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Small grouping of ephemera and artifacts from the infamous Cocoanut Grove night club where 492...

Small grouping of ephemera and artifacts from the infamous Cocoanut Grove night club where 492 people were killed in the deadliest nightclub fire in history.

Boston: circa 1940. Various. This lot consists of: 1) A 7” x 5” b/w photograph of an 18-member, primarily male, dinner party enclosed in a colorfully tropical Cocoanut Grove Melody Lounge souvenir folder that measures 8.5” x 6.5” (cover artist was Marty Sherman). 2) A Cocoanut... More about Small grouping of ephemera and artifacts from the infamous Cocoanut Grove night club where 492...

Price: $600.00

16th-century leaf with a large illustration showing the harvesting of cinnamon from Ambroise...

16th-century leaf with a large illustration showing the harvesting of cinnamon from Ambroise Paré’s Distillations

Ambroise Paré

Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. This leaf (M.CLXXVI-M.CLXXVII) measures approximately 8.25” x 12.5” and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d’Ambroise . . . Des Distillations. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The image on this leaf shows (roughly translated from... More about 16th-century leaf with a large illustration showing the harvesting of cinnamon from Ambroise...

Price: $100.00

16th-century leaf with two illustrations, one showing the harvesting of white pepper and the...

16th-century leaf with two illustrations, one showing the harvesting of white pepper and the other of a still from Ambroise Paré’s Distillations

Ambroise Paré

Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. This leaf (M.CLXXV-M.CLXXVi) measures approximately 8.25” x 12.5” and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d’Ambroise . . . Des Distillations. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The two images on this leaf show (roughly translated... More about 16th-century leaf with two illustrations, one showing the harvesting of white pepper and the...

Price: $100.00

Illustrated letterhead for Gulden’s Mustard, Capers, and Olives with its accompanying...

Illustrated letterhead for Gulden’s Mustard, Capers, and Olives with its accompanying illustrated advertising cover

Charles Gulden

New York: Charles Gulden, 1908. Envelope or Cover. This colorful letter from Gulden’s Mustard contains a mimeographed notice (signed in print by Charles Gulden) informing stores the company has obtained a temporary injunction against a rival firm to prevent the sale of Chance & Son’s “Don Caesar” olives, whose name..... More about Illustrated letterhead for Gulden’s Mustard, Capers, and Olives with its accompanying...

Price: $150.00

Mailed invoice for shipping five hogsheads of rum delivered by the New England slave ship, Sloop...

Mailed invoice for shipping five hogsheads of rum delivered by the New England slave ship, Sloop Rising Sun, on the rum-delivery leg of a triangle-trade voyage to the West Indies and Africa

Consigned to Selden Chapman from Seth Wetmore for transport by Master Seth Higgins

Boston, [Massachusetts] to Hartford, [ Connecticut]: May 22, 1795. Unbound. This manuscript, folded-letter invoice, dated May 22 1795, measures approximately 7.5” x 11” unfolded. It is addressed to Mr. Selden Chapman, Merchant, Hartford and bears a straight-line Boston postmark dated 22/May. (See page 167, vol 1, ASCC.) It bears a.... More about Mailed invoice for shipping five hogsheads of rum delivered by the New England slave ship, Sloop...

Price: $2,500.00

Advertising envelope for Duluth Imperial Flour. Duluth Superior Milling Co

Advertising envelope for Duluth Imperial Flour

Duluth Superior Milling Co

Duluth, Minnesota: Duluth Superior Milling Co, 1909. Unbound. The multi-color illustrated advertising cover (envelope) features a African-American baker, dressed in a spotless white suit with red tie, resting his right elbow on a sack of Duluth Flour while holding a sliced loaf of white bread in his left hand. The... More about Advertising envelope for Duluth Imperial Flour

Price: $150.00

Letter from Ebenezer Stevens & Sons, a New York firm, to Messrs Otard Dupuy, one of the most...

