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[Manuscript Letter Signed] William B. Allison Declines William Brookfield's Invitation to a New York City Event

Allison, W.B. [William Boyd] · 1894

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Washington, D.C. 1894. [2 pp.] Bifolium. 5 x 8 inches. Prominent Iowa Republican William B. Allison (1829-1908) was a member of the House of Representatives in 1862, and served as a US Senator from 1873 until his death in 1908. During his tenure, he helped secure the passing o...

[Typed Letter Signed] Mayor Hugh J. Grant Declines an Invitation to the Annual Dinner of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation

Grant, Hugh J. · 1890

$50.00 (€45.37 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

New York, 1890. [2 pp.]. Bifolium. 4 x 7 inches. Dated January 3rd, 1890 on printed letterhead for the Mayor's Office, New York, to Frank S. Gardner, secretary of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation. Mayor Grant declines the board's invitation to the annual dinner, ...

[Manuscript Note] Two Governors of Georgia Have Lunch: William Schley Accepts Gilmor's Invitation to Dine with Him

[Schley, William] · 1843

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n.p. 1843. 1 sheet, watermarked. 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Brief note, dated March 3rd, 1843, confirming that William Schley would dine with Mr. Gilmer the following Monday. Not written in Schely's hand. Georgia politician William Schley (1786-1858) had been a member of the US House o...

[Manuscript Receipt Signed] Order for Hats from William Barry & Co

Stetson, Amos; [William Barry & Co.] · 1822

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Braintree, [MA], 1822. 1 sheet. 8 x 5 inches. Manuscript order & receipt for hats from vendors William Barry & Co. signed May 22nd, 1822 by Amos Stetson, Braintree. Amos Stetson III (1777-1859)was a successful Braintree merchant. See Oscar Frank Stetson, ed; Descendants of Cor...

[Als] New York Comptroller William L. Marcy to the Attorney General's Office Regarding a State Mortgage

Marcy, William L. [Learned] · 1824

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[New York], 1824. [1 pp.]. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. William L Marcy (1786-1857) served at the Comptroller of New York (1823-1829); US Senator (1831-1833); Governor of New York (1833-1838); Secretary of War (1845-1849); and lastly, Secretary of State (1853-1857), during which time he ...

English Country Houses

Sackville-West, Vita · 1947

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London, Collins, 1947. Fifth printing. Illustrated paper-covered boards. 46, [2] pp. Illus. with 8 color & 23 b/w drawings. Sm. 4to. Britain in Pictures series, No. 15. A very good copy, with foxing an browing to the endpapers from the dust jacket, in a very good dust jacket w...

Journal of the Sufferings and Hardships of Capt. Parker H. French's Overland Expedition to California, Which Left New York City, May 13th, 1850, and Arrived at San Francisco, Dec. 14

Miles, William · 1916

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

New York; [Chambersburg, PA], The Cadmus Book Shop; [Valley Spirit Office], 1916. Reprint. Paper wrappers. 26 pp. [3 leaves]. 8vo. "One of an edition of two hundred and fifty copies reprinted by The Cadmus Book Shop ..1916." Only seven known copies of the first edition (Howes)...

The Genius and Posture of America. An Oration Delivered Before the Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1857, by William Rounseville Alger

Alger, William Rounseville · 1857

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Boston, Office Boston Daily Bee, 1857. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 60 pp. 8vo. William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) attended Harvard Divinity School from 1844-1847, was a Unitarian minister in Roxbury, Mass. where he served until 1855, was a member of the Free Mas...

Vasari's Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court: An Exhibition to Accompany the International Symposium Organized by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

[Vasari, Giorgio] Gahtan, Maia W. ; Jacks, Philip J. · 1994

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New Haven, Yale Univ Art Gallery, 1994. First edition. Paper wrappers. 63 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. Sq. 4to. Yale University Art Gallery, 14 April-15 May 1994. Shelfwear else a fine copy.

Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike

Beresford, David · 1989

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New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. First American edition. Cloth. xii, 334 pp. 8vo. Remainder mark on lower edge else near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket.

Master of Dreams : A Memoir of Isaac Bashevis Singer

Telushkin, Dvorah · 2004

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New York, William Morrow, 2004. First edition. Cloth. xiv, 350 pp. 8vo. A memoir of her years working with Singer. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear to rear lower corner.

Shadows on the Hudson

Singer, Isaac Bashevis · 1998

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New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First edition. Cloth. 548 pp. 8vo. Originally serialized in the Forward in yiddish in the fifties. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Stolen Apples

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny · 1971

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New York, Doubleday & Co. 1971. Later printing. Cloth. 328 pp. 8vo. Text in English & Russian. Translation adaptations by James Dickey, Geoffrey Dutton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anthony Kahn, Stanley Kunitz, George Reavey, John Updike, and Richard Wilbur. A fine copy in a very g...

One Train: Poems

Koch, Kenneth · 1994

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New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. 74 pp. 8vo. Signed & inscribed on the half title by Koch, with kisses, in the year of publication to Carol March, New York photographer, painter, and graphic designer. A fine copy in a nea...

The Kurozumi Sect of Shinto

Hepner, Charles William · 1935

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Tokyo, Meiji Japan Society, 1935. First edition. Cloth. xviii, 263 pp. Illus. with 9 b/w plates. 8vo. An important study of this sect of Shinto. Very good, near fine dust jacket with a sunned spine, in a very good slip case, offsetting on front endpapers, light browning to mar...

Original Documents: Primary Source Material

Loranth, Alice N. · 1991

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Cleveland, Cleveland Public Library, 1991. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 12 pp. 8vo. Sunned spine else a near fine copy.

Las Mujeres de la Independencia

Grez, Vicente · 1910

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Santiago, Imp. de la Gratitud Nacional, 1910. Secunda edicion. Illustrated paper wrappers. 128 pp. 16mo. Work about the women of the war for independence. Covers many women including Luisa Recabarren, Rosario Rosales, Mercedes Fuentecilla, Paula Jara Quemada, Manuela Rozas, Ma...

Discurso de S.E. El Presidente de la Republica En la Apertura Del Congreso Nacional de 1888

Balmaceda, José Manuel · 1888

$200.00 (€181.47 | £151.39 | ¥31,937)

Santiago de Chile, Imprenta Nacional, 1888. First edition. Ribbon-tied paper wrappers. 27 pp. 8vo. Ribbon ties are in the tricolors of the Chilean flag. Balmaceda's second address to a Congress that was growing oppositional by the day called for a continuation of his policy of...

[Als] Chemist Charles M. Wetherill Remarks on Reliable Calculations & References in the Decade Prior to the Invention of the Periodic Table

Wetherill, Charles M. · 1855

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Philadelphia, 1855. [3] pp. Bifolium. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. In his January 6th, 1855 letter to Charles Harris, M.D. of Somerville, NJ, Wetherill illustrates the painstaking process of establishing reliable calculations in the field of chemistry, advising Harris on his use of the ...

The Plymouth County Republican, Wednesday Morning, December 28, 1836 (Vol. 5, Number 10)

[Massachusetts] Plymouth County Agricultural Society · 1836

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Bridgewater [MA], C.A. Hack for the proprietors, 1836. First edition. Removed. 15 x 20 inches. Early full page broadside advertisement for the Plymouth County Agricultural Exhibition at Bridgewater, Wednesday, October 11, 1837. List of Premiums Proposed by the Plymouth County ...