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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) George Catlin.
Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio.

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(ALASKA.) Adolphus W. Greely.
The author's working copy with manuscript revisions of his "Handbook of Alaska."

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.)
"Ledger art" self-portrait by the Sioux leader Crow Dog, made during his murder trial,

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.)
Scrapbook kept by the notorious Indian impersonator Edgar Laplante, a.k.a. Chief White Elk.

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) George Catlin.
North American Indians.

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.)
Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Grand Central Art Galleries.

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.)
Poster for a Sun Dance to be held at D-Q University in California.

American Revolution

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Nathaniel Whitefield.
Whitefield's Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1760.

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION-PRELUDE.)
Volume of the Pennsylvania Gazette, complete for 1772.

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) "John Anderson."
Anderson Improved: Being an Almanack, and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1775.

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.)
Issue of the Massachusetts Gazette, two weeks before Lexington and Concord.

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.)
Loyalty petition from what is now Portland, Maine.

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Samuel Stearns.
The North-American's Almanack, and Gentleman's and Lady's Diary, for . . . 1776.

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1778.)
Bill for maintenance on Philadelphia's wetlands "when the English was here."

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1779.) State of New Hampshire.
Broadside on "a new Proportion to be a Guide for paying Taxes in this State."

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1780.)
An Act for Filling Up and Compleating this State’s Quota of the Continental Army.

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1781.) State of New Hampshire.
An Act for Raising . . . Beef, Towards the Support of the Continental Army.

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.)
The New Game of the American Revolution.

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINTS.) D.C. Johnston, lithographer.
A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practised at Boston.

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINTS.) Henry S. Sadd; after Matteson.
The First Prayer in Congress, September 1774,

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(ART.)
Papers of critic and curator Charles M. Kurtz.

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(ART.) F. Luis Mora, artist.
Shaw Prize poster from the Salmagundi Club, signed by its members.

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(ART.)
Invitation to the formal opening of the 1913 Armory Show, the first major modern art exhibition in America.

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(AVIATION.)
Small but substantial archive of Hugo Eckener, the Zeppelin company, and the Hindenburg disaster.

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(BIBLE.) Michael Zinman, compiler.
The American Bible: Original Leaves from Rare and Historic Bibles Printed in the Colonies

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(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.)
The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.)
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments.

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(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) Noah Webster, translator.
The Holy Bible . . . with Amendments of the Language.

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(CALIFORNIA.) Guadalupe Victoria.
A decree to form cavalry companies in the Californias.

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(CALIFORNIA.) Valentín Gómez Farías.
Order to secularize the missions of Alta and Baja California.

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(CALIFORNIA.) Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
Decree implementing the secularization of the California missions.

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(CALIFORNIA.) John Haile Jr.
Long and detailed letter from a newly arrived Forty-Niner in San Francisco.

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(CALIFORNIA.) J. Carl Ludwig Fleischmann.
Neueste officielle Berichte . . . über die Lage und Zukunst Californiens.

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(CALIFORNIA.) Philipp Zimmermann.
Diary of the chief engineer of a Gold Rush-era San Francisco-Panama steamship, with other papers.

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(CALIFORNIA.) Rufus A. Lockwood.
The Vigilance Committee of San Francisco: Metcalf vs. Argenti et al.

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(CALIFORNIA.)
A True and Minute History of the Assassination of James King.

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(CALIFORNIA.)
Trial of David S. Terry by the Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco.

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(CALIFORNIA.)
Sacramento City Directory for 1882.

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(CALIFORNIA.) Stephen J. Field.
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, with Other Sketches.

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Lot 40
(CALIFORNIA.)
Collection of pencil sketches by Will Benshoff of the Arcade Sketch Club of Pasadena.

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Lot 41
(CALIFORNIA.)
Poster for Cinco de Mayo celebration at Los Angeles City College featuring Teatro Campesino.

