New Arrivals at De Wolfe and Wo

Welcome to our newest on-line catalog! We hope to feature a weekly assortment of our favorite new arrivals to the shop and some of our old favorites that are worth taking another look at. Orders may be placed via email (dewolfeandwood@roadrunner.com) or by phone daily 8am-4pm. An answering machine is also available after hours for those who would like to leave a message. All orders are subject to prior sale. Usual terms apply and institutions can be billed. Shipping will be determined by zip code. All items are returnable within 7 days if not satisfied. We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Checks, Money Orders or Paypal. Please email with questions or comments!

N1. Black Americana. American Colonization Society and the Colony at Liberia. Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1832. 16 pages. Lacking wraps, otherwise in good condition. $190.00.

N5. Klondike Gold Rush. The Klondike Nugget. Published in Dawson, N.W.T. Dated Wed. July 26, 1898. 4 pages wear & tears on folds. $75.00.

M1. Shorthand. Carroll, Lewis. Alice and Wonderland written in Gregg Shorthand. New York: The Gregg Publishing Company, no dated, c1940. 154 pages, in wraps. Good condition. $60.00.

M2. Americana/Maine. Reed, Parker McCobb. History of the Lower Kennebec, 1602-1889. Bath, ME: 1889. 57 pages plus ads. Sunning on spine and crease through center. $100.00.

M3. Jack London. A Sketch of His Life and Work with Portrait. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1905. 12 pages, in wraps. Contents loose in covers, rust residue from staples. $50.00.

M5. Murder. Life, Trial, & Confession of Frank C. Almy. Illustrated. Laconia, NH: John J. Lane, not dated, c1892. 32 pages, in paper wraps. Some staining on covers. McDade 6. $100.00.

M6. Black Americana. Everett, Edward. Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, At the Anniversary of the American Colonization Society, Washington City. January 18, 1858. 12 pages, no wraps. $75.00.

M7. Murder. Confession of Ann Walters, the Murderess! Also, the Execution of Rev. Enos G. Dudley At Heverhill, NH. May 23rd, 1849; To Which is added the Confession of Mrs. Mary Runkle, Who was executed for Murder at Whitesboro, NY. Sold at Skinner's Publication Room 11 Washington Street, Boston. Dated 1850. 32 pages, illustrated. McDade 1036."The Walters undoubtedly fictious, reporting a dozen murders. The Dudley case, a wife murder, seems genuine. The Runkle case see item no. 843. " $325.00.

M8. Women. Condit, J.B. An Address Delivered at the Ninth Anniversary of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, South Hadley, Massachusetts, August 6, 1846. New York: M.W. Dodd, 1846. 31 pp. Good with some light soiling. $30.00.

M9. Ohio Imprint. Pugh, Jordan. Political Conservatism. Address Delivered at the Sixth Anniversary Celebration of the Miami Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi Society… Oxford: Published by Order of the Chapter, 1841. 18 pp. Removed and foxed. $20.00.

M10. California. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, with the views of the minority of that committee on Bill S.350, for the admission of California into the Union as a state. Senate S. Rep. Com. No. 256. Washington: 1849. 10 pp. An early report on the attempt to move California to statehood. $100.00.

M11. Western Americana. American Citizens Captured Near Santa Fe. House of Representatives Number 49. Washington: 1842. 5 pp. Very good. Removed. This report describes the efforts to secure the release of a young American named Franklin Combs from Mexico. He was seized at Santa Fe as a suspected citizen of the Republic of Texas. $65.00.

M12. Blacks. Colored Mariners in Ports of South Carolina. House of Representatives Number 119. Washington: 1842. 18 pp. Very good. Removed. This report describes the offense that the British Government and others took with a South Carolina law that called for imprisonment of free black sailors in the ports of South Carolina. The free blacks were to be held in prison until the ships were ready to sail and were to be released only when the expenses for the costs of the imprisonment were paid by the ship’s captain. $100.00.

