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1842763301842. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW-YORK. Albany Thurlow Weed 1842. NY Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam 1843-1894. Folio. 30 volumes. Zoology in VI parts bound in 5 volumes; Botany in 2 volumes; Mineralogy one volume; Geology in 4 volumes; Paleontology in VIII parts bound in 13 volumes; Agriculture in 5 volumes. Maps and a wealth of lithographic plates of birds flowers fruit landscape panoramas geological sections etc. mostly hand-colored. Boards off volume I otherwise condition varies from good to fine. All but two volumes in original publisher's cloth with gilt vignettes. Complete descriptions and collations on request. Rare Complete. unknown books
1842763301842. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW-YORK. Albany Thurlow Weed 1842. NY Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam 1843-1894. Folio. 30 volumes. Zoology in VI parts bound in 5 volumes; Botany in 2 volumes; Mineralogy one volume; Geology in 4 volumes; Paleontology in VIII parts bound in 13 volumes; Agriculture in 5 volumes. Maps and a wealth of lithographic plates of birds flowers fruit landscape panoramas geological sections etc. mostly hand-colored. Boards off volume I otherwise condition varies from good to fine. All but two volumes in original publisher's cloth with gilt vignettes. Complete descriptions and collations on request. Rare Complete. unknown
1877123981877. Oblong folio. 13 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches. 19 original watercolours 11 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches and smaller mounted recto and verso of 7 thin card leaves one page mounted with 4 drawings one with 3 and one with 2 the others with 1 drawing per page the final page blank all painted by a single hand and all with the location identified in ink in the lower margin of each drawing or on the mount just below. Modern blue half morocco gilt blue morocco title label centrally-placed on upper cover 'Voyage aux / Etats-Unis / 1876-77'<br/> <br/> A fine series of original watercolour views of Lake George N.Y. and elsewhere - including one watercolour of Central Park New York.<br/> <br/> From the heading 'Voyage aux Etats-Unis / 1876-1877' on the first page of this album as well as from the wording of the captions to the drawings it is clear that these highly accomplished watercolours are the work of a French-speaking visitor to North America in 1876-1877. They include 14 views of Lake George and its vicinity including one of Caldwell now Lake George Village and one of Tea Island. Also included is a single view of a rocky outcrop and trees in Central Park another of Glenn Falls on the Hudson and a third of the Montmorency Falls just outside Quebec as well as two fine but rather unexpected Swiss views of Amphion Lake Geneva both dated 1877. unknown
1900LD14233New York c. 1900-1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Original green leather with engraved metal brass centerpiece ornate metal monogrammed initials and ornate metal cornerpieces on upper board moire endpapers a.e.g.; large thick folio 420x380x150mm; containing 22 leaves inset to thick mounts. Titled on the first leaf "To the Honorable John C. McGuire upon his Retirement from the Office of Surveyor of the Port of New York" and followed by remarkably accomplished manuscript leaves heightened with gold an original portrait of McGuire a few nautical themed watercolors several leaves of facsimile signatures and McGuire's original 1894 appointment to the post of Surveyor of Customs signed by President Grover Cleveland. Some light scuffing along joints and spine; gutter cracked in two places because this book weighs a ton. <br/><br/> hardcover
1815275647New York: New-York Courier 1815. First. pamphlet. 21 pages printed with text in double columns. Original pamphlet sewn dampstain at upper corner and rough at edges but well inside the ample margins; some pages still un-opened. New York: At the Office of the New-York Courier 1815. First edition. A very good copy of this exceedingly scarce pamphlet. OCLC lists only 13 copies including those at Columbia Cornell Yale Harvard and the New York Historical Society.<br/> <br/> Attributed to Isaac Bronson by F. Redlich in "The Molding of American Banking" 1868 volume 1 page 308. "Isaac Bronson was a highly successful financier of the Jacksonian era who was also one of the period's most original and influential banking theorists. Bronson accumulated his very considerable fortune in New York primarily by judicious personal money-lending operations on long-term bonds and mortgages at a cautious 7 per cent annual return supplemented by successful ventures in land speculation. In addition to wealth he had by the 1830's acquired a weighty reputation for sober financial conservatism and was regarded as an authoritative exponent of sound banking principles. Prominent in the financial community he had long thrown his weight as a sound banking theorist against the "wild-cat" practices of the then rampant state banks." --Venit A. 1945. The Journal of Economic History<br/> <br/> New-York Courier unknown
