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Item 222343The City.
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New York: W.W. Norton, [1970]. First Edition. Inscribed. with associated ephemera laid in. Read More Item Details for The City Add to Wish List
Item #222343
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New York: W.W. Norton, [1970]. First Edition. Inscribed. with associated ephemera laid in. Read More Item Details for The City Add to Wish List
Item #222343
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Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, [1864]. Reprint. George Lippard (1822-1854) was a close friend of Poe and founder of the Brotherhood of the Union, an early labor union. His popular fiction, which “represented the wildly subversive underside of the antebellum literary scene” (ANB) is often divided between the “city mysteries”..... Read More Item Details for The Empire City; or, New York by Night and Day. Its Aristocracy and its Dollars Add to Wish List
Item #242075
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Cincinnati: H.M. Rulison, 1853. First edition. In NEW YORK Lippard launched “attacks on family concentrations of wealth, on slavery, and on an alleged attempt by Roman Catholics to infiltrate American schools and governments” (Reynolds, p. 23) George Lippard (1822-1854) was a close friend of Poe and founder of the Brotherhood..... Read More Item Details for New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million Add to Wish List
Item #242074
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New York: 13th April 1764. Father of the member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Roger Sherman. Read More Item Details for Signed partial document Add to Wish List
Item #310570
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Queens Village, New York, NY: July 18, 1811. An indenture concerning a historically significant property on Long Island and a sale by Lloyd heir, John Nelson Lloyd (1783-1842), and his mother, Amelia White Lloyd (1760-1818), to John Nelson Lloyd’s sister, Angelina Lloyd Strong (1785-1814). Queens Village, originally annexed to Oyster..... Read More Item Details for Autograph manuscript indenture signed (“Jno Nelson Lloyd”) and (”Amelia Lloyd”) for the sale of 180 acres of land “upon Lloyd’s Neck or Queen’s Village” to Angelina (Lloyd) Strong for “the sum of one dollar” Also signed Chrales L. Strong and Jonathan L. Lawrence as witnesses Add to Wish List
Item #231148
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New York: The City History Club, 1923. From the Library of H. P. Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), master of cosmic terror and the intrusion of supernatural forces into the human realm, lived in New York from 1924 to 1926. He missed his native Providence dreadfully during his residence and deplored..... Read More Item Details for Landmarks of New York Add to Wish List
Item #364993
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New York: May 7, 1819. Manuscript Map of a Block in Old New York, 1819. Mr. Gardner's block, on Manhatten's Lower East Side, is bounded by Norfolk, Stanton, Suffolk and Rivington Streets, and consists of 32 numbered parcels of surveyed land, 16 fronting on Norfolk Street and 16 on Suffolk..... Read More Item Details for Manuscript map of “Property Situated on Norfolk Street belonging to Thos. Gardner, Esq.” signed by Stephen Ludlam, City Surveyor, pen, ink and colors on paper Add to Wish List
Item #27049
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New York: The Rock Foundation, 1986. Carpentier, Ralph. First edition; numbered 83 of 500 deluxe edition copies in oversize oblong clothbound volumes. Signed and numbered. Read More Item Details for Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork [Two Volumes] Add to Wish List
Item #353470
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New York: Sold by T. A. Ronalds, ca. 1800. Used to settle debts without money, especially between persons in different countries. Maverick was a noted New York Engraver, known for his portraits as well as his views. He was a general engraver and copper plate printer. Read More Item Details for A sheet of Exchange with the First (Second and Third) of Exchange portions, unaccomplished Add to Wish List
Item #23641
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(Paris: Contact Publishing Co, 1926. First edition. Printed in Dijon by Darantiere. " 'Post-Adolescence', actually McAlmon's first book, having been written previously to 'A Hasty Bunch', continued the story, with the scene shifting to Greenwich Village, where McAlmon had lived briefly in 1920, and where he had met four of..... Read More Item Details for Post Adolescence Add to Wish List
Item #35812
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New York City: August 28, 1854. A SURPRISINGLY POIGNANT POEM FROM A HARDENED VETERAN. Romantic in a style befitting the era, Farnum offers a graphic account of a a heart-wrenching scene from battle, which he describes as ”carelessly written but respectfully dedicated to Maria L. Green.” Reading in part: …”Where..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Document, Signed, "J. Egbert Farnum late of the U.S.A." Being a hand-written poem relating an incident of the Mexican American War Add to Wish List
