Revolutionary War-date Philadelphia newspaper printed and published by John Dunlap, the first printer of the Declaration of Independence. This issue of The Pennsylvania Packet, the..... Read More about Oaths of Allegiance and Elections in Revolutionary War Philadelphia; Congress Supplies the Army...
1839 Letter by Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the influential book Democracy in America, here writing as a member of the French Chamber of Deputies..... Read More about 1839 Autograph Letter Signed by Alexis de Tocqueville concerning the Publication of his Report...
Blunt political document by women, aimed at women and illustrated by a woman. Political broadside aimed at women voting in Maryland’s gubernatorial election of 1930..... Read More about “The Monarch” [caption title of 1930 illustrated Maryland women’s political broadside...
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Rare lithographic view book of resort locations and hotels mostly in New York State and the Adirondack Mountains. The view book’s 14 leaves fold out..... Read More about Adirondack Mountains:] Renowned Places in the United States. [cover title
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Unrecorded 1940 Republican U.S. Presidential campaign handbill or small broadside enlisting the Black vote issued in the aftermath of a “shocking ” and, as suggested..... Read More about Negro Policeman Kicked by Roosevelt’s Secretary. [caption title of political broadside
Signed contract for the rights to publish the novel A Mother from Mars written by Indiana author Frances Foster Perry. A manuscript addendum states Dodd..... Read More about 1908 Publishing Contract for Frances F. Perry’s “A Mother from Mars,” published by Dodd,...
“Governor Harding of Utah Territory 1862-1863, gave this talk to the Utah Territorial Legislature on February 28, 1863. He briefly discusses polygamy [pp5—9] and polygamy..... Read More about Admission of the State of Deseret into the Union; Polygamy; Slavery, etc.] In the Senate of the...
Memorial supporting the rights of slaveholders by 220 citizens of Washington, D.C. who “...do not desire the enactment of any law for the extinction of..... Read More about Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the District of Columbia, adverse To any legislation on the...
Memorial of Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of Africa here joining with the national American Colonization Society to promote..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of...
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Almost miniature diary written by Eliza “Phebe” Whitford (1825–1888), during her mid-30s, recording her itinerant life living away from home with various relatives plus much..... Read More about 1862 Manuscript Diary of Phebe Whitford of Persia, Cattaraugus County, New York
Rush presents scientific conclusions from his original investigation of “the problem of lights” to point out inconsistencies with elliptical theory. Original theorems and mathematical projections..... Read More about The True Doctrine of Orbits, An Original Treatise on Central Forces
Two fan letters from a woman reader to British crime fiction writer Patricia Wentworth, the creator of the character, “Miss Maud Silver,” the heroine of..... Read More about Two Fan Letters from a Woman to British Crime Fiction Writer Patricia Wentworth discussing...
Menu card celebrating the 500th performance of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw’s greatest first-run success, Fanny’s First Play, signed by Shaw, Shaw’s wife, theatre managers..... Read More about Kingsway Theatre Menu Card celebrating the 500th Performance of George Bernard Shaw’s...
Copy photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, the evening before his assassination, with his aide Jesse Jackson. Jackson..... Read More about Photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, the day before his assassination,...
Signed by Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007) on the title page, below which the illustrator has added his cyphered initials. An inscription on the front free..... Read More about Were You There When They Crucified My Lord, A Negro Spiritual in Illustrations by Allan Rohan...
Publicity photograph of the hip-hop duo Da-Lite and Kool Keem who performed as Better Knowledge. Based on the contact telephone numbers, it appears that the..... Read More about Publicity Photograph for Hip-Hop Artists Da-Lite and Kool Keem performing as Better Knowledge,...
Two early and substantial partly-printed forms, dated 1806. Both forms were printed by a job printer, likely in Philadelphia for William Banks, Ship-Broker. The form..... Read More about For Appraisement of Damaged Goods. [two partly-printed forms “Printed for William Banks,...
Official guide book to the exhibitions and grounds of the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition, the first official World’s Fair to be held the United States..... Read More about Visitors’ Guide to the Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia. May 10th to November 10th, 1876....
First edition, in publisher’s original polished cloth, a collection of anti-slavery lectures by Amos A. Phelps (1805–1847), Congregational Minister in Boston and agent of the..... Read More about Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy
Controversial patent medicine inventor and manufacturer William Swaim’s reply to a critique of his mercury-based concoction, Swaim’s Panacea, by the Philadelphia Medical Society. Swaim’s 21-page..... Read More about Some Remarks upon a Publication by the Philadelphia Medical Society concerning Swaim’s Panacea
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View book of the White Mountain scenery and resorts of New Hampshire. The view book’s leaves fold out into a continuous strip showing 18 lithographic..... Read More about White Mountains. [cover title of concertina-fold, lithographic view book
Rare study of socialism prepared for the “Volksverein” of Pennsylvania, a Roman Catholic social reform society. The author’s analysis was guided by the “well known..... Read More about Socialism and Social Reform. Published for the members of the “Volksverein” of Pennsylvania
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Rare and decorative engraved broadside of the Declaration of Independence by George G. Smith (1795–1878), largely based upon the Binns edition, presenting the full text..... Read More about Declaration of Independence. In Congress July 4th 1776. [caption title
Memorial address for American physician and anatomist, Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) of Philadelphia, by William Tilghman (1756–1827), then Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, both men members of..... Read More about An Eulogium in Commemoration of Doctor Caspar Wistar, Late President of the American...
Presentation copy; inscribed and initialed by author Chief Justice Tilghman to his Pennsylvania Supreme Court colleague, Justice John Bannister Gibson (1780–1853), who succeeded Tilghman as..... Read More about An Address Delivered before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture at its Anniversary...
