![3736021] The Adventures of Roderick Random. (American Bindings). Tobias Smollett](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736021.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771615022)
Scarce American reprint in handsome condition of Smollett’s 1748 novel, one of the first major English picaresque works and a foundational text of British comic..... Read More about The Adventures of Roderick Random. (American Bindings
![3736014] Avalanche of April (Inscribed and signed). Kimball Flaccus](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736014.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768689147)
First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy: To Mary and Emil Fornieri [sic?], friendly spirits and custodians of one of the most beautiful spots on..... Read More about Avalanche of April (Inscribed and signed
![3736013] Benj. Franklin. [Circa 1801 Benjamin Franklin Portrait Engraving]. Benjmain Franklin](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
Engraving by [Alexander?] Anderson (“Anderson S.”) of a bust portrait of Benjamin Franklin shown wearing his fur cap and with a bolt of lightning in..... Read More about Benj. Franklin. [Circa 1801 Benjamin Franklin Portrait Engraving
First edition and inscribed and signed by the publisher: “To my friends — Neville and Cortland Smith From L. Filbert Crawford the Publisher.” A well-illustrated..... Read More about Who’s Who in American Sports. (1928, publisher’s presentation copy
![3736005] Life and Times of Bishop Isaac Lane. Horace C. Savage](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736005.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1769464953)
First edition of this important biography of Bishop Isaac Lane (1834–1937), one of the founding bishops of the Colored Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church and among..... Read More about Life and Times of Bishop Isaac Lane
Scarce 1841 catalogue from the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts on Tremont Street, issued the same year the institution opened under the proprietorship..... Read More about Catalogue of the Paintings, Marble and Plaster Statuary and Engravings Comprised in the...
![3735828] Memorial of the Constitutional Convention of Utah. Mormons – Mormonism](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735828.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762021820)
Fifth Appeal for Utah Statehood by Constitutional Convention, 1888 Quite scarce. In this impassioned 14-page petition, Utah’s territorial delegates submit a newly ratified constitution to..... Read More about Memorial of the Constitutional Convention of Utah
![3735809] Articles of Impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Andrew...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735809.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771627642)
This official Senate printing contains the full text of the eleven articles of impeachment adopted by the House of Representatives against Andrew Johnson. The charges..... Read More about Articles of Impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Andrew Johnson,...
![3735808] Message of the President of the United States, Communicating, In compliance with a...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735808.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771888622)
State Ratifications of the 14th Amendment, Transmitted by President Andrew Johnson A record of the 14th Amendment’s pivotal course to adoption, establishing birthright citizenship and..... Read More about Message of the President of the United States, Communicating, In compliance with a resolution of...
![3735800] 1845 Senate Report on Petition of John B. Russworm, African-American Editor and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735800.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771791401)
Submitted to the U.S. Senate in 1845, this scarce three-page report confirms that William Russwurm, father of John B. Russwurm, served as a lieutenant in..... Read More about 1845 Senate Report on Petition of John B. Russworm, African-American Editor and Colonizationist,...
Scarce American libretto for a mid-19th-century English opera troupe’s rendition of Rossini’s Cinderella, performed at the Broadway Theatre in New York. While Rossini’s score is..... Read More about Cinderella; or, The Fairy and Little Glass Slipper. An Opera, in Three Acts. As Performed by the...
![3735603] 1888 Organization of the Oklahoma Territory, U.S. House Report No. 263, Parts 1 and 2....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735603.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761527347)
Two 1888 Congressional Reports on Organization of Oklahoma Territory Two 1888 House of Representatives reports—in two parts, as issued—on bill H.R. 1277, a continuing effort..... Read More about 1888 Organization of the Oklahoma Territory, U.S. House Report No. 263, Parts 1 and 2. [Indian...
![3735585] 1844 Memorial from the Tennessee General Assembly Requesting Naval Depot at Memphis,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735585.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771893130)
Tennessee Appeals for Western Naval Defense Infrastructure This 21-page 1844 petition from the General Assembly of Tennessee urges Congress to establish an armory, naval depot..... Read More about 1844 Memorial from the Tennessee General Assembly Requesting Naval Depot at Memphis, with Map
![3735545] [1890 map; present-day Oklahoma:] Indian Territory. Compiled under the direction of the...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735545.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761527343)
Legal Status of Indian Tribes and Cherokee Land Titles, 1890, Map A large and colorful lithographed map: Indian Territory. Compiled under the direction of the..... Read More about 1890 map; present-day Oklahoma:] Indian Territory. Compiled under the direction of the Hon. John...
