Kaaterskill Books
Specializing in Fine, Rare, and Unusual Books in a variety of fields with a special emphasis on the Americas: Americana, Latin Americana, Travel & Exploration, Asia, Scholarly
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Kaaterskill Books is located on Parker Mountain, in the small town of East Jewett, in the High Peaks region of the Northern Catskill Mountains, and not far from the tallest waterfall in New York State, and its creek, after which we are named. Though our special focus in on the Americas -North, Central, and South, we offer fine, rare, scholarly, and out-of-print books in a wide range of subjects, including Asia, Exploration, Art, Literature, and Books about Books. We are always interested in purchasing either single volumes of significance, or larger collections in these areas.
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Recently Added Books
![[Manuscript] Passage of Wilson's Bill … to make free the wives and children of colored soldiers has passed the senate](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/428/521/1702521428.0.m.jpg)
Class of Fifty-One. Hamilton College. Forty-Six Anniversaries in One
by [Hamilton College]. Knox, Henry M., et al.
![[First free Mexican Congress creating the government & two important degrees on the formation of Texas] Coleccion de los decretos y ordenes del soberano Congreso mexicano, desde su instalacion en 24. de febrero de 1822, hasta 30. de octubre de 1823, en que cesó. Se imprime de orden de su soberania](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/425/521/1702521425.0.m.jpg)
[First free Mexican Congress creating the government & two important degrees on the formation of Texas] Coleccion de los decretos y ordenes del soberano Congreso mexicano, desde su instalacion en 24. de febrero de 1822, hasta 30. de octubre de 1823, en que cesó. Se imprime de orden de su soberania
by Mexico. Congreso Constituyente
![[Manuscript Diary] 19th century Journal of Kirkwall, Orkney Islands](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/424/521/1702521424.0.m.jpg)
[Manuscript Diary] 19th century Journal of Kirkwall, Orkney Islands
by [Scotland. Orkneys]
![[ALS] Union Soldier Stationed at Camp Newport News, following the Battle of Fredericksburg, writes about seeing a Monitor class ship as he fears he is going to be sent to South Carolina](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/423/521/1702521423.0.m.jpg)
![[Printed Form Completed in Manuscript] Report of the Recruiting Committee on the Application of Mr. (Henry J. Mansfield) New York (Aug 7th) 1866](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/422/521/1702521422.0.m.jpg)
[Printed Form Completed in Manuscript] Report of the Recruiting Committee on the Application of Mr. (Henry J. Mansfield) New York (Aug 7th) 1866
by [New York. Ninth Regiment, National Guard, State of New York F Company]
![500,000 Acre Grant. No. [402]. State of Wisconsin. To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/421/521/1702521421.0.m.jpg)
500,000 Acre Grant. No. [402]. State of Wisconsin. To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting
by [Wisconsin] [Westward Expansion]. Coles Bashford
![[Manuscript Resignation and Transmission of Orders] from Charles H. Winter, 2nd Lieutenant of the 11th Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Pertaining to the Desertions of Recently Enlisted Substitutes](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/420/521/1702521420.0.m.jpg)
[Manuscript Resignation and Transmission of Orders] from Charles H. Winter, 2nd Lieutenant of the 11th Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Pertaining to the Desertions of Recently Enlisted Substitutes
by [Civil War. Connecticut. Desertions] Winter, Charles H.
Recently added catalogues
61 Archives, Manuscripts, Broadsides, Books, & Graphics 1607 - 2016.
From the early 18th century to the early 21st century: books and broadsides, maps and manuscripts, posters and periodicals, Artists' books, photobooks, original drawings, from New York City Theater to San Francisco Streets, Politics, Judaica, French Louisiana to Canadian History, Connecticut to the Confederacy, Mexico and Nicaragua to New England.
326 items from the 17th to 21st century.
<p>Works date from the first decade of the 18th century to the last decade of the 20th, covering every geographic region and nearly every country and including uncommon broadsides, runs of 19th c. periodicals, signed colonial documents, maps, books, and pamphlets with topics ranging from Artigas and Bolivar to Indigenous Peoples, Law, Language, and Livres d’Artiste, to Photography, Spanish, Portuguese, and English Exploration, The Cold War, Columbus, Slavery, and Bibliography.</p>