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Author: Kaufman, Wallace & Orrin Pilkey:
Title: THE BEACHES ARE MOVING. The Drowning of America's Shoreline.
Imprint : 1979.
Date: NY.,
Description: Ed.1, 326, illus., inscribed & signed by author, illus. endpapers, dj., v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: Kent, Henry Watson:
Title: WHAT I AM PLEASED TO CALL MY EDUCATION. Edited by Lois Leighton Comings.
Imprint : NY.: The Grolier Club,
Date: 1949.
Description: Ed.1, 1/1025 copies printed at the Spiral Press, xiii, 1l., 208, (1), illus., List of books, pamphlets & periodical articles by Kent, Index, small marginal tear in one leaf, or v.g.
Reference: +Curator & Librarian at Slater Museum and Peck Library of Norwich Free Academy, Grolier Club Librarian, later work at Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Price: $35.


Author: Kiernan, John:
Title: A NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY. Illus. by Henry Bugbee Kane.
Imprint : Boston:
Date: 1959.
Description: Ed.1, xi, 428, illus., map endpapers, Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: King, Capt. Charles:
Title: NOBLE BLOOD. A Prussian Cadet Story.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1896.
Description: Ed.1, orig. col. pict. cl., 211, (11) adv., frontis-port., pvt. namestamp, bumped corners, good.
Price: $35.


Author: Kobrin, David, Asst. Prof. of History, State University of New York at Albany:
Title: THE BLACK MAJORITY IN EARLY NEW YORK.
Imprint : Albany,
Date: 1971.
Description: Ptd. pict. col. card covers, vi, 45, illus., facs., Bibliog., fine.
Price: $15.


Author: Kring, Walter Donald:
Title: LIBERALS AMONG THE ORTHODOX. UNITARIAN BEGINNINGS IN NEW YORK CITY 1819-1839.
Imprint : Boston: Beacon Press,
Date: (1974).
Description: Ed.1, ix, 278, photo-illus., Index, small upper corner torn off title-page with partial loss of first letter, or v.g. in sl. wn. dj.
Price: $15.


Author: Lamont, Thomas W.:
Title: MY BOYHOD IN A PARSONAGE. Some Brief Sketches of American Life Toward the Close of the Last Century.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1946.
Description: Ed.1., xiii, 203, photos, facs., frontis. port., lower spine faded, v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: Lewis, Alfred Henry:
Title: RICHARD CROKER.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1901.
Description: Ed.1, rebound, buckram gilt, xv, 372, frontis.-port., illus., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Lewis, Alfred Henry:
Title: NATION-FAMOUS NEW YORK MURDERS.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1914).
Description: Orig. cl., extremities little worn, 315, (5, advts.), with book plate of Jacob M. Loeb, good.
Reference: +Loeb, father of the convicted murderer.
Price: $75.


Author: Lewis, Alfred Henry:
Title: RICHARD CROKER.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1901.
Description: Ed.1, xv, 372, photos, small chipped piece at top spine gutter, uncut, good.
Reference: +B.A.L. 11745, 2d issue, with pp. 25-26 a cancel.
Price: $45.


Author: Lundberg, Ferdinand:
Title: THE ROCKEFELLER SYNDROME.
Imprint : Secaucus, NJ.,
Date: (c1975).
Description: Ed.1, 307, Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: [MARINE SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK]
Title: THE MARINE SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1954.
Description: Ed.1, 126, names of members & officers, pres. inscription in ink signed by Capt. J.M. Hagan, Secy. & Treasurer, List of Members booklet, 1955, tipped-on front endpaper, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Mattfeld, Julius, Music Div., NYPL:
Title: A HUNDRED YEARS OF GRAND OPERA IN NEW YORK 1825-1925.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1927.
Description: 4to, 1st sep. ptg., reprinted from Bulletin of NYPL, Oct.-Nov.-Dec., 1925, ptd. wrps., 107, Chronology, Index, v.g.
Price: $45.


Author: McCabe,Jr., James D.:
Title: THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF HORATIO SEYMOUR: together with a Complete and Authentic Life of Francis P Blair, Jr.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1868.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 511, frontis. port., foxed, good.
Price: $35.


Author: McCullough, David:
Title: MORNINGS ON HORSEBACK. The Story of an Extraordinary Family, A Vanished Way of Life, & the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c1981).
Description: Ed.1, 445, Bibliog., photos, genealogy, Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: McGuier, Henry:
Title: A CONCISE HISTORY OF HIGH ROCK SPRING.
Imprint : Albany: Printing Houe of C. Van Benthuysen & Sons,
Date: 1868.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 15.8 cm., 42, illus., cover cut of Pavilion, good.
Reference: +Not in Nestler.
Price: $65.