1876135274London: 'Illustrated London News' 1876. London 'Illustrated London News' 1876. A very large panoramic view on paper printed surface 450 × 1158 mm sheet size 610 × 1285 mm. Old horizontal and vertical creases where folded as issued with splits along a couple of folds expertly sealed on the verso; restoration to some tears and small chips to the margins most of them easily concealed when matting or framing; the whole now archivally mounted on flush-cut sturdy Japanese paper; a very presentable example of a desirable ephemeral publication. Engraved by Robert Loudan from a drawing by Thomas Sulman this fine bird's-eye view was issued as an 'Extra supplement to the Illustrated London News August 19 1876'. It shows the island of Manhattan from Battery Park to Central Park maritime traffic on the Hudson and East Rivers and the recently-completed piers of the Brooklyn Bridge. 'Illustrated London News' unknown
1801PHO-1645Paris, Maradan, 1801. 3 volumes in-8, demi-basane brune, dos lisse orné, tranches jonquille (Reliure de l'époque). Édition originale, illustrée de 3 portraits, de 4 (sur 6) planches gravées dépliantes, de 2 grandes cartes dépliantes des États-Unis et de 4 tableaux, timbres, déchirures sans manque aux cartes, petites rousseurs
185077033New York 1850. Folio. Originalt litografi. Arkets størrelse : 51 cm X 36 cm. I håndlaget passepartout fra Bleijenberg i Amsterdam. Folio. Original litho. Size of sheet. 51 cm X 36 cm. Mounted in passepartout from Bleijenberg in Amsterdam. G. Hayward’s Lith. 206 Pearl St. N. Y. Engelsk. <br/><br/><em>The Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York commonly known as Valentine's Manual was published annually by the city's Common Council from 1841 to 1870 and is of historical interest today partly because of its statistics and listings of officials but mostly because of historical essays and images added by its compilers unrelated to other specific contents. Wikipedia. David Thomas Valentine 1801-1869. Litografen var George Hayward 1800-1872 opprinnelig fra England. </em> unknown
1836573991836. Albany New York 1836. 17 1/2" x 12 3/4. Albany New York 1836. 17 1/2" x 12 3/4" 1836 Broadside of Laws Regulating Albany's Public Markets Broadside. Albany New York. A Law in Addition to a Law Entitled "Of the Public Market Houses." Passed February 1 1836. The Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Albany in Common Council Convened do Ordain as Follows:. Erastus Corning Mayor. Albany: Printed by E. B. Child No. 6 South Pearl-Street 1836. 17-1/2" x 12-3/4" broadside mounted and matted text printed inside wide decorative typographical border. Toning faint vertical and horizontal fold lines. A few expert repairs with no loss to text and minor fading to text in five lines. $1500. An apparently unrecorded broadside in eleven sections outlining regulations concerning the handling of meat poultry and other food in Centre Market in Albany New York. This was one of three public markets established in 1836; the others were the North Market and South Market. The laws address hours of operation allocation of stalls licensing costs of permits and the salary of the market's superintendent. Section ten repeals previous laws and section eleven decrees that this law will take effect on 8 February. The printer of this broadside was located near the market on the corner of South Pearl and State Street. Not in Evans. No copies listed on OCLC. unknown
18901534Troy N.Y.: L.R. Burleigh 1890. Good. Lithograph 16 x 25 inches. Lightly but evenly tanned. Some light scattered soiling primarily to caption area. Rare and early view of Cleveland New York located on the northern shore of Oneida Lake just north of Syracuse. At the time the village of Cleveland had a population of about 800 souls -- a bit more than it does today -- and was centered on glass manufacture. The legend at the bottom of the sheet identifies twenty-seven numbered buildings including the Union Glass Works and the Cleveland Glass Works both on the outskirts of town. Other labeled buildings include four churches a school the station of the New York Ontario & Western Railroad a hotel and several other local businesses. Rare. OCLC locates two copies at the State library of New York and the Library of Congress. Reps 2482. L.R. Burleigh unknown books
