Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company. No 111 Washington Street, nd. 1) "The White Mountains," 2) "Mount Crawford," 3)... Read More about Scenery Of The White Mountains: With Sixteen Plates From The Drawings of Isaac Sprague
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vp: vd. Edison, Thomas, Charles, Mina, etc. An finely bound collection of books from the libraries of Thomas A. Edison and his son Charles Edison, including two volumes with pencil annotations by Thomas Edison, a many author-inscribed volumes to one of the two men or to their wives, and many..... Read More about Collection of 49 volumes all belonging to various members of the Edison family
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New York: American Educational Press, [n.d., 1926]. Inscribed to Thomas Alva Edison from the publisher Irving Jay Rogers. Read More about Achievement How it is Won. Articles by Leaders in World Affairs
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New York: Published by the Author, 1921. First edition. INSCRIBED TO THOMAS ALVA EDISON. Vividly recollected account of the author’s youthful employment in the Canadian West, including accounts of the arrival of Sioux warriors, and of relations between Indians and settlers. Inscribed by the author on the recto of the..... Read More about Sergeant 331. Personal Recollections of a Member of the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police from...
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September 11, 1894. Edison and the Birth of Film. A letter dating from the birth year of motion picture exhibition, from the inventor of the medium, Edison, to one of the first motion picture distributors and producers, Norman C. Raff, mentioning a third important figure in the history of film..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Edison"), to Norman C. Raff, relating to the early efforts in...
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Hartford: W.S. Williams & Co, 1865. Second edition. The experiences of a woman who diguised herself as a man and entered the Union Army with the Army of the Potomac. She was born in New Brunswick, Canada. It is not clear when the first edition of this book appeared. probably..... Read More about Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in...
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Washington, D.C: Dec. 19 , 1879. A letter from the Senator of Vermont to fellow Republican, and U.S. Representative from New York, Simeon B. Chittenden. Reading in part: I have just rec'd from Mr. William Allen Butler a letter stating that he has examined the technical point I referred to..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Geo F Edmunds") to U.S. Congressman, Simeon B. Chittenden...
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Hartford: Printed by John L. Boswell, 1845. Connecticut School Funds. General Assembly-May Session, 1845, House Document No. 10. The report presentd by E. R. Warren as Chairman. Describes the location of the principle of the funds and the status of those funds. Read More about Report of the Joint Standing Committee on the School Fund
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New York: May 1890. Parson Samuel Webster Jr. was a minuteman from Temple, N.H. He died in 1777 at the age of 34. Read More about Pen and Ink drawing from openning of the poem "The Fighting Parson" by Henry Ames Blood...
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New-Haven [CT]: Printed and Published by S. Converse, 1822. Read More about Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd; Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York,...
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. First edition. With ALS to Henry Cabot Lodge. Tipped into ffep. is the following letter: ”Dear Senator Lodge, To you who have conspicuously illustrated the Renaissance goal of letters and action I take the liberty of addressing my book on Tudor Ideals. Sincerely..... Read More about Tudor Ideals
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1955-57. A fine collection of correspondence between President Eisenhower and publisher Seymour Berkson. Seymour Berkson (b.1905 - d.1959) was an American publisher of The Journal-American, a now defunct NYC daily newspaper, and was husband of fashion publicist and founder of New York Fashion Week, Eleanor Lambert. In this collection of..... Read More about Collection of T.L.S. correspondence from President Dwight D. Eisenhower to Seymour Berkson
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July 9, 1938. "To Alfred Eisenstaedt / with admiration for his / art and appreciation for his / comradeship / Jonathan Daniels / Raleigh, N.C. July 9, 1938" Daniels was editor the Raleigh, North Carolina, News and Observer. In 1938 he published his account of a ten-state tour of the..... Read More about Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt
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Newport, Rhode Island: 1 April 1791 - 1 April 1795. Contemporary gathering of customs records for "dried and pickled fish and salted provisions" exported from Rhode Island principally to the West Indies, between 1791 and 1795, with the signature of William Ellery appearing 11 times. Ellery (1727-1820) was the representative..... Read More about Copies of Abstracts of Bounty on fish, &c. paid from January 1st, 1791, to March 31, 1795, as...
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1830s-40s. A collection of letters written to George Barrell Emerson (1797-1881), pioneer of girls' education and cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson graduated from Harvard in 1817, and served as tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy there from 1819 to 1821. He left that post in 1821 to become the..... Read More about A collection of 16 ALS, being received correspondence from various New England thinkers and...
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Salem: Reprinted by Joshua Cushing, 1802. Read More about A Discourse delivered on the Annual Fast in Massachusetts, April 9, 1801
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N.p: n.d. Thomas Dunn English (1819-1902) was a proilific author of poems, ballads, and novels; he also server two terms in the U.S. Congrress as a Representative from New Jersey; but his fame as a writer rests on the ballad in wrote in 1843, “Ben Bolt.” English is also remembered..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript, signed, fair copy, of the Poem "Cradle-Song"
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Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. First edition. Read More about An Historical Account of the Old State House of Pennsylvania Now Known as the Hall of Independence
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[Philadelphia: n.d., but ca. 1750s?]. Signed “George Claypoole, Emanuel Rouse, Lewis Evans” Claypoole was a cabinet maker. Rouse was a clockmaker Evans (c. 1700 – 1756) was a great mapmaker famous for General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, published in 1755 and agreat friend of Franklin's. Read More about Manuscript Account Ledger with Three Important Signatures] "An Inventory of Michael Hoyle's...
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Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, 1772. First edition. With the Preface (pp. iii-x) by William Smith, who was Evans’ his former teacher at the Philadelphia Academy, and the frequently missing Subscribers’ List (pp. xi-xxvi), First and only edition of the poems by the author, who died at the age of..... Read More about Poems on Several Occasions, with Some other Compositions
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Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1850. Second edition. Read More about Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions
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New York: 1944. Irishman Farley (1888-1976), was an American politician and businessman; Coca-Cola board chairman (1940-73); U.S. Postmaster General under FDR (1933-40); Democratic National Committee chairman (1932-40), devotee of FDR and instrumental in his election. Read More about Signed Photograph. Inscribed on mount: "To Eugene Harteloo/With very good wish./James A....
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New York: George A. Leavitt & Co., Auctioneer, June, 1884. With 8 page Supplement of Prices realized laid in. Read More about Catalogue of the Library of the Late Alexander Farnum, Esq., of Providence, Rhode Island
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Bangor, [Maine]: Thomas W. Burr, Printer, 1893. First edition. Read More about History of Islesborough (Maine
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London: printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, Law Printers to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1773. The second edition greatly improved and enlarged, by the addition of many useful cases. SIGNED BY GEORGE READ. Signed by George Read on the title-page and signed with a note from Thomas F...... Read More about An Essay on the learning of contingent remainders and executory devises. In this Treatise the...
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Boston: John Loring, ca. 1831. Early American imprint. An early American printing. Read More about Pious Reflections for Everyday in the Month
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