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Dedication of the Madeleine Borg Room October 9, 1956
New York: Privately Printed by The Overbrook Press, 1957.
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Imperial China
London: Hutchinson, 1972.
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Laurence Duggan 1905-1948 In Memoriam
Stamford, Ct: Overbrook Press, 1949.
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Maritime History: A Preliminary Hand-List...with a Special Section on Sir Francis Drake
Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1979.
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New York, New York: A History of the World's Most Exhilarating and Challenging City
Simon & Schuster, 1991.
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Philipsburg Manor
Tarrytown, NY: Sleepy Hollow Restoration, 1969.
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The Comic Token for 1833 (Companion to the Comic Almanac)
Boston: Charles Ellms, 1833.
Price: $375.00
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The Heritage of Connecticut Medicine
New Haven: Privately Printed, 1942.
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Oversized volume in full red leather stamped in 22k gilt, raised spine hubs, all edges gilt. Special silk moire endpapers and silk marker ribbon. 835 pp. 8 5/8" x 11 1/8". Massive reference volume covering 7000 years of history and 30,000 events, uniquely entertaining and informative. One of the scarcer Easton editions. (Please note: due to size and weight, expedited and/or international orders will require additional shipping fee. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Alibris and Borders orders will be shipped media mail only unless other arrangements are made with us directly).
Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
Norwalk, Ct: Easton Press,
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Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
Rinehart, Mary Roberts
New York: Doran, 1915.
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One sheet, 4to, printed recto only and partly filled in by hand. A "Memorandum of Agreement" dated Aug. 16, 1890 between the People's Publishing Company of Chicago and one Wm. A. Lightner of Landisburg, Perry County, Pennsylvania. The contract states that Mr. Lightner will "...devote his entire time and attention, giving thereto at least eight hours time from every day, except Sunday and holidays...to the service of [the publishing company]...to personally make sales of the School Book Memberships...and to hire solicitors to make such sales...". For his labors, Mr. Lightner was to be paid $3.25 a day plus a 10% commission. Clean, with mailing folds.
1890 Contract Between a Chicago Publishing Company and a Bookselling Agent to Sell "School Book Memberships"
(BOOKSELLERS)
1890.
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Tribute to Honorable William O. Douglas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, to Commemorate the Occasion of His Retirement from The Supreme Court, November 12, 1975
(Congress)
Washington DC: GPO, 1976.
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Copper Manual: Copper Mines, Copper Statistics, Copper Shares ...Vol. 3 (In original dust warpper)
(D. Houston & Co.)
New York: D. Houston, 1904.
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Kloran, or Ritual of The Women of the Ku Klux Klan
(Ku Klux Klan)
Little Rock, Ark.: Women of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., 1928.
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Single sheet offsprint, narrow 4to, printed recto only in two columns. Heading :History of Harlem" in ornate capitals at top. Summary and review of the book "Harlem (in New York City) its Origin and Early Annals: prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands...Also sketches of over One Hundred Families and the History of the Land Titles from Their Origin..." by James Riker. This sheet gives a summary and review of the book and is attributed at the bottom (From the Local Reporter, Harlem). Clean, single fold and a light crease to the lower corner.
"History of Harlem" Book Publication Advertisment and Rview 1881
(New York City)
New York: Local Reporter, 1881.
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Minues of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, from the Organization to the Termination of the Proprietary Government (3 Volumes)
(Provincial Council of Pennsylvania)
Harrisburg: Theophilus Fenn for the State, 1838.
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A Record of the Services of the Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men of Kittery and Eliot, Maine who served their Country on land and sea in the American Revolution, from 1775 to 1783
(Remick, Oliver P.)
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1901.
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The Advertiser's Hand-Book. comprising A Complete List of the Newspapers, Periodicals, and Magazines Published in the United States and British Possessions
(S.M. Pettengill & Co.)
New York: S.M. Pettengill, 1870.
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Collection of three items issued by he Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper in commemoration of the opening of the historic subway tunnel connecting Brooklyn with the Battery in Manhattan. Included is 1) an original envelope bearing an engraving of the Eagle building and reading "Pin This on Your Coat/ Compliments of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle/ Read Thursday Night's Eagle as to the value of this Badge"; 2) a silk ribbon, white with blue printing and with safety pin fastener reading "A Passenger on the First Train in the Tunnel/ Between the Battery, Manhattan and Borough Hall, Brooklyn/ Thursday, Jan 9., 1908/ Compliments of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle" (2 " x 6") and 3) a single small sheet printed on recto "Opening of the Battery Tunnel/ The Brooklyn Eagle will issue A Special Illustrated Section on Thursday, January 9th, Nineteen Hundred and Eight (5 1/2" x 7", folded once, slight separation left side of the fold). This historic tunnel was the first underwater connection of the New York City subway system (prior to this, trains would run over bridges, particularly the Brooklyn Bridge, to connect Brooklyn and Manhattan). The tunnel was constructed between 1903 and 1907, running under the East River between the Battery at the foot of Manhattan and Joralemon Street in Brooklyn.
Group of Three Invitation Pieces from the Opening of the New York City Subway's Brooklyn-to-Battery Train Tunnel, Jan 9. 1908
(Subway)
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1908.
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The Laws of the United States of America containing The Acts of the Fourth Congress
(United States Congress)
Philadelphia: Richard Folwell, 1797.
Price: $750.00
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