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Broadside announcing a concert by the Hutchinson Family, founders of both popular and protest...

Broadside announcing a concert by the Hutchinson Family, founders of both popular and protest music in the United States

Portland, Maine: N. A. Foster, Printer, 1849. Unbound. This broadside measures approximately 7” x 11.25”. Clean with light wear and faint tape stains from mounting. In this broadside, “The Hutchinson family, Judson, Abby, John and Asa Respectfully announce to the citizens of Portland and vicinity, that they will... More about Broadside announcing a concert by the Hutchinson Family, founders of both popular and protest...

Price: $350.00

Carte Generale des Etats Unis de L’Amerique Septentrionale (Map No. 33 from Atlas Universel...

Carte Generale des Etats Unis de L’Amerique Septentrionale (Map No. 33 from Atlas Universel Pour servir a l'Etude De La Geographie Et De L'Histoire Anciennes et Modernes)

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 about Carte Generale des Etats Unis de L’Amerique Septentrionale (Map No. 33 from Atlas Universel...

Price: $200.00

Certificate of Membership in the American Bible Society for John Blount Miller, a slaveholder in...

Certificate of Membership in the American Bible Society for John Blount Miller, a slaveholder in Sumterville, South Carolina

New York City: American Bible Society, 1835. Unbound. This certificate, which measures 10.5” x 16.75”, was sent as a stampless folded letter. It bears a manuscript “25” rate marking (the cost to deliver single-sheet mail over 400 miles) as well as “paid” manuscript and hand-stamped markings. An annotation in the..... More about Certificate of Membership in the American Bible Society for John Blount Miller, a slaveholder in...

Price: $200.00

Gray’s New Map of Saint Louis (Map 129 from Gray’s Atlas of the United States

Gray’s New Map of Saint Louis (Map 129 from Gray’s Atlas of the United States)

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: 1) Lafayette Park, where Jere... More about Gray’s New Map of Saint Louis (Map 129 from Gray’s Atlas of the United States

Price: $150.00

Letter Carrier’s Band Photograph with Four Other Postal Photographs: National Association of...

Letter Carrier’s Band Photograph with Four Other Postal Photographs: National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 385.

Youngstown, Ohio: 1930. The band photograph is approximately 8” x 10”. Four other letter carrier photos (approximately 3.5” x 5”) are also included The photographs include portraits of father and son letter carriers (John and Nick Harber), the two men as tourists at the Yuma Federal Prison, and John Huber... More about Letter Carrier’s Band Photograph with Four Other Postal Photographs: National Association of...

Price: $150.00

Mail sanitized during the response to 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and infected...

Mail sanitized during the response to 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and infected 17 others

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 about Mail sanitized during the response to 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and infected...

Price: $100.00

Map of the State of Missouri from An Atlas of the United States of North America

Map of the State of Missouri from An Atlas of the United States of North America.

London: Hinton, Simpkin & Marshall, 1832. Unbound. Approximately 16.5” x 11” including margins. A nice map with a clear and strong image. Attractively hand-colored. Wide margins. Publisher’s fold. A very attractive early statehood map (Missouri became a state in 1821) published prior to the Platt Purchase and showing... More about Map of the State of Missouri from An Atlas of the United States of North America

Price: $400.00

Simon Bretano's 1912 Washington Monument (New York City) Ceremony Volunteer Firemen Association...

Simon Bretano's 1912 Washington Monument (New York City) Ceremony Volunteer Firemen Association Ribbon and Medal

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 about Simon Bretano's 1912 Washington Monument (New York City) Ceremony Volunteer Firemen Association...

Price: $500.00

Small archive (including photographs of Admiral Hyman Rickover) pertaining to a technician, E. F....

Small archive (including photographs of Admiral Hyman Rickover) pertaining to a technician, E. F. King, who worked at the U.S. Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory

[Fort Trumbell], New London, Connecticut: 1945-1964. Unbound. This grouping consists of material belonging to E. F. King who worked at the U.S. Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory from World War II until the 1960s. It includes the last newspaper-magazine published by the BuShips Field Engineering Group in 1945, a tongue-in-cheek award... More about Small archive (including photographs of Admiral Hyman Rickover) pertaining to a technician, E. F....

Price: $150.00

An extensive archive of correspondence that documents a Southern belle’s coming of age from...

