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Lot 54 • Cherbury F. Lothrop, The 16th Maine Volunteers, First Day at the Battle of Gettysburg, oil, circa 1900. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.
Lot 1
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) George Catlin.
Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio.
Lot 2
(ALASKA.) Adolphus W. Greely.
The author's working copy with manuscript revisions of his "Handbook of Alaska."
Lot 3
(AMERICAN INDIANS.)
"Ledger art" self-portrait by the Sioux leader Crow Dog, made during his murder trial,
Lot 4
(AMERICAN INDIANS.)
Scrapbook kept by the notorious Indian impersonator Edgar Laplante, a.k.a. Chief White Elk.
Lot 5
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) George Catlin.
North American Indians.
Lot 6
(AMERICAN INDIANS.)
Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Grand Central Art Galleries.
Lot 7
(AMERICAN INDIANS.)
Poster for a Sun Dance to be held at D-Q University in California.
American Revolution
Lot 8
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Nathaniel Whitefield.
Whitefield's Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1760.
Lot 9
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION-PRELUDE.)
Volume of the Pennsylvania Gazette, complete for 1772.
Lot 10
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) "John Anderson."
Anderson Improved: Being an Almanack, and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1775.
Lot 11
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.)
Issue of the Massachusetts Gazette, two weeks before Lexington and Concord.
Lot 12
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.)
Loyalty petition from what is now Portland, Maine.
Lot 13
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Samuel Stearns.
The North-American's Almanack, and Gentleman's and Lady's Diary, for . . . 1776.
Lot 14
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1778.)
Bill for maintenance on Philadelphia's wetlands "when the English was here."
Lot 15
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1779.) State of New Hampshire.
Broadside on "a new Proportion to be a Guide for paying Taxes in this State."
Lot 16
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1780.)
An Act for Filling Up and Compleating this State’s Quota of the Continental Army.
Lot 17
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1781.) State of New Hampshire.
An Act for Raising . . . Beef, Towards the Support of the Continental Army.
Lot 18
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.)
The New Game of the American Revolution.
Lot 19
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINTS.) D.C. Johnston, lithographer.
A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practised at Boston.
Lot 20
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINTS.) Henry S. Sadd; after Matteson.
The First Prayer in Congress, September 1774,
Lot 21
(ART.)
Papers of critic and curator Charles M. Kurtz.
Lot 22
(ART.) F. Luis Mora, artist.
Shaw Prize poster from the Salmagundi Club, signed by its members.
Lot 23
(ART.)
Invitation to the formal opening of the 1913 Armory Show, the first major modern art exhibition in America.
Lot 24
(AVIATION.)
Small but substantial archive of Hugo Eckener, the Zeppelin company, and the Hindenburg disaster.
Lot 25
(BIBLE.) Michael Zinman, compiler.
The American Bible: Original Leaves from Rare and Historic Bibles Printed in the Colonies
Lot 26
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.)
The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Lot 27
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.)
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments.
Lot 28
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) Noah Webster, translator.
The Holy Bible . . . with Amendments of the Language.
Lot 29
(CALIFORNIA.) Guadalupe Victoria.
A decree to form cavalry companies in the Californias.
Lot 30
(CALIFORNIA.) Valentín Gómez Farías.
Order to secularize the missions of Alta and Baja California.
Lot 31
(CALIFORNIA.) Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
Decree implementing the secularization of the California missions.
Lot 32
(CALIFORNIA.) John Haile Jr.
Long and detailed letter from a newly arrived Forty-Niner in San Francisco.
Lot 33
(CALIFORNIA.) J. Carl Ludwig Fleischmann.
Neueste officielle Berichte . . . über die Lage und Zukunst Californiens.
Lot 34
(CALIFORNIA.) Philipp Zimmermann.
Diary of the chief engineer of a Gold Rush-era San Francisco-Panama steamship, with other papers.
Lot 35
(CALIFORNIA.) Rufus A. Lockwood.
The Vigilance Committee of San Francisco: Metcalf vs. Argenti et al.
