Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Reprinted from The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 236, No. 3, September, 1943. Offprint. 8vo., 265-271 pp., illustration. Printed paper wrappers; moderate creasing along the top and bottom edges. Very good. An article discussing the first uses of photography, leading to James Renwick and Edward Antony's 1840..... More
Raleigh: Nichols & Gorman, 1869. First edition. 8vo., 136 pp., large folding map with hand colored reference markings by Colton dated 1855. Very light occasional foxing and age-toning; newly rebacked with cloth. Nineteenth century owner's bookplate affixed to the blank front pastedown. Overall, a very good copy... More
NY: Printed by E. Conrad, City of New York, (1833). First edition. Broadside 19 1/2 x 28 inch., printed on silk. There are small holes, evenly spaced along the edges of the margins from a previous mounting, likely on a frame. The edges of the silk are left unfinished and..... More
Urbana and Chicago: Chicago Historical Society/University of Illinois Press, 1989. First edition. Oblong small 4to., xvii, (3) 194 pp., 162 full-page b&w photos. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. Photos by: John Vachon, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, Esther Bubley, Theodor Jung, Carl Mydans, Ann Rosenor and Edwin Rosskam. More
Album of 143 silver gelatin photographs, largely 33 x 26.5 cm or the reverse, printed on a warm and cold tone photographic stock, dry mounted on album leaves 40.6 x 38 cm, recto only with printed captions. Full blue morocco covers, lined in blue silk, gathered with screw posts and..... More
NY: Hopkins & Seymour, January, 1806. First edition. 8vo., vi (1) 215 pp. Bound with; AN ANSWER TO WAR IN DISGUISE; OR, REMARKS UPON THE NEW DOCTRINE OF ENGLAND CONCERNING NEUTRAL TRADE. February, 1806. 8vo., 76 pp. Top margin of the first title page has been clipped; with evidence of..... More
Amsterdam: Nicholas Visscher and Peter Schenk, Jr., 1715. Full sheet, 18.5 x 23.25 inches, with full margins and original color. Aside from a few small spots of foxing in the title panel, a very good example. The original plates of this Visscher map, ca. 1689 were sold to Peter Schenk..... More