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(CANADA.) Charles Forbes.
Prize Essay. Vancouver Island: Its Resources and Capabilities, as a Colony.

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(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.)
The Cabinet of Nature, or, Animal World Displayed.

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(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) [William Cowper.]
The Diverting History of John Gilpin.

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(CHINESE-AMERICANS.)
Cabinet card of Ko K'un-hua, Harvard's first professor of Chinese language.

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) [Samuel W. Thompson; designer.]
Souvenir spoon commemorating the life of Frederick Douglass.

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.)
Pair of early New York civil rights pamphlets.

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Lot 48
(CIVIL RIGHTS.)
An Appeal to You . . . to March on Washington.

Civil War

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(CIVIL WAR.) Josiah M. Lucas.
A congressional insider describes the mood as secession spreads.

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(CIVIL WAR.)
Military pass issued in Union-held Virginia for "Mr. Watt's Negro man Henry."

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(CIVIL WAR.) Erskine M. Camp.
Register of travel requisitions and vendor licenses from the Soldiers' Rest in Washington.

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(CIVIL WAR.) Ulric Dahlgren.
Contemporary photographs of his orders to assassinate Jefferson Davis.

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(CIVIL WAR--ARKANSAS.)
War-date calling card printed for General Herron of the Army of the Frontier.

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(CIVIL WAR--ART.) "C.F.L." [Cherbury F. Lothrop?]
The 16th Maine Volunteers, First Day at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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(CIVIL WAR--ART.) John Richard.
Sketchbook kept by a well-known soldier/artist during the last months of the war.

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(CIVIL WAR--COLORED TROOPS.) David Hunter.
Order from the Department of the South, drafting "all negroes in private service."

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(CIVIL WAR--COLORED TROOPS.)
Report on the Battle of Fort Wagner in the New-York Tribune.

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Howell Cobb.
Letter written as United States Secretary of the Treasury, supporting secession.

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Charleston Mercury Extra . . . The Union is Dissolved!

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Charles B. Tebbs Jr.
Letter dismissing the Virginia Secession Convention as "demagogues & imbeciles."

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Muster roll of Virginia's Loudoun Guards from very early in the war.

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Confederate postmaster's appointment notification letter from early in the war.

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) John S. McNulty.
Letters from a civilian saddler for the Confederate cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley.

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Robert E. Lee.
Proclamation "To the People of Maryland."

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Pass issued to a wagoneer by order of Stonewall Jackson on the eve of Antietam.

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) E.W. Drummond.
Diary of a Maine transplant to Savannah, captured at Fort Pulaski and imprisoned in New York.

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Reminiscences of Confederate soldier's wife Mary Drummond, with related family papers.

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Nancy White.
Letter by one of General Wild's infamous female hostages.

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Lot 69
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
The Life and Death of Jeff. Davis, being an Awful Warning to all Traitors . . . in Five Expressive Tableaux.

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
The Last Ditch of the Chivalry, or a President in Petticoats.

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Unrecorded Jefferson Davis caricature carte-de-visite, "The Last Ditch."

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.)
Oath of loyalty to the United States sworn by a released Confederate veteran.

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(CIVIL WAR--HISTORY.) Abner Doubleday.
His personal copy, marked with revisions, of his book "Chancellorsville and Gettysburg,"

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(CIVIL WAR--ILLINOIS.)
Scrapbook kept by Abraham Jonas, an early Jewish settler of Quincy, IL who had sons fighting on both sides.

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(CIVIL WAR--INDIANA.)
Large archive of Lt. Palmer Judkins of the 60th Indiana Volunteers, at Vicksburg and beyond.

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Lot 76
(CIVIL WAR--INDIANA.)
Photograph of blind Civil War veteran Charles Springer Myers with his son.

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(CIVIL WAR--KENTUCKY.)
Broadside proclaiming martial law in Covington in response to Morgan's Raid.

