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: April 18, 1819. War of 1812 Veteran Receives Land Grant from President Monroe. Countersigned by Joshua Meigs... Read More about Engraved Document signed by President Monroe, on vellum
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[Washington, D.C: Globe Office, c. 1833]. The Alexandria Canal was major significance for water transportation into Virginia. Hardin was an important Kentucky politician, who serves several terms in the Houise of Reps. and led the way for the passage of the bill for construction of the canal. The canal connected..... Read More about Subscription List for "Speech (given in Congress) of the Hon B. Hardin (1784-1852) on the...
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Italy: 1805. Limited edition of 250 copies. Volume from Alfieri's OPERE, or collected works, comprised of odes to the American Revolution, printed here in a limited edition of 250 copies. Alfieri was an Italian dramatist and poet who published several poetical works on the American Revolution. Read More about Opere di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti: L'america Libera
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New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition, second printing. Read More about The Greatest. My Own Story
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[Kenftfield, Ca.]: Printed and Published by Mallette Dean [Laid out and designed at the Allen Press], 1959. Dean, Mallette. One of 200 copies. Read More about The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond
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Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1846. Fourth edition. Read More about A Narrative of the Captivity of Col. Ethan Allen. Written by Himself
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New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1933. First edition, first issue with publisher's monogram design on verso of title and other points. Inscribed. Inscribed at length on the front free endpaper: "Autographed for H.L. Batterman, Jr with cordial regards. My dear Mr. Batterman: It may interest you to know that some..... Read More about Anthony Adverse
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895 & 1896. First edition , First Issue. Read More about A Kentucky Cardinal. A Story. WITH: Aftermath. Part Second of "A Kentucky Cardinal"
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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...
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Boston: Printed and Sold by R. and S.Draper ; Edes & Gill, and Green & Russell, in Queen-Street; and T. & J. Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill. [i.e., Printed by Timothy Green] Sold also by the booksellers, [1763]. The preface by Ames includes a notice lauding the..... Read More about An Astronomical Diary: Or, Almanack for the Year of our Lord Christ, 1764
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Boston: R. and S. Draper [et. al.], [1764]. The compilation of this issue was begun by the elder Nathaniel Ames (1708-1764) and completed by his son Nathaniel. Cf. New England Historical and Genealogical Record, v. 16 (1862), p. 255-257. See also the preface by the younger Ames, whose "Elegy on..... Read More about An Astronomical Diary: Or, Almanack for the Year of our Lord Christ, 1765
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London: printed for T.N. Longman, and L.B. Seeley, 1797. Almon, a British publisher, was the primary source for British publications concerning American political and military affairs throughout the Revolution, publishing the important periodical THE REMEMBRANCER. Read More about Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes, of Several of the Most Eminent Persons of the...
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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
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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
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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…
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[Philadelphia]: 1866. Read More about Soiree Gymnastique...Calisthentics with Music. Gymnasium for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children......
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New York: R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1835. This small monthly journal of the American Anti-Slavery Society, which was established by William Lloyd Garrison, was published from 1835-1837, primarily as a fund raising periodical. Includes contributions by John Greenleaf Whittier. Read More about The Anti-Slavery Record ... Vol. I, for 1835
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[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
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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
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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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