Author: McIntire, Vice Adm. Ross T.:
Title: WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c1946).
Description: Ed.1, vi, 244, v.g.
Reference: +O.P.
Price: $20.


Author: Merrill, Arch:
Title: THE WHITE WOMAN AND HER VALLEY. (Indian Captivity of Mary Jemison).
Imprint : NY.,
Date: nd.
Description: Ed.1, 207, pvt. name in ink on endp., v.g.
Price: $10.


Author: Merrill, Arch:
Title: THE CHANGING YEARS.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (1967).
Description: Ed.1, (x), 194, illus., dj., fine.
Price: $20.


Author: Moore, J. Hampton:
Title: ROOSEVELT AND THE OLD GUARD.
Imprint : Phila.,
Date: (c1925).
Description: Ed.1, 300, uncut. frontis.-port.,
Price: $15.


Author: Moriarty, John H.:
Title: DIRECTORY INFORMATION MATERIAL (Printed) FOR NEW YORK CITY RESIDENTS, 1626-1786. A Bibliographic Study.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1942.
Description: 4to, 1st sep. ed., reprinted from BULLETIN OF NYPL, Oct. 1942, ptd. wrps., 60.
Price: $45.


Author: Morison, Elting E., Ed.:
Title: THE LETTERS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The Square Deal. 1901-1903.
Imprint : Cambridge, MA.: Harvard U.P.,
Date: 1951.
Description: Ed.1, xvi, 710, illus.; vi, 711-1438, facs., ports., Appendices, Index, dj.'s, v.g. Vols. 3-4 ONLY. 2 vols.,
Price: $50.


Author: Morison, Samuel Eliot:
Title: SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, Father of New France.
Imprint : Bost. & Toronto,
Date: (1972).
Description: Ed.1, xix, 299, frontis.-port., illus., maps, facs., Bibliog., Index, map endpapers, dj., fine.
Price: $25.


Author: Morris, Joe Alex:
Title: THOSE ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS. An Informal Biography of Five Extraordinary Young Men.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c1951).
Description: Ed.1, x, 275, Index, v.g., dj. little wn.
Price: $20.


Author: Nevins, Allan:
Title: HERBERT H. LEHMAN AND HIS ERA.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1963).
Description: Ed.1, 5th ptg., 456, photos, Index, some cover spots, dj. soiled, good.
Price: $15.


Author: [NEW YORK CITY]
Title: THE RENASCENCE OF CITY HALL. Commemorative Presentation Rededication of City Hall ... July 12, 1956.
Imprint : (NY.,
Date: 1956).
Description: 4to, ptd. pict. bds., 94, (2), photo-illus., maps.
Price: $20.


Author: NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Title: CHARTER, ORDINANCES, REGULATIONS AND COURSE OF STUDIES.
Imprint : Albany,
Date: 1861.
Description: Disbound, 16, fine frontis.-view of the N.Y.S. Agricultural College, 21.3 cm.
Price: $35.


Author: [NEW YORKER]
Title: THE NEW YORKER TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ALBUM 1925-1950.
Imprint : NY.: Harper,
Date: (1950).
Description: 4to, orig. cl., ca.200pp., fully illus., back cover edge bumped, or v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: Noble, H.G.S., Pres.:
Title: THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE IN THE CRISIS OF 1914.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1915.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., iii, 89, corners bumped, small dampstain on back endpaper, good.
Price: $30.


Author: Noyes, Pierrepont B:
Title: A GOODLY HERITAGE.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1958).
Description: Ed.1, 275, illus., v.g.
Reference: +Oneida Community history by the son of the founder.
Price: $15.


Author: Noyes, Pierrepont:
Title: MY FATHER'S HOUSE. An Oneida Boyhood.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c1937).
Description: Ed.1, x, 312, illus., v.g.
Reference: +Oneida Community history.
Price: $20.


Author: O'Brien, Michael J.:
Title: IN OLD NEW YORK. The Irish Dead in Trinity and St. Paul's Churchyards.
Imprint : NY: Amer. Irish Hist. Soc.,
Date: 1928.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., (8), 262, illus. (many of tombstones), facs., Coat-of-Arms, Index, frontis.-Program of 1784-1928. 144th Anniversary Dinner of Soc. of Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in the City of N.Y., March 17, 1928 (gilt-embossed Irish cross), extremities rubbed, good.
Reference: +Much genealogy, lists of dead, &c.
Price: $35.


