INTERESTING FACTS OF THE WASHINGTON, D.C. MARKET "AMERICA'S No. 1 MARKET" COMPARED TO ALL CITIES IN THE U.S. IN RELATION TO AVERAGE BUYING POWER EMBRACING THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND THE 25-MILE SHOPPING RADIUS INTO MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA. AUTUMN 1936
Washington, DC: The Evening Star, 1936. Paperwraps, illustrated with a reproduction of a front page of the newspaper. 4to.; 27 pp. Illustrated with photos. A promotional to encourage advertising in this Washington, DC newspaper. One listing found on OCLC (Harvard Univ.).
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5TH DIVISION U. S. ARMY
Base printing plant, 29th Engineers, U.S. Army, 1918. A highly visual broadsheet printed on two sides. 13 3/4 by 9 1/8. A calendar of 1919, it has three months in each corner leaving a large center filled by a red diamond. The diamond is divided into 16 smaller diamonds, in which a unit no. appears. Overlaid is a large 5 and a poem entitled Red Diamond about their exploits in W.W.I. On the rear is a list of the... Read More
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Acts of the Province of Maryland, Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly, Begun and Held at the City of Annapolis, on Wednesday the Twenty-second Day of November, in the Eighth Year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable Frederick, Lord Baron of Baltimore, Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon, &c. Annoqye Domini 1758
Annapolis: Printed by Jonas Green, 1758. First edition. Folio. 8 pp. Rare; various bibliographies and reference sources locate a total of five copies. Not in Evans. Shipton & Mooney 40968 (Maryland Diocesan Library). Bristol B-1957 (Library of Congress, Harvard-Law, Peabody Institute, Maryland Historical Society). Wroth "History of Printing in Colonial Maryland 205 (Maryland Historical Society, Library of Congress, Harvard-Law, Maryland Diocesan Library). OCLC locates only a microform edition. Recent stiff blue wrappers. Very good. (3724).
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Federalist Period manuscript Tax Collection ledger
Dublin, New Hampshire, 1787. 12pp. 5 7/8 by 3 5/8 in. Written on the last page “To Joseph Greenwood Collector / the within list is a tax for you to / Collect and pay to the State Treasurer / agreeable to the execution of your / warrant the first column amount / -ing to fifty one pound three shilling / the second column amounting to / thirty seven pound seventeen and two / pence the third column amounting /... Read More
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Proposing and preparing for hunting trips, reporting on hunting possibilities and results, soliciting business, and other matters relating to big game hunting in Alaska and the Rocky Mountains, as recorded in five letters, autograph and typed letters, from four guides: W.L. Stinson, a guide in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
(ALS, 3 pages, approx. 450 words), Charles Madsen, of Kodiak Guides in Alaska (ALS and TLS, with list of equipment needed for a hunt, 6 pages, approx. 2000 words), Eli Metrokin, a Kodiak, Alaska guide (ALS, 4 pages, approx. 400 words), and Arnold Schueren, a hunting companion and author of Foxy's Lions Tales (TLS, one page, approx. 250 words; accompanied by two photographs, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, picturing his Alaska moose trophy), all to Gordon Hovey, 1939-1940.... Read More
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The Eastern Cherokees, How They Live Today: Their History
Knoxville, TN: J.L. Caton, publisher, 1937. First edition. 8vo. (28) pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Cover title: "The Cherokee Indians of the Qualla Reservation, Cherokee, N.C., How They Live Today, Their History." Apparently not in Thornton. Illustrated wrappers, stapled. Very good. (3138).
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Pasquotank River; [caption title, lower left] From a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States. Drawn by J.H. Adams
[Washington, DC]: Engraved by W. Smith and S.T. Pettit for the survey, 1850. First edition. Engraved map, 18 1/2 x 23 inches, picturing the river from Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to its mouth at Wade's Point; includes soundings, sailing directions, and topographical features. At the head is a printed presentation statement, this copy unused (i.e., a name has not been written in the space provided). Laney & Wood 178. OCLC locates five copies (Buffalo/Erie County Public, Connecticut State Library,... Read More
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Map of the State of Illinois
Philadelphia, (PA): Thomas Cowperthwait, 1852. Broadside map, 16 x 13 1/2 inches, the counties hand-colored in pastel shades of green, yellow, pink, and tan, picturing roadways, railways, cities and towns of all sizes, rivers and streams, etc., the whole enclosed within a hand-colored ornamental border. Not in Phillips. Not in the online Rumsey collection. OCLC locates two copies (Il. State Library, Massachusetts-Amherst). Very good. Folded into 16mo gilt-stamped embossed leather boards. (#4381).
