THE MYRIOPTICON
First edition of this historical panorama of the US Civil War, a complex marriage of education, play, and propaganda.
First edition of this historical panorama of the US Civil War, a complex marriage of education, play, and propaganda.
First edition of this narrative of "an officer's wife on the plains," published in an effort to clear her husband's name in the wake of his defeat at Fetterman's Fight.
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.
Rare newspaper account from one of Henry "Box" Brown's first public appearances, the Boston lecture where he received the nickname "Box," just two weeks after he mailed himself to freedom.
Introductory pamphlet published by the American Anti-Slavery Society welcoming new supporters while advising against naive solutions proposed by the "newly converted."
Printed Writ of Judgment with manuscript additions, signed by Cheswell in his capacity as Justice of the Peace for Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
First edition of this Gilded-Age handbook for the aspiring Floridian, by a passionate lover of the land and its lizards.
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 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.
Handsomely bound 2nd edition of the first collection of words and phrases characteristic of American English.
Inscribed first edition of this personal history of the abolitionist movement in New England.
First US edition of this this fascinating half-travelogue, half-history book, documenting the experiences and observations of a Hungarian politician and his wife as they tour the Antebellum US South.
Revised and enlarged edition of an illustrated travel guide to Concord, Massachusetts, with an extensive inscription by the author recommending the best way to see Concord is "with a superb indifference to time."
First UK edition — and the first printed edition outside the US — of the foundational text of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, in an extraordinary, likely original, morocco binding.
First edition of this map of the eastern United States, annotated as the tide of the Civil War turned against the Confederacy.
Startlingly rare first printing of Gilman's most important nonfiction work.
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."
First edition of this collection of documents and writing by Washington published in the wake of his death, a work that helped shape his enduring image and legacy.