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Photograph Album and Scrapbook of a tour from Florida to Washington State: via Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington, dated 1939
Album measures 7” x 11 ½”, bound in brown cloth, stamped on front cover “Fotofolio”, worn at tips, edges, and corners, includes 104 black and white photographs measuring 2 ½” x 3 ¾” to 5 ¾” x 4”, plus 13 real photo…
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Trial by Court Martial, of Col. William W. Brown, of the Providence First Light Infantry Company, on Charges Preferred by Gen. Joseph S. Pitman, Brigadier General Second Brigade, R. I. N.; at Providence, August, 1856
Providence: A. Crawford Greene & Brother, printers to the Company, 1856
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Trial for Slander, in the Superior Court of New York, Before Chief Justice Jones, January Term, 1834, Second Monday in Term. Andrew Bowden vs. Andrew Gifford. Damages Laid at $ 10,000. Reported by John Lomas, Editor of “The City Hall Reporter & New York Law Magazine.”
New York: Spear & Nesbitt, printers, 1834, second edition, octavo, 15, [1], pp., removed from bound pamphlet volume, light toning to text, else very good. American Imprints 25971, 1 location
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Manuscript of the court transcript of oil man Edward S. Stokes’ first trial for the murder of “Robber Baron” Col. James Fisk, New York City, New York, edited by one of Stokes’ Attorneys for use in his second trial, 1872-1873. –The Trial was a Sensation in the Legal Annals of America.
Folio, 108 manuscript pages, dis-bound, lacks binding, several signatures and leaves loose, the paper stock used in this notebook was of poor quality, paper is brittle, and fragile with chipping to the margins of a number of pages; text written in ink,…
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Trial of Moses Parker, James Buckland, Joseph Wade, William Walker, Cornelius Holly, Abraham Potts and Noah Doremus, on an Indictment for the Murder of David R. Lambert, on the 3d of June, 1825, At a Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held in and For the City and County of New York, on the Third Monday of June, 1825, before the Hon. Ogden Edwards, Judge of the first Circuit
New York: Printed by R. Spear, [1825], octavo, 36 pages, ex-library, handstamps on title page, text slightly dampstained and wrinkled, bound in 19th century dark blue roan backed thin boards, binding worn, covers detached, else good.
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Trial of Pasach N. Rubenstein for the Murder of Sarah Alexander, in the Town of New Lots. (Near Brooklyn, New York), on the 12th Day of December, 1875, Commenced at the Kings County Oyer and Terminer, on the 31st Day of January 1876. With The Evidence, Arguments of Counsel, Charge of the Court, Verdict of the Jury, and Sentence of the Prisoner.
New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co., Publishers, 1876, octavo, 331 pp., with inserted slip noting the death of Rubenstein, between pp. 330-331. Ex-library, ink and blindstamps on title-page, title-page and several other preliminary leaves loose and detached, but present, edges of these…
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Tribute to Herndon - Commander of the ill-fated Central America
[February 2, 1855, octavo, three pages of a bifolium, in very good, clean and legible condition.
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Manuscript Account Book of Tristram Coffin, of Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, 1718-1738
12mo, 32 manuscript pp., unbound, no wrappers, entries written in ink, in a legible hand, dated 26 April 1718 to 10 April 1738; front leaf is inscribed: “Tristram His Book August the First Day 1721.” There are a couple of other pages…
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The True Story of the Hart-Meservey Murder Trial, in which light is thrown upon Dark Deeds, Incompetency, and Perfidy; and Crime Fastened upon those whose Position, if not Manhood, Should have Commanded Honest Dealing.
Boston: Published for the Author, 1882, first edition, 12mo, portraits, 309 pp., original pictorial cloth, ex-library, handstamps on title-page, shelf label on spine, binding somewhat rubbed and shaken, else a good copy.
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Correspondence of the family of Ship Captain and Owner, Richard H. Tucker, Sr., of Wiscasset, Maine and his sons Captain Joseph Tucker and Captain Richard H. Tucker, Jr., dated 1843-1859
Collection of 90 letters, 246 manuscript pages, mainly quarto, folding stamp-less letter-sheets, dated from December 17, 1843 to February 1, 1871. Only four letters are from the 1860s and 1870s, the bulk (86 letters) date from 1843 to 1859. Also included are…
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