Lot 36
(CALIFORNIA.)
A True and Minute History of the Assassination of James King.
Lot 37
(CALIFORNIA.)
Trial of David S. Terry by the Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco.
Lot 38
(CALIFORNIA.)
Sacramento City Directory for 1882.
Lot 39
(CALIFORNIA.) Stephen J. Field.
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, with Other Sketches.
Lot 40
(CALIFORNIA.)
Collection of pencil sketches by Will Benshoff of the Arcade Sketch Club of Pasadena.
Lot 41
(CALIFORNIA.)
Poster for Cinco de Mayo celebration at Los Angeles City College featuring Teatro Campesino.
Lot 42
(CANADA.) Charles Forbes.
Prize Essay. Vancouver Island: Its Resources and Capabilities, as a Colony.
Lot 43
(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.)
The Cabinet of Nature, or, Animal World Displayed.
Lot 44
(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) [William Cowper.]
The Diverting History of John Gilpin.
Lot 45
(CHINESE-AMERICANS.)
Cabinet card of Ko K'un-hua, Harvard's first professor of Chinese language.
Lot 46
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) [Samuel W. Thompson; designer.]
Souvenir spoon commemorating the life of Frederick Douglass.
Lot 47
(CIVIL RIGHTS.)
Pair of early New York civil rights pamphlets.
Lot 48
(CIVIL RIGHTS.)
An Appeal to You . . . to March on Washington.
Civil War
Lot 49
(CIVIL WAR.) Josiah M. Lucas.
A congressional insider describes the mood as secession spreads.
Lot 50
(CIVIL WAR.)
Military pass issued in Union-held Virginia for "Mr. Watt's Negro man Henry."
Lot 51
(CIVIL WAR.) Erskine M. Camp.
Register of travel requisitions and vendor licenses from the Soldiers' Rest in Washington.
Lot 52
(CIVIL WAR.) Ulric Dahlgren.
Contemporary photographs of his orders to assassinate Jefferson Davis.
Lot 53
(CIVIL WAR--ARKANSAS.)
War-date calling card printed for General Herron of the Army of the Frontier.
Lot 54
(CIVIL WAR--ART.) "C.F.L." [Cherbury F. Lothrop?]
The 16th Maine Volunteers, First Day at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Lot 55
(CIVIL WAR--ART.) John Richard.
Sketchbook kept by a well-known soldier/artist during the last months of the war.
Lot 56
(CIVIL WAR--COLORED TROOPS.) David Hunter.
Order from the Department of the South, drafting "all negroes in private service."
Lot 57
(CIVIL WAR--COLORED TROOPS.)
Report on the Battle of Fort Wagner in the New-York Tribune.
Lot 58
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Howell Cobb.
Letter written as United States Secretary of the Treasury, supporting secession.
Lot 59
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Charleston Mercury Extra . . . The Union is Dissolved!
Lot 60
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Charles B. Tebbs Jr.
Letter dismissing the Virginia Secession Convention as "demagogues & imbeciles."
Lot 61
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Muster roll of Virginia's Loudoun Guards from very early in the war.
Lot 62
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Confederate postmaster's appointment notification letter from early in the war.
Lot 63
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) John S. McNulty.
Letters from a civilian saddler for the Confederate cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley.
Lot 64
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Robert E. Lee.
Proclamation "To the People of Maryland."
Lot 65
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Pass issued to a wagoneer by order of Stonewall Jackson on the eve of Antietam.
Lot 66
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) E.W. Drummond.
Diary of a Maine transplant to Savannah, captured at Fort Pulaski and imprisoned in New York.
Lot 67
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Reminiscences of Confederate soldier's wife Mary Drummond, with related family papers.
Lot 68
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Nancy White.
Letter by one of General Wild's infamous female hostages.
Lot 69
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
The Life and Death of Jeff. Davis, being an Awful Warning to all Traitors . . . in Five Expressive Tableaux.
Lot 70
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
The Last Ditch of the Chivalry, or a President in Petticoats.
