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The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memories of His Early Life, written by himself
by Franklin, Benjamin
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- Used - Very good condition
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- First edition
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- 1806
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- Hardcover
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SGD 5,476.80
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London: J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme by James Cundee, 1806. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. A lovely copy of this three volume set in the full tree calf binding, with the original labels and silk bookmarks, the text block as bright as the day it was published.
Franklin's works… Read more about this item Item Price
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A History of the American Revolution Intended as a Reading Book for Schools
by Williams, Samuel
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- Used - Good + overall
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- Third stereotype edition
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- 1827
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- Full Calf
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 171.15
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Stonington: William Storer, 1827. Third stereotype edition. Full Calf. Good + overall. A school boy's history text with his signature (William Baker) in ink throughout the text, along with a pencil note that runs over a number of pages to his friend explaining that he is about to switch schools. Master Baker has also practiced his pen skills… Read more about this item Item Price
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Manuscript letter describing squatting on property close to Logan, Ohio, owned by the Ohio Purchase Company
by Richardson, John H.
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- Used - Otherwise very good condition
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- 1840
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 308.07
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Ohio, 1840. Otherwise very good condition. Letter from John H. Richardson to Davidson W. Hedges, heir to a particular property, sharing information that a person named James Sloan had taken possession of a property that belonged to David Hedges, now deceased.
Richardson states that James Sloan and family has taken possession and is working a property "on… Read more about this item Item Price
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General Store Ledger from Orford, New Hampshire
by [Orford New Hampshire]
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- 1875
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 616.14
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Orfordville, NH, 1875. An store ledger from 1801-02 with manuscript details of purchases of tea, wood, pork, rum, butter, dishes etc. to a variety of clients. Names include Zebuton Churchill, Perkins, Pratt, Durkee, Dewolf, Thomas, Coate, Fanny Throop, Ebenezer Winslow, Barnabas Washborn, Elisha Smith, David Wright, William Hutchinson, Jeremiah Conant, William Bennett, George Lamphear...
About 1872 (or earlier)… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Republican's Illustrated History of Peekskill embracing a Descriptive History of its Local Government, Religious, Social and Commercial Institutions, with Biographical Sketches
by Daily Republican
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- Used - Otherwise very good condition
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- First edition
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- 1902
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 444.99
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Peekskill, NY: Daily Republican; F.T. Smiley & Co., 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Tall 4to, 65pp, blindstamped black cloth boards, title on spine. Boards rubbed, spine sunned,, binding strong, several loose pages, internally clean and bright. Item Price
SGD 444.99
The Devil In The Book
by Trumbo, Dalton
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- Used - Very good condition
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- First printing
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- 1956
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- Pamphlet
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 34.23
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Los Angeles: California Emergency Defense Committee., 1956. First printing. Pamphlet. Very good condition. A denunciation of The Smith Act, Trumbo was a member of the "Hollywood 10" and protested the "Smith Act"and it's prosecutions of current or former officers of the Communist Party. Sm 8vo, 42pp, printed wrappers; lightly browned at edges. Item Price
SGD 34.23
On the North Fork of the Swannanoa River 1800 - 1950, Told by Contemporaries, Signed
by Goodson, Joan & Robert (ed)
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- Second Printing
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 171.15
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North Carolina: Joan and Robert Goodson, 1998. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by the editors. "The purpose of this book is to preserve a collection of writings that tell the history of the developement of the North Fork Valley and its people."
8vo, 371pp, green covers, gilt titles on spine and front, original dj yellow with black… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sir Walter Raleigh ordering the Standard of Queen Elizabeth to be erected on the Coast of Virginia
by Taylor
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- 1790
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 102.69
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1790. Otherwise very good condition. A copper engraving of Sir Walter Raleigh and his crew with a flag on grassy terrain, two ships in the distance. Engraved for Middleton's Complete System of Geography.
Raleigh [c. 1552 - 1618] was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. A notable figure of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading… Read more about this item Item Price
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Photo Album of East Coast & Canadian tourism by automobile from 1923-1936
by [Tourism; New England; Canada; New York State]
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- 1936
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 342.30
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1936. Very good condition. An adventurous couples' photo album showing over 200 snapshots as they traveled by car throughout New England and up to Canada. The book begins in 1928, and subsequent photos additions are not quite consecutive, but shots of 1923 later in the album may have been a honeymoon trip. One car is a convertible Packard,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 342.30
The Militia Law of the State of Tennessee. Passed January 28, 1840
by [Tennessee]
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- First printing
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- 1840
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- Pamphlet
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 376.53
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Nashville: J.Geo. Harris, 1840. First printing. Pamphlet. Good -. 'An act to condense and bring into one view the militia law of the state of Tennessee.'
