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Red Hook, N.Y. April 6, 1812. [2]pp. plus integral address leaf. Folio. Old folds. Small loss to address leaf from wax seal, not affecting text. Minor soiling. Very good plus. In a green half cloth clamshell case, gilt paper label. John Armstrong writes to Gen. John Smith, detailing a New.....
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.....
Leona Vicario [Saltillo]: [Samuel Bangs], December 31, 1829. Broadside decree, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. In Spanish, ink notation in manuscript at top, "No. 6" and two notations at bottom, a "Nota" and one reading "Al Alcalde Verico(?) de Allende." Folio. Minor marginal staining, light foxing. Very good. Untrimmed.....
![Item #WRCAM57423 PROSPECTUS, FOR A NATIONAL GALLERY OF PAINTINGS. [with:] [AUTOGRAPH LETTER,...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM57423.jpg?v=1648579445)
New Orleans. [1844]. [1]p. printed prospectus, plus [2]pp. autograph letter, signed, written on recto and verso of prospectus, letter dated at May 28, 1844 at Athens, Georgia. Old folds, slight separations at edges and corners of folds (no loss of text). Uneven tanning. About very good overall. A detailed and.....
![Item #WRCAM53452 [THE "OSTEND DOCTRINE." PRACTICAL DEMOCRATS CARRYING OUT THE PRINCIPLE]. Cuba,...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM53452.jpg?v=1593711869)
[New York: Nathaniel Currier, 1856]. Broadside, 10 x 13 inches. Foxed, bottom right corner chipped. Lower margin trimmed, costing the title. Good only. Framed under glass. A scarce political cartoon regarding the controversial Ostend Manifesto, the initially- secret attempt by the United States to purchase Spanish-controlled Cuba. Earlier, President Franklin.....
Norwich, Printed and Sold by John Trumbull, [1784]. [24]pp. 12mo. Gathered signatures, stitched. Edges worn with tears into text on the final two leaves. Unobtrusive stab hole through lower inside corner of all pages, widens towards the end and touches some text. Contemporary ownership signature on two leaves. Overall a......
London. March 29, 1739. Original manuscript document on vellum, 13 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. Embossed paper seal of the British Customs Commissioners Office affixed to the left margin on the recto; and three small, blue, paper tax stamps (totaling 18 pence) affixed to upper margin on recto. Small paper.....
[Edinburgh?]: 1699. [30],214pp. 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities lightly worn. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Minor toning and scattered foxing. Very good. First edition of an important work relating to the famous Darien scheme to establish a Scottish colony on the Isthmus of Darien.....
Edinburgh: 1699. [8],86,pp. Modern three-quarter speckled calf over marbled boards, gilt label. Light shelf wear. Text slightly toned, leaf C2 with two short tears, one just touching text, otherwise quite clean. Very good. The Scottish attempt to establish a colony in Panama, also known as the Darien scheme, proved to.....
New York, N.Y. February 6, 1871. [1]p. on a folded folio sheet, with original stamped envelope with postmark. Old folds. Closed tear to integral blank, some smudging to ink at letter edges, but still quite readable. Very good. An anxious letter from infamous railroad tycoon Jay Gould, to prominent lawyer.....
[N.p., but likely Edinburgh]. 1700. [20],60,145-165,167-168,[1]pp. (as issued, see below) Later mottled calf and brown paper boards, gilt label. Text a bit toned with light foxing and soiling. Tear in lower inner margin of titlepage, not affecting text. Small tear to top margin of leaf K4, closed tear to lower.....
Monticello. September 5, [1811]. [1 1/2]pp. on a single leaf, with separate leaf folded as cover, addressed and franked with Jefferson's signature. Pen and ink on paper. Quarto. Clean, partial split along one fold, old 1/16-inch archival repairs to three corners, else fine. Cover leaf with modest soiling, traces of.....
[Washington. December 10, 1855]. 9pp. 12mo. Dbd. Internally clean. Very good. While serving as commanding officer of Fort Riley, Kansas Territory in 1855, William Montgomery abused his position as the highest ranking military officer in the area in his attempt to establish a civilian settlement just outside the post. As.....
[Covington, Ky. 1864]. Broadside, 10 x 12 inches. Printed almost entirely within ornamental border. Minor staining in blank margins, some minor creases. Overall very good. An advertisement for a lottery to be drawn in Covington, Kentucky. The scheme for the lottery is based on what the producers call the "Royal.....
[Chicago: National Printing Co., late 1884]. 4pp. on a single folded sheet of pink paper. Old horizontal folds, top edge creased. Very good. A seemingly unrecorded example of an ephemeral publication issued for the semi- annual lottery held in New Orleans in the late 19th century. This piece advertises the.....
[Amsterdam]. 1720. Title-leaf, 25,[1],52,31,[1],8,10pp. plus seventy-five plates (forty-seven double page, sixteen folding) including frontispiece, and three maps. Large folio. Contemporary paneled calf, ornate gilt covers and spine, black gilt morocco label. Remarkably clean and bright. Bookseller's label pasted to front free endpaper. An excellent copy, with additional engraved plate laid.....
New York. 1860. xii,115,[1]pp. plus folding facsimiles and plate. Half title. Frontispiece portrait. Narrow quarto. Original red gilt cloth. Cloth somewhat stained. Two ownership inscriptions and small bookplate on front endpapers. A few instances of foxing, closed tear in one facsimile. Very good. This copy is inscribed by George H......
New York. 1835. 188pp. Original blue publisher's cloth, printed paper label. Cloth lightly rubbed, label lightly soiled and chipped. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepage and one interior leaf. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Very good. First edition of this fiercely Anti-Catholic conspiracy tract by artist and inventor Samuel F. B......
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1777. xvi,176pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Front hinge cracked but holding. Contemporary ownership name on titlepage. Very good. Second edition, printed same year as the first. This is a sequel to Price's OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF CIVIL LIBERTY. Price was a......
London: J. Roberts, 1721. [2],60pp. Without the second, internal titlepage, as in the British Library copy. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Very good. A round condemnation of John Aislabie for his role in the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. The South Sea Company was established in 1711. Wild.....
London: Printed for A. Moore, 1721. 48pp. Folio. Modern green paper boards, printed label on front board. Minor wear to spine. Lightly foxed and stained, small hole to gutter margin of first three leaves. Very good. The results of the Parliamentary inquiry into the South Sea Company, after the "South.....
London: Printed by John Baskett, 1722-1723. 4,[2],287-735,[4]pp. Quarto. Slightly later reverse calf, tooled in blind, spine with raised bands and gilt morocco label. Worn at corners and spine ends, some splitting at joint extremities. Endpapers soiled and stained; text toned, with scattered foxing and staining. Very good. This volume bears.....
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, [ 1865]. 65,[1],[5]-12,[6]pp. including maps, plans, in-text illustrations, and advertisements, plus engraved frontispiece portrait of Booth. Tall octavo. Original pictorial front wrapper, rear wrapper lacking. Spine mostly perished, front wrapper detached (but present), minor edge wear, a few short closed tears and small chips.....
