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A Directory for the Village of Buffalo.
Folding map. 12mo, original cloth-backed printed boards, moderate wear; moderate damp-
staining, map detached with tape repairs and separations at folds but complete; 2 bookplates
on front pastedown. [5] pages of local ads.
Buffalo, NY: L.P. Crary, 1828
[800/1,200]
The first Buffalo directory. In addition to the usual listing of citizens with their addresses and
occupations, this volume includes a one-page list, “Names of Coloured People,” as well as
historical notes, a table of canal distances, and more. Howes C867 (“aa”); Sabin 9055;
Severance, Buffalo Imprints page 566. No other copies known at auction since the 1967
Streeter sale, II:909, which brought $525.
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The New-England Primer Improved.
71, [1]
pages including wrappers. 24mo, original printed wrappers, moderate wear; minor foxing
and faint dampstaining. In modern
1
/
4
morocco slipcase.
Buffalo, NY: Oliver Spafford, 1823
[400/600]
A scarce early Buffalo imprint, not listed in Heartman’s New England Primers or Severance’s
Buffalo Imprints. McMurtrie, Additional Buffalo Imprints 161 (one copy traced, in a private
collection); Shaw & Shoemaker 13491a. One copy in WorldCat.
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Trial of Israel Thayer Jr., Isaac Thayer, and
Nelson Thayer for the Murder of John Love.
36 pages. 12mo, stitched; worn, faint
dampstaining on title page; uncut.
[Buffalo, NY?]: “Printed for the publisher,” July 1825
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST EDITION
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John Love was an itinerant peddler who was murdered by the Thayer brothers
for money. In one of Buffalo’s earliest and most sensational capital cases, the brothers were convicted
and hung—hence the three coffins on the cover. Approximately 20,000 spectators attended the
execution. This printing not known at auction. McDade 974; Sabin 95273.
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