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Handbill advertising a “Freedom of Speech,” anti-Lincoln, pro-McClellan, campaign rally featuring a balloon ascension and speech by the exiled Ohio politician Clement Vallandigham. Unidentified.

Handbill advertising a “Freedom of Speech,” anti-Lincoln, pro-McClellan, campaign rally featuring a balloon ascension and speech by the exiled Ohio politician Clement Vallandigham

Unidentified

Unidentified: Unidentified, [1864]. Unbound. Unidentified place, publisher, and year, but probably somewhere in Ohio between June and August of 1864. The small broadside measures 6.5” x 9” and features a large image of a balloon ascension. The thin, fragile paper has been expertly backed with silk tissue. It is lightly... More

Price: $1,500.00

Letter from a French ship captain in San Francisco to a wine wholesaler in Southern France franked with the first Lincoln stamp issued by the United States. From G. Caussy to the Gautier Brothers.

Letter from a French ship captain in San Francisco to a wine wholesaler in Southern France franked with the first Lincoln stamp issued by the United States

From G. Caussy to the Gautier Brothers

San Francisco to Cette (today Sète), France: 1869. This three-page folded letter, in French, measures 16.5” x 10.5” unfolded. It is dated “Sn Francisco le 7 Yuillet 1869” and franked with a 15-cent black Lincoln stamp (Scott #77) canceled with a ‘fancy’ black circle-of-wedges. Three postmarks are on the front..... More

Price: $1,750.00

An exceptional photo-journal documenting construction at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. Godfrey L. Smith.

An exceptional photo-journal documenting construction at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company

Godfrey L. Smith

Newport News, Virginia: 1906-1907. Notebook. This 5.5” x 8.5” leather-covered journal contains 89 photographs; eight measure approximately 5.5” x 3.25”; the remainder measure approximately 3.5” square. Six negatives are laid in. Almost all of the photos are dated. Fourteen of the pages contain detailed descriptions of the construction. The photographs... More

Price: $1,250.00

14-page legal “opinion” regarding a court case (J. F. Hicks v. G. W. Truehart) regarding a disastrous Mississippi riverboat fire aboard the Steamer Mary Belle. Sneed J.

14-page legal “opinion” regarding a court case (J. F. Hicks v. G. W. Truehart) regarding a disastrous Mississippi riverboat fire aboard the Steamer Mary Belle

Sneed J.

Vicksburg: [1876]. 8.5” x 14” and contains 14 handwritten pages. The document is in nice shape with a storage fold and docketing that reads, “699 Shelley Law / J. F. Hicks v. G. W. Truehart / Opinion / Sneed J”. It is in nice shape with some minor soiling. In... More

Price: $300.00

Occupational cabinet card photograph of a New York City coachman in winter dress. Patch Brothers.

Occupational cabinet card photograph of a New York City coachman in winter dress

Patch Brothers

New York: Patch Brothers, 1885-1890. Unbound. This wonderful studio photograph of a New York City coachman in winter dress and holding his whip is complete with fake snow and snowflakes. The albumin image measures 4.75” x 7.75”; the card measures approximately 5” x 8.5”. The card is labeled “Pach Bro’s..... More

Price: $200.00

Sailor Stories and Songs

Sailor Stories and Songs

Concord, New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill, 1852 on the cover and 1853 on the title page. Wraps. Complete with original buff cover and 24 pages. The title page features an illustration of the ship Essex. Wood engravings throughout. Tiny “VtHi discard” stamp at the bottom margin of the first text page... More

Price: $400.00

Advertising package for Boston Cycle Company, a short-lived bicycle manufacturer

Advertising package for Boston Cycle Company, a short-lived bicycle manufacturer

Boston: 1899. Unbound. This lot includes a 14-page 6.5” x 3.5” catalog with b/w illustrations, a letter on company stationery, and the envelope in which it was mailed. All are in nice shape. The Boston Cycle Company was founded in 1897 and originally sold both new and second hand bicycles... More

Price: $200.00

Letter sent from Liverpool, England to New York City via an early voyage of the S. S. Great Western. From John Cummings to Arc Russell, ibald.

Letter sent from Liverpool, England to New York City via an early voyage of the S. S. Great Western

From John Cummings to Arch[ibald] Russell

Liverpool to New York City: 1838. Unbound. This three-page, stampless, folded letter measures approximately 16” x 10” unfolded. It is addressed to New York City with manuscript markings indicating “via Bristol” and the “Great Western.” It bears a circular, unframed, Ship’s Letter crown postmark dated 26 October 1838 indicating the..... More

Price: $200.00

Eastern Express mail cover. Sent by Alexander Robertson to Colonel Robert W. Allston

Eastern Express mail cover. Sent by Alexander Robertson to Colonel Robert W. Allston

Charleston, South Carolina to New York City and return to Georgetown, South Carolina: 1838. Unbound. Between 1836 and 1839, the post office operated several “Express Mail” routes in the Eastern United States where for triple the regular postage rate, letters were expedited using contactors who carried “the mail by the... More

Price: $150.00

Early patent for airship “combination of plane and hot-air dirigible. Awarded to Adolph Lubke.

