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184527178Brooklyn N.Y.: F.G. Fish 1845. 220 pages; with a lithographic frontispiece of St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn. Contents with historical information on early pastors the establishment of the church the Sunday School extracts from the records officers of the first school; the teachers of the first and second schools; genealogical details regarding baptisms marriages burials confirmations; communicants of the church; list of the vestry of the church and short biographical notices of the other Episcopal churches in New York.Title page with the previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush; M.D. in the U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. The front endpaper with a news clipping glued-in regarding the oldest Episcopal church in the U.S.; and another clipping from a bookseller catalog regarding the listing for this book numbered and priced. Volume approx. 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" size; bound in the original decoratively blind-stamped plum cloth gilt spine titles. Some edge tips wear to the covers spine coloring & titles dulled and top edge of spine frayed some; some darkening to endpapers and occasoinaly spotting & darkening in text; in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. F.G. Fish hardcover books
188427017Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1884. 226 pages. The material in the reports and papers includes updates from: Ship Island the country's first quarantine station; the Sapelo refuge station; a report on the origin of the yellow fever epidemic in Pensacola Florida in 1882 which is illustrated with a folding architectural plan of medical care facilities along with a Map of Pensacola that shows locations disease spread in red among the neighborhoods with ship names personnel names and various local populace; another folding chart shows ship locations in the harbor and docking facilities at the time. Also reports on New Orleans & Memphis operations; immigrant-inspection services in several large U.S. cities; laws relating the National Board of Health; consular and miscellaneous reports including on cholera in Japan distoma ringeri and parasitical haemoptysis in Hong Kong China; Filaria disease; probabilities of cholera in Europe in Shanghai; the epidemic of typhoid in Liege; treatment of leprosy at Maracaibo; Beri-beri in Ceylon; chemical treatment of sewage in Berlin; and other reports. A folding map offers the General Track of Epidemics in Eastern Asia; another folding map printed in tints shows the course of the epidemics of 1877 & 1879 in Japan and ".the Severity of the Epidemic." compiled by D.B. Simmons M.D.; folding charts printed in red and black track meteorological data during the epidemic and other charts depict filaria data and parasite illustrations. Title page with the small very faint owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 6" x 9 1/4"size; bound in the original sober governmental dark brown cloth; bronze-gilt spine titles. Some edge tips wear and dustiness to the boards; contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Government Printing Office hardcover books
188827036Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Lea Brothers & Co. 1888. 4 ii 549 - 658 8 pages of advertisements. Several of the articles with illustrations; contents include sections on original communications reviews therapeutics medicine surgery dermatology obstetrics and gynecology; this issue largely devoted to findings in acute alcoholic symptoms and research. Approx. 6" x 9 3/4"size; bound in the original printed light gray paper wrap covers. Some wear and dustiness to the binding; old corner-crease; contents clean and in very good condition. . Periodical. Soft Cover. Very Good. Lea Brothers & Co. paperback books
184726994New York NY: Not Published 1847. A small handwritten note dated Friday Feby. 21. "Dear Doctor I will have the pleasure to call for you this evening in hope you will ride with me to Chancellor Kents' - say at 7 1/2 o'clock I am Dear Sir yo's very truly J. Goodhue." and addressed on an integral panel to J. Augustin Smith M.D. Park Place. While no year is noted our research indicates 1847 as likely; Chancellor Kent 1763 - 1847 of NYC prominent jurist and legal scholar was dead by the end of that year and J. Augustin Smith 1782 - 1865 was at this time president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York; he had earlier been President of the College of William & Mary. Note size approx. 4 1/2" x 7"size; paper darkened a bit old fold lines couple of spots at edge and on reverse of sheet; clear legible writing in ink; in very good condition. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
