Collection of 36 Autograph Letters, signed, from Alexander...
ca. 1883-1901. Gunn, a friend of William C. Whitney, McKinley, and Mark Hanna, was a wealthy Cleveland businessman... 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
Document, signed (“John Jacob Astor”).
New York: May 12, 1813. Concerning an indenture between the Columbian Insurance Company of New York and Astor, John Grant and John G. Coster, Merchants relating to lands taken by the British during the War of 1812. Read More
Price: $2,000
1916 Metz Car Advertising Broadside
Metz 1916 Touring Car and Roadster Models: printed advertising broadside.
Waltham, MA: Metz Company, 1916. First edition. 1916 Metz Car Advertising Broadside. In 1893 C.H. Metz began working for Waltham Company, early auto manufacturers; in 1909 he bought the company and instituted a plan whereby the public could buy 14 separate packages and build their own car. This approach was... Read More
Price: $300
1916 Metz Car Advertising
Metz Commercial Cars $600 Completely Equipped Including Electric Starter and Lights.
Waltham, MA: Metz Company, 1916. First edition. 1916 Metz Car Advertising. In 1893 C.H. Metz began working forWaltham Company, early auto manufacturers; in 1909 he bought the company and instituted a plan whereby the public could buy 14 separate packages and build their own car. This approach was superceded in... Read More
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Die Beförderung der Künste, der Manufacturen und der Handelschaft oder Beschreibungen der nützlichen Maschinen und Modellen ... : Erläutert durch...
München: Mit churfürstlich akademische Schriften, [1776]. German edition of Bailey's Advancement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce with 55 plates in Volume II. Read More
Price: $1,500
Billhead from J. & R. Floyd, Wholesale Grocers for shipment of coffee, nails, powder and soap for $918 from Pittsburgh...
Pittsburgh: J. & R. Floyd, August 14, 1846. Read More
Price: $75
Character Counts : The Creation and Building of the Vanguard Group.
New York: McGraw Hill, [2002]. First Edition. Signed by the author on the ffep. Read More
Price: $75
ALS. To John Keep Esq. Introducing William M. Gouge, author of the History of American Banking.
New York: October 27, 1843. Read More
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“Truly the way of the filanthropist [sic] is hard”
Typed Letter, signed (“Andrew Carnegie”), to John A. Stewart.
New York: May 13, 1912. “Truly the way of the filanthropist [sic] is hard”. To John A. Stewart of the National Committee for the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of Peace, “Congratulations upon your success so far. You may be sure that I will do all in my power... Read More
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Catalogue of Imported Galloway Cattle, Registered in the Galloway Herd Book, the property of A.B. Mathews of Kansas City, MO....
Kansas City, Missouri: Press of Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, 1883. Over sixty-five Galloway bulls and heifers on the block, giving detailed pedigree. With an introduction by Matthews explaining the his interest in the breed. Read More
Price: $800
Wall St. Novel, 1885
On a Margin.
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1885. Second edition. Wall St. Novel, 1885. A novel of Wall Street speculation, first printed in the previous year anonymously. This second edition has a new "Publisher's Note" which quotes a review of the Philadelphia Evening Sun identifying the author by name, and adding... Read More
Price: $250
Pascal & the Origin of the Bus
Les Carrosses à Cinq Sols ou les Omnibus du Dix-Huitème siècle.
London: Firmin Didot, 1828. First edition. Pascal & the Origin of the Bus. Scarce treatise on the development of the omnibus in the 17th century, containing relevant documents and letters, including a facsimile letter in the hand of Pascal's sister, docketed by him. "The idea of a public transport service operating... Read More
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G.M.'s Harlow Curtice Praises Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt
Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, n.p., November 1955.
G.M.'s Harlow Curtice Praises Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Reflecting the pleasure other business leaders took in Eisenstaedt's speed and efficiency, the President of General Motors writes, “You are truly a proficient operator. This has been a very pleasant fifteen minutes. And you have made it so easy for me that I.... Read More
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Engelhard - Pirie Copy, inscribed by the three Barons Rothschild
Ces Messieurs de Rothschild.