Author: Overton, Jacqueline:
Title: INDIAN LIFE ON LONG ISLAND: Family, Work, Play, Legends, Heroes.
Imprint : Port Washington: Ira J. Friedman,
Date: 1963.
Description: 1st book ed., orig. cl., 150, illus., map, Index, dj.
Reference: +First published in 1938 in a series of articles in the "Nassau Review-Star."
Price: $15.


Author: Owen, George W.:
Title: THE LEECH CLUB; or, The Mysteries of the Catskills.
Imprint : Boston: Lee & Shepard; N.Y.: Lee, Shepard & Dillingham,
Date: 1874.
Description: 12mo, Ed.1, orig. dec. cl. gilt, 298, spine extremities little worn, pvt. name in ink, good.
Reference: +Wright: AMER. FICTION II, 1832.
Price: $50.


Author: Paltsits, Victor Hugo:
Title: THE NEW YORK TERCENTENARY. An Exhibition of The History of New Netherland 1524-1674.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1926.
Description: 4to, 1st sep. ed. reprinted from BULLETIN OF NYPL, Sept.-Oct. 1926, (2),63, small marg. tear in one leaf, or v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: Parker, Robert Allerton:
Title: A YANKEE SAINT. John Pierrepont Noyes and the Oneida Community.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1935.
Description: Ed.1,(8) 322, ports., illus., Bibliog., Index, sl. wear.
Price: $30.


Author: Peel, Roy V.:
Title: THE POLITICAL CLUBS OF NEW YORK CITY.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1935.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. some soiled, spine faded, 360, frontis.-map, illus., Bibliog., Index, good.
Price: $20.


Author: Pelletreau, William S.:
Title: EARLY WILLS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY NEW YORK 1664-1784. A Careful Abstract of all Wills... With Genealogical and Historical Notes.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1898.
Description: Ed.1, xii, 488, frontis-port., pvt. name in ink, good.
Price: $75.


Author: Perkins, Frances:
Title: THE ROOSEVELT I KNEW.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1946.
Description: Orig. cl., 3d ptg., viii, 408, photo-illus., frontis.-port., Index, v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Pierce, Carl Horton:
Title: NEW HARLEM PAST AND PRESENT. The Story of an Amazing Civic Wrong, Now at Last to be Righted. With a Review of the Principles of Law Involved in the Recovery of the Harlem Lands by William Pennington Toler and Harmon De Pau Nutting, Members of the New York Bar.
Imprint : NY.: New Harlem Publ. Co.,
Date: 1903.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. (few small white paint spots on spine), xiv, 338, profusely illus., 2 fldg. maps, pvt. inscription & names on fr. endpaper, very good.
Price: $50.


Author: Porter, Peter A.:
Title: GUIDE TO NIAGARA FALLS RIVER FRONTIER. Scenic Botanic, Electric, Historic Geologic, Hydraulic. Illus. by Charles D Arnolkd.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1901).
Description: Ed.1, 24mo, orig. cl., 311, photos, map, pvt. name in ink, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Pound, Arthur:
Title: THE GOLDEN EARTH. The Story of Manhattan's Landed Wealth.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1935.
Description: Ed.1, x, 316, illus., Bibliog., Index, pvt. inscr., v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: Pratt, Sereno S., Secy.:
Title: FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK FOR THE YEAR 1908-1909.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1909.
Description: Ed.1, xliv, 247, charts, Index, name in ink, ex-library stamp, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Reed, John:
Title: THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1960).
Description: Ed.1, 239, many photos, maps, dj., v.g.
Price: $12.50.


Author: Reid, W. Max:
Title: THE STORY OF OLD FORT JOHNSON. Illus. by John Arthur Maney.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1906.
Description: Ed.1, xii, 240, frontis., photo-illus., t.e.g., uncut, some wear, good.
Price: $65.


Author: Rheinstein, Sidney:
Title: TRADE WHIMS. My Fifty Years on the New York Stock Exchange.
Imprint : Privately Printed, The Ronald Press Co.,
Date: (1960).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, vi, 211, illus., PRES. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: Richards, Mark V.:
Title: THE SESQUICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF MINISINK. A Story of the Commemoration Held on the Battlefield at Minisink Ford, Sullivan Co., N.Y., July 22, 1929.
Imprint : Monticello, NY.,
Date: (1929).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. (few cover stains), (8), 97, photo-illus., good.
Price: $25.


