Price: $6,500

New York: Collins and Co, 1814. Hamilton Family Bible. Inserted vellum leaves between the Old Testament and the Apocrypha contain the family register of Philip Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's son and youngest child, kept by his wife Rebecca. Rebecca McLane Hamilton (1813-1893) inherited the bible from her Aunt, Lydia Cantwell Milligan.....  Read More Item Details for The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha Add to Wish List

Item #323250

Price: $850

North Wolcott, [Vermont]: 1865. An excellent example of a late 19th-century auction broadside, with its characteristic bold typesetting. Read More Item Details for Auction Sale! To Close an estate the subscriber will sell at public auction on Saturday Sept. 30, 1865 at the Residence of the late John S. Odell, the well known PEACH ORCHARD FARM! ... Over 300 volumes of valuable BOOKS! Embracing a choice collection of Voyages and Travels, Biography, History, Agricultural Works, Poetry, Science and Art ... M. W. Gage, Auctioneer. Pierre Odell Add to Wish List

Item #255205

Price: $5,000

London: C. Dilly, H. Payne, and J. Phillips, 1781. Third and best edition. Carver penetrated further West than any other pre-Revolutionary explorer in his search for a Northwest Passage, mapping several tributaries of the Mississippi, and making many observations of flora and fauna, Indian tribes, etc., which were to prove.....  Read More Item Details for Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 … To which is added, Some Account of the Author and a copious Index Add to Wish List

Item #323670

Price: $4,750

Fort Chartres, Illinois Country: December 31, 1766. The Fur Trade with Native Americans on the Western Frontier. Following the French and Indian War, the Treaty of Paris (1763) extended British control of the frontier as far west as the Mississippi River and transferred the French forts along the river to.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph document signed, a bill of exchange for £100 Pennsylvania currency drawn on Baynton, Wharton & Morgan to Daniel Blouin, "to account of your Adventure to the Illinois" Add to Wish List

Item #324033

Price: $1,850

Annapolis: Jonas Green, 1755. Recruiting for Braddock's Campaign. Passed in December 1754 "to raise a Body of able Land-men, for his Majesty's Service, against the French and their Allies on this Continent", this separately-printed session law essentially authorizes a draft system for forcing "all and every able-bodied Freeman who live.....  Read More Item Details for Act of Assembly passed in December, 1754. At a session of Assembly, begun and held at the city of Annapolis, on Thursday the twelfth day of December, in the fourth year of the dominion of the Right Honourable Frederick, Lord Baron of Baltimore, absolute lord and proprietar of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon, &c. Annoque Domini 1754, the following act passed, viz. An act for taking and detaining able-bodied men for His Majesty’s service Add to Wish List

Item #319725

Price: $450

[Buffalo]: [1846]. The recto includes the schedule between Buffalo and Chicago; the verso includes a list of distances between the two cities. Richardson, who has signed the woodcut, is noted as working in Buffalo. An early Great Lakes sailing card. Read More Item Details for Buffalo & Chicago. The Splendid Steam Packet Empire, Capt. D. Howe, will run during the season of 1846 .. Add to Wish List

Item #320036

Price: $9,500

Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street, 1774. First edition. To "perpetuate the memory of that wanton and bloody massacre to all Generations", Bostonians fanned the flames of Revolution by holding an oration each year on the anniversary of the Boston Massacre. In 1774, just a few months.....  Read More Item Details for An Oration; Delivered March 5, 1774, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston: to Commemorate the Bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of March 1770 Add to Wish List

Item #326712

Price: $250

Barrie, Ont: The Barrie Examiner Printing and Publishing House, 1891. First edition. Scarce early biography of George McDougall (1821-1876). "In 1880, after his ordination on 6 June and his wedding four days later, Maclean and his wife left for a new Methodist mission near Fort Macleod (Alta). They spent nine.....  Read More Item Details for The Hero of the Saskatchewan. Life Among the Ojibway and Cree Indians in Canada ... Reprinted from the Barrie Examiner Add to Wish List

Item #326732

Price: $850

New York: George Dearborn, 1837. First edition. The first literary interpretation with Pocahontas as the protagonist, and an important proto-feminist depiction of Native American women published anonymously by the noted utopian and abolitionist reformer Robert Dale Owen. Read More Item Details for Pocahontas: A Historical Drama, in Five Acts; With an Introductory Essay and Notes. By a Citizen of the West Add to Wish List

Item #323793

Price: $1,250

San Francisco: J. Dewing, 1888. Artist's Proof Illustration by Frederic Remington. Inscribed in pencil on verso, "Artists proof from Picturesque California / Merle Johnson". Johnson was the author of American First Editions, High Spots in American Literature, You Know These Lines!, and similar works. Read More Item Details for "Miners Prospecting for Gold": artist's proof of the illustration for John Muir's Picturesque California (1888) Add to Wish List

Item #30480

Price: $4,500

London: Thomas Wilcox, 1757. First edition of the first history of New York. Peter Stuyvesant's Copy. This example signed multiple times by Petrus "Peter" Stuyvesant (October 13, 1727 – October 7, 1805), a New York landowner and merchant who was the great-grandson of his namesake, Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch.....  Read More Item Details for The History of the Province of New-York, from the First Discovery to the Year M.DCC.XXXII Add to Wish List

Item #323571

Price: $850

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1863. First edition. Joseph Janvier Woodward was an 1853 University of Pennsylvania medical graduate entered the Union Army in June 1861 and was assigned to serve as regimental surgeon with an artillery unit. Woodward served with the Army of the Potomac and participated in the.....  Read More Item Details for Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States Armies as observed during the present war Add to Wish List

Item #324168