Lot 71
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Unrecorded Jefferson Davis caricature carte-de-visite, "The Last Ditch."
Lot 72
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Oath of loyalty to the United States sworn by a released Confederate veteran.
Lot 73
(CIVIL WAR--HISTORY.) Abner Doubleday.
His personal copy, marked with revisions, of his book "Chancellorsville and Gettysburg,"
Lot 74
(CIVIL WAR--ILLINOIS.)
Scrapbook kept by Abraham Jonas, an early Jewish settler of Quincy, IL who had sons fighting on both sides.
Lot 75
(CIVIL WAR--INDIANA.)
Large archive of Lt. Palmer Judkins of the 60th Indiana Volunteers, at Vicksburg and beyond.
Lot 76
(CIVIL WAR--INDIANA.)
Photograph of blind Civil War veteran Charles Springer Myers with his son.
Lot 77
(CIVIL WAR--KENTUCKY.)
Broadside proclaiming martial law in Covington in response to Morgan's Raid.
Lot 78
(CIVIL WAR--MAINE.)
Broadside poem titled "Roll of Company F, 10th Maine Volunteers, at Relay, Md."
Lot 79
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Secessionist recruitment broadside issued in the wake of the Baltimore Riot to the "People of Baltimore!"
Lot 80
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
The Lexington of 1861.
Lot 81
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) Nathaniel P. Banks.
To Persons Having Claims against the United States for Damages Done to their Property
Lot 82
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Recruiting broadside for the Maryland Home Brigade.
Lot 83
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Union soldier's letter with map of the Potomac on verso.
Lot 84
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) Thomas H. Ruger.
Broadside establishing Union military law in fortified Frederick, Maryland.
Lot 85
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Record books of the 2nd Maryland Infantry, Company F, including morning reports and clothing accounts.
Lot 86
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) Horace Resley.
To the Voters of Allegany County.
Lot 87
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Order to secure loyalty oaths and punish secessionists in Frederick, Maryland.
Lot 88
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Broadside for a court martial of an officer in Smith's Independent Cavalry.
Lot 89
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Soldier's Memorial, Company I, First Regiment, Maryland Veteran Volunteer Infantry.
Lot 90
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
"Easel Monument" memorial broadside to two fallen soldiers from the Stephy family.
Lot 91
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) C.E. Goldsborough.
The unpublished reminiscences of a Civil War surgeon.
Lot 92
(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Alfred Ordway, artist.
Commissary Department, Encampment of the Mass. 6th Regiment . . . at the Relay House.
Lot 93
(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.)
Pair of items from the 38th Massachusetts: a pencil sketch, and a field-printed Christmas menu.
Lot 94
(CIVIL WAR--MISSOURI.) J. Tilden Moulton.
Two civilian letters on the violence of war-era Missouri, and three written as a soldier.
Lot 95
(CIVIL WAR--MUSIC.)
Group of Civil War sheet music.
Lot 96
(CIVIL WAR--NAVY.)
A Sketch of the History . . . of the Famous Confederate Ram Merrimac . . . Canes Manufactured
Lot 97
(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.)
Scrapbook of the famed 69th New York Infantry--the famed "Fighting Irish."
Lot 98
(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.)
Notice for a "War Meeting . . . to organize and fill up the Corcoran Brigade."
Lot 99
(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.)
Don't Unchain the Tiger!
Lot 100
(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) Nicholas Ecker.
Long run of letters by a 44-year-old private from Montgomery County.
Lot 101
(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) John W. Barrett.
Observant diary of an older soldier discussing freedmen and raids behind enemy lines.
Lot 102
(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.)
Letters to a Cayuga County woman on Lincoln, Douglas Hospital and more.
Lot 103
(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.)
An 11th Ohio sergeant's notebook and diary from Chickamauga and beyond.
Lot 104
(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) Charles A. Dean.
Extensive letters from a discharged veteran in Cincinnati during and after the war.
Lot 105
(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) John Hering.
Diary of an officer in a 100-day unit who fought at the Battle of New Creek Station.
