New Bedford: Augustus Taber. Press of Benjamin Lindsey, 1848. The Publisher’s Own Copy, Marked with a White Whale... Read More about New Bedford and Fairhaven Signal Book
Price: $4,500
![Item #326903 Lights Out [Memoirs: Princess di San Faustino]. Jane Bourbon del Monte, Princess di...](/pictures/thumb/326903.jpg?v=1669656538)
The Lido, Venice: June 1930. ‘Ringmaster of Society in the Eternal City’. The generally candid and richly entertaining autobiography of Princess Jane di San Faustino (1863-1938), recounting her origins in New Jersey and her entry in the highest ranks of the Italian aristocracy following her marriage to Carlo di Bourbon..... Read More about Lights Out [Memoirs: Princess di San Faustino
Price: $2,500
Groton, Mass: Aug 18, 1876. George Sewall Boutwell (1818 -1905) was Secretary of the Treasury under President Ulysses S. Grant, the 20th Governor of Massachusetts, a Senator and Representative from Massachusetts and the first Commissioner of Internal Revenue under President Abraham Lincoln. Read More about Autograph Letter, signed, An apology to Mr. F.S. Wood for not answering his letter
Price: $50
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840. Second Edition. MEMOIR OF NATHANIEL BOWDITCH. Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer and mathematician, and author of "The New American Practical Navigator" was the most important author to American sea captains Inscription on ffep: "James R Stanwood from Miss E.S. Quincy. Quincy, Massachusetts: 18th October..... Read More about Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch. By His Son
Price: $350
[Bethlehem, PA]: The Lehigh Alumni Bulletin [Times Publishing Company], 1924. First edition. Read More about A History of Lehigh University
Price: $150
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. First edition. Read More about The Boundary Disputes of Connecticut
Price: $250
New York: Biglow, 1876. First edition. Inscribed on t.p. by John P. Townsend Seond Vice-President to F.B. Sanborn, Esq Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, 1831-1917, American journalist, author, and philanthropist, b. Hampton Falls, N.H., grad. Harvard, 1855. An active abolitionist, he was a friend and agent of John Brown, although he disapproved..... Read More about Manual of the Bowery Savings Bank
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Albany, New York: Websters and Skinners, 1817. Read More about The Word of Life ... A Sermon
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Baltimore: D. Owen & Son, No 52, Baltimore St, 1845. Read More about Memoranda of Foreign Travel. containing notices of a Pilgrimage through some of the Principal...
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Culver City, CA: Chartoff Winkler Productions, 1971. Revised draft February 1971, copy distributed to Jack C. Jacobsen, sound engineer on the film, with his name inked to title page along with the number 23. Screenplay for the film based on the Jimmy Breslin novel which in turn is based on..... Read More about The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight. A Screen Play by Waldo Salt from the novel by Jimmy Breslin
Price: $250
Lancaster: D.S. Bare, 1864. SECOND COUNTY ATLAS. This is among the earliest American county atlases issued, the first of which was published in 1862 by Bridgens with Lawrence Fagan. This is the second atlas of an individual county. Read More about Bridgen's Atlas of Lancaster Co. Penna. from actual Surveys by H.F. Bridgens and Assistant
Price: $750
Salem [MA]: March 6, 1833. Winchester & Briggs Agreement. A neighborly (or not so neighborly) agreement reading: "We the under signed agree to pay to Samuel Noah one cent per year apeace for the privalage to pass & repass over the Land from the door in the northwest end of..... Read More about Autograph Document, Signed ("Cornelius Briggs") ("Jacob Winchester") to...
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![Item #314454 Letters from Alaska and the Pacific Coast. [Preface by daughter Nora Briggs]. Horace...](/pictures/thumb/314454.jpg?v=1669653582)
Buffalo: [Press of E.H. Hutchinson], 1889. First edition. Chapters on Portland, Oregon, Puget Sound, etc. Most aof the chapters appeared in the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. Read More about Letters from Alaska and the Pacific Coast. [Preface by daughter Nora Briggs
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New York: Cassell & Co, 1883. From the library of Charles Edison. A girlhood book of Carolyn Hawkins, wife of Charles Edison (1890-1969), son of Thomas A. Edison and Governor of New Jersey from 1941-1944. Read More about Four Little Friends or Papa's Daughters in Town
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[Oswego, NY]: 1838. A Musical Evening. Penned corrections and annotations changing dates, locations and price most likely for the printer to make other broadsides. Read More about Broadside for a Soiree Musical at the Academy Hall with Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Horn (the late Miss...
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Paterson, N.J: Guardian Print, 1880. Broadside opens with an invitation "most especially to ladies and children, to our matinee, Saturday, when the entire programme will be given in strict adherence to all laws of gentility and modesty. Our motto: Please all and offend none." Entertainment includes farcicle sketches, acrobatics, singing..... Read More about Broadside program from Ward's Opera House (formerly Odeon
Price: $75
New York: H. R. Robinson, [ca. 1836]. the funeral of old tammany. Among the mourners are also the editors for The Times and The Truth Teller. From various of the mourners are inscriptions inside balloons. To the right in the background is a view of Tammany Hall with a flag..... Read More about “The Funeral of Old Tammany”
Price: $1,250
North Wolcott, [Vermont]: 1865. An excellent example of a late 19th-century auction broadside, with its characteristic bold typesetting. Read More about Auction Sale! To Close an estate the subscriber will sell at public auction on Saturday Sept. 30,...
Price: $850
New York: Joseph C. Spear, Cor. of Wall and Water-sts 4th Loft, [1826]. LOFT PRINTED. The earliest known broadside for Castle Garden in Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan. Once a circular fort (Castle Clinton), this structure became a beer garden and restaurant, exhibition hall, and theater. It later..... Read More about CASTLE GARDEN. THE PUBLIC IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INFORMED, THAT THIS SPLENDID ESTABLISHMENT, IS NOW...
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[New Haven]: [1804]. Unrecorded. Much of the broadside is comprised of an argurment in favor of the new state Constitution, under the caption heading To the Freeman of New Haven County. The various controversial points are reviewed, including the sections on religious conscience and on qualifications of electors, noting in..... Read More about The Constitution. Agreeably to the Resolve the Legislature in May, freemen may be qualified on...
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Boston: FA Searle Printing, 1869. RIP. James Henry Hackett (1800-1871) started playing Rip in 1830. Read More about Broadside: Boston Theatre. Benefit of Mr. Hackett New Year's Night. When he will perform, for the...
Price: $150
Boston: F.A. Searle Printing, Job Printer, Journal Building (up one flight), 118 Washington Street, 1870s. BOSTON IN WORCESTER. Read More about Broadside: Music Hall, Worcester. Last Night but two of the Boston Theatre Company. Fast Night!,...
Price: $100
