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...

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1985; 1986; 1986). First editions (City of Glass is a second printing). Inscribed to Poet Clark Coolidge. The complete New York Trilogy, Paul Auster's classic meta-fictional detective story, with each copy inscribed by the author to poet Clark Coolidge. This was Auster's second work..... Read More about The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room

Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald, [1886]. Read More about Annual Announcement and Catalogue of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md. 1886-7

Boston: Maynard & Noyes, 1848. First edition. In 1848, Dr. John Parker Maynard, of Dedham, Mass., announced a plaster consisting of a fluid derived from gun cotton dissolved in sulfuric ether, brushed on the skin, covered with cotton strips. In 1874, Robert Wood Johnson and George J. Seabury, working in..... Read More about History of the Discovery and Mode of Application of the liquid adhesive plaster, or ethereal...

New York: January 3, 1962. Read More about Portrait photograph of Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones

October 20, 1937. Barnes, Albert C(oombs): Pharmaceutical manufacturer and art collector. He obtained a medical degree and later studied in Germany. In 1902 he made a fortune with his invention of the antiseptic Argyrol. After building a mansion in Merion, Pa., in 1905, he began to collect art seriously, amassing..... Read More about Portait photograph of Albert C. Barnes

Barnstable, [Mass]: October 01, 1796. 'I Sacrificed My All in the Revolution'. Joseph Otis (1728-1810), the brother of zealous Massachusetts patriot, James Otis, and a former General of militia known popularly as “Brigadier Otis, was appointed by George Washington, as Collector of Customs for the district of Barnstable, Massachusetts, a...... Read More about Autograph letter signed, ("Joseph Otis") to Jonathan Jackson ("Sir")...

[np]: Daniel Moreau Barringer, 1916. First edition. Inscribed to His Son. Flyleaf inscribed by Barringer' to his son Richard on 3 May 1922 on his 13th birthday Daniel Moreau Barringer (1860 - 1929) is best known for being the first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on..... Read More about Some Rules of Conduct for my Children and their Children

London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. [R. Clay, Printer. Bread Street Hill], 1853. First edition. Engravings by Bartlett (1809-1854), as superb as those for his famous AMERICAN SCENERY (1840). Read More about The Pilgrim Fathers; or, The Founders of New England in the Reign of James the First

Philadelphia [?]: Ca. 1905. Baseball Sports Caricature, Philadelphia, Ca. 1905. The subjects, two dapper young men seated in third base line box seats, are identified as Bill Reynolds and Tommy O'Keefe. Both are nattily dressed, with diamond stickpins in their ties; Tommy wears a straw boater with a hatband labeled..... Read More about Caricature of two sporting gents watching a Philadelphia Athletics baseball game, ca. 1905

Portland Maine: Privately Printed for L.L. Bean, Inc. The Anthoensen Press, 1987. One of 2 copies bound in leather of an edition of 10,000, with a note pasted to front pastedown that the other copy was given to Leon Gorman and signed R.A. Flynn. One of 2 Copies in Leather..... Read More about L.L. Bean, Inc. Outdoors Sporting Specialties. A Company Scrapbook

New York: [1920]. First Edition. Dedication Copy. Inscribed "To Henry Cabot Lodge with the appreciation of the author for his very kind interest in this little book - James M. Beck". With Lodge Bookplate. This book is dedicated to Lodge. Beck takes President Wilson to task for his foreign policies..... Read More about The Passing of the New Freedom

New York: St. Nicholas Society, 1870. Read More about An Address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York. [Founders of New...