Paris: L. Vivien Geographe, 1834. Unbound. Approximately 20.5” x 13.5” including the margins. Text in French. A nice map with a strong, clear image. Minor wear and soiling at lower left tip of margin; top margin is a little rough where the map was removed from the atlas... More
Cincinnati, Ohio: 1947. Envelope or Cover. The elder Rabbi Brickner, the long-serving rabbi of Anshe Chesed Congregation in Cleveland was a well-known educator, orator and Zionist leader. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, often simply referred to as the Joint, was initially founded in 1914 to provide assistance to Jews..... More
Philadelphia: O. W. Gray & Son, [1877]. Unbound. Approximately 14” x 17” including the margins. Strong, clear image with hand-coloring. This attractive map of St. Louis shows the streets of the city in detail. Additionally, locations of several historically important sites are shown: Lafayette Park, where Jere..... More
Circa 1767. Disbound. The image of this hand-colored engraving measures 7” x 8.5”; the leaf measures 9” x 13”. In addition to the title, the leaf is also identified as “Patagons 215.” It is in very nice shape with light toning and some variation in margins where it appears the..... More
Alaska and Washington DC: 2001. Unbound. This NPR-A (National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska) Update newsletter was sent from Alaska to the Department of Energy in Washington, DC. It has a meter postmark dated "11-30-01" and bears a two-line, blue "MAIL SANITIZED" handstamp located between the postmark and mailing address. The newsletter and..... More
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
New York City: 1912. The medal is approximately 7" long. The pale blue ribbon has faded printing that reads "Dedication of / Washington's Monument / Feb 22 1912 / New York City." A hanging medallion, featuring a color illustration of a firemen saving a woman as flames blaze around him..... More
Folly Island: 1864. Unbound. This four-page letter was sent by Private Atwell B. Leavenworth of the 57th New York Infantry to his father. It is dated “Folly Island July 13. 64”. The letter is in nice shape with splits beginning at the ends of its mailing folds. Transcript included... More
11th Infantry Regiment, APO 745 (5th Division): 11 July 1918. Envelope or Cover. This four-page letter is datelined “July – 11 – 1918” and enclosed in its mailing envelope which identifies Steiner as an officer in the 11th Infantry Regiment. It has somewhat blurred strike of an 11 July duplex..... More
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
Illinois, New York, and France: 1917-1918. Envelope or Cover. A sad archive containing 20 letters and ephemeral items documenting Private Warmowski’s wartime service and death. Warmowski was born in Poland in 1877, immigrated to United states in 1891, and became a citizen in 1913. During World War I, he was..... More
Washington, D.C. The National Intelligencer, 1822. Newspaper. A complete four-page newspaper of 5 December 1822 recounts the battle between the American Schooner USS Alligator, commanded by Lieutenant William Howard Allen, of the West Indies Squadron and three pirate ships, probably commanded by Diabolito, off the coast of Cuba on 9..... More
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
Davids Island, Long Island, New York: De Camp General Hospital, August, 1863. Envelope or Cover. This three-page letter was sent from a wardmaster at De Camp General Hospital on Long Island to a wardmaster at the U.S. General Hospital at Fort Schuyler, New York. It is enclosed in an envelope..... More
Probably signed at Fort Washington, Ohio: 1801. This receipt from Major Caleb Swan acknowledges that had received the accounts documenting the total cost to defend the United States’ western frontier for the years 1798- 1801 from his Deputy Paymaster, Captain Samuel Vance. Probably signed at Fort Washington, Ohio (now downtown..... 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
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
London: Remington and Co, 1886. Hardcover. Approximately 6” x 9”. Complete: Vol. 1 with 244 pages. Vol. 2 with 260 pages; map and 20-page catalog in rear. Original brown diapered cloth with black decoration and gilt lettering. Very good. Sound binding; front hinges of both volumes beginning to crack. Vol..... 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
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
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: 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
England, France, Scotland, and the United States: 1826-1861. The archive includes 35 items written to and saved by Dr. Nairn. All but one are stampless folded letters or covers sent to him between 1826 and 1861 from family, associates, and creditors in England, France, Scotland, and the United States. They..... More
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
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
