Search Results: NEW YORK STATE from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Newburgh, NY, 1836. Very good condition. A leather bound account book with entries beginning January 1, 1836; at year end Aaron Belknap had a very healthy balance at his local bank of $3,273.54. With a loosely inserted check for $6.25 made out to Whitcomb Tarbell, dated Jan 17th 1839, printed, signed by Aaron Belknap. With spindle puncture at center. The account book measures 4 1/2 x 7"; account title written in ink at front cover in contemporary hand. The village of Newburgh was incorporated in 1800. Located on the Hudson it expanded and became a major center of commerce from 1850 on. With a well developed transportation network, it was an important steamboat river stop and attracted many businesses whose ships engaged in international trade. Early Newburgh was even part of the whaling boom of the 1800s, and it was a ferry landing for coal brought from Pennsylvania. The Bank of Newburgh was chartered in 1811 and for twenty three years was the only banking institution in the area; it also had a… Read More

Watertown, NY: Santway Photo Craft Company, 1921. Paperback. Very good+. A pamphlet of early Adirondack history. Small 8vo, 77 pp. Heavy tan wrapper with title printed on front cover. No title on spine.

Albany: State of New York Conversation Department, 1938. Wraps. Good + condition. Early pamphlet on the Adirondacks, during the tenure of Lithgow Osborne, Commissioner. Osborne was deeply involved in conservation work in NY state, for example buying up fishing rights from private landowners in order to preserve a continuous stretch of river front for public fishing. As Commissioner of Conservation he helped to oppose private interests trying to weaken "forever wild" provisions of the Forest Preserve at the NY state constitutional convention of 1938. With large folding map titled, "Map Showing Highways, Public Campsites and Historic Sites in the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains of the New York State Forest Preserve". Compiled by W. D. Mulholland, and dated 1937. A large fire prevention notice at upper left corner. 8vo, 42pp, b&w printed photographic illustrations. Printed paper wrappers, spine strengthened with extra strip of brown paper, wrappers chipped at edges.

1890. Ephemera. Very good overall. A large wrapping paper with advertising printed for E. Hammann & Son (Successors to Hammann Bros.) for custom repair of Boots, Shoes and Rubbers. At top an illustration of the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge (completed in 1883). Brown paper wrapper, 20 x 16.5", some wrinkles and fold lines, edges slt. ruffled yet clean and interesting image.

1914. Very unusual interior view of a working sheriff's office. Labeled on back, "Al Barry, Owego, NY". One man handing another an object (badge?) inside a sheriff's office. 9 1/2 X 7 1/2". Creased at lower left corner; chipped upper left corner, o/w very good and clear.

Albany: State of New York, 1907. First printing. Hardcover. Good + overall. A bright, clean copy of the annual reports for 1904-1905-1906. 4to, 41pp, 24 color plates of fish by S. F. Denton, color plates of the beaver & ruffed grouse partridge by Ernest Thompson Seton. Numerous black and white drawings of outdoor scenes by H. T. Watson, and numerous photographs in the text. Two fold-out maps. Blue cloth with gilt title on spine and front, binding rubbed at spine tips and edges, internally clean and bright.

Fine. Signed declaration of the appointment of Garrit H. Striker Esquire to the office of Lieutenant Colonel, by the then governor of the state of New York, DeWitt Clinton. Garrit Striker was the descendant of Dutch settlers (Strijker) in New York, who established a mansion at Striker's Bay. During the war of 1812 Striker served as Captain of the 4th Company in the 5th Regiment of Volunteers and worked on the fortifying of Bloomingdale Heights; he ultimately attained the rank of Major General. DeWitt Clinton, the sixth governor of the state of New York, is noted for his role in the construction of the Erie Canal. 12 1/2 x 8 1/2". Matted with gilt border; in gilt frame 19 x 15 3/4"

Philadelphia: Pomeroy, Whitman and Co., 1874. First printing. Hardcover. Very good condition. This is a beautiful copy the original atlas printed in 1874, not a reprint. All maps clean and bright, one closed tear at corner of Naples map; folded corner, closed tear on Phelps map (pp 57, 60). Printed on one side of the page. Ontario County, New York State, Canandaigua, Geneva. OCLC: 6038859. Folio, 83 pp. Original gilt stamped cover. Original leather spine, little chipped at base, some edgewear to boards, otherwise very good.

