Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs Illustrated. A Review and Panorama of an Unique Gold Field, with Geological Features and achievements of five eventful years, including outlines of numerous companies
Colorado Springs: Warren & Stride, 1896. Hardcover. 4to, original tan cloth, gilt title on upper cover. 104 pp., frontis. map, 2 folding maps, numerous illus., 1 folding. An extensive and richly illustrated promotional account of Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs, with much on mining operations, and featuring several maps. A large folding map at the front shows the gold fields; another map shows the wagon road and railroad ties of the District, and another the Economic Geology of the... Read More
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Partially printed petition, signed by inhabitants of Lenox, Mass., against the admission of Florida into the Union
[Lenox or Boston, Mass., 1839]. Print slip (2.5” x 7.75”) affixed to lined paper with manuscript signatures (full size 13.5” x 7.75”). CONDITION: Very good, old horizontal folds. Three pin holes at top of printed slip. An ultimately fruitless petition, signed by the townspeople of Lenox, Massachusetts, entreating the United States Senate not to accept Florida into the Union as a slave state. Florida Territory already operated on a largely plantation-based economy, and abolitionists were rightly worried when it... Read More
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Bacon’s Coronation Procession Chart
London: G. W. Bacon & Co., 1911. Map printed in red, green, blue and black with hand-colored routes, 11.5” x 16” (sheet size 18” x 24”), folding into gray printed covers, 6.5” x 3.875”. [With] 1 ticket on blue and white stock, filled out in manuscript, 5.5” x 7.625”. CONDITION: Very good, light wear and .5” to 1” separations beginning at margins along some old folds. A rare map showing the procession routes for the coronation of King George... Read More
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Radges’ Directory of the City of Topeka for 1887-8
[Topeka, Kansas: Samuel Radges, 1887]. 8vo, original purple cloth, gilt spine, gilt advertisements to covers. [7], 20-482, [2] pp., double-page chromolithographic map, folding map, 12.75” x 21.875”, numerous color-printed advertisements, illus. CONDITION: Good, rubbed, spine sunned, front hinge cracked and sprung but holding. An excellent, quite substantial western city directory, with maps and advertisements printed in color. It includes a double-page advertising map of the state of Kansas for Strickler, Daniels & Pounds, General Real Estate Dealers, a fold-out... Read More
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Original photo of Binghamton, California street scene with provision store
Binghamton, California, [ca 1900]. Silver print, 3.75" x 4.5" on 5.25" x 6.25" gray mount, embossed border. An appealing street view in Binghamton, with men lounging on the steps of a store with a Provisions sign partly obscured by palm trees, a horse and wagon parked near a sign reading "U.S. Standard Jones of Binghamton." From a lot of California photos we purchased. CONDITION: Very good.
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Winter scene, Main Street, Vinalhaven, Maine
[ca. 1900]. Bromide print photograph, 4" x 5.5". Pictured here is a group of men in winter coats, wearing a variety of caps and hats, conversing after a snow storm in front of Ames Bakery on Main Street in Vinalhaven, Maine. Some appear to be in uniform, some are dressed like workers, and others are dressed in bowler hats. Nice historic image. CONDITION: 1" tear near top right corner, .625 chip near bottom right corner, rubbing at extremities, remnants... Read More
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Seeing Salt Lake City : The Gray Line
Baltimore, MD: Association of Gray Line Owners, 1928. Color brochure. 8" x 9.375", folded to 4" x 9.375", pictorial color upper and lower covers. 9 pp, color map, Gray Line East schedule, Gray Line West schedule, numerous illus. Sightseeing motor tours of Salt Lake City and "All Over the Map" are offered and described by the The Gray Line Association in this substantial guide. The color map on the first page illustrates all the stops throughout the... Read More
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Map of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Rail Road, Designating Lands granted by Act of Congress, to Aid in its Construction
Boston: From Office of George C. Rand & Avery, 3 Cornhill, [ca. 1859]. Meisel Bros., Lith. Lithograph on two joined sheets, 22.5" x 71" plus margins, recently backed with mulberry paper. CONDITION: Good, repaired fissures and minor breaks, mainly in the margins; very presentable. A rare, early, and large map of the first railroad across Missouri, intended to promote the lands granted by the U.S. government to fund its construction. Likely published while the railroad was under construction, this... Read More
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In the woods near Sitka
[Sitka]. c. 1900. Original silver print photograph, 4.5” x 6.5” plus mount. Captioned in ink in image at lower right.CONDITION: Very good, some toning to mount at left of photograph, photo fine. Likely shows the Sitka national historic park outside of Sitka.
