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1859WRCAM28708Delhi N.Y. 1859. Broadside 11 x 13 inches. Three horizontal and one vertical fold line. Date written in a contemporary hand at end. Very good. The present broadside was printed to inform property owners in the towns of Masonville Tompkins Sidney and Walton in Delaware County New York that their property may be affected by the transfer of lands pursuant to the will of Martha Bradstreet. Located just south of Utica the lands within Delaware County once belonging to the noted French and Indian War hero John Bradstreet and are here noted as the legal property of one of his descendants. The transition of ownership from Bradstreet to the present heir is explained. Signed in print by the executor Thomas Cunningham. unknown books
1876WRCAM36596New York: Walter Heugh & Co. 1876. 4299pp. plus a total of 17pp. of advertisements at the beginning and end of the volume. 12mo. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Slightest wear to spine ends and corners else a fine copy. A most attractive and informative business directory for New York City on the eve of the Gilded Age. The directory is in alphabetical order with an extensive index by speciality from acetic acid to zinc statuary with thousands of retailers listed. Feather dealers are listed in three different categories - bed dusters and "military and fancy" there are a half dozen listings for burglar alarm manufacturers and three full pages of booksellers including Joseph Sabin and publishers. Most useful. Walter Heugh & Co. hardcover books
1922DOV18025New York 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. Presentation leather binding replicating the cover design of the pictorial wrappers bound in in gilt. Joints worn and quite tender; edges rubbed. Inscribed by Henry Collins Brown: "to my amicable friend.W.W. Corwan .who needent go west to find an Indian. With the salutations of the compiler.Henry Collins Brown.Oct. 9th 1922." <br/><br/>A richly illustrated in b/w and full-color throughout. With laid-in photo-illustration double-page b/w aerial photo of mid- and lower-Manahattan neato -- Brooklyn and Jersey are also visible. Covers very lightly rubbed and age-toned and just a little wrinkled along the edges. Images of old New York horse-drawn carriages just a few people and new New York cars and crowds sometimes placed side-by-side for comparison. Also includes images of ships in the harbor a facsimile reproduction of a whaler's log book landmark buildings wars days Liberty Loan campaigns the Hudson the Palisades and more. hardcover books
191693701916. KENNERLEY Mitchell. The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters. 78 pp. and 4 pp. of advertisements. Illustrated with 16 plates. Small 4to. 250 x 165 mm bound in original boards title printed in black on front cover and spine. New York: Mitchell Kennerley 1916. Exhibition catalogue for the pioneering show at Anderson Galleries on March 13-25 1916 of works by sixteen American Modernists: Ben Benn Thomas H. Benton Oscar Bluemner Andrew Dasburg Arthur G. Dove Marsden Hartley S. MacDonald-Wright John Marin Alfred Maurer Henry L. McFee George F. Of Man Ray Morgan Russell Charles Sheeler A. Walkowitz and William and Marguerite Zorach. Each artist contributed a statement here printed opposite the plate showing his or her work. Members of the committee that chose the artists and works on view were Christian Brinton Robert Henri W.H. de B. Nelson Alfred Stieglitz and John Weichsel who all wrote forewards and Willard Huntington Wright who also contributed the introduction "What Is Modern Painting" Neat bookplate and slight wear to head and foot of spine but still a good copy of a seminal exhibition catalogue. hardcover books
1781WRCAM12197Brussels 1781. Engraving 6 1/4 x 4 inches. Very good. This small dramatic engraving shows New York on fire on September 21 1776 when a large part of the city was burned during the engagement between the forces of Washington and Howe. This imaginative view appeared in Michel Hillard D'Auberteuil's ESSAIS HISTORIQUES ET POLITIQUES SUR LES ANGLO- AMERICAINS Brussels 1781-82. OLDS BITS & PIECES OF AMERICAN HISTORY 10. unknown books
179817843Albany: Loring Andrews & Co. 1798. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Tall 8vo. Untrimmed. pp 2 243-535 1 blank 5 1 blank as issued. Light uniform tanning Very Good. <br/><br/> With Table of Contents and Errata at the end. The Laws include an Act validating Quakers' manumissions of slaves even where such manumissions did not conform to prescribed legal procedures; an Act incorporating the firemen of the City of New York; an Act permitting aliens to purchase land in the State under certain conditions; and a host of other Acts dealing with courts corporations municipalities and other matters. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 34215. II Harv. Law Cat. 202. Loring Andrews & Co. unknown books
