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Fish Stories. Henry Abbott

Fish Stories.

New York: [Privately Printed], 1919. First edition. Inscribed on the flyleaf, “Christmas Greeting, Henry Abbott”. Abbott’s little birchbark books, tales of hunting and fishing in the Adirondacks, were privately printed between 1914 and 1932. "All the series rare and expensive”, according to Bruns. Read More about Fish Stories

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Freedom National; Slavery Sectional. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on His...

Freedom National; Slavery Sectional. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on His Motion to Repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill...

Washington, D.C: Buell & Blanchard, 1852. This is the great abolitionist’s first major speech (a Boston edition appeared in the same year) in the Senate, attacking the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. ”Sumner entered the Senate on Dec. 1, 1851. By that time, the compromise measures of 1850 had been..... Read More about Freedom National; Slavery Sectional. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on His...

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Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York. Abolition

Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York.

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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Manuscript Account Book of Edward R. Clark, Shoemaker. Account Book, Edward R. Clark

A Connecticut Shoemaker's Account Book 1825-1856

Manuscript Account Book of Edward R. Clark, Shoemaker.

Haddam Neck, CT: 1825-1856. A Connecticut Shoemaker's Account Book 1825-1856. A wonderful look at a craftsman's life in early 19th century Connecticut. Most of Clark's trade came from mending shoes, for which he averaged 40 cents a pair, his steadiest customers being members of the Brainerd family, an old and..... Read More about Manuscript Account Book of Edward R. Clark, Shoemaker

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ANSEL ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE: Notes of Lectures Given at the Museum of Modern Art, New York/...

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ANSEL ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE: Notes of Lectures Given at the Museum of Modern Art, New York/ February 5 - March...

[New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1945]. First edition. Unrecorded. Preface states: "The following are the condensed notes of the series of lectures given by Ansel Adams at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in St. Louis, Missouri. These notes are transmitted to class members..... Read More about ANSEL ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE: Notes of Lectures Given at the Museum of Modern Art, New York/...

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Correspondence between John Quincy Adams, Esquire President of the United States and Several...

Correspondence between John Quincy Adams, Esquire President of the United States and Several Citizens of Massachusetts concerning the Charge of...

Boston: Press of the Boston Daily Advertiser, L. L. Lewis, Printer, 1829. First edition, with a period in imprint at end of “Congress-street”. The previous October the National Intelligencer had contained a statement made by the President denouncing “certain citizens of Massachusetts as having been engaged in a design to..... Read More about Correspondence between John Quincy Adams, Esquire President of the United States and Several...

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A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis...on the present State of Our national Affairs: With...

A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis...on the present State of Our national Affairs: With Remarks upon Mr. Pickering's...

New Haven: Sidney's Press, 1808. Commenting upon American co-minister in Great Britain Pickering's pamphlet on the Embargo and the the controversy between England and the United States. Adams felt the need to respond noting that several statements which Pickering made were biased or not completely true and needed clarification. American..... Read More about A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis...on the present State of Our national Affairs: With...

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An Oration addressed to the Citizens of the Town of Quincy, on the Fourth of July, 1831, the...

An Oration addressed to the Citizens of the Town of Quincy, on the Fourth of July, 1831, the Fifty-Fifth Anniversary...

Boston: Richardson, Lord and Holbrook, 1831. First edition. This July 4 address is significant, because Adams addresses South Carolina's growing attachment to Nullification as a desirable response to federal tariff policies. He shows here that Nullification is an "effort to organize insurrection against the laws of the United States. "..... Read More about An Oration addressed to the Citizens of the Town of Quincy, on the Fourth of July, 1831, the...

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Letters from the Woods. [Editorial Correspondence.] Random Rhymes, from 20 to 70. Annual...

The Adirondacks in the 1850s

Letters from the Woods. [Editorial Correspondence.] Random Rhymes, from 20 to 70. Annual Addresses, Written for Press Carriers. Spine title...

Poughkeepsie: [Privately Printed], 1893. First edition. The Adirondacks in the 1850s. The first half of the book contains a memoir or collection of letters on deer hunting, fishing, and outdoor life in the Adirondacks, Michigan, and Canada in the 1850s and 1860s. Read More about Letters from the Woods. [Editorial Correspondence.] Random Rhymes, from 20 to 70. Annual...

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Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed...

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Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed Privately as...

Brockton, Mass: Harold C. Keith, April, 1931. First edition. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed account of an Alaska hunting expedition. The party of four, organized by H. Wendell Endicott, comprised Endicott, George Perry, Latham Reed, and Harold C. Keith, whose diary for 14 August to 7..... Read More about Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed...

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Autograph album with photographs and inscriptions of Albany Law School Class of 1860 and faculty....

Early Albany Law School Photographic Yearbook

Autograph album with photographs and inscriptions of Albany Law School Class of 1860 and faculty.

[Albany: 1860]. Early Albany Law School Photographic Yearbook. A photographic yearbook from the Albany Law School class of 1860, assembled by student Horatio Colony (1835-1917). Opened in 1851, Albany Law School is the oldest independent law school in the United States. Many of its students in the 1850s and '60s..... Read More about Autograph album with photographs and inscriptions of Albany Law School Class of 1860 and faculty

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