Proceedings Against Wm. Murray Borthwick, At the Instance of His Majesty’s Advocate, and of Robert Alexander, Styling Himself Editor and Proprietor of the Glasgow Sentinel Newspaper. With an Appendix of Documents, and a Preface, by William Murray Borthwick
octavo, 57, [1], 28 pp., pamphlet, ex-library, handstamps on titlepage, some toning to text, else a good copy.
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Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx City of New York Vol. CXIII. For the Year Ending July 1, 1900
New York:: Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co., 1899. Hardcover. Good. stout quarto, folding map, iv, [2], [17]- 1407, 52, 111 pp., ex-library, handstamps, rebound in later cloth, red and black leather spine labels, call number on spine, else a good copy.
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Bulletin Issued by the Executive Committee- I. O. B. B. (Independent Order of B'nai B'rith) March, 1908
[New York?]: B'nai B'rith, 1908. No Binding. Near Fine. octavo, 16 pp., issued with out wrappers, a very good, very clean copy. A front-page Editorial concerns 19 year-old Jeremiah Averbuch, who was killed at the home of the Chicago Chief of Police, allegedly during an Anarchist attempt to assassinate the official. The young man's sister protested that he was an honest young man, about to move to Iowa, who had gone to the Chief's house merely to obtain... Read More
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First Mortgage. New York, Pennsylvania and South-Western Railroad Company to Knickerbocker Trust Company, of the City of New York, Trustee. Dated October 15, 1904. $ 4,500,000.
N.P., 1904. Soft cover. Very Good. octavo, 21 page pamphlet, original printed wrappers, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else in very good condition. Not listed on OCLC.
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Reglemet Qui fixe la continence des Barriques de Sucre dans les isles Francoises du Vent. Du 24 Novembre 1787. De Par Le Roi.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1787. No Binding. Very Good. quarto, 2, [2], pp., very good, clean copy. Not in Wroth & Annan, not in Maggs, The French Colonisation of America
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Report of the Trial by Jury of the Action of Damages for a Libel in the Beacon Newspaper; Lord Archibald Hamilton, against Duncan Stevenson, Printer in Edinburgh. Taken in Short-Hand.
octavo, 154, [1], ex-library, hand and blindstamps on titlepage, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else a good copy.
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Pair of Manuscript Medical Lecture Notebooks kept by an unidentified student at New York University Medical School, 1847-1848
two volumes, 12mo, 107, 138 manuscript pages, bound in original roan backed boards, entries written in pencil in a legible hand, very good, clean and legible condition. Manuscript lecture notes on the lectures of Granville Sharp Pattison (1791-1851), Valentine Mott (1785-1865), Gunning S. Bedford (1806-1870), Martyn Paine (1794-1877), Samuel Henry Dickson (1798-1872). An interesting pair of medical lecture notes kept by an early medical student of New York... Read More
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Series of Manuscript Naval Orders issued by the French naval Minister of War Antoine de Sartine, during the earliest days leading up to and the commencement of French Naval participation in the American Revolution, 1776-1778
No Binding. Near Fine. folio, 99 orders, 137 pages, in very good, clean and legible condition. Splendid series of naval orders issued by the French Naval Minister of War Antoine de Sartine (1729-1801) in the period leading up to and during the commencement of French Naval participation in the American Revolution. These were official copies sent to "intendants de marine" - in this instance J. Mistral at Le Havre. They bear his original signature... Read More
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Photograph Album Containing Large Format Photographs of Washington, D.C., the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Colorado, and the Pacific Northwest, circa 1893
Oblong folio, 55 albumen photographs, mounted on 18 cardstock leaves, bound in contemporary black padded Morocco, images are generally in very good, clean condition, with good contrast. The album contains 9 photographs of buildings in Washington, D.C., including interior views of the White House, 1 photograph of Mount Vernon, 2 photographs of Arlington National Cemetery, 7 photographs of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, by C. D. Arnold, 28 photographs of Colorado, including images by W. E. Hook and W. H. Jackson,... Read More
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23d Regiment N.G.S.N.Y. Camp Woodward Fairmount Park Philadelphia July 1st to 6th 1876. Col. Rodney C. Ward, Com’d’g. Photographed by Waller and Schrader, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Brooklyn: Waller and Schrader, 1876] oblong folio, photograph album contains 40 mounted albumen photographs, plus a mounted photographic "title-page", each photograph mounted on card stock with printed label under each image identifying the subject. Most images measure 7.75 x 4.75 inches, one measures 9.5 x 7 inches. Bound in original ½ leather and pebbled cloth covered boards, marbled endpapers, "23d Reg't N.G.S.N.Y." stamped in gilt on front board. Images are in very good clean condition. The binding is worn, back... Read More
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A Memorial to the Congress of the United States, on the Subject of Restraining the Increase of Slavery in New States to be Admitted into the Union. Prepared in Pursuance of a Vote of the Inhabitants of Boston and its Vicinity, Assembled at the State House, on the Third of December, A.D. 1819.