M13. Trade Catalog. Saginaw Show Case Company. Saginaw: c.1903. 20 pp. Illustrated catalog of display cases. Good condition with one page soiled. $75.00.

M15. Railroads. Breese, Sydney. In Senate of the United States . . . Report . . . for making a railroad connecting the upper and lower Mississippi with the chain of northern lakes. Senate document no. 244. Washington: 1848. 16 pp. plus large map. Foxed and minor tear to map. The map is entitled Skeleton Map Showing the Rail Roads Completed and in Progress in the United States and shows large portions of the American Midwest and West along with various railroad routes. It measures 35" x 46". $175.00.

L1. Sports. Indoor Sports and Games. Omaha: Union Pacific, 1900. 198, [7] pp. Good condition. 5th edition. Rules for a variety of games including pool, Whist, Euchre and other indoor activities. $50.00.

L3. Western Americana. Pendleton Round-Up, Pendleton, Oregon. Official Program, 1939. Folded brochure with information on events and participants of the 1939 Pendleton rodeo. Good with some added annotations by a former owner. $65.00.

L4. Caribbean. Thome, James and J. Horace Kimball. Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbados, and Jamaica in the Year 1837. New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838. 128 pp. Good with foxing and removed from a bound volume. This is Number 7 of The Anti-Slavery Examiner. $185.00.

L5. Caribbean. Facts and Documents Connected with the Late Insurrection in Jamaica and the Violations of Civil and Religious Liberty Arising out of it. [London: 1832?]. 23, [1] pp. Very good. A detailed account of how local and English whites attempted to hinder emancipation efforts of church groups in Jamaica. $125.00.

L7. Navy. Dickerson, Mahlon. Steam Frigate Fulton. House of Representatives, Document Number 423. Washington: 1838. 145 pp. Good condition. Removed. A detailed report on outfitting this early Navy Steamer. $65.00.

L10. Mexican Broadside. Secretaria De Hacienda.... Durante la guerra con los indio barbaros. Mexicao Feb. 14, 1836. 12 by 8 1/2. The Texas revolt was not only problem for Mexico in 1836. The Indians in Chihuahua and Sonora, the Yaquis and Apaches were on war path. This decree limits the price of gun powder for the duration of the Indian campaign. $900.00.

L11. Cookbook. The Centaur Almanac and Cook Book, 1886. 36 pages, in wraps. $25.00.

L12. Black-Americana. Fourth Annual Report of the Maine Anti-Slavery Society with the Minutes of The Anniversary Meeting Held in Augusta... 1839. Brunswick: Printed by Thomas W. Newman. 36 pages. $300.00.

J3. Broadside. Hollis’ Compound Bonset and Wild Cherry Cough Candy…. Boston: Watson’s Print., c.1860. 10 ¼” x 8”. $100.00.

J4. Music. Spaulding’s Classical and Comical Song Book Containing the Latest Compositions. [New York?; c.1870]. 33 pp. A sweet little songster related to the Spaulding Bell Ringer group (formed in 1865). Some of the tunes are Civil War related. Light soiled yellow wraps. $125.00.

J5. Reform. Tingley’s Improvement for feeding and Watering Live Stock on Cars without Unloading. New York: Humane Live Stock Express Company, c.1881. [3] pp. A very interesting piece that pictures a newly designed railroad car for providing feed and water to animals being sent to market. A rather unique and early attempt to alleviate the suffering of farm animals. $225.00.

J6. Music. Gentle Annie Melodist. New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1859. 72 pp. Good lacking front fly leaf. [with] Gentle Annie Melodist, No. 2. New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1859. 72 pp. Very good with a small book sellers label from Haven & Co.’s Music Store Hartford. Two attractive songster of sentiment music of the period. $150.00.

J7. New Hampshire. Granite Freeman Extra. Concord: March 7, 1846. 15” x 11”. Good with folds and light soiling. An attack against Anthony Colby (1792-1873) who was running for Governor of New Hampshire as a Whig. Apparently he owned an unlicensed tavern that served rum but was denying it during the campaign. $100.00.