Lot 106
(CIVIL WAR-PENNSYLVANIA.) James Queen, artist and lithographer.
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon of Philadelphia.
Lot 107
(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.)
Photographs of the officers of the 104th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Lot 108
(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.) James Queen, artist.
In Memory of Volunteers "in Defence of the Union" who have Died at the Hospital
Lot 109
(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.) Thomas P. Kinsey.
Two letters written in proximity to the Battle of Antietam, and other family papers.
Lot 110
(CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Alexander Gardner.
Completely Silenced! Dead Confederate Artillery Men . . . After the Battle of Antietam.
Lot 111
(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.)
The Little Zouave: "Up Boys and at Them."
Lot 112
(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.)
The Outbreak of the Rebellion in the United States 1861.
Lot 113
(CIVIL WAR--PRISONS.)
Correspondence copy book for the Union prison at Fort Mifflin.
Lot 114
(CIVIL WAR--RHODE ISLAND.)
Militia recruitment broadside titled "General Orders No. 8."
Lot 115
(CIVIL WAR--RHODE ISLAND.) J.P. Newell, artist.
Lovell General Hospital, U.S.A., Portsmouth Grove, R.I., View from Dyer's Island.
Lot 116
(CIVIL WAR--SECRET SERVICE.) Louis P. Stone.
A Secret Service member recounts his exploits in detail.
Lot 117
(CIVIL WAR--SECRET SERVICE.) Lafayette C. Baker.
To Arms! To Arms! 100 Dollars Bounty!
Lot 118
(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.) J. Bankhead Magruder.
Group of 5 manuscript "Special Orders" for the District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
Lot 119
(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.) Mary J. Hamilton.
A Texas Unionist's wife asks permission to join him in New Orleans.
Lot 120
(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.)
Contract for a Texas railroad to serve the Confederacy, signed by a general.
Lot 121
(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.) Benjamin S. Roberts.
A Union general complains to his Confederate counterpart about his abuse of flags of truce.
Lot 122
(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.)
A wounded Confederate's request for light duty, bounced up for the signatures of two Major Generals.
Lot 123
(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.)
Discharge certificate for a Texas soldier in the Arizona Brigade in the chaotic last days of the war.
Lot 124
(CIVIL WAR--VETERANS.)
Read! Committees, Soldiers' & Sailors' Republican National Convention.
Lot 125
(CIVIL WAR--WISCONSIN.) [Holden R. Smith?]
Diaries of a 1st Wisconsin Cavalry sergeant through Sherman's Atlanta Campaign.
Lot 126
(CIVIL WAR--WISCONSIN.) Charles J. Lind.
Extensive memoir of his service in the famed Iron Brigade of the West.
Lot 127
(COLONIAL WARS.)
Issue of the Boston Weekly News-Letter with news of fighting on the Georgia-Florida coast.
Lot 128
(CONSTITUTION.)
U.S. Constitution, Centennial Souvenir.
Lot 129
(CRIME.)
The Trial of Cyrus B. Dean for the Murder of Jonathan Ormsby and Asa Marsh.
Lot 130
(CRIME.)
Group of pamphlets and ephemera regarding the murder trial of the nefarious Rev. Ephraim Avery.
Lot 131
(CRIME.)
1000 Dollars Reward!! . . . of the Person or Persons, Who . . . Did Shoot and Murder Burrill Arnold.
Lot 132
(CRIME.) Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
American Bankers Association, Book of Photographs.
Lot 134
(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) John Binns, engraver.
Declaration of Independence.
Lot 135
(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) J.H. Bufford, lith.
Declaration of Independence . . . Executed Entirely with a Pen by Gilman R. Russell.
Lot 136
(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) Duval after R. Morris Swander.
The Declaration of Independence . . . Allegorical Portrait of Washington.
Lot 137
(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) William H. Pratt, artist.
Declaration of Independence.
Lot 138
(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) W.R. Knapp, photographer.
An untraced reproduction of the manuscript Declaration and Trumbull painting.