An extensive archive of correspondence that documents a Southern belle’s coming of age from her days as a youth attending a boarding school to her marriage to one a prominent physician

All related to Susan Emma Miller Furman

Georgia, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina: 1845–1858. Envelope or Cover. These fourteen letters (mostly stampless folded letters but some in envelopes with 3-cent stamps, Scott Types A10 or A21) were written by or to the Miller-Furman family over 14 years in the mid-19th century. Postmarks include Georgia (Augusta, Milledgeville, and Scottsborough)... More about An extensive archive of correspondence that documents a Southern belle’s coming of age from...

Price: $2,500.00

The Pirate Fight (The Action of 9 November 1822). An Officer on board the Schooner Alligator

The Pirate Fight (The Action of 9 November 1822)

An Officer on board the Schooner Alligator

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 about The Pirate Fight (The Action of 9 November 1822

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A “true copy” of votes cast at a New Hampshire town meeting for a Congressional...

A “true copy” of votes cast at a New Hampshire town meeting for a Congressional representative in a bitterly fought election that broke “dams and dykes” allowing a “tide of anti-slavery feelings . . . [to] wash . . . down from . . . northern mountains upon the slave-cursed south.”

Attested to by John Brown, Town Clerk

Bridgewater, New Hampshire: 1846. Unbound. This partially printed document summarizes the vote taken “at a legal town meeting . . . at Bridgewater in the county of Grafton on Tuesday, march tenth, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty-six . . . for one person to represent... More about A “true copy” of votes cast at a New Hampshire town meeting for a Congressional...

Price: $250.00

Thomas Earle as a Reformer. Edwin B. Bronner

Thomas Earle as a Reformer

Bronner, Edwin B.

Philadelphia: International Printing Company, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Complete. 97 pages plus frontispiece. Signed by the author on the title page. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Almost no wear to cover. Somewhat scarce biography about a staunch supporter of... More about Thomas Earle as a Reformer

Price: $50.00

SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING UNIFORM EPAULETTES MADE BY A FAMOUS NAVAL EXPLORER AFTER HIS RETURN TO...

SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING UNIFORM EPAULETTES MADE BY A FAMOUS NAVAL EXPLORER AFTER HIS RETURN TO DUTY FOLLOWING A PERIOD OF “INSANITY”; Two-page letter from Captain Cadwalader Ringgold to James T. Ames

Captain Cadwalader Ringgold

Washington, D.C. 1858. Unbound. In this letter, measuring 5” x 8” and dated “29th Dec’r 1858,” Ringgold provides suggestions to Ames, a major arms manufacturer, regarding the details of eagle devices, signifying the rank of captain, that attach to a naval officer’s epaulettes along with a promise to aggressively market..... More about SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING UNIFORM EPAULETTES MADE BY A FAMOUS NAVAL EXPLORER AFTER HIS RETURN TO...

Price: $200.00

PLEA FROM A HERO OF THE NORTHWEST INDIAN WARS TO RECEIVE HIS ARMY PENSION; Folded-letter from...

PLEA FROM A HERO OF THE NORTHWEST INDIAN WARS TO RECEIVE HIS ARMY PENSION; Folded-letter from Captain Cornelius R. Sedam to the former Secretary of War, James McHenry

Captain Cornelius R. Sedam

Cincinnati: 1810. Unbound. This stampless one-page folded letter measures 15.5” x 12.5” unfolded. It was sent from Sedam’s farm near Bold Face Creek about three miles west of Cincinnati and is dated November 11, 1810. The cover is addressed to McHenry at Baltimore, Maryland. It has a manuscript Cincinnati postmark... More about PLEA FROM A HERO OF THE NORTHWEST INDIAN WARS TO RECEIVE HIS ARMY PENSION; Folded-letter from...

Price: $750.00

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

Canoeing and Camping (No. 60R in Spalding’s Red Cover Series of Athletic Handbooks). J. A....

Canoeing and Camping (No. 60R in Spalding’s Red Cover Series of Athletic Handbooks)

Cruikshank, J. A.

New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1915. Approximately 5” x 6.5”. Original publisher’s pictorial wrapper. Owned by Captain Oliver H. Dockery of the U. S. Army 15th Infantry Regiment in Tientsin, China. Complete. 118 pages of text and photographs including a portrait frontispiece; 20-page advertising section in the rear. Sound... More about Canoeing and Camping (No. 60R in Spalding’s Red Cover Series of Athletic Handbooks

Price: $100.00

Letter from an American in Liverpool describing his efforts to prevent an Englishman from...