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(CIVIL WAR--MAINE.)
Broadside poem titled "Roll of Company F, 10th Maine Volunteers, at Relay, Md."

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(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Secessionist recruitment broadside issued in the wake of the Baltimore Riot to the "People of Baltimore!"

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Lot 80
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
The Lexington of 1861.

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(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) Nathaniel P. Banks.
To Persons Having Claims against the United States for Damages Done to their Property

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(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Recruiting broadside for the Maryland Home Brigade.

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(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Union soldier's letter with map of the Potomac on verso.

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(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) Thomas H. Ruger.
Broadside establishing Union military law in fortified Frederick, Maryland.

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Lot 85
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Record books of the 2nd Maryland Infantry, Company F, including morning reports and clothing accounts.

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(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) Horace Resley.
To the Voters of Allegany County.

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(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Order to secure loyalty oaths and punish secessionists in Frederick, Maryland.

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Lot 88
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Broadside for a court martial of an officer in Smith's Independent Cavalry.

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Lot 89
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
Soldier's Memorial, Company I, First Regiment, Maryland Veteran Volunteer Infantry.

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Lot 90
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.)
"Easel Monument" memorial broadside to two fallen soldiers from the Stephy family.

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Lot 91
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) C.E. Goldsborough.
The unpublished reminiscences of a Civil War surgeon.

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(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Alfred Ordway, artist.
Commissary Department, Encampment of the Mass. 6th Regiment . . . at the Relay House.

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(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.)
Pair of items from the 38th Massachusetts: a pencil sketch, and a field-printed Christmas menu.

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(CIVIL WAR--MISSOURI.) J. Tilden Moulton.
Two civilian letters on the violence of war-era Missouri, and three written as a soldier.

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Lot 95
(CIVIL WAR--MUSIC.)
Group of Civil War sheet music.

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Lot 96
(CIVIL WAR--NAVY.)
A Sketch of the History . . . of the Famous Confederate Ram Merrimac . . . Canes Manufactured

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(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.)
Scrapbook of the famed 69th New York Infantry--the famed "Fighting Irish."

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(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.)
Notice for a "War Meeting . . . to organize and fill up the Corcoran Brigade."

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(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.)
Don't Unchain the Tiger!

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(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) Nicholas Ecker.
Long run of letters by a 44-year-old private from Montgomery County.

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(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) John W. Barrett.
Observant diary of an older soldier discussing freedmen and raids behind enemy lines.

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Lot 102
(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.)
Letters to a Cayuga County woman on Lincoln, Douglas Hospital and more.

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(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.)
An 11th Ohio sergeant's notebook and diary from Chickamauga and beyond.

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(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) Charles A. Dean.
Extensive letters from a discharged veteran in Cincinnati during and after the war.

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(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) John Hering.
Diary of an officer in a 100-day unit who fought at the Battle of New Creek Station.

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(CIVIL WAR-PENNSYLVANIA.) James Queen, artist and lithographer.
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon of Philadelphia.

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(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.)
Photographs of the officers of the 104th Pennsylvania Infantry.

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(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.) James Queen, artist.
In Memory of Volunteers "in Defence of the Union" who have Died at the Hospital

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(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.) Thomas P. Kinsey.
Two letters written in proximity to the Battle of Antietam, and other family papers.

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(CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Alexander Gardner.
Completely Silenced! Dead Confederate Artillery Men . . . After the Battle of Antietam.

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(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.)
The Little Zouave: "Up Boys and at Them."

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Lot 112
(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.)
The Outbreak of the Rebellion in the United States 1861.

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Lot 113
(CIVIL WAR--PRISONS.)
Correspondence copy book for the Union prison at Fort Mifflin.

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Lot 114
(CIVIL WAR--RHODE ISLAND.)
Militia recruitment broadside titled "General Orders No. 8."

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(CIVIL WAR--RHODE ISLAND.) J.P. Newell, artist.
Lovell General Hospital, U.S.A., Portsmouth Grove, R.I., View from Dyer's Island.

