![[1939–1940 New York World’s Fair Flag]. 1939–1940 New York World's Fair.](/pictures/thumb/3724983_1.jpg?v=1534362296)
[1939–1940 New York World’s Fair Flag].
Large flag, almost four feet by six feet in dimensions, from the 1939–1940 New York Wold’s Fair displaying the fair’s iconic modernist symbols, the Trylon... Read More
New York City
The Bradys and the Broker’s Double; or, Trapping a Wall Street Trickster.
Dime novel for boys set amidst the hustling world of Wall Street investors, confidence “tricksters,” and New York City detectives. Does the stock broker have... Read More
![Vantine’s. The Oriental Store [Trade Catalog]. A A. Vantine & Co.](/pictures/thumb/3727717_1.jpg?v=1536773385)
Vantine’s. The Oriental Store [Trade Catalog].
Rare, pre-WWI trade catalog of Orientalia, unrecorded in OCLC, issued by A.A. Vantine & Co. of New York City. Trade catalogs from this company in... Read More
Photographic Souvenir Programme of the Actors’ Fund Benefit at the Broadway Theatre. January 19th, 1892.
Illustrated programme at the New York City Broadway Theatre 1892, an early artifact of the still-extant Actors’ Fund Benefit. The evening’s performance is thoroughly detailed... Read More
![J. Agate, Formerly of Parsells & Agate, Gentlemen’s Outfitting Establishment and Manufactory… [opening lines of broadside]. Joseph Agate.](/pictures/thumb/146324_1.jpg?v=1534362285)
J. Agate, Formerly of Parsells & Agate, Gentlemen’s Outfitting Establishment and Manufactory… [opening lines of broadside].
Just before April 12, 1884, Joseph Agate, a slightly built elderly man, bought an eighteen dollar Smith and Wesson revolver. Using an assumed name, Agate... Read More
![Bank-Robbers and the Detectives [Autographed by Robert A. Pinkerton]. Allan Pinkerton, 1819–1884, Robert Allan Pinkerton, 1848–1907, Francis “Frank” Horatio Stott, 1832–1900.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Bank-Robbers and the Detectives [Autographed by Robert A. Pinkerton].
Bank-Robbers and the Detectives tells the true story of the robbery of the First National Bank in Somerset, Michigan. It was written by Allan Pinkerton... Read More
Bucholz and the Detectives [Autographed by Robert A. Pinkerton].
Bucholz and the Detectives is a novelized account of the murder of German immigrant John Henry Schulte. It was written by Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), noted... Read More
![[Needlework Stamping Patterns plus Circular issued by August Bernard of New York City, successor to Leon Cendrier, Designer, Manufacturer & Importer of Perforated French Stamping Patterns]. August Bernard, Leon Cendrier, Mrs. T. G. Farnham.](/pictures/thumb/3727676_1.jpg?v=1536790445)
[Needlework Stamping Patterns plus Circular issued by August Bernard of New York City, successor to Leon Cendrier, Designer, Manufacturer & Importer of Perforated French Stamping Patterns].
Late Victorian portfolio of 83 French-styled stamping patterns or stencils used to facilitate the decoration of textiles with braiding, appliqué, and embroidery. The patterns were... Read More
1850 Autograph Letter Signed by Benjamin Douglass Silliman, New York Attorney and Politician.
Letter from New York City attorney and politician Benjamin Douglass Silliman (1805–1901) to Nathaniel Goodwin, Esq. Silliman thanks Goodwin, a fellow lawyer, for his suggestions... Read More
College Shopper and Smacker. Spring–1926.
Curious, rare, unrecorded. A cook book/shopping directory hybrid aimed at college women in the Boston–New York corridor. The cooking recipes, mostly for candies and desserts... Read More
Twelve Brooklyn, New York Comic or Ethnically-Themed Trade Cards, 1880s.
Humorous group of 12 illustrated comic trade cards advertising the 1880 Fall Styles of Brooklyn, New York boot and shoe merchant, Joseph J. Byers. The... Read More
1915 Autograph Musical Quotation Signed by Camille Saint-Saëns, French Romantic Composer.
Autograph Musical Quotation from the opera Henry VIII by French Romantic Composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921). The four-act historical opera was first produced in 1883 at... Read More
Original 1897 Tammany Tiger Political Cartoon by F.K. Houston.
