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Cleveland, Ohio: 1935. John L. Spivak (b. 1897 - d. 1981) was an American socialist reporter and author who wrote for various publications about the working class, racism, and labor movements in the United States. During the height of McCarthyism he lived under a false name and wrote under other.....  Read More Item Details for Advertisement for a John L. Spivak Lecture in Cleveland at the Engineers Auditorium [February 9th, 1935] Add to Wish List

Item #338424

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Aboard the Hussar [Washington, Alaska, etc.]: May 8-June 3, 1934. Manuscript diary, in a secretarial hand (or perhaps by Hutton's wife Marjorie Merriwether Post) but signed by each of the member of the travelling party, of a 1934 cruise of Edward F. Hutton's 320-foot yacht Hussar along Alaskan coastal waters.....  Read More Item Details for Manuscript diary of a yachting and bear-hunting trip to Alaska, inscribed at the head of the first page: "Just a Shooting Trip to Alaska & a few of my comic friends" and signed E.F. Hutton, May 9, 1934" Add to Wish List

Item #320413

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Sur la Copie a Paris: Chez Frederic Leonard, 1677. Second French edition. Amelot de la Houssaye was secretary to the French embassy at Venice and his account of the Republic for the first time revealed the policy of the Venetian governement. When the book appeared the Venetian state complained to.....  Read More Item Details for Histoire du Gouvernement de Venise, Avec le Suplement…et l'Examin de la Liberté originaire de Venise Add to Wish List

Item #36147

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New York: [n.d., before 1917]. Interesting item of Arab American ephemera from the days of “Little Syria” on New York’s Lower West Side. The verso of the card described the firm of Daniel Joseph Faour and Brothers as “associates of the Bank of Syria in the United States” competent to.....  Read More Item Details for D. J. Faour & Bros. Importers Exporters & Commission Merchants. in Notions, Dry Goods, Cutlery, Jewelry &c. Also Makers of the Celebrated Joseph bey Karam Razors. 63 Washington Street, New York City Add to Wish List

Item #352074

Price: $750

New York: April 6 1832. Olcott was the president of the Mechanics and Farmers' Bank of Albany, N.Y. and a prominent figure in New York State politics and finance. Reads in part: " I have your letter of 4st & regret---not get the loan of 1200$..." Read More Item Details for ALS. To Thomas W. Olcott. About a loan Add to Wish List

Item #305489

Price: $300

Waltham, MA: Metz Company, 1916. First edition. In 1893 C.H. Metz began working for Waltham Company, early auto manufacturers; in 1909 he bought the company and instituted a plan whereby the public could buy 14 separate packages and build their own car. This approach was superceded in 1911 when the.....  Read More Item Details for Metz 1916 Touring Car and Roadster Models: printed advertising broadside Add to Wish List

Item #221203

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München: Mit churfürstlich akademische Schriften, [1776]. German edition of Bailey's Advancement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce with 55 plates in Volume II. Read More Item Details for Die Beförderung der Künste, der Manufacturen und der Handelschaft oder Beschreibungen der nützlichen Maschinen und Modellen ... : Erläutert durch Abriße auf fünf und fünfzig Kupferplatten Add to Wish List

Item #301820

Price: $950

Baltimore: Thomas Murphy, 1823. First edition. The establishment of the Second Bank of the United States in 1816 prompted immediate distrust of the institution, with opponents charging it as constitutionally illegitimate and a direct threat to Jeffersonian agrarianism. With more local banks than any other state, Maryland faced an unprecedented.....  Read More Item Details for An Exhibit of the Losses Sustained at the Office of Discount and Deposit Baltimore, under the Administration of James A. Buchanan, President, and James W. M'Culloh, Cashier; Compiled by the ... President and Directors of the Bank of the United States Add to Wish List

Item #319699

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[New York]: [Privately-printed], [1822]. Relates to the controversy concerning control of the North-River Bank between the early American financier, banker and stock trader Jacob Barker and the Director of the Bank David Rogers, with Barker being convicted in court of challenging Rogers to a duel after Rogers had slandered him.....  Read More Item Details for Jacob Barker to His Creditors [caption title] Add to Wish List

Item #322396

Price: $750

New York: 20 October 1937. Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951), self-made businessman, had a distaste for inherited privilege and a respect for the common man, which fed the fires of his interest in industrial relations, self-improvement, and equal rights for African Americans. His desire to provide nondiscriminatory access to art and.....  Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Albert C. Barnes Add to Wish List

Item #56181

Price: $300

Paris: Chez le Libraires Associés, 1771. Read More Item Details for Le livre des Comptes-Faits ou le Tarif General des Monnoies Add to Wish List

Item #28712

Price: $450

n.p: n.d. Isabel Leighton (Mrs. Frederick A., later Mrs. Arthur Hugh Bunker), actress, writer, translator, playwright, radio personality, foreign correspondent, and editor of the best-selling The Aspirin Age, was a very close friend of Baruch over many decades until his death. Read More Item Details for Color photograph of the great financier and presidential advisor, inscribed in lower margin, “To Isabel in memory of many happy days / Affectionately / Bernie / BM Baruch” Add to Wish List

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