THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR
Scarce second edition of this oratory primer, beloved by writers such as Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Scarce second edition of this oratory primer, beloved by writers such as Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Original printed ephemera from Benjamin Franklin's first year running his own printing business, a piece of job printing of the type critical to cash flow for 18th-century printers.
Imaginative European peep show engraving of a major event within British occupied territory: the Great Fire of New York.
18th-century collection of two important hymnals printed by Samuel Saur in German: the rare 1792 first edition of DIE KLEINE HARFE, with the 1797 second edition of DAS KLEINE DAVIDSCHE PSALTERSPIEL (lacking two leaves) – including four leaves of manuscript material by an early owner.
Presentation copy extract from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. III, featuring the first US publication on the education of deaf people.