Recent Arrivals from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

folio, 14 typescript – carbon pages, on rectos only, lacking the text of page one of Parker's account, accounting for 19 lines of text in the printed version, supplied here in facsimile, the last page is signed and dated by Parker. Typescript Draft of General Ely Samuel Parker's narrative of Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, written by Grant's military secretary… Read more about this item

New York: J. L. Webster, 1834, folding folio broadside within decorative border, with letter press text giving the steamboat routes, roads, distances, statistics, etc., copyrighted by Webster in 1834, with folding colored map, entitled: Phelps & Squires' Travellers' Guide, and Map of the United States Containing the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat and Canal Routes. New York: Published by Phelps… Read more about this item

New York: Published by Humphrey Phelps, 1847, 16mo, 70 pages, with large folding colored map, entitled: "Phelps's National Map of the United States. A Travellers Guide, Embracing the Principal Rail Roads, Canals, Steam Boat & Stage Routes Throughout the Union". New York: Published by Humphrey Phelps, 1847, measuring 53.6 cm x 62.4 cm, folds into the original gilt and embossed… Read more about this item

New York: J. H. Colton and Company, 1857, 16mo, xii, [13] – 149, 37 pp., catalog of Colton's publications, large folding colored map, measuring 53.5 x 72 cm, entitled: Guide Through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska & Kansas. Showing the Township lines of the United States Surveys, Locations of Cities, Towns, Villages, Post Hamlets, Canals, Rail… Read more about this item

141 letters, 467 manuscript pages, all but 4 with their retained mailing envelopes, dated 15 August 1917 to 14 December 1919. Of the 141 letters, 139 of the letters were written by Laurence H. Adams to his future wife Hazel Schramm. Of these 139 letters, 91 of them were written by him while in military service during WWI, both state… Read more about this item

quarto, three pages, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, some light damp staining, else in good, legible condition. The letter describes a journey from Burlington, Vermont to Montreal via Lake Champlain on an early steamboat. The letter writer then gives his impressions of Montreal, its people and its architecture as well as its future prospects: "Montreal Augt. 3, 1816 My dear friend, I… Read more about this item

Quarto, two pages, plus address leaf, formerly folded, short tear into letter, repaired with archival tissue, portions missing from address leaf, docketing on address leaf in Smith's hand, else in good, legible condition. Gerrit Smith was a reformer who devoted his large fortune to what he considered the good of mankind. Smith's wealth was derived in large part from vast tracts… Read more about this item

Quarto, three pages, plus stamp less address leaf, in very good, clean, and legible condition. Dixon writes to a constituent concerning the disposition of various political posts, patronage, and appointments, before turning to discussion of affairs in Congress: "… I had the pleasure of receiving several communications from you since my return to Congress, - and have not been inattentive to your… Read more about this item

Quarto, 3 pages, plus stamp less address leaf, hole from seal opening, no loss of text, else in very good, clean, and legible condition. 1840 An enthusiast for the presidential candidacy of William Henry Harrison, recording a "chat" with "Old Tip" on the campaign trail. "My Dear and Worthy Harrisonian, … It gave me great pleasure to hear that my old friends in… Read more about this item

quarto, one page, plus stamp less address leaf, in very good, clean, and legible condition. 1841 Young Lincoln's Law Clients and the Jewish Gratz Family of Philadelphia. "… We received a letter from S. M. Tinsley & Co. of Springfield, Ill. In the early part of the month, advising us of a Deposit having been made at your Bank with instructions that… Read more about this item

small quarto, 131 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in original ¼ sheep and marbled boards, binding somewhat worn and rubbed, text in very good, clean, and legible condition. Manuscript minute book containing the record of the meetings of the trustees of the Methodist Church in the small village of Turin, New York. The volume is of the greatest interest for its… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1847, folding lithographed pocket map, original full coloring of Mexico and vivid rose outline coloring of Texas. Measures 46 x 66.8 cm. Inset street map and environs of Monterrey at top right on tinted pink ground: The Late Battlefield. Folds into the original embossed green roan case, stamped in gilt Mexico, with printed statistical broadside: Extent… Read more about this item

Quarto, three pages, plus stamp less address leaf, in very good, clean, and legible condition. The letter discusses various aspects of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C. and Cumberland, Maryland. The canal's principal cargo was coal from the Allegheny Mountains. Rhind also mentions the "war fever" then raging in… Read more about this item

Six letters, 20 pages, two letters retain their original mailing envelopes, in good, clean, and legible condition. Six letters pertaining to the Coburn family, including three letters by Stephen Coburn to his sisters, two of which were written while he was a teacher on a plantation in Tarboro, North Carolina in 1840. "Tarboro April 6, 1840 Dear Sister Elvira, … I was very anxious… Read more about this item

The collection includes twenty-one letters, 115 pages, including sixteen letters from Abraham Paul Leech to his son, and five from friends of John Leech to him, with one pencil sketch and fifteen watercolors by Abraham Paul Leech, circa 1859-1870. These letters were mainly written by Leech from his home in Jamaica, Long Island, New York, to his son, John while he… Read more about this item

"After reading the Statement of Mr. Ware and Mr. Leaming with care I do not find any thing to satisfy me in legal point of view, that Mr. Townsend Sharpless is not the party against whom Mr. Budd's action must be brought. The Mayor has furnished a copy of his Record upon which Mr. Sharpless's liability is clear. If he… Read more about this item

folio, one page, formerly folded, docketed on verso: "Inventory of Geo. Morris Estate 1794". Some splits along folds, and separations at fold joints, else in good, clean legible condition. Manuscript estate inventory for little known pioneer American seedsman and gardener George Morris dated 1794. There is almost no documentation for Morris and thus he is little known today, but he sold… Read more about this item

legible condition. A manuscript note on the last page states: "This oration was written for July 4, 1844 & for which I received the second prize, a silver medal from the Young Men's Association of the City of Utica – It was not delivered – M. M. Jones. Delivered with the amendments in red ink at Hampton July 4, 1845" Fourth of… Read more about this item

Quarto, 10-pages, approximately 3000 words, old fold line with several separations along folds, but in very good, clean, and legible condition. Dramatic eyewitness account of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn's early morning surprise attack on Holly Springs, Mississippi, the resulting capture by the narrator, a cotton buyer from Rhode Island, and the destruction at the Union supply hub. An expansive autograph letter… Read more about this item

large broadside, measuring 55 x 24 inches, printed in red and blue ink on white paper stock, in a variety of large display types. Some minor ruffling to bottom edge of sheet and edges, few short splits along horizontal folds, else a very good copy.