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Brooklyn: Published by Lain and Company, 1887. Hardcover. Good. stout octavo, portion of preliminary advts., chipped and detached, ix, 1280, 8, 42, [2], lacks map, ex-library, rebound in later linen backed boards, red leather spine label, hand stamps on title page, shelf label on spine, covers somewhat soiled, front inner hinge broken, else good.

Paris: Payot & Cie, 1919, "troisieme mille", octavo, [6] [7] - 256, [2 blank] pp., original yellow printed paper wrappers, some dustiness to wraps, else very good.
Important Source Book for W. E. B. Du Bois' The Black Man and the Wounded World
This book was an important source book for W. E. B. Du Bois' The Black Man and the Wounded World: A History of the Negro Race in the World War and After, the work was of great personal importance to Du Bois, however, it remained unfinished. In the years during and immediately following World War I, W.E.B. Du Bois was deeply involved in organizing and writing a multi-volume work on the role of African Americans in the American Expeditionary Force. He hoped that African-Americans, through their participation in the conflict, would finally achieve their full rights of citizenship in the country they helped to defend. As Du Bois progressed on his work, he expanded his hopes that the participation of the soldiers of the African diaspora in the European conflict would… Read More

large broadside, measuring 55 x 24 inches, printed in red and blue ink on white paper stock, in a variety of large display types. Some minor ruffling to bottom edge of sheet and edges, few short splits along horizontal folds, else a very good copy.

quarto, one page, plus stamp less address leaf, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
1841 Young Lincoln's Law Clients and the Jewish Gratz Family of Philadelphia.
"… We received a letter from S. M. Tinsley & Co. of Springfield, Ill. In the early part of the month, advising us of a Deposit having been made at your Bank with instructions that the same shall be forthwith remitted to our address. As we have not had the pleasure of hearing from you relative thereto and fearing that this remittance might have been made, without having reached us, shall we ask the favor of you to inform us what has been done in this matter …"
[With handwritten note by recipient at bottom]: "No deposit made yet. So soon as a certain deed from Kiedy of Illinois to Lohman of this State is executed the deposit will be made and forwarded to you."
An interesting association between Illinois legal clients of 32-year-old Abraham Lincoln and the famous Jewish Gratz family of Philadelphia. Edward Gratz and his son David had… Read More

Manuscript. Very Good. one page quarto, folded, in very good clean condition. Richard Vaux, (1816-1895), lawyer, congressmen, penologist, writes to Purdy declining an invitation to address the Tammany Society or Columbian Order, at the celebration of the "Eighth of January", and he also writes extolling the virtues of Andrew Jackson: "Our country will ever remain under an enduring and unrepudiatable debt of gratitude to Andrew Jackson. As a soldier - the anniversary of the memorable day you are about to celebrate, annually gives fresh color to the undying laurels which victory has placed upon his name. As a statesman - his politicks principals and policy will continue to be regarded as sacred a legacy as was ever bequeathed to this nation . As a man - his character has lost nothing by comparison with that of any who have adorned this age. As a Christian - the closing scenes of his eventful life have testified that he was among the "pure in heart" to whom the promise was… Read More

handwritten. Very Good. folio, 1 ¼ pages, moderate wear, creased along folds, split along one fold, now professionally repaired, else very good. Written in secretarial hand with the following close of the letter in Shirley's autograph "I am with esteem Sir, your most assured Friend and Humble Servant, W. Shirley." The letter discusses attempts to raise troops from Connecticut and elsewhere, including the use of impressments, to guard the frontiers, terms of enlistment and pay as well as other military matters during the waning days of the War with France. In addition there is some discussion of sending delegates among the Six Nations: "The sending out Parties of English Men with the Indians of the Six Nations, I strongly recommended to the Court & repeated my instances of the absolute necessity of our maintaining our interest in them in that way. But after all I could prevail nothing." American National Biography, vol. 19, pp., 863-864 Dictionary of American Biography,… Read More

10 letters, 31 pages, neatly inscribed in ink, several retain original mailing envelopes, very good legible condition.Group of letters pertaining to the Wheeler and Stanton families. Daniel N. Stanton, one of the correspondents, is a distant cousin of Henry Brewster Stanton of New York, American social activist, abolitionist and reformer. Henry Stanton's wife, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was the pioneer advocate of woman's rights. Daniel N. Stanton married Harriet C. Wheeler on May 2, 1864. Harriet was born about 1839, she was the daughter of Samuel and Jane Wheeler, of Newton Corner, Massachusetts. She had two sisters: Mary C. and Elizabeth W., as well as a brother Albert, who was serving with the 44th Massachusetts Regiment. There are a few letters from one of Harriet's friends "Katy." Mary Wheeler's letters indicate she was living in Northhampton, Massachusetts under the care of a Dr. Edward Denniston. Denniston ran a home for invalids at Springdale, Northampton, Massachusetts called the… Read More

10 complete letters, plus one incomplete letter and two letter fragments, for a total of 39 pages, several letters ruffled and chipped along edges, with some loss of text, one letter cross-written, else in good, legible condition. Also included are a lithographic portrait of Mary Elizabeth Baronin von Maltitz, on chine colle by Lemercier; an albumen photograph of a portrait of the Baron; a lithographic view showing the location of the couple's home in The Hague; an albumen photograph of a portrait of Susan Lee, Mary's sister.
Letters of Mary Elizabeth Lee Maltitz, the well-educated, well-connected daughter of "Yankee Jeffersonian" William Lee. She writes her father, and sister Susan, after her marriage to her Russian diplomat husband Baron von Maltitz. The couple were traveling both in America, but mainly in Europe during their residence there in Berlin and The Hague. The letters are written in both French and English reflecting the education she had received living as an ex-patriate with her… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. 4 letters, 21 pp., plus 5 stock certificates, and 2 stock purchase receipts, dated 13 December 1890 to 9 February 1923. Hetty Green (1834-1916) and the Howland Family Born Henrietta Howland Robinson in 1834, she later married Edward Henry Green in 1867 and became known as Hetty Green. Her father was Edward Mott Robinson and her mother Abby Howland. Her family became wealthy in the whaling industry and the China Trade. Her mother died in 1860, her father died, five years later, in 1865. Hetty inherited about $5 million from the death of her parents and launched her career as a thrifty business woman and investor, eventually amassing a fortune of over $100 million by the time she died in 1916. She was the richest woman in America. Her estate was left mainly to her two children Edward Howland Robinson ""Ned"" Green and Harriet ""Sylvia"" Ann Howland Green Wilks. Hetty Green became notorious for her wealth and thriftiness and became known as… Read More

Paris?, 1717. No Binding. Fine. small quarto, 11, [1] pp., a fine copy. This is the most important decree concerning French trade with her colonies, on which all subsequent regulations were based. This decree remained in force for a considerable time, suffering periodic amendments, to suit varying economic and political changes. Article I appoints the following ports as trading centers with America: Calais, Dieppe, Le Havre, Roüen, Honfleur, St. Malo, Morlaix, Brest, Nantes, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Bayonne and Cette. Article II declares that "Toutes les denrées & marchandaises, soit du crû ou de la fabrique du Royaume, mesme la vaisselle d'argent, ou autres ouvrages d'Orfeverie; les vins & eaux-de-vie de Guyenne, ou autres Provinces destinez pour etre transportez aux Isles & Colonies Françoises, seront exempts de tous droits de sortie & d'entrée, ." and the same applies according to the next article, to the ships' munitions and provisions. By article X goods coming from abroad to be… Read More

octavo, 38 page pamphlet, disbound from pamphlet volume, lacking wrappers, else a good clean copy.