Letter from Captain Jeremiah Yellott to Colonel Henry Hollingsworth Concerning Work on the Susquehanna River, 1798
by [Maryland – Federal Period - Maritime History] Yellott, Captain Jeremiah
Baltimore, Maryland, 1798. Single 8 x 9.5” letter, folded. Small tears at folds with one larger tear; ripped at location of seal; overall near fine. Captain Jeremiah Yellott (1749–1805) immigrated from Great Britain to Maryland in 1774, and there made a fortune as a privateer and merchant. In 1798, he was made a naval agent by America’s first... Read More
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Nine Cyclists’ Road Maps of Massachusetts, Prepared for the Massachusetts Division of the League of American Wheelmen
by [Massachusetts – Maps – Cycling] Oliver, William T.
Lynn, Massachusetts: Arthur W. Robinson, 1891. Nine of a ten-map series mostly measuring 14 ½ x 19 inches. Folded with slight marginal folding and wrinkling; Near Fine.. Nine of a set of ten maps of the entire state of Massachusetts, produced in 1891 for the League of American Wheelmen. The League was founded in Rhode Island in 1880... Read More
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Group Photograph of a Fraternal Organization, Likely the Improved Order of Red Men, c. 1910
by [Fraternal Organizations - ‘Playing Indian’ - Improved Order of Red Men?]
American, 1910. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 6 x 8 inches on larger mount. Some hand coloring to costumes. Some fading, chips and wear to mount, very good overall. Very Good. A photograph of a fraternal group in faux-Native American costume, likely a meeting of the Improved Order of Red Men or a similar organization. Spectators line the hill... Read More
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Collection of Letters Sent by Steamboat to Boston Merchants Silas Pierce & Co., 1840–1849, Discussing the Citrus Trade, Sicilian Merchants, Sales and a Check that “may remove all scruples”
by [Mercantile History – New York – Citrus Trade - Postal History] Knowles, Joseph; Wyckoff & Scrymser; Lüs, A. Wm
New York City, 1849. Eight letters. Overall excellent.. A small collection of letters to Boston-based grocers Silas Pierce & Co., sent from New York by steamboat, with notes on covers or stamps reading “Boat Mail” or “Steam Boat Mail”. Five of the letters are from Wyckoff & Scrymser, which was likely owned by a member or members of... Read More
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![Muster Roll for Company B of the First Battalion, Native Cavalry California Volunteers ["Californio Lancers"] - Aug. 31, 1865](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/183/894/1583894183.0.m.jpg)
Muster Roll for Company B of the First Battalion, Native Cavalry California Volunteers ["Californio Lancers"] - Aug. 31, 1865
by [Mexican - Americana, California - Civil War - California Native Cavalry]
Camp Low, 1865. Original partially printed document, 26cm x 77cm. Printed on both sides of the sheet, completed in manuscript. Darkening at folds from old tape repairs; partial splits to folds and extremities; complete and quite Good. Docketed verso, signed in ink by Lieutenant M[organ?] Owen. Lists twelve enlisted soldiers, most with Spanish surnames (two with French surnames). Fine.... Read More
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![Lengthy Letter Describing the Food and Scenery of Vera Cruz, Written by Captain George Clutter of Wheeling, [West] Virginia, Captain of the the ‘Mountain Boys of Monongolia.’](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/769/898/1583898769.0.m.jpg)
Lengthy Letter Describing the Food and Scenery of Vera Cruz, Written by Captain George Clutter of Wheeling, [West] Virginia, Captain of the the ‘Mountain Boys of Monongolia.’
by [Mexican-American War - Correspondence - Food] Clutter, George
Vera Cruz, 1847. Folded letter to Wheeling, Virginia with learly struck two-line datestamp with "Paid 10" manuscript rate and blue "Steam" handstamp of New Orleans on 1847, with an unusual “Steam” marking applied in New Orleans. Fine condition. Fine. A descriptive and interesting letter from Captain George W. Clutter of Wheeling, Virginia, describing the scenes and food in... Read More
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Signed manuscript report and chart from Hersant, Consul de France a San Luis Potosí and Tampico, to Comte de Rigny, Minister of the Navy
by [Mexico] [Pastry War] Hersant, M.
Mexico, 1833. First Edition. Mexico: May 23, 1833. Letter and chart on watermarked single folio sheets, approx. 13 x 16-½ inches, letter: [3] pp.; chart: [2] pp.;. Near Fine. Rare first-hand documentation of the growing trade tensions that eventually led to the French-Mexican “Pastry War” of 1838. Consul Hersant’s gossipy report surveys the “commercial movement of the port... Read More
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Scrapbook Documenting the Mexican Border Service Campaigns of 1916-1917, with an Unrecorded Map of the Campaign in Hidalgo County in 1916
by [Mexican Border War - Cartography - Personal Narratives] Gaffney, Samuel; Rice, C.A., et al.
