Brockton, Mass: Harold C. Keith, April, 1931. First edition. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed... Read More about Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed...
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White Plains [NY]: October 23d 1776. CONTINENTAL RECEIPT FROM THE SAW PITTS. An early receipt of the war, dated “White Plains Oct. 23d, 1776,” and written from the “Saw Pitts,” now Port Chester, NY, six days before the rout of the Continental Army at the Battle of White Plains, reading..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Receipt, Signed "Frederick Tracy" for eight barrels of flour from...
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[Burlington]: 7 April 1783. Entrepreneurs of the Revolution. The lands contained all the necessary materials for shipbuilding, and in the Revolutionary War its "bog iron" made cannon balls while its hidden coves sheltered privateers. Blast furnaces, sawmills, glass factories, and brick and tile works followed until the Industrial Revolution drew..... Read More about Autograph Letter signed ("Rich Wescoat") to Major JOSHUA MERSEREAU in Elizabeth Town...
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Hartford [CT]: September 8 1780. BALANCE DUE FOR THREE YEARS SERVICE IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. From the Battle of Valcour Island in 1776, to the brutal winter encampment in Morristown, New Jersey in 1779-1780, Daniel Everts (1749-1833) was a participant and witness to some of the most crucial periods of..... Read More about Autograph Document Receipt, Signed "Danl Everts" "being the balance due to me on...
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Hartford [CT]: June 28th 1777. SMALL COMPENSATION FOR A LIFE AND FORTUNE LOST. An important testament offering proof of the sacrifice and hardship of a memorialized Connecticut hero signed by one of its favorite sons, reading: "Sir pay to Hannah Douglas Executrise (sic) to the Estate of Col. William Douglas..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Order, Signed "James Church" and "O[liver] Ellsworth" ...
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Hartford & Windham [CT]: 1785. A SOLDIER FOR JUST FIVE WEEKS. Too young for marriage and children, but old enough to join the fight for independence, these documents may be the last few remaining records of a largely forgotten soldier of 1776. Samuel Robinson III (1757-1776) was born in the..... Read More about A Group of Two Manuscripts and One Document, Attesting to the Service of Samuel Robinson in the...
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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...
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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
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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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[Menasha, Wisconsin: Printed by the Collegiate Press, Banta Publishing Company, for the] Historical Committee, 1952. One of 300 copies. Club history of the oldest American private club, in South River, Anne Arundel county, Maryland, formed before 1723 and meeting in the “new”clubhouse since 1742. Read More about The Ancient South River Club. A Brief History
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Philadelphia: 1947-1962. Uncommon ephemera from this group of Philadelphia anglers, organized by Frank C. Roberts, Jr., and with many members of the Anglers’ Club of New York in attendance. Lee Wulff showed color movies at the Salmon Anglers dinners in 1947-8 (the first program is signed by Lee Wulff); a...... Read More about The Anglers’ Club of Philadelphia. Founding Dinner. The Racquet Club. February 1, 1951 […...
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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
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1919. Number 1129 of 1200 copies. Read More about The Colonial Architecture of Salem
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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...
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[Asbury Park, New Jersey]: 1924. Nicely produced club book, illustrated with portraits of members, photographs of fishing, line drawings, and a good group of articles. “New Record Tuna Catch” by Claude E. Holgate mentions Zane Grey. Van Campen Heilner (author of Salt Water Fishing, 1937) was president of the club..... Read More about Asbury Park Fishing Club 1924
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. "Headlines of other Days," is what this book may have been called, according the blurb on the dust jacket flap. "… Mr. Asbury has assembled here the most startling, exciting, and eccentric events in the history of New York City." Many of..... Read More about All Around the Town
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Ashley, Clifford. First edition. One of only 1035 made of which 1000 were for sale. Read More about Whaleships of New Bedford
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New York: Thornhill Press, 1999. 125 of 175 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and signed by Auchincloss, Banfield & the publisher, Luke Pontifell. Read More about Civil Wars: Three Tales of Old New York. Illustrations by Elliott Banfield
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A list of buyers and money spent. On p.5 is a summary-"Amount of the appraisal $462.61/Amount of the Vendue list $302.09/ less on sale $160.52." Read More about Manuscript of "A lis (sic) of the vendue led at the late residence of Abn. Emens, des. in...
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Boston: printed for the Author, by E. Lincoln, 1804. First edition. An important source on late 18th-century churches in Virginia based on the author's travels in the South in 1789. Read More about An Abridgement of the Church History of New-England from 1602 to 1804 . . . with a Concise...
Price: $300
Northampton, Mass: The Hampshire Bookshop, 1937. First edition. Read More about Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts
Price: $150
Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald, [1886]. Read More about Annual Announcement and Catalogue of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md. 1886-7
Price: $75
