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Kaaterskill Books offers fine, rare, and unusual books in a variety of fields with a special emphasis on the Americas.

Suppressed by Santa Anna

Alcaraz, Ramon; et al.

Apuntes para la Historia de la Guerra entre México y los Estados-Unidos.

México: Tipografia de Manuel Payno, 1848. Price: $4,000.00

Going Further than the Eye Can See

Ranney, Edward.

Macchu Picchu Suite.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1999. Price: $2,250.00

Contemporary Account of Life in 18th c. India and Persia

Fryer, John.

A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being nine years travels, Begun 1672. And finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, Of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, used in the Principal Places of Trade in those Parts.

London: R.[obert] R.[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, 1698. Price: $3,750.00

Bellaver, Tony & Marsh, Mary V. [Quite Contrary Press].

Journeying.

Oakland: Quite Contrary Press, 2011. Price: $400.00

Brooklyn Burning

[New York City Fire Department].

[Engine Company No. 126. Manuscript Log Book: 1902-1904].

New York: n.p. 1902-1904. Price: $750.00

[New York City]. Office of the Secretary of State. Hudson Tunnel Railway Company.

Hudson Tunnel Map and Profil [sic]. [Profile of the first tunnel under the Hudson River, with Certificate].

Albany, NY: State of New York, 1909 (1891). Price: $950.00

Santa Anna, Antonio López de. Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil; Juan Suárez y Navarro; Lino J. Alcorta.

Archive of 47 Mexican Manuscript and Printed Documents -Laws, Decrees, Circulars- from the Ministry of War and Navy: June - December 1853.

[Tacubaya]: 1853. Price: $4,250.00

Unopened Centennial Edition of Chile's National Epic in Original Wrappers

Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de. Medina, José Toribio, ed.

La Araucana de D. Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga. Edición del centenario. Ilustrada con grabados, documentos, notas históricas y bibliográficas y una biografía del autor. [Five Volumes].

Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana, 1910-1918. Price: $2,000.00

Letter of Recommendation for Fleeing Loyalist Shipbuilders to the Governor of Nova Scotia

[American Revolution. Loyalists]. Carleton, Guy, 1st Baron Dorchester.

[Manuscript Copy] Sir Guy Carleton, commander-in-chief of British Forces in North America, to John Parr, Governor of Nova Scotia, seeking refuge for Nehemiah Hayden and a Band of Loyalists. Signed and attested by Sir Brook Watson, Commissary General.

[New York]: 1783. Price: $5,000.00

George Washington Meets the First Challenge to Federal Authority

[Whiskey Rebellion]. United States, Third Congress.

Third Congress of the United States: At the first session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. An Act directing a detachment from the militia of the United States.

[Philadelphia]: [Printed by Childs and Swaine], [1794]. Price: $7,500.00

One of the earliest accounts of Champlain's voyage to North America

Cayet, Pierre Victor Palma [P.V.P.C.].

Chronologie Septenaire de l'Histoire de la Paix entre les Roys de France et d'Espagne: contenant les choses plus memorables advenües en France, Espagne, Allemagne, Italie, Angleterre, Escosse, Flandres, Hongrie, Pologne, Suece, Transsilvanie, & autres endroits de l'Europe: avec le succez de plusieurs navigations faictes aux Indes Orientales, Occidentales & Septentrionales, depuis le commencement de l'an 1598 jusques à la fin de l'an 1604: divisee en sept livres.

Paris: J. Richer, 1605. Price: $3,500.00

"Treat your inferiors with condescension, your equals with benevolence, and your superiors with gratitude and submission"

[New Hampshire]. Cabot, Sebastian.

[Archive of] Letters from Rev. Sebastian Columbus Cabot, to His Brother, Abel Cabot.

1791-1849. Price: $775.00

Musical quotation by "the father of modern British music"

Scott, Cyril M.

[Autograph Quotation Signed] Two Bars of Music Penned by Composer Cyril M. Scott.

Buffalo, [NY]: 1920. Price: $250.00

A Rare Civil War Broadside by a Woman Poet

[Prentiss, Elizabeth Payson].

[Broadside] In Memoriam. F.B.C.

[New York]: 1863. Price: $500.00