[New York]: October 10, 1885. An extraordinary photographic record of the controlled detonation of Flood Rock in the... Read More about Three vintage photographs documenting the detonation of Flood Rock in the East River, October 10,...
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New York: John A. Gray, 1860. In 1860, abolitionist, Gerrit Smith, brought a libel suit against several prominent northern Democrats of the “Vigilant Association,” for publishing accusations that Smith had full knowledge of John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry beforehand and that he was a member of what became known..... Read More about Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York
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New York: Francis & Laurel, Stationers & Printers, 1871. First Edition. Metroplitan Museum of Art. The museum first opened on February 20, 1872. Read More about Address of the Officers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the People of New York
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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 about Fabulae Graece et Latine, cum aliis opusculis, quorum, index proxima refertur pagella
Price: $4,500
New York: Harper, [1960]. First Edition. Read More about Who Killed Society?
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1908. First edition, one of 115 copies, all on Van Gelder hand-made paper manufactured in Holland. Read More about Jacob Steendam noch Vaster. A Memoir of the First Poet in New Netherland with translations of his...
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New York: Joseph P. Dayt, 1927. With a flyer for 40 acres in Bedford Hills auction on Feb. 15, 1927 laid in. Read More about Estate of Jacob Appell, deceased...Tuesday Feburary 15, 1927
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. "Headlines of other Days," is what this book may have been called, according the blurb on the dust jacket flap. "… Mr. Asbury has assembled here the most startling, exciting, and eccentric events in the history of New York City." Many of..... Read More about All Around the Town
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New York: Thornhill Press, 1999. 125 of 175 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and signed by Auchincloss, Banfield & the publisher, Luke Pontifell. Read More about Civil Wars: Three Tales of Old New York. Illustrations by Elliott Banfield
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Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1985; 1986; 1986). First editions (City of Glass is a second printing). Inscribed to Poet Clark Coolidge. The complete New York Trilogy, Paul Auster's classic meta-fictional detective story, with each copy inscribed by the author to poet Clark Coolidge. This was Auster's second work..... Read More about The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room
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Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1985; 1986; 1986). First editions, each title one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. 1 of 26 Signed copies. The complete New York Trilogy, Paul Auster's classic meta-fictional detective story, in the smallest limitation, one of 26 lettered..... Read More about The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room
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New York: 597 Madison Avenue, 8 June 1942. Wheels within wheels. Auto-Ordnance Corporation manufactured the Thompson Submachine Gun and other “tommy” guns. Read More about Typed letter signed, “Bernie,” one page
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New York: G.P. Putnams [first work]; printed by John P. Prall [all three];, 1849. First edition. New York City carved in wood. A curious work of New York boosterism, printed to promote a model of New York city carved in wood and exactly replicating every building in the city. The..... Read More about New York, Past, Present and Future. WITH: New York as it Is. WITH: The American Advertiser
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vp: 1937-1978. An archive of material relating to the career of Ivan Black (1903-1979), a well-connected New York City publicist whose work brought him into contact with a wide variety of entertainers, including many prominent mid-century African American musicians and writers. Black graduated from Harvard, class of 1924, cum laude..... Read More about Papers of New York publicist Ivan Black
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New York: Clark & Meeker, 1860. Read More about History of the City of New York
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New York: Biglow, 1876. First edition. Inscribed on t.p. by John P. Townsend Seond Vice-President to F.B. Sanborn, Esq Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, 1831-1917, American journalist, author, and philanthropist, b. Hampton Falls, N.H., grad. Harvard, 1855. An active abolitionist, he was a friend and agent of John Brown, although he disapproved..... Read More about Manual of the Bowery Savings Bank
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Culver City, CA: Chartoff Winkler Productions, 1971. Revised draft February 1971, copy distributed to Jack C. Jacobsen, sound engineer on the film, with his name inked to title page along with the number 23. Screenplay for the film based on the Jimmy Breslin novel which in turn is based on..... Read More about The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight. A Screen Play by Waldo Salt from the novel by Jimmy Breslin
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New York: H. R. Robinson, [ca. 1836]. the funeral of old tammany. Among the mourners are also the editors for The Times and The Truth Teller. From various of the mourners are inscriptions inside balloons. To the right in the background is a view of Tammany Hall with a flag..... Read More about “The Funeral of Old Tammany”
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New York: Joseph C. Spear, Cor. of Wall and Water-sts 4th Loft, [1826]. LOFT PRINTED. The earliest known broadside for Castle Garden in Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan. Once a circular fort (Castle Clinton), this structure became a beer garden and restaurant, exhibition hall, and theater. It later..... Read More about CASTLE GARDEN. THE PUBLIC IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INFORMED, THAT THIS SPLENDID ESTABLISHMENT, IS NOW...
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. Anti-Catholic. Read More about The Decline of Popery and its causes. : An address delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, on...
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[New York: Hendricks & Furlong, Publishers, 115 Nassau St, 1886]. Includes a brief account of the Association, which leased the grounds of the former Williamsburg Athletic Club on De Kalb Avenue, with a list of officers and board members, and the stewards for the Spring meeting. Details of scheduled participants..... Read More about First Annual Spring Meeting of the Brooklyn Athletic Association, to take place at the Grounds,...
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New York: Eckstein, Hoffmann & Porr, 1883. The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge was a major event. The New York Times reported: “The pleasant weather brought visitors by the thousands from all around. … It is estimated that over 50,000 people came in by the railroads alone, and swarms by..... Read More about All Hail the Happy Day! May 24, 1883. New York and Brooklyn Suspension Bridge ......
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n.p: [1916]. The drawing depicts an allegorical figure of Manhattan, in colonial garb, tipping his hat and bowing in homage to his neighbor across the Brooklyn Bridge: a rotund figure in a Brooklyn baseball uniform, bat in one hand, pennant in the other, standing in a field with "Brooklyn B.B...... Read More about Fine original pen-and-ink drawing, probably for a newspaper illustration, commemorating the 1916...
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Buffalo: Rockwell, Baker & Hill, Printers, 1864. First edition. Read More about An Authentic and Comprehensive History of Buffalo...Arranged in Chronological Order
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