190146181901. Hardcover. Good. Real Estate. Rent receipts ledger from William C. Walker Sons 1897-1901. Walkerís real estate firm was formed in 1857 and remained active under the watch of his sons through 1935. This manuscript book is apparently a receipts ledger showing rents collected by Walker agents for various property owners. Tenants for the various premises are named and include some well known firms. <br/><br/> hardcover books
180116184New York: Printed by L. Nichols & Co. for John Tiebout Bookseller & Stationer No. 246 Water-Street 1801. 63 1 pp. Disbound. Light edge wear a couple of inoffensive old institutional rubberstamps. Good. <br/><br/> This document prints the so-called 'Montgomerie Charter' of 1730 printed by Peter Zenger in New York in 1735. The Charter begins with a recitation of Dongan's Charter of 1686 which called for freemen in each of the six wards to elect an alderman and assistant who with the mayor and recorder form the Common Council the City's primary governing body. The Mayor was appointed by the Governor. Montgomerie's Charter left intact the basic structure of City government adding a seventh ward and enhancing the powers of the mayor to include some judicial functions. Montgomerie's Charter reamined intact until 1813 when some minor modifications occurred. <br/>Howes N95 ref. AI 1021 3. II Harv. Law Cat. 197. Sabin 54170. Jackson Encyclopedia of New York City 203. Printed by L. Nichols & Co.. for John Tiebout, Bookseller & Stationer, No. 246 Water-Street unknown books
185836063n.p.: n.p. 1858. First edition. Disbound. One leaf separated dampstain to one corner soiling several small tears on edges still a good copy. 8 pp. one folded sheet. 8vo. Includes three sections: 1 Address of the Republican State Committee to the Electors of the State of New-York signed by the Republican State Central Committee; 2 The State Tax Its History and Necessity. All Parties Responsible for It; and 3 The Appeal of the Republicans of the Free West! to the Republicans of the Empire State a campaign document arguing for New York to keep its rightful place as a strong Free State and to ignore the fact that the Republicans had raised taxes to pay for the continued construction of the New York canal system a fact that the Democrats were using against them. Points out that the issue is a diversion from the real issue of the day slavery and its spread. An apparently unrecorded work with no copies located in OCLC nor NUC. n.p. unknown books
1836WRCAM7300Hartford: Case and Waters 1836. Colored folding map 22 x 15 3/4 inches. Original 12mo. gilt calf binding. Map cracking and splitting on some folds one portion detached but present. Else good. An inset shows the profile of the "Levels in the Grand Erie Canal." Another shows the course of the Hudson River in detail. Case and Waters unknown books
181732011Kingston NY: Printed by John Tappen 1817. 21 3 blanks pp. Stitched lightly worn faint rubberstamp on blank verso of title leaf. Very Good.<br/><br/> This evidently unrecorded item prints the original rules for the August 1813 Term; with amendments through the February Term 1817. Permissible fees and costs are enumerated.<br/>Not located on OCLC as of May 2015. Not in American Imprints Sabin Harv. Law Cat. Cohen. Printed by John Tappen unknown books
176427759New York: Printed by John Holt 1764. 4to. Disbound with scattered spotting. The complete copy is paginated 2 iv 68 pp. Our copy lacks the half title half the title leaf which obliterates 'The Report.Tried' and the final page title page and final page supplied in facsimile. Else Good. <br/><br/> The case is significant for its assertion of the primacy of the jury system in colonial America. Publication occurred to emphasize to New Yorkers "the pernicious Consequences" of British interference with local juries "by a Method entirely new unconstitutional and illegal."<br/> Forsey had sued Cunningham for an assault and battery; a jury of their peers found for Forsey and assessed damages against Cunningham. Unhappy with the large amount of damages Cunningham sought an appeal. He did not claim that the trial court committed any errors of law; he simply argued that the jury had misconstrued the facts. Allowing the appeal would have diminished the role of the jury in favor of appellate judges' assertions of their royal prerogatives. Nevertheless Lieutenant Governor Cadwalader Colden permitted Cunningham to appeal. New Yorkers in 1764 already angered by British control of local affairs found this interference with the role of the jury intolerable. They challenged Colden's decision to allow the appeal; in late 1765 the New York Assembly agreed. <br/>Shipton & Mooney 41438. Bristol B2464. NAIP w021834 6 including the AAS copy which is defective. Cohen 11975. Printed by John Holt unknown books