Lot 139
(DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.)
Cabinet card of bookbinder George Maier with his son and apprentice.
Lot 140
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Robert Dodsley, editor.
Select Fables of Aesop and other Fabulists.
Lot 141
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS.)
Group of 5 pamphlets published in 5 different towns.
Lot 142
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Henry Gardner.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts . . . by Virtue of . . . an Act for Apportioning and Assessing.
Lot 143
(FLAGS.) Dennison Manufacturing Company.
Advertisement for flags sold by S.S. Thorp & Co.
Lot 144
(FLORIDA.)
Histoire de la Conqueste de la Floride, par les Espagnols, sous Ferdinand de Soto.
Lot 145
(FLORIDA.)
The Constitution of the Navy Club at Key West.
Lot 146
(FLORIDA.) Albion M. Windhorst, photographer.
View of the military base at Mullet Key, now the site of Fort De Soto Park in Tampa.
Lot 147
(FOOD & DRINK.) Oliver Cromwell Rood.
Daybook of a Vermont distillery selling copious amounts of gin.
Lot 148
(FOOD & DRINK.) Lucy Emerson.
The New-England Cookery.
Lot 149
(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.) Edward Savage, engraver; after Martin.
Benjamin Franklin L.L.D., F.R.S.
Lot 150
(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.) Pierre-Michel Alix, after Carle van Loo.
Francklin.
Lot 151
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
Observations on Certain Documents . . . in which the Charge of Speculation against Alexander Hamilton . . .
Lot 152
(HAWAII.)
Papers of Charles Dana, who launched Hawaii's first bank in 1854.
Lot 153
(HAWAII.)
Group of 3 early Hawaiian newspapers.
Lot 154
(ILLINOIS.)
Letter describing a circular wolf hunt on the prairie, undertaken jointly by white settlers and American Indians.
Lot 155
(IRAN-CONTRA.) Claude Chauffard.
Letter from a French mercenary arrested in Costa Rica for aiding the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
Lot 156
(JAPANESE-AMERICANS.)
Archive of trailblazing New York lawyer George Yamaoka.
Lot 157
(JUDAICA.) Isaac Leeser, translator.
The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures, Carefully Translated
Lot 158
(JUDAICA). Moses Lopez.
A Lunar Calendar, of the Festivals, and other Days in the Year, Observed by the Israelites.
Lot 159
(JUDAICA.) Isaac Leeser, editor.
The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year,
Lot 160
(LABOR.)
Justicia para los Campesinos! TFWU, Marchamos por la Igualdad!
Lot 161
(LABOR.)
Group of 4 United Farm Workers posters.
Lot 162
(LAW.)
The Charter Granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to . . . Massachusetts-Bay in New-England
Lot 163
(LAW.)
Group of early printings of state and colonial laws.
Lot 164
(LAW.)
Group of 5 early American printings of books on law.
Lot 165
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Wide-Awake Head Quarters . . . General Order No. 4.
Lot 166
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Chautauqua Democrat Extra assassination broadside.
Lot 167
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Group of 11 military general orders announcing Lincoln's death and funeral.
Lot 168
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Group of 3 orders to a Pennsylvania officer from the time of the Lincoln procession in Philadelphia.
Lot 169
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Order posting postal clerks to guard the Postmaster General's house shortly after the assassination.
Lot 170
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Mourning card titled "In Memory of Abraham Lincoln . . . Requiescat in Pace!"
Lot 171
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Dirge, "Unveil thy Bosom, Faithful Tomb" as Sung at the Funeral Ceremonies of the Late President . . . at Springfield.
Lot 172
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Thomas H. Nelson.
An American envoy's letter explaining the reaction to the assassination in Chile.
Lot 173
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Collection of autographs by some of those select few who were at Lincoln's deathbed.
Lot 174
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Albert E.H. Johnson.
Letter regarding "the papers found upon the person of President Lincoln."
Lot 175
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Ambrose E. Burnside.
Endorsement letter for Marshall's famed portrait of Lincoln.
