A selection of 18 new additions to our inventory.
![The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953-56 [and] Waging Peace, 1956-61. Dwight D. EISENHOWER](/pictures/thumb/408137.JPG?v=1630510923)
New York: Doubleday & Co, 1963. Together two volumes, 8vo. 650; 741 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth; acetate wrappers; publisher's slipcases. First edition, deluxe limited editions, each boldly signed by Eisenhower. Numbers 326 and 375 of 1,434 copies. The President's in depth account of his first administration.
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1839. 8vo. 24 pages. Stitched, unopened. SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS on the front wrapper: "President Adams with the best respects of Edward Everett." After his presidency, Adams was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1831-48). Everett had been.....
Philadelphia: Reprinted, by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1759. 8vo. iv, 43 pages. Disbound. Provenance: Jacob Lunig (1760 inscription on last blank). First American edition of this Quaker tract, originally published in London in 1648. The Society of Friends of Philadelphia requested Overseers Anthony Benezet and John Reynell to arrange.....
![Benjamin Franklin's mock epitaph]. In: An Astronomical Diary, or Almanack for the Year of our...](/pictures/thumb/408164.jpg?v=1635172032)
Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1770]. 12mo. 24 pages. Original self-wrappers, sewn. Contains the first appearance in print of Franklin's mock epitaph composed when he was 22 years old in 1728. Ames provides the humorless introduction: "Mr. Franklin's Epitaph on himself curious for conveying such solemn.....
![Laws of New-York, from the Year 1691, to 1751, inclusive. [WITH:] Laws of New-York From The 11th...](/pictures/thumb/408263.jpg?v=1635172040)
New York: James Parker [I]; William Weyman [II], 1752; 1762. Together two volumes, folio. Vol. 1: Title, 3-page list of subscribers, Preface [i-iii], 1-488, Errata leaf. Vol. 2: [1], [1], [3], 268 pages. Contemporary calf, leather spine labels on volume 1 (one a modern replacement). Provenance: Swann Galleries, 21 October.....
Philadelphia: Richard Folwell [III]; William Ross [IV], 1796-98. The third and fourth volumes of the collected laws of the United States. Together two volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITIONS, comprising the "first collected laws of the United States and including the acts of Congress still in force passed by.....
New York: Thomas P. Low, 1818. 12mo. [2], [3]-9 pages. Stitched. The report marks the importance of the movement of certain land owners against the plan adopted by the Corporation for "regulating the surface of the ground of that village... as it soon will become united to, and make a......
New York: Thomas Greenleaf, 1792. Two volumes, 8vo. [4], 511; [4], 521, [15] pages. Woodcut arms on titles. Contemporary mottled sheep, spines with red and black gilt labels and gilt floral ornaments, gilt roll on edges. An unusually attractive set of Greenleaf's octavo edition of the laws of New York.....
Roxbury, Massachusetts: Printed for W. Elliot Woodward, 1865-66. Two volumes, small 4to. Later half blue morocco, fore and bottom edges uncut. First editions, each of 250 copies from an edition of 303. By Philadelphia numismatist, philologist and translator (1838-1895), for many years either secretary, curator or librarian of the American.....
Washington, D. C. A. & C. Way, 1808. Folio. 8 pages. Three large folding tables. Disbound. The report, soon after the establishment of the Navy Pension Fund in 1808, under the direction of Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith. Showing: the amount of stock on the books of the treasury.....
Brooklyn: John Hutchings, 1857. Small folio. Title-page, facsimile of accounts throughout, lithographed by Boell & Michelin. Original half black leather, brown cloth, front cover gilt-lettered and with gilt portrait of Washington at center. Covering the period from June 1775 to June 1783, these records detail Washington's day-to-day expenditures in his.....
Washington, D. C. Published by the Editor; Philadelphia: William S. Martien; New York: Baker & Scribner and William S. Martien, 1847. Folio. Half-title: "Farmers’ Souvenir. Washington’s Agricultural Correspondence." 198 pages, including facsimiles. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 4 plates and one map. SIGNED AMERICAN BINDING by D. W. Gihon, Philadelphia, dark brown.....
New York: J. H. Colton, 1844. 12mo. iv, 112 pages. Original embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. Provenance: library stamp on title, manuscript identification on text leaf. An early guidebook to the United States Military Academy, with map.