181044417NY 1810. Very good folded few edge tears one obscuring a small portion of text light soiling & ink bleed contents legible. 2 pp. 7.5 x 13 inches. Unsigned and unpublished manuscript draft of a series of resolves supporting the Madison administration's policy towards Britain and ending with support for the nomination of Daniel Tompkins for Governor of New York and John Broome for Lt. Governor for the election of 1810. "The alarming condition to which our country is reduced by the repeated aggressions of the belligerent powers of Europe makes it the indispensable duty of every true American to lay aside party animosity and to stand forth in defiance of the violated rights of his country. and to tell them that we are determined to support our liberty and independence at the hazard of our lives against my power whatever. therefore Resolved: That we deem it high time for every citizen who has the good of his country at heart to rally around the standard of his government to support our administration in every lawful attempt to resist foreign aggressions and should they deem it necessary to have recourse to arms we will cheerfully sacrifice our lives in defiance of our liberty Resolved: That we approve the conduct of the President in dismissing Frances James Jackson otherwise Copenhagen Jackson for insulting our government in charging it with a falsehood Resolved: That we highly approve of the just rebuke of Thomas Sammons in defense of Jackson's conduct Resolved: That we concur in the nomination of Daniel Tompkins for Governor and John Broome for Lt. Governor as fit persons for those offices & whose capacity has been tried to our satisfaction & that we will support them to the utmost of our power. A wonderful document elucidating the issues and emotions driving the country apart and leading to the War of 1812. unknown books
1800700741800. Albany 1800. Albany 1800. Albany New York in 1800 Albany. New York. The Charter of the City of Albany; And the Laws and Ordinances Ordained and Established by the Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the Said City In Common Council Convened. Albany: Printed by Barber & Southwick For the Corporation 1800. 158 2 pp. Folding table. 4 pp. manuscript list in contemporary hand titled "Mayors and Recorders of the City of Albany from the Commencement of the Charter" bound before title page. Quarto 7-1/2" x 6-1/4". Later library cloth red and black lettering pieces to spine. Light soiling and shelfwear a few minor stains to boards chipping to edges of lettering pieces. Moderate toning to text minor tear to folding table lower corner lacking from foot of Leaf Q1 pp. 121-122 and upper corner lacking from title page both with no loss to text library stamp to head of manuscript list which is just beginning to detach library mark to verso of title page. $500. Only edition. This volume contains the text of Albany's 1686 Dongan Charter which remained in force until 1998 and later laws and ordinances. It offers an interesting perspective on New York's second-oldest city. Not in Cohen. unknown books
1826WRCAM48519New York: Mahlon Day 1826. 23pp. 12mo. Dbd. Light foxing and soiling. Several leaves loosening. Good. A splendid little book for juveniles featuring brief prose vignettes illustrated with charming woodcuts including a steamboat a carriage and several images of children mainly with bad things happening to them such as "A Little Girl on Fire!" "The Fall" "Hard-Hearted Boy" etc. SHOEMAKER 25829. Mahlon Day unknown books
1821WRCAM29980Washington: Gales & Seaton 1821. 12pp. Dbd. Light offsetting on text. Very good. This memorial was part of an ongoing dispute between New York City auctioneers and merchants over the taxation of auction houses. Retailers claimed that auctions were inconsistent with regular trade and injurious to the interests of the city. The auctioneers respond by asserting that they help conduct the commerce of the city and that they combat monopolies and speculation. Still true today Shoemaker locates two copies of this pamphlet DLC NjP. Rare. SHOEMAKER 7366. Gales & Seaton unknown books
1812WRCAM14661Albany 1812. 40pp. Folding frontispiece map. Modern boards leather label. Slight tanning couple of fox marks. Very good. Discusses the progress in creating the first canal around Niagara joining the Hudson River to the Great Lakes with accompanying official documents appended. The map shows the "Straights of Niagara from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. 1815" and contains an inset "Vertical Section of the great slope which occasions the Falls." hardcover books
1801WRCAM7500New York 1801. 63pp. Neatly dbd. stitched. Foxed else very nice unopened and untrimmed. Prints the 1730 charter of New York the continued basis for the city government. HOWES N95 ref. SABIN 54170. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1021. unknown books
