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Item #009891 1984-1986 – An archive of letters from a citizen to President Ronald Regan and...

1984-1986 – An archive of letters from a citizen to President Ronald Regan and other politicians urging them to implement policies against “the abomination of torture,” along with responses he received from the State Department, Senator Alan Dixon, Senator Charles Percy, and Congressman Sidney Yates; “Dear Mr. President . . . As you said in a recent speech there should be ‘increased respect for human rights everywhere. . .. I know you are promoting democracy which make societies in which torture is unlikely. But it is now, in many countries, by government.”

Ralph E. Works

Various: 1984-1986. Unbound. This archive consists of nine items. Drafts and copies of letters sent by Ralph E. Works of Chicago, Illinois to President Ronald Reagan, Senator Alan Dixon, Senator Charles Percy, and Representative Sidney R. Yates, in which he vigorously urged them to support the United Nations’ 1984..... More

Price: $200.00

Item #009887 1913 - "The Truth About Perry" A very well done hand-drawn and colored humorously...

1913 - "The Truth About Perry" A very well done hand-drawn and colored humorously romantic post card

Addressed to Mary E. Whittlesly in Erie, Pennsylvania, presumably from her unnamed boyfriend.

Jacksonville, Florida: 1913. Unbound. A colorful handdrawn comic illustration on a red 1-cent U.S. postal card featuring Commodore Perry in a bathtub, named The Niagara, writing his memoirs which begin “We have met the enemy and he is ours, Perry”. More

Price: $150.00

Item #009886 1914 - "A Florida Seranade" A very well done hand-drawn and colored humorously...

1914 - "A Florida Seranade" A very well done hand-drawn and colored humorously romantic post card

Addressed to Mary E. Whittlesly in Erie, Pennsylvania, presumably from her unnamed boyfriend.

Jacksonville, Florida. Unbound. A colorful hand drawn comic illustration on a 1-cent red U.S. postal card (Scott UX24) featuring a banjo-playing alligator serenading Mary, “Oh, sing a song to Mary / ‘Way up in Erie town. . .”. More

Price: $150.00

Item #009885 1912 - "Let's see now!" A very well done hand-drawn, humorously romantic post card....

1912 - "Let's see now!" A very well done hand-drawn, humorously romantic post card

Addressed to Mary E. Whittlesly in Erie, Pennsylvania, presumably from her unnamed boyfriend.

Chautauqua, New York. Unbound. Hand drawn comic illustration done in black ink on a red 1-cent U.S. postal card (Scott UX24), presumably a self-portrait, featuring Mary’s unnamed beau seated at his desk having already written “17 dozen” postcards to her that evening. More

Price: $150.00

Item #009880 1813-1817 – Three letters related to the War of 1812 naval service and prize money...

1813-1817 – Three letters related to the War of 1812 naval service and prize money for the capture of two British ships that was posthumously awarded to the son of a Revolutionary War hero who laments his loss while incarcerated in a Vermont debtor’s prison

General William Barton, Harry Barton, and Jonathan Lillibridge

Savannah, Georgia and the Brig Troup: 1813-1817. Envelope or Cover. This correspondence consists of three stampless folded letters. The first two letters were favor-carried and have no postal markings. The third has a circular Savannah, Georgia postmark and manuscript “75”, three times the normal postage indicating it had two enclosures..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #009878 1830s – A young woman’s attractive leather-bound “Album” that was used as a...

1830s – A young woman’s attractive leather-bound “Album” that was used as a commonplace book

Unidentied compiler

Album. This book measures 3.5” X 4.5”. Although unpaginated, it contains approximately 130 pages filled with poems, notes, drawings, and illustrations. The handwriting is tiny and fine. There is an old neatly done paper repair to the front hinge that reattaches the front board of its black faux caoutchouc-gutta-percha cover..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #009873 1916 – Collection of photographs from the Mexican Border War including piles of...

1916 – Collection of photographs from the Mexican Border War including piles of dead bandits from Pancho Villa’s raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and an inexplicable photo of an African-American private assigned to the otherwise all-white 3rd Field Artillery Regiment

“Uncle Max” Mittag

Mexican Border: 1916. Disbound. This collection of 59 photographs was purchased as a lot from a woman who had removed them from a disintegrating family album that chronicled “Uncle Max” Mittag’s service as a cook in Battery A, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment during the Mexican Border Campaign. All of the..... More

Price: $1,750.00

Item #009867 1852 - A Congressional pamphlet containing the correspondence between the Governor...