Author: Riis, Jacob A.:
Title: THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1902.
Description: Orig. cl., xiii, 443, (2 adv.), photos, t.e.g., pvt. bkpl., frontis. port., uncut, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Roberts, Kenneth:
Title: NORTHWEST PASSAGE.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1937.
Description: 2nd ptg., 709, uncut, map endpapers, spine little faded, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Rockefeller, Jr., John W.:
Title: THE POOR ROCKEFELLERS.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c1962).
Description: Ed.1, 316, dj., v.g.
Reference: +O.P.
Price: $25.


Author: Rockefeller, Nelson A.:
Title: UNITY, FREEDOM & PEACE. A Blueprint for Tomorrow.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c1968).
Description: Ed.1, PRES. SLIP, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, vii, 170, dj., v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: Roehl, Harvey N.:
Title: CORNELL & ITHACA IN POSTCARDS.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1986).
Description: Ed.1, 4to, x, 101, many photos, v.g.
Price: $10.


Author: Rogers, David H:
Title: CONSUMER BANKING IN NEW YORK.
Imprint : Trustees of Columbia U.,
Date: (c.1974).
Description: Ed.1, xxi, 138, charts, Index, dj., fine.
Price: $25.


Author: Roosevelt, Elliott, Ed.
Title: F.D.R. EARLY YEARS. His Personal Letters. Ed. by Elliott Roosevelt.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c1947).
Description: Ed.1, xvi, 543, (16), photos, facs., geneal. chart, dj. repaired; (with) F.D.R. His Personal Letters, Vol.II, 1905-1928. Foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt, 2d. ptg., xix, 674, illus., Index, dj. repaired , good set, 2 vols.
Price: $35.


Author: Roosevelt, Elliott:
Title: AS HE SAW IT.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1946).
Description: Ed.1, 1st ptg., xviii, 270, Index, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, v.g., in 2d ptg. dj. (some worn & chipped), pvt. gift inscription in ink.
Price: $35.


Author: Roosevelt, Hall with Samuel Duff McCoy:
Title: ODYSSEY OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY. An Account of the Roosevelts and Their Kin as Travelers, from 1613 to 1938.
Imprint : NY. & Lond.: Harper & Brothers,
Date: 1939.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. with cover dampstains, xv (v), 339, illus., map endpapers, pvt. name in ink on 1/2 title, good.
Reference: +With adventures: sailing, whaling, Calif. gold rush, Civil War, FDR, &c.
Price: $25.


Author: Roosevelt, James & Sidney Shalett:
Title: AFFECTIONATELY, F.D.R. A Son's Story of a Lonely Man.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (1959).
Description: Ed.1, viii, 394, photo-illus., photo-endpapers, Index, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Roosevelt, Theodore:
Title: THEODORE ROOOSEVELT. An Autobiography.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1913.
Description: Ed.1, xii, 647, photos, chart, ports., frontis.-port., v.g.
Price: $75.


Author: [Roosevelt, Theodore]
Title: A MEMORIAL TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Imprint : NY.: Authorized by the Legislature.
Date: 1919.
Description: Ed.1, 131, frontis.-port., pvt. bk. stamp, v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: Roosevelt, Theodore:
Title: LETTERS TO KERMIT FROM THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 1902-1908. Ed. by Will Irwin.
Imprint : NY. & London: Charles Scribner's Sons,
Date: 1946.
Description: Ed.1, (8),296, frontis.-port., facs., illus. endpapers, Index, v.g.
Price: $30.


Author: Roosevelt, Theodore:
Title: SELECTIONS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND HENRY CABOT LODGE, 1884-1918.
Imprint : NY. & London: Charles Scriber's Sons,
Date: 1925.
Description: Ed.1, 2 vols., orig. gilt cl. with some dampstains, (viii), 546, frontis.-port.; (vi), 573, frontis.-port., Index, uncut, good set.
Price: $35.


Author: Ross, Ishbel:
Title: THROUGH THE LICH-GATE. A Biography of The Little Church Around the Corner. Illus. by Ralph L Boyer.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1931.
Description: Ed.1, 4to, v, 164, illus., frontis.-piece, Index, uncut, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Rowell, George Presbury:
Title: FORTY YEARS AN ADVERTISING AGENT, 1805-1905.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1906.
Description: Ed.1, 517, frontis.-port., illus., Index, t.e.g., pvt. bkpl., back inner hinge cracked, but holding, good.
Price: $30.


