Six photograph albums, with 894 photographs, with several related ephemeral items, documenting the lives and travels of this Philadelphia family in the first quarter of the 20th century.
The Firth… more >
8 volumes, 262 mss pages, plus blanks, various small format bindings (stiff paper, cloth spine with stiff paper boards, leather), volumes measure between 2 ¾" x 5" and 4" x 7", bindings good, some scuffing, written in pencil & ink, in a… more >
New York: Printed and Published by C. S. Van Winkle, 1821, first and only edition, octavo, folding plate, (map and plan), Map showing the Apalachicola Bay and River and a plan of the proposed town of Colinton (the Forbes purchase area), viii,… more >
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