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“GREAT AMERICAN MASTODON . . . NO ANIMAL LIVING APPROACHES THIS IN SIZE.” Large broadside advertising the discovery and display of the “Great American Mastodon” skeleton that turned the religious and scientific worlds on their heads.

Discovered by Nathaniel Brewster at Newburgh, New York

Exhibited at Harford and New Haven, Connecticut: 1846. Unbound. This famous broadside measures 18” x 25.5” and is in exceptionally nice shape with some insignificant toning. The text reads in part “GREAT AMERICAN MASTODON!! . . . / The SKELETON of this gigantic animal was discovered in the month of..... More

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WYOMING GOLD MINING MASSACRE LETTER. “In years to come . . . recall to your mind this place and the Indian Massacres, the white men you saw brought into town kild and scalped as they was mining, not one half a mile out of Town.”

Geo. H. Lewi to his son

Atlantic Gulch, Wyoming: 1872. This manuscript letter measures 5”x8”. It is in nice shape, but was laid-down years ago on a period marbled bookboard. There is no mailing envelope since it was given in person by a father to his ten-year-old son along with “½ gr of native gold taken..... More

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The pinnacle of postal advertising: three end-of-the-19th Century Seabury & Johnson 'all-over" multicolor illustrated advertising envelopes

George Seabury

New York: Seabury & Johnson, circa 1900. Envelope or Cover. Three all-over chromolithographic Seabury & Johnson advertising covers, all are franked with 2-cent Washington stamps (Scott #279B) tied by New York machine cancellations dated between 1898 and 1901. Faint illustrations of the S&J factory are in the address field of..... More

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Bound volume of manuscript Natural Philosophy (i.e. Physics) lecture notes and drawings probably kept by a freshman student at Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University)

Henry Lewis

Manhattan, Kansas: circa 1870. 1/2 leather. This half-leather volume with marbled boards measures 8" x 10.5" and is titled "Lectures on Natural Philosophy." It contains approximately 140 manuscript text pages and an additional 80 pages with about 150 meticulous hand-drawn illustrations of apparatus and experiments, some in color. The pages..... More

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Small archive of Civil War letters written to a wounded member of the 39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regimen (The Garibaldi Guard) along with the soldier's discharge certificate

Various authors

Various locations: mostly 1865. Nine letters written to Stephen H. Gregory, a member of D Company, 39th New York Volunteer Infantry. Eight were written during April and May of 1865 while Gregory was recovering from wounds at the Homewood Hospital in Washington D. C. The ninth letter is pre-war. Two..... More

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“LEAP FOR JOY . . . DR. WARREN HAS CLOSED THE OPERATION UPON PHEBE’S UNFORTUNATE SWELLING.”; Letter describing Dr. John Warren’s successful removal of a precancerous tumor from an adolescent girl

Written by Abiel Abbot and sent to family in care of himself

Boston, Massachusetts to Coventry Connecticut: February 6, 1799. Envelope or Cover. This one-page stampless folded letter measures approximately 12” x 7.5”. It is datelined “Boston Feby March 6. 1799.” It bears a straight-line “Boston” handstamp, circled “7 / MR” Boston postmark, and a manuscript “10” rate mark. Small sealing wax..... More

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