Author: Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.:
Title: THE COMING OF THE NEW DEAL. The Age of Roosevelt.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1959.
Description: Orig. cl., xii, 669, Notes, Index, v.g.
Price: $10.


Author: Secor, Wilbur, et al.:
Title: SOIL SURVEY. SULLIVAN COUNTY, NEW YORK.
Imprint : U.S. Dept Agriculture.
Date: 1946.
Description: Ed.1, ptd. wrps., 99, lg. fldg. map, back cover map, v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: Shepherd, William R., Columbia U.:
Title: THE STORY OF NEW AMSTERDAM.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1926.
Description: Ed.1, xiv, facs., fldg. illus., maps, title & frontis. dampstains, endpapers foxed, dj. soiled (repaired), good.
Reference: +Early Dutch in NYC, Peter Stuyvesant, &c.
Price: $20.


Author: Sherwood, Robert E:
Title: ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS. An Intimate History.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1948).
Description: Ed.1, xvii, 979. facs., frontis.-port., photo-illus., v.g.
Reference: +O.P.
Price: $30.


Author: Singleton, Esther:
Title: SOCIAL NEW YORK UNDER THE GEORGES, 1714-1776. Houses, streets and country homes with chapters on fashions, furniture, china, plate and manners.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1902).
Description: Ed.1, xix, 406,(4), t.e.g., frontis. photo, photos, Index, v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: Smith, Arthur D. Howden:
Title: COMMODORE VANDERBILT. An Epic of Amearican Achievement.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1927.
Description: Ed.1, 339, photo-illus., double-page panaoramic views, frontis-port., uncut, Index, pvt. name in ink, corners worn,
Price: $20.


Author: Sneller, Anne Gertrude:
Title: VANISHED WORLD.
Imprint : Syracuse U. Press,
Date: 1964.
Description: Ed.1, x, 365, illus., d.j., fine.
Reference: +Moulton family of Cicero, Onondaga Co., N.Y.
Price: $25.


Author: Sobel, Robert:
Title: AMEX, A History of the American Stock Exchange, 1921-1971.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1972).
Description: Ed.1, xxi, 382, photos, Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
Title: YEAR BOOK OF THE _____.
Imprint : N.p.,
Date: 1909.
Description: 4to, orig. two-toned gilt cl. some soiled & spotted, 748, ports. (some col.), illus., many names, some capsule biographies, back inner hinge repaired.
Price: $45.


Author: [SOUTHHOLD]
Title: CELEBRATION OF THE 250th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORMATION OF THE TOWN AND CHURCH OF SOUTHOLD, L.I. August 27, 1890.
Imprint : Southold,
Date: 1890.
Description: Orig. gilt cl., 320, Index, pres. copy from Rev. Dr. Whitaker, pvt. bkpl., spine extremities rubbed, good.
Price: $30.


Author: Spafford, Horatio Gates, LL.D.:
Title: A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Embracing Counties, Towns, Cities, Villages.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1824.
Description: Ed.1, full calf, 620, quite foxed, good.
Price: $125.


Author: Springer, Walter Glen:
Title: THE HUDSON AND ITS MOODS. An Idyl of America's Mightiest, Most Beautiful Scenic, Legendary & Historical of Rivers.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1929.
Description: Ed.1, 111, photos, good.
Price: $35.


Author: Stettinius,Jr., Edward R.:
Title: ROOSEVELT AND THE RUSSIANS. The Yalta Conference.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1949.
Description: Ed.1, xvi, 367, facs., photos, mmap endpapers, Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Stone, William L.:
Title: REMINISCENCES OF SARATOGA AND BALLSTON.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1880.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. quite worn, 451, (2), facs., frontis. map, bumped corners, inner hinges repaired, poor, but complete, reading copy.
Price: $30.


Author: Taylor, Myron C. Intro. & Notes:
Title: WARTIME CORRESPONDENCE, Between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1947.
Description: Ed.1, ix, 127, 2 frontis. ports,. d.j., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Todd, Charles Burr:
Title: IN OLDE NEW YORK. Sketches of old times and places in both the state and the city.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c1907).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. little worn, 258, (6), photo-illus., Index, t.e.g., little foxed, bkpl. removed, good.
Reference: +Chapters: Some Old Booksellers; The Whalemen of Sag Harbor, et al.
Price: $20.