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Colorado: Seeing Denver and the Denver Mountain Parks
Rocky Mountain Motor Company, operating the Denver Cab Co., [n.d.]. Color brochure. 1 sheet, 16" x 9", folding to four 4" x 9" panels printed on both sides, bright orange cover, 9 b&w photomechanical illus., 4 inset route maps with orange borders. A handsomely illustrated brochure describing 6 tours around the Denver region: Georgetown Loop, Echo and Summit Lakes; Denver Mountain Parks; Echo Lake Trip; and Georgetown Loop Trip; as well as the "All About Town in Denver" and... Read More
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The Bethel Inn
Bethel, Maine, [ca 1915]. 12mo (7.7" x 5.5"), printed pictorial black print on brown cardstock wrappers. 16 pp., numerous b&w illus.,1 4" x 5" map. A brochure beckoning visitors to the Bethel Inn with lovely images reflecting an era of elegant retreat in rustic Maine. Engravings signed by "Hope" depict The Three Elms, The Sun Room, The Parlor, A Sleeping Room, a stagecoach arrival, The Log Cottage on Songo Lake, Fuller's Shack, The Elms Cottage, The Willows Cottage and... Read More
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Congregating at the Zoo
California, [Circa 1900]. 3.75" x 4.5" silver print photograph on 5.25" x 6.25" gray mount. Original photograph of a group of well-dressed men and two women conversing in the shade of a porch overlooking a seal sunning on the edge of a presumed pool. From a California lot. CONDITION: Very good.
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Days of '76" August 8-9-10: Deadwood, The Historic City of the Black Hills
Deadwood, S.D., 1929. Color brochure, 1 sheet (12.25 x 19"), folded into 3" x 6.25', one side printed in blue, the other in brown, numerous illus., ranging from 1" x 2.5" to 5" x 7" to 3" x 16". This attractive folding brochure features evocative illustrations of the Historic Deadwood Days of '76 festival, including "Sioux Indian Battles and War Dances Every Day," a covered wagon train, Paris Williams,"the most ensational Woman Rodeo Performer in America." One image shows... Read More
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Map of Explorations in Eastern Equatorial Africa Shewing the Herald “Up-Nile” and Stanley-Livingstone Expeditions
[Glasgow: Maclure & Macdonald, ca. 1872]. Lithograph on muslin, printed in black within rustic twig inner border and ornamental outer border printed in red; map measures 17” x 13.75” (including rustic border); overall dimensions: 28” x 22.5”. CONDITION: Good, small hole in left margin, lightly damp-stained and toned, not fragile. An apparently unrecorded map depicting nineteenth-century expeditions to the African interior and primarily focused on contextualizing the then-ongoing expedition of David Livingstone, who became the subject of international speculation... Read More
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The Works of Aristotle, the famous philosopher, : in four parts. : Containing 1. His Complete Master-Piece; displaying the secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man. To which is added, The Family Physician, being approved remedies for the several Distempers incident to the human Body. 2. His Experienced Midwife; absolutely necessary for Surgeons, Midwives, Nurses and child bearing Women. 3. His Book of Problems, containing various Questions and Answers, relative to the State of Man’s Body. 4. His Last Legacy; unfolding the Secrets of Nature respecting the Generation of Man. — A new edition with engravings
[Boston] New-England: Printed for the publishers, 1833, 1831. 24mo (6” x 3.125”), orig. blue sugar-paper covered boards, green paper spine with orig. paper title label at spine: “Aristotle’s Works, In Four Parts. Boston Edition, 1833.” Frontis. wood engraving, 247 pp., addit. wood engravings. Later pencil annotation on title page. CONDITION: Good, boards soiled and edge-worn, some loss of paper at upper left of front board revealing spine paper beneath, paper cracked at hinges; contents very good with light foxing... Read More
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Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Society, held in the city of Richmond on the Twenty-Seventh Day of October, 1874
Richmond: Printed by James E. Goode, 1874. 8vo, original printed wrappers. 20 pp. An address to the Southern Historical Society by the Hon. R. M. T. Hunter is the highlight of this 1874 annual report. Hunter encourages efforts to record the heroic southern experience in the Civil War. "We have helped to make this history; let us see that it be truthfully written. For woe to the people who leave it to their conquerors to write the history of... Read More
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![Sale of Forty Town Lots. The Subscriber has laid out, near his residence in Huntington county, Ia. [Indiana], a town, which he has named Charleston](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/451/240/1544240451.0.l.jpg)
Sale of Forty Town Lots. The Subscriber has laid out, near his residence in Huntington county, Ia. [Indiana], a town, which he has named Charleston
