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Basilae: In officina Heruagiana, 1538. Collection first published by Froben, 1518. With Provenance to a 17th Century Clergyman in New York. With ownership signaure to the title page: "Ex Libris Johannis Miller pret. 1s. 0d Anno Dm 1693", a further ownership signature to the recto of the last leaf "Ex.....  Read More Item Details for Fabulae Graece et Latine, cum aliis opusculis, quorum, index proxima refertur pagella Add to Wish List

Item #338977

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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

Price: $3,500

London: John Baskett, 1719. First edition. First Collected Laws of Bermuda. Read More Item Details for Acts of Assembly, Made and Enacted in the Bermuda, or Summer-Islands, From 1690, to 1713-14 Add to Wish List

Item #329414

Price: $2,500

[Chicago]: Harry E. Burgess, 1916. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed to Pawnee Bill. Inscribed to Pawnee Bill. Inscribed in the upper wrapper: "To Major Gordon W. Lillie ('Pawnee Bill') – the last and best of the plainsman hero band, from his true friend, the Author." Uncommon. OCLC locates only four.....  Read More Item Details for God Before the White Man Came. The Indian Paradise Invaded by Emissaries of Foreign Gods ... A Resume of Short Talks and Magazine Articles, in which the Indian is shown to be of a High Order of Natural Intelligence, Brave Spirit, Positive Convictions and Independent Mind Add to Wish List

Item #338887

Price: $7,500

Vp: [1861-1865 (or later)]. Includes signatures by Robert E. Lee, E. Kirby Smith, Daniel Ruggles, Gideon Pillow, Raphael Semmes, Alexander Stephens, M.F. Maury, Jubal Early, N.B. Forrest, John Breckinridge, S. Buckner, Lew Wallace, George Sykes, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan, Daniel Sickles, W. Rosencrans, Fitz John Porter, O.O. Howard.....  Read More Item Details for Album of clipped signatures of Union and Confederate officers, Civil War songsheets and a few unmounted cdvs Add to Wish List

Item #333099

Price: $10,000

Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830-1833. First edition. COMPLETE SET - THE PHILLIPS COPY. "A mine of information on contemporary sport and natural history" (Phillips). A landmark of American sporting publication, issued in parts by the brothers Thomas and John Doughty. Subscriptions dwindled after Thomas departed for Boston, and the.....  Read More Item Details for The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports Add to Wish List

Item #240353

Price: $650

Washington, D.C: [Gales & Seaton], February 20, 1822. 17th Congress, 1st Session, House Report No. 47. A request that the association formed by Chazotte be allowed to purchase land in the Key Largo area for the purpose of cultivating coffee, cocoa and tropical fruits. Pages 13 through 30 comprise a......  Read More Item Details for Report of the Committee on the Public Lands on the Petition of Peter S. Chazotte and others, in behalf of the American Coffee Land Association [caption title] ... [Bound with:] Facts and Observations on the Culture of Vines, Olives, Capers, Almonds, etc. in the Southern States and of Coffee, Cocoa and Cochineal in East Florida Add to Wish List

Item #339148

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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

Item #315277

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London: Thomas Baskett, 1733. This Parliamentary Act authorized a grant of £10,000 "for establishing the colony of Georgia in America, to be applied toward defraying the charges of carrying over and settling foreign and other Protestants in the said colony" (p. 448). The act further authorizes the application of £500,000.....  Read More Item Details for Anno Regni Georgii II Regis ... An Act for enabling His Majesty ... to pay ... Ten Thousand Pounds to the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America .. Add to Wish List

Item #319850

Price: $750

Philadelphia: Printed by William Duane, 1811. First edition, translated and revised by Thomas Jefferson. This is the first edition, and an edition in French did not appear until 1817. In his preface the author states that he wrote this work, in which he extols the superiority of the republican constitution.....  Read More Item Details for A Commentary And Review of Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws. Prepared for Press From the Original Manuscript, in the Hands of the Publisher Add to Wish List

Item #251423

Price: $1,500

New York: O. Halsted, 1832. Second edition. THE AMERICAN BLACKSTONE. A landmark in American and International legal commentary, the first edition of Kent's classic was issued in four volumes from 1826 to 1830. This second edition is also very uncommon. The work, notes the DNB, “still remains the foremost American.....  Read More Item Details for Commentaries on American Law Add to Wish List

Item #324769

Price: $3,500

Galveston: 1870. This broadside, published by Galveston's largest newspaper, includes a printing of Lee's General Orders No. 9, as well as a poem titled Lee at the Wilderness. Read More Item Details for The Galveston News. In Memory of the Death of Robert E. Lee Add to Wish List

Item #324962

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France & the United States: circa 1840. Inventory of a household moving from France to America. A detailed manuscript inventory listing personal and household goods transported to the United States from France and, separately, items shipped from America back to France. The volume records the possessions of Eugène Mourgue, his.....  Read More Item Details for Mid-19th century French manuscript inventory detailing personal and household goods, including books, maps, and engravings sent from France to New York and from the United States back to France [Transatlantic Inventory] Add to Wish List

Item #346004