VP, 1917. Scrapbook measuring 15 ½ x 10 ½ inches. With forty leaves, most with newspaper clippings and varied ephemera attached. Boards detached, contents generally fine. Laid in is a blueprint map entitled Map of Part of Hidalgo County Texas Showing Line of March in my Mexican Border Service, 1916. Made from Survey Notes taken on the march by... Read More
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Mexico Considerado Como Nacion Independiente y Libre, o Sean Algunas Indicaciones Sobre Los Deberes Mas Esenciales de Los Mexicanos
by [Mexico] [Texas] Ortiz, Tadeo
Burdeos [Bourdeaux]: Carlos Lawalle Sobrino, 1832. 8vo, full calf, 598 [2] pp. Chips to head of spine, ex-libris stamp to preliminary page, text block fine, very good to near fine overall. Very Good. A nice first edition copy of Tadeo Ortiz’s second historical work, written during his time as Consul in Bourdeaux and printed in Bourdeaux after he... Read More
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Photo Album of a 1947 Motorcycle Tour Through Mexico
by [Mexico – Motorcycles – Tourism] Wolfe, Wayne W.
Mexico and the United States, 1950. Scrapbook with approximately fifty-four photos: forty-four affixed measuring 5 x 7 inches and smaller; one loose measuring 5 x 7 inches; and nine loose measuring 8 ½ x 10 inches. With nineteen medium format negatives and six pieces of ephemera from Mexico and the US. Scrapbook pages delicate, photos excellent; overall very good... Read More
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1844 Letter Describing “beautiful wonderful” Kalamazoo, Michigan, the “magical village of the west”
by [Michigan – Kalamazoo] Denger, Elizabeth
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1844. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches. Folded with very small tears at folds; larger tear at seal intersecting with text. Overall excellent to Near Fine.. An 1844 letter from a woman who had recently moved to Kalamazoo to a friend in Urbana, Ohio. The writer describes Kalamazoo: “It is nearly... Read More
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Autobiography of Joos Verplanke, Spring Lake, Michigan, Written during Winter of 1921
by [Michigan – Euro-American Immigration – 1834 Dutch Reformed Church Split – Civil War] Verplanke, Joos
Spring Lake, Michigan, 1921. Twelve 8 ½ x 11 inch pages affixed to backing sheet. Wear, marginal damage, and some tearing to backing sheet; pages folded with some wrinkling; excellent.. Joos Verplanke (1844–1943) was born in Zeeland, The Netherlands, and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1849. They settled in Holland, Michigan, and besides his... Read More
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![First Fam’lies of the Sierras [Finely Bound, with Letter from Miller to his Publishers Affixed to Preliminary Page]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/735/161/1386161735.0.m.jpg)
First Fam’lies of the Sierras [Finely Bound, with Letter from Miller to his Publishers Affixed to Preliminary Page]
by Miller, Cincinnatus Heine aka Joaquin Miller
Chicago: Jansen, McClurg and Co, 1876. 8vo, finely bound in ornate polished calf with all edges gilt, 258 pp. A finely bound copy of one of Miller’s best-known works, bound in perhaps early 20th century fine polished calf. Affixed to the preliminary page is an effusive letter from Miller written to the Roberts Brothers complaining about their treatment of... Read More
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Cabinet Card Showing a Series of Comical Drawings of a Failed Mining Expedition
by [Mining] Dennis, Photographer
Glenwood Springs, Colorado: Dennis, 1890. Albumen photograph, 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches on larger mount. Near Fine. An uncommon cabinet card lampooning the plight of the solitary miner through a series of drawings. The drawings show a man setting out to strike it rich before burying himself in a hole, from which he is eventually rescued. The... Read More
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![Map of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming with Full Descriptions of Mineral Resources, Etc. [1897]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/830/062/1702062830.0.m.jpg)
Map of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming with Full Descriptions of Mineral Resources, Etc. [1897]
by [Mining History – South Dakota – Wyoming] Scott, Samuel
Custer, South Dakota: E. P. Noll & Co, 1897. Packet measuring 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches, containing a forty-page booklet and fold-out map measuring 28 ½ x 31 inches. Map folded with very small tears at folds, else Fine; booklet with staining from cover and staples; overall excellent to Near Fine.. The Black Hills gold rush began... Read More
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1857 Letter from Minnesota Territory Discussing Democrats and African-American Suffrage
by [Minnesota Territory – African-American History] Graham, C.
