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Item 319086By-Laws of Mutual Fire Hook and Ladder Company No. 1.

(Firefighting).

Price: $450

New York: Piercy & Co. Printers. No. 72 Bowery, 1831. UNRECORDED. Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 was established during British rule, on July 10, 1772. After many of its volunteer members marched off to fight in the Revolution, it was reorganized in 1784 and given the name “Mutual Hook..... Read More Item Details for By-Laws of Mutual Fire Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 Add to Wish List

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Item 315277Manuscript retained letterbook of the Boston merchant firm William Foster & Company, comprising their correspondence with Dutch firm Geyer, De...

Foster and Company, William.

Price: $3,000

Boston: February 27, 1783 - November 17, 1785. "On 30 Aug. 1783, with Anglo-American hostilities having ceased and eager to profit from the commercial opportunities offered by the Dutch-American Treaty, De la Lande & Fynje signed a five-year contract with Boston merchant and loyalist Frederick William Geyer (d. 1803). The..... Read More Item Details for Manuscript retained letterbook of the Boston merchant firm William Foster & Company, comprising their correspondence with Dutch firm Geyer, De la Lande & Fynje Add to Wish List

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Item 320026[Signed portrait, holograph inscription to Richard Harding Davis, being an the Vanity Fair portrait by Spy titled "U.S.A."].

Hay, John.

Price: $1,250

London: [circa 1897]. An autographed Spy portrait of Hay, with a nice inscription to journalist and writer Richard Harding Davis, a close confidant of Theodore Roosevelt. Hay (1838-1905) Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and later biographer, served as Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, helping to establish the..... Read More Item Details for [Signed portrait, holograph inscription to Richard Harding Davis, being an the Vanity Fair portrait by Spy titled "U.S.A."] Add to Wish List

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Item 307822Archive of publisher correspondence and other material related to the writing career of Edwin Lefévre.

Lefèvre, Edwin.

Price: $7,500

Various places: 1901-1929. An archive of material related to the writing career of Edwin Lefévre (1871-1943), the famed documentarian of Wall Street in the first decades of the 20th century. Lefévre’s first book, Wall Street Stories (1901), was a series of eight lightly fictionalized accounts of Wall Street operators which..... Read More Item Details for Archive of publisher correspondence and other material related to the writing career of Edwin Lefévre Add to Wish List

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Item 320416Scharmann's Overland Journey to California from the Pages of a Pioneer's Diary.

Scharmann, Hermann B.

Price: $900

New York: [1918]. First English language edition, translated from the German edition issued in 1905, by Margaret and Erich Zimmerman. Privately printed in an edition of only fifty copies. Graff's Copy -- One of 50 Copies Printed. "Scharmann started his overland odyssey on March 20, 1849, from New York as..... Read More Item Details for Scharmann's Overland Journey to California from the Pages of a Pioneer's Diary Add to Wish List

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Item 319931Art and the Broncho. Author’s Autograph Manuscript signed (“Sydney Porter” and “Olivier Henry”).

(Texas Politics and Art) [Porter, William Sydney].

Price: $27,500

[N.p., New York: ca. 1903]. Published in Ainslee’s Magazine, February 1903; collected in Roads of Destiny (1909). SIGNED. A Texas story by O. Henry from early in his New York years. William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) had variously been bank teller, pharmacy clerk, and Texas newspaperman before his conviction on several..... Read More Item Details for Art and the Broncho. Author’s Autograph Manuscript signed (“Sydney Porter” and “Olivier Henry”) Add to Wish List

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