Dated August 1, 1903. Augusta Union Station Company to The Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore, As Trustee. First Mortgage To secure $ 250,000 of 4% bonds, due July 1, 1953
N.P., 1903. Soft cover. Very Good. octavo, 39 page pamphlet, original printed wrappers, ex-library, handstamps on wrappers, else in very good condition. Unlisted on OCLC. For the construction of the union passenger station and terminal facilities in Augusta, Georgia.
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Report of the Forrest Divorce Case, Containing the Full and Unabridged Testimony of All the Witnesses, the Affidavits and Depositions, Together with the Consuelo and Forney Letters. This edition is published under the direct supervision of the Law Reporter of the New York Herald, and is the only one containing the Suppressed Testimony.
octavo, 187 pp., removed from bound volume of pamphlets, text block broken, titlepage detached and chipped but present, oval portrait on titlepage, two additional portraits in text, else a good working copy. Relates the sensational details of the divorce case of Edwin Forrest, America's most celebrated actor of the day, the details of which were a major social scandal of the day.
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State of Vermont. Supreme Court, Special Term, July, 1877. Appeal in Chancery, Franklin County. Vermont & Canada Railroad Company vs. Vermont Central Railroad Company and others. Opinion of the Court by Barrett, Judge.
[n.p., 1877] octavo, 66 page pamphlet, original printed wraps, ex-library, ink markings on front wrapper, removed from bound pamphlet volume, some chipping to edges and extremities of wrappers, else good.
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Superior Court. George B. Rapelye, vs. Daniel Le Roy and William H. Le Roy. Decision of the Court.
octavo, 20 page pamphlet, removed from pamphlet volume, retains front wrapper, lacking rear wrap, ex-library, handstamp on front wrapper, else a good copy.
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Manuscript Political Notes of a Civil War Copperhead from New Hampshire, possibly suppressed - 1852-1864
No Binding. Very Good. Three separate fragments of manuscript political notes and text by a passionate New Hampshire man, presumably a Democrat and Civil War Copperhead, 1852-1864. It would not be surprising if the pages were at some point separated, or hidden, because of the author's wartime internment, as follows: . "Political Notes Croydon [New Hampshire] Feb 16, '52" Octavo, 4 pages, two pages written in ink, with some portions in pencil which are difficult to read, but legible... Read More
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Trial by a Court Martial of Lieut. Col. Grenville Temple Winthrop, on Charges Preferred Against him by Adjutant Gen. William H. Sumner, in Pursuance of Orders from His Excellency Levi Lincoln, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Printed for the Respondent.
octavo, vii, [i], [1] – 456 pp., ex-library, hand and blind-stamps on title page, rebound in buckram, title and shelf number stamped in gilt on spine, text clean, a good copy. American Imprints 17122, 6 locations.
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“Let ‘Er Go Gallagher!” Twenty-Eighth Annual Parade and Review of the Ithaca Fire Departm’t and Grand Prize Tournament at Ithaca, N.Y., Wednesday, Sept. 7, 1887 Grand Parade, 2 P.M. $ 100 in Cash Prizes Competition Open to the World Steamer Trials and Exhibit of City Water Works! Exhilaration and Illumination in the Evening! The Board of Engineers of the I. F.D. cordially invite the firemen and fire organizations of neighboring communities to attend and participate in the festivities above promulgated. E. E. Robinson, Chief Engineer. H. L. Haskin, 1st Ass’t Engineer. Frank Cole, 2d Asst’t Engineer. For Full Particulars see Small Bills and Newspapers.
large broadside, measuring 55 x 24 inches, printed in red and blue ink on white paper stock, in a variety of large display types. Some minor ruffling to bottom edge of sheet and edges, few short splits along horizontal folds, else a very good copy.
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Arret Du Conseil D'Etat Du Roi, Portant etablissement de vingt-quatre Paquebots, pour communiquer avec les Colonies Francoises, aux Isles du Vent & soue le Vent, les Ilses de France & de Bourbon, & les Etats-Unis de l'Amerique. Du 14 Decembre 1786. Extrait des Registres du Conseil d'Etat.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1787. No Binding. Near Fine. quarto, 3 [1], a very good, clean copy. Wroth & Annan 2037, two locations JCB, AD
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Before the President of the United States. Case of Thomas C. A. Dexter. Arguments for Defence by Gen. Benj. F. Butler, and Hon. Charles A. Peabody. Review and Opinion of Judge Advocate General Holt, Prepared for the President. Discharge of Mr. Dexter.
