New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, signed by Richard Nixon. Autobiography of the 37th President of the United States (1969-74) and one of the most controversial public figures of the..... More
Charming scrapbook of 37 leaves filled with colorful chromolithographic images and some decorative trade cards. It was assembled by Esther Anderson (1871-1958) between 1885 and 1890 while her family was living in Brooklyn, New York..... More
London and New York: Merrell, 2008. Hardcover. This book publishes for the first time one of the supreme accomplishments of nineteenth century urban photography, a series of large-plate views of Reconstruction New Orleans entitled La..... More
An archive of manuscript documents, letters, and indentures dating between 1735 and 1829 from the Alden family, descendants of a Mayflower passenger, the Hon. John Alden, who was the seventh signer of the Mayflower compact..... More
An original photograph (circa 1915) of the motorized delivery wagon for John Holderfield & Sons, a wholesale fruit and vegetable merchant. Hand-painted signage on the wagon shows that Holderfield operated two locations: 226 E. Pearl..... More
A collection of five humorously written annual reports dating from 1914 to 1917 for the Friendship Club of The Northfield, a loose knit group of young adult men and women from Massachusetts and New York..... More
A one-and-a-half page holographic bifolium letter written in June 1827 by Edward Everett to J.R. Poinsett, the first U.S. Minister to Mexico, concerning a Mexican hieroglyphic manuscript he gifted to the American Academy of Arts..... More
