Three vintage photographs documenting the detonation of Flood...
[New York]: October 10, 1885. An extraordinary photographic record of the controlled detonation of Flood Rock in the... Read More
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Jack & Charlie's 21 Wine List.
[New York: Jack and Charlie's "Twenty-One" 1954]. No. 797 of 1,000 copies printed on Linweave all rag Brentwood Vellum paper and bound by the Russell-Rutter Company. Limited deluxe edition of the 21 Club's wine list, showcasing their exquisite collection. Inscribed by the editor and co-owner of the 21 Club, "For...
Price: $650
All Around the Town.
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...
Price: $75
Civil Wars: Three Tales of Old New York. Illustrations by Elliott Banfield.
New York: Thornhill Press, 1999. 125 of 175 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and signed by Auchincloss, Banfield & the publisher, Luke Pontifell.
Price: $750
![“Young Gentlemen, You have now passed thro’ those studies and Excercises which are to lay the foundation of your future usefulness as men, & eminence as Physicians …” [incipit]. Samuel Bard.](/pictures/thumb/308231.jpg?v=1538426822)
“Young Gentlemen, You have now passed thro’ those studies and Excercises which are to lay the foundation of your future...
[New York: ca.1818]. Original manuscript commencement speech delivered to graduates of Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons by the influential early American physician, Samuel Bard (1742-1821), founder of the King’s College (Colombia) Medical School, the New York Hospital, and longtime president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Bard was raised.....
Price: $5,000
Wheels within wheels
Typed letter signed, “Bernie,” one page.
New York: 597 Madison Avenue, 8 June 1942. Wheels within wheels. Auto-Ordnance Corporation manufactured the Thompson Submachine Gun and other “tommy” guns.
Price: $350
New York City carved in wood
New York, Past, Present and Future. WITH: New York as it Is. WITH: The American Advertiser.
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...
Price: $750
Autograph Letter, signed from the Editor of the Eclectic Magazine to Simeon Leland. "As distinguished a personages are gratified to...
New York: August 3rd, 1862.
Price: $100
Manual of the Bowery Savings Bank.
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 of.....
Price: $150
the funeral of old tammany
“The Funeral of Old Tammany”.
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...
Price: $1,250
The Decline of Popery and its causes. : An address delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, on Wednesday evening, January 15, 1851.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. Anti-Catholic.
Price: $50
![First Annual Spring Meeting of the Brooklyn Athletic Association, to take place at the Grounds, De Kalb and Classon Aves. and Graham St. Monday, May 31st, at 3 p.m. [Title from cover]. Brooklyn Athletic Association.](/pictures/thumb/228269.jpg?v=1547566782)
First Annual Spring Meeting of the Brooklyn Athletic Association, to take place at the Grounds, De Kalb and Classon Aves...
[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...
Price: $250
Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24th.1883.
New York: [The Brooklyn Eagle Job Printing Department], 1883.
Price: $150
Fine original pen-and-ink drawing, probably for a newspaper illustration, commemorating the 1916 pennant win by the Brooklyn Robins. Titled in...
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......
Price: $1,500
Valentine's Manuals of the City of New York.
New York: The Old Colony Press etc, 1916-1926.
Price: $1,500
An Authentic and Comprehensive History of Buffalo...Arranged in Chronological Order.
Buffalo: Rockwell, Baker & Hill, Printers, 1864. First edition.
Price: $250
Professional Criminals of America.
New York: Cassell & Company, (1886). First edition. An important precedent in the world of criminology and an enduring object of fascination. This rogues gallery presenting mugshots of over 200 criminals of late-19th century America was assembled by famed New York City Chief of Detectives, Inspector Thomas Byrnes (1842-1910). Each...
Price: $700
Lithograph, colored: "The Great International Caledonian Games / Held at Jones Woods, New-York City, July 1st, 1867/ This picture is...
New York: published by Kelly & Whitehill, 1868. Printed by Charles Hart. J.L. Giles was a Designer and Lithographer at 111 Nassau Street, NYC.
Price: $3,000
20 photographs of Central Park.
[New York: n.d., ca 1890s]. An exceptionally fine series of late 19th-century silver print photographs of Central Park. Some of the identifiable views include Conservatory Pond with Temple Israel in the background, Gapstow Bridge, the Lake, and many views of the Ramble. The majority of images are of deserted winter.....
Price: $4,000
Clipped signature from a letter.
N. P: n.d. Clinton was one-time Mayor of New York City, Presidential Candidate for the Peace Party, Governor of New York State, Senator and an eminent lawyer.
Price: $50
The Coaching Club. Rules and List of Members. 1940.
[New York: H. DuBois Plummer, Inc.], 1940. “The uniform of the Club shall be a dark green cutaway coat, with regulation buttons of the Club and a yellow striped waistcoat” Printed guide for members of the Coaching Club, founded in New York City in 1875, with a roster of present and.....
Price: $300
Fine Large New York Coaching Photograph of 1885
“Wyanoke Coaching Club, September 13th 1885”.
New York: Long & Heppner, 327 East 34th Street, New York, 1885. Fine Large New York Coaching Photograph of 1885. A technically superb and imposing time exposure (some movement in the tree branches overhead), showing close to a hundred elegantly-attired Club members, a handsome four-in-hand behind them, at, presumably, their...
Price: $750
Winter Sketches from the Saddle by a Septuagenarian.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [co. 1888]. First edition. The author, a sea captain by trade, spent his leisure hours on land riding his horse. This work recommends riding for your health and describes his many journeys around New York and Boston.
Price: $75
Inscribed with Intriguing Sentiment
A Fool for a Client. My Struggle Against the Power of a Public Prosecutor.
New York: Hawthorn, (1971). First edition. Inscribed with Intriguing Sentiment. Inscribed on the front free-endpaper "For Florence & the Chief Judge-I only regret that Time Magazine beat me to it! As ever Roy June1/71" Such a nice guy! in the text Cohn states that Life Magazine was in cahoots with Morgenthau.
Price: $250