[Various locations around New York City: Chester Studios and others, 1950-1960]. Eighty-eight black-and-white photographs, most approximately 8 x 10 inches, with five in slightly smaller format. Minor wear, some with adhesive remnants on versos, a few with editorial markings in the image area, most with photo credits and other information..... More
New York: 1863. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Very minor edge wear. Light foxing on text edges, but clean internally. A tight, square copy. A rare work containing important information on the New York City Draft Riots, including first-hand accounts by African-American victims of the bloody events in mid-July 1863. Between..... More
[New York? ca. 1820s]. Narrow folio broadside, 20.25 x 8.75 inches, printed in two columns. Old folds, moderate foxing and staining, a few tiny areas of loss at crossfolds. A lovely letterpress broadside printing a narrative poem of forty-two four-line stanzas, arranged in two columns inside simple typographical borders comprised..... More
![Item #3941 [Early Phonograph Recording of Two Women's Suffrage Speeches]. Women's Suffrage,...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3941.jpg?v=1678125449)
New York, Paris, London: Pathe Freres Phonograph Co., [1915]. 78 RPM phonograph record, approximately eleven inches in diameter. In plain sleeve, accompanied by later, smaller-format illustrated Pathe brown paper sleeve. Some scratching on both sides, one small edge chip in blank area. A rare phonograph record containing two speeches in..... More
Nueva York: A.B. Allen & Co., 1849. [4],114,[2]pp. Profusely illustrated with in-text illustrations. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter black calf and green cloth, gilt morocco spine label. Light wear and dust-soiling to boards. Some discoloration to front wrapper, minor creasing to rear wrapper. Small typed name label added..... More
Nueva York: Jose Desnoues, 1831. 156pp. 12mo. Contemporary full calf presentation binding by C. Brown of New York (binder's ticket at top of front pastedown), spine gilt extra, boards bordered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers, presentation inscription on front board reading, "El Ciudadano Jose M. Tornel..... More