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, D.C: December 15, 1903. President Roosevelt writes to his close friend and editor of "The Outlook," Lawrence... Read More about Typed Letter Signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, to Lawrence F. Abbott of The Outlook
Price: $1,000
Baltimore: Printed for Franklin Betts. wm. Woody, Jr. printer, 1822. First edition thus, using sheets from 1819 edition with new title-page. Sabin notes that, although the author given on the title-page is Paul Allen, the work was actually written by John Neal and "Mr. (Tobias) Watkins." A standard history of..... Read More about A History of the American Revolution; Comprehending the Principal Events both in the Field and in...
Price: $350
hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1800. First edition, first issue, before the lines "In swelling phrase and terms unmeaning veils | Her hellish plots, her dark designs conceals' were censored from p. 20. One of the founding and most talented members of the Hartford Wits and of the famous..... Read More about A Poem; Sacred to the Memory of George Washington, late President of the United States, and...
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New York: Harper & Row, (1968). First edition. This copy has a T.L.S. laid in to Percy Chubb, his brother-in-law from this famous WASP columnist, on Saturday Evening Post stationery thanking him for his letter about the book, with a holograph postscript "As you probably know I'm switching to Ñewsweek."..... Read More about The Center. People and Power in Political Washington
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Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday & Co, 1960. First edition. Inscribed by His Mother. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To Marian & Hendon [Chubb - Stewart Alsop's nephew and niece] with love from S. Alsop's mother! Corinne Cole" Read More about Nixon and Rockefeller
Price: $150
Salt Lake City: Shepard Book Company, [1925]. First Edition. Limited to 1000 copies. From an edition limited to 1000 copies, signed by Alter. Detailed biography of this important figure of the American West, with accounts of many of the expeditions which he accompanied, as well as material on the Mormons..... Read More about James Bridger. Trapper, Frontiersman, Scout and Guide. A Historical Narrative...With which is...
Price: $100
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1912. First edition. Read More about The First Explorations of the Trans-Allegheny Region By the Virginians 1650-1674
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Detroit: December, 1942-September 1945. with "Special Edition First National Convention America First Party" in Volume 3 Number 6, 1944 and in another issue is included "Senate Resolution 666 is Slave Act " and. Read More about The Cross and the Flag. Volume 1, Number 8
Price: $150
London: Printed for Roger Rea, 1668. Third edition. This was first published in 1631. The section on America (the D gathering) is lacking the first and final leaves but the comments on Virginia are present “on the East it has Mare del Nort, on the North Norumbega, Florida on the..... Read More about A Prospect of the Most Famous parts of the World. Viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America…
Price: $500
[Philadelphia]: 1866. Read More about Soiree Gymnastique...Calisthentics with Music. Gymnasium for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children......
Price: $300
[Boston]: Office of the Daily Commercial Gazette, n.d. [August, 1830]. Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution. This Boston broadside, published by the [Boston] Daily Commercial Gazette, contains extracts from the London papers detailing the July 1830 Revolution in France that overthrew Charles X. It is presumably one of the..... Read More about Revolution in France! [drop title
Price: $800
Washington: Davis and Force, 1819. A very informative piece of work: the organization was established to relocate many free people of colour in the United States to the continent of Africa. This text also contains an appendix abstracted from a journal of the late Rev. Samuel John Mills written while..... Read More about The Second Annual Report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the...
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London: Henry Colburn, Publishers, 1846. First edition. The author served in Canada in the suppression of the French Canadian uprising of 1837-8. In this work, Levinge describes his military service, impressions of the wildlife and sporting of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, "A Race Through the United States" south to..... Read More about Echoes from the Backwoods; or Sketches of Transatlantic Life
Price: $1,400
Norman [OK]: University of Oklahoma Press, [1963]. First edition. No. 66 in The Civilization of the American Indians Series. Read More about The Southern Cheyennes
Price: $100
N.p., [Watertown or Woburn, Mass.]: n.d. [ca 1731]. Fascinating early colonial American manuscript book of tunes, with family provenance suggesting connections to Watertown and Woburn, Mass. The manuscript is a compilation of psalm and hymn tunes, with some material deriving from the two American tune books published in the 1720s. There..... Read More about American Manuscript Tune Book, 1731/2
Price: $3,750
White Plains [NY]: October 23d 1776. CONTINENTAL RECEIPT FROM THE SAW PITTS. An early receipt of the war, dated “White Plains Oct. 23d, 1776,” and written from the “Saw Pitts,” now Port Chester, NY, six days before the rout of the Continental Army at the Battle of White Plains, reading..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Receipt, Signed "Frederick Tracy" for eight barrels of flour from...
