Saco, Maine: Frank Cutter Deering, 1932. Original Typed Manuscript. Leather bound. 6 3/4 X 8 1/2 Inches. 31 PP + 65 unnumbered illustration PP. Fine morocco leather with five spine hubs ruled and titled in gold gilt. Custom presentation announcement engraved on front cover, "Presented by Sarah Curtis, Saco from..... More

New York: John Dogget Jr., 1849. First Thus. Original wraps. 4 5/8 X 7 5/8 Inches. 60 PP. Includes selections from Franklin's 1733-1735 almanac's as well as a bit of his autobiography. The updated Astronomical calculations by Professor Benjamin Peirce of Harvard University. Foxing and toning. Covers worn a bit..... More

New York: Brentano's, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 Inches. 222 PP. Original blue cloth a bit rubbed at edges and spine. Foxing and toning. $2.50 price on spine of DJ. Light wear to DJ edges and folds, but a very well preserved example. Signed, "For dear..... More

Boston: Samuel Walker & Company, 1876. George T. Andrew; et all. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 X 11 1/4 Inches. First edition complete set issued in 1876/77. Bound in the original deluxe quarter leather binding with tips. Four raised hubs to each spine. Profusely illustrated and very heavy volumes. All plates..... More

New Jersey: Original, 1782. Original Letter. 8 1/2 X 13 1/4 Inches. Autograph Letter Signed. Handwritten letter from Jonathan Dayton, signer of the U.S. Constitution and namesake of Dayton, Ohio, to his father, Col. Elias Dayton. Elias would later be promoted to Brig. General by Washington. Jonathan Dayton was arrested..... More

Norwich, CT: Original, 1793. Original Letter. 7 1/4 X 8 1/2 Inches. Autograph Letter Signed. Important letter from Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Connecticut. In part: "I am this day honore'd with your letter of the 29th Ulto.by Capt. Robert Barry; & agreeably to..... More

Richmond, VA: Press of Cottrell & Cooke, Inc., 1936. First Edition. Cloth. 5 3/4 X 8 1/2 Inches. 243 PP. Blue cloth with title and illustration of "Pocahontas saving John Smith" in original on front cover. Extremities lightly rubbed. Contemporary name on FFEP. Hint of foxing throughout. Includes in part..... More

Philadelphia: Snowden & McCorkle, 1797. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 X 9 Inches. 312 PP. "But we shall presently see this great master of morality (Hamilton), though himself the father of a family, confessing that he had an illicit correspondence with another man's wife." (Page 205)First edition of..... More

New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1884. First American Edition. Cloth. 5 X 7 5/8 Inches. 400 PP + 12 PP ads. First American printing of this 19th century equal rights travelogue by Emily Faithfull. Among other topics, Faithfull writes in regards to women printers in the US, Mrs. Stanton..... More

Nashville, TN: W. Hasell Hunt & Co., 1835. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 3/8 X 8 3/4 Inches. 601 PP + 8 PP Index. Early Tennessee legal text covering cases adjudicated in the state from the first year of statehood (1796) to 1835. Allen #1210. An extremely scarce book..... More

Washington DC: William A. Davis (GPO), 1817. First Edition. Original wraps. 5 X 8 Inches. 40 PP. Original 40PP report containing letters from Latrobe, Lane and Hoban to Honourable Lewis Condict, Chairman of the committee of Public Expenditure, as relates to the public buildings. The content includes damage reports and..... More

London: Rodwell & Martin, 1822. Early Edition. Leather. 3 1/4 X 5 Inches. 244 PP. NY Senator and Secretary of State under U.S. Grant - Hamilton Fish's PERSONAL COPY of Horace. Copious notes from Fish, the 16 year old Columbia College student in pencil throughout. Signed "Hamilton Fish / New..... More

Washington: GPO (Printed by Duff Green), 1835. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 771 PP. Original publisher full tan sheep binding, with red and black spine labels. Square and tight overall. Bookplates to endpapers and ink number "726" on title-page (a private library notation we assume). Incredibly important 1835 record of..... More