J8. Sex. Falstaff Press, Publishers of the World's Greatest Works on Sex and Love Relations, nd circa 1930's. 4 pages. Advertises Lucina Dine Concubitu: A Curious System of Childbirth Without Sex Relations. $25.00.

J9. Women. Small printed advertisement, For Rent-One Pedestal by Marjorie Shuler. For sale by National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., not dated. circa 1917. Measures 3" by 6". $25.00.

J13. Children. Toilet Training- Training the Baby. The Toidey Co. Fort Wayne, Indiana: 1949. 29 pages. Part trade catalogue, part parent manual. Also includes children's car seats. $25.00 As an aside with the list we can announce that Brandy's little girl has just passed the course and is now successfully trained.

J16. Trade Catalog/Fireworks. Seventy-Fifth Year Catalogue and Price List for 1934 of Fireworks. The Masten and Wells Fireworks MFG. Co. Newton, Upper Fall, Ma. 32 pages no illustrations. $95.00.

J19. Black-Americana. Correspondence of Thomas Ebenezer Thomas. Mainly Relating to the Anti-Slavery Conflict in Ohio, Especially in the Presbyterian Church. 1909. Hardcover,137 pages. Ex-library stamps and bookplate. $30.00.

I1. Aquaculture. Finley, George. German of European Carp Its Wonderful Growth and Fecundity with Instructions for its propagation and culture as an article of food for profit, and as a farm product also, twenty eight years experience as a maker and maintainer of artificial lakes and ponds. Pittsburg. 1882. 140 pages some chipping. $75.00.

I2. Banking. Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Franklin Savings Bank in Hopkinton. Concord: McFarland & Ela, 1833. 16 pp. Good with minor foxing and original stiff blue wraps. Includes good content on how this small New Hampshire bank was to be run. $35.00.

I3. Crime. The Life, Trial, Condemnation and Dying Address of the Three Thayers!! Who were Executed for the Murder of John Love, at Buffalo, N.Y. June 17, 1825. Buffalo: Printed for the Publisher, [c.1825]. 16 pp. Good with minor wear and light soiling. Love had made loans to the Thayer brothers and they murdered him so they would not have to repay the loan. MacDade 972. $425.00.

I14. Ohio. Manuscript Indenture, Spring Creek, Ohio, 1845. [3] pp. Interesting indenture for N. Dennen (?) who indentured himself to Carpenter and joiner Joseph Stratton. Details responsibilities. At the end of the apprenticeship he will receive both clothing and tools for the trade. Some ink staining and wear. $50.00.

I18. Sexuality. The Furies: Lesbian/Feminist Monthly Volume 1. January, 1972. 16 pages. The first issue of this militant Lesbian newspaper. Good condition. $30.00.

H2. Juvenile. Dick and Jane: The New We Come and Go, 1956. 72 pages. Paper covers. $40.00.

H12. Black Americana. Root, Pastor David. Liberty of Speech and of the Press A Thanksgiving Sermon Delivered Nov. 26, 1835 to the Congregational Church and Society in Dover, NH . Dover: 1835. 16 pages. Blue wraps. A plea for Freedom of Speech and Press aimed at encouraging Anti-Slavery sentiment. $50.00.

H13. Booksellers Circular. Catalogue of Books Published by A. Phelps, Greenfield, Mass. January 1843. Inner leaf has an order to J. and G Merriam Booksellers Springfield MA with an order. $135.00.

H16. Labor. Loewe Case or Danbury Hatters's Case. American Anti- Boycott Association. New York, circa 1903. 75 pages ex-library. $50.00.

H20. Religion. Fowler, Josiah. An Analysis of Texts of Scripture. Castalia, Eric County Ohio: 1881. Hardcover, 263 pages. Signed by author with a tipped in broadside of Scripture dated 1881 by Fowler. $80.00.

