Probably Pennsylvania: 1807. Full leather. The full-leather manuscript prayer book measures approximately 4.25" x 6.25"; the slipcase is 4.5" x 7". Complete with frontispiece, title page, author and ownership page, 273 numbered text pages, and a 7-page index. The exceptionally well-done frontispiece is hand-drawn/colored and shows Jesus in prayer..... More
Boston, Massachusetts: January 4, 1855. Envelope or Cover. Four-page letter dated January 4, 1855. Signed “Horace Greeley” at the bottom of the fourth page. The accompanying postally used envelope is addressed to “Thomas L Kane Esq. / Clerk U.S. Dist Court / Philadelphia, / Penna.” It is annotated in the..... More
Hsi Chi Men, China: 1925-1926. Unbound. Small archive of correspondence, photos, and ephemera kept by an anti-imperialist American YWCA missionary in China as the country lurched through The May Thirtieth Movement towards the Second Chinese Revolution and eventually full civil war. The archive consists of 11 captioned photos, a...... More
Sierra Leone, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois: 1888-1897. Album. This album measures 11½" x 9" with 36 pages containing 66 cabinet photographs in page-inserts. Most of the photographs have ink captions on either the front or back. The album is padded in red velvet and has a decorative metal clasp. Everything..... More
Ft. Bridger, Utah Territory: 1869. Envelope or Cover. Two letters, both sent at Brimfield, Massachusetts; one datelined “Fort Bridger, U.T. Jan. 30th 1869”, the other, ”Fort Bridger Mar 9th, 1869”. One is enclosed in an envelope franked with a 3-cent stamp (Scott #65) and bearing a faint circular fort postmark..... More
