New York. September 28, 1775. Broadside, approximately 9 x 8 inches. Marginal chips and tears, adhesive residue on blank verso. Light tanning. Good. In a half morocco box. An extremely rare revolutionary-era New York broadside, promulgated by the Friends to Liberty in September 1775, encouraging electors to reject sitting pro-British.....
[No Place, no date, but ca 1970s]. Quarto. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Mechanically reproduced typescript. Illustrations. Mild dust tanning at edges of upper wrapper, small nick to top edge of lower wrapper, otherwise very good to near fine. First edition of this uncommon and important New York anthology, limited to 100.....
New York: Printed by Van Winkle, Wiley & Co., 1817. 16pp. Dbd., stitching loose. Moderate tanning and foxing. Good. An early discourse on American trade and price inequalities, particularly with Great Britain. The author complains that British trade practices are having injurious effects on New York merchants, and, by extrapolation.....
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New York: Anton Gud, [nd. but ca. 1930s]. [16]pp. Sewn printed wrappers. A few faint smudges to wrapper, otherwise fine. One of 400 copies set by hand and "privately printed." Not a checklist, but rather a modest bookseller's catalogue, issued by Gudaitis [a.k.a. Gud] while doing business at 636 East.....
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Plattsburgh, N.Y. [ 1861]. Printed broadside, 13 3/4 x 20 inches. Matted. Mild offsetting of text from being previously folded, minor restoration in left margin, light folds and toning. Very good. A rare Civil War recruitment broadside, stating that Captain W.B. Weed will pay $14 in advance to all Union.....
New York: Hugh Gaine, 1792. 32pp. Loose gatherings, remnants of stitching. Light wear, a few minor spots of foxing. Very good. Summary of the conventions held by the Protestant Episcopal Church of New York State for 1787 to 1791. The final pages contain the "Canons for the government of the.....
New York: Christie's, 18 November 1988. 185,[7]pp. Small quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Photographs. Introduction by Nicholas Barker. Corner crease to terminal leaves and rear wrapper, but very good, with prices realized laid in. An unusually eclectic presentation of 373 lots, including a number of significant association copies.
[New York. 1819]. [21]-38pp. Dbd. A very good copy. Revised by-laws for the Medical Society of the County of New York, originally bound with STATUTES REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC AND SURGERY IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. The New York County Medical Society, which exists to this day, was founded.....
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New York: The New York Call, [ca. 1922]. [4]pp. Folded leaflet (153 x 85 mm). Portraits. Horizontal fold and paper-clip dent at top edge, very good. A prepublication promotional for David Karsner's 1922 book, offering a 50 cent discount to subscribers. Uncommon ephemeron associated with the New York socialist daily.....
Utica, N.Y. Curtiss & Childs, 1870. 27pp. plus eight lithographic plates. Original brown wrappers, printed in gilt. Spine heavily chipped, moderate edge wear. Moderate tanning, some offsetting from plates. Good plus. A scarce pamphlet documenting the cattle business of William D. Walcott and Samuel Campbell in upstate New York. Walcott.....
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[New York: Printed by William Bradford, 1702-1714]. Broadside, 7 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Light foxing. Very good. An unrecorded printed blank form for a retail alcohol sales license in New York City, produced for the Mayor's office during the first two decades of New York printing. The final lines.....
New York: Henry I. Megarey, [ 1834]. Aquatint, 12 1/2 x 16 inches. Minor toning from previous mat. Near fine. Sheet size: 14 x 20 1/4 inches, matted to 17 3/4 x 21 inches. A fine view of Broadway in New York City, drawn and engraved by notable American artist.....
Hastings-on-Hudson: Valentine's Manual, Inc., 1928. 422pp. Gilt lettered blue cloth. Plates and illustrations. Pencil name erased, otherwise near fine and bright, without dust jacket. First edition of this lament for the passing of New York of the prior century, including much on literary life, authors and publishers, the advent of.....
[Stockholm. 1824]. Engraving, 10 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches, framed to 19 1/2 x 26 inches. Tasteful modern coloring. Minor toning. Very good. A handsome Broadway street scene from this highly important and very rare United States view book. According to Stokes, this is "one of the most picturesque and.....
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[New York: Printed by William Bradford, 1702-1714]. Broadside, 7 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Edge toned, lightly foxed. Very good. A very rare early 18th-century printed blank form for sea vessels, likely from the press of William Bradford, New York's first printer. The completed form would certify that the holder.....
[Albany. 1902]. 534pp., including in-text illustrations, plus numerous color and black and white plates. Quarto. Publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt. Hinges cracked, cloth water-damaged. Marginal dampstain in first thirty leaves, else clean internally. Good. State of New York Forest, Fish and Game Commission report for 1901, profusely illustrated. The notable.....
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Albany. 1842-1843. Five volumes. Later brown cloth, matching leather labels. Very good. The New York Natural History and Geological Survey was one of the most ambitious scientific projects of the antebellum United States. Begun in 1836, the Survey published the NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK in thirty volumes between 1842.....
New York. 1824. 26pp. Dbd. First and last leaves foxed. Top right corner dampstained. Good. A financial report detailing the expenditures and donations made to the institution. Includes a brief history of the institution, which began operations in 1818 after several years of organization, and the text to "An Act.....
New York. 1762. [8],268pp. Folio. 20th-century buckram. Small ink library stamps and contemporary ink ownership signature on titlepage, some toning and minor foxing. Good. A wonderful set of early New York colonial laws. It was issued as a second volume of the 1752 LAWS, although ten years later, and like.....
New York: Printed by James Parker, 1752. [4],iii,488pp. Large folio. Antique-style calf, leather label. Titlepage and following three leaves repaired along gutter. Contemporary ink signature on titlepage, moderate age-toning, light occasional foxing. About very good. This compilation, prepared by William Smith (author of THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW-.....
New York: Printed by James Parker, 1752. [6],iii,488,[1]pp. including errata leaf. Folio. Half calf and marbled boards in antique style, leather label. Small old ink library stamp on verso of titlepage, some toning and minor foxing, marginal dampstaining to some leaves. With a remarkable contemporary poem, "Epitaph on Thomas Paine,".....
New York: Printed by Samuel Loudon, Printer to the State, 1785-1787. Three volumes bound in one, each with separate titlepage. 104; 137; 212pp. Large folio. Modern half morocco. Some old dampstains on titlepage. Tanned. Overall very good. An important record of early New York State laws, covering Feb. 15, 1785.....
New York. 1817. 14pp. Dbd. Foxed, else good. Appoints the commissioners to administer the building of a canal connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie with Lake Champlain, outlines their responsibilities, and prints "An Act, respecting Navigable Communications between the Great Western and Northern Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean."
New York: 1752, 1762. Two volumes. [6],iii,488,[2]; [8],268pp., including errata leaf in first volume. Large folio. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Faint old library stamps on titlepages, ownership inscription on titlepage of first volume, some tanning and foxing. A very good copy. The rare two-volume compilation of.....
New York: Hugh Gaine, 1774. Two volumes. iv,420; [2],421-835,[1]pp. Large folio. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Old ink library stamps on titlepages and on first text leaf of first volume, early ownership inscriptions, occasional minor foxing. Very good. In buckram clamshell cases. A scarce collection of early New York.....
