![Item #44024 [Manuscript Writ Signed Twice] Vermont Justice of the Peace John Hutchinson Summons...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44024.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699971995)
[Vermont]: 1765. 1 sheet. 7 x 5 inches. Summons issued to six residents of Salisbury, Vermont, to appear before the bench on Oct 19, 1765 to give evidence for the Breach of the Peace. Dated at Salisbury 14th October 1765 and signed by John Hutchinson Justice of Ye Peace. The..... More
![Item #43874 [Printed Vellum Document completed in manuscript & Signed. Land Grant] (Beverley...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43874.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699971990)
[Richmond]: 1787. Broadside. 1 sheet. 12 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Land grant issued to Josiah Willard Gibbs (apparently no relation to the American scientist) for 1000 acres of land surveyed in 1785 in Harrison County (now West Virginia). Assignee of James Julian. Signed by Randolph the 7th of June..... More
[Philadelphia]: [Printed by William Ross], 1797. [109-112] pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. An interesting discussion which seeks to keep the House independent of other governmental branches, but also to avoid 'off the cuff' rules when when confronted with individual cases. Proposes a law and that Congress be able to compel..... More
[Providence]: [Printed by William Simons, Jr.], 1836. 112 pp. 8vo. Stitched self wrappers. Signed in ink by Henry Bowen as "Sec'ry," on the rear under "True copy-witness." Henry Bowen (1785-1867?), son of Jabez Bowen Jr, was R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849. William Simons, Jr., was appointed state..... More
London: R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall; and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-Row. 1758. 1, [1] pp. Engraved head and tail pieces. Sm. 4to. Removed. First edition. Price following imprint in square brackets: Price Six-pence. "In 1757 Whitehead, rather by default, was appointed poet laureate....In 1758 Whitehead published Verses..... More
London: R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, 1757. [2], [5]-22 pp. Engraved title page by [L.P.] Boilard. Sm. 4to. Removed. First edition. William Whitehead [1715-1785] accompanied his pupil and friend (George Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham) on a tour of Germany and Italy between 1754-56; the final elegy is dedicated to him..... More
[Tacubaya]: 1853. [77 pp.] on 43 leaves, some folded. Folio. Loose leaves disbound from a later made-up volume. First edition. Beginning on June 1, 1853, shortly after Santa Anna's return to Mexico as dictator, and ending December 29, 1853, just two weeks after he extended his rule indefinitely and had..... More
[México]: [Imprenta dirigada por Tomás Uribe y Alcalde], 1833. 23, [1]. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. This "Secret Report to the Sovereign People," which the anonymous author claims to have found in a mailbox "entre las diez y once de la noche del miercoles ultimo," was most likely written by Miguel..... More
Alexandria, MO: n.p., 1909. 10 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. In double columns. Consists of a letter written by Abram Sortore to his niece, Jennie Thomas in 1909 about his travels to California in 1850. "Sortore started near Keokuk, Iowa and traveled to Hangtown. A very scarce pamphlet..... More
Hartford: 1816. 1 pp. (bifolium). 8 x 12 1/2 inches folded. Self wrappers. First edition. Signed in print by committee: John Caldwell, Jonathan W. Edwards, Thomas S. Williams, Hartford, October 28, 1816 (The Connecticut Historical Society lists a copy but has the date as the 23rd rather than the 28th..... More
![Item #42905 [Broadside] Pennsylvania and the Union! Her Armed Contribution to the Armies for the...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42905.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699971975)
[Harrisburg, PA]: Pennsylvania Telegraph, 1861. 13 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. First edition. From the Pennsylvania Telegraph, October 26, 1861. Addressed in manuscript on verso to Ohio Governor William Dennison (with canceled postal stamp). The broadside was printed to help correct the paper's earlier article that had stated that Pennsylvania..... More