1852 - A Congressional pamphlet containing the correspondence between the Governor of the Oregon Territory and President Millard Fillmore regarding his refusal to enforce the relocation of the territory’s capital from Oregon City to Salem

“I owe it to the people of the United States, whose agent I am; to the people of Oregon, whose rights it is my duty to protect, and to my official oath, to decline any participation in executing your act"

Washington DC: 1852. Unbound. 32nd Congress, 1st Session [H. of Reps.] Ex. Cod. No. 96.: Oregon-Governor Gains. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting Copies of correspondence with Governor Gaines in reference to the government of the Territory of Oregon. May 3, 1852. 8 pages. Never bound... More

Price: $200.00

Item #009863 1790 - Broadside enumerating the reasons that Connecticut’s claim to what today is...

1790 - Broadside enumerating the reasons that Connecticut’s claim to what today is the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania were valid

“Wyoming was settled under the authority of Connecticut, as part of the State, under her Charter, in the assertion and defence of her claims, west of New York.”

Unbound. Nine Propositions, Which contain the grounds of the Wyoming Claim, on the State of Connecticut. [probably Connecticut: circa 1790.] This broadside measures 6” x 9.5”. Light wrinkles and faint marginal toning, mostly along the top margin. It makes a strong case for Connecticut’s retention of the Wyoming Valley..... More

Price: $800.00

Item #009862 1852 – Congressional pamphlet containing eight maps illustrating different...

1852 – Congressional pamphlet containing eight maps illustrating different sections of the Wisconsin River

Seven mid-19th century maps showing planned improvements to the Wisconsin river “to facilitate the passage of lumber, rafts, and flat boats.”

Washington DC: U.S. Senate, 1852. Stabbed binding. 32nd Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Miscellaneous No. 73: April 26, 1852. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin praying A grant of land to aid the improvement of the Wisconsin river between Fort Winnebago and the Beaulieux Rapids. Approximately 6.5” x 9”..... More

Price: $275.00

Item #009859 1860 - Congressional pamphlet detailing the expedition to find a shortcut between...

1860 - Congressional pamphlet detailing the expedition to find a shortcut between the Great Salt Lake and the Oregon Trail

“The greatest difficulty under which I labored . . . was in obtaining guides; for even among the Indian non knew more than small portions of the country we were to traverse and no white man could be found who had any knowledge. . ..”

Washington DC: U.S. Senate, 1860. Disbound. 36th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Ex. Doc., No. 34. Report of the Secretary of War communicating In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the report of Captain H. D. Wallen of his expedition in 1859, from Dalles City to Great Salt Lake, and..... More

Price: $275.00

Item #009857 1865 - Discharge Certificate for Robert Brown from the first black Union unit...

1865 - Discharge Certificate for Robert Brown from the first black Union unit established in the Civil War, the Louisiana Native Guard Volunteers – Signed by Captain Hannibal Carter, an African-American who had formerly been a Confederate private in the first black Civil War unit, the 1st Louisiana Native Guard

“I certify . . . Robert Brown – a Private of Captain Hannibal Carter’s Company C of the Second Regiment of Louisiana Native Guard Volunteers . . . born in Maryland County, State of Virginia . . . is now entitled to discharge by reason of disability.”

Ship Island, Mississippi: 1865. This Union Army “Certificate to be Given to Union Volunteers at the Time of their Discharge” was issued for Robert Brown, an African-American private in the 2nd Louisiana Native Guards 8” c 10”. It was signed by Captain Hannibal Carter, his African-American company commander and given..... More

Price: $8,500.00

Item #009850 1779 - Revolutionary War funding-status letter from the Commissary-General for the...

1779 - Revolutionary War funding-status letter from the Commissary-General for the Middle District that reads like a who’s who of the Continental Army’s Quartermaster Corps.;

“Extortion and want of Virtue has taken almost possession of Every Person upon this Continent, the Enormous sums of Public money which is daily expended and the great depreciation of it will if not shortly put stop to end in our ruin.”

