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Atlas of Six folding Bicycling Maps for New York State, including the Index, by the League of American Wheelmen in 1893
(League of American Wheelmen)
New York: League of American Wheelmen, 1893.
Price: $750.00
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"Circular Motion" A Limited Edition Signed Original Lithograph By Georges Schreiber
Schreiber, Georges
711 Fifth Avenue, New York 22,: Associated American Artists,
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"For the Life of Your Party" A Keg of Beer...Hollis Cold Beer Distributors Blotter
(Hollis Cold Beer Distributors)
Hollis, Long Island New York: Hollis Cold Beer Distributors,
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Small pamphlet, consisting of a light blue 'linen' finish paper cover, with the title "Marine Mosaic?" and with no further authorship or date or printer indicated; with 3 interior 'panels' with illustrations of: Mullioned Window, Memorial Window (Frederick Schroeder) and a 4-light group of Yacht Windows; the front inner panel of the cover describes "Marine Mosaic is the artistic adaptation of shells, stones and glass, strongly cemented to form effects, beautiful in color and unusual in design...originated in the studio at Harbor Villa, Shelter Island, N.Y...." and describing some of its decorative uses; approx. 3 1/4" x 8 3/8" size; with soiling, old stains on the covers and contents and wear along old fold lines, splitting; the illustrations of the work clear and good, and evidence of the skill of the creator & inventor of the technique, Shelter Island artist Walter Cole Brigham (1870-1941) painter and craftsperson, studied with William Merritt Chase, Siddons Mowbray and others, member of the Art Students League, whose work in mosaic may still be seen at some of the churches on the Island as well as at the Brooklyn Museum (1999 WWW in American Art); we speculate that this 'flyer' may have been a self-published promotional tool created by him to publicize his work; in good condition overall and an interesting piece of Long Island arts & crafts history ephemera.
"Marine Mosaic?" Illustrated Works By Walter Cole Brigham Harbor Villa Shelter Island New York
(Shelter Island - Commercial Art)
Shelter Island New York: Harbor Villa, 1910.
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115 pages; tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait engraving of Maj. Gen. Charles Lee, engraved by G.R. Hall, another rather uncomplimentary engraving by A.H. Ritchie after B. Rashbrooke and tipped-in at back a large folded facsimile of the letter of General Lee to General Gates Basking Ridge 1776; tipped-in at front is a letter signed by the author, 2 pages, addressed to Joseph A. Copp, D.D., written from the Library of the New York Hist.l Soc. New York City Jan 31 1865, regarding a paper that Copp had read before the N.E. Hist. Geneaological Society concerning General Lee and hereby sending him a copy of (this) book with the hopes of entering into correspondence: "...I shall be very glad if any new researches, or the application of the most rigid principles of historical criticism shall enable me to change the views which I have expressed-for I truly desire the vindication of the truth of history in all such studies and investigations...I am perfectly ready to acknowledge my errors, if they are pointed out to me..." and respectfully asking for a continuing look at the evidence that Copp may have in his possession; George Henry Moore (1823-1892) American librarian, historian, bibliographer, very active in work of New-York Historical Society 1941-91, superintendent of Lenox Library, New York City. (DAB); original red pebbled-cloth binding, gilt cover titles; some edge, tips wear and rubbing to boards; bottom 1/4 part of spine covering chipped away; top board detaching, block's sewing secure; good condition, good American Revolutionary War scholarly research material, especially interesting for the inclusion of the author's signed correspondence.
"Mr. Lee's Plan - March 29, 1777." The Treason of Charles Lee Major General Second in Command in the American Army of the Revolution.
Moore, George H.
New-York: Charles Scribner, 1860.
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Samuel L. Margolies, (1897-1974 [?]); etcher, painter, teacher, writer, lecturer, studied at Cooper Union, member of the National Academy of Design, did work for the WPA; (ref: WWW 1999); Pencil signed in the lower right corner by the artist; 9 1/2" height x 11 3/4" width image size, overall size with borders approximately 12" x 15", retaining original deckle edge to paper, not trimmed; blue-black on white; winter woods snow scene, depicting a couple of deer, trees, hills in the backgournd; very clean, exceptional condition, accompanied by it's original tissue-guard & hinged cardstock mount as bought from the AAA, with the title card, giving more background on the artist and his activity; very good plus condition.
"Sunrise Shadows" A Limited Edition Signed Original Etching By Samuel L. Margolies
(Samuel L. Margolies)
711 Fifth Avenue, New York 22,: Associated American Artists,
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623 pages; 1 page publisher's announcements at back, with black and white tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece illustration of the author and in the text; Mrs. Stenhouse and her husband became disaffected with Brigham Young and aspects of the Latter-Day Saints commercial policies and became associated with the "Godbeyite Heresy" from the Mormon faith-and published on that account; original publishers' green decoratively blindstamped cloth binding, gilt spine titles & decorations; cloth tips and edges wear, illustrations a bit foxed; overall, good condition.