1884WRCAM54448New York 1884. 32pp. with in-text illustrations and advertisements plus large folding map. 16mo. Later printed wrappers original front pictorial wrapper bound in. Map separated along first fold otherwise light wear. Patch of dampstaining to front wrap and titlepage. Moderate tanning. Good plus. A scarce edition of this illustrated guide to the Hudson River from New York to Albany. The exceptionally large and detailed color map is taken from the latest information supplied by the U.S. Coast Survey and includes the names of prominent residences along the Hudson historical landmarks Indian names etc. The text contains descriptions and illustrations of numerous sites identified on the map and also includes advertisements for hotels travel and local businesses in the Hudson Valley. OCLC locates only six copies of this edition. unknown books
196055741960. DUCHAMP Marcel. Surrealist Intrusion in the Enchanters' Domain. 124 pp. Profusely illustrated. Square 8vo bound in original illustrated wrappers in a new blue cloth folding box. New York: D'Arcy Galleries 1960. The catalogue for an exhibition curated by Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp for which Duchamp provided the cover using a typical French tobacco shop sign. An immaculate copy of a fragile item. Schwarz The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp No. 576. hardcover books
1795WRCAM46466Whitestown N.Y.: O.P. Easton 1795. Broadside 13 x 16 inches. Docketed and annotated on verso. Old folds. Moderate soiling some ink burn. Minor loss at folds affecting a few letters of text. About good. Printed indenture form completed in manuscript being the earliest known imprint for Whitestown New York just next to Utica. Previously the earliest known imprint was dated 1795 and as this form is dated in manuscript January 3 1795 it is almost certain that it was printed in or before 1794. The form is an indenture agreement completed between Amos Leavenworth and his wife Esther and Samuel W. Baldwin and his wife also named Esther selling a tract of land for the sum of £209 ten shillings and eight pence. In manuscript the parcel is indicated as "that certain tract of land situate in Schuyler Town aforesaid and is part of Great Lot No. Seven in the first division of Ledagueda Patent on the North Side of the Mohawk River beginning at the Northeasterly corner of said lot and running thence Northeasterly along the north end of said lot one half the distance across the land conveyed to said Leavenworth by William Hallock thence Southwesterly in a straight line parrallel sic to the line of Cosby's Manor so far as to contain sixty six acres and two thirds of an acre of land when a line is un at right angles to Cosby's Manor." It is signed by Amos and Esther Leavenworth and witnessed by Joan Platt and William Hallock. The deed is certified on the verso with a lengthy manuscript note by Hugh White local judge for Herkimer County. O.P. Easton unknown books
1860WRCAM54450New York 1860. 15pp. plus eleven color views 3 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches one folding with an extra eleven views 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches. 12mo. Stitched pamphlet and loose in cards in an open-ended cardboard sleeve with printed label. Closed end of cardboard sleeve loose small 20th-century bookplate. Lacks one plate another plate duplicated. Light soiling to view cards pamphlet moderately tanned. Good plus. A scarce Civil War-era set of view cards and descriptions of sights and geographical attractions along the Hudson River from New York to Glen's Falls. Other views include the Palisades from Yonkers West Point Hudson the Catskills Peekskill and a folding view of Albany. Each section of descriptive text in the pamphlet volume is accompanied by a corresponding colored view of the scene. Thomas Nelson & Sons began publishing this series in 1858 and continued to issue them into the early 1860s updating views as needed. All editions are scarce. <br> <br> This set with a duplicated view of Sing Sing to make up for lacking a plate showing a view of the entrance to the Highlands from Peekskill but also with an extra set of views of Niagara in a similar style issued by a Buffalo publisher. unknown books
188559334New York: Lith. Stahl & Jaeger. 136-138 Mulberry St. N.Y. 1885. the Huntington Library notes the two were partners from 1883 until 1908 but a business directory lists the name and street for 1911-12. The Tribune and Farmer advertised here is difficult to identify; OCLC records include similar titles in a sequence: New-York Tribune Farmer 1901-1912 Tribune Farmer 1913 The Rural New-Yorker 1878-1964 absorbed the Tribune Farmer in 1914. The typography suggests the 1880s or 1890s perhaps later. Apparently the broadside is unrecorded on OCLC. An attractive advertisement appropriate for exhibition. Folded with several small tears at folds verso of one with archival repair not affecting image or text. 7158. <br/><br/> Lith. Stahl & Jaeger. 136-138 Mulberry St., N.Y. unknown books
