.jpg)
STAUNTON MILITARY ACADEMY. CATALOGUE. [1936-1937]
1936. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A handsomely produced calendar for the Staunton Military Academy, which was founded which was founded by Confederate veteran William H. Kable, and which closed it’s doors in 1976. In blue paper-covered boards backed in darker blue cloth with titling in gold and a gold foil pastedown with a photographic image of a cadet. ~~This elaborate catalogue is 117 pages, with photographs throughout. It covers “Character and Purpose”. the structure of the school;... Read More
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![[VIRGINIA] [RICHMOND] SOUVENIR PROGRAM. THE 4th ANNUAL TOBACCO FESTIVAL. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 16-18, 1952](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/463/859/1691859463.0.l.jpg)
[VIRGINIA] [RICHMOND] SOUVENIR PROGRAM. THE 4th ANNUAL TOBACCO FESTIVAL. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 16-18, 1952
[Richmond]: N/A, 1952. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Program for the 4th Annual Tobacco Festival game in which U.Va. and V.M.I. faced off at Richmond Stadium on October 18, 1952 at 1:00 p.m.; 56 pages; in printed wrappers, with many Richmond ads. ~~Uncommon relic of “Tobaccoland’s Greatest Annual Celebration”. Very Good binding.
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![[CIVIL WAR] PETERSBURG | CHANCELLORSVILLE | GETTYSBURG. [PAPERS OF THE MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. VOLUME V]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/659/776/1684776659.0.l.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] PETERSBURG | CHANCELLORSVILLE | GETTYSBURG. [PAPERS OF THE MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. VOLUME V]
Boston: The Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 1906. First Edtiion. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Small quarto; in the publisher’s blue cloth with insignia in gilt to the upper board and titling to the spine; vi, [vii, viii], [2], 3-442; followed by 4 maps in the rear of the book: “Cold Harbor to Petersburg”; “Petersburg Fortifications”; “Petersburg to Boydton Plank Road”; and “Battle of Boydton Plank Road”.~~There are 13 articles, from “Operations of the Army of the Potomac,... Read More
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![[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] TURNPIKES AND OTHER ROADS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/073/188/1723188073.0.l.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] TURNPIKES AND OTHER ROADS
[Richmond]: Confederate States of America War Department, 1864. Very Good+ binding. 3 7/8” x 6”. Printed Confederate pass, dated in pen Nov. 17, 1864, and issued to one “Mast.C. W. Montague” granting permission to visit Gloucester and Hanover “subject to the discretion of the Military authorities”; Master C. W. Montague is described as 15 years of age, 5 ft. tall, with blue eyes and light hair, it is signed by I. H. Harrington, who was provost marshal of... Read More
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![[EDITION DELUXE] LONGFELLOW PORTFOLIO, BEING A SELECTION OF SEVENTY-FIVE ARTIST PROOFS FROM THE ORIGINAL WOOD-CUTS ILLUSTRATING THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION EDITION OF LONGFELLOW'S POETICAL WORKS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/189/781/725781189.0.l.2.jpg)
[EDITION DELUXE] LONGFELLOW PORTFOLIO, BEING A SELECTION OF SEVENTY-FIVE ARTIST PROOFS FROM THE ORIGINAL WOOD-CUTS ILLUSTRATING THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION EDITION OF LONGFELLOW'S POETICAL WORKS
Houghton Mifflin, 1881. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good+ binding. A beautiful copy of the Longfellow Portfolio [Deluxe Edition] bound in three quarter morocco over green pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. All of the numbered plates are present, but none have the artist's pencilled signature. The subscriber's list is not present. We believe that this is most likely an overrun of the Houghton Mifflin edition, bound up very handsomely indeed. Very Good+ binding.
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![[DOMESTIC ARTS] COOKERY] WINKELMANN & BROWN RECEIPT BOOK AND MEDICAL GUIDE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/847/543/1680543847.0.l.jpg)
[DOMESTIC ARTS] COOKERY] WINKELMANN & BROWN RECEIPT BOOK AND MEDICAL GUIDE
Baltimore, MD, 1900. 7 ½” X 5” softcover cookbook with two ads laid in and numerous pencil annotations throughout. Cover separating from binding and wear around edges, otherwise good. ~~Winkelmann & Brown Drug Company in Baltimore, Maryland sold patent cures advertised throughout this cookbook, such as Dr. Kierstead’s King Of All Pain and Quintoleo, “the Great Malaria Antidote and Fever and Ague cure”. The second half of the 19th century was a golden age of American patent medicines such... Read More
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OLDSMOBILE DEALER TECHNICAL INFORMATION BULLETIN. 80 ISSUES. 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 & 1958
Oldsmobile | General Motors, 1958. A large number of Oldsmobile Technical Information Bulletins: 2 from 1952; 36 from 1953; 23 from 1954; 21 from 1955 and 1 rather lengthy manual form 1958. All hole punched and stored in a three ring notebook. A total of about 80 of the Information Bulletins issued by Oldsmobile in the 1950’s.
