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180035109Albany: Loring Andrews & Co. 1800. Modern buckram with institutional stamps on covers spine and fore-edge. 294 8 pp. Tanned scattered foxing Good. With Table of Contents and Errata at the end. Acts dealing with elections crimes courts corporations municipalities and other matters. <br/>Evans 38087.<br/> bound with LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. JANUARY 1801. Albany: Loring Andrews. 1801. 226 4 pp. Toned scattered foxing Good. Loring Andrews & Co. 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
1885730149th Cong. 1st Sess.: HED13. 1885. 5pp disbound folding plans and sketches. Minor wear. Very Good. On the purchase of the "Old Produce Exchange" near Whitehall and Pearl Streets. HED13. unknown books
187633912New York: Coffin 1876. First Edition. 24pp. Original printed wrappers.spine mended; small piece missing at spine side of upper front wrapper no text affected. He and his friend Paul toured the Adirondack area in August of 1875. While looking like it might be fiction it doe not appear in Wrigvht vol. 3. Coffin unknown books
20618New York: Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Stiff Wraps. 31 x 23.5 cm. <br/>1Linotype Bulletins Vol. XVIII Nos. 2-5 7. 1925. All in fine condition in decorative borders. $30.00 per issue. <br/>2 Linotype Series of typefaces: OLD STYLE Number SEVEN Series. Nd. Fine. $30.00. <br/>3 CASLON OLD FACE Newly Cut for the Linotype from the Original Designs of William Caslon I. December 1923. Fine. $30.00. <br/>4 THE LINOTYPE SERIES OF LINING GOTHICS. A Complete Showing of Gothic No. 25-2629-33 and Bold Face No.9. May 1923. Fine. $30.00 <br/>5 SHOWING THE ELZEVIR NO 3 SERIES THE LOUIS XV SERIES OF MATRIX BORDERS HEADINGS AND INITIALS Together with a short History of the Elzevirs and their Work. 1920. Near fine. $30.00<br/>6 MONOTYPE PUBLISHED BY THE LANST0N MONOTYPE MACHINE COMPANY. Vol. 9. No.6 1923. Very good. $30.00. Mergenthaler Linotype Company unknown books
187524979New York 1875. Broadside 5.5" x 16.75". Light horizontal folds On verso in manuscript 'List Peddler 1875 Filed May 2 1875.' Signed in type by Diedrich Willers Jr. Secretary of State. Very Good.<br/><br/> This list contains the names of thirty-four peddlers dates on which their licenses were issued their mode of travel 'On Foot' 'One Horse' 'Two Horses' and the length of term of each license six months. The terms and conditions of the licenses are explained along with the fees which are based on the peddlers' modes of travel. Many of the peddlers have Irish surnames. 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
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
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
1816WRCAM26388Washington: Printed by William A. Davis 1816. 6pp. Dbd. Good. A document explaining the Erie Canal to Congress with a copy of the act initiating the project passed in the New York legislature. Printed by William A. Davis unknown books
18451470429th Cong. 1st Sess.: SD15. 1845. 23pp Disbound Very Good. Signed in type by more than 20 New York pilots. SD15. unknown books
19195029baIAlbany NY: J. B. Lyon 1919. Book. Good. Hardcover. Americana; 131p.; 26cm; brown cloth rubbed; spine crimped; corners bumped; frontis. portrait Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919 U. S. pres. 1909-09; cover title: State of New York. In memoriam Theodore Roosevelt. Born: October 27 1858. Died: January 8 1919; p. 87-131 address of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge 1850-1924 befor U. S. congress Sunday February 9 1919. J. B. Lyon Hardcover books
1851JC12854Lockport New York 1851. Ephemera. Near Fine. Single leaf folded for mailing. Addressed to Hon. F. Follet W. Dayton recommends Frederick F. Hoyer for office of Collector. A short note is added at the end in another hand "I concur with Judge Dayton in the above / J. S. Wood." <br/><br/> unknown books
1850JC12840Lockport 1850. Ephemera. Near Fine. Single leaf 328x200mm printed form by O. C. Wright Bookseller and Stationer Lockport with lengthy handwritten entries signed by two witnesses and the Justice of the Peace. Deed for Enos Steel of Lockport County Niagara New York; with a lengthy description of the land. Flattened creases from folding else fine. <br/><br/> unknown books
1866205328James Miller 1866. Inkstamp on reverse of frontispiece and spotty stain to rear cover else a very good copy. Long folding map is misforded and lacks a small chip not affecting the image but is clean and bright. 134 pp Index plus ads including a number of plates some folding. Original cloth over boards with gilt stamped cover. <br/><br/> James Miller hardcover books
183221403Seneca Falls NY: Printed by William Child. 1832. 16pp. Disbound uncut untrimmed. Light dustsoiling of outer leaves and edges. Light foxing. Good. Printed by William Child. unknown books
21161New York: Grasselli Dyestuff Corporations Nd. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good. 6 pages in text. 22 x 14.5 cm. 15 leaves with a total of 296 dye samples in a myriad of colors. Grasselli imported dyestuffs manufactured by Bayer & Co. in Leverkusen Germany. This catalogue 25. Nr. 2735 made in Germany with text in German French and English. Stamps of the General Dyestuff Corporation front endpapers and title. Contents very bright and clean printed on glossy stock front cover silver lettering faded. All samples present. Grasselli Dyestuff Corporations hardcover 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 books
190420981Albany NY: Published by Sampson Murdock & Co. 448 Broadway Albany 1904. 4" x 6". 21 1 blank pp. Large 20" x 24" folding color map of the cities of Albany and Rensselaer New York. Original printed cloth over stiff boards back hinge cracked but holding lightly dustsoiled and rubbed. Light dustsoiling minor foxing of page edges. Includes Albany Street Directory and list of buildings and halls. Good. Published by Sampson, Murdock, & Co., 448 Broadway, Albany unknown books
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
19366417New York: Committee on Public Relations New York Stock Exchange 1936. Small 4to. 40 pp.; illus. <br><br>An introduction to the workings of the NYSE illustrated with photographs of the activities taking place on the floor. Contains a glossary in the back. Original grey wrappers; lightly soiled. Very good. Committee on Public Relations, New York Stock Exchange unknown books
183133255Albany 1831. Folio broadsheet 8" x 13". 2pp. Caption title as issued two punch holes in left margin. Scattered light spotting Good or so. <br/><br/> On April 22 1831 the Assembly passed the bill as amended. JOURNAL OF THE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 1831. Pages 194 209 428 436 443 447-8 462 784 and 809. Following its enactment the Seaman's Retreat Hospital was built to care for sick and disabled merchant seamen. The first buildings were erected in 1831 and patients transferred there in late 1831. The hospital was expanded over the next several years and completed around 1837. unknown books
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
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
1797100410<p>Square folio 13 ½ x16 ½ partially printed yellowed at edges some darkening and a little soiling light chipping and a few very short closed tears at edges a little browning document split in half down center crease but repaired on verso with tape small remnant of wax seal and several paper seals. Overall in good condition. This is a court document titled "An Inquisition Indented" signed by the twelve jurors who decided the plaintiffs to be paid damages thirty-three pounds five shillings and two pennies. All signatures are highly legible. The document names Jacob John Lansing Sheriff of the city of New York as the official in this judgment. </p> books