184332782New York 1843. Sizes vary from approximately 6" x 8" to 8" x 12". Manuscript on unlined paper several with wax seal remnants. A handful of the documents are partly printed and completed in manuscript all with the blindstamp of the State of New York. Light wear some splitting along fold lines some light edgewear. Dated and signed by various officials including judges and justices of the peace. Very Good. <br/> <br/> This treasure trove of manuscript legal documents covers a wide range of case types involving many of the early inhabitants of Queens County New York and surrounding areas. Judges involved were Abraham Ditmars William Mott Oliver Denton Richard Bedell Cary Dunn Jr. William Furman Amory Remson James Hendrickson Luke Convert and others. Areas mentioned were Oyster Bay Hempstead North Hempstead Jamaica and others. Matters include chicken stealing assault and battery on a woman tenancy eviction insolvency and debtors' arrangements tavern licensing and more. Documents are juror lists pleas and statements certificates of conviction sealed verdicts sheriff fees and affidavits. <br/> Some specific items and cases: <br/> Certificates of Conviction of the Court of Special Sessions signed by Justices of the Peace William Mott Oliver Mott Oliver Denton Richard Bedell James Hendrickson others: John Watts on petit larceny sentenced to pay $5 or be imprisoned November 8 1820; Abigail Hutchins for petit larceny sentenced to 40 days in prison December 8 1820; John Bedell and Hannah his wife for petit larceny sentenced to pay $5 or be imprisoned September 9 1820. <br/> Sealed Verdicts signed by twelve member juries: finding in favor of defendant Leonard Mott November 1 1838; favoring plaintiff in Allen v. MacDowel and awarding damages of $25 October 30 1838; awarding damages to unnamed plaintiff in the amount of 6 cents October 31 1838. Some jury members were: Charles C. Lawrence Edward L. Frost William Willets Christian Snedeker Benjamin Carpenter Jacob Smith Gilbert Rider Stephen T. Hicks George Rhodes Peter Cort William Ludlum Wright Fowler Abraham Snedeker Hamilton Matthews and Alexander Dawson. <br/> Various documents relating to some cases: <br/> 1 William Nicholls Assignee of Henry Nicholls of Hempstead insolvent debtor April 4 1817; Petition of Henry Nicholls and his creditors to divide estate among them; Hon. Cary Dunn Jr.'s order dated April 4 1817 granting the petition pursuant to 1813 "Act for giving relief in Cases of Insolvency." <br/> 2 Samuel Field Jr. insolvent debtor Affidavit of Notice to Creditors signed Peter Hasbrouck as Clerk of the Albany Argus April 2 1816 with copy of newspaper notice attached; Judge Dunn's order dated April 15 1816; several related documents. <br/> 3 John Morgan v. Stephen Anthony on charges of slander for damages of $500 dated June 2 1824 Queens County Courthouse signed Sherman as clerk.<br/> 4 Joshua Pine v. Henry Monfort claim of replevin accusing Monfort of taking his beasts goods and chattels one heifer one cow four goshens three hens fifteen chickens. July 16th 1821.<br/> 5 Edward Abrams and Charity his wife on charges of plea of trespass against Oliver Denton to damages of $500 dated June 7 1825 Queens County Courthouse signed by Sherman as clerk.<br/> 6 Selah Smith and his wife Ann filing of Certificate to cancel a mortgage as mortgage as been paid Common Pleas Kings County March 29 1819.<br/> 7 Recognizance of Abraham Ditmars Justice of the Peace April 20 1798 stating that Nicholas Lidbury who is licensed to keep a Tavern in Jamaica will during the continuance of his license "not suffer any unlawful gaming which is forbidden such as cock fighting playing with cards or dice or to keep any billiard table or other gaming table shuffel board."<br/> 8 James Hendrickson on charges of plea of trespass against James W. Vassar to damages of $500 dated June 7 1825.<br/> 9 Benjamin Hagerman Junior on charges of trespass assault & battery against James Wood to damages of $1000 dated June 7 1825. <br/> 10 Elias Haines Administrator of James Kiernan deceased v. Stephen Cornwell; same v. Barach Corniel Cornevale Jr.; same v. Jonas Frederick; dated November 1804 Court of Common Pleas. <br/> 11 Thomas Alward Neyle v. William Leverich James Suydam Daniel Riker James Hedenbergh and David Turdy Purdy May 2 1809 Supreme Court. unknown books
1836100412<p>12mo cloth two folding maps 711 ad pp.Backstrip defective missing some pieces remnants of paper label on top cover joints weak minor foxing map of New york has tears at some folds;still a very decent copy. This little book contains everything from the canal routes from Albany to a tour of Niagra Falls.Also contains information on railroads and steamboats. More importantly there is a long colored map of the Hudson River and a larger map of the State of New York dated 1836. Howes N-109. Ramsey 4525.</p> J. Disturnell, hardcover books