Item #307508
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Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1822. Reports of the Quartermaster's Department and the Ordnance Department, including a statement of the progress made in the establishment of military depots in the United States also the expenses of the Court martial “convened for the trial of militia delinquents during the late..... Read More Item Details for Documents accompanying the Bill Making Further Appropriations for the Military Service of the U. S. for the year 1822 and for other purposes. April 8, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. [107] Add to Wish List
Item #30750
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New York: The Knickerbocker Publishing Company, 1896. First edition. Lists the most cubable of men in NYC and America of that age. Read More Item Details for Select Organizations of the United States Add to Wish List
Item #35525
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London: Printed by and for T. Chapman, 1795. Signed Clement C. Moore. This is a copy from the library of the Reverend Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779-July 10, 1863), signed him on the verso of the front endpaper "Clement C. Moore." A Hebrew scholar and writer of verse, Moore..... Read More Item Details for The Seasons...with His Life and a Complete Index and Glossary. Embellished with 14 Fine Engravings by the First Artists Add to Wish List
Item #37695
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London: printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1776. With Inscription That His Father Gave it to Him. This is a copy from the library of the Reverend Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779-July 10, 1863), signed by him on the front endpaper of each volume. In Volume One, "C.C...... Read More Item Details for Epistolae ad Pisones et Augustum Add to Wish List
Item #37523
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[New York: Privately Printed, 1880; 1881]. One of a few copies printed. A Shakespeare New York Calendar: "...one of a few copies printed..." Rare and charming little calendars compiled by this New York antiquarian, member of the New York Historical Society, and co-founder of the Bradford Club, which was a...... Read More Item Details for Events in the History of New York City with Illustrations from Shakespeare by a New Yorker Add to Wish List
Item #17145
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New York: E. Robinson, 1887. First edition. Read More Item Details for Robinson's Atlas of Morris County New Jersey Compiled from Official Records, Private Plans & Actual Surveys under the Direction of E. Robinson Add to Wish List
Item #239006
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1864. Read More Item Details for The Rise of the Dutch Republic, A History Add to Wish List
Item #37994
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New York: Wm. G. Boggs, Printer, December, 1843. First Edition. Read More Item Details for New York 170 Years Ago, with a View, and Explanatory Notes Add to Wish List
Item #317655
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Albany: J. Munsell, 1852. First collected edition. The Kane-Storr Families. The papers had first appeared in “The Churchman.” They were the memorial papers for the three members of the Kane Family who passed away within four months, John Innes Kane of Woodlawn, Mary Kane, his wife and her brother-in-law, The..... Read More Item Details for The Kindred Dead Add to Wish List
Item #17564
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Harrisonburg, [Virginia]: J.H. Wartmann and Brothers, 1849. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Sketches on a Tour through the Northern and Eastern States, the Canadas & Nova Scotia Add to Wish List
Item #34681
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New York: circa 1912-195. 87 PHOTOS. THe NYC watershed consists of 19 Upstate reservoirs and 3 copntrolled lakes that cover 1,900 square miles in the Catskill Mountains. The Ashokan Reservoir was finished in 1915 1. Ulster & Delaware Railroad Station 2. Steam shovels 3. Town with workers (Uncaptioned) 4. 3..... Read More Item Details for An Album with 87 professional photographs depicting construction of the Ashokan reservoir, which supplies water to New York City. With multiple views of excavation machinery, compressors, special aqueduct and screen chamber, the spillway, tunnels, and picturesque scenes of local buildings, including the railroad depot, Ashokan National Bank, etc Add to Wish List
Item #308235
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New York: Valentine's Manual, Inc, [1922]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Valentine's Manual of Old New York 1923. Volume VII, New Series Add to Wish List
Item #43716
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New York: Valentine's Manual, Inc, [1923]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Valentine's Manual of Old New York 1924. Volume VIII Add to Wish List
Item #43715
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New York: Valentine's Manual, Inc, [1927]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Valentine's Manual of Old New York 1924. Volume XII, New Series Add to Wish List
Item #43717