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1882ref. 57702Clayville NY: E.J. Clemens ca. 1882. Jigsaw Puzzle Map of New York State A detailed dissected sectional map of New York State with each county forming its own puzzle piece. The map is one prepared by G.W. & C.B. Colton based on previous maps published by their predecessor Joseph H. Colton. It depicts the State of New York delineated by county with towns cities railroads canals and some topographical details marked as well as insets of New York City and Niagara Falls. The publisher of the puzzle Rev. E.J. Clemens of the small town of Clayville New York south of Utica produced numerous such dissected puzzles of the country and its states in the late 19th century under the banner of "Clemens' Silent Teacher" with an aim to help children learn geography. He also had an aim to run advertisements – several editions of this and other Clemens puzzles were printed advertising different products on the reverse. The reverse of this copy prints an ad for Sherwin-Williams Paint including an illustration of their factory and offices in Cleveland as well as insets of their Chicago office on Jackson Street and their New York office on Fulton Street. A rare and detailed early American jigsaw puzzle. Seventy wooden puzzle pieces completed size 12 × 16 inches. Evenly toned scattered stains light edge wear to most pieces. Printed image beginning to peel at the edges of some pieces more severe on verso of pieces. Good plus in a later fitted wooden case with latch lacking the original box. PHILLIPS MAPS p. 517. OCLC 907446042 another ed. unknown books
1789ref. List3854Kings County Province of New York Brooklyn 1789. Three manuscript documents on two pages measuring approximately 8 ¼ x 13 inches; relating to county taxation and court administration in Kings County including two early colonial warrants directed to the assessors and collector of "Brookland"; i.e. Brooklyn. Extensively repaired with archival tape with damage especially to right margin and at folds intersecting with text. Fair. Two colonial-era Kings County tax warrants issued in the twenty-first year of the reign of George II commanding the assessors and collector of Brookland to raise the town's share of the county rate. Addressed "To the assessors & Collector of Brookland" the documents open in formal warrant language: "Kings County. To the assessors & Collector of Brookland These We hereunder written being Supervisors for the Respective towns of the County abovesaid in the Province of New York; To the Assessors and Collector of Brookland Greeting in his Majesty's name you and each of you are hereby . strictly required and commanded ." One warrant directs the local officers "to assess collect and gather of and from every shop scholar inhabitants & resident neighbors within your town and precincts thereof their equal part share & proportion" of the town's tax burden specified as "the full and just sum of twenty six pounds & four pence Current Money of New York." The money was to be paid to "Mr. Peter Lefferts Treasurer for the County aforesaid" by the appointed February deadline. The second 1747 document directs the local officers to collect "Tax on Estates real and Personal for the More Effectuall fortifying of this Colony &c." to the tune of thirteen thousand pounds. The language is especially useful for showing the practical mechanics of colonial local government: the county supervisors apportioning the tax the town assessors and collector gathering it from inhabitants and the county treasurer receiving it. It further gives the collector authority in the event of nonpayment: "if any person or persons shall long refuse or neglect to pay their parts shares or proportions of the said sum of twenty six pounds and four pence being assessed as abovesaid it shall and may be lawful to and for you to levy illegible due to fold split and crease on the goods & chattels of the defaulters having regard to the laws of this Colony ." The document closes in the usual form "hereof you are not to fail" adding that the warrant is given "under our hands & seals this Sixth day of paper loss in the twenty first year of his Majesty's Reign Anno Dom'i 1747." Both are signed by Kings County supervisors S. Gerritsen Isaac Sebring John Verkerk Marten Schenck and Leffert Lefferts with one signature illegible. Lefferts of the prominent Lefferts family co-founded and served as the first president of the Long Island Bank Brooklyn's first bank and was the first judge of Kings County. On the verso of the first colonial-era warrant is a later Kings County account 1789-90 submitted to Sheriff Charles Turnbull a Revolutionary War veteran who took office as Brooklyn's High Sheriff in 1789. The account records ordinary county legal expenses including: "April 20 / To Summoning