H22. Black Americana. Acts Passed at the First Session of the Ninth Congress of the U.S. 207 pages plus index bound with Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Ninth Congress of the U.S. pages 219 - 352 plus index. Complete. Washington, 1807. Some pages cropped close at top affecting a few page numbers. Primitive binding of quarter leather and boards. Small library stamp on title page. Includes printing of first law outlawing the importation of Slaves. $150.00.

G4. Declaration of Independence. Wilson, George. Oration: Delivered on the Sixty-Third Anniversary of American Independence. Sackets Harbor: Edmund M. Luff, 1839. 17 pp. Removed and foxed. A scarce New York State imprint. $30.00.

G5. Medicine. Morton, William. U.S. 32nd Congress, 1st Session. House. [Report of] The Select Committee to whom was referred the memorial of Dr. William T. G. Morton, asking remuneration from Congress for the discovery of the anesthetic or pain-subduing properties of sulphuric ether. Washington: 1852. 128 pp. A scarce piece on the development of anesthesia. This copy has a printed petition signed by doctors in favor of Morton’s claim glued on to the top edge of page 21. I do not see this petition described in other copies. $175.00.

G6. Trade catalog/ Horse. The Geo. Worthington Company. Cleveland: 1891. 278 pp. Binding worn and scuffed. Interior very good. An illustrated trade catalog for hardware and products for horses. $150.00.

G8. Booksellers broadside. Catalogue of Books, for sale at the Franklin Book Store, Factory, Street, Nashua!! C.1850. 19 ½ x 10. Includes a variety of books on religion, education and a variety of other topics. $750.00.

G9. New Hampshire. McCollom Institute, (Formerly Appleton Academy) Mont Vernon, N.H?.. July 28, 1874. Broadside. 18 x 11 ½. Good with folds. Provides an overview of this new school. $100.00.

G10. New Jersey. Notice is Hereby Given that a Meeting will be Held at the Mansion House, in Salterville?. To consider the matter of right-Angling the streets of the Third Ward? City of Bayonne, Aug. 24, 1869. Bayonne?: Martin & Fulkerson, 1869. Broadside. 14 x 10. Fair only with 2 chips, folds and wear. $50.00.

G12. New Hampshire/ War of 1812. The Following Circular was First addressed to the several towns in the county of Rockingham; but as the subject applies, with equal force, to all parts of the State, it is presumed that the extension of it beyond the county, will not be disapproved. Dated in type Exeter, Sept. 23, 1812. 9 ¼” x 8”. Folded circular sent through the mail. A plea for peace with England a month after the start of the war. $175.00.

G17. Pennsylvania. Inaugural Address of Governor Wm. F. Johnston, Delivered January 16, 1849. [n.p.]: 1849. Broadside. 13 x 9. Good with folds. Johnston served as governor of Pennsylvania from 1849 to 1852. $125.00.

G19. Braille Magazine. Kneass' Phildelphia Magazine for the Blind. Vol. XIX No. 11 June 1885. 14 pages. $150.00.

F1. Football. Camp, Walter. American Football. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. 175 pp. A good copy with a bit of rubbing to the extremities. $475.00.

F3. Aviation. The H-16A Flying Boat Handbook. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918. 44 pp. plus folding plates. Interior hinge cracked. A good early work of flying boats. $250.00.

F4. Native Americans. Two A.L.S. from Joseph Fish (1705-1781) who served as a missionary to the Narragansett Indians in Rhode Island and was also a minister in Stonington Connecticut. This lot includes a 1766 letter on the loss of Fish’s daughter written to Eleazer Wheelock. A second letter requests that books be provided for the Indian children at Niantic (Niantic?). The Niantic had a small reservation in what is now East Lyme, Connecticut. $1250.00.

F8. Massachusetts. Cowley, Charles. Memories of the Indians and Pioneers of the Region of Lowell. Lowell: Stone & Huse, 1862. 24 pp. Good condition. A general history of the natives in the Lowell Massachusetts area. $150.00.