Author: Ulmann, Albert:
Title: A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK. Including a Guide to Commemorative Sites and Monuments.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1939.
Description: Orig. cl., xviii, 440, photo-illus., facs., map endpapers, Index, pvt. name in pencil, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Van Ingen, Philip:
Title: THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE. Its First Hundred Years.
Imprint : NY: Columbia U. Press,
Date: 1949.
Description: Ed.1, xii, 573, many ports. & illus., v.g. in repaired dj.
Price: $45.


Author: Van Trusedale, Pheleg:
Title: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MAJ. ROGER SHERMAN POTTER: Together with an accuraate and exceedingly interesting account of his great achievements in politics,diplomacy, and war, - all of which are here recorded out of sheer love for the martial spirit of this truly ambitious nation.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1858.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. worn, cover dampstains, viii, 522, illus., shaken, spine extremities frayed, fairly good.
Price: $20.


Author: Wald, Lillian D.:
Title: THE HOUSE ON HENRY STREET.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1915.
Description: Ed.1, orig. gilt cl., 317 +advts., Index, pls., many text illus., v.g.
Price: $30.


Author: Walker, Stanley:
Title: DEWEY. An American of This Century.
Imprint : NY. & Lond.: McGraw-Hill,
Date: (1944).
Description: Ed.1, viii, 350, illus., v.g. in wn. d.j.
Price: $15.


Author: Wallace, John William, of Philadelphia:
Title: AN ADDRESS Delivered at the Celebration by the New York Historical Society, May 20, 1863, of the TWO HUNDREDTH BIRTH DAY OF MR. WILLIAM BRADFORD, Who Introduced the Art of Printing into the Middle Colonies of British America.
Imprint : Albany: J. Munsell,
Date: 1863.
Description: Ed.1, Published with Introductory Note, in Pursuance of a Resolution of the N.Y. Historical Society. Parts Omitted in the Delivery Being Now Inserted, orig. cl.-backed bds. some worn, (4), 114, 3 fldg. facsimiles, good.
Price: $65.


Author: Warshow, Robert Irving:
Title: THE STORY OF WALL STREET.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1929.
Description: Ed.1, 362, photo-illus., Bibliog., Index, corners bumped, good.
Price: $20.


Author: Werner, M. R.:
Title: TAMMANY HALL.
Imprint : Garden City, NY.,
Date: 1928.
Description: Ed.1, xxi, 586, illus., Bibliography, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, slight cover stains.
Price: $30.


Author: Whitefield's, Edwin:
Title: HUDSON RIVER HOUSES. The Hudson River & Rail Road Illustrated. Intro. John Aukowsky.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (c.1981).
Description: Ed.1, 4to, 86, illus., facs., frontis.-port., map, Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Wiley, Farida A.:
Title: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S AMERICA. Selections From the Writings Bay Naturalist.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1955.
Description: Ed.1, xxiii, 418, uncut, illus., frontis.-port., Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $10.


Author: [Williamson, Capt. Charles]
Title: DESCRIPTION OF THE SETTLEMENT OF THE GENESEE COUNTRY, IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. In a Series of Letters from a Gentleman to his friend.
Imprint : New-York: Printed by T. & J. Swords, No. 99 Pearl-street.
Date: 1799. (Peter Force reprint, Wash., 1836-46).
Description: Disbound, (ii), (1129)-1168, comprising 8 letters, with two engraved plates of cataracts on Seneca Lake.
Reference: +See Howes F-247. This is a Peter Force reprint of Howes W-493, Ed.2, with facsimile title, 2 plates, and no map.
Price: $75.


Author: Willis, Jack:
Title: ROOSEVELT IN THE ROUGH.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1931.
Description: Ed.1, xiv, 246, facs., photos, frontis.-port., pres. inscription, signed by the author, spine faded, v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: Wilstach, Paul:
Title: HUDSON RIVER LANDINGS.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (1937).
Description: Ed.2, 311, photo-illus., map endpapers, Index, v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Wilstach, Paul:
Title: HUDSON RIVER LANDINGS.
Imprint : Indpls.,
Date: (1933).
Description: Ed.1, 311, Index, map endpapers, little foxed, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Zevin, B.D., Ed.:
Title: NOTHING TO FEAR. The Selected Addresses of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Imprint : Cambridge,
Date: (1946).
Description: Orig. cl., xxi, 470, photos, frontis.-port., v.g.
Price: $20.

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