, octavo, 80 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamp on front wrapper, roughly removed from bound pamphlet volume, retains front wrap, text block loose, edges of front wrap, and preliminary leaves chipped, as is rear leaf, a good working copy.
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A Full Report of the Trial of Capt. William H. Tower, Charged with feloniously Scuttling the Barque Brother’s Pride, of Saint John, N. B., on the 7th Day of May, 1879, In the Gulf Stream off the Coast of Florida.
octavo, portrait frontis., 200 pp., pamphlet, ex-library, handstamp on titlepage, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, lacking wrappers, else a good copy.
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octavo, vi, 153 pp., pamphlet, ex-library, hand and blindstamps on title page, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, text lightly toned and foxed, else a good copy.
octavo, 28, 2 pp, ads, pamphlet, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, ex-library, hand and blindstamps on titlepage, roughly removed, text clean, else good. One of the advertisements is for the Trial of Thomas Paine, for a libel in the second part of his Rights of Man.
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Archive of Incoming Business Letters to Owen Connolly, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, written by merchants from Canada, the United States, and Europe, 1881-1887
Collection of 856 incoming letters, 957 pages, plus 90 pieces of ephemera, dated 1867-1939, however, only two letters are dated outside the main period of correspondence, the years 1881-1887. The letters are handwritten, in ink, in legible hands, (with no retained mailing envelopes).Description of Collection: As might be expected, a large part of the correspondence is written by Prince Edward Island merchants. In particular the following gentlemen wrote multiple times: Bernard D. Brown, Lyne Valley, PE (23, 24p); J. W. Chisholm,... Read More
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Arrest Du Conseil D'Etat Du Roi, Qui accorde des Encoragemens a ceux des Negocians qui enverront des Morues seches, de peche francoise, dans les iles du Vent de l'Amerique. Du 31 Juillet 1767. Extrait des Registres du Conseil d'Etat.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1767. No Binding. Near Fine. quarto, 8 pages, a very good clean copy. Wroth and Annan 1742, (Ford no. 337), noting two copies AD, HEHL, see Maggs, The French Colonisation of America, 557, describing Wroth & Annan 1743, a variant issue. Concerning the export of dry cod from France to the Isles du Vent de lAmerique, and gives specimens of the various declarations to be made in order to benefit from the subsidy... Read More
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Philadelphia Museum Company
[Philadelphia: John C. Clark, c. 1840] printed on thin paper, certificate for one share of stock in the Philadelphia Museum Company, issued to Howard Spenser, signed by President Nathan Dunn, and Treasurer Wm. D. Lewis, April 30, 1841. Single sheet measuring 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches, slight staining along left edge, else in very good, condition. The Smithsonian provides a succinct history of the Philadelphia Museum Company: "The Philadelphia Museum Company had its genesis in the collections of Charles Wilson Peale... Read More
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The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway Company to The Central Trust Company of New York and George Sherman, Trustees. First Mortgage. $ 10,000,000. Four Per Cent. Forty Year Gold Bonds. Dated August 1, 1898.
New York: C. G. Burgoyne, 1898. Soft cover. Very Good. octavo, 43 page pamphlet, removed from bound pamphlet volume, else in very good condition. OCLC locates one copy (Yale.)
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Reglement pour l'establissement & l'entretien des Chemins Royaux, publics & de communication, aux Isle du Vent de L'Amerique. Du 17. Avril 1725.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1725. No Binding. Very Good. quarto, 16 pages, light damp-stain, small number in ink, at upper left corner of first page, otherwise a very good, clean copy. This reglement contains sixty articles on the establishment and repair of roads and bridges on the French islands in the Antilles, many of the articles concern rules regarding the use of slaves for the road work and repair. Wroth and... Read More
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Manuscript Business Correspondence of broker and wholesale merchant George F. Fuller, of Springfield, Massachusetts, written to fellow merchant, Horace Kellogg Parsons, of Florence, Massachusetts, with other Correspondence written to Parsons, 1870-1888.
