[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.....
![Item #WRCLIT72870 FIRST EDITIONS AMERICAN AND ENGLISH A CHECKLIST [wrapper title], Bookseller's...](/images/noimage.png)
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.....
[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.....
![Item #WRCLIT68292 TALKS WITH DEBS IN TERRE HAUTE (AND LETTERS FROM LINDLAHR) ... [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT68292.jpg?v=1593712418)
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.....
![Item #WRCAM39058 CITY OF NEW-YORK...[blank] ESQ; MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. TO THE SHERIFF,...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM39058.jpg?v=1593711571)
[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: Gee & Co., [ca. 1873]. Printed broadside, 19 x 16 inches, with mounted albumen photograph, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Backed on later card stock. Photograph faded and a bit tanned. Expertly conserved. Very good. Rare, possibly unique, broadside advertisement for a 19th century Manhattan hotel and.....
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.....
![Item #WRCAM39055 PORT OF [blank] KNOW YE, THAT [blank] MASTER OR COMMANDER OF THE [blank] BURTHEN...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM39055.jpg?v=1593711571)
[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.....
![Item #WRCAM28515 [NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK. PART III, MINERALOGY, AND PART IV, GEOLOGY]. New...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM28515.jpg?v=1593711450)
Albany. 1842-1843. Five volumes. Illustrated. 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.....
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: 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 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."
[Saratoga County, N.Y. 1815-1816]. 18pp. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Extremities worn. Some light scattered internal soiling. Very good. Regimental roster and minutes of the 144th New York Infantry out of Saratoga County. The ledger opens with a detailed grid listing the officers of the regiment, with date.....
Albany. 1842-1894. Thirty volumes, described below. Original cloth, gilt-stamped in the earlier volumes in the series, several volumes rebacked with original backstrips laid down. Several volumes with minor nicks or tears in cloth, but overall a very good set of a work seldom found in decent condition. A complete set.....
[N.p., likely New York. Early 1939]. Panoramic photograph, 19 3/4 x 204 inches. Some chipping, creasing, minor staining, and occasional closed tears, with repaired tears to each vertical edge, and minor loss to right edge. Still, a good image, considering its size. An extraordinary and obscure seventeen-foot panoramic photograph highlighting.....
[Utica, N.Y.?]: December 18, 1815. Broadside, 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Early folds. Contemporary ink and pencil inscriptions on verso, partially lost to trimming. Head of verso affixed by sealing wax to leaf of 19th-century ruled paper bearing 19th-century descriptive inscription. Light foxing, minor ink stains. A good copy.....
[Albany, N.Y. ca. 1845-1855]. Broadside, 20 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches. Woodcut illustration in upper margin. Four closed tears (no loss to text), seven early repairs to tears (text slightly affected), old folds and crumpling, some soiling, but overall still sharp and clear. Good. A dramatic broadside announcing a new.....
Albany: J. Disturnell, 1842. [2],72,[4]pp., plus hand-colored folding map, 19 x 24 inches. 12mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Light shelf wear, spine faded, boards a bit stained. Scattered minor foxing, interior otherwise quite clean and unmarked. Folding map is slightly wrinkled, but complete and undamaged. Very.....
![Item #WRCAM32129 STANWIX HALL! ROME, N.Y. W.B. SINK, PROPRIETOR [caption title]. New York State](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM32129.jpg?v=1593711484)
New York: Dopp & Nolan, [n.d., ca. 1865]. Photograph, 11 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches, mounted on printed card stock, 16 x 19 3/4 inches. The image and card stock have equal, light tanning, otherwise the photograph is clean and unblemished. Minor chipping and staining to mount. Very good. Archival.....