Grand Jury - £1-4 - To Making a List of Freeholders 1-10 - Sept. 4 To Summoning Grand Jury of Supreme Court 1-4 - . Term To Cash paid for Candles &c. 0-5 - 1790 To Summoning Grand Jury 1-4 - fall term / To Summoning Grand Jury 1-4 - £6-11" Taken together the two documents offer an appealing Kings County grouping: two colonial Brookland tax warrants and an early Federal sheriff's account. The 1747 warrants are the stronger piece particularly for the direct address to the town's assessors and collector county tax language and reference to Peter Lefferts as county treasurer. The later sheriff's account is less dramatic but it pairs naturally as another Kings County administrative document this time showing court-related duties such as summoning grand juries and preparing a list of freeholders. . unknown books
1874ref. List3883New York City 1874. Single-sided business card measuring 3 ½ x 2 ¼ inches. Toned at edges and slightly wrinkled very good plus. A business card for publisher and bookseller John Ignatius Cullen 1834-1874. An immigrant from Britain Cullen was then working with D. & J. Sadlier & Co. of New York City a bookbinding and publishing house producing predominantly Catholic material. The address listed on the business card 31 Barclay St. dates it to between 1862 and Cullen's death in 1874. The New York Tablet 1858-1881 was a Catholic periodical managed by Irish immigrant author Mary Anne Sadlier wife of publisher James Sadlier. The Sadliers were prominent in New York's Irish Catholic society and their friends included Archbishop John Hughes Canadian politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee and activist and Catholic convert Orestes Brownson. Besides his own bookstore in Jersey City John Cullen traveled to promote the Tablet; he died suddenly while canvassing for the publication in Rhode Island.1 1 "Burial of John Ignatius Cullen" The Jersey Journal December 15 1874 4. . unknown books
1880ref. List3999New York City: Donaldson Brothers 1880. Three cards two measuring 3 x 5 inches and one 5 ⅜ x 3 ⅛ inches. Worn especially at corners with occasional small stains; two with small unrelated manuscript verso; one with likely glue residue verso. Lithographs bright and attractive. Overall very good to excellent. Three trade cards advertising Starin's Glen Island considered the US's first amusement park located just off New Rochelle in Westchester County. Shipping magnate John H. Starin 1825-1909 opened the park in 1879. It consisted of six islands connected by covered walking bridges; the cards advertise attractions including a zoo dancing boating and bathing bowling and especially the "Old Fashioned Rhode Island Clam Bake Served on the arrival of each Steamer" from New York City. It would later also include a natural history museum aviary and greenhouse and exhibits themed around Germany India Japan the Philippines and more. The trade cards feature attractive lithographs of boats on Long Island Sound and women swimming and relaxing by the shores. Glen Island was part of the late nineteenth-century transformation of Long Island Sound and the Westchester shore into a recreational landscape for New York City day-trippers reached by excursion steamers and marketed through colorful advertising. Starin's combination of steamboat travel themed amusements bathing animals music food service and picturesque grounds anticipated the more elaborate amusement parks that would define metropolitan leisure at Coney Island and elsewhere. Donaldson Brothers unknown books
2000ref. 6256New York: Christie's 2000. Very Good. 28 cm; 92 pages ads; many full-page color illustrations one folding. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket sun-bleached along spine else fine. Sale catalogue of the auction at Christie's New York on 10 March 2000. The sale consisted of a single lot: Audubon's Birds of America. One of 119 complete copies known to exist. Copy originally owned by George Lane Fox 17931848 and subsequently by John Crichton-Stuart 4th Marquess of Bute. It sold for $8802500 a record at the time. Christie's hardcover books
ref. 18762NEW YORK REPORT UPON THE FINANCES AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 1838. New York: John S. Taylor 1838. 8vo. Disbound. ii 65 6 pages. There was indeed a time when New York actually ran a surplus. Light foxing to early leaves otherwise a very bright copy. Appendix misbound between pages forty-six and forty-seven. unknown books
1920ref. List1602New York 1920. First Edition. Gelatin silver print measuring 8 x 10 inches. Some editorial marks to verso very good contrast very good overall. Very Good. The Dunbar Apartments were one of the first developments built for African-Americans in a period in which there was a shortage of housing in Harlem. John D. Rockefeller Jr. funded the project which was completed in 1926-1928. Offered here is an uncommon period press photograph of the project dating from the period of the project's completion in the late 1920s. The verso reads " Dunbar Apts / New Rockefeller Apts / 149th 7th Ave." A wooden cart and some original signage is visible on the surrounding streets. unknown books