181626868New York NY: Collins & Co. Published Under the Authority of the Physicians and Surgeons of That Institution 1816. x 2 contents 180 2 Table IV Finis pages last page blank. Title page with the ownership signature of James R. Wood at top; and with another name lined-through of William Chambers. Concerning this book ". New York Hospital's pharmacopoeia was published in 1816 four years before the publication of the United States Pharmacopoeia. This caused considerable concern among the attending physicians about the potential abridgement of the physician's right to prescribe." from: New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell site Dr. James Rushmore Wood 1816 -1882 "began the practice of medicine in his native city and in 1847 he became a member of the medical board of Bellevue hospital New York. At that time this institution was a receptacle for lunatics paupers criminals and other victims of a depraved life. The most rudimentary hygienic laws were grossly violated in its management and the nursing was inefficient and untrustworthy. With the assistance of Morris Franklin president of the board of aldermen Dr. Wood set about reforming this state of things and labored so successfully that he soon reduced the annual death-rate by 600. He also made all the post-mortem examinations amounting to many hundreds yearly established Saturday surgical clinics and founded the Wood prize for the best anatomical dissection."Appleton Dr. Wood was also Chair of Operative Surgery and Surg. Path. in Bellevue Hosp. Coll. and Emeritus Prof. of Surgery until 1882.the most famous American surgeon of his day and the pioneer in periosteal surgery. Author of many papers and treatises." Title page also with the previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894; his medical education was accomplished in NY at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons 1858. Printer A. Paul. Approx. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4" size; bound in later 19th century dark brown textured cloth dark brown morocco leather corners & spine gilt spine titles & lines simple gilt rules on the boards block edges lightly sprinkled red. Cloth with loss of color at edges; binding with edge tips wear; contents foxed spotty; in good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Collins & Co. Published Under the Authority of the Physicians and Surgeons of That Institution hardcover books
189427037Philadelphia Pennsylvania: The Historical Register Publishing Co. 1894. Single-sided printed sheet promoting stock membership for the publications of this company; a single stock was $ 5.00. The impetus was to offer this stock membership to the historical societies & patriotic groups of the time as an exclusive opportunity. Printed on Agawam Bond watermark paper cream stock with dark blue lettering. Approx. 8 1/2" x 11"size; old fold line; not filled-in; clean and in very good condition. Ephemera. Not Bound. Very Good. The Historical Register Publishing Co. paperback books
189323962Niantic Illinois: Maggie Herrod 1893. Printed in a flowing very handsomely calligraphic style on pale lavender-pink stiff cardstock; a small announcement-card for this business approx. 2" x 3 1/2" size; a little soiling light wear; in very good condition. . Business Card. Not Bound. Very Good. Maggie Herrod Paperback books
186926497New York New York: Allen Brothers 1869. 260 pages 4 pages of Allen Brothers' Catalogue of Choice Juvenile Books at back. Tissue-guarded frontispiece woodcut and illustrated title page followed by a printed & illustrated title. With small woodcuts throughout; short inspirational stories & poetry with a moral 'application' section following many of the tales. Laid-in are a few periodical clippings with poetry & prose of the time; front endpapers with decorative owner stamps of Sarah A. Tyson and nicely-accomplished calligraphic name of Annie Willets in Red and pink inks. Volume approx. 4 1/2" x 7" size; light purplish-brown decoratively blindstamped cloth gilt spine titles and decoration dulled. Some edge tips wear and fraying to the spine ends of the boards front inner endpaper split about 1"; some spotting and foxing in the text some signatures loosened. Overall in good condition. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Allen Brothers hardcover books
187025390Boston Mass.: Not Published 1870. Document dated Sept. 27th 1870; with two cent revenue stamp also dated and initialed. Work was accomplished from April 20 - August 13; for various repairs sash nails screws lathes balusters and for the labor associated with accomplishing the tasks. Approx. 6 1/2" x 7" size; plain lined paper; with ink handwriting very legible. Light edge-wear old fold lines; in very good condition. Interesting 19th century Boston occupational trades history ephemera. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
187124754Glen Cove L.I. New York: Not Published 1871. Two pieces of printed and manuscript ephemera: a printed form receipt accomplished in manuscript dated 5 May 1871 for the annexed bill against the estate of John Hays with the acknowledgment of C.J. Rowllings and signed by the Justice Samuel Frost and the attached handwritten bill from Rowllings on the Hays estate for various amounts of meal and corn dated from Jan. 16 1871. The bill approx. 6 1/4" x 6 3/4" size; the receipt about 1/2 that. Old fold lines little bit of soil and wear; in very good condition. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
