Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC
Specializing in Unique Americana, that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, correspondence collections, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, culture, or society. Additionally, we always have a nice selection of philatelic material (primarily postal history) and other paper ephemera.
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We always have an inventory of unique Americana on hand, that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, correspondence collections, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, history, culture, or society. We also always have a nice selection of philatelic material (primarily postal history), and other paper ephemera as well. We hope you'll take some time to look around our website or, better yet, visit us at one of our shows. Each year, we set up at six to ten book fairs and/or philatelic exhibitions throughout the country. We also participate in a number of virtual book fairs, and we regularly issue catalogs.Members
Recently Added Books
1845 – A bi-fold abolitionist pamphlet, intended to foment anti-slavery sentiment, by consolidating a collection of the most egregious laws regarding slavery in the United States
by Benjamin S. Jones and J. Elizabeth Hitcock
Recently added catalogues
Catalog 23-1 (January 2023) contains 45 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to the American Civil War, the Atomic Bomb, British rule in Florida, Dutch New York, the Early Fur Trade, Enslaved Workers and Slave Trading, Franklin's Pennsylvania Hospital, Missionaries, the Old China Trade, the Revolutionary War, Spanish Louisiana, Westward Expansion, the child prodigy artist Lilly Martin, and more.
We want to make room for some new stock, so we've placed 160 items on sale for the month of December with discounts up to 70%.
Our latest catalog contains 43 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana: archives, booklets, broadsides correspondence, diaries, documents, ephemera, journals, photographs, photo albums, postal history, and scrapbooks, in a variety of subjects including African-Americana, Business & Labor, Education, Food & Drink, Medicine, Military & War, Postal History, Railroads, Westward Expansion, Women, and many more.
- We know it’s a lot to swallow in one gulp, but in this catalog, we’ve included over 300 listings, some recent and some older. All of the items have been reduced in price, some by as much as 50%. The sale ends on January 3, 2021, so if you’d like to take advantage of one of these discounts, you’ll need to order before then.<br /> <br /> Although most items are first-person, original-source Americana such as diaries, documents, correspondence, journals, photograph albums, and scrapbooks, there are also maps, original art, postal history, ephemera, and other printed material even including a book or two.
Fifty items, primarily first-person, original source Americana: diaries, correspondence, documents, journals, scrapbooks, postal history, original art, and ephemera in a variety of subjects including Abolition & Slavery, African-Americana, American Revolution, Baseball, Circus & Wild West Shows, Civil War, Engineering, the Gold Rush, Inland Waterways, Maritime, Medicine & Nursing, Military, Quackery, Railroads, Seminole Wars, the South, Stagecoach Travel, and more.
Over thirty items, primarily first-person, original source Americana: diaries, correspondence, documents, journals, scrapbooks, postal history, and ephemera in a variety of subjects.
Our latest catalog, Catalog 19-3 (September 2019), contains about 40 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana: diaries, correspondence, documents, journals, scrapbooks, postal history, and ephemera in a variety of subjects.
Catalog 19-2b (Late June, 2019) contains over 75 items, primarily first-person original source Americana: correspondence, documents, journals, postal history, photograph albums, as well as other ephemera in a variety of subjects: Advertising, Abolition (including a raging manifesto by a Conductor on the Underground Railroad in Maryland), African-Americana (including sheet music composed by Jim Europe, Noble Sissle, and Eubie Blake while members of the Harlem Hellfighters), Business & Labor, Crime & Law, Music & Theater, Maps & Cartography (including a finely-done 1720 surveyor's map from Richmond County, Virginia), Maritime & Whaling (including a candid and detailed letter by an African-American whaleman), Military & War, Native Americans (including a long detailed letter about the Seminole War and mistreatment of the Creek Nation), and Women<br /><br /> <br /><br />