Lot 176
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) S. Klaber & Co.; after Volk.
Bronze bust of Lincoln.
Lot 177
(MAGIC.)
Going Fine Since 1889: Ellen E. Armstrong, Magician and Cartoonist Extraordinary.
Lot 178
(MARITIME.)
Collection of material on the transatlantic telegraph cable and the SS Great Eastern.
Lot 179
(MARYLAND.)
Rare printing of the Pennsylvania Dutch "Spiritual Labyrinth" broadside, accompanied by manuscript recipes and spells.
Lot 180
(MASSACHUSETTS.)
The Tears of Son Dropt upon the Grave of his Honoured Mother, Mrs. Deborah Searle of Dorchester.
Lot 181
(MASSACHUSETTS.) Samuel Hill, engraver.
Membership certificate in the Massachusetts Mechanic Association.
Lot 182
(MASSACHUSETTS.)
Register of sermons, baptisms and deaths at the Dorchester South Meeting House.
Lot 183
(MASSACHUSETTS.)
By-laws and minute book of the Georgetown Village Band.
Lot 184
(MASSACHUSETTS.) [G. Dubois, artist and lithographer.]
View of an encampment of the Independent Boston Fusiliers.
Lot 185
(MASSACHUSETTS.)
Satirical broadside for a Fourth of July parade in Springfield.
Lot 186
(MASSACHUSETTS.)
Long run of letters from a hard-pressed Cape Cod codfishing captain to his ship's owners.
Lot 187
(MEDICINE.) Calvin Cutter.
The Female Guide, Containing Facts and information upon the Effects of Masturbation . . . &c, &c.
Lot 188
(MEDICINE.)
Broadside for Andrews' Rheumatic Liniment.
Lot 189
(MEXICAN WAR.) Henry D. Page.
A dramatic first-hand account of an American soldier's capture, near-execution, and escape.
Lot 190
(MEXICAN WAR.)
Statement on the Siege of Fort Texas, with later rosters and receipts of the Texas Rangers.
Lot 191
(MEXICAN WAR.)
Volume of the New York Weekly Herald with extensive illustrated coverage of the war.
Lot 192
(MEXICAN WAR.) Winfield Scott.
General Orders on the court martial and executions of the San Patricios who had defected to Mexico.
Lot 193
(MORMONS.) John Taylor.
An Answer to Some False Statements and Misrepresentations Made by the Rev. Robert Heys.
Lot 194
(MORMONS.) [Robert P. Crawford.]
[An Index, or Reference, to the Second and Third Editions of the Book of Mormon.]
Lot 195
(MORMONS.)
Summons issued to Joseph Smith and others to appear as witnesses in an Illinois court case.
Lot 196
(MORMONS.) Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Voice of Truth.
Lot 197
(MORMONS.)
Reply of Joseph Smith to the Letter of J. A. B--- of A---n House, New York.
Lot 198
(MORMONS.) Jedediah Morgan Grant.
The Truth for the Mormons . . . Read it Through
Lot 199
(MORMONS.) Cynthia A. Rogers.
Letter by a young second wife in a frontier settlement in Arizona.
Lot 200
(MUSIC.)
Group of illustrated military sheet music.
Lot 201
(MUSIC.)
Albums chronicling the life of drummer Billy Gussak.
Lot 202
(NAVY.)
Pair of large early photographs of the United States Naval Academy.
Lot 203
(NAVY.)
Papers of Lieutenant James C. Williamson, regarding service in China in the Second Opium War and more.
Lot 204
(NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Oliver Holmes.
Diary of an exasperated Francestown schoolteacher.
New York
Lot 205
(NEW YORK.)
Family papers of Judge Anthony J. Blanchard of Salem, New York.
Lot 206
(NEW YORK.)
Group of 6 early broadsides and newspapers from rural Salem, New York, some unrecorded.
Lot 207
(NEW YORK.)
Lord's Prayer memorial broadside in honor of a New York boy.
Lot 208
(NEW YORK.) Asa Lee Davison.
