New York or Philadelphia: 1868. Unbound. This Bill of Lading measures 13¼” x 8¼”. It is from the Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia Steamship Company and was issued on 4 September 1868. It bears a nice illustration of a steamship and is fracked with a 10-cent blue Washington Power of..... More
Washington DC: U. S. Senate, 1892. Disbound. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in response to a resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant, transmitting a communication of the port physician of Philadelphia relative to the danger from the introduction of cholera through immigration. 52nd Congress, 2nd Session..... More
Nuremberg, Germany: Anton Koberger, 1493. Disbound. The Nuremberg Chronicle was the most important of the 15th century universal histories and the most extensively illustrated book of its time. Its narrative begins with the creation and runs until the 1490s. It was written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, a physician and..... More
Hamburg, Germany: 1940-1941. Unbound. This lot consists of six letters (19 total pages of text) written by Thekla Bornstein of Hamburg, Germany, to her son, Ernst [Bruno] Heilbuth of San Francisco, California. All of these airmailed letters are franked with Hindenburg “medallion” postage stamps. All of the letters are in..... More
Mainz, Germany: Johann Schoeffer, 1533. Disbound. The History of Rome, originally titled Annales, and often referred to as Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City) is a monumental history of ancient Rome, written in Latin between 27 and 9 BC by the Roman historian Titus Livius (Livy). The..... More