Paris: Éditions Pierre Tisné, [1967]. First edition. Engelhard - Pirie Copy, inscribed by the three Barons Rothschild. Inscribed to Jane Engelhard on the title-page by the three Barons de Rothschild (Guy, Alain, and Elie), with a presentation card tipped in, and with a TLS from Baron Alain de Rothschild to... Read More
Price: $750
E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company. A History 1802-1902.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press, 1920. First edition, deluxe issue. Inscribed "To Anne du Pont Peyton with the writer's love September 1920" Read More
Price: $250
Public Roads and Transportation
Essai sur la construction des routes et des voitures ... augmenté d'une Notice sur le Système Mac-Adam.
Paris: Anselin et Pochard, 1827. First edition in French. Public Roads and Transportation. Barbier attributes the translation to "Bailliet, maître des requêtes,"who perhaps also authored the substantial, original section (pp. 285-469) entitled "Considerations et Recherches sur Les Voies Publiques de France." Edgeworth (1744-1817), the father of novelist Maria Edgeworth, first published... Read More
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Inscribed by Alger to his Pupil George Seligman
King George's Middy.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First American edition. Inscribed by Alger to his Pupil George Seligman. Inscribed to George (Washington) Seligman (b. 1858), son of the prominent financier Joseph Seligman: "George Seligman, from his affectionate friend, Horatio Alger Jr. Jan. 6 1871." Alger was hired by the senior Seligman to tutor... Read More
Price: $2,500
A Classic of Utopian Thought
The Commonwealth of Oceana.
London: Printed by J. Streater, for Livewell Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop at the Crown in Popes-Head-Alley, 1656. First edition, variant with “Livewell Chapman” in the imprint. A Classic of Utopian Thought. A celebrated work of political philosophy, which had a profound influence on America’s founding... Read More
Price: $6,000
Henry J. Heinz A Biography.
New York: Bartlett Orr Press, 1923. First Edition. Read More
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Henry J. Heinz, Founder & President, H.J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh: Born Octber Eleventh, 1844, Died May Fourteenth, 1919.
Pittsburgh, Penna: [H.J. Heinz Company], 1919. Issued by the Heinz Company to commemorate its founder's life. Read More
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![Autograph Note Signed,"To Alfred Eisenstaedt - It was interesting experience to work with a master of the photographic art! ... November 14, 1955" [with:] Signature of Floyd ADLUM, of Atlas Corporation, New York, New York City, November, 1955. John Hopkins, Chairman of General Dynamics Corp.](/pictures/thumb/55403.jpg?v=1441513229)
From the Author of “Hail, Columbia”
Autograph Letter, signed (“Jos. Hopkinson”), to John Inskeep, “President of the Insurace Company of N, America”, resigning his position with...
[Philadelphia?]: November 10, 1815. From the Author of “Hail, Columbia”. Hopkinson (1770 - 1842), a U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania and a highly esteemed jurist who argued several landmark cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, is more popularly known as the author of the words to “Hail, Columbia”, which he wrote... Read More
Price: $900
Autograph Letter, signed, to Mr Gould.
East Aurora, [New York]: Nov. 20, 1910. Reading in part: "Let me congratulate the House of Presbrey-and also Gillette-on your taking over the Gillette account.... Yes, by all means I'll prepare copy for the Fra. The Gillette Razor appeals to me. I'm doing Vode-Veal, but have lots of time on the road to... Read More
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Transportation in the Cloudlands of Java, 1914-1925
Three Photographic Albums of Aerial Tramways on Coffee, Tea, and Rubber Plantations in the Netherlands East Indies, 1914-1925, showing the...
Netherlands East Indies: 1914-1925. Transportation in the Cloudlands of Java, 1914-1925. Compendious visual archive of photographs of aerial (cable) tramways for transportation of tea, coffee, gutta percha, firewood, and building materials — as well as the occasional group of workers — on mountainous plantations in the cloudlands of Java, Netherlands... Read More
Price: $5,000