A Presentation to Mr. Joshua Wilson, Late Foreman in the Riverside Printing Establishment, by the Pressmen There Employed

Pressmen of Houghton's Riverside Press Celebrate Their Retiring Foreman with an Evening of Speeches and Song and a Watch, Cambridge, 1865 Saddle-stitched pamphlet, 6 x 9.25 inches, 16 pages; stained and chipped as visible in scans, front wrap and first leaf separated but present; fair condition only. An unusual intimate view of the intellectual life of the pressmen at Houghton and of the regard in which they held their work. Joshua Wilson was foreman for the first thirteen years of the Riverside... Read More

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Relation historique de la peste de Marseille en 1720

by Bertrand, Jean-Baptiste

12mo, 100 x 150 mm (4 x 6 inches), [xii], 512 pages. Contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine, raised bands; light external wear; staining from old tape to front free endpaper and title page; title page and first and last two text pages chipped; pages age-toned; good condition overall. The last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Western Europe killed 50,000 in Marseille and 50,000 in the adjacent region from 1720-1722. This account by... Read More

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Ownership Signature of the First President of the National League

by Bulkeley, Morgan

Ownership Signature of Morgan Bulkeley, First President of the National League Only Civil War Veteran in the National Baseball Hall of Fame One of the Hardest to Find HOF Autographs Owner of National Association and National League Hartford Dark Blues President of Aetna Insurance, US Senator, Governor of Connecticut Written in pencil on the front free endpaper of Washington's Farewell Address, printed in Salem, Massachusetts, for the Washington Benevolent Society, 1811

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Athens and Constantinople -- 72 Large Format Photos -- Wide Variety, Good Tone

by Romaidis Brothers of Athens and Sebah & Joailiier of Constantinople

Leather bound album with 72 large format albumen photographs mounted dos-a-dos on tab-mounted card leaves; leaves measure 10.5 x 14 inches (268 X 322 mm), images all measure approximately 8 x 10 inches (200 x 250 mm); album cover detached, back strip perished; cards are a little wavy as is often the case with albumen photos; images are all clear, with good tone. Also included is a typescript list of the photos with brief descriptions by the collector,... Read More

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Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan, in the Years 1821 and 1822, including Some Account of the Countries to the North-East of Persia

by Fraser, James Baillie

Quarto, 9.25 x 10.75 inches (235 x 275 mm), quarter leather over cloth boards, expertly rebacked; xxvi, [1], 623, 148 pages; large folding map, 25.5 x 17.5 inches (648 x 445 mm); ex-library Sion College, London, with their stamp and their crest gilt-stamped on front board. Map heavily foxed, with offsetting to facing pages and small closed tear at upper right; otherwise very good condition with ample margins and clean and bright text.An early detailed account. "James Baillie Fraser left... Read More

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Taistelu osuustoimintarintamalla [Fighting on the co-operative front]

by Halonen, Yrjö [George]

History of Co-operative Movement in America by Leading Finnish-American Communist, Expelled from CPUSA in 1929 for Opposing Centralization Born in Helsinki in 1891, Halonen emigrated to Canada in 1912 and wrote for Finnish socialist papers in Ontario and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He moved to Superior, Wisconsin, in the early 1920s to edit the Finnish radical paper Työmies, which had ties to the CPUSA and was closely involved with the Co-operative Central Exchange (CCE; Keskusosuuskunta), a largely Finnish organization with a major share... Read More

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Michiganin Kuparialue ja suomalaiset siirtolaiset [Michigan's Copper Country and Finnish Immigrants]

by Hirvonen, Juuso

Finnish Immigrants in Michigan's Copper Country Extensive coverage of individuals and institutions throughout the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where Finns were the largest of several ethnic groups attracted to the area to mine the world's largest deposit of nearly pure copper. Wraps badly chipped and taped, contents good, owner's signature. WorldCat locates 4 in US, one in Canada, one in Finland.

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Jüdische Wanderungen in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Hessen-Nassau

by 1934 Guide Book by Wiesbaden Cantor Murdered in the Holocaust

Octavo, paper boards, 22 x 15 cm, [viii], 132 pages; backstrip chipped, paper toned and a little brittle, with torn title page and occasional chipping, decent condition overall. Half-tone photos throughout.A very evocative guide book to "Jewish excursions" in Frankfurt and Hessen, dedicated to "My wife, Bertha Lilienthal, née Fuchs. My hiking companion on rocky roads." The preface is dated almost exactly a year before Kristallnacht. The author was the chief cantor at the main synagogue... Read More

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First Trade Catalog of US Playing Card Company, 1887

by Illustrations of Backs and Jokers for Bicycle, Showboat, Congress, Etc -- Racist Imagery

The Card-Player's Companion: A Description of the U.S. Playing Cards and Games Best Adapted to Our Cabinet , No. 707 –– First Edition. Published in Cincinnati, 1887, by Russell & Morgan Printing Company. 32-page pamphlet, 4.5 x 6 inches (11.5 x 15.25 cm). This is the first edition of the first catalog of Russell and Morgan (later US Playing Card Company), along with rules for pinochle (penuchle), euchre and bezique.This first edition is rather scarce. ... Read More

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Early Russian Edition of Mark Twain

by Innocents at Home Portion of Roughing It, 1911

Second published Russian translation of the Innocents at Home portion of Mark Twain's Roughing It, 1911, with the Frank Fraser illustrations from Routledge's UK edition.Octavo, paper boards, 5.5 x 8 inches, 196 pages; moderate external wear, contents in good condition for such cheap paper.Translated by revolutionary critic Mikhail Alexandrovich Engelhardt (1861-1915), translator of Locke, Poe, Dickens, Flaubert, Doyle, Kipling, Forel, Marinetti et al. With introduction by novelist Ieronim Yasinsky (1850-1931), who edited this edition of Twain's collected works... Read More

