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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.
TWO LETTERS OF THOMAS NYE, Relating to A Journey from Montreal to Chicago in 1837. Edited by Hugh McLellan.
Champlain, [New York]: Privately Printed at the Moorfield Press, 1931. First edition, limited to 58 numbered copies. Thomas Nye's 1837 account of his journey to marry Corrina Bowman of Duncklee's Grove, Illinois, describing his travels from Montreal to Chicago, through the Great Lakes, including mention of Cleveland, Detroit, Lake Michigan..... Read More about TWO LETTERS OF THOMAS NYE, Relating to A Journey from Montreal to Chicago in 1837. Edited by Hugh...
Price: $75
The Whig Portrait Gallery (from front cover).
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
Issued by Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association
LETTER FROM MRS. CLARA T. LEONARD: Formerly Member of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity of Massachusetts, in...
Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association, 1884. First edition, Boston imprint; variant issue (unrecorded by OCLC), with Massachusetts Man Suffrage imprint [also seen with no publisher's imprint and variant title]. Issued by Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association. OCLC lists no holdings of this issue, published by the Boston Man Suffrage Association;..... Read More about LETTER FROM MRS. CLARA T. LEONARD: Formerly Member of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and...
Price: $500
Verfassung und Demokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika [1. bis 4. Abtheilungen].
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..... Read More about Verfassung und Demokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika [1. bis 4. Abtheilungen
Price: $250
Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildun und Beschreibung des Sehenswertheften und Merkwürdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der ganzen Erde. Volume 16...
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...
Price: $750
Extensive File of Catalogues of Faculty and Students, from 1822 to 1945.
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
Horae Collegian: a Literary Periodical Conducted By the Undergraduates of Amherst College. Volume 1 Number 1, October 1837-Volume 1, Number...
Amherst: J.S. & C. Adams, 1838. Read More about Horae Collegian: a Literary Periodical Conducted By the Undergraduates of Amherst College. Volume...
Price: $250
Amherst College. Class of 1874.
[Amherest , Mass: 1874]. Melvil Dewey was the Class of 1874. Read More about Amherst College. Class of 1874
Price: $2,250
And No Opium Too!!!
Certificate of Membership in the Antivenenean Society of Amherst College.
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
Price: $650
Catalogue of the Trustees, Instructors, and Students of Amherst Academy November, 1818.
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
Photo of Cleveland Amory with Grand Canyon burro in his arms: Inscribed: "For Richard (Scaife) who helped so much to...
In 1967, Amory founded the Fund for Animals, with a planned focus on protecting animals from hunters and creating animal sanctuaries. The Fund struggled during the first years of its existence, but became known in 1979 for sponsoring a removal by air and land of 580 Grand Canyon burros slated..... Read More about Photo of Cleveland Amory with Grand Canyon burro in his arms: Inscribed: "For Richard...
Price: $300
Who Killed Society?
New York: Harper, [1960]. First Edition. Read More about Who Killed Society?
Price: $200
Memoirs of Catharine Brown, A Christian Indian, of the Cherokee.
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, nd [1832]. Read More about Memoirs of Catharine Brown, A Christian Indian, of the Cherokee
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Adventures in the Rocky Mountains in 1834.
[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
REVIEW COPY
A Yank Pioneer in Florida. Recounting the Adventures of a City Chap who Came to the Wilds of Florida in...
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
Inscribed
Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the North-West, in 1856.
Washington, D.C: Farnham, 1857. Second Edition. Inscribed. Inscribed on the half-Title: "Edmund Flagg Esq./ with the regards of/ C.C. Andrews." Second edition is printed in same year as the first. Read More about Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the North-West, in 1856
Price: $300
Junction of the Potomac and Shenandoha ... Harper's Ferry [graphite and wash drawing, signed, titled and dated by Andrews, accomplished...
October 1860. In the autumn of 1860, Andrews accompanied the 19-year-old Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, on an extensive tour of the United States and Canada. As the excursion’s official artist, he produced numerous sketches for the Illustrated London News. On October 1, the Prince left Pittsburgh..... Read More about Junction of the Potomac and Shenandoha ... Harper's Ferry [graphite and wash drawing, signed,...
Price: $1,500
Fragments of American History.
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
A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England. Engraved by William Burgis in 1726. The Description compiled by...
New York: Publkished and for Sale by Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897. One of 115 copies on hand made paper. Read More about A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England. Engraved by William Burgis in 1726. The...
Price: $300
Jacob Steendam noch Vaster. A Memoir of the First Poet in New Netherland with translations of his poems descriptive of...
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1908. First edition, one of 115 copies, all on Van Gelder hand-made paper manufactured in Holland. Read More about Jacob Steendam noch Vaster. A Memoir of the First Poet in New Netherland with translations of his...
Price: $250
Cambridge, 1978.
Boston: 1978. Roswell Angier (b. 1940) is a Boston-based photographer known for his early 1970's images of Boston’s "Combat Zone", the area along Washington Street of strip clubs and burlesque houses. Read More about Cambridge, 1978
Price: $1,500
Elizabeth, N.J., 1982.
Boston: 1982. Roswell Angier (b. 1940) is a Boston-based photographer known for his early 1970's images of Boston’s "Combat Zone", the area along Washington Street of strip clubs and burlesque houses. Read More about Elizabeth, N.J., 1982
Price: $1,500
Glenrio, Texas, 1982.
Boston: 1982. Roswell Angier (b. 1940) is a Boston-based photographer known for his early 1970's images of Boston’s "Combat Zone", the area along Washington Street of strip clubs and burlesque houses. Read More about Glenrio, Texas, 1982
Price: $1,500
Hollysue, Revere Beach, 1979.
Boston: 1979. Roswell Angier (b. 1940) is a Boston-based photographer known for his early 1970's images of Boston’s "Combat Zone", the area along Washington Street of strip clubs and burlesque houses. Read More about Hollysue, Revere Beach, 1979
Price: $1,500