A fine selection of Printed and Manuscript Americana, including many new acquisitions, headlines our July offerings. Included is a rare example of the most desirable work on the Texas Revolution, an important Springfield printing of Abraham Lincoln's famous House Divided speech, a rare Woman Suffrage pamphlet, Benjamin Franklin's classic printing of Cato Major and even a 1920s Milton Bradley "Wall Street" board game. Enjoy!
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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 about Jacob Barker to His Creditors [caption title
Price: $1,750
New York: 1909. Author's Original Corrected Typescript. [WITH:] The Silver Horde. Frontispiece. 390pp. 8vo. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909. First edition. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Front hinge starting. Later slipcase In 1900, Florida-born Rex Beach came to Alaska during the gold rush, where after five years of..... Read More about The Silver Horde ... [the original typescript with numerous manuscript corrections throughout in...
Price: $2,500
Venice: Appresso Marco Ginammi, 1636. First edition in Italian. An Anti-Slavery Milestone. Bartoloméo de Las Casas, the great Spanish priest and advocate of the Indians, had witnessed the atrocities committed by the Spaniards in the New World, and upon his return to Spain he initiated a series of attacks on..... Read More about Il supplice schiavo indiano ... tradotto in Italiano per opera di Marco Ginammi
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Washington, D.C: War Department, Office of the Chief of Engineers [Lithographed by Julius Bien, New York], [1869]. First Edition. The topographic maps comprise: 1A. Gettsburg to Appomattox Court House (northern) 1B Gettysburg to Appomattox Court House (southern) 2. Fredericksburg 3. Chancellorville, 4. The Wilderness 5. Spottsylvania 6. North Anna (single..... Read More about Military Maps Illustrating the Operations of the Armies of the Potomac & James, May 4th,...
Price: $2,500
New York: July 25, 1863. Thanking the General Who Helped Suppress the New York Draft Riots. An impressive broadside presented by the "Merchants, residents and property owners in the City of New York" to General Harvey Brown, for leading the suppression of the draft riots in New York in the..... Read More about Gen. Harvey Brown U.S.A. [calligraphic manuscript broadside, presented by the "Merchants,...
Price: $3,750
Philadelphia: Printed for John Fenno, by John Bioren, 1797. First edition. Hamilton Confesses to His Affair with Mrs. Reynolds. The first edition of the infamous "Reynolds pamphlet," in which Hamilton describes his affair with Maria Reynolds and admits to paying off a blackmailer. In the pamphlet Hamilton takes the extraordinary..... Read More about Observations on certain documents contained in No, V & VI of “The History of the United...
Price: $35,000
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. No. 689 of 1750 copies, signed by MacArthur. The life story of one of the Nation's great commanders. Includes the text of his famous "Old Soldiers Never Die" address to Congress and his West Point farewell address, "Duty, Honor, Country." Read More about Reminiscences
Price: $1,250
Boston: Printed by Richard and Samuel Draper, 1763. First edition. Streeter Copy. The first installment in Eleazar Wheelock's series of publications giving the history of the first Indian school in America. This volume covers 1754-62 and was followed by eight more such reports, taking the story up to 1775. Wheelock..... Read More about A Plain and Faithful Narrative of the Original Design, Rise, Progress and Present State of the...
Price: $3,750
