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AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1968.
Price: $75.00
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CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKS ON BIBLIOGRAPHY, TYPOGRAPHY AND ENGRAVING, IN THE NEW-YORK STATE LIBRARY
Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen, 1858.
Price: $100.00
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COLLECTIONS, HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS...
Concord: J.B. Moore, 1824.
Price: $60.00
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CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA; THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION BETWEEN THE SAID STATES; THE TREATIES BETWEEN HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. --AND THE TREATIES BETWEE
Boston: Norman & Bowen, 1785.
Price: $2,000.00
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EIN ERNSTLICHER RUF AN DIE DEUTSCHEN IN PENNSYLVANIEN
Lancaster: Johann Albrecht, [1799].
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Bound in modern quarter green goatskin; folding frontispiece of chess board in expert facsimile. The second book published in America on chess and the first by an American. To Americanize the game, the author suggested renaming the pieces: Governor for King; Captain for Knight; Pioneer for Pawn. Quite scarce especially when uncut as with this copy.
ELEMENTS OF CHESS
Boston: W. Pelham, 1805.
Price: $750.00
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INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY
New York: Publishers Co., (1967).
Price: $250.00
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MEMORIAL OF A CONVENTION OF THE FRIENDS OF NATIONAL INDUSTRY...
Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1819.
Price: $150.00
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Sheet of Paper from Leffingwell Mill, Connecticut's first papermaker (1766) with full watermark present
Price: $35.00
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SLAVE NARRATIVES
(New York): The Library of America, (2000).
Price: $150.00
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THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES, Volumes XXXVII and XXXVIII, 1836 and 1837
[Philadelphia]: [Lea Brothers], [1836-1837].
Price: $125.00
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THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE OF USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE
Boston: Sibley & Dow, 1839.
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Octavo (5" x 8-3/8") bound in contemporary tree calf with a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label. Includes the July - December 1788 issues of this, one of the most important miscellaneous magazines of the eighteenth century. The subscriber's list includes George Washington and many of the important figures in early American history. Contains much related to the new country including the Bill of Rights, Constitutional Amendments, and the various states' ratification of the Constitution. Also articles on slavery and other matters. Early bookplate of the Library of the German Society on the front pastedown over two other early bookplates, one apparently another Philadelphia institution and the other a mystery; early ink library numbers on the front endpaper. Small hole on one leaf with loss of a few words; another leaf with clean tear and no loss. Light browning throughout. The G signature for Issue Two is duplicated at Issue Four with the resulting loss of the G signature for the latter issue. Front cover holding by two cords with the front edge darkened as is the spine. The leather is dry but has been treated and is now stable.
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM: OR REPOSITORY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN FUGITIVE PIECES, &C PROSE AND POETICAL. VOLUME IV
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1788.
Price: $500.00
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Handsomely bound in recent calf-backed marbled boards with a gilt-stamped spine volume number and a burgundy morocco gilt-lettered title spine label. Includes material of American interest including several letters signed in type by George Washington and Washington's Farewell Orders to the Armies of the United States dated 2 Nov. 1783. Also includes the transcript of the Paris Peace Treaty between Great Britain and the United States of America that formally ended the American Revolutionary War: "His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof." There is also an account of the "Description of Experiments made with the Aerostatic Machine, &c. by M. Faujas de St. Fond." Mostly light dampstaining to many pages not affecting the text to any serious degree.
THE ANNUAL REGISTER ... FOR THE YEAR 1783 containing The Paris Peace Treaty that ended the American Revolution
London: J. Dodsley, 1785.
Price: $500.00
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THE DAILY OGDEN JUNCTION
Ogden: Aug. 21, 1879.
Price: $30.00
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THE MICROSCOPE. Vol. I, #1-25, March 21-June 13, 1820
New Haven: A.H. Maltby, 1820.
Price: $200.00
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Duodecimo (4-1/2" x 7") in original pictorial boards with a blue cloth spine; 120 pages with additional pages of ads at the beginning and end. "Splendidly Illustrated with 124 Wood-cuts." Contains a full ten illustrated pages about baseball as well as a mention of tennis and much on cricket, rugby, etc.
THE PLAY GROUND; OR, OUT-DOOR GAMES FOR BOYS. A BOOK OF HEALTHY RECREATIONS FOR YOUTH. CONTAINING UPWARDS OF A HUNDRED AMUSEMENTS, INCLUDING GAMES OF ACTIVITY AND SPEED; GAMES WITH TOYS, MARBLES, TOPS, HOOPS, KITES, BALLS; AND FULL INSTRUCTIONS IN ARCHERY
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1866).
Price: $2,000.00
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THE TRAVELLER'S STORY; OR THE VILLAGE BAR-ROOM
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, [1835].
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TYPOGRAPHIA: AN ODE ON PRINTING
Roanoke: Amer. Inst. of Graphic Arts, 1926.
Price: $85.00
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VISITORS' GUIDE TO THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION AND PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1876.
Price: $75.00
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