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New York City. Andrews, W. Loring. New Amsterdam, New Orange, New York: a chronologically arranged account of Engraved Views of the City from the First Picture published in 1651 until the year 1800. About 40 illustrations including facsimiles of rare views, portraits, etc., some in colors. 8vo, original cloth, gilt top, uncut. New York, 1897. $60.00

Limited to 200 copies, and now one of the scarcest of Andrews' books. Indispensable to a New York collector, and one of the most useful from the historic standpoint.

1230 New York City. Crimmins, John D. Irish-American Historical Miscellany. Relating largely to New York City and Vicinity, together with much interesting material relative to other parts of the country. Portrait. 8vo, cloth, pp. 493. New York, 1905.

Privately printed by the Author.

$4.50

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of New York: a contribution to the history of Bibliophilism in America. Preface by Octave Uzanne. Fullpage plates in color of bindings by Monnier, Trautz-Bauzonnet, for Grolier, etc., and other illustrations. 8vo, silk cloth gilt uncut. New York, 1892. $2.50

A beautiful book.

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New York City. Andrews, Wm. Loring. New York as Washington knew it after the Revolution. Portrait of Washington, charming vignette views of Old New York, facsimiles, etc. 8vo, boards, uncut. New York, 1905. One of 32 copies printed throughout on Japan paper.

$37.50

New York City. Andrews, Wm. Loring. The Bradford Map. The City of New York at the Time of the Granting of the Montgomeries Charter. Facsimile of the Bradford map and other illustrations. 8vo, cloth. New York, 1873.

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"That the number of servants in our city has latterly been quite inadequate to our wants, is a fact as notorious as it is lamentable."

1241 New York City. Francis, John W. Old New York; or, Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years. Large Paper Copy. Portrait. 4to, sheets, uncut. New York, 1865.

$10.00 Best edition on large paper, a favorite book to extra illustrate.

1242 New York City. Greene, Asa. A Glance at New York (Theatres, Rogues, Dandies, Mobs, Monopolies, Booksellers, Hoaxes, etc.). 16mo, cloth, pp. 264. New York, 1837. $4.50

The author was a physician who became a bookseller.

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$20.00

Apostles (Protestant Episcopal) in the City of New York. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth, pp. 46. New York, 1894.

$0.75

1246 New York City. Historical Sketch of the Fulton Ferry and its Associated Ferries. (By Henry E.. Pierrepont.) Maps and illustrations. Royal 8vo, half morocco, pp. 320. Brooklyn, 1879. $6.00

Privately printed. Contains account of the earliest steam navigation in New York Harbor, etc. A. L. S. from the author inserted.

1247 New York City. Historical Sketch of the South Church (Dutch) of New York City. Plates. 8vo, boards, pp. 57. New York, 1887.

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1249 New York City. Horsmanden, Daniel. The New York Conspiracy; or, History of the Negro Plot, with Journal of the Proceedings, 1741-2; containing the names of the White and Black Persons arrested on account of the Conspiracy, their trials, etc. 8vo, calf, pp. 392. New York, 1810. $10.00

1250 New York City. Hubert, Philip G., Jr. The Merchants' National Bank. A History of its First Century, 1803-1903. Portraits, views of Old New York, etc. 8vo, cloth, pp. 206. New York, 1903. $1.50

Anecdotes and personal histories of old New York Merchants. The early directors, stockholders, etc.

1251 New York City. Ireland, Joseph N. Records of the New York Stage. 1750 to 1860. Large Paper Copy. 2 vols., 4to, half morocco, red edges. New York, 1866. $15.00

This is one of the most interesting works on New York history. The entire edition was limited to 260 copies.

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Written in the form of "Walks about the City," embodying sketches of character, anecdotes, etc.

1256 New York City. Mabie, Hamilton Wright. The Writers of Knickerbocker New York. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth, pp. 121. New York, 1912.

$8.00

Edition limited to 300 copies for the Grolier Club. An interesting volume on the group of early nineteenth century

writers in Manhattan.

1257 New York City. Map of New York City and Environs. Compiled from Map of the U. S. Coast Survey and from Supplemental Surveys, by A. Lindenkohl and P. Witzel. II X 14 inches. New York, 1860.

$1.50 1258 New York City. Map of the City of New York, with the adjacent cities of Brooklyn and Jersey City and the Village of Williamsburg. Bv H. Phelps. Drawn and engraved by

Story and Atwood. 174 x 21 in., folded to 16mo, in cloth covers. New York, 1844. $5.00

1259 New York City. Martyn, Carlos. History of Eighty Years of the Bloomingdale Dutch Reformed. Church (with List of Names). 12mo, cloth, pp. 103. New York, 1886. $1.25

One of the earliest churches on the West Side. Established at Broadway and 68th Street in 1805.

1260 New York City. Miller, New York Considered and John. Improved, 1695. Published from MS. in the British Museum. Edited by Victor H. Paltsits. Folding plans. Cleveland, 1903. 8vo, boards, uncut.

$1.50

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1262 New York City. Morrison, John H. History of New York Ship Yards (to close of Civil War). Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, pp. 167. New York, 1909. $2.00

1263 New York City. Negro Plot. The Trial of John Ury (with Remarks by Dr. Shea, etc.). 8vo, cloth, $1.50 PP. 58. Phila., 1899.

