War without Fighting
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. First Edition, number 7 of 100 copies. "On June 19th, 1916, the... Read More
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18th Century American Business Documents. One signed by Notary Peter Lohra and one by James Sunderland, both of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: May 27, 1795 & June 3, 1795. Two notarized bills of exchange between Robert Morris and James Nicholson, including the notary stamps of Peter Lohra and James Sunderland. Both documents are are printed notary forms which provide blank spaces for the details of the business at hand--in this case... Read More
Price: $350
RARE — One of 100 Copies
Myopia Songs & Waltzes With Winchester and Hamilton Chat.
Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press for Private Distribution, [October], 1897. First edition, number 41 of 100 copies. RARE — One of 100 Copies. Read More
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White Slavery in the Barbary States.
Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company, 1847. First edition. Sumner, the great abolitionist, here states that the Barbary Coast's emancipation of White Slaves is only a start as there were still black slaves to be freed in Algiers and in the U.S. Read More
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The Voices of Compromise, 1850
Proceedings of the Constitutional meeting at Faneuil Hall, November 26th, 1850.
Boston: Beals & Greene, 1850. First edition. The Voices of Compromise, 1850. After the Compromise of 1850 was passed in the Fall of that year, threatening the freedom and rights of escaped slaves, violent protests broke in several Northern states, and many abolitionist were urging defiance of the law. Alarm... Read More
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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
Price: $850
Account of the Terrific and Fatal Riot at the New York Astor Place Opera House On the night of May...
New York: H.M. Ranney, 1849. First edition. Started by quarrel between Actors Edwin Forrest and William Macready. Read More
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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
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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
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Message from the President of the United States transmitting a Report of the Secretary of State on the Subject of...
Washington, D.C: Gales & Seaton, 1821. Read More
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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
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Autograph Note Signed to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT, "For Alfred Eisenstaedt with greeting from Rocky New Hampshire, Sherman Adams, ---, 1952.
np: 1952. Eisenhower's Vicuña Coat Man. Read More
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![Letters from the Woods. [Editorial Correspondence.] Random Rhymes, from 20 to 70. Annual Addresses, Written for Press Carriers. Spine title: Forest, Lake and Random Rhymes]. Adirondacks, Edward B. Osborne.](/pictures/thumb/237400.jpg?v=1438724825)
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 1950 and 1860s. Read More
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A Sportsman’s Eden.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1888. First edition. Account of a hunting trip to the Adirondacks and British Columbia by the author of The Badminton Library volumes on Big Game Hunting. Read More
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Hollywood Club Memoirs.
Privately printed, 1952. First edition. Uncommon memoir of this early sportsmen's club in the heart of the Adirondacks. Great photographs. Speare is also author of VERSES IN FRENCH CANADIAN PATOIS (1957), which includes poems relating to the Adirondacks. Read More
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Alden's New-Jersey Register and United States' Calendar, for . 1811.
Newark: William Tuttle, [1811]. First Issue of the 1st NJ Register. Read More
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Memorial of John Allan.
New York: for Members of the Bradford Club, 1864. First edition, Number 178 of 250 copies printed. Inscribed to "Charles Welford Esq/ with Compliments of the/ Bradford Club/ Sep 1 1864." Gives history of the sale of his books. Read More
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Manuscript Document, signed, being a court deposition regarding the behavior of Capt. Christopher Taylor of Boston.
Boston: April 4, 1721. “Jeremiah Allen of full adge testifieth that on Saturday last being the 1st of April towards the evening he the deponent met with Capt. Christopher Taylor in Schoolstreet, who spoke words very disagreeable to me the deponent, and seemed (to me the deponent) delirious …” Although we... Read More
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A History of the American Revolution; Comprehending the Principal Events both in the Field and in the Cabinet Which Are...
Baltimore: Printed for Franklin Betts. wm. Woody, Jr. printer, 1822. First edition thus, using sheets from 1819 edition with new title-page. Sabin notes that, although the author given on the title-page is Paul Allen, the work was actually written by John Neal and "Mr. (Tobias) Watkins." A standard history of... Read More
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The First Explorations of the Trans-Allegheny Region By the Virginians 1650-1674.
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1912. First edition. Read More
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Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution
Revolution in France! [drop title].
[Boston]: Office of the Daily Commercial Gazette, n.d. [August, 1830]. Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution. This Boston broadside, published by the [Boston] Daily Commercial Gazette, contains extracts from the London papers detailing the July 1830 Revolution in France that overthrew Charles X. It is presumably one of the... Read More
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Entrepreneurs of the Revolution
Autograph Letter signed ("Rich Wescoat") to Major JOSHUA MERSEREAU in Elizabeth Town (New Jersey) regarding an order for lumber from...
[Burlington]: 7 April 1783. Entrepreneurs of the Revolution. The lands contained all the necessary materials for shipbuilding, and in the Revolutionary War its "bog iron" made cannon balls while its hidden coves sheltered privateers. Blast furnaces, sawmills, glass factories, and brick and tile works followed until the Industrial Revolution drew... Read More
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The Speech of Mr. Ames in the House of Representatives of the United States, when in Committee of the Whole...
Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1796. First edition, with half-title. Ames's speech was one of the most important regarding Jay's Treaty with England, effectively saving it. Read More
Price: $275
Extensive File of Catalogues of Faculty and Students, from 1822 to 1945.
Amherst, Mass: vp, 1822-1945. Edward Dickinson (1803-1874), father of Emily, was a prominent Amherst lawyer, treasurer of Amherst College, and U.S. Congressman. He was the son of Samuel Fowler Dickinson, one of the founders of Amherst College. He graduated from Yale in 1823, and opened a law office in Amherst... Read More
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And No Opium Too!!!
Certificate of Membership in the Antivenenean Society of Amherst College.
Amherst: 1850s. And No Opium Too!!! Membership certificate to the Antivenenean Society, a temperance society that was active at Amherst College during the mid-nineteenth century. Read More
Price: $650
Catalogue of the Trustees, Instructors, and Students of Amherst Academy November, 1818.
Greenfield, Mass: Denio and Phelps, Printers, 1818. Rare broadside printing of the trustees and male and female students in the 1818 class of Amherst Academy. Founded in 1814 by a group of town leaders that included Noah Webster and Samuel Fowler Dickinson, Amherst Academy quickly rose to prominence as an... Read More
Price: $1,500