[Baltimore]: n.p., n.d. [ca. 1862]. 1 sheet. 11 3/4x 5 3/4 inches. First edition. Company E of the 128th New York Regiment (drawn from Kinderhook, Chatham, Valatie, Hillsdale and Austerlitz) was organized at Camp Kelly in Hudson, New York and mustered in September 1862, leaving for Washington D.C. via New..... More
Santiago: Imprenta del Ferrocarril, 1868. 90 pp. dbl. col. Sm. 4to. Green printed paper wrappers. First edition (?). An important document concerning the independence of the judiciary in Chile and a reply to the accusations made by the Cámara de diputados against the Supreme Court, whose President was Manuel Montt..... More
Lima: Imprenta Liberal, 1867. 35 pp. 12mo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Juan Antonio Pezet (1809-1879) was President of Peru during the Spanish-Peruvian (-Chilean) war over the Chincha Islands which contained vast deposits of Guano. He was forced to flee to Europe when his treaty with the Spanish was found wanting..... More
Santiago de Chile: Imprenta y Encuadernación Barcelona, 1897. 42, [4] pp. 16mo. Paper wrappers. First edition. A rare catalogue of the annual competition by the Society for the Promotion of Draft Horses in Chile: Comprende reproductores caballares de cruzamiento, adaptables para el uso del Ejército; caballos castrados, modelo para el..... More
[Lisboa]: impresso na officina de Miguel Rodrigues, 1767 & 1772. 4 pp.; 6 pp.[203-208]. Approx 8 x 11 1/2 each. Removed. First edition. Two documents five years apart concerning the needed educational reform in Portugal at the Collegio de Nobres. The first document concerns rules to tighten up the procedures..... More
Bridgewater [MA]: C.A. Hack for the proprietors, 1836. 15 x 20 inches. Removed. First edition. Early full page broadside advertisement in "The Plymouth County Republican," Wednesday Morning, December 28, 1836 (Vol. 5, Number 10). The Plymouth County Agricultural Society was incorporated in 1819 and held its first Fair that same..... More
Paris: Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1752. [xxii], 554; [ii], 316, [vi], [viii], [3]-309, [iii] pp. p. 238 misnumbered 338. Illus. with two engraved frontispieces, 54 engraved maps, plans, and scenes (most folding) on 53 sheets; plus engraved title vignettes and head and tail pieces. Engravings by Frans de Bakker, François Morellon..... More
Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1792. [8 lv], 342 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled sheep, red morocco lettering piece, spine ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers. Second edition. Most of the Noticias concerns Ulloa's travels in Peru and Ecuador, including geography, antiquities, customs, language, and religion of the Indians, with the final six sections..... More
[Hartford]: n.p., 1849. 4 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. In this Senate Document, Hartford, Connecticut, June 19th, 1849, Alexandre Vattemare thanks the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, of the State of Connecticut, for the adoption of the Central Agency for International Literary..... More
[Puerto Rico]: n.p., 1839. 4 pp. 30 x 21 cm. First edition. The decree for the complete overhaul of the municipalities of the island in 1840 begins ": Debiendo renovarse parcialmente el dia 1 del proximo ano de 1840 los Ayuntamientos de esta Isla de conformidad con el Real decreto..... More
Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1806. 4 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Discusses whaling and the duty on American oil. A very good copy. Shaw & Shoemaker 11714. More
Buenos Ayres: Imprenta de Niños Expòsitos, 1814. Broadside. [1] pp. 4to. First edition. Dated Montevideo, 12 de Abril de 1814. This is the proposal for the peace by the government in Montevideo, which requires the oath of allegience to Fernando VII and the constitution. Furthermore: "the previous divisions are instantly..... More
[Washington D.C.]: [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1919. Broadside. 7 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. First edition. No. 1532. (Dated July 31, 1919). The latter had been a war measure of February 28, 1918 (Proclamation No. 1432) regulating the flying of aircraft within the United States and its territorial waters. Not..... More
Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery, Printers, 1864. 14 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. A report on the progress of supporting the families of those serving in the Civil War living in Ward Eleven in Boston, Massachusetts (now the South End). Scarce. Not at AAS. OCLC shows two..... More