Brooklyn: Brooklyn Fire Department, 1892. Compiled from the Records of the Department. 80 illustrations, most of which are photographic portraits. 478pp. + many pages of ads from Brooklyn merchants, 4to, original decorated maroon cloth, spine ends lightly worn and neatly repaired, edges of corners worn, some pages of text lightly soiled in right margins, page 61 lacks the lower right corner margin. Brooklyn: (Brooklyn Fire Deparment), 1892. First Edition. Beginning in 1785, the Brooklyn Fire Department consisted of six volunteer..... More

Boston: 1852. Partial unsigned manuscript consisting of four pages, 9.75 x 7.75 inches, labeled "2" through "5," of a more extensive document, all in the hand of Moses G. Farmer from 1852-1853, discussing the earliest trial-runs of the first ever Electric Fire Alarm System implemented in Boston. Though placed into service on April 28th 1852, Farmer's notes (in diary form) start on June 21st, assessing the system while constantly citing ways to improve his new invention, in very small part..... More

New York: Harper's Weekly, 1872. Woodcut. Image measures 22 3/4 x 33 inches. This engraved view of Boston after the Great Fire of 1872 was published nationally in the December 14, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly. The fire, which destroyed about 65 acres of downtown Boston, was the worst in the city history. Steamboats in the foreground hose down the burnt wharfs. Behind the harbor, the burnt downtown spreads out before the viewer as a mass of charred remains. To..... More

New York: Doubleday, 1988. Illustrated with a handful of b/w photos. 320 pages. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Doubleday, (1988). First edition. A very good(+) copy with light foxing to outer edges; in a very good(+) wrapper--lightly scuffed. More

D.T. Valentine, 1855. Map. Lithograph with hand coloring. Image measures 25 1/4" x 20". New York: D. T. Valentine, 1855. John Montresor's seminal 1775 New York map was issued as a facsimile lithographed by G.Hayward the 1855 edition of Valentine's "Manual of the Corporation of New York". It is the first large-scale map to depict Manhattan as far north as Greenwich Village. In very good condition, chips to lower right margin, mounted for framing and some tape residue. David Thomas..... More