Tennessee has a long militia history beginning with significant service and participation in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, and Civil War earning the State its nickname of 'The… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 376.53
The American Gazetteer. Containing a distinct account of all the parts of the New World: their situation, climate, soil, produce, former and present condition; commodities, manufactures, and commerce. Together with an accurate account of the cities, towns, ports, bays rivers, lakes, mountains, passes, and fortifications. The whole intended to exhibit the present state of things in hat part of the globe, and the views and interests of the several powers who have possession in America
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- Used - Good + overall
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- First edition
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- 1762
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 4,107.60
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London: A. Millar & J. & R. Tonson, 1762. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. Volume 1 of a 3 volume set. xxiv, unpaginated, introduction and text. Complete with the 2 folding maps that are engraved by John Gibson:
1. America, North and South;
2. Carolina, Georgia and Florida, both folded and in very good original… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Connecticut River and the Valley of the Connecticut, Three Hundred and Fifty Miles from Mountain to Sea, Historical and Descriptive
by Bacon, Edwin M.
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- 1906
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 102.69
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. With three sections entitled, "Historical", "Romances of Navigation", "Topography of River and Valley".
8vo, 487pp, blue cloth with gilt title on spine and front with b&w laid down image on front. Spine sunned, rubbed at tips, internally clean and bright with many b&w photo illustrations.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 102.69
1731 Massachusetts Bay Colony Debt Agreement
by [Massachusetts Bay Colony Deed]
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- 1731
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 239.61
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Masssachusetts, 1731. Otherwise very good condition. A debt agreement between Isaac Bond, cordwainer of Sherbourn, county of Middlesex and Joseph Cuzzens of the same location, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
"Know all men by these presents that I, Isaac Bond of Sherbourn in the County of Middlesex...Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, Cordwainer [shoemaker], am held and do… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 239.61
The Philadelphia Municipal Auditorium.
by Johnson, Philip H.
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1931
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- Pamphlet
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 61.61
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Philadelphia, 1931. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Oblong folio. 18 unnumbered pages, illustrations through out. 31 x 39 cm. Light blue printed paper wrappers
Philip H. Johnson, was the architect. Item Price
SGD 61.61
The Voyage of Life; Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and Old Age. Folio engravings PROOF copies
by Cole, Thomas
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- Proofs
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- 1855
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Garrison, New York, USA
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New York: H. Peters, 1855. Proofs. Print. Very good condition. Thomas Cole is known as the founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painting and produced both realistic and imaginary landscapes. Samuel Ward commissioned Cole to paint a set of four allegorical paintings in 1839. In September 1839, Cole described his painting of "Childhood" as "the finest… Read more about this item Item Price
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Pictorial View of the World, decorative World map, broadside
by Phelps, Humphrey
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- Used - Very good condition
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- First printing
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- 1846
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- Poster map
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 2,396.10
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New York: H. Phelps, 1846. First printing. poster map. Very good condition. Large, original hand-colored engraved broadside with a double-hemispheric world map, panoramic vistas, statistical charts and historical anecdotes all surrounded by an elaborate architectural border.
Notable points: Population of Sidney (sic) 20,000; population of Hobart 15,000.
There is a route charted from New York to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lake and River Scenery of North America, Etc.
by D.M.T. [Rome Brothers; Walt Whitman]
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- Used - Very good overall
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- 1866
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 616.14
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Brooklyn: Rome Brothers, 1866. Hardcover. Very good overall. A sammelband of engraved views of North America and Europe, with a title page and half title printed by the Rome Brothers for "D.M.T." The Rome Brothers achieved fame as the Brooklyn printers of the first edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". Because Whitman was a printer and editor,… Read more about this item Item Price
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American Boy Scouts photographs, 30 early images of Scouting at its foundation in America
by [Boy Scouts of America; Underwood & Underwood]
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- Used - Good + overall
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- 1915
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 889.98
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New York: Underwood & Underwood, 1915. Ephemera. Good + overall. Proof sheet of photographs of Boy Scouts of America in its infancy. The Boy Scouts in America started in 1910. Camp Archibald Butt (named in one of the photos) ran from 1914 to 1916 on the shore of Chesapeake Bay.
Underwood & Underwood were founded in 1887… Read more about this item Item Price
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Arbitrary Arrests in the South; or, Scenes from the Experience of an Alabama Unionist
by Tharin, R. S.
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- Used - Otherwise good condition
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- First edition
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- 1863
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 61.61
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New York: John Bradburn, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Otherwise good condition. The autobiography of Robert Seymour Symmes Tharin, a southern lawyer who left the south at the beginning of the Civil War. 12mo, 245pp [1 ad], black embossed cloth covers, front board detached but present. Ex-library with book plate and deaccession stamp on the inside cover. Would benefit… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 61.61
Annual Report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy (with large MAP]
by [West Point; Map; Hudson River]
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- Used - Good + overall
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- First printing
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- 1886
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- Pamphlet & Map
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Garrison, New York, USA
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SGD 889.98
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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1886. First printing. Pamphlet & Map. Good + overall. Printed for the House of Representatives: 49th Congress 2nd Session. Mis. Doc #52.
Pamphlet 8vo, printed paper wraps, 64pp with a large folding map. Covers dusty, spine worn, corners chipped. But a clean, uncut copy with a very good and large scale folding… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 889.98