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![[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE IMPRINT] DESCRIPTIVE LIST AND ACCOUNT OF PAY AND CLOTHING OF DECD. PRIVATES IN COMPANY B, 15h REGIMENT, NORTH CAROLINA TROOP](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/386/921/1372921386.0.l.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE IMPRINT] DESCRIPTIVE LIST AND ACCOUNT OF PAY AND CLOTHING OF DECD. PRIVATES IN COMPANY B, 15h REGIMENT, NORTH CAROLINA TROOP
A Confederate broadsheet printed and in manuscript, listing six privates of Company B, 15th Regiment North Carolina State Troops. These six private were part of the Munroe Light Infantry and were killed in July of 1862 at the Battle of Malvern Hill outside of Richmond. They were among the 21 members of Company B killed at Malvern Hill. Their names were Robinson Keziah; A. J. Mullis; R. H. Long; J. M. Pinion; C A. Rogers; and C. M. Secrest.... Read More
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![[HISTORY] [EPHEMERA] QUEEN VICTORIA INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION RIBBON](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/684/245/1671245684.0.l.jpg)
[HISTORY] [EPHEMERA] QUEEN VICTORIA INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION RIBBON
1862. A woven silk ribbon with the image of Queen Victoria manufactured by Wahl & Socin in 1862 International Exhibition 4 3/4” x 3”; minimal staining across the top edge~~Officially know as the London International Exhibition of Industrial Art or the Great London Exposition was a world’s fair sponsored by the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturers, and Trade.
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![[VIRGINIANA] LEXINGTON GAZETTE: BI-CENTENNIAL ISSUE, 1738-1938. COMMEMORATING THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ROCKBRIDGE SECTION OF VIRGINIA BY THE WHITE MEN. A TRIBUTE TO THE SCOTCH-IRISH PIONEERS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/603/569/1129569603.0.l.jpg)
[VIRGINIANA] LEXINGTON GAZETTE: BI-CENTENNIAL ISSUE, 1738-1938. COMMEMORATING THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ROCKBRIDGE SECTION OF VIRGINIA BY THE WHITE MEN. A TRIBUTE TO THE SCOTCH-IRISH PIONEERS
[Lexington, Va.]: [Lexington Gazette], 1938. The historical record of Lexington Virginia, issued by the Lexington Gazette for the Bi-centennial of the town in five parts: Section One, 16 pages; Section Two, 16 pages; Section Three, 16 pages; Section Four, 16 pages; Section Five, 17 pages. In green cloth binding with the original printed wrappers bound in. Illustrated with photographs. There are some old repairs with scotch tape.
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![BLUE BOOK OF MODEL RAILROAD PRACTICE [WITH] SPECIAL HANDBOOK SERIES ..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/652/728/1342728652.0.l.jpg)
BLUE BOOK OF MODEL RAILROAD PRACTICE [WITH] SPECIAL HANDBOOK SERIES ..
The Blue Book is in a binder with several issues of Model Railroader’s Special Handbook Series. The sections included in this Blue Book are: Benchwork; Track Measurements and Elements; Electrical; Locomotives; Cars; Bridges & Structures; Scenery; Painting & Finishing; Special Data; and Tools. The issues of Model Railroader’s Special Handbook Series include Number 1, Maintenance; Number 4, Engine Servicing Facilities; Number 5, Prototype Yards; Number 7, Designing Model Railroad Yards.~~In a black binder -- 11” or so tall. with... Read More
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![[VIRGINIANA] [ENGRAVER’S PLATE] [RICHMOND] A HANDSOME HOUSE IN WINDSOR FARMS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/936/746/1451746936.0.l.jpg)
[VIRGINIANA] [ENGRAVER’S PLATE] [RICHMOND] A HANDSOME HOUSE IN WINDSOR FARMS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
An engraver’s plate mounted on wood of a handsome Richmond home in the Windsor Farms area. The wooden mount is 3 1/4 x 6 1/4.
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INTERIORS DECORATIONS AND FURNISHINGS OF LONDON GUILD HALLS
New York: Wm. Helburn, 1902. Very Good binding. Forty plates in autotype, housed in a somewhat worn portfolio, with a preliminary title leaf. The title leaf is a bit chipped; all of the 40 plates are Very Good. The portfolio is lacking the ties. Uncommon in the trade; we find no copies at auction since 1934. Very Good binding.
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![[DOMESTIC ARTS] [COOKERY] A DINER’S GUIDE TO SAVANNAH](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/186/028/1287028186.0.l.jpg)
[DOMESTIC ARTS] [COOKERY] A DINER’S GUIDE TO SAVANNAH
Savannah, Georgia: Graphic Enterprises, 1977. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. A stapled pamphlet, reproducing the menus of various restaurants in Savannah, Georgia. Very Good binding.
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