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Montreal: [privately printed]. 24 cm; 138 pages. Facsimiles. Printed wraps. Fine condition. Biographical report on the Governor-General of Canada who established the liberal principle that "French Canadians could be British without becoming English." The biography is amply illustrated with letters and documents from the author's personal collection. ... more information

Albany: 2 July, 1836. 160 x 135 mm; printed document, accomplished in manuscript and signed by three Commissioners of the Canal Fund. Endorsed by Corning on verso. Canceled twice with blind stamp. A check $50,000 drawn on the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, payable to Erastus Corning as Mayor of Albany, and endorsed by him on verso. One of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund who signed the check, John A. Dix, was then New York Secretary of State, later Senator, Governor, Treasury Secretary, and Civil War... more information

Georgetown [DC], Office of Indian Trade: 30 September, 1819. 195 X 243 mm. Addressed to R. Smith, cashier in the Department of Indian Trade. Very good but for small chip on the lower right corner, affecting a part of the signature. Old mounting ghosts on verso. From the Dictionary of American Biography: James Madison appointed McKenney superintendent of Indian trade in 1816. As superintendent, he coordinated a network of government-owned trading houses known as the factory system. Established by Cong... more information

London: Chatto & WIndus, 1892. First trade edition. Cloth. 8vo. Slight edge wear; owner's bookplate. Pieces on the American West, on Fontainbleau, Scotland, Sicily, Dreams, on being a professional artist, and a Christmas Sermon. Reference: Prideaux, 33. ... more information

London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1838. First printing. Reference: Izhak Gross, "Parliament and the Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship, 1835-38," The English Historical Review 96 (1981) 560-576.. 30 cm; pages [181]-191. Disbound. Evenly toned. The British Parliament passed legislation in 1833 abolishing slavery in most of its colonies, but however well-intentioned, the law was ineffective. It created a new category of near-slavery, called apprenticeship, that was heavily abused and ... more information

London: Henry Fenwick, 1778. First Edition. 19cm; 151pages. Bound in recent half calf over marbled boards in period style, with six-panel spine decorated in blind and titled in gilt. A very rare treasure-chest of source material on Anglo-American relations in the years leading up to and into the Revolutionary War. In this compendium of communications between the Court of Common Council and George III, covering the years 1769-1778, one sees the London court's steadfast objections to trade restrictions p... more information

Albuquerque: Historical Society of New Mexico, 1953. 23 cm; [2],143,[1 blank] pages, and halftone frontispiece portrait. Yellow wraps. Wraps and edges a little dusty. ... more information

New York: Herzl Press, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust jacket browned and chipped at edges; text very good but a litte dusty. Inscribed and dated by the author. Inscribed by the author ... more information

New York: American News Company, 1879. 27cm; 2 volumes. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, 40 wood-engraved plates, and many in-text illustrations. Bound in pebbled half-morocco over cloth, with gilt rule panel decorations on spine. Marbled edges. Corners rubbed and worn, scratches and shelf wear on spines. Good overall. ... more information

[Washington]: January 28, 1799. Torn fragment, 8 inches x 3 1/2 inches. Six lines in McHenry's hand, and, on verso, six lines plus date and signature of Wolcott. James McHenry, secretary of war during Washington's second term, was in effect charged with Indian Affairs. A letter of McHenry's working out methods of payment to the Seneca nation apparently passed to Treasury Secretary Oliver Wolcott, Jr., who wrote a memo on the back. The memo suggests that payment can proceed directly by the autho... more information

Genevere [New England], [January] 18, 1765.. 1 p. Semi-literate warrant for the payment of a debt in silver "old tenor. ... more information

Connecticut Huts, [New Windsor Cantonment],: 27 January, 1782. In 1781, the 5th Regiment Connecticut line drew in the remains of the former 8th regiment, and re-formed with the rest of the Continental Army at New Windsor. Writing from the Connecticut Huts sector of the cantonment, Colonel Isaac Sherman, commander of the 5th Regiment, certifies the service of one Jedidiah Ensworth as surgeon's mate in the former 8th regiment on the battlefield. ... more information

Philadelphia, 5 July 1784.. 21 x 9 cm; 6 lines of text and signature. Receipt for £30 for 300 acres of land on Shoholly Creek. The payment is specified as received in "Continental Certificates including the interest thereon, and State of Pennsylvania money. ... more information

New York, March 25, 1784, addressed to Colonel Timothy Bidle.. 1 page 4to (23 cm); with integral address leaf. Usual folds, spots. Address leaf discolored. Seal tear repaired. Revolutionary War Brigadier General Moses Hazen (1733-1803) settled in New Hampshire after the war. Here he writes to his comrade, a Colonel Biddle, to meet him on Lake Champlain at the Bay of Micorne with four horses, saddles and a guide on the 20th of May. He also alludes to a trial he would like to avoid. After the war Hazen foug... more information

[Washtington]: June 3, 1833. 1 page, quarto. Addressed to the cashier of the Branch Bank of the United States at Nashville, Tennessee. Duane was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Andrew Jackson to succeed Louis McLane when McLane refused to aid Jackson in his war on the United States Bank by withdrawing the government funds. Duane also refused to withdraw the deposits, and Jackson accordingly dismissed him. Here Duane writes to the Cashier of the Branch Bank of the United States at Nashville, "... more information

Montreal: Campbell & Becket, 1842. Vol. VII, No. 11, pp. 161-176, and printed self-wraps. 20 x 27 cm. Horizontal fold. Quite toned, but unopened, untrimmed , unblemished copy in original condition. ... more information

[Toronto]: Republished from the Canadian Banker with the permission of the Canadian Bankers Association, [ca 1956]. 48 pages. Many illustrations of banknotes. Original stiff wraps. ... more information

Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McGill University, 1975. 28 cm; 68 pages in stapled wraps. Facsimiles. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by Lande. Full bibliographical descriptions of 366 books, manuscripts and documents relating to Canada. ... more information

Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McGill University, 1975. 28 cm; 62 pages in stapled wraps. Facsimiles. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by Lande. Full bibliographical descriptions of 474 books, manuscripts and documents relating to Canada. ... more information

Trou au Chat de la Martinique: April 26, 1716. and Montreal, July 11, 1717. Two documents on two leaves. Document signed at Martinique, 22 x 14 cm; document signed at Montreal, 22 x 10 cm. Usual folds. When Le Comte Dupré's father died in 1715, Jean-Baptiste, along with his mother, took over the family business, based in the fur trade. At the time of this document, Jean-Baptiste was trying to manage affairs remotely from Martinique, writing, "I Jean-Baptiste Dupré Le Comte, son o... more information