Boston: Cummings & Hilliard, circa 1821. Unbound. Approximately 18.5” x 11.5” including margins. A very nice folding map with a strong, clear image. Hand-colored borders. Tiny near-invisible thin near Montreal and minuscule pinhole near Vevay, Indiana. Bottom margin is a little narrow. This is one of the first..... 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
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1841. Unbound. Approximately 14” x 17.5” including the wide margins. Includes a distance table for St. Louis Steam Boat Routes. Strong, clear image with attractive hand coloring. Light soiling. A little rough along the left edge where it was removed from the atlas. This..... 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
“14 miles from any body”, Wyoming: 1892. Envelope or Cover. Three-page letter on illustrated stagecoach stationery with matching mailing envelope. The letter is dated “At camp 14 miles from any body Wyo., Jan 6th 1892.” The cover is franked with a 2-cent Washington stamp (Scott # 219D) canceled by a...... More
Vera Cruz to Massachusetts via Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana: 1847-1848. Envelope or Cover. These two one-page and one two-page folded letters, each measuring 15” x 10”, were written by a civilian ship captain to his wife while transporting soldiers and supplies to Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Two..... More
Dumfries, Virginia to Geneva, New York: 1815. Unbound. This three-page stampless letter measures 12.5” x 7.5”. It is dated “Elm Wood 19th Sept 1815” and bears a manuscript “Dumfr 19 Sept” postmark applied at Dumfries, Virginia along with a “37½” postal rate mark, the cost to send a letter over..... More
Marion, Alabama: The Mobile Br Bank, May 14th 1847. Unbound. This three-page report on the resolution of a debt and mortgage related to “several negroes" is datelined “Marion May 14th 1847 / The Mobile Bank vs John Howie, J.J. Watts & Allen Houston.” The report was sent as a stampless..... More
New York: Ensign & Thayer, 1849, ©1848. First edition. Hardcover. The folded Gold Rush Era pocket map measures 26¾” x 21”. Original hand coloring. The map Includes county divisions for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and parts of Wisconsin and Iowa. The Indian and Nebraska Territories are identified to the..... More
Various locations: 1842-1847. Unbound. This archive consists of 36 letters (34 to McLoughlin, one by McLoughlin, and one to McLoughlin's widow) and two documents. All have original postal markings. Some have splits beginning along mailing folds; one is in two parts. An annotated contents list will be included. In..... More
Camp Lucas (St. Louis), Missouri to Warren Court House, Pennsylvania: 1847. This one-page stampless folded letter measures 15.5” x 10” unfolded. It is dated “Camp Lucas May 30th 1847.” The cover must have been delivered by hand, outside of the postal system, as it is unfranked and bears no postmarks..... More
New York: 1857. Envelope or Cover. This invoice was sent by Joseph Greenleaf, the Treasurer of Sailors’ Snug Harbor on Staten Island to Caleb Swan at 126 Ninth Street. It is dated 28 October 1857 and bills Swan $100 for “Six Months Ground Rent”. It bears a somewhat blurred Boyd’s..... More
Maryland and Pennsylvania: 1959, 1960, 1968. Spiral bound wraps. Three 8" x 11" standard-size spiral notebooks containing approximately 425 pages, almost all filled with detailed pencil sketches of construction sites. Photographs and clippings from magazines and newspapers are both laid in and attached to about ten pages. Among the..... More
Marshfield, [Massachusetts]: 1789-1790. Wraps. This ciphering book is approximately 8” x 12.5”. It contains 64 pages of mathematical exercises. The front cover is present; the rear cover has perished. The pages are in nice shape and soundly bound; the cover is worn and soiled. It was written while Asa was..... More
Various location in Mexico: 1916. Envelope or Cover. Although two previous U.S. experimental airmail flights occurred in 1911, it wasn't until 1916 during the Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition that the first real U. S. airmail service was begun by the Army's 1st Aero Squadron and its eight JN-3 Curtis-Jenny aircraft..... More
San Francisco: Printed by Lith. H.S. Crocker, 1894. Unbound. These four admission tickets each measure “ x “. All have red serial numbers and were good for admission for the duration of the fair, January through July 1894. Each represents a different era of California and pairs different vignettes with..... More
Philadelphia: 1832. Envelope or Cover. This one-page printed circular ,dated “Philadelphia, May 30th, 1832 was folded and sent by mail to the “Hon. P. Ellis” (Senator Powhattan Ellis of Mississippi) at “Washington City, D.C.” I bears a small, circular “PHIL 6 JUN” postmark in read and black “FREE” handstamp, which..... More
United States, Italy, Korea, Vietnam: 1942-1973. Archive. This archive consists of official paperwork, certificates, letters, and a photograph album that belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Carl L. Palmer. The photograph album contains over 50 corner-mounted photographs ranging in size from 3.5" x 5" to 8" x 10". About 25 additional photographs..... More
Vicinity of Ilion, New York: circa 1910. Album. This album measures approximately 7½ “ x 10 ½“ and contains over 65 photographs ranging in size from 3½“ x 2½” to 5¼“ x 3¼“. All have been glued to the pages. There are no captions, however some of the photos show..... More
New York: Dick’s Pub. House, Circa 1893-1894. Wraps. Softcover pamphlet with 16 unnumbered pages. Pink cover features a wood engraving of Lone Star Harry. Toned pages, otherwise in very nice shape with a tiny chip to the lower fore-edge corner. Lone Star Harry’s given name is unrecorded, although the..... More
Unidentified printer, 1832. Unbound. This broadsheet measures approximately 11" x 17.25. Printed on both sides. Light foxing and stains. Edges worn. Chip at lower right corner does not affect any text. One small thin (half the size of a dime) that affects three or four words of the text. Docketing..... More
Sierra Leone, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois: 1888-1897. Album. This album measures 11½" x 9" with 36 pages containing 66 cabinet photographs in page-inserts. Most of the photographs have ink captions on either the front or back. The album is padded in red velvet and has a decorative metal clasp. Everything..... More
New York: Pudney & Russell, 1860. First Edition. 1/4 leather. Approximately 5” x 7.5”. Complete with iii introductory pages including the half-title, tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of Sam Houston, and 100 text pages. Marbled paper covered boards with later half-cloth spine covering. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition. Sound..... More
Bilbao, Spain: 1831. Envelope or Cover. This three-page stampless, folded letter is datelined “Bilbao 5th Augt 1831.” Although it references an enclosed invoice, the invoice is no longer present. The letter was no doubt favor-carried to Le Havre in France as it bears a faint forwarding agent cachet on the..... More
