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.
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
Price: $200
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
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, [1962]. New Revised edition. First printing. Read More about James Bridger
Price: $50
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
Price: $135
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
[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
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
Chicago: Tanner Art Galleries, 1940. The catalog for the Tanner Art Galleries exhibition in conjunction with Chicago's American Negro Exposition. Introduction by Alain Locke and works by Charles White (There Were No Crops this Year on the front cover), Jacob Lawrence, Sargent Johnson, Lois Maillou Jones, Hale Woodruff, Robert Duncanson..... Read More about Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) Assembled by the American Negro...
Price: $2,500
New- York: Printed by Friar McLean, No. 41, Hanover-Square, 1793. First edition (printed in an edition of 200 copies); the introduction states: "In Friary, Wednesday, November 13th 1793, On Motion, resolved, That the Thanks of the Society be presented to Brother Samuel L. Mitchill... That two hundred copies of Brother..... Read More about AN ORATION, Pronounced Before the Society of Black Friars, at their Anniversary Festival, in the...
Price: $950
New York: May 14-15, 1783. Letter, signed by Brigadier General Guy Carleton, written to Brigadier General Alured Clarke regarding clemency for deserters from the British Army at the end of the American Revolution; together with orders for General Clarke from Deputy Adjutant General Frederick Mackenzie, dated May 14th, to deny..... Read More about Letter signed, to General Clarke, regarding deserters at the close of the Revolutionary War, with...
Price: $2,500
[Verplanck's Point?]: September 19, 1782. Chaloner served as the Deputy Commissary of Purchases for the Middle Department of the Continental Army from 1777 to the end of the war. The period after Yorktown but prior to the signing of the Treaty of Paris saw continued operations of the Continental Army..... Read More about Engraved partly-printed Revolutionary war era cashier's check, signed by Chaloner as the Deputy...
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Boston: John Gill, 1778. An election sermon by the noted Congregationalist minister in the midst of the Revolution, on liberty, the role of government, the attributes of good leaders and the importance of religion to civil society and government: "The battles we have already fought, the victories we have won..... Read More about A Sermon Preached before the Honorable Council, and the Honorable House of Representatives, of...
Price: $450
[Connecticut]: November 1771. Signed by Two Connecticut Signers of the Declaration. List of monies paid to twelve members of the House of Assistants of the Connecticut General Assembly, signed by several of them, including two future Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Roger Sherman and Oliver Wolcott. Sherman is notable..... Read More about Manuscript document, signed by both Sherman, Wolcott and others, being a list of monies owed to...
Price: $3,000
[Philadelphia: Nov. 4, 1780]. List of requisitions for specific supplies, as issued by the Continental Congress on Nov. 4, 1780, extracted and signed by Charles Thomson as the Secretary of that body. At this time, General Nathanael Greene was about to be appointed to relieve Horatio Gates. After departing from West..... Read More about Manuscript document Signed by Charles Thomson, as Secretary of the Continental Congress, listing...
Price: $4,500
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...
Price: $300
[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...
Price: $850
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]: 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...
Price: $650
[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
Boston: Richard Draper, August 11, 1768. An important issue published just ten days following the passage of the Boston Non-Importation Agreement in opposition to the Townsend Acts, including addresses to the Philadelphia merchants to join the agreement. Read More about The Massachusetts Gazette ... Boston Weekly News-Letter ... August 11, 1768
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Cambridge: Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, July 21, 1775. An important issue published during the Siege of Boston, including a lengthy account of the reading of the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms in Cambridge and on Prospect Hill. Other Revolution related content includes a printing of..... Read More about The New England Chronicle: or the Essex Gazette ... July 21, 1775
Price: $1,250
Providence: John Carter, October 11, 1777. Battles of Saratoga and Brandywine. Includes news of both the ongoing Battle of Saratoga (under the dateline Kingston, Sept. 29), as well as an account dated September 25 of the Battle of Brandywine. The front page includes a printing of a letter by Edmund..... Read More about The Providence Gazette; and Country Journal ... October 11, 1777
Price: $950