F9. Michigan. Coy Block- Erected 1883 by John S. Coy…. Unionville. 9” x 7”. Foxed. Printed on cardstock. Neat small advertising piece from Unionville, Michigan. $30.00.

F11. Politics. Presidential Election, 1872. Proceedings of the National Union Republican Convention Held at Philadelphia, June 5 and 6, 1872, Which Nominated for President and Vice President Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson. Washington: Gibson Brothers, 1872. 60 pp. $75.00.

F12. Politics. Presidential Election, 1868. Proceedings of the National Union Republican Convention Held at Chicago, May 20 and 21, 1868. Chicago: Evening Journal Print, 1868. 143 pp, Front cover soiled and worn. An account of the convention in which Grant was put forth as the nominee. $135.00.

F13. War of 1812. The Hartford Convention in an Uproar! And the Wise Men of East Confounded! Windsor, Vt.: 1815. 46 pp. Retains rear marbled paper wrap but lacks front wrap. Small tear and chip to title page. A satirical account of the Hartford Convention. Oclc locates 1 copy. $950.00.

F14. George Washington. Washington’s Farewell Address to the People of the United States, September 19, 1796. Philadelphia: Thomas T. Ash, c.1835. 55 pp. Good with foxing. Very nice yellow printed wraps. 4” x 2 5/8”. Has a 1836 gift inscription in pencil on the fly-leaf. $60.00.

E1. Black Americana. Newspaper receipt for the True American. Dated June, 1845. True American was published by Cassius Marcellus Clay (cousin of Henry Clay). The paper took an Anti-Slavery Position. It first appeared June 3, 1845. $100.00.

E7. Michigan Imprint. Richardson, D.M. Police of Finance. A Plan for Returning to Specie Payment Without Financial Revulsion. Detroit: Tribune Book and Job Establishments, 1869. 11 pages covers soiled and chipped. $50.00.

E8. Murder Poetry Broadside. Christie Warden or the Hanover (NH) Tragedy Composed by A.W. Harmon. No date, circa 1891. Frank Almy murdered Christie Warden and was hung for the crime. $200.00.

E13. Southern Americana. Caldwell, Erskine. Tenant Farmer. Phalanx Press, 1935. First edition. 30 pages, in green paper wraps . $55.00.

E14. Medical. Dr. Strong's The Saratoga Springs Sanitarium. New York, not dated. Circa 1900. 12 pages, in pretty wraps. Illustrated with photos. $40.00.

E15. Arkansas. Mountain Valley Spring Water From Mountain Valley Arkansas. No date, circa 1908. 32 pages, in wraps. $40.00.

D1. Photography. Early Stereoview of Omaha. Written on back in ink: View from Capitol Hill, Missouri River in the background. Circa 1870's. This is a clear and crisp image in very good condition. $100.00.

D2. Juvenile. Little Willy. A Widowed Mother's Memorial of A Beloved Child. With an Introduction by Rev. William Jay. Published by the American Tract Society. 150 Nassua Street, New York. 36 pages with nice illustrated green wraps. No date circa 1830's. Some staining to covers, contents good with foxing. $30.00.

D4. Shakers. Hollister, A.G. Mission of the Alethian Believers Called Shakers. Mount Lebanon, Columbia County, NY: 1892-1899. 28 pages, in paper wraps. Good condition. $85.00.

D9. Americana. Annals of the Minnesota Historical Society. St. Paul: Printed by James M. Goodhue, 1850. Second edition. 32 pages, in wraps. Crease through center, previous owner signature. $275.00.

D12. Auction Catalog. Boon. Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Principally Relating to America. New York: May, 1870. 597 pages, in paper wraps. Covers and spine chipped, splitting. $75.00.

D13. Native Americans. Old Mission Church of Mackinac Island, 1902. A booklet on the history of the Protestant Mission to the Indians. 15 pages, in wraps. Good condition. $25.00.

D20. Maine Newspapers. 4 Issues Hancock Gazette and Penobscot Patriot. Belfast, Maine. Dated: April 12, April 19, May 10, and May 23, 1821. $35.00.