1860550New York 1860. Very good. Broadside 15.75 x 9.75 inches. Old folds some minor loss and chipping. Rare broadside prospectus for the New Universal Index Advertiser a business newspaper in New York. The Universal Index Advertiser promoted itself as a paper that focused on the interests of business above all else without "those great names which have so violently agitated the American world." The prospectus touts a novel new order of arrangement in which organization would follow the plan of "dictionaries indexes concordances." and would classify its contents like such and organize its listing of commodities alphabetically by the commodity and then the name of the seller rather than the other way around as had been done. Intended to be published daily the paper would cost $12 a year; the bottom of the sheet is left blank for subscriber information. Despite its grand claims to revolutionize the format of the newspaper we can find no evidence that the Advertiser ever went to press. We do find a single copy of the broadside at the New-York Historical Society. unknown books
186342038New York Printed by Thalmessinger & Cahn 1863. Hardback. 2nd Revised Edition edited revised and corrected by S. Adler 1st printing thus. Original gilt tooled leather 8vo 396 pages. In Hebrew and English on facing pages. Formerly Singerman 1780 now merged into Singerman 1667 as vol II variant 1 Thalmessinger & Cahn. <br> The second of two volumes vol. 1 Daily prayers & vol. 2. Prayers for the Day of Atonement this volume substantially reworked by Adler and published 1860 vol. I and 1863 vol. 2 here. Together these comprise the First Edition of Samuel Adler's revised edition of Leo Merzbacher's 1855 Prayer-Book. <br> Despite the modest title-page Adler's production here was not merely a revision but rather an entire reworking with additions and alterations to the liturgy. Rabbi Leo Merzbacher's original version of the prayers was quite traditional. "As resourceful and accomplished a liturgist as Merzbacher proved to be he seldom sought to .willfully turn aside from the traditional cannon" Friedland p. 36. Samuel Adler on the other hand Merzbacher's successor at Temple Emanu-El of New York had no such reservations about adopting radical change to the structure of the prayer-book. In his version of the "Order of Prayer" Adler did not rely on sources in Jewish tradition rather he changed the prayers according to his subjective views of how synagogue services should be conducted. See Eric Lewis Friedland Brandeis University dissertation The Historical and Theological Development of the non-Orthodox Prayerbooks in the United States 1967. <br> Indeed it was precisely this 1860-1863 version of the "Order of Prayer" that was adopted by Temple Emanuel in New York and all subsequent issues of the "Order of Prayer" utilized this version containing Samuel Adler's revisions. The Union Prayerbook itself was largely based on Adler's 1860-1863 revisions here. <br> Consequently this prayer-book was also the cause of much controversy. Orthodox Rabbi Bernard Illowy of St. Louis fumed that whomsoever utilized this "so-called" prayer-book was to be "entirely excluded from all religious communion" see Michael A. Meyer Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement 1995 p. 237. <br> <br> Leo Merzbacher 1809-1856 received his Rabbinic ordination from the celebrated Rabbi Moses Sofer of Pressburg the "Chasam Sofer" the leading opponent of the Reform movement. Merzbacher immigrated to America in the 1840's "and was the first Reform rabbi in the country. After serving at Anshe Chesed and Rodeph Sholom in New York Merzbacher became the rabbi of Emanu-El the first Reform temple in the city.The 1855 edition of This prayer book was the first Reform edition issued in America for general use" Goldman. Merzbacher adopted changes in synagogue custom such as the prominent use of an organ and eradicating the observance of the second day of festivals. Samuel Adler 1809-1891 replaced Merzbacher in Temple Emanuel in 1857 following the latter's death where he served until 1891. Adler's son Felix was the founder of the Ethical Culture movement. <br> <br> SUBJECTS: Siddurim -- Texts. Reform Judaism -- Liturgy -- Yom Kippur -- Siddour -- Textes. Judai¨sme re´forme´ -- Liturgie -- Yom Kippour -- OCLC: 78354364. Lacks top 1 inch of backstrip spine covering and rear blank endpaper; wear to boards some stains but solid good condition. Rare and Important AMR-69-11-B-D. New York, Printed by Thalmessinger & Cahn unknown
