First editions, rare books, and manuscript material from Columbus to the modern era. Specializing in works on African American history, the Civil War, the American Revolution, presidents, the Ivy League, slavery & abolition, Indians and New York City.
Washington: 1876. First edition. In the Yellowstone: "Such fishing I have never had before" One of the earliest... Read More about A Trip to the Yellowstone National Park in July, August and September, 1875. From the Journal of...
Price: $22,500
Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. First edition, a regular paper issue? Said to have been issued in thin, regular and thick paper issue, the first two from same setting imposed on 8vo and thick paper issue imposed as 4to. Type on title slightly larger than other copies that..... Read More about Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette delivered at the Request of Both...
Price: $75
Quincy, [Mass.]: 24 November 1813. A warm letter from former President John Adams to his dear friend and writer Mercy Otis Warren, with whom he had been recently reconciled after their long falling out. Throughout the Revolutionary period, historian, poet and dramatist Mercy Otis Warren actively corresponded on political matters..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed, from John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren
Price: $35,000
(Washington, D.C.): [Privately Printed for the Author (by Crane Printing Company)], 1917. First edition. The introduction states: "The Delaware Tribe of Indians was the head of the Algonquin confederation of which 37 tribes recognized them as Grandfather... The Delaware Indians also recognized in ancient times a Council of Mothers, and..... Read More about Adoption of Mew-Seu-Qua Tecumseh's Father and The Philosophy of the Delaware Indians, With...
Price: $150
np: 1952. Eisenhower's Vicuña Coat Man. Read More about Autograph Note Signed to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT, "For Alfred Eisenstaedt with...
Price: $100
New York: Van Winkle, Wiley & Co., Printers, 1817. Address prepared in pursuance of a resolution of the Society and presented at its meeting held in New York on Dec. 31, 1816. - Followed by: On motion, resolved, that the foregoing address be approved, and that the corresponding committee cause..... Read More about Address of the American Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Manufactures, to the People of...
Price: $100
New York: Francis & Laurel, Stationers & Printers, 1871. First Edition. Metroplitan Museum of Art. The museum first opened on February 20, 1872. Read More about Address of the Officers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the People of New York
Price: $150
N. P: [1963]. Contributor's Copy–Honoring Adenauer. From the library of Henry Cabot Lodge who was one on the contributors to this collection. The magazine “Der Spiegel” produced a special issue to honor Chancelor Adenauer on his retirement. This notebook contains facsimiles of the contributions. The contributors are Harold Macmillan, Dwight..... Read More about Abschied Von Konrad Adenauer. 42 Briefe
Price: $450
New York: Office of the Club 29 Broadway, 1901. First edition. Printed by P.F. McBreen & Sons, Printers, New York. Yearbook, annual report and membership list of this private club in the western Adirondacks, formed in 1890 and which by 1901 owned 80,000 acres and leased sporting rights to some..... Read More about Adirondack League Club, 1918
Price: $475
![Item #237400 Letters from the Woods. [Editorial Correspondence.] Random Rhymes, from 20 to 70....](/pictures/thumb/237400.jpg?v=1669650959)
Poughkeepsie: [Privately Printed], 1893. First edition. The Adirondacks in the 1850s. The first half of the book contains a memoir or collection of letters on deer hunting, fishing, and outdoor life in the Adirondacks, Michigan, and Canada in the 1850s and 1860s. Read More about Letters from the Woods. [Editorial Correspondence.] Random Rhymes, from 20 to 70. Annual...
Price: $300
Privately printed, 1952. First edition. Uncommon memoir of this early sportsmen's club in the heart of the Adirondacks. Great photographs. Speare is also author of VERSES IN FRENCH CANADIAN PATOIS (1957), which includes poems relating to the Adirondacks. Read More about Hollywood Club Memoirs
Price: $350
Northampton, [Mass.]: Hopkins, Bridgman, & Co, 1852. First edition. Read More about Summer Gleanings: or Sketches and Incidents of a Pastor's Vacation ... Collected and Arranged by...
Price: $1,750
np: [1986]. First edition. Essex County, New York. Mrs Wilson states that her husband Evan M. Wilson and her brother Hugh Fosburgh put this information together. Rare, never seen. Read More about One Hundred Years in the Adirondack Wilderness. The North Woods Club 1886-1986
Price: $450
Basilae: In officina Heruagiana, 1538. Collection first published by Froben, 1518. With Provenance to a 17th Century Clergyman in New York. With ownership signaure to the title page: "Ex Libris Johannis Miller pret. 1s. 0d Anno Dm 1693", a further ownership signature to the recto of the last leaf "Ex..... Read More about Fabulae Graece et Latine, cum aliis opusculis, quorum, index proxima refertur pagella
Price: $4,500
London: T. Werner Laurie. [Colston and Co. Limited Printers, Edinburgh], n.d. [ca. 1907]. Second edition. Tarpon and other game fishing. Preface signed Devon, Midsummer 1907. Read More about Sunshine and Sport in Florida and the West Indies
Price: $500
Ohio: [circa 1900-1950]. Mostly includes candid shots posed in front of houses, in cars, in parks, in a restaurant, etc., plus a handful of studio images. Several include references to places in Ohio and several include later ink mostly first name identifications. Read More about Small group of mostly vernacular photographs of an African Americans, possibly from various...
Price: $500
[Philadelphia]: African Methodist Episcopal Church, Spring 1844. Accomplished for William Stratton (who seems to have been involved with the Lombard Street School), and Signed by George Greely. Greely is listed (twice) as in attendance at the Philadelphia Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1841 ("admitted on trial") and..... Read More about Partly-printed quarterly membership ticket to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, issued to...
Price: $300
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Read More about Negro Education. A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored People in the United...
Price: $150
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1885. First Edition. Read More about Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
Price: $250
[N.p.]: 1927. Short history of Alaska by missionary H.P. Corser, author of Totem Lore and Through the Thousand Islands of Alaska. Read More about Seventy-Six Page History of Alaska
Price: $75
Washington, D.C: November 22nd, 1899. The letter traces the diplomatic claims of Great Britain in Alaska and goes into detail about the 2 contested parts, the "Portland Channel" and the parallel 50 degrees to Mt. St. Elias. He is grandfather of John Foster and Allen Dulles. He was also TR's..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed. To Mr. Miller
Price: $350
Washington, D.C: GPO, 1916; 1917; 1923. Three copies of the first three issues of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station Circular No. 1, published to "give prospective settlers in Alaska, and particularly homesteaders, information on subjects which will be of more or less vital interest to them." Includes sections on climate..... Read More about Information for Prospective Settlers in Alaska
Price: $175
![Item #233659 [drop-title] Petition of Albin Michel, in behalf of the heirs of Madame de Lusser,...](/pictures/thumb/233659.jpg?v=1669650851)