D23. Women. Lemoine, Edouard.Physiologie de l'Homme a Bonnes Fortunes...Vignettes de MM.Adolphe et Janet-Lange Paris:Aubert nd 128 pp. (Bound With) Physiologie de la Fenne la Plus Malheureuse du Mond ....Vignetts de Valetin Paris :Aubert nd 128 pp. (Bound With) Hart, Louis. Physiologie du Medicin.. Vignettes de Tremolet. Paris: Aubert, not dated. 126 pp. (Bound With ) De Neufville, Etienne. Physiologie de la Femme....Illustrations de Gavarni. Paris: Jules Laisne, 1842. 127 pages missing 2 illustrations pp.103-6. Quarter leather, marbled boards. $175.00.

D24. Description Detaillee et Methodique Des Dix Planches Qui Accompagnent L'Art Du Maitre De Forges. Paris, 1828. 45 pages plus 10 folding plates. Paper wraps. OCLC lists 2 location, none in U.S. $100.00.

C3. Art. Birney, William. Art Education Washington: Washington Art Club, 1878. 32 pp. Good with some minor soiling. Birney argues the need for art instruction in America. He points out the lack of design and ability of the English as shown in their lack of winning medals at the Crystal Palace. $65.00.

C6. Peace Studies. Stilwell, Arthur. Universal Peace- War is Mesmerism. Second edition. New York: The Bankers Publishing Company, 1911. 179 pp. Signed by the author and number 396 of 600 printed. $65.00.

C7. President. Hinsdale, B.A. President James Abram Garfield. Remarks of President B.A. Hinsdale, at the Hiram College Memorial Service Held in the First Presbyterian Church Cleveland, Sunday Afternoon, September 25th, 1881. [4] pp. Printed just days after Garfield’s death this speech summaries his life and his long connection to Hiram College. $30.00.

C8. Temperance. Constitutions of the Sons of Temperance of North America with Rules of Order and Act of incorporation of the National Division. Amended July, 1884. [n.p.]: The National Division of North America, 1884. 16 pp. Very good with light stain along the left edge. $15.00.

C10. Women. Tarbell, Ida. The Business of Being a Woman. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1912. 242 pp. A very good copy. A interesting look at woman‘s issues of the period. $65.00.

C11. Communal Society. House of David Art Production. Art Gifts, 1965-66. Benton Harbor: House of David Arts, c.1965. 12 pp. Illustrated price list of Hydrostone art statues made members of this communal group. $20.00.

B1. Sheet Music. Berlin, Irving. I'll See You In Cuba, 1920. Good condition. $15.00.

B5. Religion. Sylvester, Judd. Unitarian Church Association of Maine. Report of a Convention Held in Portland, September 20 and 21, 1852. Bangor: Samuel S. Smith, Printer, 1852. 20 pages, in paper wraps. Signed by noted transcendentalist Sylvester Judd. Crease through center, otherwise in good condition. $75.00.

B13. French Book. Helliez, M. Georgraphie De Virgile, Ou Notice des Lieux dont il est parel dans les Ouvrages de ce Poete, accompagnee d'une Carte Geographique. Paris, 1771. Full leather, 298 pages with folding plate. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Scuffed leather, contents good. $225.00.

B14. Shakers as Railroad Promoters. Small ledger kept by Jp. Smith. Grantham, New Hampshire, 1848-49. 46 pages of daily activities. A brief reference to paying Caleb M. Dyer (Shaker) for one share of Northern RR stock. Dyer, a Enfield, NH Shaker was a strong proponent of the Railroad. $50.00.

A2. Volume 1 No.1. Self Help: A Journal to Make Known the Merits of Correspondence Instruction in Technical Subjects. Scranton, PA: nd circa 1890. 8 pp. Creased. $25.00.

A3. Volume 1 No.1. Journal of International Correspondence Schools. Scranton, PA: 1896. 23 pp. Illustrated. $25.00.