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[Two Manuscript Letters Signed Concerning Political Maneuvers at the Sullivan County, Ny, Democratic Convention, in 1853

[New York. Sullivan County]. Holly, John C.; Niven, Archibald C. · 1853

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Monticello, [NY], 1853. [2 pp.] bifolium, 1 sheet. 8 x 10 inches. The first letter, written prior to the convention, is dated Monticello, August 30, 1853, from John C. Holly, who had been elected Sheriff the prior year, is addressed to "Friend [James K.] Gardner" (1805-1860) o...

Books on Gems and Jewelry: The Henry Polissack Library, Part I. Public Auction Sale 1964. March 20, 2003

Polissack, Henry. Swann Galleries · 2003

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, Swann Galleries, 2003. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Unpaged. Illus. with color & b/w photos. 8vo. Combined into collection 46098. 307 items with prices realized laid in loose. Gemology, Mineralogy, Travel & Exploration, Illustrated Books, Diamonds & Mining,...

A Letter About My Four Programmes, for Committees in Correspondence [with Holograph Revisions]

Lindsay, Vachel · 1916

$400.00 (€362.91 | £302.72 | ¥63,882)

[Springfield, Ill.], [The Jeffersons Printing Co.], 1916. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 2-65, [1] pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. 4to. Inscribed in full, 'Nicholas Vachel Lindsay' on page 7 at the conclusion of the introduction. Text begins on front wrapper with a table...

A Catalogue of Autographs and Manuscripts. No. 58, April 15th, 1893

Harper, Francis P. · 1893

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, Francis P. Harper, 1893. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 18 pp. 8vo. No. 58 April 15th, 1893.Last leaf (pp. 17-18) printed separately and laid in loose. OCLC locates only a single copy, at the Grolier Club, which is lacking the loose leaf of items 234-263 and ...

The Autograph Collection of a Modern Collector. Together with Some New Stock Recently Accumulated and Some Clearance Lots at Low Prices. No. 48. January, 1893

Benjamin, William Evarts · 1893

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, William Evarts Benjamin, 1893. First edition. Stitched self wrappers. 18 pp. [2] pp. Sm. 4to. Sale code: 0048. January 1893. OCLC locates only one copy: Rosenbach. A very good, edge worn copy, with lightly foxed and partially detached wrappers, mail fold.

Códice Diplomático-Americano de Cristobal Colon

[Columbus, Christopher] [Toledo, Diego Ruiz] · 1867

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

Habana, Imprenta Y Libreria "El Iris," Obispo 20 y 22, 1867. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and bands. Frontis, x, 298 pp. [1],xiv, + 3 folded facsimiles. Illus. with b/w frontispiece portrait. 8vo. Reprinted from G.B. Spotorno's edition of the Codice, Genoa,...

The First Known Wisconsin Imprint

McMurtrie, Douglas C. · 1934

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Chicago, n.p. 1934. Stapled paper wrappers. [2] pp. 11 pp. 4to. Limited edtition, one of 120 copies. The text is reprinted from the Wisconsin magazine of history for September, 1932. Concerns an Indian language almanac: Kikinawadendamoiwewin or Almanac .. 1834. A very good cop...

A Note on North Carolina Printing History

McMurtrie, Douglas C. · 1928

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Chicago, (Privately Printed), 1928. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. [2] pp. 6 pp. [4] pp. 8vo. Limited edition. One of 250 copies: The cover, title page, all display lines and folios are Ludlow-set in Tru-cut Caslon and Ludlow borders and ornaments. Includes a letter fr...

Timothy Bookworm: Horresco Referens. Selected by William P. Wreden from Lays of Modern Oxford by Adon As a Tempting Tidbit for Bouncing Bibliophiles

Adon. Wreden, William Paul · 1949

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Menlo Park, (Printed at the Greenwood Press), 1949. Stitched paper wrappers. [2], 9, [2] pp. Illus. with 1 b/w engraving. Sm. 8vo. Number 118 of an edition of 200 copies printed for the friends of William P. Wreden by the Greenwood Press of San Francisco. Printed on handmade "...

Report of the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, to Whom Was Referred, on the 27th of December Last, the Petition of Nathaniel Cutter. 8th January, 1798, Consideration Postponed Until to-Morrow. 10th January, 1798, Committed to a Committee of the Whole House, on Friday Next

[United States Congress. Committee of Commerce and Manufactures] · 1798

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

[Philadelphia], 1798. First edition. Removed. [4] pp. 8vo. Nathaniel Cutter wanted relief from being re-taxed on goods that left Massachusetts where he had paid tax, and then returned to the same port with the same goods, because he was harrassed by the British and French, and...