![3735531] [1867 Indian Hostilities on the Frontier:] Letter of the Secretary of the Interior,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735531.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771877749)
Report on the Origin and Progress of Indian Hostilities, 1867 This Congressional investigation into the outbreak of Indian hostilities during 1866–67 provides firsthand accounts from..... Read More about 1867 Indian Hostilities on the Frontier:] Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating,...
![3735529] 1868 Freedmen’s Petition for Rights Under the 1866 Treaty With the Choctaw and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735529.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761527342)
1868 Rights of Freedmen Under Choctaw & Chickasaw Treaty, Senate Doc. 82 Official 5-page Senate printing of documents relating to the implementation failure of the..... Read More about 1868 Freedmen’s Petition for Rights Under the 1866 Treaty With the Choctaw and Chickasaw...
![3735522] 1845 Senate report concerning Frances Slocum, former Indian captive, the Miami Indians,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735522.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1764545243)
Frances Slocum and the Senate Petition for Miami Tribal Rights, 1845 This 4-page Senate report addresses a petition by Frances Slocum, a white woman taken..... Read More about 1845 Senate report concerning Frances Slocum, former Indian captive, the Miami Indians, and Miami...
![3734949] Sheet Music for “Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere,” Sung by Gloria Swanson in The...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734949.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762021819)
Scarce original 1929 sheet music for the song “Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere,” composed by Edmund Goulding with lyrics by Elsie Janis, and famously performed..... Read More about Sheet Music for “Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere,” Sung by Gloria Swanson in The Trespasser (1929
Arguably the first American edition, though another was issued in New York in 1793, of one of the most popular late eighteenth-century comedies. Irish playwright..... Read More about Wild Oats or, The strolling gentleman. A comedy, in five acts
![3735822] Statement by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah President of the Republic of Ghana, on Certain...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735822.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771543943)
Nkrumah Calls for Pan-African Unity in 1962 Address on the Volta River Project First edition of President Kwame Nkrumah’s address to the National Assembly of..... Read More about Statement by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah President of the Republic of Ghana, on Certain Aspects of...
![3735820] Portrait of A. Toussaint, Signed and Inscribed to Mr. & Mrs. Frank Lambert....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735820.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771625879)
A crisp early twentieth-century studio portrait of a young man in formal attire, produced by Ed. G. Mevs & Co. in Port-au-Prince. The photograph is..... Read More about Portrait of A. Toussaint, Signed and Inscribed to Mr. & Mrs. Frank Lambert. Photograph by...
![3735819] For Dyspepsia [Early nineteenth-century medical receipt]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735819.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771374732)
An early nineteenth-century domestic or apothecary recipe headed “For Dyspepsia,” prescribing a complex mixture of botanical gums and roots combined with West Indian rum. The..... Read More about For Dyspepsia [Early nineteenth-century medical receipt
![3735818] Recipe for Wet Feet [Eighteenth or early nineteenth-century receipt]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735818.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771374729)
An anonymous handwritten “receipt” or practical formula titled “Recipe for Wet Feet,” offering instructions for waterproofing leather shoes or boots. The mixture calls for “1..... Read More about Recipe for Wet Feet [Eighteenth or early nineteenth-century receipt
![3735813] Christliches Gesangbuch zur Beförderung der öffentlichen und häuslichen Andacht für...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735813.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767642428)
A personalized German Protestant hymnal with gilt initials and date added at the time of binding, consistent with continental European practice in which devotional or..... Read More about Christliches Gesangbuch zur Beförderung der öffentlichen und häuslichen Andacht für die...
Frederic William IV Doctoral Diploma for Philip Schaff, Berlin, 1854 Issued under the auspices of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, this ornate Latin diploma..... Read More about Philip Schaff (1819–1893), Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Printed 1854 Doctor of...