Henderson, Minnesota Territory, 1857. Single three-page letter measuring 8 x 10 inches. Fine.. A letter written shortly before Minnesota’s statehood concerning territorial politics, particularly African-American suffrage. The author, C. Graham, writes to N. E. Nelson: “After you get to Red Wing, you will be governed by your judgment & advice of the democrats at Red wing –... Read More
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The City of Mitchell and the Country Tributary Thereto
by [Dakota Territory - Promotional Literature - Mitchell]
Mitchell, 1887. 8vo, wraps, 82 pp. Tears to wraps, partially disbound, contents very good, good overall. Good. An unrecorded promotional book written about the city of Mitchell four years after its founding and near the end of the Dakota Boom. The introduction states “No apology is needed for the publication at this point of a pamphlet setting forth... Read More
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Collection of Six Photographs of the Murray Louis Dance Company, 1972-1977
by [Modern Dance] Chimera Photo, David Shaw, Paul Hyman, et al.
New York, 1970. Six photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. A collection of six photographs of Murray Louis Dance Company productions from the 1970s, with another portrait of Louis. The productions include Go Six, Personnae, Calligraph for Martyrs (two images), and Hoopla. A fine collection.
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Plea for Religious Liberty and the Rights of Conscience. An argument delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States April 28, 1886, in three cases of Lorenzo Snow, Plaintiff in Error, v. the United States, on writs of error to the Supreme Court of Utah Territory
by [Mormonism] [Polygamy] [Snow, Lorenzo] Curtis, George Ticknor
Washington: For the Author, 1866. 8vo, blue wraps, 42 pp. Apparently a gift copy from Curtis. Near fine overall with minimal wear. Near Fine. A scarce survival from Lorenzo Snow’s trial in the U.S. Supreme Court for polygamy under the Edmunds Act, where two of his three convictions were eventually overturned as the court determined that the offense... Read More
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An Archive of Songs, Some Annotated, and a Partial Draft of Guthrie’s Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People from the Collection of Harold Ambellan, Guthrie’s Collaborator and Benefactor
by [Music - Folk Music] Guthrie, Woodrow Wilson; Ambellin, Harold
New York, 1940. Eighty-five pages, including sixty loose pages and a partial draft of Guthrie’s Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People, totaling twenty-five pages. With one handwritten page. One page - a typewritten copy of “The Ballad of Harry Bridges” - with a handwritten note by Guthrie to Ambellan. With photocopies of several letters from Guthrie to Ambellan... Read More
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Promotional Photograph of The Fat Boys
by [Music – Hip-Hop History] The Fat Boys; Mountain, Peter
Providence, Rhode Island, 1985. Approximately 5 x 7 inches. Very good contrast; overall near fine. With stamp on verso attributing photo to Peter Mountain and London Features International Ltd. Near fine.. Promotional photograph for the hip-hop trio The Fat Boys; from left to right: Mark “Prince Markie Dee” Morales (1968–2021), Damon “Kool Rock-Ski” Wimbley (b. 1966), and Darren... Read More
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Fox’s Piano Trade Directory of the United States, 1916-17
by [Music] Fox, Ralph
Chicago and New York: Ralph E. Fox, 1916. First Edition. 8vo, wraps, 360 pp. Some wear, mark to front wrap, bright contents, very good overall. Very Good. Ralph E. Fox published this directory of the American music trade, which gives a detailed overview of the American instrument trade in the early 20th century, from roughly 1911-1929. The directory... Read More
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Collection of Seventeen Publicity Photos of Performers from the Golden Age of Soul Music, circa mid-1960s
by [Soul Music]
California and New York, 1960. Silver gelatin prints on glossy stock, most 8 x 10 inches. Fine. A fine collection of press photos from an amazing period in American music, with many classic soul singers included, many of whom were represented by the William Morris Agency. Subjects include: Clyde McPhatter, Ketty Lester, Barbara McNair, Leon Bibb, Sheryl Easly... Read More
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![“Taking Dope” Ramones Fanzine. [First Two Issues]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/277/063/1702063277.0.m.jpg)
“Taking Dope” Ramones Fanzine. [First Two Issues]
by [Music History – Punk Rock] Ramone, Dee Dee; Holmstrom, John; Zampini, Barbara Ramone
New York City: self-published, 1996. Two stapled packets, each with about twenty 8 ½ x 11 photocopied pages. Near Fine.. The first two issues of Dee Dee Ramone’s fanzine “Taking Dope”, from the collection of Ramones collaborator Daniel Rey. The zine was authored by Ramone, his partner Barbara Zampini, and cartoonist John Holmstrom, who illustrated the covers for... Read More
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Spondulix Petroleum Co. / Capital $50,000,000 / Shares 50 cts Each. / Dividends Declared Very Often… / Every Stockholder is Entitled to One Copy of the Famous Petroleum Galop
by [Music - Oil - Lithography] Spondulix Petroleum Company [pseudonym]; William A. Pond and Company; Helmsmuller, F.B.
New York: Wm. A. Pond, 1865. Folio, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Fine condition. Fine. An unusual use of sheet music as satire, with the lithographed cover showing a fake stock certificate. The cover - engraved by Major & Knapp - advertises an ownership share in the Spondolix Petroleum company and states that F.B. Helmsmuller, who was... Read More
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