189018000New York January 1 1890 to August 31 1890. Covers worn corners worn smudged and foxed throughout; Edward clipped a portion of one leaf with a loss of some text; in good condition but legible and sound. Lined composition book in original pictorial wrappers entitled "Exercises" 8.25 x 6.75 inches 138 pages. A detailed entertaining legible observant daily account of life in Manhattan for a 20-year-old carpenter going to night school attending union rallies spending evenings playing harmonica and reading early Jehovah's Witness literature swimming in the North River looking for work in slack times or negotiating salaries with bosses and showing curiosity about the hurly-burly of cultures and commerce in New York. The diary includes his penciled ownership note to the head of the second page E. W. Hussey 265 W. 32nd St. N. Y. City; Edward appears to live with his brother Stephen W. Hussey called Walter to distinguish him from their father the English-born carpenter Stephen and mention in the text of family members like Ida taken with clues to his brother's birth in Philadelphia and close personal ties to Monmouth County New Jersey the family often visits the shore at Oceanic further help determine the identity of the diarist and his family relations. Edward generally works six days a week noting in his daily entries his specific jobs. Edward spends much of the first part of the year fixing up what would be the townhouse of prominent socialite Mrs. Brockholst Cutting at 99 Madison Avenue; among other jobs he also works in the shop turning out balusters or building book shelves helps pull down an illegal shack or fitting out a cigar store at 786 9th Avenue--this last an unpleasant job as Edward notes on April 15: "fitting out cigar store etc. 1 day. This fellow that is taking the store is a bad man a gambler pool man and Louisiana Lottery man and a shameless man." Indeed Edward's sense of moral duty seems to run deep; he records his daily reading faithfully often stopping up at the Cooper Union reading room or the Apprentices' Library or ordering cheap books from Ogilvie he is willing to spend a whopping three dollars however on a copy of the popular physiology and marriage manual Cowan's Science of a New Life which he reads and then passes along to his older sister Mary; he outlines at one point his displeasure over his new Webster's Abridged Dictionary no maps no illustrations no biographies or notes his daily reading up on phrenology or geometry or how to be a better carpenter or regular reading from the Bible or from the Charles Taze Russell's works Millennial Dawn or Zion's Watch Tower. On March 24 he makes up his mind to give handbills advertising Millennial Dawn and Zion's Watch Tower to a friend to distribute and later loans a friend an entire year's run of the Watch Tower--or as he usually refers to it in his diary Z.W.T. Edward also reads popular literary papers like Argosy and various daily papers mentioning at one point an "Extra" on the botched Kemler execution with his tastes seeming to run to Pulitzer's World--though the general tenor of yellow journalism prompts him to note ruefully on June 27 "There seems to be nothing but bad women and bad men in the papers lately." Hussey further betters himself by attending night school through April when he finally gets a diploma under the tutelage of long-time New York educator William J. Goldey ca. 1828-1907 often participating in formal class debates recorded in his diary such as the one held the evening of February 7 when Edward took the affirmative on the question whether organizations are beneficial to the working man: "the majority were in favor of Organization also the regular debaters of the Aff. had the better of the debate because they were on the right side perhaps partial." Edward also attends a mock-congress held by Goldey on March 28 "the subject handled was that there should be an Amendment to the Constitution to admit women suffrage! Ladies were present some laughable scenes were pictured the vote Neg. 16 Aff. 11." Edward also shows an interest in labor organizing attending a lecture on Feb. 5 "on the Labor movement for the last 20 yrs. by L. Sanial i.e. the Socialist Labor journalist Lucien Saniel a frenchman: very good" or writing about a carpenters' strike against an employer on Feb. 21 or detailing his attendance at a May Day rally at Union Square the effects of the 8-hour day debate on his brother's prospects taking a walk over to the 42nd St. station on August 10 to take a look at a strike or his visit on July 6 to the Cloakmakers Union Hall on Suffolk Street