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City of New York Anti-Gambling Edict for a Tavern. [New York], ca. 1796. Owned by William Cook. This edict states that the license shall be revoked if licensee “shall keep a disorderly Inn or Tavern or suffer or permit any Cock Fighting, Gaming, or Playing with Cards or Dice, or keep any billiard table, or other Gaming Table, or Shuffle Board within the Inn or Tavern”. Signed by Mayor Richard Varick, 1796. 13 x 8 ½”. Page toned, overall good condition. Born in 1753, Richard Varick was a lawyer and a Patriot officer in the American Revolution, serving with distinction as Aide to Generals Philip Schuyler and Benedict Arnold. Later, George Washington entrusted him with the responsibility of editing of his wartime papers. In peacetime, Varick helped initiate the new Federalist-oriented government of New York City, becoming its mayor from 1789-1801.


Potter & Potter

Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2015-06-27

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MAP OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK; "A Plan of the City of New York from an Actual Survey made by James Lyne" by Charles Read more…


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Rago Auctions

Date:
2013-12-07


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Atlas of the City of New York; Borough of Manhattan, Volume Three: 59th Street to 110th Street. Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1930. Large folio Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2016-05-18


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Atlas of the City of New York; Borough of Manhattan, Volume Four: 110th Street to 145th Street. Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1930. Large folio Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2016-05-18


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Atlas of the City of New York; Borough of Manhattan, Volume Five: 145th St. to Spuyten Duyvil. Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1930. Large folio Read more…


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Skinner

Date:
2016-05-18


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Currier & Ives, publishers (American, 1857-1907) THE CITY OF NEW YORK., 1884 (Conningham 1106). Identified in inscriptions in the matrix. Large Read more…


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Skinner

Date:
2009-06-07


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A gold tone metal key to the City of New York, New York, presented to Pelé by then Mayor John V. Lindsay, who served as Read more…


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Juliens Auctions

Date:
2016-06-07


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Engraving The City of New York in the State of New York, North America, 1803, publisher W. Birch, unframed, 22 x 28 3/4 in. Read more…


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Skinner

Date:
2008-04-16


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Journal of the Second Session of the Senate of the United States of America, Begun and Held at the City of New-York, January 4th, 1790. Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2019-11-11


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City of New York receipt, dated Jan. 6, 1806 , inscribed To Daniel Phoenix - treasurer, pay John Trumbull two hundred dollars for Read more…


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Pook & Pook

Date:
2015-04-24


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Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America, Begun and Held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the Fourth of March, Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2019-11-11