1860ref. 9034New York: Lith. of W. Faust 105 Nassau St 1860. Broadside wine list 25.5 x 15.5 cm. 1 page. Porcelain card decorated in chromolithograph with text in blue and red. A very early wine list from an important New York hotel and dining establishment. The hotel was at the corner of Broadway and Eleventh Street across from Grace Church and Rectory. Both the hotel and the church were designed by the architect James Renwick Jr. Named for its original owner Denis Julien the St. Denis Hotel opened in 1853 just in time for the Crystal Palace Exhibition. The building was leased to William Taylor in 1875 who incorporated the Taylor Saloon into the facility. The list features Clarets from Finke Merman of Bordeaux mostly from 1847 and 1848. And French whites including 1847 Latour Blanche and 1847 d'Yquem. Champagne Sherries and Madeiras are also included. A solid piece of printing from a firm more known for fruit labels. Verso contains an unattributed primitive pencil drawing of a horse. Some darkening to the top edge of the recto. Lith. of W. Faust, 105 Nassau St unknown books
1877ref. 123981877. Oblong folio. 13 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches. 19 original watercolours 11 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches and smaller mounted recto and verso of 7 thin card leaves one page mounted with 4 drawings one with 3 and one with 2 the others with 1 drawing per page the final page blank all painted by a single hand and all with the location identified in ink in the lower margin of each drawing or on the mount just below. Modern blue half morocco gilt blue morocco title label centrally-placed on upper cover 'Voyage aux / Etats-Unis / 1876-77' A fine series of original watercolour views of Lake George N.Y. and elsewhere - including one watercolour of Central Park New York. From the heading 'Voyage aux Etats-Unis / 1876-1877' on the first page of this album as well as from the wording of the captions to the drawings it is clear that these highly accomplished watercolours are the work of a French-speaking visitor to North America in 1876-1877. They include 14 views of Lake George and its vicinity including one of Caldwell now Lake George Village and one of Tea Island. Also included is a single view of a rocky outcrop and trees in Central Park another of Glenn Falls on the Hudson and a third of the Montmorency Falls just outside Quebec as well as two fine but rather unexpected Swiss views of Amphion Lake Geneva both dated 1877. unknown books
1927ref. 202755Avon NY: Parent-Teacher's Association of Avon New York 1927. Paperback. Good. Paperback stapled dark grey wraps printed in black 8.75" x 6" local ads throughout text contributors' names by recipes 104 pp. Inscribed from Elsie Seward "her 2nd yr as teacher in Avon High School." A good inscription which indicates this might be the high school PTA. Corners to wraps are chipped off wraps soiled cake pages soiled but generally a good usable copy. "Mother's Chili Sauce" handwritten recipe to one of the blank pages a few other pencil notes to recipes. One copy found in OCLC. Parent-Teacher's Association of Avon, New York paperback books
1934ref. 39828New York: G. W. Bromley & Company 1934. Very Good. New York: G. W. Bromley & Company 1934. First Edition from an unknown number printed but with "No. 70" cut and pasted to front free endpaper. Oblong folio 30x43.5cm; original gray cloth stamped in red and black; 8pp. index 188 color plates with extensive pasted-in cancels collated and complete. Boards soiled and edgeworn with minor fraying; binding sound; occasional spotting and chipping to edges else a Very Good and sound copy. Incredibly detailed block by block map of Depression-era Manhattan notable for the meticulous updates by hand to nearly every plate with paper cutouts and adjacent glue smears placed above the originals presumably to account for the fast pace of change in the city's urban landscape. Bromley had last produced a Manhattan land book in 1930. Remarkable for its production level of detail and capturing New York in its skyscraper heyday. G. W. Bromley & Company unknown books
1951ref. 196805New York: The New York Historical Society 1951. Paperback. Good Wraps are worn overall with smudging/toning; spine strip is peeling at the top; textblock edges are toned/foxed/worn; interior is clean; binding is solid. Off-white wraps with black lettering and illustration; 216 pp; richly illustrated. Contains an article by Susan Sawitzky entitled "Thomas McIlworth active 1758 to c. 1769." [The New York Historical Society] paperback books
