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![An act relative to prisoners of war [drop title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/409/270/1354270409.0.b.jpg)
An act relative to prisoners of war [drop title]
by Congress of the Confederate States of America
[N.p., Montgomery: neither publisher nor printer identified], May 21, 1861. Broadside (approx.10" x 8"); previous fold, small break in the right margin; very good. The document has been stamped on verso by the Record Department of the War Department. "The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all prisoners of war taken, whether on land or at sea, during the pending hostilities with the United States, shall be transferred by the captors, from time to time and as often as...
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$575.00
Fifty dollars reward. Some person or persons entered the subscribers' house between Saturday and Monday morning, and stole the following articles..
by Perkins, Henry I
Pawtucket, Mass: April 11, 1833. Oblong folio broadside (approx. 10" x 15"), previous folds, some tears in the margins, ink editorial marks and doodles, small piece missing from one corner (no loss of letterpress), good. Among the stolen articles: "1 miniature gold setting; 1 gold curved chain ... 1 pair filigree ear-rings ... 1 gold jet bosom pin ... 1 red pocket book containing $32 ... 1 wood colored oval box, with $55 in specie, principally American half dollars and ten cent pieces ... Fifty dollars...
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$431.25
I had, I lent, I askyd, I lost
by Wulling, Emerson G
[La Crosse, WI]: Sumac Press, 1992. Broadside, 14 x 19 cm.; printed in black, edition size not stated, fine. Rulon-Miller, Wulling 195b.
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$23.00
![Notice and Caution is hereby given, that the Two Locomotive Engines called "Ajax" and "Achilles" now offered for Sale by the Sheriff of Luzerne County (PA), under Execution against the Sugar-Loaf Coal Company, are not the Property of the said Company but (subject to the expiration of a Lease to Captain Robert F. Stockton) are owned by the Subscribers. They annex copies of the Assignment, showing their ownership and will proceed against the Sheriff, and all others who shall interfere therewith. James S. Spencer William Trotter, Assignees. [Caption title and partial text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/235/810/1276810235.0.b.jpg)
Notice and Caution is hereby given, that the Two Locomotive Engines called "Ajax" and "Achilles" now offered for Sale by the Sheriff of Luzerne County (PA), under Execution against the Sugar-Loaf Coal Company, are not the Property of the said Company but (subject to the expiration of a Lease to Captain Robert F. Stockton) are owned by the Subscribers. They annex copies of the Assignment, showing their ownership and will proceed against the Sheriff, and all others who shall interfere therewith. James S. Spencer William Trotter, Assignees. [Caption title and partial text]
by Stockton, Captain Robert F
Philadelphia: R. F. Stockton, 1842. Folio broadside. 520 x 375 mm. (20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches). Folded with minor tears to edges. Foxed with some browning to the edges, but the paper quality is sound. Captain Robert F. Stockton (1795-1866), noted New Jersey military man, politician, and entrepreneur, was involved in many business ventures during his time in and out of public office and the military. He invested in canals, railroads, steam engines and was instrumental in developing John Ericssons's...
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$1750.00
Speech of Gov. Dorr, in answer to the question by the court, why sentence should not be pronounced against him. Newport, Tuesday, June 25, 1844
by Dorr, Thomas Wilson
Providence: A. H. Stillwell, No. 1 Market Square, 1844. Folio broadside approx. 15" x 11". text in triple column beneath the running head, typographic filigree borders; slight chipping in the margins, the whole toned, and mounted; good. Several versions of Dorr's speech at his trial in Newport are known, one published by William Simons, Jr. (on silk and on blue paper), another by the Republican Herald Office (on silk and on blue paper), and another by A. H. Stillwell, also apparently in at least two...
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$862.50
There is more treasure in books..
by Disney, Walt
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d.. 6.5" x 9.5" quotation broadside printed in red and black.
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$13.80
Specifications for building dams on the Whitewater Canal
[Connorsville, Ind: printed at the Watchman Office, 1838. Broadside, square 8vo (192 x 186 mm.); text in double column beneath the running head, a bit toned, some minor ink stains. "Presumably printed at Connersville, Ind., where 'Rules to be observed in constructing the Whitewater Canal' was printed at the Watchman Office, Nov. 10, 1838." AAS only in OCLC; not in American Imprints.