first edition, octavo, 22 pages, stitched, untrimmed as issued, several corners dog-eared, short tears into foredge of titlepage and first leaf of text, else in very good, clean condition. Daniel Webster headed the Committee which prepared this Memorial to Congress; its members also included George Blake, Josiah Quincy, James T. Austin, and John Gallison. The Memorial contains Webster's earliest printed expressions concerning Slavery which grew out of the Crisis over Missouri's admission to the Union. Webster supported a Congressional ban on... Read More
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(Civil War) Pair of Manuscript Reminiscences of Captivity in Andersonville Prison by two Members of the 8th Maine Regiment, written circa 1910-1911
Octavo and quarto, 13 pages, inscribed on sheets of lined paper in pencil, in very good clean condition. “What I saw while a Prisoner of War I enlisted in the 8th Me Regt. Co I May 6, 1861. Was taken prisoner at the battle of Drewy’s Bluff Va., May 16, 1864 they took me to Libby Prison same day. They put us in the upper story; Castle Thunder was opposite... Read More
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Trial of the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles for Shooting Philip Barton Key, Esq., (U.S. District Attorney, of Washington, D.C.) February 27, 1859. Preceded by an Introduction Giving Sketches of the Previous Career of Many of the Principal Personages Engaged in the Washington Tragedy.
octavo, 106, [2] pp., at head of t.p. "De Witt's "Special Report.", in double columns, lacking wrappers, and portraits, removed from bound pamphlet volume, else good. "A murder in one's past is generally considered an impediment to a career, and one might think that this would be particularly so if the victim were the district attorney. Sickles, a congressman from New York who shot and killed the son of the author of our national anthem, may have had his advanced by... Read More
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Arret Du Conseil D'Etat Du Roi, Portant a Cainq livres par quintal, la taxe impose sur la Morue de Peche l'Etrangere, qui sera importee aux iles de l'Amerique du Vent & sous le vent. Du 25 Septembre 1785. Extrait des Registres du Conseil d'Etat.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1785. No Binding. Very Good. sm. Quarto, 4 pp., stab holes in gutter margin, else a very good clean copy. Wroth and Annan 2013, two locations HEHL, BM, Maggs The French Colonisation of America, 631. Raising the import duty on foreign cod imported into the French possessions in America, with special prescriptions as regards cod from the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.
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Arret Du Conseil D'Etat Du Roi, Concernant les Armemens de Commerce pour les Isles & Colonies Francoises. Du 31 Octobre 1784. Extrait des Registres du Conseil d'Etat.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1784. No Binding. Near Fine. quarto, 3, [1], very good clean condition. Wroth & Annan 1987, (Ford no. 419), noting three copies AD, BM, JCB. Reprinted in Moreau de St. Mery, [1784-1789], Maggs, The French Colonisation of America, 622
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The Case of Edwin R. Biles. Forgery. Samuel C. Perkins, Joseph P. Loughead, District Attorney, For The Commonwealth.
octavo, 27 page pamphlet, original printed wraps, front wrapper detached but present, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else good. Biles, was accused through the means of deceptive accounting of stealing some $ 11,000.00 in cash over a period of time, unnoticed, by his employers, and absconding after a mistake in his bookkeeping was discovered.
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First Mortgage. The Washington Terminal Company to United States Trust Company, of New York, Trustee. Dated February 1st, 1905. To Secure Gold Bonds to the Aggregate Amount of $ 12,000,000.
n.p., 1905. Soft cover. Very Good. octavo, 44 page pamphlet, original printed wrappers, hand stamp on rear wrap, else in very good condition. OCLC locates two copies (Yale, NYPL).
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Arrest Du Conseil D'Estat Du Roy, Concernant les Soldats, Ouvriers, Et autres gens Engagez au Service de la Compagnie d'Occident, & des Habitans qui passent à la Loüisianne pour s'y Establir. Du 8. Novembre 1718.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1718. No Binding. Fine. quarto, 4 pages, untrimmed, foredge of first page a bit ruffled, else a fine copy. "Le Roy s'estant fait representer en son Conseil, les Lettres Patentes en forme d'Edit du mois d'Aoust 1717, portant Establissement de la Compagnie d'Occident, Sa Majesté a esté informée que pour garder & peupler la Province de la Loüisianne, Pays de la concession faite à ladite Compagnie, Et pour le défrichement & la culture des Terres, Elle... Read More
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Phelps’s Travellers’ Guide Through the United States; Containing Upwards of Seven Hundred Rail-Road, Canal, and Stage and Steam-Boat Routes. Accompanied with a New Map of the United States.