there had been a riot and police beatings against strikers a few days previous though Edward notes "I saw no signs of distress whatever men where there talking a good deal in Hebrew. I then walked out read W. W. Weekly World a little while sitting on stoop near Ridley's dry hood store in the side st's it was litteraly sic swarming with Jews all trading in there sic own way for it was not the sabbath with them." The changing demographics of New York City and the influx of Jews comes up several times in Hussey's diary and he shows a welcome tolerance--even noting one Friday on July 11 "I took a run out tonight to see if I could attend a Jewish church but found none." On a boat ride back from Monmouth County New Jersey on August 7 Edward notes "on the voyage up I had quite a chat with a small about 40 yr. old Jew from Manasquan N. J. quite agreeable of course smooth of tongue he seemed to take a little liking to me as I am not bigoted against Jews he with another was going Bro'lyn N. Y." Edward then buys a watermelon and has soft shell crabs for dinner. Throughout the account runs the thread of a young man pulled between the obligations of adulthood he notes arguments with his father to whom he gives 80% of his wages until he comes of age and turns 21 in August of 1890 and the pleasures and pull of his youthful pursuits snowball fights with his younger sister blowing soap bubbles with children helping his younger brother on the velocipede and a few veiled and elided references to the perils of his masturbation habits; throughout this account he is clearly attuned to the attractions and textures of daily street life in New York: trips uptown to walk across the Harlem River or over into Weehawken to pick flowers or wild fruit attending meetings of evangelists like Moody or DeWitt Talmage or trying to get a drunk in the Bowery safely into a lodging house or helping another "Drunken fellow" who instead "sat down on steps throwing up etc. got a policeman to take him to R. House so he could sleep it off" or perhaps more enjoyably watching a Barnum & Bailey circus parade from the roof of his building or taking an excursion down to Philadelphia and seeing the "Cracked Bell" and Baldwin's Locomotive Works this trip given in fine detail or paying ten cents on the street to hear an Edison phonograph play three songs including the "McGinty Song" or reporting on his brother's base ball team or his own efforts in ball-throwing contests or his trying out of a street-corner demonstration "lung tester." Edward swims in the North River the latter-day Hudson takes long walks through the city and on occasion takes in an art exhibition or competes for the affections of young Ida Murphy. The diary closes with his efforts to get a satisfactory photographic portrait to send to friends and family; a gem tintype portrait in a folk thread-and-pin frame found with the diary is likely a portrait of Edward himself. Census records later put Edward in Bayonne N. J. in 1900 with a wife named Johanna. Her parents were both natives of Austria. By 1910 he is found in Union N. J. where his profession is given as a barn builder and he lives with Johanna their adopted daughter Helen both of Edward's parents and Johanna's mother Henrietta Bronston. In all a remarkable and perceptive record of a bright thoughtful working-class young man taking full advantage of the street life of Manhattan and of improving his mind. January 1, 1890 to August 31, unknown books
18851775New York: L.W. Ahrens Co 1885. Very good plus. Chromolithograph 21.5 x 28 inches. Matted. Minor wear soiling and a couple of modern pencil annotations at lower corners. A fine image of a proposed railroad bridge across the Hudson River just north of Peekskill New York. Plans to build a bridge over the Hudson River at the site between Fort Clinton and Anthony's Nose had been made as early as 1868. A contract was signed the following year and construction was expected to commence rapidly on the Hudson Highland Suspension Bridge. The purpose of the bridge was to provide a railroad toward Derby Connecticut enabling the supply of coal and iron for industry in the Lower Naugatuck Valley. By 1887 reports suggested the bridge would be finished in two years but by 1896 it was still unfinished when the Hudson Suspension Bridge and New England Railway Company reincorporated as the Hudson Highland Bridge and Railway Company. As a result of the long depressions including stock market crashes of 1873 and 1893 the bridge remained unfinished and the charter for construction expired in 1916. In March 1922 the state authorized the creation of the Bear Mountain Hudson River Bridge Company to complete the project. The bridge was opened on November 27 1924 and was the longest suspension bridge span in the world at the time but looked markedly different from the proposed bridge in this lithograph which bears a passing resemblance to the Brooklyn Bridge. L.W. Ahrens Co unknown books