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Colton's New Sectional Map of the State of Missouri. Compiled from the United States surveys & other authentic sources, exhibiting the sections, fractional sections, counties, cities, towns, villages, post offices, rail roads & other internal improvements
New York: J.H. Colton, 1862. Engraved broadside map, 37 x 41 1/2 inches, the counties hand-colored in light shades of blue, green, yellow, and pink, with a darker pink outlining state borders, all enclosed within a wide ornamental border. Cover title: "Colton's Sectional Map of Missouri." Cf. Phillips, p. 443 for the 1861 issue. Apparently not in the Rumsey online collection. OCLC locates one copy of this 1862 issue (Wisconsin-Milwaukee). Several old discreet institutional markings, map backed with archival... Read More
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Report of the Proposed Construction of a Rail Road from York to the Cumberland Valley Rail Road
Baltimore, (MD): Printed by James Lucas, 1847. First edition. 8vo. 25 pp. Large folding map, 51 x 68 cm., of the railroad and canal systems of Pennsylvania and Maryland, the routes hand-colored according to status (e.g., proposed routes in yellow). The Cumberland Valley Rail Road ran from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Hagerstown, Maryland. OCLC locates four copies (American Antiquarian Society, Columbia, Maryland, Missouri-St. Louis), with the description of only one (Missouri-St. Louis) mentioning the map. Map backed with archival paper,... Read More
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The trotting horse industry in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, as viewed through an extensive collection of more than 800 breeding farm and auction catalogues, with additional related ephemeral items. At least one of the catalogues is inscribed by the farm owner to John Hankins Wallace, publisher of Wallace's American Stud Book (1867) and editor and publisher of Wallace's Monthly (begun in 1875), a magazine devoted to the trotting horse, from whose archives this collection comes
Highlights in the collection include the rare 1857 catalogue for Kentucky’s Woodburn Farm, apparently the second known copy of the earliest single-farm horse stock catalogue that we could identify, that farm’s 1864 catalogue, printed in the midst of Civil War, the 1870 catalogue for Kentucky’s Forest Park farm, featuring three mounted photographs, including two views of the farm’s grounds, two catalogues for the farm owned by New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert, both with chromolithographic covers, hundreds of items... Read More
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Motor Boating / Show Number
[artwork for a cover], an original painting, 12 1/4 x 9 inches, for the cover of this issue of the magazine, picturing a well-dressed but fat gentleman in a suit, becoming sea-sick while standing in a cruiser's cabin on a boat show floor, similar in style to a New Yorker cartoon of the period. Watercolor and gouache on board, unsigned and undated [ca. 1920s or 1930s], the title at the top in burgundy, the central illustration of the man... Read More
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Invoicing a purchase for a "Fine pair Duelling Pistols in Case, Laminated steel bands &c. &c. ... $75,
on the elaborately printed billhead "Bought of Henry Tomes & Co. / Sportsmen's Warehouse / ... ," to William Case of Cleveland, Ohio, 28 July 1854. New York: Henry Tomes & Co., 1854. 4to. One-page, with an integral leaf (verso used for address). In addition to the dueling pistols, Case also purchased a "Fine Dble Bll Gun, Laminated Steel Bands, patent breeches, Gold bands, ... Box Spring triggers with screw off Guard, wrought mountings, fine heart walnut stock, [by]... Read More
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Art in Taxidermy [cover title]
Denver, CO: Jonas Brothers (Welch-Haffner Printing Co., Denver), 1924. First edition. 4to. 31, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs, line drawings, marginal vignettes. Illustrated guide to the Jonas Brothers' services. Caption title: "Taxidermy as an Art." Very good. Color decorated gray wrappers, stapled. (#4268).
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![Hunting, Fishing & Camping in the Cascades along the "New Line" of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway and along the Tacoma Eastern RY. [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/585/969/419969585.0.l.jpg)
Hunting, Fishing & Camping in the Cascades along the "New Line" of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway and along the Tacoma Eastern RY. [cover title]
(Seattle, WA: The railway), 1915. Promotional. Small 4to folded to narrow 8vo. 11 pp. [printed double-column]. Illustrated from photographs. Detailed guide to hunting and fishing spots along the railway line in the Cascades, for each lists mileage from Tacoma, accommodations and contacts, available fish & game, etc. Not recorded on OCLC. Very good. Original decorated olive and white wrappers, stapled. (#4274).
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BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE, ARKANSAS. MARCH 6, 7 & 8, 1862
N.P., n.p., n.d. Condensed story of the battle presented by the Pea Ridge National Park Assoc. Folded pamphlet. 12mo.; no pagination (8pp.). One illustration. Very good.
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HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS. HEALTH & PLEASURE. OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
N.P.: n.p., 1904. Color illustrated white paperwraps. 12mo. (folded in half vertically); (16pp. of photos, 7pp. of text). Some separation at stapled edge, else very good. A promotional brochure.
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YALE-COLLEGE SUBJECT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
New Haven, [CT]: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1784. 22 cm. 44pp. Sheets, stitching perished. Library of Congress stamp. Soiled with chipping at edges, text uniformly browned.