New York: Published by Humphrey Phelps, 1847, 16mo, 70 pages, with large folding colored map, entitled: "Phelps's National Map of the United States. A Travellers Guide, Embracing the Principal Rail Roads, Canals, Steam Boat & Stage Routes Throughout the Union". New York: Published by Humphrey Phelps, 1847, measuring 53.6 cm x 62.4 cm, folds into the original gilt and embossed roan case. The map is in very good, clean condition with only minor separations at several fold intersections, some minor... Read More
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Catalogue of the Twelfth Exhibition of Paintings in the Athenaeum Gallery. MDCCCXXXVIII.
octavo, 8-page pamphlet, original green printed paper wrappers, ex-library, handstamp on first page of text, some minor wear to wrappers, ink stain along top edge of first page of text, otherwise very good.
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The Trials of George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq; Timoth Brecknock, James Fulton, and Others, for the Procurement of, and for the Murder of Patrick Randall McDonnell and Charles Hipson. Also The TRIAL of John Gallagher and others, for an Assault on George Robert Fitzgerald, in the Gaol of Castlebar. The Speech of George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq; previous to his receiving Sentence, the Arguments of Council, the Lord Chief Baron Yelverton’s Speech on passing their Sentences, the whole Proceedings of the Court, together with a Description of their Conduct at the Place of Execution. Taken from the Notes of a Gentleman.
12mo, iv, [1] – 181 pp., ex-library, handstamp on title-page, rebound in recent buckram, shelf number stamped on spine, text browned, several leaves loose and detached from text block, contemporary ink manuscript notes in text, else a good useable copy. Fitzgerald, from county Mayo, was "noted for his gallantry, his recklessness, and his duels", he abducted his brother, was betrayed by his father, left for dead in a prison attack was tried and hanged for murder in 1786 along with... Read More
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Residence of G. B. Kent. 91 James Street. Syracuse, N.Y. March 31st, 1871.
Syracuse: Loring & Green, Photographers, 64 - 66 So. Salina St., Syracuse, N.Y., 1871, large format albumen photograph, measuring 12 ½ x 14 ¼ inches, on card stock mount, with printed text, identifying the house, and with the photographer's credit. The mount measures 17 ½ x 20 ⅝ inches. Some spotting, soiling, and wear to edges of mount, some abrasions to corners and lower edge of the image, else in good condition. The photograph shows the apparently newly built residence of... Read More
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The Celebrated Case of The United States of America Against The Coetermans-Heinrichs-Keck Diamond Cutting Co. et al. Reported by Louis Traub.
octavo, 46 page pamphlet, original printed wrappers, wraps detached but present, ex-library, handstamp on title page, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, wraps chipped along edges, else a good copy. "August 15th, 1895, the United States filed suits against the Coetermans-Heinrichs-Keck Diamond Cutting Company, a corporation under the laws of the State of Ohio, Herman Keck and Franz Van Reeth, claiming penalties for alleged violations of the Contract Labor Law…."
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The Class of 1861, Harvard College
Cambridge, Mass., Riverside, 1861, large quarto, yearbook album with 110 oval salt print portraits, measuring 6 x 5 inches, 28 of faculty members, each signed, one of the African American porter, (unsigned), plus 82 portraits of class members, all but four of which are signed by the subject with their hometown, binding worn, backstrip defective, front board missing, images are in good clean condition. The faculty include the photographs and signatures of several prominent scholars and educators including: historian and regent... Read More
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Group of Incoming Correspondence to William R. Amberson (1915-1977) relating to research collaboration in physiology pioneered by Archibald V. Hill (Nobel prize 1922) in muscle heat and nerve heat, 1928-1931
8 letters, 17 pages, plus a later offprint by William R. Amberson. Incoming correspondence, plus one retained outgoing letter, both typescript and manuscript, several with hand drawn diagrams, in very good, clean and legible condition. Collection of correspondence from various scientists presenting their arguments, and collaboration on research into various aspects of the analysis of action current curves, muscle heat and nerve heat, includes letters from: Ralph S. Lillie, Ralph W. Gerard, Philip Bard, Archibald V. Hill (Nobel Prize, 1922) and... Read More
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