New York: F. W. Beers & Co., 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. This is the original atlas printed in 1872, not a reprint. All maps clean and bright, printed in color on one side of the page. Towns: Avon, Caledonia, Conesus, Geneseo, Groveland, Leicester, Lima, Livonia, Mount Morris, North Dansville, Nunda, Ossian, Portage, Sparta, Springwater, West Sparta, York. OCLC: 78730635. Folio, 45 pp, original gilt stamped cover, early black pebbled cloth spine, inner hinges starting, some edgewear to boards.

Hartford, Connecticut, 1777. Very good condition. A Revolutionary War pay order made out to Captain Ezra Sperry (sic) for the sum of 60 pounds six shillings and eight pence for "sundry losses of cloathing (sic) & expense of sickness of his compy of Militia Expedition to N. York 1776 as pr acct and charge the state - Hartford. May 22nd, 1777". It is signed on the verso in full by Captain Speary, who writes, "May the 29th, 1777 received this order in full of Samuel [Hamilton?] as witness my hand, L60 - 6 -8, Ezra Speary". Signed below Speary's statement is Samuel [Hamilton? Horniston?]'s signature, and the docket in another hand, "No. 7506, Order, Capt Ezra Sperry, dated 22nd May 1777, L60 - 6- 8, audited 11th Sept 1777", signed E. [Ritkin?]." George Washington had been unsuccessfully battling the British in New York and had called for militia reinforcements to assist. Seven Connecticut militia regiments journeyed to New York in March 1776 to help in holding the city until the Continental army… Read More

New York: New York University Press, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very good - condition. 8vo, 140 pp, 2 folding color maps, appendices i - iv, bibliography and index. Blue cloth cover with faded gilt title. Internally clean and bright.

Hudson, NY: Sampson, Chittenden & Crosswell, 1802. Second Hudson Edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Hudson, New York imprint, by Ezra Sampson and his partners, publishers of the Hudson New York 'The Balance and Columbian Repository'. Long Island NY presentation copy, from Fred Merrill, (Southampton), 1807, to his sister Sally Merrill. Small 8vo, xii, 338, Table of Contents [2]. Brown calf, gilt title at spine partially worn away. Covers rubbed, slightly marked, some chipping near top of spine; internally, normal degree of age toning.

Newburgh NY: Daniel Smith, 1877. Hardcover. Very good condition. A wonderful business directory for this Hudson River town, with 2 tipped in advertising broad sheets and advertisements on the end papers, some illustrated, including one with 2 winged cupids in a sign shop painting an ornamental sign. An indispensable guide to businesses, city departments and organizations in Newburgh, with a cloth loop at the top of the spine for hanging the directory on a hook, with businesses and individuals listed alphabetically by last name, along with advertising printed vertically in the margins of each page. Includes Benevolent society, cemeteries, church directory, city officers, fire dept, Good Templar's Lodges, Grand Army of the Republic, Knights of Pythias, Masonic Societies, Railroads, Schools, stage lines, and the YMCA. Large 8vo, 184pp. Printed hard board covers, with advertising on both covers, orange cloth spine (no title). With a fabric loop at the top of the spine. Boards slightly rubbed, dusty.