210 letters, 298 manuscript pages, most with retained mailing envelopes, dated 1870-1888, the bulk are written in the1880s. Most of the correspondence consists of business letters that are addressed to Horace Kellogg Parsons, a merchant at Florence, Massachusetts. Of the 210 letters written to Parsons, over half (116 letters, 150 pp) of them are written by George F. Fuller, a merchant of Springfield, Massachusetts. Other merchants like Thomas Halloran writes 7 letters (11 pp) to Parsons, and Norton & Warren... Read More
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Memorial to the President and Congress of the United States, by the National Canal Convention, Assembled at Chicago, June 2, 1863.
octavo, 24-page pamphlet, original printed wrappers, some minor wear, spotting and staining to wraps, contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper, else very good. Ante-Fire Imprints 734, Sabin 12635
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“The Indian News.” A Meeting of the Proprietors of “The Indian News,” was held on the 22nd December, at the Offices of Mr. Sheriff Rogers, Sir George G. De H. Laurent, Bart., M.P. in the Chair. The Chairman said that they had met to confer upon the state and prospects of a journal which every one connected with India acknowledged to be of high public importance …
autograph letter signed from Leitch Ritchie (1800-1865) the editor of The Indian News, the entire circular sent to a Dr. McKenzie, Journal Office, Shrewsbury. The circular prints a number of resolutions from the meeting one of which was the establishment of The Indian News on a permanent basis. The second page of the circular states the following: "The Indian News, Monthly Stamped Journal of Indian and Chinese Intelligence, Public and Domestic". It contained a monthly summary of political events, official news, from... Read More
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Autograph Manuscript headed with the initials R.E.D., dated January 7, 1919
The content discusses the prospects for peace, the post war world and the death of Theodore Roosevelt. "It looks as if the wings of peace might grow tired in hovering round before she can settle down to stay. A new line-up seems not impossible, and if the Bolsheviks of Russia nd Germany get together and persist in thinking themselves the enemies of the rest of the Bourgeois world there may be police work for all the troops, with possible mischief from malcontents... Read More
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Lettres Patentes Du Roy, Portant Reglement Pour le Commerce des Colonies Françoises. Données à Paris au mois d’Avril 1717.
[Paris: 1717] small quarto, 11, [1] pp., some very slight ruffling to bottom edge, otherwise a fine copy. This is the most important decree concerning French trade with her colonies, on which all subsequent regulations were based. This decree remained in force for a considerable time, suffering periodic amendments, to suit varying economic and political changes. Article I appoints the following ports as trading centers with America: Calais, Dieppe, Le Havre, Roüen, Honfleur, St. Malo, Morlaix, Brest, Nantes, La Rochelle, Bordeaux,... Read More
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First Mortgage from The Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company to the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company of Baltimore. To secure $ 4,000,000 of Five Per Cent Bonds Due July 1st, 1945. Interest Payable, January and July.
N.P., 1895. Soft cover. Very Good. octavo, 20 page pamphlet, original printed wrappers, removed from pamphlet volume, else very good. Not listed on OCLC.
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Trial of Lieutenant Joel Abbot, by the General Naval Court Martial, Holden on Board the U.S. Ship Independence, at the Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, on Allegations Made Against Him, by Capt. David Porter, Navy Commissioner. Reported by F. W. Waldo, Esq., one of his counsel. To Which is Added an Appendix, Containing Sundry Documents in Relation to the Management of the Affairs on the Boston Station.
first edition, octavo, 164, 72, [1] pp., ex-library, hand and blindstamps, and ink markings on title page, bound in early 20th century plain cloth, red and black leather spine labels, shelf number at base of spine, some soiling to covers, light foxing to text else a good copy. Lt. Joel Abbot accused Capt. Isaac Hull of fraud against the U.S. government. Capt. David Porter investigated the charges, and determined that Hull was innocent. Porter in April 1822 then charged Abbot with... Read More
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Phillips' Business Directory of New York City 1933-1934 and Representative Houses of Long Island, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken and Newark
New York:: Phillips & Co., Inc., 1933. Hardcover. Good. octavo, 882, 6, pp., original cloth, ex-library, handstamps, call number on spine, some cover soiling, else good.
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State of New York. In the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and the Correction of Errors. Daniel Le Roy and William H. Le Roy, Plaintiffs in Error, vs. George B. Rapelye, Defendant in Error. Anthony L. Robertson, Attorney for Plaintiffs in Error. Frederick A. Hanford, Attorney for Defendant in Error.
octavo, 43 page pamphlet, retains plain front wrapper, ex-library, handstamp and other markings on front wrap, else good.
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