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208 ● (NEW YORK—BUFFALO.) Group of early Buffalo almanacs. 11 volumes.
12mo, stitched, sewn, or disbound; various conditions, with some missing pages.
Buffalo, NY, [1820-47] [500/750]
Printing did not begin in Buffalo until 1812, and only a handful of ephemeral imprints are
known before the first almanac appeared, the Western Almanack for 1820. This lot includes:
Beers. The Western Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1821 [and 1822] * Loud &
Wilmarth. Astronomical Calendar, or Western Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1824 *
Buffalo Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1833 [and 1834] * Steele’s Buffalo Almanac for
the Year of Our Lord 1835 * Steele’s Western Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1838
[and 1839] * Steele’s Almanack for the Year 1844 * Bristol’s Free Almanac for 1845 *
Family Almanac and Franklin Calendar, 1848. Drake 6599, 6640, 6682, 7268, 7385,
7592, 7675, 8104, 8145, 8556. The 1833 Buffalo Almanac is not listed in Drake.
209 ● (NEW YORK—LONG ISLAND.) Small archive covering ten generations
of Hempstead’s Jackson-Jones family. 8 original manuscript documents, 1725-1868; 4
early manuscript copies of documents dated 1685-1708; 28 photographs of the family
homestead circa 1900-1935; family notes and clippings circa 1950; and photostats of 18
early family documents. Hempstead, NY, 1685-1950 [700/1,000]
In 1666, Colonel John Jackson built a home on Long Island’s south shore which remained
occupied by ten generations of the family until at least the 1950s. It remains standing today in
Wantagh. This collection begins with an 18th-century copy of the 1685 Dongan Patent to the
proprietors of Hempstead Town, including Colonel John Jackson; and an apparently contempo-
rary early manuscript copy of the 1708 patent from Governor Cornbury to Jackson for the
stretch of coastline now known as Jones Beach. It also includes an 1868 pencil sketch of the
homestead; an undated pencil sketch of the family’s 1704 mill, since torn down; and
photographs of the homestead done in 1934 by the Historic American Building Survey. The
earliest original manuscript is a 1725 deed from John Jackson III to his father John Jackson,
who is described as “son and heir of Colonel John Jackson deceased, the last surviving patentee
of the said town of Hempstead.” Inventory and genealogical notes available upon request.
210 ● (NEW YORK—NIAGARA.) The
Chinese Pagoda and Camera Obscura
in Point View Garden. Letterpress broad-
side, 11 x 83/4 inches; moderate foxing and
wear including three small holes at folds.
Buffalo, NY: Faxon & Stevens, 1847
[300/400]
An advertising circular for a 75-foot structure over-
looking the falls. For 25 cents, visitors could see the
broad sweep of the falls and surrounding country-
side, and also have use of the attached gardens. It
includes two poems by “Almira” on the pagoda’s
construction and completion, 1843 and 1844; a
short description by proprietor Charles Robinson;
and a longer quote from the New York Morning
Express. Brown University has a broadside with
the same date and title, but containing different
poems. The present version is unrecorded in Dow
or elsewhere, and possibly unique.
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