New York: Isaac Collins, 1801. Hardcover. Good + overall. The first set of Supreme Court reports from New York state, with cases beginning in 1794, when the court was known as the Supreme Court of Judicature. The oldest state Supreme Court with general original jurisdiction is the New York Supreme Court, which was established in 1691 by the Colony of New York, as the Supreme Court of Judicature. That court was continued by the State of New York, when independence was achieved in 1775. This volume includes New York state law as it developed following the Revolutionary War, in the time before Albany had been declared the permanent state capital. Includes a list of "Names of the Cases Reported", and Index. The author acknowledges the assistance of "Mr. Justice Benson", Egbert Benson (1746 - 1833), who was the first Attorney General of the state of New York, and later Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court. The first section, titled 'Rules of the Supreme Court, April Term 1796', lays out 14… Read More

Briarcliff Manor: Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Signed by the author at the half title. A carefully researched history of a community in Westchester County, NY, along the Hudson River, which includes the forest and farms, estates of the wealthy, and development and planning up through the 1980s. 4to, xii, 257pp, illustrations throughout. Quarter brown cloth and tan boards. In the original pictorial dust jacket.

Np (Poughkeepsie, NY?), 1882. Pamphlet. Very good overall. In 1861, when Vassar was chartered, Lossing was appointed to the body corporate until his death in 1891. Lossing was a Dutchess County, NY native and became a prominent engraver, illustrator, and historian. He was a part owner and editor of the Poughkeepsie Telegraph. He authored over 40 books, most notably "The Hudson, From the Wilderness to the Sea" first published in 1862, which continues to be a key book on the Hudson River. Lge 12mo pamphlet, 21 pp. Maroon paper wrappers with gilt type (oxidized), slightly rubbed on edges, back page has embossed stamp for the Lindmark's Book Shop, Poughkeepsie, NY. Envelope, 5 x 7.5", with Poughkeepsie, NY cancellation mark. Envelope with the phrase "Charter of Vassar College, Will of the Founder" at top, presumably in Lossing's hand. OCLC: 38023005.

Poughkeepsie NY: Paraclete Potter, 1816. Second edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Poughkeepsie imprint of this legal reference, published by Paraclete Potter (1780 - 1858) a bookseller and journalist who edited the Poughkeepsie Journal for almost thirty years. Disbound volume, 12mo, xii, 248 pp, ads [4] pp. Index at beginning of volume. Part II Contains selections of various useful practical forms, &c. Original dark brown leather boards, front board lacking, end papers lacking (starts at title page), rear board present, almost detached; some fox spotting throughout. From the Fred Haida Collection, with his stamp at title page. Haida was an important Hudson River collector. As is.

Chicago, 1893. Very good condition. Genuine Oil Painting executed at the Fair in less than three minutes by our celebrated Lightning Artist in the same manner in which he paints them on our machines". Signed advertising trade card with real landscape oil painting laid down on front, and at verso wood engraving of the Walter A. Wood steel wheel binding harvester with steel bundle carrier in use harvesting a field of wheat. The verso with signed inscription from Walter A Wood, above the wood engraving, and the date in pencil below, "Hoosick Falls, June 14, 1910". Trade card most likely made for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, held in Chicago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the New World. The oil painting (6 3/4 x 4 1/2") laid down on card stock 9 x 7

New York: Solon Horn, 1858. First printing. Hardcover. Very good condition. A guide book for the foreign and domestic traveller as they visit New York. "To Our Visitors... The numerous lines of Ocean Steamers, Packet Ships &c. ], which are continually arriving at New York, not only from foreign but coastwise ports offer sufficient facilites to satisfy the peculiar taste and means of all, while the immense network of our own internal improvements most of the main lines converging to this city as a common center, present an expeditious, pleasant, and speedy medium of travel from the east, north, west, and south." Contains detailed historic and current and statistical information about the US, (with some data from Europe), sight seeing information, index, hotel lists, history of NYC, its imports and exports, business resources, street directory, lists of parks, rates charged by cartmen, pier locations, hackney fares, ferries, city railroads, omnibus routes, packets and their frequency, laws, churches,… Read More

Kingston: Published by the author, 1816. Hardcover. Good + condition. Early Hudson Valley imprint. 8vo, iii, 363pp, index (viii). Original brown calf covers with gilt title on red spine label. Covers a little rubbed. Internally, fox spotting throughout, end papers quite toned. Period owner signature, J. B & S. H. Bassinger. Cohen 8302. Shaw 39049.