1831D13063Albany: Croswell and Van Bethuysen 1831. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary red morocco gilt-stamped lettering on spine "Rules and Orders / 1831" and upper board "John Van Buren / Ulster"; 24mo 125x84mm; pp. 212 1 calendar plus 3 floor plans of the Senate and Assembly 3 folding maps see below. Binding a little scuffed here and there; spine a touch darkened; upper board flaring it would seem that the plates were added by the owner. Some foxing; closed tears along the creases of folding plates. A scarce volume OCLC locates just 6 copies not overly specific in their cataloging -- the most detail we can find is a copy which includes "2 folded leaves of plates illustrations map." This copy includes much more and additionally bears some handwritten notes on the plates -- presumably all by John Van Buren who also adds his ownership signature and a decoration to the front paste-down. Plates include: folding map of the City of Troy labelled by hand with notes locating landmarks; folding floor plan of the assembly dated by hand 1834; small hand-colored folding map of the city of Albany; folding floor plan of the assembly printed date 1831 presumably original to this volume; small folding floor plan of the Senate chamber printed date 1831 presumably original to this volume; large hand-colored folding "Map of the State of New York and the Surrounding Country" by David H. Burr printed date of 1829. <br/><br/>John Van Buren 1810-1866 was an American lawyer and politician. He served as Attorney General of New York and Democratic Party Leader. He was the subject of much innuendo even after his death -- rumored to have lost $5000 his father's home Lindenwald and his mistress the very popular Elena "America" Vespucci descendent of Amerigo Vespucci to George Parish of Ogdensburg New York in a card game at the LeRay Hotel in Evans Mills New York. This story has not been verified but it plagued Van Buren's reputation. He has also been credited with the semi-humorous saying "Vote early and vote often". Croswell and Van Bethuysen hardcover books
18609034New York: Lith. of W. Faust 105 Nassau St 1860. Broadside wine list 25.5 x 15.5 cm. 1 page. Porcelain card decorated in chromolithograph with text in blue and red. A very early wine list from an important New York hotel and dining establishment. The hotel was at the corner of Broadway and Eleventh Street across from Grace Church and Rectory. Both the hotel and the church were designed by the architect James Renwick Jr. Named for its original owner Denis Julien the St. Denis Hotel opened in 1853 just in time for the Crystal Palace Exhibition. The building was leased to William Taylor in 1875 who incorporated the Taylor Saloon into the facility. The list features Clarets from Finke Merman of Bordeaux mostly from 1847 and 1848. And French whites including 1847 Latour Blanche and 1847 d'Yquem. Champagne Sherries and Madeiras are also included. A solid piece of printing from a firm more known for fruit labels. Verso contains an unattributed primitive pencil drawing of a horse. Some darkening to the top edge of the recto. Lith. of W. Faust, 105 Nassau St unknown
18295234New York: New York Protestant Episcopal Press 1829. Very good. Broadside 10.5 x 9 inches. Old folds foxing creasing and toning with substantial but irregularly-trimmed margins. An unrecorded New York broadside advertising the opening of the New York Protestant Episcopal Press NYPEP and related activities at No. 46 Lumber Street in New York City in 1829. The text states that "PRINTING of every description will be executed for Churches Bible and Common Prayer-Book Societies Tract Societies Missionary or Education Societies and all other religious institutions of the Protestant Episcopal Church at the lowest rates and in the best manner" and that the new establishment will "also be the publication office of The Family Visiter and Sunday School Magazine; and of The Children's Magazine." The text also includes notes about the business of the organization as well as notices to "Booksellers who are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church" and "secretaries of religious and charitable associations." In addition to their printing and binding work the broadside states that the NYPEP will take charge of the depositories of five New York institutions -- the General