Early patent for airship “combination of plane and hot-air dirigible

Awarded to Adolph Lubke

Washington DC: United States Patent Office, 1909. Wraps. The six page original patent is printed on thin cardstock with three pages of text and three pages of technical illustrations. It was awarded to Adolph Lubke, a resident of San Francisco, California. The leaves bear patent office file labels in the... More

Price: $200.00

Letter from a Scottish lawyer requesting information from a ship captain in Baltimore about an ill-fated Indian Ocean voyage aboard the Semaramis that included accusations of drunkenness, incompetence, theft, and mutiny. Jno Macdougall.

Letter from a Scottish lawyer requesting information from a ship captain in Baltimore about an ill-fated Indian Ocean voyage aboard the Semaramis that included accusations of drunkenness, incompetence, theft, and mutiny

Jno Macdougall

Greencock, [Scotland]: 1849. Unbound. Four-page letter. In nice shape with mailing folds and minor soiling. Transcript included. In this letter, a ship captain’s attorney, Jonathon Macdougall, requests information from his client, Captain James Welsh, in order to pursue a legal action in Scotland against a ship owner named Cairnie. It..... More

Price: $300.00

Five-year diary of a Colorado piano dealer including his vacation trips throughout Europe in a Locomobile. Clarence Campbell.

Five-year diary of a Colorado piano dealer including his vacation trips throughout Europe in a Locomobile

Maintained by Clarence Campbell

Various locations: 1907-1911. Notebook. Campbell was the son of the wealthy owner of the Knight-Campbell Music Company of Denver. His 4” x 7” leather diary contains approximately 385 pages. Each diary page accommodates entries for multiple years Entries begin in January 1907 and continue to October 1911. Most pages contain... More

Price: $500.00

Photograph album documenting an Ohio farm family’s life including images of African-American roustabouts erecting tents for a Barnum & Bailey Circus as well as of Harry Atwood’s hydroplane rides over Lake Erie. “Proberty of Fred J. Hildebrandt.”.

Photograph album documenting an Ohio farm family’s life including images of African-American roustabouts erecting tents for a Barnum & Bailey Circus as well as of Harry Atwood’s hydroplane rides over Lake Erie

“Proberty of Fred J Hildebrandt.”

[Vicinity of Toledo, Ohio]: Circa 1910-1913. Album. This faux leather album measures approximately 7.5” x 6” and contains 50 photographs (mostly silver gelatin but two cyanotypes as well).. The photos vary slightly in size, but most are about 5.5” x 3.5” inches. The album is identified as the “Property of... More

Price: $300.00

Photographic archive documenting a teenager’s two-year Soap Box Derby competition career to include participation in the national All-American Soap Box Derby finals at Akron, Ohio. David Brenstuhl and family.

Photographic archive documenting a teenager’s two-year Soap Box Derby competition career to include participation in the national All-American Soap Box Derby finals at Akron, Ohio

Assembled by David Brenstuhl and family

Lancaster and Akron Ohio: 1969-1970. Unbound. This archive contains approximately 140 photographs ranging in size from 2.25” x 2.75” to 8” x 10”. Most are b/w (about 30) and color (about 110) 3.5” square or 3.5” x 5” snapshots. The others are all b/w and include official “photo finish” shots..... More

Price: $600.00

Collection of photographs documenting an early U. S. Toyota dealer’s trip to Japan to be part of the celebration recognizing the five millionth car to roll off the company's assembly line. Said to have been from a. trip, Pennsylvania Byrl S. Kline an automobile dealer from Lebanon.

Collection of photographs documenting an early U. S. Toyota dealer’s trip to Japan to be part of the celebration recognizing the five millionth car to roll off the company's assembly line.

Said to have been from a trip taken by Byrl S. Kline an automobile dealer from Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania, California and Japan: 1968. Unbound. This collection of 20 b/w and color photographs ranges in size from 4.25” x 3” to 9” x 7.5”. 11 snapshots picture the dealer and his wife interacting with their hosts in Japan. One large b/w image shows all of... More

Price: $250.00

Five-decade archive of letters and documents pertaining to the shipping business of Captain Thomas E. Oliver of Portsmouth-New Castle, New Hampshire. authors.

Five-decade archive of letters and documents pertaining to the shipping business of Captain Thomas E. Oliver of Portsmouth-New Castle, New Hampshire

Various authors

Various locations: 1817-1854. Unbound. This archive consists of 30 different stampless letters, some with enclosures. All the correspondence pertains to Oliver’s shipping business (ship conditions, repairs, cargo, business opportunities, invoices, pricing, illustrated bills of lading, weather, etc.) which was headquartered in Portsmouth-New Castle, New Hampshire. The letters were... More

Price: $2,500.00

Two-page folded letter with printed circular sent via the Steamer Columbia from Liverpool to New York via Boston

Two-page folded letter with printed circular sent via the Steamer Columbia from Liverpool to New York via Boston

Liverpool: George Holt & Co., 1841. Unbound. This two-page folded letter and circular measures 15.5”” x 9.5” unfolded. It is addressed to A. Richards, Esq., New York and dated 4 June 1841. The cover has a manuscript annotation that reads, “Via Boston / Steamer Columbia.” There is a “Paid at... More

Price: $300.00

Small album with nine cyanotypes (and two photographs) of Brooklyn and outstate New York

Small album with nine cyanotypes (and two photographs) of Brooklyn and outstate New York

Brooklyn, Ten Mile River, Peekskill, and Warrensburg: circa 1900. Album. All but one of the images measure approximately 4.5” x 3.5”. The cyanotype on the front cover is approximately 3.75” x 2.75”. The images are glued to the album pages. The two pages with photos have been removed from the... More

Price: $450.00

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