188226437New York NY: Not Published 1882. Handwritten letter of two pages dated Feb. 13th 1882 on Richard Dudgeon company letterhead acknowledging payment of a debt:".Allow me to congratulate you on your ability to accomplish what you have been so earnestly striving to doI found none who for a moment doubted your sincerity in the matter ." signed Richard Dudgeon & F. Dettmar atty. Approx. 5 3/4" x 9" size; with 2 checks affixed at side edges made to the McAnerney & Co. and to Richard Dudgeon with a printed sheet dated in ms. 1879. This is a notice regarding the insolvency of John McAnerney and Henry St. George Offutt the firm of John McAnerney & Co. and its assignment to Bentley D. Hassell for the benefit of the creditors of which the Richard Dudgeon business was one. Witnessed by Richard Dudgeon & F. Dettmar attorney and W.E. McDonough with a small red seal. Old paper tape residue at sides; light wear to all; in very good condition; interesting 19th century business and banking history ephemera. Richard Dudgeon 1819 - 1895 was a Scottish-American mechanic inventor of the hydraulic jack and a prototype steam carriage now housed at the Smithsonian; he also proposed a steam-powered aircraft. The business still exists as Richard Dudgeon Inc. located in Waterbury Connecticut. Please see Willi H. Hager Hydraulicians in the USA 1800-2000: A biographical dictionary of leaders in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics CRC Press 2015 for his biography. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
188226440Boston Mass.: Not Published 1882. Handwritten letter dated Feb. 11th 1882 on Crosby company letterhead acknowledging payment of a debt: ".Please accept our thanks and congratulations on the prosperity which has enabled you to carry out a noble plan; such examples of business integrity are quite too rare in these days but the few which do come to light shine all the brighter." signed Geo. H. Eager treas. for the Crosby company. Approx. 5 1/2" x 9" size; with 2 checks payments affixed at side edges made to the McAnerney & Co. and to Crosby co. with a printed sheet dated in ms. 1879. This is a notice regarding the insolvency of John McAnerney and Henry St. George Offutt the firm of John McAnerney & Co. and its assignment to Bentley D. Hassell for the benefit of the creditors of which the Crosby business was one. Witnessed by P. Clark & the Crosby Co. treasurer with their company's blindstamp seal. Old paper tape residue at sides; a little edge-wear; in very good condition overall; interesting 19th century business and banking history ephemera. The Crosby company held over thirty patents mostly for steam engine accessories. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
188226435New York NY: Not Published 1882. Handwritten letter dated Feb. 13th 1882 on Theo.W. Morris company letterhead acknowledging payment of a debt:".We cannot but express our pleasure for your sake more than our own at this phenomenal experience. It is so unusual that we hardly know how to refer to it and trust that you may reap the firm benefit of your honorable and exceptional course ." signed Theo. W.Morris. Approx. 5 3/4" x 9" size; with 2 checks affixed at side edges made to the McAnerney & Co. and to Morris Co. with a printed sheet dated in ms. 1878. This is a notice regarding the insolvency of John McAnerney and Henry St. George Offutt the firm of John McAnerney & Co. and its assignment to Bentley D. Hassell for the benefit of the creditors of which the Morris Co. was one. Witnessed by Theo. W. Morris Co. with a small red seal. Old paper tape residue at sides; light wear to all; in very good condition; interesting 19th century business and banking history ephemera. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
188426714College Point New York: Not Published 1884. A dozen pieces of material relating to the conduct of this entertainment business in College Point a section of Queens in New York City. All items for various 1884 dates; 5 are from Oppenheimer & Co. Job Printers publishers of "Long Island Central Zeitung" and "Long Island Reporter" from March to November of 1884 for printing hundreds and one order for a 1000 invitations dancing orders programs; on the printers' business letterhead 4th Ave between 17th & 18th streets in NYC. with 2 receipts handwritten addressed to the Club for purchases of a tambourine a play sheet music a "book for Sec.' & for Treas. and for a ".piece of Music We'll raise dat roof to night" paid by W.A. Mangler. The Club also purchased a "false face & Postage" another tambourine "burnt cork"; 2 boxes of powder a play "Who's the Actor" and groups of music; these 3 small receipts all signed for by stage manager G.A.S. Weiner. Also including a generic "Receipt" for music furnished to the club by Chas. Bollen and the club paid Geo. B. Plitt for "one syringe." Various paper sizes 4"x 8" and smaller; light wear fold lines; in very good condition; night club theater & dancing business history for New York City. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
186727172Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Lindsay and Blakiston 1867. 178 pages. Contents with sections on the history and symptoms of the disease including those of the nervous system sense organs digestive organs skin and others; also details duration convalescence relapse mortality; theories on causes; on the prognosis diagnosis nature & treatments and with a bibliography of sources. Alfred Stille 1813 - 1900 American medical professor ".a leading member of the reform movement that resulted in the establishment of the American Medical Association AMA in Philadelphia in 1847." Simon Baatz in the ANB Front endpaper with a naïve "bookplate" made from lined paper of Mrs. J.M. Browne of Brooklyn; also printed on this plate is the previous owner name-stamp of collector George Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894; front and back endpapers with the small bookseller's ticket of J.O. Noxon U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacy 323 Washington St. Brooklyn NY. Volume approx. 6" x 9 1/4" size; Bound in teal-blue cloth gilt spine titles. A little edge tips wear to the binding; contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Lindsay and Blakiston hardcover books