"Tell It All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism. An Autobiography: By Mrs. T.B. H. Stenhouse, of Salt Lake City, for More Than Twenty Years the Wife of a Mormon Missionary and Elder. With Introductory Preface By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Stenhouse, Mrs. T.B.H.
Hartford Conn.: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1874.
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(2) copies of a folding menu for a banquet given by this fraternal group at this Memphis club; the A.A.O.N.M.S stands for Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, now Shriners International, attached to Freemasonry and in existence since 1870; with listing of the Imperial "Family" giving the dinner, guests; the dining beginning with a choice of cocktails, also champagne & cognac during & later; hors d'ouveres fantasie; breast of heavy milkfed chicken poulette sauce; Neapolitan ice cream in meringue shell & petit fours for dessert; approx. 7" x 8" size; some wear, soiling; good condition.
"The Imperial Family Party" Colonial Country Club Memphis Tennessee Sunday, June 9th, 1940 Al Chymia A.A.O.N.M.S. Menu
(Colonial Country Club)
Memphis Tennessee: Colonial Country Club for A.A.O.N.M.S., 1940.
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104 pages; portrait frontispiece illustration of Ketchel, other black and white illustrations in the text depicting the fighter's days in the ring and various opponents, with Fleischer's commentary; with the ring record at back; the short and notable life of this top middleweight boxer, shot and killed a few months after his last fight in 1910; bound in blue cloth, some edge, tips wear and rubbing to binding, very good condition, good boxing history.
"The Michigan Assassin" The Saga of Stanley Ketchel, World's Most Sensational Middleweight Champion
Fleischer, Nat
New York - Paris: Author Published, 1946.
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16 views of New York City in the latter part of the 19th century; printed one side; black and white; gravure process; including: East River (view of tugs & bridge); Bowling Green and Washington Buildings; Wall Street - Trinity Church, Sub-Treasury; Lower City and Broadway, South from St. Paul Building - American Surety, Empire, Washington Life, Trinity Ch.; St. Paul's Church - Park Row and St. Paul Buildings; City Hall Park - The World, Tribune, Am. Tract Soc., Times, Potter Bldgs; Union Square - Washington Statue; Dewey Triumphal Arch - Madison Square; Madison Square - Broadway, Fifth Ave., Madison Square Garden; Cornelius Vanderbilt Residence and Fifth Ave.; St. Patrick's Cathedral; Boulevard, Columbus Monument and Central Park West; The Mall - Central Park; Lake and Bethesda Fountain - Central Park; Grant Monument - Riverside Drive; The Speedway and Harlem River - Washington Bridge; oblong format, approx. 5 1/4" x 8"; original printed paper wrap covers; no longer sewn, with the old holes at edge, plates loose in the covers; some wear to wraps; contents in very good condition and a good reference for the architecture, cityscape of New York at the turn of the 19th century.
..New York.. Photo-Gravures
(New York City)
Brooklyn, New York: A. Wittemann, 1899.
Price: $65.00
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48 pages; staff was Jerome Zeitlin, editor, Morris Weisenthal guest editor for this issue and Doris Martin secretary; with contributions by Walter Houmere (art) Robert Hayden, Carrol Coates, William Carlos Williams, Howard Griffin, Harold Seigelbaum, Oscar Williams, Robert Carter, David Gascoyne, Earle Birney, David Ignatow, S. Raiziss, Hugh Chisholm, Betti Still, Bernice Kavinoky Isaacson, Paul Goodman, James Broughton, Harold Norse, Lysander Kemp, Louise Louis, Mason Jordan Mason, Weldon Kees, and reviews by Herbert Cahoon, Morris Weisenthal, Carroll Coates; in addition to early works by some very good poets, most entertaining is the presentation of the speaking schedule for "The Poetry Center of the YM-YWHA" under the direction of John Malcolm Brinnin: reading dates for Truman Capote, Arthur Miller, Valerie Bettis, A Joyce Memorial, Dylan Thomas; Richard Eberhart, Richard Wilbur, Robert Horan, Patrick Boland in one night; Elizabeth Bishop and Randall Jarrell on another; George Davis, William Carlos Williams with their own nights to read - and a subscription for the course of 10 events could "...be obtained for $ 10.00. Single admission for the readings is $ 1.50..."; there are a couple of advertisements at the back for local eateries and for services catering to students, artists, writers needs; original white printed paper wrap covers; some edge, tips wear and soiling to binding; contents in very good condition
12th Street: A Quarterly Volume III Number 1 December 1949 Poetry Issue
(12th Street)
New York: Students of the New School for Social Research New York, 1949.
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1653-1903 Historic Huntington Long Island N.Y.
(Huntington)
Huntington Long Island New Yor: 1903.
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1772 Manuscript Deed of Lands Between John & Henry Whitson & Samuel, Richard and Richard Jackson Junior in Oyster Bay Queens County Colony of New York
(Manuscript Deed)
1772.