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Little Henry and His Bird, with Original Engravings

by John D. Felter, illustrator

Handcolored Juvenile with Charming Illustration of a Patriotic Kite, 1851Early Work by Prolific Wood Engraver John D. Felter Stitched pamphlet with older cloth tape reinforcing spine, 7⅜ x 4¾ inches, light wear and staining throughout, but still a presentable copy. Ten sheets, including wraps, each printed on one side only, to produce a booklet of eight printed pages with wraps printed on outer sides only. Pencil gift inscription on inside front wrap; to Lewis Cass, but clearly not the secretary of... Read More

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Russo-Japanese War 1904-05

by Over Two Hundred Large Format Photographs by Ogawa Kazumasa

The Russo-Japanese War: Taken by the Photography Department of the Imperial Headquarter, Numbers 1-14; published in Tokyo, 1904-05, by K. Ogawa. 14 large format (10 x 14 inch) pamphlets recently bound together in hardcover. Original wraps bound in, occasional foxing throughout, good condition overall. 224 full page half-tone photographs taken at the front by Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929). Ogawa pioneered photomechanical reproduction in Japan, both collotypes and halftones, and was possibly Japan's most prolific and commercially successful... Read More

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The South: Her Peril, and her Duty : A Discourse, Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, on Thursday, November 29, 1860

by Palmer, Benjamin Morgan

1860 Thanksgiving Sermon of New Orleans Presbyterian Minister "The Providential Trust" of the South "is to conserve and to perpetuate the institution of domestic slavery as now existing." "We defend the cause of God and religion. The Abolition spirit is undeniably atheistic." One of the Most Influential Secessionist Speeches, Delivered Three Weeks After Lincoln's Election Pamphlet in original wraps, spine reinforced with cloth tape some time ago, vertical crease and other light wear, paper remnants adhering to outer back wrap, faint blindstamp of Massachusetts... Read More

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Russian Expansionist Propaganda Miniature Views of Crimea

by Plates from Military Almanacs, 1860s, Mounted in a French Carte de Visite Album at the Height of the CDV Collecting Craze

Thirty-one engravings, all clipped from issues of Памятная книжка (Pamaiatnaia knizhka), an annual almanac of military, naval, imperial court and civil officials, published in Saint Petersburg by Военной Типографий (The Military Press). Each annual contained six to ten plates, mostly of places in the empire outside of Russia proper, reflecting contemporary Russian expansionism. During the period of this album, all the engravings in the almanacs were executed by English engravers whose work appears in English view books. ... Read More

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Confederate War Secretary Blames Military Failures on Treasury Secretary

by Poor Morale, Desertions, Lack of Equipment All the Result of Poor Fiscal Policies

Correspondence between the Secretaries of War and the Treasury, on the Subject of a Deficiency of Funds, Confederate States of America, War Department, Richmond, Va, December 29, 1864.Single folded 9.5 x 12 inch sheet; light toning, starting to split at fold. Very faint rubber stamp, "Record Division, War Department, Rebel Archives." Parrish & Willingham 2315.War Secretary James Seddon castigates Treasury Secretary George Trenholm for currency policies that contribute to poor military morale and desertion. Trenholm's response is... Read More

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1st Chinese Edition Profiles in Courage, with Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and 3 More Published by USIA

by Propaganda or Public Diplomacy?
Important Mid-Century Conduit of American Culture to Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Diaspora

Five books published in Hong Kong between 1961 and 1967 by the United States Information Agency through their Chinese language imprint, World Today Press 今日世界社. Good condition only: these were inexpensively produced, and the Kennedy and Twain in particular were clearly read. Titles include: •John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1961. A more impressive production than the rest: dust jacket, half-title, text illustrations. First edition in Chinese.•Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry... Read More

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First Russian Edition of H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

by Published in 1898, the Same Year as the First English Edition in Book Form -- The First Book by Wells Published in Russia

Borba mirov [The War of The Worlds]Large octavo, 7 x 9.5 inches, 91 pages; covers worn, stamp of tsarist era Tbilisi High School and other library markings on title page, pages toned and brittle, one leaf detached but present.Translation by K.K Tolstoy. Off-print from Novyi Zhurnal Innostrannoi Literatury, where the novel was printed serially earlier in 1898. Later in 1898 this translation was published by Novyi Zhurnal in a smaller, more conventional book format. At the end of... Read More

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Premiere Issue of հոկտեմբերԻԿ Hoktemberik, Armenian Magazine for Little Octobrists

by Revolutionary Graphics by Hovhannes Shavarsh

Stapled magazine, 6.75 x 9.75 inches, sixteen pages including wraps, light vertcal fold, else good condition.This is the first issue of հոկտեմբերԻԿ Hoktemberik, the Armenian magazine for Little Octobrists, the Soviet organization for primary-age children. It was published continuously through 1950, when it was apparently folded into the magazine for the older Pioneers.These illustrations are some of the earliest published work by Hovhannes Shavarsh (1908-1880), honored as a People's Artist of the USSR in 1961. Ranging from revolutionary... Read More

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Blacksmith Poet Memorializes the Worst American Fire to Date

by The Great Portland Maine Fire, July 4, 1866, 1800 Buildings Burned to the Ground

Single sheet, 6 x 9.25 inches, 1.25 inch closed tear at upper edge, edges chipped, horizontal fold, toning to lower quadrant.A blog entry by Nancy Noble, archivist/cataloger at the Maine Historical Society, identifies the poet A. W. Harmon (1812-1901) as a Scarborough carriage smith who published at least fifteen broadside poems on a variety of subjects.

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