1264 New York City. New York As It Is in 1833, and Citizen's Advertising Directory, etc. Edited by Edwin Williams. Folding Map by Burr. 24m0, original roan, pp. 224. New York, 1833. $5.00

1265 New York City. Observations on Accidental Fires, with an Account of those that lately happened within the United States. By A Citizen of New York. 8vo, sewed, pp. 40. New York, 1797. $5.00

Rare. Besides accounts of early New York fires it contains letters from other cities giving particulars regarding losses,

etc.

1266 New York City. Perkins, Eliza. Memoirs and Moral Productions of, who died in New York, June 20th, 1823. 16mo, boards, pp. 96. New York, 1823. $2.50 Largely in verse. A very scarce little

volume.

1267 New York City. Phelps, H. Guide to the Central Park. Two folding sheets containing a bird's-eye View of the City, a plan of the Park, and plans of the City and vicinity. Folded to 16mo, limp board covers. New York, 1865. $2.00

1268 New York City. Post, John J. Old Streets, Roads, Lanes, Piers and Wharves of New York. Show

ing the Former and Present Names, with Alterations of Streets, either by Extending, Closing, etc. 8vo, cloth, pp. 76+2 supplemental leaves. New York, 1882.

Very scarce.

$7.50

1269 New York City. Riker, James. Revised History of Harlem, with Sketches of Numerous Families, revised by H. P. Toler and Sterling Potter. Maps and illustrations. Svo, cloth, pp. 908. New York, 1904. $5.00

1270 New York City. Robbins, Louis S. The Royal Decrees of Scanderoon. Dedicated by the author to the Sachems of Tammany, and to the other Grand Magnorums of Manhattan. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth, pp. 45. New York, 1869.

$1.50

Scoville,

1271 New York City. Jos. A. The Old Merchants of New York City, by Walter Barrett, Clerk. Original Edition. 5 vols., 8vo, cloth, New York, 1864-70. $10.00

Contains more inside social and business information about the early "New York's 400" than any work ever issued. Valu

able for the genealogical matter crowded on each of the 1,600 and odd pages of the set. Astors, Aspinwall, Brevoort, Bloodgood, Brasher and thousands of other families. Where they lived, how much they were worth, the names of their children, who they married, etc., etc. The

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The early Dutch and English history, ending with the year 1750. The early maps and views are reproduced.

1277 New York City. Van Rensselaer, Mrs. J. K. New Yorkers of the XIX Century. Folio, boards. New York, 1896. $5.00

Contains genealogies of the Barclay, Bard, Bronson, Buchanan, Delafield, Duer, Emmet, Fish, Glover, Hoffman, Jay, King, Lynch, McVicar, Morton, Renwick, Rutherfurd, Schuyler, Stuyvesant, and Van Rensselaer families. Published at $10.00 net.

1278 New York City. Van Pelt, Danl. Leslie's History of Greater

New York (with the Extra Biographical Volume). Profusely illustrated with portraits, views, etc. 4 vols., royal 8vo, half morocco. New York (1898). $12.50 Vols. 1 and 2 form a complete history of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, etc. Vol. 3 is Encyclopedia of New York Biography and Genealogy. Vol. 4 is a biographical volume with steel portraits.

1279 New York City. Watson, Watson, John F. Annals and Occurrences of New York City and State in the Olden time, a Collection of Memoirs, Anecdotes and Incidents. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, pp. 390. Phila., 1846.

$6.00 1280 New York City. Weeks, Lyman H. Prominent Families of New York, an Account of Individuals and Families as Representative of Life in New York City. Large 4to, pp. 688. New York (1898). $5.00 With elaborate index of about 7,000

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This work describes 51 collections, most of them have been dispersed. Includes the libraries of Burton, Brevoort, Bancroft, Bushnell, Tilden, Van Buren, etc. The extra illustrations add greatly to the interest of this copy.

1283 New York City. Zenger, John Peter. His Press, His Trial and A Bibliography of Zenger. Imprints by Livingston Rutherfurd. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, pp. 274. New York, 1904. $3.00

1284 Newark, N. J. Record of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of South

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Very scarce, on the title-page is “ accompanied by maps." This copy is in the original cloth, but has no maps. haps the maps referred to means the illustrations. This copy never had any other illustrations.

1287 Northampton County, Pa. Clyde, John C. History of the Allen Clyde, John C. Township Presbyterian Church and the Community which has sustained. it, formerly known as the Irish Settlement. 12mo, cloth, pp. 198. Phila., 1876. $3.00

1288 Onondaga County, N. Y. Smith, Carroll E. Pioneer Times in the Onondage County. Illustrated. 8vo, half morocco, pp. 415. Syra$2.50

cuse, 1904.

1289 Orange, N. J. The First One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniver(Presbyterian) Church, Orange. sary, Nov. 24th and 25th, 1869. Memorial. 8vo, cloth, pp. 174. 1870.

$1.00

1290 Orleans County, N. Y. Thomas, Arad. Pioneer History of Orleans County, with Notices of Early Settlers, etc. Portraits. 8vo, cloth, pp. 463. Albion, 1871. $2.00

1291 [Penn, William.] A Defence of the Duke of Buckingham's Book of Religion and Worship, from the Exceptions of a Nameless Author. Small 4to, By the Pensilvanian.

sewed, uncut, pp. 4+31 (the first six leaves torn at the upper back corner, injuring a few words.) London, 1685.

$5.00

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