Letter from an American in Liverpool describing his efforts to prevent an Englishman from stealing credit for inventing a longitude measuring device based on a theory by a prominent Georgia physician, Doctor Joel Abbott

Dr. J. Hall

Liverpool: 1818. Envelope or Cover. This two-page letter was sent from Liverpool to New York on 30 July 1818. After delivery to a ship’s agent, it was dispatched on the second voyage the Black Ball Line ship, the Amity, which departed Liverpool on 2 August and arrived at New York... More about Letter from an American in Liverpool describing his efforts to prevent an Englishman from...

Price: $250.00

Letter from Dr. Wesley Johnson, the former governor of the Grand Bassa Colony in Liberia to...

Letter from Dr. Wesley Johnson, the former governor of the Grand Bassa Colony in Liberia to Benjamin Coates, Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and an active supporter of the American Colonization Society, regarding the status of the colony in general as well as details about educational and agricultural initiatives

Dr. Wesley Johnson

Factory Island, Grand Bassa, [Liberia]: 1842. Envelope or Cover. This three-page stampless folded letter measures 16” x 10” unfolded. It is datelined, “Factory Island, Grand Bassa / July 13th 1842”. It is addressed to Benjamin Coates in Philadelphia and bears an octagonal “6” arrival handstamp. The letter is intact; however... More about Letter from Dr. Wesley Johnson, the former governor of the Grand Bassa Colony in Liberia to...

Price: $1,750.00

An autograph letter signed by Duff Green, a former President Jackson loyalist who had abandoned...

An autograph letter signed by Duff Green, a former President Jackson loyalist who had abandoned him in favor of John C. Calhoun, to Charles A Wickliffe, an influential Whig Congressman from Kentucky

Duff Green

Washington, DC to Bardstown, Kentucky: 1833. Envelope or Cover. This three-page stampless folded letter measures 15.5” x 13”. It was signed and dated by Green on the “8th July 1833.” It bears a red circular Washington, DC postmark dated and a red “FREE” handstamp. (There was no charge to send..... More about An autograph letter signed by Duff Green, a former President Jackson loyalist who had abandoned...

Price: $900.00

Letter from a Superintendent of Repair on the Erie Canal to the Deputy Comptroller of New York...

Letter from a Superintendent of Repair on the Erie Canal to the Deputy Comptroller of New York reporting the monthly salaries of the five locktenders under his supervision

E. A. King

Port Byron, New York: 1839. Envelope or Cover. This one-page stampless letter measures 7.75” x 12.75” unfolded. It is dated April 25th, 1819 and signed by E. A. King. The front of the cover bears circular Port Byron postmark and a manuscript “18½”, the charge for sending a letter a.... More about Letter from a Superintendent of Repair on the Erie Canal to the Deputy Comptroller of New York...

Price: $150.00

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

Official copy of a telegram from Secretary of War E. M. Stanton providing guidance regarding...

Official copy of a telegram from Secretary of War E. M. Stanton providing guidance regarding “the Jackson case,” which had created a schism between Mississippi Provisional Governor William Sharkey and Henry Slocum, the Commanding General of the Department of the Mississippi, following the arrest of a plantation owner for the murder of a freedman

Edwin M. Stanton

Vicksburg, Mississippi By Telegraph from Washington, D.C. 1865. Unbound. This one-page official copy of a telegram sent by Secretary Stanton to General Stanton is dated “Vicksburg Miss Aug 1st 1865”. It is in nice shape; transcript included. In it, Stanton first clarifies General Slocum’s chain of command; he..... More about Official copy of a telegram from Secretary of War E. M. Stanton providing guidance regarding...

Price: $500.00

Texas Camel Tales: Incidents Growing Up Around an Attempt By the War Department of the United...

Texas Camel Tales: Incidents Growing Up Around an Attempt By the War Department of the United States to Foster an Uninterrupted Flow of Commerce Through Texas By the Use of Camels

Emmett, Chris

San Antonio, TX: Naylor Publishing, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Variant binding without "July, 1932" of verso of title page. Tan suede-covered boards. B&w photos throughout. Fold-out plate of letter photographs. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages with some very faint marginal toning. Pressed-out corner crease and minor... More about Texas Camel Tales: Incidents Growing Up Around an Attempt By the War Department of the United...

Price: $275.00

Slave-hiring record. Shadrach Atkinson on behalf of a. minor

Slave-hiring record

Executed by Shadrach Atkinson on behalf of a minor

[Thomas County, Georgia]: 1843. Unbound. This document measures 9.5” x 3” and is in nice shape. It reads, “Bryan minor of Joseph Bryan dc’d: / Hire of negro woman Patience 80.00 / Hire of Old woman Mary 50.00 / Hire of Girl Sal 48.00 / [Total] 178.00 / Subscribed &... More about Slave-hiring record

Price: $125.00

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