North America
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# 18373
LAWES, Lewis E.
Strange stories from Sing Sing!
[New York?] : the author, 1934. Octavo, printed diecut wrappers in the shape of prison bars, portrait frontispiece, pp. 36, photographic illustrations. Anecdotes from the infamous prison collected by the warden Lewis E. Lawes. Uncommonly fine condition.
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![Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a Report of the Secretary of the Navy, in relation to Provisions & stores furnished [to] the Squadron in the Pacific Ocean, &c. &c. May 13, 1824. Read: ordered that it lie upon the table.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/10/02143326/2017_DSFB_3801-300x300.jpg)
# 16432
MONROE, James; SOUTHARD, Samuel L.; United States. Board of Navy Commissioners.
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a Report of the Secretary of the Navy, in relation to Provisions & stores furnished [to] the Squadron in the Pacific Ocean, &c. &c. May 13, 1824. Read: ordered that it lie upon the table.
Washington [D.C.] : Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1824. “18th Congress, 1st Session [147]”. Disbound octavo, pp 9, [1 blank], with 7 folding tables; browning and scattered foxing, but complete. The Pacific Squadron was part of the United States Navy squadron stationed in the Pacific Ocean in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Initially, there being no United States ports in the Pacific, the …
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![[MARITIME] Letter from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to shipping line owner R.W. Cameron regarding the conveyance of mails on the new Panama Route to Australia](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/07/27143939/2017_DSFB_2995-300x300.jpg)
# 16014
REEP, Richard Thompson; [CAMERON, Roderick William, 1823-1900]; [ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY]
[MARITIME] Letter from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to shipping line owner R.W. Cameron regarding the conveyance of mails on the new Panama Route to Australia
London, 12 August 1859. Entire letter, 2 pp small quarto, on the engraved letterhead of the ‘Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, No 55, Moorgate Street, London’, from Richard Thompson Reep, Secretary of the RMSCPC, to R.W. Cameron, owner of the R.M. Cameron & Co. Shipping Line, New York; Reep’s message is a reply to Cameron’s enquiries about …
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![[CHAPBOOK] Memoir of Elizabeth](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/07/26164749/2017_DSFB_2961-300x300.jpg)
# 16003
AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION
[CHAPBOOK] Memoir of Elizabeth
Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [c.1850]. Duodecimo (110 x 70 mm), woodcut illustration to upper wrapper; 16 pp, woodcut illustration at head of text; lower wrapper with ‘A Hymn’; wrappers foxed and re-stitched; contents with scattered foxing.
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# 15296
"ARIEL" [PAYNE, Buckner H.]
The negro : what is his ethnological status? Is he the progeny of Ham? Is he a descendant of Adam and Eve? Has he a soul? Or is he a beast in God’s nomenclature? What is his status as fixed by God in creation? What is his relation to the white race?
Cincinnati : Published for the Proprietor, 1867. Second edition. Octavo, original printed green wrappers, 48 pp; a near fine copy. Colonel Buckner H. Payne (1799-1889) was an American clergyman, publisher and racist pamphleteer. Under the pseudonym of Ariel, Payne authored a racist pamphlet, offering a counter-argument to the Curse of Ham, suggesting instead that blacks did …
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![[CIRCUS HISTORY] The Australian Wild Children](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/02/03164834/2016_DSFB_4308-229x300.jpg)
# 14569
LENTZ BROS.
[CIRCUS HISTORY] The Australian Wild Children
Circa 1875. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 115 mm, printed caption on mount beneath image, verso with studio imprint of Lentz Bros., Peru, Ind[iana].; the albumen print is a little faded and has some light marks; the mount is in good condition. A portrait of two microencephalic sideshow ‘freaks’, whose physical appearance …
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# 12741
TUCKER, Ethel & TUCKER, Catherine F.
Glimpses of Bermuda : a few highways and byways
Sevenoaks, U.K. : J. Salmon Ltd. (printer), [1930]. Large octavo, original pictorial card covers (lightly marked), unpaginated, illustrated with 12 tipped-in colour plates reproducing the authors' paintings, accompanied by text on facing pages, and with an introduction with description of the islands; contents clean and bright, a good copy of a charming privately published book.
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# 11039
VICTORIA. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. [PELHAM-CLINTON, Henry, 5th Duke of Newcastle, 1811-1864; BARKLY, Sir Henry, 1815-1898]
War with America.
Copy of a Despatch from the Secretary of State relative to the disposal of the Naval Forces of Great Britain in the event of War, and urging the completeion of certain measures of Defence required in this Colony ; also intimating that the Trops sent to New Zealand shall be forthwith returned. Presented to both …