Pennsylvania: 1844]. Clay, Frelinghuysen & Markle. A grand vestige of the Whig party advocating the presidential candidacy of... Read More about 1844 U.S. Presidential Campaign Flag of Henry Clay
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North Bergen, N.J: October 4, 1838 & Oct, 1838. Read More about The Bergen County Whig. Devoted to Politics, Literature and Agriculture. Vol. 1. No. 2 & No.3
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Newark: Printed William Reid by Pennington & Gould, 1800. Third Newark printing. Read More about Essays on the Spirit of Legislation, in the Encouragement of Agriculature, Population,...
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Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, No. 122 Market-Street, 1810-1811. In 1804, Carey first published a new edition of the quarto Bible from standing type, and including the Apocrypha. A consummate promoter and bookseller, Carey re-issued the Bible on a variety of paper stocks and with various numbers of engraved maps and plates..... Read More about The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: together with the Apocrypha ......
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Trenton: Isaac Collins, 1788. During the colonial era the monopoly on printing English bibles belonged to the Royal Printer, and the colonies were supplied entirely with bibles printed in England. With the Declaration of Independence, the British monopoly on English-language bibles naturally ended. Robert Aitken, a Philadelphia printer, undertook the..... Read More about The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
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New York: American Bible Society, 1855. Sophia Augusta Brown's Bible, Wife of John Carter Brown. The bible of Sophia Augusta Brown (1825-1909), wife of John Carter Brown, herself an active bibliophile who helped her husband build his library and oversaw its stewardship after his death. Sophia Augusta was 34 and..... Read More about The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments
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Northumberland [VA]: April 29th 1814. DETERMINED ON A SEA LIFE. A former “belle of Philadelphia society,” now living in Virginia, who has been widowed and left in dire financial straits, writes to Biddle during the War of 1812, asking for his help in obtaining a naval commission for her son..... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed "Sally D Moore" to Charles Biddle
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Philadelphia: December 8, 1818. Clement Biddle 1740-1814, American Revolutionary soldier, b. Philadelphia. Early in the war, he helped organize the "Quaker Blues," a company of volunteers. He later served as deputy quartermaster general of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey militia, commissary general of forage under Nathaniel Greene in the Carolina..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed. 1 page to George Adams Esq. "Being better acquainted with the...
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Philadelphia: April 15, 1842. THE PROPOSED TERMS SEEM HARD. Written at the nadir of Biddle’s career during a time when he was struggling with debt. “I have had the pleasure of receiving your favor of the 31st inst. The proposed terms seem hard - and I had always hoped that..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed "N.Biddle.” to S. Griffith Fisher, of Mobile Alabama regarding...
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Philadelphia: Sept. 19, 1836. Read More about ANS. To A.D. Bache, about sending copies of the proceedings
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Philadelphia: Sept 19, 1835. OPIUM HERE. Read More about Billhead of Isaac Thompson Wholesale & Retail Druggist. Accomplished for "200 Feet Glass...
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Boston: Sheoard, Clark & Brown, 110 Washington Street, 1857. First edition. Read More about A Biographical Sketch of Gen. Joseph Warren, Embracing the Prominent Events of His Life, and his...
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v.p. chiefly Boston and surrounding towns: 1835-1895. THE SAGE OF WALPOLE. A grief-laden archive of Francis William Bird (1809-1894) including: 9 autograph letters signed Francis William Bird (“F.W. Bird), on “F.W. Bird & Son” letterhead; 79 autograph letters signed, many being condolence letters from important friends, including Dr. Estes Howe..... Read More about Archive of Francis William Bird
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New York: Privately printed, 1913. First edition, #96 of 200 copies, initialed and numbered on the half-title. Inscribed on flyleaf, "Mr. & Mrs. A.B. Payne [names partly effaced] with sincere regards of Mr. & Mrs. W.K. Bixby, St. L. 5/18/14" "Includes 12 pages of text on fishing for smallmouth bass..... Read More about Mohican Point on Lake George. The Summer Home of Mr. and Mrs. W.K. Bixby of St. Louis, Mo
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vp: 1937-1978. An archive of material relating to the career of Ivan Black (1903-1979), a well-connected New York City publicist whose work brought him into contact with a wide variety of entertainers, including many prominent mid-century African American musicians and writers. Black graduated from Harvard, class of 1924, cum laude..... Read More about Papers of New York publicist Ivan Black
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New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers, [1972]. First edition. Inscribed "August 1974 To Jane (Engelhard) with keen anticipation of our long and fruitful association in the work of a Great University. Ed." Bloustein was the President of Rutgers. Read More about The University and the Counterculture
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![Item #17159 Engraved armorial bookplate of K[illian] K. Van Rensselaer of New York, with the...](/pictures/thumb/17159.jpg?v=1669649253)
[New York]: circa 1790's ? This would have been Killian K. Van Rensselaer, (1763-1845), a lawyer and representing New York in Congress from the Seventh Congress (1801) through the Eleventh Congress (1811). Peter Rushton Maverick (1755-1807), originally a silversmith and from an engraving family in England, was a New York..... Read More about Engraved armorial bookplate of K[illian] K. Van Rensselaer of New York, with the motto “Vertus...
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Bridgeport, [Ct.]: Rufus Landon, 1825. Read More about An Essay on the Kingdom of Christ
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New York: Clark & Meeker, 1860. Read More about History of the City of New York
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Boston: 2, October 1791. RECIEVED INTO THE ALSMHOUSE. Between 1758 and 1800 the Boston Overseers of the Poor admitted around 7,200 persons into the almshouse. Polly Ballard would have been sent to the almshouse at the corner of Beacon and Park streets, in Boston, established in 1696, to replace the..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Order, Signed “Edwd Edes Overseer” to Samuel Whitwell requesting that he...
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Boston: Printed by Mein and Fleemin[g], [October] 22, 1767. Early American newspaper prospectus. Rare early American newspaper prospectus, announcing publication of The Boston Chronicle, a weekly Loyalist paper. "John Mein, a bookseller, was the publisher, and John Fleeming the printer. With the beginning of the second year the size of..... Read More about Proposals for Printing a New Weekly Paper, called The Boston Chronicle
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Boston: January 31, 1877. Read More about Boston University Beacon Vol. II, No.4-8; Vol. III, Numbers 1-4
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Boston: June 8, 1792. "BOT" OF A FORMER SPY. A quaint record of Federal era Boston which includes a handwrtiien list of 17 artisan and craftsman on the verso reading in part: "Receipt to Mrs. Prentice Bot of John Carnes Junr for 3 Willow Hatts 3/9 L11.3 rec'd pay't for....... Read More about Autograph Document, Signed to John Carnes, Jr
Price: $200
