Boston: 1761. Unbound. This three-page transfer of property on a bifold paper sheet measures 18” x 15” unfolded. The document is dated 30 July 1761. Payment was completed and the deed recorded at the Suffolk County Records of Deeds on 1 September 1761. In nice shape. Some storage fold splits..... More
Disbound. This 12-page disbound extract is from “Papers in Mechanicks,” Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Vol. 9 (1791), pages 159-168 and Plate IV. It contains reports of “Rewards offered for taking Wales by the Gun-Harpoon, in the year..... More
Roger C. Weightman, 1814. Report of the Committee on the Petition of Bowie and Kurtz and Others, Owners of the Ship Allegany. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States in Washington City by Roger C. Weightman. 1814. Never bound and untrimmed. Seven pages. Measures approximately 6” x...... More
Camp Holly Springs near Richmond, Virginia: 1814. Disbound. This two-page leaf, measuring 7.7” x 12.5”, is titled “Head Quarters August 28th 1814”. It contains five entries signed by either Edmund Taylor, the Brigade Major, or George Turner, the Adjutant. In nice shape. 28 Aug – “Brigade Orders. The general..... More
Lowell, Massachusetts: 1834. Unbound. This four-page letter is datelined, “Lowell. April 22. 1834. It was sent directly to President Andrew Jackson by Fink(?) Booth. It bears no postal markings and has no accompanying envelope. In nice shape. Aa transcript will be provided. In the letter, Booth related how his..... More
Washington DC: 1849. Slavery. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Missouri on the Subject of slavery in the Territories, District of Columbia and States.” Miscellaneous No. 5, House of Representatives, 31st Congress 1st Session, December 31, 1849. Two-pages. In nice shape. This summary delineates the resolutions passed by the..... More
Unbound. This three-page common school certification, which was required for the school teacher to be paid by the county, measures 15.5” x 10” unfolded. The inside two pages contain a table showing daily attendance for 18 boys and girls that attended Hiram Roys’s common school, officially in school..... More
Stockton , California: 1850. Envelope or Cover. This three- page stampless, folded letter, measuring 15.5” x 12.5” unfolded, was written on May 10th, 1850 by E. B. [Ebenezer Bower] Bateman, a state legislator, from “Stockton Upper California” to his father, Burgin, in Jacksonville, Illinois. It bears a manuscript “40” rate..... More
[New York]: American Tract Society, 1850s. Pamphlet. This lot consists of five different religious tracts published by the American Tract Society probably during the 1850s. They range in size from 4¼” x 7” to 4½” x 7¾”. Three have four pages; one eight pages; and one 12 pages. One of..... More
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Cincinnati, Ohio: The Dollar Weekly Times, 1854. Unbound. This two-page broadsheet promoting the American Party was printed in 1854 by The Dollar Weekly Times, the party’s newspaper headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, promoting its anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic agenda. It is printed as a faux lettersheet and was sent to an unnamed..... More
Envelope or Cover. This three-page stampless folded letter was written on “feby 17, 1856” and sent “in care of [the] American Legation,” which, at the time was located in Mexico City, to the prominent Washington lawyer, James Mandeville Carlisle. It was sent through Vera Cruz, as attested to transit marking..... More
Plymouth, Massachusetts: 1864. Unbound. This manuscript invoice datelined “Plymouth. Feb. 24, 1864,” measures 8.5” x 14”. It is titled, “Invoice of Cordage forwarded by Railroad to Boston and sold to Owners New Schooner Israel Snow Esq. Rockland & others by Plymouth Cordage Co." Israel Snow was a Rockland, Maine ship..... More
Memphis, Tennessee: 1864-1866. Cord-bound. This standard-size carte-de-visite measures approximately 2.5” x 4”. The photo graph was taken by J. W. Taft at the Oak Gallery in Memphis, Tennessee. It is franked with a 3-cent, green Proprietary revenue stamp (Scott #R18) canceled with a single ink slash. Undated and unidentified. In..... More
Unbound. These four certificates were once in the collection of The Printing Museum in Houston, Texas. Upon its closure in 2024, they were purchased by a Texas antique dealer. 1864 – Aden Typesetter and Distributing Machine Company. New York, New York. Stock certificate for one share at $1,000 each..... More
San Francisco, California: 1865. Unbound. This bill, measuring approximately 9” x 4½”, documents the sale of a harness and whip from Main & Winchester of San Francisco to Messers B. F. Kenard and Company. It is dated 10 January 1865. The billhead reads, “Bought of Main & Winchester, /..... More
Unbound. This cdv (carte-de-visite) measures 2.5” x 4”, its mounted albumin photograph approximately 2” x 3.25”. Text at the base of the card reads, “Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by Francis / Hacker, in the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court / of Rhode Island.”..... More
Envelope or Cover. This secretive letter, signed only “T. O.,” was sent from New York to “T. G. Slaughter / Farmingham / Dartford / Kent / Great Britain”. It is datelined “N. Y. June 17/68” and enclosed in an envelope franked with a relatively scarce 12-cent Washington stamp with an..... More
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
Philadelphia, Pennsylvanis: 1870. Unbound. This certificate, measuring approximate 10.75” x 7”, was issued by The Railroad Car Trust of Philadelphia to Thomas M. Drysdale on March 2nd, 1870. It features an illustration of an industrial scene showing factories, a steamship, a locomotive, a freight car, and a passenger car. It..... More
Unbound. Two different stock certificates for the Memphis City Rail Road Company, one dated 1872 and the other 1875. The 1872 certificate measures approximately 12” x 7.25” and bears a central illustration of a horse-drawn traveling through the city, and citizens watch attentively. It was issued for 3..... More
St. Louis, Missouri: 1873. Unbound. The large citizenship certificate with a printed Department of State seal measures 11.5” x 18”. It was issued on March 8, 1873, to Charles Traugott Schwabe. The partially printed document is on bi-fold paper, which, when unfolded, measures 18” x 23”. An impressive Department of..... More
New York: Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Company, 1876. Unbound. Map Showing the Line of the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Company and its connections. Prepared by G. W. & C. R. Colton & Co. 172 William St. New York. The advertisement on the reverse is titled “Toledo..... More
Emigrant Landing Depot, Castle Garden New York City: Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York, 1876. Unbound. This certificate measures 7¾” x 8¾” and is titled and datelined “Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York, / Emigrant Landing Depot, Castle Garden / New York, March 30th..... More
Brooklyn, New York: 1880. This one-page presidential flyer is datelined “Brooklyn, Oct. 29th, 1880. In nice shape with mailing folds. It is enclosed in a mailing envelope addressed to a Brooklyn address and bears vermillion 2-cent Jackson stamp (Scott #193) that has been cancelled with a duplex postmark, dated October..... More
Unbound. This set of 26 French illustrated trade cards features illustrations of bratty children and rude adults. They are printed in color on a gold background. These cards were intended to be used by L. D. Wilbur & Company of Fall River, Massachusetts to advertise his clothing and general merchandise..... More