Charleston, Indiana, 1837. Broadside, 18.25" x 11.5". Addressed and postmarked on verso. CONDITION: Foxed, light damp-stains, old folds with some losses to lettering at folds, 3.75" tear vertical tear into printed area at top. 2.5" horizontal break in lettering at top, light toning along folds. An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising lots in a nascent frontier town in Indiana, assuring readers that this promotion is more than mere "puff." This broadside advertises forty lots for sale in the new neighborhood... Read More
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Clifton-Morenci [View Book]
Clifton, Arizona: Arizona Copper Company. Drug Department; Brooklyn, N. Y.: Albertype Co., [ca 1910]. Oblong 8vo (8" x 10"), printed tan wrappers, albertype 4" x 5" photograph cut in a semi-circle mounted on front cover. 18 4" x 6" albertype photos mounted on brown album paper, 1 fold-out 5" x 20" panoramic photo. A scarce view book of copper-mining boomtowns Clifton and Morenci, with images of smelters, offices, railways, and hillside and roadside residences of the Shannon, Arizona, and... Read More
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A Gift for Children. [Two lines from John]
Norwich, [CT] : Printed and sold by John Sterry, 1800. 32mo (4.75” x 3.75”), original marbled paper covers. [2], 3-29 pp. Rear wrapper affixed to terminal leaf. CONDITION: Good, front wrapper nearly detached, spine perished, .25” closed tear at right edge, wrappers rubbed, occasional foxing. The second edition of this catechism and collection of moralistic tales designed for the benefit of children and printed by a Connecticut Baptist Minister. It was assembled “by the ministers of the blessed Redeemer,” likely... Read More
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New Album of Montreal Views
Montreal? [ca. 1885]. Hardcover. 12vo, green paper over boards, title gilt stamped on decorative gilt-stamped upper cover. 18 leaves of accordion fold lithographs. CONDITION: Good, extremities somewhat rubbed, last page detached from lower cover, one page partially split at crease.
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Zephyrhills: The City of Pure Water and Golden Opportunities in the Red Clay Hills of Pasco County
Florida: Zephyrhills Realty Co., Inc., [ca 1924]. Brochure (10 cm x 23 cm), printed on both sides of one sheet (40 cm x 45 cm) in two colors, 16 panels. A promotional brochure for house lots and business land investments in a small city near Tampa, Florida. The land was originally purchased by Capt. Howard B. Jeffries as a colony for Union Civil War veterans in 1909. CONDITION: Good, with two creases from being folded in thirds, early notes... Read More
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New and Important Article to Preserve Public Health, and Promote Private Comfort; Manufactured Exclusively in the United States by the Great Pond Mining and Agricultural Company, at Their Works in Cape Elizabeth, Me., and Sold Only at Their Office in Union Street, Portland, and at Agencies That Are Being Established in Other Principal Towns and Cities in the United States. The Subjoined Pages Will Explain the Effect and Value of This Article to All Desirous of Using It
Portland, F. W. Nichols & Co., 1850. 8vo (9.75” x 6”), self wrappers. 15 pp. Prospectus for a deodorizing agent made in Cape Elizabeth, Maine and intended for use in privies. Includes testimonials and instructions for use. OCLC locates just two copies. CONDITION: Good ex-library, with stamps of Maine Historical Society on title-page, two indicating deaccession, a few short tears, punctured through at upper left, but with no effect on text.
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[Belfast Public Library, Maine]
Belfast, Maine, circa 1910. Silver print photograph. Image size: 4.375" x 6.375" on larger paper. With original black paper folder. A handsome view of the Public Library in Belfast, Maine, built in 1888, showing the dirt road in front with horses, buggies and a pedestrian. CONDITION: Very good, slight crease in bottom margin.
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Memorial of the Antiquarian Society, of Bangor, to the Legislature of Maine, Assembled at Augusta, 1847
[Bangor, Maine,] 1847. Broadside, 12.5" x 9.5". Text in two columns below title, early pencil inscription on verso: "Petition of Antiquarian Society." CONDITION: Very good, foxed, horizontal and vertical creases. A satirical memorial of the Bangor Antiquarian Society (established in 1864, a precursor of the Bangor Historical Society) with seven numbered resolutions, including "to grant [the Antiquarian Society] an unlimited charter to build a Boom, in the Gulf Stream"; "To give said Society authority to send delegates annually to... Read More
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Lincoln Campaign Songster for the Use of Clubs. Containing All the Most Popular Songs
Philadelphia: Published by Mason & Co., 1864. 32mo, original printed buff wrappers. 16 pp. First and only edition of this songster for Lincoln's second campaign, with a portrait on the cover depicting a beardless Lincoln, in spite of the fact that Lincoln had a beard at the time. Included here are eleven campaign songs, among them Shout Aloud For Lincoln, Hurrah! For Lincoln and Johnson, and Union and Lincoln. An advertisement for Lincoln badges, pins, and emblems... Read More
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