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

Print] Niagara Falls (Canada Side). James Hamilton

Hamilton, James.

Philadelphia: Wm. Smith, 702 So. 3rd Street, [ca. 1850]. Price: $950.00

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

Going Further than the Eye Can See

Ranney, Edward.

Macchu Picchu Suite.

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

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

Journeying.

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

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: $3,750.00

[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

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: $3,500.00

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: $5,000.00

"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

Rare Photographic Record of the Argentinean Military

[Argentina. Military. Photography].

Ejercito Argentino. Regimiento no. 3 de Infanteria "General Belgrano". Recuerdo de mi vida militar. Buenos Aires. Año 1940. [Cover Title].

Buenos Aires: n.p., 1940. Price: $750.00

Blunt, Edmund M. [Busby, Charles A.; Hooker, William].

Blunt's Stranger's guide to the city of New-York: Comprising a description of public buildings, dwelling houses ... &c. To which is prefixed, an historical sketch, general description, plan and extent of the city. With an appendix ... Embellished with a plan of the city, and engravings of public buildings.

New York: Printed for, and published by Edmund M. Blunt, at the Quadrant. 1817. J. Seymour, print. 1817. Price: $1,850.00

Decisive moment in the Spanish conquest of the Mayas

Elorza Y Rada, Francisco de.

Nobiliario de el Valle de la Valdorba, illustrada con los escudos de armas de sus palacios; y casas nobles. Con eltracto de la conquista de el Ytza en la Nueva España: por el conde de Lizárraga-Vengoa, natural del Valle. Y Expressión del significado de toda suerte de armas y sus empressas.

Pamplona: Francisco Antonio de Neyra, impressor del Reyno, 1714. Price: $7,250.00

[New Hampshire]. Gilman, John Taylor.

[Broadside Signed] State of New-Hampshire. To the selectmen of [Surry] greeting. : Pursuant to an act of this state, passed June 21st, 1792, directing the mode of choosing representatives to the Congress of the United States...

Printed at Exeter [N.H.]: H. Ranlet, [1796]. Price: $1,000.00

[Games. Sino-Japanese War]. Tomioka, Eisen.

Shina Seibatsu Sugoroku.

Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1894. Meiji 27. Price: $750.00

[Cuba]. Laredo, Federico. Policia Nacional División Central. Link, Fred.

Panoramic Photograph of Police Headquarters in Old Havana.

1940. Price: $1,500.00

Electric Boat Company.

Submarine Torpedo Boat Designed for The Brazilian Navy [Cover title].

New York: 1952. Price: $750.00

Complete Issue of the Royal Decrees Expelling the Jesuits from Spain's Dominions. Rare

[Jesuits] Spain.

Coleccion General de las Providencias hasta aqui Tomadas por el Gobierno sobre el Estranamiento y Ocupacion de Temporalidades de los Regulares de la Compania que existian en los dominios de S.M ... Parte Primera [-Quinta].

Madrid: En la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1767-1784. Price: $7,500.00