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.
1824-1841. A logbook recording five round-trip commercial voyages undertaken by Captain Henry Cole on four different vessels. The... Read More about Manuscript logbook of 5 voyages aboard the ships Emerald, Creole, Massachusetts, and Mashuna
Price: $2,500
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
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
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
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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...
Price: $750
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
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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
Price: $650
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
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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...
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New York: Harper, [1960]. First Edition. Read More about Who Killed Society?
Price: $200
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, nd [1832]. Read More about Memoirs of Catharine Brown, A Christian Indian, of the Cherokee
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[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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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Paris: Desventes de Ladoué, 1770. First edition. Contemporary Satire of Rousseau’s ‘Émile’. A satirical response to Rousseau’s Emile ou l'Education (1762). Where Émile is guided by a wise tutor, the author of Le Père avare mocks from the outset Rousseau’s dictum “le véritable précepteur est le père”, for the narrator’s..... Read More about Le Père Avare, ou Les Malheurs de L'Education; Contenant une idée de ceux de la Colonie de...
Price: $5,000
Washington: M'Gill & Withrow, 1861. Concerning what Garnett considered the disastrous economic and political consequences of the emancipation of slaves: "...the destruction of southern wealth and industry will be almost complete...You may substitue the slavery of the law...but you will get not half work; and in destroying the personal and..... Read More about Speech of Hon. M.R.H. Garnett of Virginia on the State of the Union Delivered in the House of...
Price: $100
New York: Joseph P. Day, 1927. With a flyer for 40 acres in Bedford Hills, NY auction on Feb. 15, 1927 laid in. Read More about Estate of Jacob Appell, deceased...Tuesday Feburary 15, 1927
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Chicago & St. Louis: 1882. A pulpy and cheaply-produced work on the James brothers and the Younger gang, with a frontispiece of Jesse James as he appeared after his death. Comprised of two parts, the first being about the James brothers and the second about the Youngers. "Part II is..... Read More about Train and Bank Robbers of the West. A Romantic but Faithful Story of Bloodshed and Plunder,...
Price: $400
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1919. Number 1129 of 1200 copies. Read More about The Colonial Architecture of Salem
Price: $150