1910ref. 183463New York 1910. Hardcover. G Decorative weave on cover beginning to shread outer spine missing. Bookblock shows age toning. Decorative gold weave over cloth boards with red title block and gilt lettering. 40 pgs. illustrations. Fourteen mounted color illustrations of some of their products: watches brooches necklaces watches silverware vases pearls etc. hardcover books
1876ref. 184008New York: New-York Historical Society 1876. Hardcover. VG bookplate Jane C. Russel front end paper ex-library back end paper. Pages clean and tight. Small tears on top/bottom of spine. Green leather; gily leterring on spine. x 4 553 pages. Contents: I. Official letters of Major General James Pattison.--II. Letters to General Lewis Morris. Shelf appeal title. We have plenty of these titles by year or set. Please search website. New-York Historical Society hardcover books
1974ref. 132467NY: American Federation of Arts 1974. Softcover. VG. Color illustrated wraps. Unpaginated. 149 bw illustrations. Features work from the Americas Africa and Oceana. American Federation of Arts paperback books
1985ref. 233661985. Softbound. Green wraps. 89 pp. 13 bw 59 color plates. This catalogue should not be confused with the earlier smaller catalogue published for the terra Museum in 1981. This is a large format 9" x 11" catalogue with substantial text and large color plates. 60 works are listed and illustrated. There are text illustrations as well making this a most useful study of the pictures presented. Essays include notes at end. paperback books
1933ref. 288201933. Softcover. Good cover soiled interior tight. Off-white ill. stapled wraps. 22 pp. 9 bw plates. Catalogue lists105 items. A fair number of these items had been included in Museum exhibitions including the Newark Museum 1930-1931 The Albright-Knox Art Gallery 1932 and The Palace of Honer in San Francisco. paperback books
ref. 28328Hardcover. VG/VG. Black boards black ill. DJ. Approx. 139 pp. 88 color plates. A veritable Who's Who of American Western Painters are represented here by top-shelf works. A wonderful collection that set records. hardcover books
1935ref. 4846New York: National Herald 1935. Good. 160pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers a bit chipped and soiled front wrapper and first three text leaves detached. Contents a bit shaken and tender. A wonderful almanac issued by the Greek-language National Herald considered the paper of record for the Greek communities living in the United States particularly New York. The almanac is printed entirely in Greek and includes information typical for almanacs: schedules of upcoming cultural events a holiday schedule and so forth. There are also numerous stories poems and articles throughout focused of course on the Greek community with numerous illustrations and photographs decorating the text throughout. National Herald unknown books
1924ref. 5500Japan 1924. Very good. Four broadside documents two maps and a stamped envelope. Folded for postal delivery minor overall wear and some toning a few small areas of insect damage. A small but notable collection of documents and maps documenting the New York region in the early-1920s. The two folding maps depict New York with one in color and the other being a reprint of a map from the New York American of Sunday January 22 1922 showing the NYC area marked with concentric circles representing increasing land values. The text around the map promotes a very positive view of the real estate market in the New York area. The four broadside documents are essentially leaflets reprinting various New York Times and other articles each measuring around 20 x 7 inches and printed all in Japanese. These broadsides encourage potential Japanese investment in a syndicate promoting urban redevelopment in New York and its surroundings report on the New York Port Authority business opportunities in NYC and more. The material was produced by the New York Land and Building Company one of a number of schemes created in Japan during or immediately following the First World War promoting speculation in relatively risky investment schemes. The NYLBC was founded by Japanese real estate speculator Okamoto Yonezo and was a fascinating precursor to later Japanese overseas investment and emigration efforts. The present documents and maps provide important insights into the economic and social relations between Japan and the United States on the eve of the 1924 Exclusion Act. unknown books
