Albany. 1709. [1]p. Folio. Old fold lines, light soiling and wear. Good. Manuscript document detailing the expenses associated with the repair of the old blockhouse in Albany, signed by Albany official Johannes Abeel. Abeel (1667-1711) was an Albany native and merchant who held various local offices, including mayor of Albany.....
New York: David Longworth, 1808. 56pp. Dbd. Faint institutional ink stamp and embossed blindstamp to titlepage, minor toning, light foxing. Overall, very good. A curious and rare account of the trial of Alexander Whistelo, a Black man accused of leaving Lucy Williams, a mulatto, with child. A controversy ensued as.....
![Item #WRCAM55457 CITY OF NEW YORK HARLEM HOSPITAL H.H.S.N. 1959 [cover title]. African-American...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55457.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712045)
[New York. 1959]. 64pp. Quarto. Red textured cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear. Occasional ink notations by original owner, else internally clean. Very good. Yearbook commemorating the graduation year for the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing's Class of 1959. This copy was owned.....
![Item #WRCAM55456 PROFECTUS 1956 [cover title]. African-American Nursing](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55456.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712045)
[New York. 1956]. 80pp. Quarto. Contemporary black cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively tooled and titled in gilt. Minor edge wear and rubbing. Contemporary ink ownership signature of "Joan Ryan '59'" on verso of front free endpaper (likely a future graduate of the same nursing program). Internally clean. Very.....
New York. 1826. 32pp., including 6 pages of illustrated appendices. Dbd. Top right corner dampstained, not affecting text, else very good. A description and explanation of an early American Sign Language, from the second school in the United States organized to teach deaf children. This pamphlet was meant as an.....
[Philadelphia]. 1800. 4pp. Dbd. Stab holes in gutter. Very good. The decision of a committee concerned with a case related to the Alien and Sedition Acts. A group of immigrants, having failed to gain citizenship before the implementation of the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, although previously eligible to.....
Santa Rosa Island & Pensacola, Fl. [ca. October 9, 1861 - May 10, 1862]. Six pencil drawings. Various sizes as detailed below. Three of these drawings are found on the backs of printed rolls for New York volunteer regiments. A few small edge or corner tears and light stains. Overall.....
Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1940. 640pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements. Large folding map affixed to rear wrapper. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and beginning to pull away from the text block, spine cracked. Good, lacking the second folding map. Gives descriptions and points of interest for fourteen northeastern.....
Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1941. 656pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements, plus two large folding maps. Printed stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and faded, a note in ink on the front wrapper. One leaf detached. Very good. Descriptions and points of interest for fourteen Northeastern states, the District of.....
Havana. November 22, 1834. [2]pp. plus blank integral leaf. Bifolium. Minor edgewear and toning. Offsetting. Good. Manuscript document, written by John Morland, acting consul in Cuba, relaying the details of the voyage of the ship "Hunter" travelling from New York to New Orleans. The ship ran into trouble partway through.....
London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1776. 210,215-250,253-330,333-370,373-442,445- 470,473-614,617-654,657-678,681-828pp. Folio. Modern calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Each act has a separate general titlepage; pagination and register are continuous. Slight shelf wear, occasional tanning, lacking one general titlepage and several blanks (see below). Very good. An impressive collection.....
Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid His Majesty's Printer, 1764–1776. Five separately printed acts, pagination given below. Folio. Dbd. Numbering in ink to head of titlepage of first four of the five acts. Ink inscription cropped at head of A2 of the final act. Some soiling. Overall very good. A collection.....
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.....
London: Printed by Mark Baskett, 1765. [2],579-596pp., including general titlepage. Folio. Dbd. Tiny worm hole in lower edge of textblock (no text affected), a few spots of light foxing. Very good. In a brown cloth chemise and half brown morocco and cloth clamshell box, gilt. A fine separate printing of.....
[Philadelphia. ca. 1900]. 48pp. plus two-sided folding leaf and two- sided printed wrappers, containing approximately 150 photographic images (over seventy in color). Original printed wrappers. Spine neatly repaired with black cloth tape. Some wear, small chips in wrappers. Very good. Richly illustrated color catalogue for W.T. Smith & Son, Philadelphia-based.....
London: Printed for William Lane, 1789. Two volumes. [4],vii,[21],467; [4],558pp., plus partially handcolored folding map and eight plates (five folding). Half titles. Modern half mottled calf and contemporary paper boards, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt red morocco label. Boards rubbed and shelf worn, corners bumped, spines a bit sunned.....
New York: H.P. Kraus, 1978. 87pp. Boards. Fine. Interesting conglomeration of documents for sale, from records of Andros' first foray into America to the bill for his funeral.
New York. October 4, 1869. [1]p. in purple ink on a folded quarto sheet, with original envelope (addressed in Anthony's hand) including canceled stamp. Old folds, a few light fingerprints, light soiling to envelope. Very good. A brief note from Susan B. Anthony, part of a larger conversation discussing a......
New York, N.Y., and Boyd County, Ky. May 1886. [4]pp., plus blank leaf docketed on verso, ribbon tied near top edge. Old folds, minimal wear. Near fine. A beautifully-rendered contemporary calligraphic copy of an original document containing the articles of incorporation for the Piedmont Cattle Company in Arizona. The original.....
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. 192pp. plus ten folding maps. 20th-century green cloth, red morocco gilt label. Boards lightly soiled. Ex-Easton (PA) Public Library with their blindstamp on the titlepage and a faded ink number on the copyright page. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the text; the.....
New York. Sept. 17, 1754. [1]p. In Dutch. Previously folded, separated at center fold, lower fold beginning to separate. A few small chips at upper right. Tanned, light foxing. Dampstains in upper and lower right corners. Good. A letter between members of two prominent Dutch families from upstate colonial New.....
New York: Printed for Berry and Rogers, and John Reid, 1792. 312,[12]pp. 16mo. Contemporary calf. Binding bit chipped along extremities. Front free endpaper torn, with about one third loss. Contemporary ownership inscription and pen trials to recto and verso of flyleaf. Scattered soiling and foxing. Good. The Psalms of David.....
Buffalo. 1848. 69pp. Later three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate, bit tanned. Very good. A history of the early settlement of the Niagara region, between lakes Ontario and Erie, with material on the Indians, the Revolution, War of 1812, etc.
Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905. [2],xx,409,[3]pp. including nine in text figures, plus forty-one half-tone plates, and eighty-seven full color plates. Frontis. Original dark green cloth, spine and front board stamped in gilt. Very minor shelf wear. Internally clean, bright, and unmarked. Near fine. First volume only of this lavishly illustrated.....
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New Brunswick, N.J. June 1, 1840. [1]p. on folded lettersheet, with original seal and address present. Fine. Lewis Beck was a geologist at Rutgers University, and conducted a survey of the mineral resources of New York state in the 1830s. In this letter, he offers his thoughts on the qualities.....