Pair of Independence Day orations not recorded in any library.
Lot 209
(NEW YORK.) Cadwallader D. Colden.
Memoir . . . of the Completion of the New York Canals,
Lot 210
(NEW YORK.) Thomas T. Doughty, artist.
United States Military Academy, West Point from Fort Clinton.
Lot 211
(NEW YORK CITY.)
First Report of the Bank for Savings in the City of New York.
Lot 212
(NEW YORK CITY.)
Statue of Liberty, American Committee Model.
Lot 213
(NEW YORK CITY)
Album of diorama preparation photos for the American Museum of Natural History and elsewhere.
Lot 214
(NEW YORK CITY--BROOKLYN.)
Invitation to opening ceremonies of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Lot 215
(NEW YORK CITY--BROOKLYN.) John Dunlap Wells.
Diaries of a distinguished Presbyterian pastor, with a letter from Theodore Roosevelt.
Lot 216
(NEW YORK CITY--BROOKLYN.)
Group of printed power-plant specification books for the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co. and related works.
Lot 217
(NEW YORK--LONG ISLAND.)
Stud book for a horse owned by the Proprietor of Gardiner's Island.
Lot 218
(NEW YORK--LONG ISLAND.)
Extensive family papers of Dorothy Post Jones, descendant of a distinguished Brookhaven family.
Lot 219
(POLITICS.)
"Constitution of the New York State Council" issued by a state chapter of the secretive Know Nothing Party.
Lot 220
(PRESIDENTS--1800 CAMPAIGN.) Uriah Tracy.
An important letter on the contentious 1800 election.
Lot 221
(PRESIDENTS.)
A Catalogue of the Second Exhibition of Paintings, in the Athenaeum Gallery
Lot 222
(PRESIDENTS--1844 CAMPAIGN.)
Protection to American Industry: Candidates for President and Vice-President.
Lot 223
(PRESIDENTS.)
Vote Against Schlosser! Vote Against Yale! . . . Vote for Roosevelt for the Senate.
Lot 224
(PRESIDENTS.)
Wedding book of Earl Miller (Eleanor Roosevelt's bodyguard and alleged lover), signed by the Roosevelts as guests.
Lot 225
(PRESIDENTS--1932 CAMPAIGN.)
Certification of Roosevelt's victory over Hoover, signed by the four tellers of the Electoral College.
Lot 226
(PRESIDENTS--1944 CAMPAIGN.)
It's Time to Change: FDR Deserts Negro; Embraces Truman.
Lot 227
(RAILROADS.)
Report of the Engineers, on the Reconnoissance and Surveys, made in Reference to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road.
Lot 228
(RAILROADS.)
American Car and Foundry Co., Catalog C.
Lot 229
(RECONSTRUCTION.)
Black Republican and Office-Holder's Journal.
Lot 230
(RECONSTRUCTION.)
Composite photograph titled "Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1867 and 68."
Lot 231
(RELIGION.)
Awful Disclosure! Murderers Exposed; Downfall of Popery; Death-Bed Confession . . . of the Right Rev. Bishop McMurray.
Lot 232
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of Brown University,
Lot 233
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Group of 3 illustrated membership certificates, including the first engraved view of Providence.
Lot 234
(RHODE ISLAND.) J.H. Daniels, lithographer; after E. Ackermann.
Street view of Scholfield's Commercial College.
Lot 235
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Set of Rhode Island Historical Tracts, including the coveted "Bills of Credit or Money of Rhode Island."
Lot 236
(RHODE ISLAND.) Sidney Rider, editor.
Nearly complete set of the quirky literary-historical biweekly magazine Book Notes.
Lot 237
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Group of 20 pieces of Rhode Island-related sheet music, most of it illustrated.
Lot 238
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Group of 3 Rhode Island disaster songsheets.
Lot 239
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Group of 10 broadsides, including carrier addresses and more.
Lot 240
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Group of 23 textile labels from Rhode Island mills.
Lot 241
(SCIENCE & ENGINEERING.)
