New York: Charles Magnus (Branch Office, Washington D.C, circa 1863. Unbound. Song sheet titles included in Magnus multi-color illustrated “Series No. 1.” song sheet booklets vary. This one contains: Taking Up Quarters, The Prisoner’s Hope (Tramp, Tramp, Tramp), While there’s Life there’s Hope... More
Syracuse, New York: Dec 10, 1852. Envelope or Cover. This circular measures approximately 7.5” x 10”. It is enclosed in its original mailing envelope which is addressed to a Militia Major in Paris. It bears a double oval Utica postmark dated Dec 17 and a manuscript “2” rate mark indicating..... 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. Everything is in nice shape. Ten additional photographs are laid-in including a 10” x...... More
United Kingdom, France, North Dakota, and Massachusetts: 1917-1958. Album. This scrapbook measures 12” x 12.5” and contains 37 pages with about 90 documents, vouchers, photographs, watercolors, patches, letters, newspaper clippings, and other ephemeral pieces. The album and most of the contents are in very nice shape; some of the newspaper..... More
London: The London Musical Publishing Stores, [1900]. Wraps. This piece of sheet music measures approximately 10.75” x 14”. Complete with 8 pages including the cover which is illustrated with a half-tone photograph of Lord Baden-Powell in his military uniform. The title is surmounted by a tribute that reads, “Dedicated to..... More
Marne River and the Argonne Forest: 1918. Unbound. An amazing first-hand account by one soldier of heroism and bloody hand-to-hand fighting at the Marne River and in the Argonne Forest, two battles that turned the course of World War One. This grouping consists of two combat letters, a French Croix..... More
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1915. Approximately 5” x 6.5”. Original publisher’s pictorial wrapper. Owned by Captain Oliver H. Dockery of the U. S. Army 15th Infantry Regiment in Tientsin, China. Complete. 118 pages of text and photographs including a portrait frontispiece; 20-page advertising section in the rear. Sound..... More
New York: For D.T. Valentine’s Manual for 1861 by Geo Haywood, 1861. Disbound. The hand-colored, lithographed map image measures 22” x 16.5” and has a 7/8” margin at top, a 5/8” margin on the right and bottom, and a 1/8” margin along most of the left edge where it had..... More
[Philadelphia]: T. M. Scroggy, 1855. _. Broadside. Songsheet lyrics for a popular minstrel song originally published as sheet music several years earlier. 6" x 8". African-American dialect.Light wear and marginal toning. Very faint vetical crease. Five stanzas recounting a slave's surreptitious trip to Charleston to visit a woman while his..... More
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Richmond, Virginia to Whittle’s Mills, Virginia, then Whittle’s Mills to Charlottesville, Virginia: April 1861. Envelope or Cover. This 3-cent U.S. stamped envelope (Scott #U10) was sent from Richmond to Dr. Conway Whittle at Whittle’s Mills and bears a Richmond postmark dated 28 April 1861. Whittle turned it inside-out, franked it..... More
Liverpool: 1818. Envelope or Cover. This two-page letter was sent from Liverpool to New York on 30 July 1818. After delivery to a ship’s agent, it was dispatched on the second voyage the Black Ball Line ship, the Amity, which departed Liverpool on 2 August and arrived at New York..... More
Portland, Maine: Office of the State Liquor Agency, 1863. Envelope or Cover. This one-page circular measures approximately 5” x 8”. It was sent by the State Liquor Agency in Portland, Maine to the Selectmen of Carmel. It is enclosed in its original mailing envelope that has been franked with a...... More
Philadelphia: George W. Taylor, 1853-1854. Half leather. Philadelphia: George W. Taylor, 1853-1854. Half leather. 24 monthly issues bound together. Complete; each volume contains 104 text pages. Half-leather with marbled boards; 6.75" x 10.25". Sound binding. Clean pages with light intermittent foxing. Old pencil annotation at top of the first title..... More
San Francisco to Shikoku Island, Japan via New York City: 1945. Envelope or Cover. This legal-size envelope is addressed to “Frank Perry, American Civilian Internee Held by Japan / in Zentsuzi War Prison Camp / Zentsuzi, Skikoku Island, Japan / Via: New York, N.Y.” The return address on reverse is..... More
London to New York and Boston: 1813. Unbound. This two-page stampless folded letter measures 15.75” by 10” unfolded. It is datelined “duplicate London 30th January 1813.” The letter was forwarded to New York after originally having been addressed to Boston. It bears a straight-line “SHIP” handstamp and two receiving postmarks..... 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
Manilla, Philippines: Santo Thomas Internment Camp: February 16, 1945. Unbound. This onion-skin file copy of a letter measures 8.5” x 11”. It was written by “Walter” (who identifies himself as an employee of Trans World Airlines) immediately after his liberation from the Saint Thomas Internment Camp run by the Japanese..... 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
Sent to a potential customer in Pennsylvania from Baltimore, Maryland: 1852. Envelope or Cover. This four-page handbill measures 7.5” x 9.5” and advertises the availability of mail-order tickets for 21 different Maryland lotteries that were being held in March of 1852. It is enclosed in its original mailing envelope which..... More
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Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1861. Unlisted. Sheet Music. Complete. 6 pages including cover. Cover features a large portrait of Major Robert Anderson, the Commander of Fort Sumter when it was bombarded by the South Carolina militia to begin the U.S. Civil War. Clean with only light wear. Once bound. An..... More
Wyandotte, Kansas: Office of the Contractors of the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division, 1863. Envelope or Cover. This letter on the stationery of the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division is datelined, Wyandotte, Kansas, November 7, 1863, and enclosed in a mailing envelope which bears a circular Wyandotte, Kas..... More
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1839. Unbound. Approximately 14” x 17.5” including the wide margins. Includes three inset maps of Pensacola, Tallahassee, and the St. Augustine Harbor, as well as “water route” distance tables for Pensacola and St. Augustine. Strong, clear image with attractive hand coloring. Very light soiling... More
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1841. Unbound. Approximately 14” x 17.5” including the wide margins. Includes an inset map showing the western part of the Upper Peninsula and a distance table for Detroit Steam Boat Routes. Strong, clear image with attractive hand coloring. Very light soiling. This very attractive..... More
[Dugny, France]: 1917. Unbound. Two letters sent on consecutive days by Wiswall to his family in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The first is to Urswall’s brother and was written on a 5.25” x 7” soldier’s mailing sheet. It is franked with a blue 25-centime Sower stamp (Scott #168) and bears a circular..... More
Nuremberg, Germany: Io. Bat. Homanno, 1720. Map. This double-page engraved map is approximately 19.5" x 23.5". Hand-colored. Title cartouche in the upper left corner shows the missionary explorer, Father Hennepin, with allegorical New World figures, a buffalo head, and a classic image of Niagara Falls. A vignette in the lower..... More