Report of the Committee of Commerce & Manufactures, on the Petitions of Orchard Cook and Abiel Wood, Junr. And of Robert Hooper. 18th December, 1797, Read, and Ordered to Be Re-Committed to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures. 29th December, 1797, Report Made, and Committed to a Committee of the Whole House, on Wednesday Next

[United States Congress. Committee of Commerce and Manufactures] · 1797

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

[Philadelphia], [Printed by William Ross], 1797. First edition. Removed. [3], 226-232, [2] pp. 8vo. Evans dated it both 1797 and 1798. two petitions both concerning a waving of taxes on spirits, the Orchard Cook and Abiel Wood case claiming the ship was wrecked on an island an...

A Reply to the Correspondent. Containing an Attempt to Point out Certain Inconsistencies and Misrepresentations in That Publication; Together with Some Strictures Upon the Appendix, in a Familiar Letter to a Friend

Welch, Moses C. · 1794

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Norwich, [CT], Thomas Hubbard, 1794. First edition. Disbound. 64 pp. 8vo. In reply to Zephaniah Swift's anonymously published "The correspondent," concerning the case of the Rev. Oliver Dodge of Pomfret, Conn. Welch is clearly on the side opposite Dodge, noting there are "affi...

June, 1836. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Begun and Holden by Adjournment at Newport, Within and for Said State, on the Third Monday in June, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Six, and of Independence the Sixtieth

Rhode Island. General Assembly. [Bowen, Henry] · 1836

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

[Providence], [Printed by William Simons, Jr.], 1836. Stitched self wrappers. 112 pp. 8vo. Signed in ink by Henry Bowen as "Sec'ry," on the rear under "True copy-witness." Henry Bowen (1785-1867?), son of Jabez Bowen Jr, was R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849. William S...

Message of His Excellency William A. Buckingham, Governor of Connecticut, to the Legislature of the State, May Session, 1861. Printed by Order of the Legislature

Buckingham, William A. · 1861

$400.00 (€362.91 | £302.72 | ¥63,882)

Hartford, J.R. Hawley & Co. State Printers, 1861. First edition. Paper wrappers. 18 pp. 8vo. William A. Buckingham (1804-1875) won the election as governor in 1860, narrowly defeating Thomas Seymour. "The New Haven Register" expressed the concern of the Republicans and aboliti...

A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Reverned Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. Late Pastor of the West-Church in Boston: Who Departed This Life on Wednesday Morning, July 9, 1766. Aetatis 46. Delivered the Lord's Day After His Decease

Chauncy, Charles · 1766

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Boston, R. and S. Draper, Edes and Gill, and T. and J. Fleet, 1766. First edition. Removed from a larger volume. 40 pp. Sm. 8vo. Jonathan Mayhew (1720 -1766) was an early American reformist minister at Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts, known for his sermon "A Discourse C...

No Thoroughfare... Being the Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round, Conducted by Charles Dickens for Christmas, 1867

Dickens, Charles; Collins, Wilkie · 1867

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1867. First edition. Stitched blue printed paper wrappers. 48 pp. Double columns. 8vo. A collaboration of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Dickens wrote the Overture, portions of the First and Fourth Acts, and the entire Act III. Wilkie Collins wrote...

The Whig Charge of Intolerance Against the New Hampshire Democracy and Gen. Franklin Pierce

[Election of 1852. Pierce, Franklin] · 1852

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Boston, Beals, Greene, & Co, 1852. First edition. Stitched self wrappers. 24 pp. Two columns. 8vo. At head of title: From the Boston post. Written in response to rumors and allegations from the Whig party that Franklin Pierce was religiously intolerant, especially aimed at Iri...

An Oregon Legal Imprint of 1850... Reproduced in Facsimile from the Unique Copy in the Oregon Historical Society: The Donation Bill of the Territory of Oregon [without the Facsimile]

McMurtrie, Douglas C. · 1942

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Evanston, Privately Printed, 1942. Unbound sheets in stiff paper wrappers. 5 pp. 1 sheet folded. 24mo. McMurtrie's introductory booklet only. Rare. Only twenty copies printed. At least thirteen are in institutional hands. A very good, unopened copy, with minor wear along the e...

Nuestro Mexico. Noviembre, 1932, Tomo II, Número 8

Vargas de la Maza, Armando, ed · 1932

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Mexico, [Fondo de Cultura Económica], 1932. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. 80 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos and plates. Folio. Very good-, with chips and tears along spine and edges of wrappers, contents lightly browned, with some tearing at edges.

[Photograph] Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California, Circa 1914

[California. San Francisco. Calendar] · 1914

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

[San Francisco], 1914. Mottled brown card mount with photograph, ribbon, and small calendar. 4.75 x 7.75 inches on 7 x 13.5 inch board. Group of small fishing boats docked at a rocky shore at Fisherman's Wharf, mounted to decorated board with 1914 calendar. Very good, with tin...