A study of Mid-East Africa, including the period of Portuguese occupation, based on research in the heretofore “...rarely opened files at the Record Office and..... Read More
“This work sets forth the intricacies and iniquities of the slave traffic to the colony, the part played by the African in the economy of..... Read More
Biography of Pan-Africanist and Liberian diplomat Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912), a native of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. “Throughout the 1860s and 1870s Blyden became intensely..... Read More
Thoughts on post-war peace by this noted African American sociologist, historian, and Pan-Africanist, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963), published in what were the waning months of..... Read More
Proceedings of an international conference held in Cairo of political leaders from 45 Afro-Asian countries. Includes reports from Egypt, Soviet Russia, India, Syria, Japan, communist... Read More
Assessment of Abraham Lincoln’s mind on the questions of slavery and the emancipation of 3.5 million enslaved African Americans, published just over 50 years after... Read More
“Lincoln became Lincoln because of the Negro, and it was the latter who first reflected the image of the Lincoln that was to live.” (Author’s..... Read More
Centennial history of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which freed 3.5 million enslaved African Americans. The “evolution of the document in the mind of Lincoln..... Read More
Study of Abraham Lincoln’s pre-presidency and his evolving political positions on the issue of slavery. With a handy “Political Calendar” providing a digest of Lincoln’s..... Read More
A study of Abraham Lincoln’s four terms in the Illinois legislature, 1834–1842. With bookplate of Lincoln enthusiast, Robert J. Sommerfield of East Peoria, Illinois.¹ Inscribed..... Read More
The standard bibliography on Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth U.S. President, “Great Emancipator” of slaves, and hero-martyr of the American Civil War. “Five major bibliographies have appeared..... Read More
Quite scarce. Compilation of addresses on contemporary economic, political, educational, and social issues affecting African Americans. These 17 talks were delivered at the second Southern... Read More
Exuberant 1950s promotional brochure for the restaurants, supper clubs, cocktail bars and night clubs of Denver, Colorado. A pictorial, stylized map of Denver indicates the... Read More
English-language travel guide to early Taishō-era Japan, issued by the Japanese Imperial Government Railways and specially published for distribution to visitors to the Panama-Pacific International..... Read More
C.1930s travel brochure for Taos, New Mexico issued by The Don Fernando Hotel, named for late 17th and early 18th century Spanish Conquistador, Don Fernando..... Read More
Authoritative 240-year history of this Pennsylvania church. Richmond: August Dietz, 91944]. 165pp. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with plates. Publisher’s red cloth, without dust jacket. Spine..... Read More
Bookplate of William Sloane Kinney designed and executed by noted illustrator, woodcut artist, and bookplate designer J.J. Lankes (1884–1960). The bookplate depicts a colossal man..... Read More
Seventeenth-century Pennsylvania indenture conveying 250 acres of land on Chester Creek in Chester County originally deeded to Edward Blake by William Penn, Propriatary and Governor... Read More
Report to The Philadelphia Society, for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons by its Prison Agent, William J. Mullen. It discusses the insane in prison... Read More
History of the education of U.S. Navy officers from 1775 to 1845, before the founding of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Chapter headings... Read More
Clark, New South (t.p. illustrated) II:6 — “[Archer] seemed unable to divest himself of certain English attitudes. His position on race is indicated by his..... Read More
Unrecorded and modestly illustrated broadside celebrating Lincoln’s birthday at 100 years. Lincoln was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky in 1809. Here, at Lincoln University, the activities... Read More
The rice industry in antebellum South Carolina, seen through the papers of rice lands owner and slaveholder Robert Francis Withers Allston. Allston “cultivated thousands of..... Read More
Great Depression-era report “of a study of combined farming-industrial employment conducted in the Southeast by the Federal Emergency Relief Agency. Comparative social and economic data..... Read More
Numerous papers presented and illustrated, an excellent copy. Tokyo: Yamakawa-Shuppansa, 1982. 409pp. Publisher’s cloth. Illustrated. Fine condition in lightly-soiled publisher’s slipcase. Read More
![Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author]. Benjamin Quarles, 1904–1996.](/pictures/thumb/3728030_1.jpg?v=1545088713)
![The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009.](/pictures/thumb/3728026_1.jpg?v=1546963424)
![Lincoln’s Preparation for Greatness. The Illinois Legislative Years. [Inscribed by Author]. Paul Simon, 1928–2003.](/pictures/thumb/3728023_1.jpg?v=1544633427)
![[Standard Abraham Lincoln Bibliography:] Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library…Lincoln Bibliography 1839–1939. [Two Volume Set]. Jay Monaghan, 1891–1980.](/pictures/thumb/3728022_1.jpg?v=1544633426)
![Denver Fun Map [cover title]. Entertainment Advertising Company.](/pictures/thumb/3727772_1.jpg?v=1544633425)
![[Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Japan. Imperial Government Railways Travelers’ Handy Guide 1915. Imperial Government Railways.](/pictures/thumb/3727620_1.jpg?v=1544633423)
![TAOS—-worth a trip across a continent! The Don Fernando Hotel. Taos, New Mexico. [cover title]. The Don Fernando Hotel.](/pictures/thumb/3727610_1.jpg?v=1544633422)
![[1928 Woodcut Bookplate by J.J. Lankes for the Library of William Sloane Kinney.]. Lankes, 1884–1960, Julius John Lankes, William Sloane Kinney.](/pictures/thumb/3726728_1.jpg?v=1544633421)
![[17th Century Pennsylvania Indenture of Richard Halliwell of Newcastle and Hannah Blake of Philadelphia conveying Land in Chester County, Pennsylvania to Thomas Cartwrite]. Richard Halliwell, Hannah Blake.](/pictures/thumb/3724844_1.jpg?v=1544633418)
![[African American Prisoners] Eighth Annual Report of William J. Mullen, Prison Agent, to The Philadelphia Society, for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons…January 1, 1862. Prison Agent William J. Mullen, 1805–1882.](/pictures/thumb/3724800_1.jpg?v=1546963420)
![Education in the Early Navy. A Dissertation… [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]. Henry L. Burr.](/pictures/thumb/3728164_1.jpg?v=1544054958)
![Centennial Celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday at Lincoln University, Pa ... February 12, 1909. [opening lines of small broadside].](/pictures/thumb/3728174_1.jpg?v=1546963428)
![Part-Time Farming in the Southeast. Research Monograph IX. [Works Progress Administration. Division of Social Research.]. R. H. Allen.](/pictures/thumb/3728157_1.jpg?v=1544562370)