Philadelphia to Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1779. Unbound. This two-page letter, datelined Philad’a 15th Feb’y 1779, was sent by Colonel Ephraim Blaine, the Commissary-General for the Middle District of the Continental Army, to Colonel John Davis, the Deputy Quartermaster General for Army’s Western District who was located at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In..... More

Price: $2,000.00

Item #009846 1861 - Anti-secessionist screed sent from San Francisco by a colporteur, John...

1861 - Anti-secessionist screed sent from San Francisco by a colporteur, John “Johnnie” Ware, enclosed in its original rare ‘internal’ Pony Express envelope

“Kill the rattlesnake. Keep his musical bones as a trophy, then throw him over the wall. It does one’s soul good . . . to see the Southerners transepted in this section where they have bullied over [us] so long with dirk and bludgeon”.

San Francisco: June 12, 1861. Envelope or Cover. California politics had long been dominated by pro-slavery Democrats until the presidential campaign of 1860 when their party split into two factions, one led by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas and the other by Vice-President John C. Breckinridge. This schism allowed the..... More

Price: $12,500.00

Item #009844 1892 - Postally used mailing envelope advertising the Chicago & St. Louis Railroad...

1892 - Postally used mailing envelope advertising the Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company

“Long distance and high speed electric railways are constantly attracting more attention [and] the one which is attracting universal attention, not only in this country but abroad, is the Chicago & St. Louis Railway, which promises a speed of 100 miles an hour.”

St. Louis, Missouri: Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, 1892. Envelope or Cover. This illustrated advertising cover is franked with a carmine 2-cent Washington stamp (Scott #220) canceled by a duplex St. Louis, Missouri postmark dated December 20, 1892. The decorative corner card reads, “Chicago & St. Louis Electric Railroad..... More

Price: $200.00

Item #009836 1860 - Congressional Pamphlet issued in conjunction with bill attempting to void all...

1860 - Congressional Pamphlet issued in conjunction with bill attempting to void all laws passed by the New Mexico territorial legislature relating to the authorization of slavery.

“A bill to repeal all acts of the legislature of New Mexico authorizing slavery or involuntary servitude, except for punishment for crime.”

[Washington, DC]: U.S. House of Representative, May 10, 1860. Removed. 36th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 508. “Slavery in the Territory of New Mexico. [To accompany Bill H. R. No. 64.] May 10, 1860 – Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bingham, from the Committee on the Judiciary..... More

Price: $125.00

Item #009835 “The said party of the second part agree to cause a settlement to be made on said...

“The said party of the second part agree to cause a settlement to be made on said land, and a building, suitable for habitation of man, to be erected theron.” Articles of Agreement between the State of Connecticut and a New York settler to purchase land related to the Western Reserve for the benefit the Connecticut School Fund

Various signers

For property in New York State: Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, 1820. Unbound. In this lot, there are two copies of this large Articles of Agreement between the State of Connecticut and Ezra B. Corkings. The documents measure 13.5” x 16”, and both are signed by Corkings and the..... More

Price: $300.00

Item #009830 Colgate & Co’s Concentrated Triple Extracts for the Handkerchief. An advertising...

Colgate & Co’s Concentrated Triple Extracts for the Handkerchief. An advertising packet for Colgate Perfumes and Soaps

New York: 1882. Envelope or Cover. This 1882 advertising packet directed toward retail merchants and addressed to Creasy & Brown of Mifflinville, Pennsylvania, that consists of an An illustrated broadsheet featuring a bottle of Cashmere Bouquet Perfume, A 20-page pricelist listing over 200 perfumes, soaps, and scented..... More

Price: $150.00

Item #009829 “Night and day I have been employed trying to secure the Land of the companies...

“Night and day I have been employed trying to secure the Land of the companies from being washed away and our mill from being destroyed.” Letter from the general who went to work for a Colorado mining company to support his family after being scapegoated and cashiered from the Army following the Union defeat at Second Bull Run

Major General Fitz-John Porter

Envelope or Cover. This four-page letter, dated June 14th 1864, was written by former Major General Fitz-John Porter to his wife. The original mailing envelope is franked with a 3-cent stamp (Scott #65) and bears a scarce Black Hawk Point, Colorado (Territory) postmark dated June 15, 1864. Both are in..... More

Price: $500.00

Item #009821 “Rec’d four shurts & five pair Stockins at Uriah Samsons” List of clothing...