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2-sided Eighteenth-century manuscript quitclaim or release for lands owned by William Durrell, Merchant of New York, to Joseph Townsend & Daniel Youngs of Township of Oyster Bay, Queens County in Nassau Island State of New York, executors of the estate of Benjamin Birdsall of Oyster Bay; dated 8th day of January 1787; 12 1/2" x 7 3/4" approximate size; with the names of Edward C. Colwell, Wm Talman, witnessing, William Durrell signing the document, with the original paper-covered red wax seal; accomplished in a very legible hand in dark brown ink, chain-laid watermark paper; Oyster Bay local historical figures of note, Townsend & Youngs families given extensive mention in Mather's opus genealogical work, "The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut"; a Birdsall family member was a Long Island writer and local historian of note; light edge, tips wear and darkening to leaf, old repairs on fold lines on back; very good condition and interesting.
1787 Manuscript Quitclaim to Lands in the Town of Oyster Bay Long Island New York Between William Durrell of New York City Merchant & Joseph Townsend & Daneil Youngs of Oyster Bay
(Manuscript Quitclaim)
1787.
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Small handwritten document noting these transactions and dated Sept. 30 1789 and later that year & next for the items, the shoes being for "Brother Silas"; signed as paid in full by Isaac Denton; 5 1/8" x 5 3/4" approx. size; no location and most probably Brooklyn Long Island, New York; light wear, old fold lines; very good condition and a good micro-glimpse of trade at the beginning of the American Republic; the business still transacted in the British pounds & shillings system.
1789 Manuscript American Business Document Jacob Hicks to Isaac Denton for Tea, Snuff, Nails, Axes, Shoes
(Manuscript Americana - Business)
New York: Not Published, 1789.
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Double-sided document, framed and glazed as such; with printed text filled in manuscript; detailing a sale of land from Nathan H. Whiting to David Emes; regarding "...one certain Lott of Land - Lying in the township of Whitingham County of Windham State of Vermont. being Number 8 in Whitings Grants so called."; the document witnessed on the 9th of July 1794, witnessed by Ruth Gay, Ruth Butter, Nathan H. Whiting and with the Justice of the Peace signature at bottom right of Noah Webster Sr., father of the famous American lexicographer; Noah Webster (1722-1813) served in the French and Indian War and a captain on the 'alarm list' for men over forty-five, in the American Revolution; with the original paper-covered wax seal present; back of document with the note of Jabez Foster the Town Clerk for Whitingham, recording the exchange in the town; Whitingham is perhaps most famously noted as the birthplace of Brigham Young, the Mormon prophet and founder of Salt Lake City, Utah; mounted in a double-sided gilt frame, old mattes and glass; visible surface 7 1/2" x 12 1/2"; frame makes it about 12 1/4" x 17 1/4"; some wear and chipping to decorative edge of framing, old fold lines to document, some with light splitting visible, no loss to text or sense of the document; some bleed-through of the ink from the front; an interesting 18th century American deed.
1794 Partially Printed Deed from Nathan H. Whiting of Hartford Connecticut to David Emes of Sharon, New Hampshire for Lands in the Whiting Land Grant in Vermont Signed By Noah Webster Justice of the Peace
(Manuscript Deed)
Hartford Connecticut: 1794.
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Collection includes 50 individual items, with some of these running to multiple pages; 1798 - 2 documents; 1800-1810 being 5 pieces; 1811-1820 having 13 items; 1821-1830 with 19 cases; 1838 with 1 and 1843 with 1 case; the Justices involved include Abraham Ditmars, William Mott, Oliver Denton, Richard Bedell, Cary Dunn Jr., William Furman, Amory Remson, James Hendrickson, Luke Covert and others; areas mentioned include Oyster Bay, Hempstead, North Hempstead, Jamaica, all within the old Queens County jurisdiction; for offenses including chicken- stealing, assault and battery on a woman, tenancy eviction, insolvency and debtors arrangements, tavern licensing, juror lists, various pleas and statements, dockets on cases; document sizes and paper quality varies, most written in very legible hands on good quality paper, several with the original wax seals still extant; about 1/2 dozen of the documents are partially printed and have the blindstamp of the State of NY and completed by hand; some wear, splitting along old fold lines; in generally good to very good condition and an interesting group of law and crime related documents from Long Island in the earliest part of the 19th century, with a variety of legal import.
1798 - 1843 Collection of Legal Documents Queens County Long Island New York State, Court of Common Pleas, Supreme Court and Special Sessions
(Manuscript Americana - Law)
New York: Not Published, 1798.
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1798 Manuscript Deed from Huntington Queens County Long Island New York John Bishop to David Wood Families Crabmeadow
(Manuscript Deed)
Oyster Bay New York: 1798.
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1798 Manuscript Ordinance Town of Oyster Bay Long Island New York
(Manuscript Ordinance)
1798.
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1799 Manuscript Obligation Binding Joshua & Charles Cornwall to John R.C. Luyster & Luke Kouwenhaven Regarding Monies Owed the Estate of Daniel Lent, All of Newtown County of Queens Long Island New York
(Newtown)
Newtown New York: 1799.
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