Notebooks kept by analytical chemist Thomas Hall Garrett during the Civil War and beyond.
Lot 242
(SCIENCE & ENGINEERING.) Ezra Weld.
Patent exploitation license for an early American washing machine.
Lot 243
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.)
Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn.
Lot 244
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Martin M. Lawrence, photographer.
Portrait of John Brown.
Lot 245
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.)
"The Contrabands at Washington," a long account of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation,
Lot 247
(SPORTS--BASEBALL.)
Photographs, ephemera, and equipment from the Anglo-American Baseball Association.
Lot 248
(SPORTS--GOLF.)
Pair of works on the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.
Lot 249
(SPORTS--HORSE RACING.)
Stud broadside for "The Thorough-Bred Trotting Stallion Dick Thunderbolt!"
Lot 250
(TENNESSEE.)
Family papers of Thomas C. Ryall, a farmer in Shelbyville.
Lot 251
(TRAVEL.) [Zadok Cramer.]
The Navigator; Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Alleghany, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers.
Lot 252
(TRAVEL.) Timothy Dwight.
Travels in New-England and New-York.
Lot 253
(UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES.)
The Circular, Devoted to the Sovereignty of Jesus Christ.
Lot 253
(VERMONT.)
Photograph albums of textile machinery made by the Parks & Woolson Machine Company.
Lot 254
(WAR OF 1812.)
Volume of the Providence Gazette and Country Journal, covering the early months of the war.
Lot 255
(GEORGE WASHINGTON.)
Textile titled "The Resignation of Pres't Washington."
Lot 256
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Washington's Farewell Address.
Lot 257
(GEORGE WASHINGTON.) [John J. Barralet, artist and engraver.]
[Commemoration of Washington.]
Lot 258
(GEORGE WASHINGTON.)
Odes to be Sung at the Celebration of Washington's Birth-Day, by the Washington Benevolent Society
Lot 259
(GEORGE WASHINGTON.) William F. Turner.
Letter to the president's great-grand-nephew, discussing his sale of Mount Vernon.
Lot 260
(GIDEON WELLES.)
Extensive archive of personal and family papers of Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy.
Papers of Gideon Welles
Lot 261
(GIDEON WELLES.)
Engraved invitation to a White House dinner with "The President & Mrs. Lincoln."
Lot 262
(GIDEON WELLES.)
Pass for President Lincoln's White House funeral.
Lot 263
(GIDEON WELLES.) Frederick Halpin, engraver; after Carpenter.
Engraved portrait of Lincoln, inscribed by the artist to Gideon Welles.
Lot 264
(GIDEON WELLES.)
Ticket to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
Lot 265
(GIDEON WELLES.)
Cane said to be made for Abraham Lincoln from the wood of Fort Sumter.
Lot 266
(GIDEON WELLES.)
3-piece silver tea service owned by the Gideon Welles family.
Lot 267
(GIDEON WELLES.)
Lincoln Club of Louisiana memorial resolution.
The West
Lot 268
(WEST.)
Go Ahead! Davy Crockett's 1837 Almanack of Wild Sports in the West.
Lot 269
(WEST.) Samuel Parker.
Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains.
Lot 270
(WEST.) Francis Parkman.
The California and Oregon Trail.
Lot 271
(WEST.) William H. Emory.
Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey.
Lot 272
(WEST.) R.E. Fullerton.
An American Italy for Invalids: A Dissertation . . . of a Journey on the Plains, in the Rocky Mountains and Mexico,
Lot 273
(WEST.)
Act of Incorporation of Wells, Fargo & Company
Lot 274
(WEST.) George G. Street.
Che! Wah! Wah! or, The Modern Montezumas in Mexico.
Lot 275
(WEST.) Hal Reid.
Custer's Last Fight: A New Historical Melodrama
Lot 276
(WEST.)
Group of Western art and reference books, including two Harold McCracken limited editions.
Lot 277
(WEST--COLORADO.)
Property of the Consolidated Silver Mining Company, Reese River and Union Districts, Nevada.