“Rec’d four shurts & five pair Stockins at Uriah Samsons” List of clothing collected at Middleborough, Massachusetts in 1778, to supply the Massachusetts Militia

Unbound. This one-page manuscript document measures 8” x 11”. It is datelined “November 1778” and contains about thirty entries relating to items of clothing “rec’d” and “turnd in.” Some light toning, soiling, and edgewear. The clothing listed on the document includes “shurts,” “stockens,” and “shews.” Providers included John Peekens..... More

Price: $2,000.00

Item #009815 Letter from the Commanding Officer of Fort Towson, Choctaw Nation, 1838. Lieutenant...

Letter from the Commanding Officer of Fort Towson, Choctaw Nation, 1838

Lieutenant Colonel Josiah H. Vose

Fort Towson, Arkansas in the Choctaw Nation (now Oklahoma): 1838. Envelope or Cover. This four-page stampless folded letter was written and mailed on April 8, 1838, by the Commanding Officer of Fort Towson, Arkansas in the Choctaw Nation (now Oklahoma), Lieutenant Colonel Josiah H. Vose, to his sister in Boston..... More

Price: $2,000.00

Item #009814 “2½ Thousand Short Shingles & 4500 Long” Two 1820s lumber company account...

“2½ Thousand Short Shingles & 4500 Long” Two 1820s lumber company account books from mills in the Brocton-Bridgewater region of Massachusetts

Sylvanus Keith and Clifford Carver

Brocton-Bridgewater, Massachusetts: 1823-1828. String. Brocton and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, were located within about seven miles of each other, about 25 miles south of Boston and 35 miles east of Providence, Rhode Island. Both of these manuscript account books were kept between 1823 and 1828. One is for Sylvanus Keith &..... More

Price: $200.00

Item #009797 “MY SON WAS IN ALL THE BATTLES FROM VERA CRUZE TO CERA GORDE.” A request made...

“MY SON WAS IN ALL THE BATTLES FROM VERA CRUZE TO CERA GORDE.” A request made to Captain Brewerton from a father trying to find information for his son about U. S. Military Academy life at West Point

From John Moorhead to Captain Brewerson

New York City to West Point, New York: 1848. Envelope or Cover. This one-page stampless folded letter measures approximately 16” x 9.75”. It was sent by John Moorhead in New York City, to Captain Brewerson, an engineer stationed at West Point. The letter bears a manuscript annotation “Post Paid,” a...... More

Price: $250.00

Item #009796 A GOLD MINER’S HAND-SEWN LEATHER “POKE” NO DOUBT USED TO MAIL GOLD DUST OR...

A GOLD MINER’S HAND-SEWN LEATHER “POKE” NO DOUBT USED TO MAIL GOLD DUST OR NUGGETS FROM CALIFORNIA TO PHILADELPHIA. Plus, an antique vial containing small gold nuggets and flakes

Sent to Thos. Anderson

San Francisco, California to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 20 December [1856] to 4 August 4, 1857. Leather. This hand-sewn leather pouch measures 4” x 3.75”. The original stitching remains intact on two edges; it has been removed along the other two edges, no doubt to empty its contents. The pouch is franked..... More

Price: $3,500.00

Item #009790 “TO DAY WE HAVE ENDORSED Mr. WM FLEMMING’S DFT TO YOU . . . FOR NINE THOUSAND...

“TO DAY WE HAVE ENDORSED Mr. WM FLEMMING’S DFT TO YOU . . . FOR NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS ON A/C COTTON TO HEYAN MACGEE. . ..” An uncommon, triple-rate Express Mail letter used to provide timely and detailed purchasing instructions in the rapidly fluctuating cotton market

J. H. (James Henry) Leverich to Henry S. (Stanton) Leverich

New Orleans to New York City: 10 January 1837. Unbound. This two-page stampless folded letter was sent by U.S. Express Mail from New Orleans to New York City in January of 1837. It measures approximately 16” x 10.5” unfolded and bears a manuscript $2.25 rate mark, a manuscript “Express Mail”..... More

Price: $500.00

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