Search Results: Titles starting with R from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

octavo, 38 page pamphlet, retains front wrapper, ex-library handstamp on wrapper, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else very good.
Concerns legal action against the Hudson River Railroad Company, who were empowered by acts of the legislature to construct a railway line connecting New York City and Albany.

16 items, including correspondence and manuscript documents, most dating from 1775-1783.
Manuscript archive consisting of correspondence and documents written by Continental Army officers, privateers and merchants during the Revolutionary War, all addressed to Francis Gurney of Philadelphia. The principle correspondents in this collection were well to do merchants before the war who carried on a variety of business ventures, including privateering. The correspondence centers upon Gurney with whom several of the main correspondents had dealings before and during the war. The contents of this archive are both highly interesting and by their very nature extremely scarce and should be of considerable interest to scholars studying the role of Revolutionary War Privateers in winning American Independence which is gaining the increased interest and attention of scholars and historians.

Upon the commencement of hostilities with England in 1775, most of the colonies, notably Massachusetts… Read More

Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1725. No Binding. Very Good. quarto, 16 pages, light damp-stain, small number in ink, at upper left corner of first page, otherwise a very good, clean copy. This reglement contains sixty articles on the establishment and repair of roads and bridges on the French islands in the Antilles, many of the articles concern rules regarding the use of slaves for the road work and repair. Wroth and Annan 1090, not in Beinecke Lesser Antilles, not in Maggs, French Colonisation of America, OCLC locates three copies, (BNF, Yale, Clements Library).

Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1787. No Binding. Very Good. quarto, 2, [2], pp., very good, clean copy. Not in Wroth & Annan, not in Maggs, The French Colonisation of America

octavo, 4 pages, written in both English and Miss Eliatamby’s native language, old folds, in very neat and legible condition. This letter was written by Miss Eliatamby a “native Christian,” and translated by her into her native language. “Miss Green
My dear Benefactress,
I wrote you a letter before which I believe you have received. I wrote in it about me, my parents, sisters and brothers. We are all well. In the parish we live there are three girls schools and three boys schools. Father has meetings in these schools on Sunday and weekday afternoons. The Christian women have a good meeting regularly on Sunday afternoons. There are some converts admitted to the churches as the result of these meetings. I attended the Sunday meetings regularly in my vacation Father preaches the sermon on every Sunday in the church. Some idolators also come to hear the sermon.
I taught my little sisters songs and Bible… Read More

octavo, 22 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamps on title page, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else good.

first edition, octavo, 94 pages, ex-library, hand and blindstamps on title page, bound in early 20th century plain linen, red and black spine labels, shelf label on spine, else a good copy, text clean.

octavo, 154, [1], ex-library, hand and blindstamps on titlepage, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else a good copy.

octavo, 80 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamp on titlepage, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, titlepage tanned, edges and extremities chipped, else good.

octavo, 132 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamps on titlepage, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, some toning to text, else a good copy.

octavo, [iv], 161 page pamphlet, ex-library, hand and blindstamps, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else a good copy.

octavo, iv, 140 page pamphlet, ex-library, hand and
blindstamps on titlepage, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, some minor dust soiling to titlepage, else a good copy.

octavo, 32 page pamphlet, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, contemporary ink presentation inscriptions on title-page and last leaf, text somewhat tanned, else a good copy.
Concerning David Brigham's alleged deceitful statements in regard to Rufus T. King's tenure as preceptor at Framingham Academy."Errata."--p. 32. American Imprints 54652

octavo, 187 pp., removed from bound volume of pamphlets, text block broken, titlepage detached and chipped but present, oval portrait on titlepage, two additional portraits in text, else a good working copy.
Relates the sensational details of the divorce case of Edwin Forrest, America's most celebrated actor of the day, the details of which were a major social scandal of the day.

octavo, 50 page pamphlet, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, some scattered foxing, else a good copy.

Syracuse: Loring & Green, Photographers, 64 - 66 So. Salina St., Syracuse, N.Y., 1871, large format albumen photograph, measuring 12 ½ x 14 ¼ inches, on card stock mount, with printed text, identifying the house, and with the photographer's credit. The mount measures 17 ½ x 20 ⅝ inches. Some spotting, soiling, and wear to edges of mount, some abrasions to corners and lower edge of the image, else in good condition.
The photograph shows the apparently newly built residence of G. B. Kent, at 91 James Street. The Kent family stands on the front porch and in the front yard, enclosed by a wrought iron fence, a church is located next door. None of these structures appear to be extant at present, likely demolished to make way for the elevated highways bisecting Syracuse.

No Binding. Very Good. quarto, 2 pages, folded, docketing information on last page, in very good clean and legible condition. Russell in this letter gives a far-sighted view of American missionaries as first sources of "intelligence" from distant lands. It is Russell's retained copy, possibly in the hand of his wife Sarah, with her initialed note on the second page. "Rev. Dr. Anderson Dear Sir, I have just been reading the account of the proceedings of A.B.C.F.M. at their recent meeting in Philadelphia and saw with much regret the painful embarrassment of the Board in its pecuniary affairs. This called up anew a scheme, a wild one perhaps, that entered my mind some time ago, and I now with diffidence suggest it to you. If you deem it impracticable, or if carried into effect of no utility, the suggestion will do no harm, save the trespassing upon your time in making it known, which I hope good intentions will excuse. My idea was to get up a… Read More

quarto, three letters, 32 pages, Butterworth's retained copies of this series of letters, on thin tissue like paper, in very good clean and legible condition. Butterworth writes to Cobb a series of highly detailed and informational replies to Cobb's requests for information on the possible establishment of a Branch Mint of the United States in New York City: "United States Assay Office, New York, Mar. 9, 1860
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ... enclosing a copy of a Bill submitted to the Department by the Committee of Commerce of the House of Representatives for the establishment of a Branch Mint at New York, and requesting my views as to the expediency of establishing such Branch, the expense of putting it in operation, and the annual expense of carrying on the operations thereafter, including an estimate of the probable cost of the necessary buildings &c; also asking a statement of the operations of the Assay Office since its establishment,… Read More

octavo, 28 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamp on title page, lacking wrappers, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else a good, clean copy.
"In 1837 an attempted insurrection in Canada was put down, and the group fled to an American island in the Niagra River. A small steamer, the Caroline, brought provisions to them, and the British sent out a force to destroy it, which they did, killing Amos Durfee in the effort. The incident led to a controversy between the United States and England. McLeod, while in Buffalo, boasted of being Durfee's killer. He was arrested and charged by New York state with the murder. The United States government tried to prevent the trial, and failing, the United States Attorney successfully defended McLeod, who probably had no part in the event." – see McDade, Annals of Murder, 660