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[Document, Signed, Indicating Taxes Paid by a Free Black Man in the Seventh Ward of New York City in the Early-19th Century]

[Document, Signed, Indicating Taxes Paid by a Free Black Man in the Seventh Ward of New York City in the Early-19th Century] by [African Americana]. [Smith, John]

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Seller: McBride Rare Books
Title
[Document, Signed, Indicating Taxes Paid by a Free Black Man in the Seventh Ward of New York City in the Early-19th Century]
Author
[African Americana]. [Smith, John]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
About very good.
Description
New York: April 18, 1815. About very good.. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, 7.75 x 6.75 inches, docketed on verso. Old folds, with one fold line reinforced on verso and the other fold line almost completely separated. A very rare record of the experiences of the lives of free African Americans living in New York City in the early-19th century, even before the War of 1812. Here, a "black or mulatto man" named John Smith attests that he "rents a tenement in a house in Henry street" and "has been assessed in the seventh ward of the said city, and that he paid taxes in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven." Smith has also signed the document with his mark, an interesting swirling "H"-shaped mark unlike the "X" usually seen on historical documents signed by illiterate individuals. The document is also notarized by a New York official. This is the first such document we have encountered.
Gründliche Anweisung zur ächten und vollkommensten Verfertigung und Zubereitung aller vorzüglichen Rauch und Schnupftabacke

Gründliche Anweisung zur ächten und vollkommensten Verfertigung und Zubereitung aller vorzüglichen Rauch und Schnupftabacke by Anon. ["von einem erfahrnen Werkmeister"] - TOBACCO

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Title
Gründliche Anweisung zur ächten und vollkommensten Verfertigung und Zubereitung aller vorzüglichen Rauch und Schnupftabacke
Author
Anon. ["von einem erfahrnen Werkmeister"] - TOBACCO
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very good; some rumpling to the plates
Description
Berlin: Friedrich Maurer, 1790. "New Edition" (so stated) BUT the First Edition.. Somewhat later three-quarter leather.. Very good; some rumpling to the plates. 12mo, [6], [3] - 171, [1 - blank] pp. + 8 numbered folding plates on seven sheets. A detailed manual for the preparation of tobacco for smoking or as snuff. The author provides numerous recipes. But Arents points out the value of the book is in the illustrations. These display the tobacco mixing-churns, racks, moulders, and presses for roll-tobacco, kilns, cutting machines and implements for manufacture. There is no earlier edition than 1790 recorded. The edition statement on the title page is most likely an advertising ploy. The 1802 printing is listed as the second edition. Absent from Engelmann and preceding anything in the handlist by 20 years; Arents #972 (with an illustration); Immensack 39; VD18 - 90009053.
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These Eventful Years: The Twentieth Century in the Making. As told by many of its makers. Being the dramatic story of all that has happened throughout the world during the most momentous period in all history. With 160 Full-Page Illustrations and Numerous Maps

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These Eventful Years: The Twentieth Century in the Making. As told by many of its makers. Being the dramatic story of all that has happened throughout the world during the most momentous period in all history. With 160 Full-Page Illustrations and Numerous Maps
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
London: The Encyclopaedia Britanica Company, Ltd., [1924] First edition. Green cloth, stamped in black. Two volumes, octavo. A very good, clean set, in dust jackets. Top of dust jacket to Volume I has a half inch chip. Scarce in dust jackets. Also with the scarce 'These Eventful Years' bookmark laid in. A remarkable collection of essays, including new material by Freud, Bertrand Russell, Bernard Baruch, H.G. Wells, Marie Curie, James Henry Breasted, Colonel House, etc.
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Catalogue & Supplement: 5,800 Named and Dated Silhouette Portraits by August Edouart 1789-1961 by Jackson, Mrs. F. Nevill

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Catalogue & Supplement: 5,800 Named and Dated Silhouette Portraits by August Edouart 1789-1961
Author
Jackson, Mrs. F. Nevill
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG- (clean, tight interior with no damage but with 4 small tears to covers).
Description
Bath: Harding & Curtis, n/d. Softcover. VG- (clean, tight interior with no damage but with 4 small tears to covers).. Orange paper wraps with black lettering. 56 pp. with images inside both covers. Catalogue of silhouette portraits by Edouart. They were very popular at one time. A few are pictured: Sir Walter Scott, Scott and his terrier (Spice), Mrs. William Keith, Bella Lucas, a family group, Edouard and his two daughters, J. Liston, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster (all in full figure) and miniature bust portraits on snuff boxes and in frames. Includes a brief essay, The History of a Great Collection, about Edouart, who was the silhouettist to the Duke of Gloucester and to the Royal Family of France.

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