Letter from Ebenezer Stevens & Sons, a New York firm, to Messrs Otard Dupuy, one of the most important Cognac producers in France

Ebr Stevens & Sons

New York to Cognac, France: 1836. Envelope or Cover. This two-page folded letter was written on December 31, 1836 and sent to Cognac, France via the Havre-Whitlock Line’s packet ship Albany. It arrived at Le Havre on February 1, 1827 where a “Bureau Maritime” receipt stamp was applied along with... More about Letter from Ebenezer Stevens & Sons, a New York firm, to Messrs Otard Dupuy, one of the most...

Price: $100.00

The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes 1 and 2 bound together. and Samuel Rhoads, Abraham L. Pennock

The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes 1 and 2 bound together

Edited by William J. Allison [and Samuel Rhoads and Abraham L. Pennock]

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 page. Light dampstain to the first six... More about The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes 1 and 2 bound together

Price: $2,500.00

Letter from Frederic de Graft, a Baltimor Merchant, to Mess. Clossmann, a wine merchant in...

Letter from Frederic de Graft, a Baltimor Merchant, to Mess. Clossmann, a wine merchant in Bordeaux

Fredric de Graft

Baltimore: 1833. Envelope or Cover. This one-page folded letter was written on March 20, 1833 and privately carried to the New York forwarding agents DeRham, Islen, and Moore who placed it aboard the Old Line’s packet ship, Henri IV. (The envelope bears ab oval “De Rham Iseling & Moore” forwarding..... More about Letter from Frederic de Graft, a Baltimor Merchant, to Mess. Clossmann, a wine merchant in Bordeaux

Price: $100.00

Letter from a French ship captain in San Francisco to a wine wholesaler in Southern France...

Letter from a French ship captain in San Francisco to a wine wholesaler in Southern France franked with the first Lincoln stamp issued by the United States

From G. Caussy to the Gautier Brothers

San Francisco to Cette (today Sète), France: 1869. This three-page folded letter, in French, measures 16.5” x 10.5” unfolded. It is dated “Sn Francisco le 7 Yuillet 1869” and franked with a 15-cent black Lincoln stamp (Scott #77) canceled with a ‘fancy’ black circle-of-wedges. Three postmarks are on the front..... More about Letter from a French ship captain in San Francisco to a wine wholesaler in Southern France...

Price: $1,750.00

Burke’s Complete Cocktail & Drinking Recipes with Recipes for Food Bits for the Cocktail Hour:...

Burke’s Complete Cocktail & Drinking Recipes with Recipes for Food Bits for the Cocktail Hour: The Art and Etiquette of Mixing, Serving and Drinking Wines and Liquors

Harman Burney Burke (Barney Burke)

New York: Books Inc., 1934. 1st Printing. Faux leather. Approximately 4.25” x 6.25”. Complete with 93 pages including the index. Original red faux leather cover. Sound binding, clean pages, almost no wear. Doesn’t appear to have ever been read. Over 250 drink recipes including 14 classics that Burke identifies as... More about Burke’s Complete Cocktail & Drinking Recipes with Recipes for Food Bits for the Cocktail...

Price: $250.00

Letter from a woman to her brother informing him that she had recently hired a live-in servant...

Letter from a woman to her brother informing him that she had recently hired a live-in servant who turned out to be a “drunkard”

“HW” to Lee Godwin

East Hartford, Connecticut to New York City: circa 1851. Envelope or Cover. Four-page letter with its mailing envelope, circa 1851. The envelope bears a circular East Hartford CT postmark and a circled “PAID 3” handstamp indicating post was prepaid for deliveries up to 3,000 miles. Both are in nice shape... More about Letter from a woman to her brother informing him that she had recently hired a live-in servant...

Price: $75.00

Catering for Two: Comfort and Economy for Small Households. Alice L. James

Catering for Two: Comfort and Economy for Small Households

James, Alice L.

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898. _. Hard Cover. 16mo. Complete; 337 pages plus one page of advertisements. Clean, unmarked pages. Minor wear to cover; very slightly cocked. "Dining well on small means is an art only to be acquired by long experience, and the object of... More about Catering for Two: Comfort and Economy for Small Households

Price: $40.00

HUMOROUS LETTER TO A STUDENT AT THE CLINTON LIBERAL INSTITUTE FEATURING A DRAWING OF HIM...