Original editorial cartoon drawing depicting the Tammany Tiger of New York City’s Democratic Party political machine. The political cartoon is signed at the lower left... Read More
![[Metropolitan Museum of Art: Autographs of J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry G. Marquand and other Luminaries and Officers and Leading Benefactors to the Museum]. J. Pierpont Morgan; et. al.](/pictures/thumb/3726750_1.jpg?v=1534362463)
[Metropolitan Museum of Art: Autographs of J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry G. Marquand and other Luminaries and Officers and Leading Benefactors to the Museum].
This album leaf is noted for the sixteen autographs accomplished within hand drawn and embellished borders with the monograms “MMA” (Metropolitan Museum of Art) seen... Read More
![A New Map of the City of New York Comprising all the late Improvements, Compiled and Corrected from Authentic Documents. Designed to Accompany the Description of New York… [cartouche title]. James Hardie.](/pictures/thumb/145974_1.jpg?v=1534362282)
A New Map of the City of New York Comprising all the late Improvements, Compiled and Corrected from Authentic Documents. Designed to Accompany the Description of New York… [cartouche title].
Illustrated and engraved, a scarce New York City map issued to accompany The Description of New York by James Hardie, published in 1827. Because this... Read More
Hurry Home.
The author’s second work of fiction, a psychological novel of blackness set in a 1960s New York City ghetto. The protagonist, Cecil, embodies the tensions... Read More
Slave Insurrections in the United States 1800-1865
Comprehensive survey by this African American author of the most important slave rebellions in America, ante-bellum, up until and during the American Civil War. The... Read More
![Paintings by Franklin K, Schenck 1856 : 1927… [Posthumous Exhibition Catalogue for a Thomas Eakins Pupil]. Macbeth Gallery, Edward Arlington Robinson.](/pictures/thumb/3726758_1.jpg?v=1534362464)
Paintings by Franklin K, Schenck 1856 : 1927… [Posthumous Exhibition Catalogue for a Thomas Eakins Pupil]
A small exhibition catalogue for the paintings by artist Franklin L. Schenck (1867–1927) at Macbeth Gallery in Manhattan. Schenck was an American artist who spent... Read More
[Women Sculptors & Race] Malvina Hoffman.
Invitation to the January 30, 1934 sculpture exhibition “The Races of Man” by Malvina Hoffman held at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York... Read More
In Memoriam, Martin Deschere, July 21, 1902 [cover title of a manuscript memorial album for a New York Homeopathic Physician].
Memorial or mourning album commemorating the life and death of German-American homeopathic physician Martin Deschere (1848–1902) of New York City. The album includes tributes and... Read More
![Harrison & Morton Club of the Bar of New York. [cover title]. Members of the Bar of the City of New York, Benjamin Harrison, Levi P. Morton.](/pictures/thumb/3726475_1.jpg?v=1536186548)
Harrison & Morton Club of the Bar of New York. [cover title]
Manuscript membership book of The Harrison and Morton Club of the Bar of New York. The book includes the handwritten club “Constitution” and the membership... Read More
Late 19th-Century New York City: Night-Time Street Scene Outside of the New York Evening Telegram Newspaper Offices.
Original unsigned late Victorian charcoal drawing of a night-time street scene in New York City, outside the newspaper offices of the New York Evening Telegram... Read More
First Annual Gymkhana of the Veterans and Actives of the Ninth Company Seventh Regiment, N.G.N.Y. Saturday, September 14th 1907.
Humorous, fun-spirited program for the First Annual Gymkhana or field day held by the Ninth Company (Company “I”) of New York’s Seventh Regiment, a National... Read More
The Avenue of the Allies and Victory [Zelia Hoffman; her copy].
World War I poems by English poet Alfred Noyes, finely printed and bound, published by the Book Committee of the Art War Relief in New... Read More
Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence.
Signed by the author, his first book. Story of a young Puerto Rican man living in Spanish Harlem whose difficult life in the barrios becomes... Read More