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$373.75
The printer is the friend of intelligence..
by Dickens, Charles
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1986. 13.25" x 9.5" prose broadside printed at MCBA 'Dirty Works' in April 1986, on blue paper.
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$13.80
Wool Carding. The subscriber respectfully informs his friends and customers, that he still continues to carry on the above business, at a reduced price, at his old place, Fowler's Factory, Danvers Neck..
by Potter, Benj., Jr
[Danvers, n.d., 1830. Broadside (approx. 6" x 7¼"), light foxing and staining, previous folds, one short tear in the bottom margin. "All orders left at the store of Messrs. Adams & Tyler will be punctually and faithfully attended to." Benjamin Potter, Jr. (1779-1850) was born in Essex, Mass. Fowler's Factory is likely that of Samuel Fowler (1776-1859) which contained a "Curriers shop, Bark mill and house, large building for sawing marble, grist mill, pulverizing mill, situated in Danvers and Beverly on...
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A provisional prospectus. A weekly for the people at fifty cents per year. A journal for the worker and the student, the laborer and the capitalist, and for the family and the nation
by Butts, Asa K, ed
New York: Asa K. Butts, 19 Dey St., n.d., 1877. Broadside prospectus (approx. 12" x 9½"), likely a proof, advertising a yet-to-be-named weekly paper, "something like Mr. Shupe's Advocate, with its Quakerism and other irrelevant matter left out, and the clearest, most liberal Radicalism of the day put in - devoted to popular science, to social, religious, moral, political, financial, educational, sanitary, hygienic, labor, land, and all other sound reforms." The broadside solicits a total of $1000 for...
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, June session, A.D. 1842. An act to call a convention for drafting a new constitution
[Providence: publisher not identified, 1842. Folio bifolium (approx. 14" x 8½"), printed on p. [1] only, pp. [2-4] are blank; text in double column under the running head; fine. DeSimone & Schofield classify this as a broadside; the copy they cite measures only 11¼" x 8½"; OCLC locates only the Huntington copy which appears to be from a different setting of type which measures 8¾" x 6½"; DeSimone & Schofield 142 (locating 2 at RI Historical and 2 others in private collections); not in American...
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$460.00
![The Charm [Broadside]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/276/914/1315914276.0.b.jpg)
The Charm [Broadside]
by CREELEY, Robert
[Berkeley]: Book People-Mudra, 1971. Fine. 11 x 8.5 inches. Purple floral border. First broadside edition.
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$20.00
The Tragedy of Cato. This Present Saturday, March 16, 1811, will be acted (the 10th time) the Tragedy of Cato.
by Kemble, John
Kemble, John, Theatrical Broadside for the New Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, Saturday, March 6, 1811, 23.5 cm x 15.5 cm, linen-backed blue paper, with a portrait of John Kemble, engraved by J. Rogers from a drawing by T. Wageman, on the verso. Below the portrait is a cutting of the cast of The Tragedy of Cato. This Present Saturday, March 16, 1811, will be acted (the 10th time) the Tragedy of Cato. To Which will be added, for the 18th time, the GRAND DRAMMATICK ROMANCE of BLUE BEARD; Or, Female...
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$550.00
Plaza de Toros "El Toreo" Sabado 29 de Diciembre de 1928 ... Gran Corrida de Toros organizada por empleados de los Ferrocarriles nacionales de Mexico, en honor de los senores funcionarios y jefes de los mismos
[Córdoba, Mexico]: Typ. y Lit de El Buen Tono, S.A., 1928. Broadside, approx. 11½" x 6½", paper a bit toned, else very good.
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$115.00
Three broadside Monthly Reports
by May, Abby W., chairman
[Boston]: April 15, May 15 and July 12, 1865. Three broadsides, each approx. 12" x 6", text in double column, signed in type at the end of each by Abby W. May. Previous folds, very good. The issue of April 15 has given heightened interest to what would otherwise be a routine report: "The especial object of our monthly report would be gained, we are well aware, by merely presenting the statistics of work accomplished. But we should be more, or less, than human, if we did not add a word of rejoicing, for...