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RELATION DE CE QUI S'EST PASSE AU SEIGE DE QUEBEC, ET DE LA PRISE DU CANADA: par une Religieuse de l'Hopital General de Quebec: addressee a une Commanaute de son Ordre en France
[Quebec]: Inprime Au Bureau Du Mercury Rue Buade, 1855. 19 cm. 24pp. Frontis. [View of Quebec], slightly rumpled at one corner. Original pink printed wrappers. Some splitting along spine.
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![AUTOMOBILE STREET SWEEPING COMPANY. Subscription to $200,000 Treasury Stock of the Automobile Street Sweeping Company, of Boston, Mass. [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/143/103/1752103143.0.l.jpg)
AUTOMOBILE STREET SWEEPING COMPANY. Subscription to $200,000 Treasury Stock of the Automobile Street Sweeping Company, of Boston, Mass. [cover title]
[Boston, MA: The Company, 1920. Single sheet fold to 20.5 x 13 cm. [4] pp. Lightly creased from a vertical fold, else a nice example. The sweeper is illustrated on the front page. "Scientific City Cleaning!! A New Practical, Economical Street Cleaning System." The text declares that New York currently appropriates over $5,000,000 for street sweeping. With a testimonial from the superintendent of streets of Cambridge, Mass. Plans include leasing or selling machines, organizing local companies in cities and... Read More
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THREE POST CIVIL WAR PHOTO ALBUMS BELONGING TO THE TURNER AND CUTTS FAMILIES OF WASHINGTON, DC, AND MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, 1860s - ca.1920s
[various places, 1920. Three albums spanning the lives of a few generations of members of the Turner and Cutts families. Many of the men in the Cutts family served in the military from the Civil War era to the Spanish American War to World War I. The images document their time in Washington, DC; Lima, Peru; Mare Island, California; and a scattering of other places. Civil War Brig. General Richard Domincus Cutts' image is present. His son Richard Malcolm... Read More
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MYER'S LOAN OFFICE, / RED FRONT, / TELEPONE... 125 SOUTH CHERRY ST., NASHVILLE, TENN. / MONEY TO LOAN ON WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, / AND CLOTHING, / FURNITURE, STOVES, SEWING MACHINES, AND ALL ARTICLES OF VALUE. / Furniture Sold On Time. / Cash Paid for Gold and Silver. / Bargains I Pawned Goods. Myer Morris, Prop. [complete text]
Nashville, TN: Myer’s Loan Office (Rich Print, Cherry & Deaderick), 1920. Trade card, 3 1/8 x 4 ¾ inches, printed in red, and employing several styles and sizes of type; “Corrected Fire Alarm,” various Nashville locations, printed on verso. Very good.
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![THE HERMITAGE CLUB / REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY / AT THEIR RECEPTION / January 8th 1883 [in manuscript] / from eight until twelve P.M. / Nashville, / Tennessee [complete text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/533/456/1572456533.0.l.jpg)
THE HERMITAGE CLUB / REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY / AT THEIR RECEPTION / January 8th 1883 [in manuscript] / from eight until twelve P.M. / Nashville, / Tennessee [complete text]
7 1/8 x 4 ¾ inches, printed in italics, engraved portrait of Andrew Jackson (1 ¾ x 1 3/8 inches) at head of text, with a blank integral leaf. Old horizontal fold, very good.
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![MULES / I will be at the following places / to buy mules: LINDEN, Thursday, Jan. 24, 1907; / LOBELVILLE, Friday, Jan. 25, 1907; CENTREVILLE, Sat., Jan. 26, 1907. / [complete text]. Signed in type at the end “W. B. Burnett.”](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/535/456/1572456535.0.l.jpg)
MULES / I will be at the following places / to buy mules: LINDEN, Thursday, Jan. 24, 1907; / LOBELVILLE, Friday, Jan. 25, 1907; CENTREVILLE, Sat., Jan. 26, 1907. / [complete text]. Signed in type at the end “W. B. Burnett.”
NP: Burnett, 1907. Printed handbill, 9 7/8 x 7 ¼ inches, the first line printed in large (2 inches) bold capitals. The first two towns are in Perry County, the third in neighboring Hickman. Not recorded on OCLC. Tear from bottom edge, not affecting text (repaired with tape verso), paper browned. Good copy.
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![MAPLEWOOD PARK [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/539/456/1572456539.0.l.jpg)
MAPLEWOOD PARK [cover title]
Nashville, TN: Maplewood Suburban Home Co, 1891. First edition. Oblong 4to (6 3/8 x 9 ½ inches). (30) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, full-page plates (residences), double-page panorama view as frontispiece, folding plat map of the subdivision [dated “1891”]. The development of 1400 acres on the northeast side of Nashville, up the Gallatin Pike, with the “Best Society in the South, fine churches, good water, lot on easy terms which will double in value before the end of the... Read More
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