Protestant Episcopal Sunday Union the New York Bible and Common Prayer-Book Society the Auxiliary New York Bible and Common Prayer-Book Society the New York Protestant Episcopal Tract Society and the New York Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Society. The bottom half of the broadside is taken up with a listing of the organization's Board of Trustees "Other Managers" the general agent book-keeper printer William Van Norden and binder Christian Brown along with a postscript with details on various forthcoming publications by the press. William Van Norden was a prolific printer in New York in the first half of the 19th century producing more than just religious works. He printed the collected works of Benjamin Franklin Hannah Moore's memoir and the Proceedings of the New York Historical Society among many other works and later helped produce The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. We could locate no other copies of this broadside anywhere. [New York Protestant Episcopal Press] unknown
1853WRCAM54449New York 1853. 96pp. plus large color folding map. 18mo. Original printed wrappers. Light wear to wrappers. 20th-century bookplate on front pastedown. Light tanning and foxing heavier to initial leaves. Very good. A scarce edition of this attractive guide to mid-19th-century New York City. The volume contains extensive descriptions and numerous illustrations of the sights as well as a street directory and information on travel within the city and to neighboring locales. It includes further information on attractions in Queens Brooklyn and Staten Island. The work also contains a large and detailed color folding map of Manhattan below 90th Street. <br> <br> OCLC locates only six holdings of this edition; an attractive copy of an ephemeral item in original wrappers. unknown books
1850517Bainbridge N.Y.: Chenango Free Democrat Office 1850. Very good. Broadside 15.75 x 12 inches. Matted. Light even tanning. An attractive illustrated broadside dated August 10 1850 advertising a short trip up the Susquehanna River from Bainbridge to Corbin's Mills scheduled for August 14. "Ladies and gentlemen are invited to attend - fare 25 cents each way." This broadside was printed at the office of the Chenango Free Democrat a free soil paper that would last from 1849 to 1850. The wonderful large wood engraving signed "Clarkson" shows the steamboat smoke billowing from her stacks the American flag fluttering in the breeze behind and passengers on the upper and lower decks. The Susquehanna flows through the center of Bainbridge but we could not locate a place named Corbin's Mills in the area at that time though the Corbins were a prominent family in the area and a lumber mill by the same name appeared about two decades later. Scarce with no listings in OCLC for this or similar items. Chenango Free Democrat Office unknown books
1888BOOKS019458INp: F. Robinson. Backstrip detached some soiling else a very good copy. 1888. 1st. hardcover. Folio With 34 linen-backed double-page hand-colored maps First few pages wrinkled and soiled ink spots on one plate and a few scattered stains and wrinkes throughout; overall a relatively clean copy with all maps present . F. Robinson hardcover
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
1815059319Albany NY: Henry C. Southwick 1815. No Statement of Printing. . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. A Good copy in full brown leather with black leather spine labels lettered in gold marbled endpapers. The covers are rubbed and appear original but the spine has been re-backed using the original spine leather but newer spine labels. The binding is sound and the text is unmarked but the paper has tanned/foxed throughout. Good quality paper: not brittle. The Art of War is paginated 3-285 followed by Anecdotes on the Life and Writings 286-322 and Hints 323-349. Not ex-library. <br/> <br/> Henry C. Southwick hardcover
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
187615173Philadelphia: Everts Ensign & Everts. Good. 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Exterior shows signs of wear. Spine leather has tears with covers firmly attached. Edges rubbed includes spine ends and leather protected front corners. Gilt title on front cover. Green cloth has a few small cloth bubbles. First & last two pages have edge chips. Endpaper has tape & vertical creases. Color maps & engravings In VG condition & complete. N. Y. Atlas General InformationInformation; Color maps & ngravings; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 100 pages . Everts, Ensign & Everts hardcover
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
