Pittsburgh, Pa. August 2, 1838. [2]pp., on a single folded sheet, integral blank addressed on verso. Original mailing folds, somewhat tender along fold lines, a small panel of integral blank chipped away along fold lines, short tear and small area of loss from removed wax seal to first leaf costing.....

Boston: Published at the Office of the Society, 1864. 86pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine titles. Light chipping and soiling to wrappers. Contemporary notation to header of title, else internally clean. Very good plus. An account of the second year of the.....

Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, October, 1791. [2],[595]-642,647-656pp. Lacking two leaves of text. Disbound. Moderate foxing, first text leaf chipped along fore-edge, costing a few letters, with an old repaired tear just into the text. A significant issue of The Massachusetts Magazine, with two items of African American.....

[Various locations, mostly in Massachusetts: 1898-1962]. Small vernacular photograph album, with [9] leaves, illustrated with thirty-eight photographs, from thumbnails to 5.75 x 3.5 inches, plus fifty-five loose photographs, mostly in studio mounts, ranging from 3.5 x 2.5 inches to 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Occasional wear and chipping to mounts, photographs.....

Boston: Washington Press, [1912]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minor wear and soiling, a few short closed tears to edges, corners creased. About very good. A rather rare political campaign leaflet published by the Progressive Party's candidate for the 1912 gubernatorial election, Charles Sumner Bird. The interior includes a......

Boston: Rand, Avery and Company, 1872. 16pp. Light green printed wrappers. Soft vertical crease throughout, a hint of soiling and staining to covers. Very good. Scarce first edition of the first separate publication of Alexander Graham Bell's work on "visible speech," preceded only by a journal article that appeared in.....

[Various locations: 1876-1909]. Approximately 250 autograph letters, signed, totaling over 1,000 pages, plus various manuscript documents, two manuscript maps, a group of typed transcripts of letters, and a handful of contemporary family photographs. Minor occasional wear and toning, but overall a well-preserved group. An extraordinary collection of original correspondence written.....

Boston: Printed by J. Howe, No. 39, Merchants Row...Engraved by N. Dearborn...Entered according to Act of Congress by J. Greenleaf, 1840. Broadside, 21.25 x 29 inches, printed in eight columns, with eight mounted intaglio portraits, each 3.5 x 3 inches, all text and portraits within an elaborate ornamental border. Moderate.....

[N.p., probably Boston: ca. 1887]. [8]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor dust-soiling and edge wear, soft vertical crease throughout. Internally clean. An apparently unrecorded prospectus for Woodward Underground Telephone and Telegraph Company, an early New England telephone service provider that proposed underground lines between various cities in Massachusetts and New.....

Northampton, MA: Publicado por Simeon Butler, 1828. [4],296pp. Original green paper-covered boards, blue cloth backstrip. Moderate staining and wear to boards, front board cracked diagonally across, spine a bit chipped, joints partially split. Varying levels of foxing and toning throughout. Overall good, original condition with ample margins. An interesting entry.....