New York: Thomas R. Knox & Co, 1885. First edition. "An ornately wordy account, filled with ironic humor, puns and amusing turns of phrase. Gives very detailed descriptions of soial conditions in the places visited" (Toy). Mcquade's account of the Montauk's cruise from New York to the Caribbean, which included..... Read More about The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida

Mexico City: August 17 1887. The Fall of the Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico: the True Story? A letter from one J. Montismo, amateur historian (?), who writes to the well-known Georgia collector, Julius L. Brown, concerning new findings relating to the death of the Emperor Maximilian I, after the..... Read More about Letter, signed. To Julius L. Brown of Atlanta, Georgia, regarding new information contradicting...

np: Privately Printed, [1966]. First edition. History of this timber plantation and game bird shooting preserve in rural South Carolina under the stewardship of philanthropist Jeremiah Milbank. It remains a privately held sporting plantation. Read More about Turkey Hill Plantation. [Foreword by Grace Fox Perry

Augusta, Mi(ssissippi): Mar 3d 1837. Reads in part:"According to a promisee made to Mr. George Holley of Biloxi I have written to give you some information in relation to the claim to Cat Island in Consequence of Mr. Holley not being able to give me the name of the claimant..."..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed, to John B. Byrne, Esq. New Orleans. About Cat Island, a barrier Island...

Washington, D.C: March 10, 1848. Read More about Memorial of Citizens of the United States, praying The Purchase of Mount Vernon by the government

[N.p: 1967]. Third printing. The Romance of Key Biscayne With Richard Nixon. Souvenir of future President Richard Nixon's luncheon at Key Biscayne, Florida, signed by Nixon and the Rev. Billy Graham, who was a guest at the event.  The book also bears a presentation inscription to James Copley and many..... Read More about The Book of Key Biscayne Being the Romance of Cape Florida

[Novelty, Ohio: EK USA INC, 1998]. First edition. Inscribed on ffep to Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen " For Peter/ who has been a friend/ to many visible in this/ little book./ Mary Bolton with love/ Jan 12, 2003." Read More about Oliver's Acres. "The Three VB's" The Bingham, Blossom and Bolton Families in Palm...

Caroline, Virginia: November 16, 1778. Edmund Pendleton served as a representative to the First Continental Congress, was president of both of Virginia's revolutionary conventions in 1775, and was also president of the powerful Committee of Safety for the state. Only an injury sustained in a fall from a horse (to..... Read More about Autograph letter signed, from Edmund Pendleton to Col. William Preston, regarding the sale of...

New York: Privately Printed for the Author The Knickerbocker Press, 1899. First edition, with correction on p. ix of “stalking” to “walking” in pencil, and again in pencil on photo opposite p. 18. An outstanding record of outdoor life and sport in southern Louisiana, being Pringle’s account of his shooting..... Read More about Twenty Years’ Snipe-Shooting. Extracts from the Daily Journal of the Game-Books of the Snipery

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First edition. MINT. Read More about Cross Creek Cookery

Philadelphia: 1862. AND: [Reed, William B.] The Diplomatic Year: being a Review of Mr. Seward's Foreign Correspondence of 1862 by a Northern Man. Philadelphia, 1863. 68 pp. Also attributed to Charles Ingersoll and Joseph Ingersoll. Vehemently anti-SewardAND:Wharton, Francis. The Missouri Valley and Lay Preaching. NY: John A. Gray, 1859. 44..... Read More about A Review of Mr. Seward's Diplomacy by a Northern Man

[N.p., New York?]: 1905. Incorporation records, by-laws (with revisions), and annotated lists of membership for this private hunting and fishing club in Ridgeway, South Carolina, organized by John Magee of Corning, N.Y., William de F. Haynes, of New York City, and Clinton G. Gilmore, of Lenox, Mass., in 1904, for..... Read More about Charter, By-Laws, Rules and Regulations of the Ridgeway Club. Incorporated under the Laws of...

Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, 1860 [i.e., 1967]. A photo-offset facsimile of the original edition, issued on the bicentennial of All Saints Parish Church, 1967. Facsimile of this antebellum Charleston imprint, a history of this South Carolina Fishing Club, which includes Reminiscences of Ex-Governor R.F.W. Allston. Only two institutions report holdings..... Read More about Rules and History of the Hot and Hot Fish Club of All Saints Parish, South Carolina