Speech by South Carolina Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800–1876) of South Carolina, later a Confederate Congressman and “first, last, and always a nullifier, secessionist, and revolutionist..... Read More about Speech of Mr. Rhett, of South Carolina, on the Protective or Prohibitory Policy: Delivered in the...
Rare. Free Soil Party campaigning for Benjamin Franklin Newhall, abolitionist, politician, self-made businessman, stationmaster on the Underground Rail Road (UGGR) who helped formerly-enslaved African American..... Read More about For Representative to Congress. Second District. Benjamin F. Newhall, of Saugus. To the Voters of...
Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act by the great abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a leading advocate for civil rights for Black Americans. Here, Sumner..... Read More about The Landmark of Freedom. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, against the Repeal of the Missouri...
James A. Meriwether (1806–1852) was a jurist and legislator born near Washington, Georgia. He served during the Seminole Wars. Washington [D.C.]: Printed at the National..... Read More about Substance of the Remarks of Mr. Meriwether, of Georgia, on the Bill proposing a Repeal of the...
Essay on medical jurisprudence in France by French physician, lawyer, and educator, Jean Verdier (1735–1820). The book is an abridgment of the first part of..... Read More about Essai sur la Jurisprudence de la Médecine en France, ou Abrégé Historique et Juridique des...
Associated Publishers, Inc. of Washington, D.C., were a Black publishing concern founded by the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson. Beginning by at least..... Read More about 21 Portraits Prominent African Americans to Display at Home or School, possibly from the “One...
History of brothels and legalized prostitution in Japan focusing on Tokyo’s “Yoshiwara Yūkwaku” district, segregated for this purpose. “I have compiled this book with the..... Read More about The Nightless City, Or the “History of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku”
Six-Guns 323: “Somehow one loses confidence in a biographer who does not know how to spell his subject’s name correctly. His name was spelled Quantrill..... Read More about Charles W. Quantrell, a True History of His Guerrilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas Border...
Presentation Copy: “My greetings to Bruce Berlind —Max Eastman, October 1965.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf, MCMXVIII [1918]. First Edition. 129pp. 6¼ x 4¾ inches..... Read More about Colors of Life. Poems and Songs and Sonnets. [Inscribed copy
A scarce and early Hawaii surfing novel with sharks and a surfing contest. The protagonist, Kelea, was a descendant of Kelea, the Surf-Rider of Maui..... Read More about Kelea: The Surf-Rider. A Romance of Pagan Hawaii
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Circular and small brochures promoting four patent medicines sold by S.C. Wells & Co. of Le Roy, New York: the herbal “Celery King”; “Shiloh” for..... Read More about C. 1910s S.C. Wells & Co. Patent Medicine
Study of the publication and distribution through the mails of abolitionist and anti-slavery literature and newspapers. Examines the publications of such abolitionist journalists as Elihu..... Read More about The Controversy over the Distribution of Abolition Literature 1830-1860
Popularly known as the story of the Babes in the Wood, is the subject of an old ballad and oft-reprinted as a chapbook for children..... Read More about The Children in the Wood. An Affecting Tale
A young boy sails with the ship Godolphin to the Indian Ocean, stopping at ports in the East Indies, then to China, and then to..... Read More about The Young Sailor; or The Sea-Life of Tom Bowline
Scarce edition of this oft-reprinted tale for children. Hamilton 782 for first Phinney edition, the year before. Cooperstown [N.Y.]: Printed and sold by H. and..... Read More about The History of Goody Two Shoes. Embellished with neat Engravings
Adams: A chapter on ranching in New Mexico. Graff: “In the 1850’s and 1860’s, Brake drifted from Minnesota to New Mexico and back to Kansas..... Read More about On Two Continents. A Long Life’s Experience
The author’s first novel, young adult fiction, and one which is described as being especially appropriate for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The storyline explains..... Read More about Vacant Niche, or Land of Gold
Biography of Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) by French pacifist and Nobel laureate, Romain Rolland. The first European biography to bring attention to Gandhi and his philosophy..... Read More about Mahatma Gandhi, The Man Who became One with the Universal Being
Educator and biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) was one of Charles Darwin’s strongest supporters in publicizing the science of human evolution. This work helped to..... Read More about On the Origin of Species: or, The Causes of the Phenomena of organic nature. A Course of Six...
Manuscript Minute Book of Elk Creek Methodist Episcopal Church in Maryland, New York. Recorded are the activities at the annual meetings of the Elk Creek..... Read More about 1855–1890, Manuscript Minute Book of Elk Creek Methodist Episcopal Church and Society in...
Very scarce. Color illustrated history of of the firm A.W. Faber Company, international lead pencil, writing slate, and art supplies manufacturers and merchants. The company..... Read More about The Manufactories & Business Houses of the Firm of A. W. Faber, An Historical Sketch....
Manuscript daybook of U. Cashman & Co., general merchant and agent for the Lackawanna Lumber Mill. The mill was located on a tributary of the..... Read More about 1830–1831 Manuscript Daybook kept by U. Cashman & Co., Merchant and Agent for the...
An appealing copy of this child’s primer. Illustrated throughout and with a title-page woodcut of a young woman holding a bird and petting a sheep..... Read More about The Young Child’s A, B, C; or, First Book
Author-poet Caspar Bruchhausen (1806-1891) was a homeopathist physician. The book’s more interesting poems (pp92-119) reveal his perspectives on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The..... Read More about Rhymes of the Times and Other Chimes
Unrecorded collection of poems published in Daytona Beach by this Centerville, Wayne County, Indiana author. The Doddridge family of western Pennsylvania settled in Wayne County..... Read More about Mists of Memory: A Volume of Original Poems
