(London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1799). ESTC N60288 (Lincoln's Inn Library and Wellcome Institute). An act passed by Parliament in the summer of 1799, delineated in 39 paragraphs, numbered I-XXXIX, that regulated the slave trade beginning in August, 1800 -.....

Guadalajara: Tip. de Rodriguez, Julio, 1873. Probable first edition. Not found on OCLC. A ten-stanza poem of five lines each by the highly regarded Mexican poet Esther Tapia de Castellanos (1842-1897) Fraker description: Rare broadside poem by a Mexican poet highly regarded by her contemporaries. "Many other Mexicans deserve a......

San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951. Second edition, one of 122 copies printed at the Peregrine Press. ¶ The third book of the Peregrine Press, a substantially revised and expanded edition of Evans' earlier work issued under the long title A Contribution Toward a Check List of Bibliographies and Reference.....

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First edition. BAL 20660, state A of the title-page. ¶ The first collection of poetry from H. T. Tuckerman (1813-1871), the prolific and popular American essayist and critic. Neat signature of "Thomas M. Brewer / Boston 1851" on the title-page.

Philadelphia: Joseph Healy; Boston: Weeks, Jordan; New York: John S. Taylor, 1838. First edition. BAL 21710, binding A; American Imprints 53638. ¶ An early and substantial collection of over 50 poems by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891). The first part contains 24 of his memorable abolitionist poems, collected for the first.....

San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1861. First edition, one of 165 copies printed. One of the last published books of San Francisco's Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press, founded in the late 1940s by Henry Evans and his wife Patricia, with assistance from their daughter Judith, who set the type for.....

¶ A letter of condolence to a friend in England written in Lydia Sigourney's exemplary penmanship, delivered for her by the diplomat, pacifist, and social activist Elihu Burritt, who Sigourney notes in her letter is "well known on both sides of the ocean as the 'learned blacksmith.'"

London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Mr. Symonds, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lee, et al, 1803. First edition. The collected poetry of Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), including a sonnet and poem to his friend Thomas Paine, and poems to David Garrick, Charles Churchill, Lord Chesterfield, William Cowper, Philip Thicknesse.....

Boston: Walker, Wise, 1861. First edition. Sabin 16221. A plea for emancipation from radical Unitarian minister and friend of Emerson and the Transcendentalists, Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907). Conway, a prolific and interesting author, was born and raised in Virginia; he attended Harvard Divinity School; served as a minister in Washington.....

(Reno, Nevada): The Black Rock Press, (1965). First edition, one of 80 numbered copies. The first book of the Black Rock Press and the first book of poetry by playwright George Herman, a collection of six amusing poems on sparrows. The Black Rock Press was founded by Kenneth and Patricia.....

London: Printed by J. Cooke, 1767. First edition. ESTC N6101, records six copies: BL, Cambridge (2), Reading University, HEH, and Washington State; there was a second printing in 1769, of which ESTC T173535 records ten copies. A substantial work over 125 short chapters on vegetable, herb, and fruit gardens and.....

San Francisco: Published by Le Count & Strong, 1853. First edition in book form, preceded by its appearance in the San Francisco Herald, in May 1853. Cowan, pages 629-630; Greenwood 426; Sabin 94437. The first account in English of Juan Rodiguez Cabrillo's famous voyage to California, during which he explored.....

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921. First edition. BAL 18797; Mattila A25. ¶ An early presentation copy: "For / Ida Brenda Gregg / these songs of California / and Dreamland, with / all good wishes. / George Sterling. / San Francisco, Dec. 6th, 1921." The earliest presentations copies noted in.....