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[Burlington]: 7 April 1783. Entrepreneurs of the Revolution. The lands contained all the necessary materials for shipbuilding, and in the Revolutionary War its "bog iron" made cannon balls while its hidden coves sheltered privateers. Blast furnaces, sawmills, glass factories, and brick and tile works followed until the Industrial Revolution drew..... Read More about Autograph Letter signed ("Rich Wescoat") to Major JOSHUA MERSEREAU in Elizabeth Town...
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Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1834. First Edition. Collects speeches by Chatham, Burke and Erskine concerning legal issues connected with the American Revolution and other topics, as well as Mackintosh's speech in the trial of Peltier, a French Royalist emigré, for libel of the First Consul of the French Republic (Buonaparte)..... Read More about Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine. To Which is Added the Argument of Mr....
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Hartford [CT]: September 8 1780. BALANCE DUE FOR THREE YEARS SERVICE IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. From the Battle of Valcour Island in 1776, to the brutal winter encampment in Morristown, New Jersey in 1779-1780, Daniel Everts (1749-1833) was a participant and witness to some of the most crucial periods of..... Read More about Autograph Document Receipt, Signed "Danl Everts" "being the balance due to me on...
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Hartford [CT]: June 28th 1777. SMALL COMPENSATION FOR A LIFE AND FORTUNE LOST. An important testament offering proof of the sacrifice and hardship of a memorialized Connecticut hero signed by one of its favorite sons, reading: "Sir pay to Hannah Douglas Executrise (sic) to the Estate of Col. William Douglas..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Order, Signed "James Church" and "O[liver] Ellsworth" ...
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Hartford & Windham [CT]: 1785. A SOLDIER FOR JUST FIVE WEEKS. Too young for marriage and children, but old enough to join the fight for independence, these documents may be the last few remaining records of a largely forgotten soldier of 1776. Samuel Robinson III (1757-1776) was born in the..... Read More about A Group of Two Manuscripts and One Document, Attesting to the Service of Samuel Robinson in the...
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[Madrid: De Orden de S. M…en la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1779]. First Spanish edition. French replying to Charges by the British concerning the American War. Rare. Spanish translation of the French sovereigns' “Exposé des Motifs de la conduite du Roi, relativement à l'Angleterre” published the same year. The..... Read More about Manifiesto de los motivos en que se ha fundado la conducta del Rey Christianisimo respecto a la...
Price: $750
London: J. Almon, opposite Burlington House, in Piccadilly, 1775. First edition. A record of the British Parliamentary debates from November 1774 to May 1775, the critical period preceding the declaration of independence of the American colonies. Included in the second volume are the charters of the North American colonies, including..... Read More about The Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons...
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[Cambridge, Mass: ca. 1920?]. The Legendary Washington Elm. Fine large photograph of the "Washington elm", which was enshrined in 1902 and died a little over twenty years later. This photograph shows the tree already moribund, with monument beneath bearing the carved inscription which preserved the legend: UNDER THIS TREE WASHINGTON..... Read More about Photograph of the elm tree (now gone) of Cambridge, Mass., under which George Washington (by...
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np: [American Review], [1849]. A set of portraits which originally appeared in the American Review. Apparently they were published in this form by popular demand. Many are engraved after daguerretypes by Mathew Brady. Portraits include Zachary Taylor, Daniel Webster, etc. Read More about The Whig Portrait Gallery (from front cover
Price: $300