187626834Portsmouth New Hampshire: O.M. Knight Publisher 1876. 84 pages. Giving a hundred-year history of this naval yard with a prefatory list of the Commandants of the Yard & their dates of service and a "List of Vessels of War built at this Station" for the Royal Colonial and the Navy of the United States at back; also an Appendix with various attestations a List of officers and petty officers of the U.S. Frigate Raleigh August 1775. Author Fentress was a long-time veteran of the Navy serving in the Civil War before capture and imprisonment at Libby Prison. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; original printed light pinkish-tan paper wrap covers; some wear spotting & dustiness to covers; faint old crease-line; contents in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. O.M. Knight, Publisher paperback books
188026775Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1880. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1880. First Edition. 48 pages; with folding plates of the boiler of the steam yacht "Javelin" a plate depicting the workings of the boiler system of the steam yacht "Kelpie"; both built by Herreshoff in Bristol RI. With the presentation inscription of one of the authors of the report on the top edge of the front cover "Surgeon G.R. Brush USN with compliments of Chas. E. DeValin." The report describes various trials of the Herreshoff systems with results & conclusions: ".The steam-yachts built by Mr. Herreshoff are remarkable for the lightness of their hulls and machinery for their economy in fuel for the excellence of their design materials and workmanship for their speed .developed by a very considerable and intelligent experience." And mention is made of his patented "separator" device. B.F. Isherwood & Theo. Zeller along with DeValin were the chief engineer co-authors of the report under the supervision of the engineer-in-chief of the Navy's steam engineering department Wm. H. Schock. Approx. 5 3/4" x 9" size; light blue-green printed paper cover; back cover lacking. Some light spotting dustiness to binding faint crease line to cover; contents clean and in very good condition. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Government Printing Office paperback books
189223214New York - London: Not Published 1892. A group of 4 letters: February 1892 Capri March Castellammare di Stabia and June & July the Grand Hotel Axenstein Switzerland. All the letters are signed by W.B. Valentine and discuss giving Charles P. Buckley in New York City power of attorney and releases for various transactions concerning real estate deals and rental properties. Quite detailed asking the attorney for various assurances and advice in complex deals since his opponents are as ".sharp as O'Sullivans. Still they might have other properties we could sell under judgement. We have them now in a tight place.I am concerned that there is a swindle some where for I cannot understand why this man should hold his deed back for over 15 years." Some of the properties were at West Deer Park perhaps on Long Island this area later became Wheatley Heights; mention is also made of interest in B & M stock and properties at Lockwood. Valentine also requests his friend Buckley to advise 'Frank' on his investments and his greenhouses since ".Poor Frank has been done very badly in the past." and also reflects some of the prejudice and bias typical of the time against Jews in business: ".How is Moses if he were not a Jew I should have hopes of seeing his a/c paid but I am very doubtful of that race - I never came in contact with them with being the loser." The four letters averaging 4 1/2" x 7 1/2" size approx. with 3 written on good hotel-type notepaper one written on very thin 'onionskin' type paper slightly browned; with one envelope mailer stamped 'United States Consulate' return from Castellammare Italy to Charles P. Buckley Esq. Benedict Building 171 Broadway New York; the envelope very worn & soiled chipped. The letters in very good condition; New York business and European touring correspondence from the late 19th century. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
188227033Babylon N.Y.: "The Budget" Print 1882. 103 pages; useful index to subjects at back. "Compliments of John Wood Supervisor" sticker on front cover. Contents with all the business and proceedings of the Suffolk County L.I. government of the time: bills audited elections various communications from the state the assessors the asylum; official directory of the county; meetings indebtedness of towns; petitions educational concerns town clerk reports; superintendents of the poor & alms house and dozens of resolutions on diverse topics from the Co. Treasurer to publish for Tax Sales to gratings in the jail windows printing closing the road at Yaphank and other concerns. Previous owner name on cover of Smith & Gillette. Approx. 6" x 9"size; original printed paper covers. A little edge tips wear & color darkening to the binding; couple of short closed edge-tears within; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. "The Budget" Print paperback books
