First edition of this history of Hawai'i, Samoa, and other Polynesian islands, published "to promote interest in Christian Missions" in the region (Preface) — printed in the year of the final Hawaiian Royalist military resistance, and Queen Liliʻuokalani's abdication.

Original Civil War manuscript collection of music for the use of Union soldier Francis E. Brigham, a member of the 3rd Brigade Band of the 24th Army Corps.

Introductory pamphlet published by the American Anti-Slavery Society welcoming new supporters while advising against naive solutions proposed by the "newly converted."

First edition, second issue, of the most influential piece of war fiction in American literature, with the armorial engraved bookplate of Theodore Roosevelt on the front pastedown, and Roosevelt's clipped signature additionally tipped onto the front free endpaper.

First edition of this work that strives to address "the tenuous position of African Americans and impoverished whites in rural Georgia both before and after the Civil War" (Lemon), in a binding designed by Margaret Armstrong.

First edition of the first installment of this long-running cultural institution, containing the biographies of 8,602 prominent 19th-century Americans.

First US edition of this moral tract for working class readers, part of the Cheap Repository series conceived by the eminent Bluestocking Hannah More in an attempt to counter the revolutionary ideas of radicals like Thomas Paine.

Inscribed first edition of this personal history of the abolitionist movement in New England.

First edition of this map of the eastern United States, annotated as the tide of the Civil War turned against the Confederacy.

First edition of this controversial biography of Jesse James, "giving full particulars of each and every dark and desperate deed in the career of this most noted outlaw of any time or nation."