Washington DC: 14 October 1865. Unbound. Two partially printed pages plus the original mailing envelope addressed to Maryland Congressman Charles E. Phelps (a Medal of Honor recipient) for delivery to his constituent, Perry M. Shipley. The Pardon measures approximately 23.5" x 17.5" unfolded. It bears an official embossed Presidential Seal..... More
Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1578. Disbound. This disbound leaf from Munster's "Cosmographia" measures 8" x 13.5". It contains two woodcuts showing episodes from Alexander the Great's conquest of Central Asia. The leaf is in nice shape with some marginal toning. One woodcut shows the torturous execution of Bessus (Artaxerxes VV), who..... More
Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1578. Disbound. This disbound leaf from Munsters "Cosmographia" measures 8" x 13.5". It contains six woodcuts showing unusual men and animals from the Indian subcontinent. The leaf is in nice shape with some marginal toning. One wood cut shows a pigmy conversing with a man from Dondun..... More
Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1578. Disbound. This disbound leaf from Munsters "Cosmographia" measures 8" x 13.5". it contains two woodcuts, one showing the Monster of Krakow and the other the Lithuanian coat of arms. The leaf is in nice shape with some marginal toning. The Monster of Krakow was a horribly..... More
Written “On Board Transport Ship St. Paul” and mailed from “Military Station No. 1. Porto Rico”: Co. F, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, July 1898. Envelope or Cover. A four-page letter on patriotic stationery featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam driving a Spanish soldier from Cuba at bayonet point. Its identifies..... More
Mont Alto, Pennsylvania: Mont Alto State Sanitorium, 1910. Envelope or Cover. This postcard is franked with a one-cent green Franklin stamp (Scott #331), which has been canceled with a duplex “Mont Alto / PA” postmark. It bears an exceptionally nice, bold “DISINFECTED.” magenta handstamp (Sandrick Type 1) under the address..... More
From Posen, Prussia (today Poznan, Poland) to PWE #2 (Prisoner of War Enclosure #2) at [Souilly], France: 20 October 1918. Unbound. This postcard was sent to Unterofficier Friedlaender, who was held captive at the U.S. Prisoner of War Enclosure #2 in Souilly, France, from Posen, Prussia via the American Central..... More
U.S.S. Pittsburgh at Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Borneo, Siam, Singapore, Java, Ceylon, etc: 1929-1931. Album. This archive consists of an 8” x 14” 300-page scrapbook, filled with articles, clippings, photographs, cartoons, newsletters, assorted ephemera. Hood used 86 pages in the rear of the album to keep a...... More
Various locations: 1941-194. Disbound. This archive consists of 17 loose album pages with about 75 mounted photographs, 35 loose photographs, a Marines’ Hymn postcard, Captain Bryant’s ticket for a Lahainaluna School luau, and a booklet, North China Pictorial U.S.M.C., that chronicles the III Amphibious Corps’ occupation duty. The..... More
1917. Album. This large album measures 12” x 9.5” and contains well over 250 glued-in photographs, most measuring about 4” x 2.5”. The photographs are captioned in white ink on 46 of the albums 48 pages. Ten additional photographs are laid-in including a 10” x 8” official group..... More
New York: Sheikhs ul Kaaba, March 21st, 1885. Envelope or Cover. This invitation, dated March 21st, 1885, is printed on pink paper measuring approximately 5” x 8”. It is signed in print by Charles Southern and Rober Hyslop. It is enclosed in a matching pink envelope featuring a ‘ankh ansata’..... More
St. Louis, Missouri: St. Louis Independent Packing Co., 1917. Envelope or Cover. An attractive advertising cover featuring a large illustration of the St. Louis Independent Packing Company with two enclosed invoices. The illustrated envelope is franked with a two-cent red Washington stamp (Scott #487) and posted with a 1917 machine..... More
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Kingston, Pennsylvania to Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania: 1854. Envelope or Cover. One-page stampless folded letter from a hiring agent informing a client that he has located and tentatively procured the services of a broom maker. The letter shows a circular Kingston postmark dated “Mar/21” as well as a straightline..... More
St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 1, 1904. Newspaper. Three complete sections of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch covering opening day activities of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. In exceptionally nice shape. Clean and supple with light toning and a single horizontal storage fold; otherwise..... More
Saratoga Springs to Clinton, New York: March 1868. Envelope or Cover. This two-page handbill measures 6” x 9.75” and is illustrated with an image of the Congress and Columbian Springs in Saratoga Springs, New York. An addendum identifying the “Discounts for 1869” is attached to the reverse. The handbill is..... More
Boston: Stewart Gold Mining Company of Colorado, May 28, 1864. Envelope or Cover. This one-page shareholder list measures approximately 5” x 8”. It was printed on 28 May 1864 and mailed three-days later to the “Assessors of Bridgewater, Massachusetts.” It is franked with a 2-cent black Jackson stamp (Scott #73)..... More
Townsend to Littleton, Massachusetts: The Townsend Female Seminary, 1847. Wraps. This 14-page academic pamphlet measures approximately 4.5” x 7.5”. On the reverse it is addressed to Dr. E. [Edward] J. White of Littleton of Massachusetts, a physician according to the 1850 Census. It bears a circular Townsend postmark dated July..... More
St. Louis, Missouri: 1881-1882. 1/2 leather. This half-leather scrapbook measures 8.25” x 11” and contains 64 pages, all completely filled with newspaper clippings and a myriad of ephemera including official correspondence, broadsides, calling cards, armory illustrations, encampment maps, fez packaging, certificates, ball invitations, dance cards, event tickets, award ribbons, payment..... More
Cantabrigiæ, Nov-Anglorum (Cambridge, New England): Typis Richardi et Samuelis Draper (Richard and Thomas Draper, Printers), 1766. This large broadside, measuring approximately 17” x 21.5”, announces the upcoming public defense of 127 academic theses by students who would be graduating from Harvard College in August of 1766. It has some minor..... More
[New Haven, Connecticu]: Yale College, 1865. Unbound. Two separate pages, each measuring approximately 7.5” x 12”. In Greek. Pencil docketing reads “Printer’s copy for an examination-paper, in the handwriting of Professor James Hadley, 1865. Attest: Franklin B. Dexter, 1902.” “James Hadley / B. Fairfield, N.Y. March 30, 1821..... More
Various locations: 1847-1848. Card. There are six stampless folded letters in this archive. Three letters from Butler’s wife (one from 1847 and two from 1848) regarding family matters and the management of their Louisiana sugar plantation, an 1848 letter-order from the War Department Adjutant General appointing Butler to investigate General..... More
Retsoff, New York to Springboro, Pennsylvania: 1888. Envelope or Cover. This grouping contains a March 10th, 1888, bill of lading from the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad Company, a shipping notice from Foster & Brown, agents of the “Retsof Mining Co., Miners and Shippers of Salt,” and the two-cent..... More
[1929]. Each of the four broadsides measures 6.25” x 9.75”. All are in nice shape. They are titled “Has Prohibition Brought Temperance?”, “For Your Children’s Sake”, “Do You Want to Put the Criminal Out of Business? Help the Unemployed?”, and “Tax Payers! Do You Know”. Four different broadsides published by..... More
Most from Nevada mining towns: Most from 1900-1910. Collection of forty-eight western tokens plus other exonumia composed mostly of merchant "good for" tokens, several Pony Express commemorative ‘so-called-dollars’, a tool-check, and a ‘dog house’ license. These were issued at various locales, mostly in Nevada with a couple from California. The..... More
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
