COLD SPRING NY from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Cold Spring, NY, 1864. A collection of 16 hair samples collected by the Maloy Family, plus 2 handwritten notes dated 1842 and 1862. Each hair sample is folded in paper, sometimes newsprint, with names written in pen on the outside. Names include: Daniel Meloy, James Meloy, B. Meloy, Frances, George, Elisabeth, Amos, Lovenda, 1859 Charles Haight, Roleph R.… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1875. First printing. Paperback. Good + overall. Four monthly issues of The Art Journal of 1875 featuring an illustrated article on the Hudson River from the City up to and including West Point. The woodblock illustrations are by J.D. Woodward. January: The Hudson River, introduction, illustrated, pp5-8. NYC to The Palisades … Read more about this item

New York: Van Nostrand, 1867. First printing. Hardcover. Internally very good, binding holding.. Handsome little production, with very interesting maps. The map "1866 West Point and It's Vicinity" is a gem, including details on both sides of the river, including Garrison & Cold Spring, marking the Foundry and the Highland Hotel, which sat on the site of the… Read more about this item

New York: E. Anthony, 1860. Good + overall. View of the river looking north with land and a house in foreground. From the Beauties of the Hudson series, No. 548. Approx. 7 x 3.5", square edged images mounted on tan card, with rubbed corners, image somewhat effected by fox spotting.

New York, 152 Nassau St.: Currier & Ives, 1860. Print. View of the chapel which presides over the Hudson River in Cold Spring, Putnam County, with the view sketched from the river looking up to the Chapel. Charming boats in the river, below a still-popular site for weddings. Original period color. Image 12 1/2 x 9" with margins. Framed… Read more about this item

New York: John Dainty & American News Co., 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. A guide to NYC and the Hudson River and upstate NY. The contents include Blackwell's Island, Bellevue Hospital, Central Park, Columbia Univ. College of Physicians, Cooper Institute, Ferry Boats, Steamboats, Five Points House of Industry and Mission House, Greenwood Cemetery, High Bridge, Howard… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Paperback. A signed copy of Frances Dunwell's first book on the Hudson River Highlands, giving a history of the river that starts with Henry Hudson and progresses to the Revolutionary War, Robert Fulton, West Point, the Hudson River school of painting, the West Point Foundry, A.J. Downing and his landscape architecture, the Underground… Read more about this item

London, 1869. View taken from the right of Trophy Point, with the artillery crew loading a cannon aimed at Constitution Island! Cold Spring's church steeple rising out of what should be Constitution Island. Exceptionally crisp engraving, with lovely barges, sailboats & steam ships in the river. Steel engraving with later hand coloring Image approx 7 1/2 x6 1/2", on… Read more about this item

London, 1838. Very good condition. Hand colored, steel engraving ca 1845. Image approx 7x6", on paper approx. 10x8"

New York: Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau Street, 1862. Print. A patriotic image produced in the midst of the Civil War. The artist was Fannie Palmer, the renowned female artist at Currier & Ives, whose work is much sought after. To this day, this remains a splendid vista from West Point, looking from Trophy Point up the… Read more about this item

New York: American Views, New H Series, 1867. Good. An image of Cold Spring taken from above, perhaps Rock Street, overlooking the town with a mill on the right of image. The river and a schooner in background. Images with curved upper corners, mounted on yellow card, approx. 7 x 3.5". Card dusty, slt. marked., edges rubbed.

New York: Frederic Delano Weekes, 1933. Limited edition to 200 copies. Hardcover. Good + condition. Limited edition of 200, of which this is number 55, a presentation copy signed by Frederic Delano Weekes, 1933, inscribed to Ruth Gillette Hardy, a Barnard graduate and New York educator. Nice copy of this extremely scarce work specifically focused on the… Read more about this item

London: George Virtue, 1840. Hardcover. Good + condition. Two volumes bound in one. The engravings provide some lovely Bartlett views of the Hudson River Valley, such as View From West Point, Crow's Nest from Bull Hill, View From Ruggle's House, Newburgh, Peekskill Landing, and Indian Falls near Cold Spring. Arguably Bartlett's most famous work. He visited… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Leon Hyneman, 1860. Hardcover. Good + overall. Most interesting for the second half of the book which includes detailed listings of Masonic members, their profession, the firm they work for, their addresses & their lodge. For Cold Spring, NY, there are 16 members, many of whom work for the West Point Foundry. Other Hudson River communities with… Read more about this item

Louisville, KY: Richmond and Lousville Medical Journal Book and Job Steam Press, 1878. Wraps. Mr. Livingston's signed copy of a pamphlet pertaining to Florida as a suitable "health resort" for Northern patients, by Frederick Lente MD. Dr. Lente (1823 - 1883) was the primary surgeon at the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring NY, during the Civil War. He served… Read more about this item

1907. Hardcover. Very good condition. An album of wonderfully composed, sharp silver gelatin photographs printed on thick photographic paper, of steamboat trips by a very talented amateur photographer. These are all original shots: in all there are 99 b&w photographs laid down in the album, usually one but sometimes 2 per page, and most of the Hudson River.… Read more about this item

London: Geo Virtue, 1837. Very good. A sweeping view of the Hudson Highlands from the east side looking toward "Crow Nest", with Constitution Island in the middle ground and West Point in the distance. Crow's Nest is depicted with steep imposing cliffs plunging to the river, which is serene and glassy; the view is framed by three twisted… Read more about this item

New York: Harper's Weekly, 1875. An attractive young woman stands in a look-out built in trees on the east bank of the Hudson River, looking northward towards what appears to be West Point and Constitution Island, which is rather taller than in reality. Full page of illustration from the Harper's Weekly newspaper. Woodcut illustration with later hand coloring. Page… Read more about this item

1879. Very good condition. Broadside listing the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, N. Y. as a reference for a sand company in what is now known as Beacon, NY. Printed signature of Geo. Wade, President. With the initial caps of the company elaborately decorated. Original horizontal folds. Printed broadside, 5 x 8"

London: Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, 1824. Reissue. Hardcover. Good - condition. A volume from the series, with important material on the French Revolution. Begun in 1758, The Annual Register was an annual survey of the past year from a British perspective, usually focusing on history, politics and literature. The volume for 1791 with Chapter VII and Chapter IX… Read more about this item