186626431New York NY: Not Published 1866. Partially printed & filled in manuscript Salary as Assistant Docket Clerk County Clerks Office order for Isaac T. Brown. From the County Treasurer of New York at the Broadway Bank signed by the Mayor John T. Hoffman 1828-1888 born in Ossining in Westchester County and was governor of New York 1869 -1872 judge elected 1860 and Mayor of New York 1866 - 1868. Supposed involvement with the Boss Tweed Ring ruined his political career; Hoffman was the last to-date Mayor of NY City also elected as Governor of the state. Counter-signed by the city comptroller and by Brown on the back of the check. Approx. 3 3/4" x 8" size; including a nice bit of job-printing: a good woodcut vignette and ornate corner ornaments around the edges printed in blue tones by A. Brown & Co. Nassau Street. Light wear darkening; with the old-style 'x' cancellation-cut unobtrusive one small spindle hole. In very good condition interesting City of New York political history ephemera. Ephemera. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
189023927New York City N.Y.: Not Published 1890. Large plan or land-map; accomplished in blue ink with some added coloring & detail for a meandering stream and a few structures; with much elevation data; also two locust post surveyor's benchmarks indicated; land bordered at the north with D. Riker property to the east with the Bowery Bay Road the Jackson property and a small cemetery; other ownership names noted are P. Titus and Baldwin; the plan's title information handwritten on one of the panels on the reverse; no engineer or surveyor noted or date circa 1890; accomplished on polished linen architectural 'onionskin' which remains strong; approx. 42" x 56`" large size; some edge tips wear browned towards edges & along a few fold lines little bit of holing at center line; as is reverse especially at exposed surfaces and with some soiling; few 1" chips to material at top and bottom edges no loss to the text or drawing; in good condition; interesting Long Island City real estate development & community history; now known as the Ditmars-Steinway neighborhood of Astoria Queens. Manuscript. Not Bound. Good. Not Published Paperback books
182826433New York NY: Not Published 1828. Partially printed & manuscript order by the City Council for P. Amermans Clerk 3 Markets made from the Treasurer of the City of New-York at the Mechanics' Bank. Signed by Wm illiam Paulding 1770-1854; from 1824 to 1826 mayor of New York City also a member of the U.S. Congress and a brigadier general of the militia of the state of New York serving in the War of 1812. Counter-signed by the city clerk and the city comptroller and by Amerman on the back. Approx. 3 1/2" x 6 1/2" size; with a little job-printing ornamentation. Light wear darkening; with the old-style 'x' cancellation-cut unobtrusive. In very good condition interesting City of New York political history ephemera. Ephemera. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
189726138New York New York: The New York Times 1897. 16 pages; illustrated in black and white throughout. Content includes story on the subject of the cover portrait Charles A. Dana; pictorials include a view of miners for the Klondike leaving Victoria B.C.; several illustrations of "Picturesque Southampton" Long Island NY: Village Street Miss William's Cottage Shinnecock; William M.Chase's studio; Beach Road Shinnecock Golf Club Meadow Club Mrs. F.G. Betts's Cottage; Also a photo of Rockaway Beach in summer; centerfold spread of photos of the Newport Fete in honor of the North Atlantic Squadron U.S. Navy and the New York Yacht Club; illustrated article on the Chautauqua Assembly and its activities; summer sports; Father Malone the pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul R.C. church Brooklyn; the assassinated Senor Canovas del Castillo Prime Minister of Spain and more. Approx. 11 1/4" x 15 3/4" size newspaper format; this supplement was printed on semi-glossy paper stock with more strength than the usual newsprint paper. Some edge tips wear to the covers; clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. The New York Times paperback books
187424741New York NY: Frank Leslie 1874. 14 pages; illustrated in black and white throughout. Cover pictorial and story within of Henri Rochefort 1830 - 1913 French radical political journalist news publisher & sometime communist politician duelist and anti-Semite; by this point in 1874 his turbulent life had led to his escape from penal servitude in the French colony of New Caledonia where he'd been committed to a life sentence for his various polemics after which he made his way to the U.S. one his way to returning to Europe by 1895 where he eventually ".became a leader of the anti-Dreyfusards and had a principal share in the organization of the press campaign." E.B. 11th ed. The cover vignettes give portrait of Rochefort his command 'on the barricades' in France escape scene and at a fiery "Meeting of a New York International Society." Other articles within depict steamship travel booksellers' row State Street in Chicago the Spanish civil war of the First Republic and other world and national news. Approx. 11" x 16" size; light wear; inner hinge strengthened; disbound from a larger volume; a little edge-wear closed edge-tear; in very good condition. Periodical. Not Bound. Good. Frank Leslie Paperback books
188024027United States & France: No Publisher Noted 1880. Mounted photograph portrait seated well-dressed gentleman; no studio or photographer noted; not dated circa 1880; approx. 6" x 8" overall size; photograph darkened around edge mount card chipped at corners; in good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Good. No Publisher Noted Paperback books
