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. DC: 20 June, 1868. Congressman Garfield on the Currency. “… I am gratified with your approval of... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“J.A. Garfield“), as Congressman from Ohio, to J.A. Cowing...
Price: $1,500
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...
Price: $200
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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" ...
Price: $750
London: R. Sayer & J. Bennett, January 1, 1780. "I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight" The final, and rarest, of three known versions of the print, each with varying images but the same title (the preceding two done by Carington Bowles), each depicting John Paul Jones preventing his master..... Read More about Capt. Paul Jones Shooting a Sailor who had Attempted to Strike his Colours in an Engagement
Price: $12,500
Norwich: Sold at Spooner's Printing Office, [1774]. Very Rare Broadside Printing of the Lyrics to a Boston Tea Party Song. As near beauteous Boston lying On the gently swelling flood, Without jack or pendant flying Three ill-fated Tea ships rode. Just as glorious Sol was setting, On the wharf a numerous crew Sons of Freedom, fear..... Read More about Four Excellent Songs. A New Song. To the plaintive Tune of Hosier's Ghost
Price: $7,500
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...
Price: $2,500
vp: vd. 1.Tucker, Josiah. An humble address and earnest appeal to those respectable personages in Great Britain and Ireland, Who by their great and permanent interest in landed property, their liberal education, elevated rank, and enlarged views, are the ablest to judge, and the fittest to decide, whether a connection with..... Read More about Sammelband of five British pamphlets concerning the American colonies
Price: $7,500
Baltimore and New York: 1829-1844. Ware-Maclay-Andrews Copy of the American Turf Register. A complete set of this rare sporting magazine, the earliest and most important to appear in America. It was founded in 1829 by John S. Skinner, who writes in his introduction to the first number: “The want of..... Read More about American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine … Edited by J.S. Skinner, Allen J. Davie, Gideon...
Price: $16,500
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
Düsseldorf; Berlin: Buddeus; Julius Springer, 1873-84. First Editions. The first four parts of Holst’s monumental study of American History leading up to the Civil War. Contents: 1. Theil. Staatensouveränetät und Sklaverei. [1. Abtheilung. Von der Entstehung der Union bis zur Kompromiß von 1833.] Erster Band. Von der Administration Jackson’s bis zur..... Read More about Verfassung und Demokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika [1. bis 4. Abtheilungen
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Hildburghausen & New York: Bibliographischen Institut, 1854. with 48 finely engraved steel plates, most depicting American scenes: the White House; Philadelphia; Illinois; Westpoint; Fort Snelling, Minnesota; Niagra Falls; the Stone Walls, upper Missouri; New Orleans; Colorado River, etc. Read More about Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildun und Beschreibung des Sehenswertheften und Merkwürdigsten der...
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Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1796. First edition, with half-title. Ames's speech was one of the most important regarding Jay's Treaty with England, effectively saving it. Read More about The Speech of Mr. Ames in the House of Representatives of the United States, when in Committee of...
Price: $275
Amherst, Mass: vp, 1822-1945. Edward Dickinson (1803-1874), father of Emily, was a prominent Amherst lawyer, treasurer of Amherst College, and U.S. Congressman. He was the son of Samuel Fowler Dickinson, one of the founders of Amherst College. He graduated from Yale in 1823, and opened a law office in Amherst..... Read More about Extensive File of Catalogues of Faculty and Students, from 1822 to 1945
Price: $500
Amherst: J.S. & C. Adams, 1838. Read More about Horae Collegian: a Literary Periodical Conducted By the Undergraduates of Amherst College. Volume...
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[Amherest , Mass: 1874]. Melvil Dewey was the Class of 1874. Read More about Amherst College. Class of 1874
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Amherst: 1850s. And No Opium Too!!! Membership certificate to the Antivenenean Society, a temperance society that was active at Amherst College during the mid-nineteenth century. Read More about Certificate of Membership in the Antivenenean Society of Amherst College
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Greenfield, Mass: Denio and Phelps, Printers, 1818. Rare broadside printing of the trustees and male and female students in the 1818 class of Amherst Academy. Founded in 1814 by a group of town leaders that included Noah Webster and Samuel Fowler Dickinson, Amherst Academy quickly rose to prominence as an..... Read More about Catalogue of the Trustees, Instructors, and Students of Amherst Academy November, 1818
Price: $1,500
New York: Harper, [1960]. First Edition. Read More about Who Killed Society?
Price: $200
Philadelphia: Robert P. Desilver, 1839. First edition, Presentation Copy: inscribed by Anderson to Capt. Silas Casey on verso of the title. Presentation Copy. Presentation copy of an important military manual, from one future Civil War general to another. Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, graduated West Point the year prior to..... Read More about Instruction for Field Artillery, Horse and Foot. Translated from the French and Arranged for the...
Price: $600
[New York: for the friend of Edward Eberstadt, Christmas, 1951]. One of 100 copies printed from the American Turf Register, 1837. Read More about Adventures in the Rocky Mountains in 1834
Price: $50
Jacksonville: Douglas Printing Co, 1950. First edition. Revierw copy with slip laid in. REVIEW COPY. Read More about A Yank Pioneer in Florida. Recounting the Adventures of a City Chap who Came to the Wilds of...
Price: $125
New York: Privately printed for William Loring Andrews, 1897. One of 80 copies printed by The Gilliss Press on handmade paper. Read More about Fragments of American History
Price: $250
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. Smith, Sidney L. One of 135 copies on French handmade paper. Read More about New York as Washington knew it after the Revolution
Price: $450