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$1006.25
An appeal to honest suffrage and laboring men. Fellow citizens - Living as we do in the same small community..
by A Rhode Island Man
[Providence: publisher not identified], 1844. Large folio broadside (approx. 24½" x 17½"), text in quadruple column under the running head; a few short tears and wrinkling in the margins, some show-through from an old ink notation on the verso, but overall very good. A pro-Law and Order broadside containing a lengthy letter addressed to "Fellow Citizens," and signed "A Rhode-Island Man," attacking members of Rhode Island General Assembly who asked Congress to uphold the Dorrite's People's...
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$920.00
Catalogue of English broadsides 1505-1897
by [Lindsay-Crawford, James]
New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. Reprint of the 1898 first edition, 4to, pp. xl, 526; very good in original maroon cloth, spine gilt. 1814 entries with commentary.
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$51.75
All that mankind has done
by Carlyle, Thomas
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1986. 7.5" x 11" poetry broadside, printed on the occasion of the Grand Opening of Rizzoli International Bookstore in Minneapolis.
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$13.80
Extravagant and wasteful expenditure of the people's money. Fellow citizens -- it is well known to you all, that our state has received a part of our proportion of the surplus funds of the Union, created by the sales of the public lands..
[Newport: publisher not identified, 1837. Folio broadside (approx. 13¾" x 12"), text in triple column under the running head, signed at the end of the third column "Brenton" and dated August 21, 1837; a touch of creasing in the margins; near fine. Protests the use of funds generated by sales of public land to raise the salaries of state judges and assemblymen, and to pay state bank commissioner Samuel Young Atwell, Jonah Titus, and Elisha R. Potter. NY Historical only in OCLC. Not found in American...
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$661.25
![亜米利加言葉幼稚繪觧 [Amerika kotoba osanaetoki] =Teaching young children American vocabulary through pictures](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/433/222/707222433.0.b.3.jpg)
亜米利加言葉幼稚繪觧 [Amerika kotoba osanaetoki] =Teaching young children American vocabulary through pictures
by Utagawa, Yoshitoyo
Japan, n.d., 1870. An omochae, or toy picture broadside, approx. 14" x 10"; minor wear to extremites, repaired and neatly reinforced with paper on verso, some soiling. Omochae were broadsides and pamphlets that provided entertainment and education to young children through the use of colorfully illustrated terms for study. They appeared in number during the Kansei era (1789-1801), and remained popular through the Meiji period (1868-1912). Ths broadside provides a number of English terms in hiragana...
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$575.00
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1987. 11.5" x 15" broadside printed at the Science Museum of Minnnesota as part of the exhibition "Printing: From Craft to Technology," and published in the bicentennial year of the U. S. Constitution.
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$23.00
Circular. To the suffrage men of Rhode Island. Fellow citizens..
[Providence: publisher not identified, n.d., 1842. Folio broadside (approx. 16" x 8"), text in a single column under which a list of 41 names in double column; near fine. "We whose names are hereto appended, were and still are, in favor of a constitutional form of government for the state of Rhode Island..." "Relates to two constitutions (People's and Landholders') 'now in the hands of the citizens'; supports Landholders' Constitution even though 'we yet voted from the People's Constitution; our object...
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$402.50
Stars & stripes
by Kendrick & Co. Publishers
Philadelphia, 1861. Broadside (approx. 18 x 14"); adorned with 32 small circular mustard-colored vignettes engraved in black, each depicting the seal of a state of the Union; some offsetting due to having been previously folded, else a fine example. Attractive advertisement for the Philadelphia weekly illustrated newspaper, which "contains 8 Pages, 40 columns of reading matter, from the pens of the best American authors; national and not sectional; it is emphatically the best literary paper in America....
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$862.50
This Is A Printing Office..
by Warde, Beatrice
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1985. 15" v 11.5" quotation broadside printed on occasion of the Grand Opening of Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
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$20.70
