British Antislavery 1833-1870.
The British antislavery movement marked victories with British ending its involvement in the slave trade in 1807 and emancipation in Britain’s sugar colonies in 1833..... Read More about British Antislavery 1833-1870
The British antislavery movement marked victories with British ending its involvement in the slave trade in 1807 and emancipation in Britain’s sugar colonies in 1833..... Read More about British Antislavery 1833-1870
Subscriber’s Edition; limited to 250 copies signed by the author, this being No. 9 presented to Sir Albert Robinson. [Durban, South Africa]: The Durban High..... Read More about Durban High School] The D.H.S. Story 1866-1966. Faithfully Recorded. (Signed
First U.K. edition, first issue of of Selby’s novel of lower class Brooklyn during the 1950s with themes of drug use, homosexuality, drag queens, and..... Read More about Last Exit To Brooklyn
First edition, first printing of Selby’s novel of lower class Brooklyn during the 1950s with themes of drug use, homosexuality, drag queens, and prostitution. Presentation..... Read More about Last Exit To Brooklyn. (Presentation copy
Autograph letter signed from British landscape painter Hugh William Williams (1773–1829) concerning an unspecified proposed publication to be sold by subscription. Williams here writes to..... Read More about 1810 Autograph Letter Signed by Hugh William Williams (1773–1829), Landscape Painter
Vaudeville program for the week of October 27, 1902 at Hyde & Behman’s Theatre on Fulton Street in Brooklyn including a one-act play by George..... Read More about Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn. [1902 Theater Program
Program for the biographical play Robert Emmet, The Days of 1803 about that Irish patriot and rebel leader executed for leading a rebellion in Dublin..... Read More about Grand Opera House, Brooklyn. [1903 Program
1874 advertising broadside for a United States Army quartermaster’s sale in Reconstruction-era Mississippi, apparently unrecorded. The sale of camp stores and garrison equipage was held..... Read More about Public Sale! ... There will be sold in the City of Jackson, Miss. ...May 16, 1874, the following...
Printed by the boys in the school’s class in printing. Swinehart was the chief parole office of the Glen Mills Schools in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania..... Read More about Printed by Juvenile Delinquents] Address at the Opening of the Annual Conference. Pennsylvania...
First Edition. Copy “W,” one of 26 special copies signed by the author below which he has written out an early draft of one of..... Read More about Radon Daughters. A voyage, between art and terror, from the Mound of Whitechapel to the limestone...
“Bartlett also became known as a loyal defender of John Quincy Adams’s administration, especially in February 1828 when the Jacksonians accused the president of spending..... Read More about Remarks of Mr. Bartlett, of N. Hamp. [caption title of 1820s Speech of Ichabod Bartlett of New...
Excellent Arts and Crafts folklore title collecting tales of American folk hero Paul Bunyan in the Pacific Northwest. Linoleum print illustrations and decorative page borders..... Read More about Paul Bunyan Comes West
Not recorded on OCLC. In two separate OCLC accessions, for two separate years, AAS supplies entries for the years 1848 and 1850, but not this year..... Read More about Minutes of the Illinois Annual Conference, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at...
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The conference was held at Belleville, Illinois, close to St. Louis..... Read More about Minutes of the Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church held at Belleville,...
Affecting letter between siblings during hard times in post-Revolutionary War Connecticut. Isaac Silliman begins his letter to his sister by noting his neglect of writing..... Read More about Affecting 1789 Autograph Letter Signed by Isaac Silliman of New Haven, Connecticut to His Sister
In 1857, Isaac Toucey (1792–1869) of Connecticut was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President James Buchanan. Prior to this, Toucey, a native of Newtown..... Read More about 1856–1863, Small Collection of Letters and a Document Signed by Isaac Toucey, U.S. Secretary of...
Handsome copy of this penny chapbook and hymnbook for children. J.G. Rusher first issued this title in 1814, but we believe the present copy is..... Read More about Dr. Watts’s Divine Songs for Children. [cover title
Isabel Fiske Conant a.k.a. Isabella Fiske Conant Three typed sonnets and a typed letter by prolific late 19th and early 20th century poet Isabel Fiske..... Read More about MacDowell Colony Poem, other Sonnets, and a Typed Letter by Isabel Fiske Conant; accompanied by...
Two letters by artist Isabel Bishop (1902–1988) written to “Betty” and “Reg” —discussing her aquatint printing process and agreeing with New York Times chief art..... Read More about Two Autograph Letters Signed by Isabel Bishop, American Painter and Graphic Artist
American antiques dealer Israel Sack, Inc. was founded in Boston in 1903 as a furniture repair business. As their antiques business thrived, they started to..... Read More about Trade Catalogs:] Reproductions of Antique Fittings [and] Reproductions of Antique Fittings....
“This study is an attempt to give a connected and concise account of the institution of slavery as it existed in the State of Kentucky..... Read More about Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865
“For the first week I seemed (as in truth I was) a stranger in a strange Land… ” Circa 1820s letter from evangelist J. A...... Read More about Ca. 1820s autograph letter signed by novice British Evangelist J. A. Roberts
Rather scarce illustrated text aimed at those interested in joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation or knowing more of it. Illustrations show agents-in-training throwing one..... Read More about Personnel Selection and Training in the FBI
American Civil War-era, 1864 official military handbook, The Paymaster’s Manual, or Collection of Official Rules, for the Information and Guidance of Officers of the Pay..... Read More about The Army Paymaster’s Manual [Charles Colné‘s Copy with his Numerous Manuscript Emendations
Still popular today in France, Italy, and Monaco—and within other casinos of Continental Europe—Trente et Quarante (Thirty and Forty), i.e., Rouge et Noir (Red and..... Read More about Influence de l’Esprit Aleatoire sur L’Économie Politique et Sociale, Trente-et-Quarante...