1829ref. 5234New York: New York Protestant Episcopal Press 1829. Very good. Broadside 10.5 x 9 inches. Old folds foxing creasing and toning with substantial but irregularly-trimmed margins. An unrecorded New York broadside advertising the opening of the New York Protestant Episcopal Press NYPEP and related activities at No. 46 Lumber Street in New York City in 1829. The text states that "PRINTING of every description will be executed for Churches Bible and Common Prayer-Book Societies Tract Societies Missionary or Education Societies and all other religious institutions of the Protestant Episcopal Church at the lowest rates and in the best manner" and that the new establishment will "also be the publication office of The Family Visiter and Sunday School Magazine; and of The Children's Magazine." The text also includes notes about the business of the organization as well as notices to "Booksellers who are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church" and "secretaries of religious and charitable associations." In addition to their printing and binding work the broadside states that the NYPEP will take charge of the depositories of five New York institutions -- the General Protestant Episcopal Sunday Union the New York Bible and Common Prayer-Book Society the Auxiliary New York Bible and Common Prayer-Book Society the New York Protestant Episcopal Tract Society and the New York Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Society. The bottom half of the broadside is taken up with a listing of the organization's Board of Trustees "Other Managers" the general agent book-keeper printer William Van Norden and binder Christian Brown along with a postscript with details on various forthcoming publications by the press. William Van Norden was a prolific printer in New York in the first half of the 19th century producing more than just religious works. He printed the collected works of Benjamin Franklin Hannah Moore's memoir and the Proceedings of the New York Historical Society among many other works and later helped produce The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. We could locate no other copies of this broadside anywhere. [New York Protestant Episcopal Press] unknown books
1887ref. 107224Double sheet map 22" X 15 1/2" spme color inserts of Troy Buffalo Rochester NYC and Albany. Map is laid down attached to a thin sheet pf cardboard neat line for edge of NYC is at the end. Slight aging and despite the fact that it is laid down easily framable or attached to thicker backing. Nice looking map. W.H. Gamble books
1908ref. 9883Brooklyn New York: The Pearl Press 375 Pearl Street 1908. Octavo 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 87 pages. Advertisements throughout. FIRST EDITION. An attractive community cookbook from the aptly named Westchester County hamlet of Pleasantville. It's unclear the connection between Pleasantville's St John's Guild and Peg Woffington. Margaret "Peg" Woffington was a popular 18th century English actress linked romantically to David Garrick. A tea house in Teddington UK with a two hundred fifty year history was established by Woffington but otherwise the connection seems tenuous. A few small stains on the front board of black and red printed cloth binding otherwise near fine. Scarce. OCLC shows four copies. The Pearl Press, 375 Pearl Street hardcover books
1840ref. 306925New York: Publication Office 1840. hardcover. good. 12mo 214pp. scattered foxing and damp staining along inner hinges blind stamped green cloth gilt title on front cover extremes of spine repaired. New York: Publication Office 1840. Second Edition. Good. Publication Office unknown books
1815ref. 275647New York: New-York Courier 1815. First. pamphlet. 21 pages printed with text in double columns. Original pamphlet sewn dampstain at upper corner and rough at edges but well inside the ample margins; some pages still un-opened. New York: At the Office of the New-York Courier 1815. First edition. A very good copy of this exceedingly scarce pamphlet. OCLC lists only 13 copies including those at Columbia Cornell Yale Harvard and the New York Historical Society. Attributed to Isaac Bronson by F. Redlich in "The Molding of American Banking" 1868 volume 1 page 308. "Isaac Bronson was a highly successful financier of the Jacksonian era who was also one of the period's most original and influential banking theorists. Bronson accumulated his very considerable fortune in New York primarily by judicious personal money-lending operations on long-term bonds and mortgages at a cautious 7 per cent annual return supplemented by successful ventures in land speculation. In addition to wealth he had by the 1830's acquired a weighty reputation for sober financial conservatism and was regarded as an authoritative exponent of sound banking principles. Prominent in the financial community he had long thrown his weight as a sound banking theorist against the "wild-cat" practices of the then rampant state banks." --Venit A. 1945. The Journal of Economic History New-York Courier unknown books
