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.
Boston: 1977. 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 Lynn, Mass., on the way to Boston, 1977
Price: $1,500
Boston: 1981. 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 NYC, 1981
Price: $1,500
Boston: 1976. 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 Route 107, Saugus, Mass., 1976
Price: $1,500
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 Subway Station, Central Square, 1982
Price: $1,500
Boston: 1983. 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 U.A.W. Local 595. Linden, N.J., 1983
Price: $1,500
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
Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1887. Second editions of vols. 1-2, first edition of vol. 3. Each volume inscribed by Anthony to suffragist Annie McLean Marsh. Each Volume Inscribed by Susan B. Anthony. Sometimes referred to as the "bible" of the suffrage movement, Anthony's History of Woman suffrage comprises "a vast..... Read More about History of Woman Suffrage
Price: $17,500
Rochester, Caldwell [i.e. Lake George] and Ogdensburg, NY: February 8-27, 1855. Among the earliest Susan B. Anthony letters we have encountered, the present correspondence relates directly to the beginnings of her work advocating for women's suffrage. Anthony was introduced to Elizbeth Cady Stanton in 1851 and attended her first women's..... Read More about Small archive of 5 items pertaining to Susan B. Anthony's upstate New York speaking tour on...
Price: $27,500
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
Price: $200
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: J. Eastman Chase, 7 Hamilton Place, [1891]. A rare photographic portrait of Massachusetts’ North Shore region, including Manchester by the Sea, Beverly Farms, and Pride’s Crossing, with beautifully reproduced photogravures by Jeanette M. Appleton. Read More about Photogravures of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Beverley Farms, Pride's Crossing
Price: $2,250
New York: [n.d., before 1917]. Interesting item of Arab American ephemera from the days of “Little Syria” on New York’s Lower West Side. The verso of the card described the firm of Daniel Joseph Faour and Brothers as “associates of the Bank of Syria in the United States” competent to..... Read More about D. J. Faour & Bros. Importers Exporters & Commission Merchants. in Notions, Dry Goods,...
Price: $250
Lawrence, Mass: 193 Spruce Street, 1937. A single issue of this uncommon Massachusetts Arabic language periodical with literary and general content: poetry, review of journals, “Hal ‘Alamtak” [Did you know?], medical topics, and household hints. Read More about El Mugrabi. Vol. 1, No. 4, April 1937. Monthly Arabic Magazine. Publisher and Editor Rev. J.B. Hakim
Price: $600
Albion, N.Y: Willsea & Beach, 1853. A charming local history of this upstate New York enclave set along the Erie Canal. Includes a curious section on Albion's "secret associations." Scarce. OCLC locates only four copies. Read More about SKETCHES OF THE VILLAGE OF ALBION: CONTAINING INCIDENTS OF ITS HISTORY AND PROGRESS, FROM ITS...
Price: $275
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1919. Number 1129 of 1200 copies. Read More about The Colonial Architecture of Salem
Price: $150
Bristol, PA: 1913. Letter from Charles E. Scott, cashier of the Farmers National Bank of Bucks County, concerning an article written by Edward Biddle about the bank's architecture. "The only alteration of the interior was the conversion of the river front parlor into a banking room. A country director several..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed. One page to Edward Biddle, Esq. " I have read with much delight...
Price: $75
Princeton, NJ: 1947. The total edition was 356 examples of which 53 were destroyed. A very detailed etching typical of the meticulous style of Arms, renowned for his prolific printmaking, specifically of Gothic architecture. Julian P. Boyd was a librarian (1940-52), and later history professor at Princeton University. His preservation..... Read More about Etching of the Herbert Lowell Dillon Gymnasium at Princeton, NJ
Price: $350
Washington, D.C: Way, 1808. Read More about Papers relative to French Affairs communicated by...to Mr. Monroe
Price: $65
Red Hook, NY: April 6, 1812. Letter written by John Armstrong to General John Smith, detailing a New York-based plan to disrupt President Madison's plans for the 1812 election and get DeWitt Clinton elected Vice President. Armstrong was a Madison supporter, and his letter relates with some pleasure the details..... Read More about Autograph letter signed to General John Smith outlining the political machinations for the 1812...
Price: $1,500
Inscribed. "Moms" Mabley (1894-1975) was the preeminent African American female comedian from the mid-20th century, and opened for Louis Armstrong on several occasions. A fabulous association between two of the most important African-American performers of the period. Read More about Photograph signed and inscribed in the image ("Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong), to Jackie...
Price: $2,500
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First Edition. Interesting inscription, "Purchased at a concert given by some of the students from Hampton .....Brooklyn" These concerts were a fund raising campaign for Virginia Hall. Read More about Hampton and Its Student by Two of Its Teachers With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by...
Price: $150
Providence: Printed at…by Carter and Wilkinson, 1797. First edition. Included “The Last Words of Shalum; –or the Dying Indian” by Philip Freneau and “On Hearing a Partridge Drum” by his father Dr. Jonathan Arnold, one of the founders of St. Johnsbury, VT. The editor, Burrill, was the Attorney General of..... Read More about Poems by the late Josias Lyndon Arnold, Esq. of St. Johnsbury Vermont formerly of Providence and...
Price: $500
Boston: Thomas & Andrews, May, 1812. Thomas Mellon's Copy. The first edition of this early, influential American atlas was published at Philadelphia in 1804, with an editions following at Boston in 1805. The present 1812 edition with seven new maps added (Austalasia, Polynesia, New-Granada, Carracas, Peru, Chili, and La Plata)..... Read More about A New and Elegant General Atlas
Price: $3,000