HUMOROUS LETTER TO A STUDENT AT THE CLINTON LIBERAL INSTITUTE FEATURING A DRAWING OF HIM WHEELBARROWING BACK TO SCHOOL; Letter with a hand-illustrated envelope sent to a student at the Clinton Liberal Institute by John P. Cannod

John P. Cannod

Mohawk, New York: circa 1857. Unbound. This envelope features a hand-drawn pen illustration of a young man trudging along a road and pushing a wheel-barrow with a large crate addressed to “James Johnson, Clinton Liberal Institute, Clinton, N.Y.” It is franked with a 3-cent, plum or deep claret, Type III..... More about HUMOROUS LETTER TO A STUDENT AT THE CLINTON LIBERAL INSTITUTE FEATURING A DRAWING OF HIM...

Price: $500.00

John Taylor's Sons' Albany Imperial Cream Ale. John Taylor's Sons' Brewery

John Taylor's Sons' Albany Imperial Cream Ale

John Taylor's Sons' Brewery

1865. Advertisement. Advertisement for John Taylor's Sons' Albany Cream Ale brewed in Albany, New York. The ad is from an 1865 New England business directory and measures approximately 5.5" x 9". It features a wood engraving of the John Taylor Brewery complex in Albany. The text notes that the brewery... More about John Taylor's Sons' Albany Imperial Cream Ale

Price: $150.00

Ku-Winda (To Hunt). Otto A. Koehler

Ku-Winda (To Hunt)

Koehler, Otto A.

San Antonio, TX: Clegg Company, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. Complete with 99 pages. Color and sepia photographs throughout; map. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages; a former owner has highlighted one column on Koehler's list of taxidermy mountings in light green. Light cover wear. Presentation inscription on... More about Ku-Winda (To Hunt

Price: $150.00

Photograph showing the inside of rural Illinois tavern. Unknown photographer

Photograph showing the inside of rural Illinois tavern

Unknown photographer

Highland, Illinois: circa 1937 based upon visible advertisements. Unbound. This 7” x 5” card-mounted photograph shows the interior of a rural Illinois tavern. A middle-aged man wearing a vest, tie, and apron is standing behind the bar along with a more casually dressed young man who appears to be a.... More about Photograph showing the inside of rural Illinois tavern

Price: $100.00

Oyster Packing Company Advertising Envelope. Unlisted

Oyster Packing Company Advertising Envelope

Unlisted

Baltimore: The C. H. Pearson Packing Co., 1905. Envelope. Nice advertising cover for The C. H. Pearson Packing Company, located at the Chesapeake Warf in Baltimore. The cover (envelope) freatures an illustration of a woman holding a large oyster while standing upon a mound of fruits and vegetables in front... More about Oyster Packing Company Advertising Envelope

Price: $100.00

A bond requiring a white man to appear in court on the charge that he furnished “spirituous...

A bond requiring a white man to appear in court on the charge that he furnished “spirituous liquor” to another man’s slave

Various persons

Forsyth County, Georgia: 1848. Unbound. In this one-page document, bondsmen pledge $100 as a guarantee that: “Adam Campbell shall personally appear before the Superior Court when held for said County on the fourth Monday in August next then and there to answer . . . for and concerning the offence... More about A bond requiring a white man to appear in court on the charge that he furnished “spirituous...

Price: $200.00

Trader Vic’s Souvenir Cocktail Menu from Habana Hilton. Victor Jules Bergeron Jr, Trader Vic

Trader Vic’s Souvenir Cocktail Menu from Habana Hilton

Victor Jules (Trader Vic) Bergeron, Jr

Havana, Cuba & Oakland, California: Trader Vic’s, 1958/1962. Menu. This staple-bound menu measures 8.5” x 15”. The internal drink pages measure approximately 8.25” x 13.5”. Light wear with a couple of short, thin stains at the bottom margin of the cover. A printed message in Trader Vic’s hand..... More about Trader Vic’s Souvenir Cocktail Menu from Habana Hilton

Price: $150.00

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