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Carte-de-visite format photographs on the original cardstock mounts; group unidentified; a gentleman, older woman, matronly standing figure, young lad in what appears to be a school or academy uniform and a group of 3 children (this image worn and faded more than the others); H. Terry Main Street Sag Harbor photography studio credited on back of mounts; approx. 2  1/2" x 4" size; images with a little faint spotting; light wear to mounts; very good condition, interesting 19th century photographic studio and Long Island history ephemeral items.
5 C. 1875 Cartes-De-Visite Photographs By H. Terry of Sag Harbor Long Island New York
(Photography)
Sag Harbor Long Island New Yor: H. Terry, 1875.
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Carte-de-visite format photographs on the original cardstock mounts; A well-dressed and thoughtful-looking young woman and a somewhat expressive child; Warner's Sag-Harbor photography studio credited on back of mounts; which also gives a long screed on Warner's 'Card Portraits' photo abilities, "...25 years experience...the leading artist in Elegant Souvenirs..." with pricing information - he would accomplish a life-size standing figure for $ 500.00 - location "...Studio over Capt. Winters' store, on Main street..."; approx. 2  1/2" x 4" size; images with a little faint spotting; light wear to mounts; very good condition, interesting 19th century photographic studio and Long Island history ephemeral items.
2 C. 1875 Cartes-De-Visite Photographs By Warner's of Sag Harbor Long Island New York
(Photography)
Sag Harbor Long Island New Yor: Warner's, 1875.
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Complete in 3 volumes, this history of Long Island;  xxiii + 796 + xiv + 686 + v + 395 pages; index for each volume, extremely useful for genealogical research; black and white illustrated throughout; with information on the topography of the island, Indians & their lands, white discovery, early settlements, political and financial relations, wampum industry, the Dutch, Peter Stuyvesant, British government, early families & settlers, Lion Gardiner & his Purchase Gardiner's Island, colonizing schemes, old families in Kings and Queens counties, Lloyds & Jones; Early laws, justice, slavery on Long Island, Congregational and Presbyterian churches, Captain Kidd, Battle of Brooklyn, British Occupation, Long Island Loyalists, Revolutionary War heroes, War of 1812 naval operations around L.I.; education; Flatlands, Flatbush, New Utrecht, Williamsburgh, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Neziah Bliss, Gravesend, Lady Moody, Coney Island, Brooklyn, era of the Civil War, street railways, libraries, cholera, extension of the city, Navy Yard, Wallabout, Flushing, Newtown, Jamaica, Long Island City, summer resorts, medical profession on Long Island, dentists in Brooklyn, freemansonry on L.I., social world, Catholic Church, Nassau County, Hempstead, North Hempstead, Oyster Bay home of President Roosevelt, Suffolk County: Huntington, Babylon, Smithtown, Islip, Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Shelter Island, Southampton, East Hampton, each town with its separate chapter; Appendix with Long Island troops in the Revolutionary War; Volumes II & III are biographical studies of the prominent on Long Island; bound in the original marbled-paper covered boards, pebbled leather spine & corners; gilt titles, top edges gilt; bindings very worn and chipped, all volume boards detached as are a few leaves at front of all the volumes and all are present; backstrips lacking on volumes II & III; still, very clean copies; the original bindings for these volumes are invariably falling apart, the text block was far too heavy for the covers; there are differences copy to copy of the "Ross-Pelletreau" L.I. History in that the biographies contained are not always the same; this set is a fair to good working copies for research or for rebinding.
A History of Long Island From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time in Three Volumes
Ross, Peter
New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1903.
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56 pages; color illustrated cover art with a 'sporting' motif by Kurt W. Neunzig;, which announces this as the 'Long Island Number' and also pictures the armorial badges of Cornell - Princeton vs. Oxford - Cambridge for their 'Dual Meet at Travers Island, July 20th'; giving the officers and governors of the Club, committees; noting that many Club members spent time on Long Island in the summer, the decision was made to publicize the sporting activities there - Golf, Polo, Yachting; with black and white illustrated articles on general Club activities as well, including the cover piece on the British-American Universities Dual Meet - President Hoover and Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, Invited to be Honorary Referees, of Event at Travers Island; Gedney Farms Golf Tournament; members in the news; Completion of the Clubhouse lobby; reportage on the Club games at Travers Island; obituaries; news on the Club baseball teams; a piece on Shelter Island as the Ideal Summer Colony; Golf Courses on Long Island; LI yacht clubs; horse racing, polo, hunting, the Meadow Brook Club news and information; notes on the "...Numerous luncheons, dinners, meetings and social events..." given at the City Club House, with dates, purpose and number of attendees; fencing club, rowing updates; news and election of members, statement of operations, a 'Looking Back 20 years ago " section and more; 12" x 9" large magazine format; with advertisements commensurate with the style of the readership for clothing, automobiles, real estate, banks, sporting equipment and clothing, travel; some edge, tips wear and rubbing, little soiling to covers; very good condition and an interesting glimpse into the American sporting club 'scene' of the late 1920s.
The Winged Foot Volume 40 No. 7 July 1929
(The Winged Foot)
New York: New York Athletic Club, 1929.
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Up-Lot Reveries: An Oral History of the North Fork
Parson, Maria
Mattituck New York: Amereon House, 1984.
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xv + 13 pages; one of the first works produced in America having to do with the humane treatment of animals - hence the reprinting by the ASPCA of the rare original, originally printed by David Frothingham at Sag Harbor (Sagg-Harbour in old parlance and as printed on the original cover); approx. 4  1/2" x 7  1/4" size; printed blue paper covers, stapled wraps, reproducing the original cover; light wear; very good condition and interesting animal rights and Long Island printing history ephemeral item.
The Rights of Animals By Herman Daggett an Oration Delivered at Providence College September 7, 1791 With an Introduction By Edward P. Buffet
Daggett, Herman
New York: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1926.
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303 pages; murder mystery of Inspector Schmidt series, taking place in Coney Island; bound in polished blue cloth, black titles; some edge, tips wear to binding; a piece of dustjacket front panel laid-in; very good condition.
Murder Half Baked
Bagby, George
New York: Covici Friede, 1937.
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