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(CIVIL WAR--SECRET SERVICE.) Louis P. Stone.
A Secret Service member recounts his exploits in detail.

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(CIVIL WAR--SECRET SERVICE.) Lafayette C. Baker.
To Arms! To Arms! 100 Dollars Bounty!

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Lot 118
(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.) J. Bankhead Magruder.
Group of 5 manuscript "Special Orders" for the District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

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Lot 119
(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.) Mary J. Hamilton.
A Texas Unionist's wife asks permission to join him in New Orleans.

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Lot 120
(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.)
Contract for a Texas railroad to serve the Confederacy, signed by a general.

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(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.) Benjamin S. Roberts.
A Union general complains to his Confederate counterpart about his abuse of flags of truce.

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Lot 122
(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.)
A wounded Confederate's request for light duty, bounced up for the signatures of two Major Generals.

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Lot 123
(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.)
Discharge certificate for a Texas soldier in the Arizona Brigade in the chaotic last days of the war.

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(CIVIL WAR--VETERANS.)
Read! Committees, Soldiers' & Sailors' Republican National Convention.

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Lot 125
(CIVIL WAR--WISCONSIN.) [Holden R. Smith?]
Diaries of a 1st Wisconsin Cavalry sergeant through Sherman's Atlanta Campaign.

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Lot 126
(CIVIL WAR--WISCONSIN.) Charles J. Lind.
Extensive memoir of his service in the famed Iron Brigade of the West.

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Lot 127
(COLONIAL WARS.)
Issue of the Boston Weekly News-Letter with news of fighting on the Georgia-Florida coast.

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Lot 128
(CONSTITUTION.)
U.S. Constitution, Centennial Souvenir.

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Lot 129
(CRIME.)
The Trial of Cyrus B. Dean for the Murder of Jonathan Ormsby and Asa Marsh.

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Lot 130
(CRIME.)
Group of pamphlets and ephemera regarding the murder trial of the nefarious Rev. Ephraim Avery.

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Lot 131
(CRIME.)
1000 Dollars Reward!! . . . of the Person or Persons, Who . . . Did Shoot and Murder Burrill Arnold.

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Lot 132
(CRIME.) Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
American Bankers Association, Book of Photographs.

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Lot 134
(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) John Binns, engraver.
Declaration of Independence.

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Lot 135
(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) J.H. Bufford, lith.
Declaration of Independence . . . Executed Entirely with a Pen by Gilman R. Russell.

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Lot 136
(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) Duval after R. Morris Swander.
The Declaration of Independence . . . Allegorical Portrait of Washington.

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(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) William H. Pratt, artist.
Declaration of Independence.

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(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) W.R. Knapp, photographer.
An untraced reproduction of the manuscript Declaration and Trumbull painting.

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Lot 139
(DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.)
Cabinet card of bookbinder George Maier with his son and apprentice.

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Lot 140
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Robert Dodsley, editor.
Select Fables of Aesop and other Fabulists.

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Lot 141
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS.)
Group of 5 pamphlets published in 5 different towns.

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Lot 142
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Henry Gardner.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts . . . by Virtue of . . . an Act for Apportioning and Assessing.

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Lot 143
(FLAGS.) Dennison Manufacturing Company.
Advertisement for flags sold by S.S. Thorp & Co.

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Lot 144
(FLORIDA.)
Histoire de la Conqueste de la Floride, par les Espagnols, sous Ferdinand de Soto.

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Lot 145
(FLORIDA.)
The Constitution of the Navy Club at Key West.

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(FLORIDA.) Albion M. Windhorst, photographer.
View of the military base at Mullet Key, now the site of Fort De Soto Park in Tampa.

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(FOOD & DRINK.) Oliver Cromwell Rood.
Daybook of a Vermont distillery selling copious amounts of gin.

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(FOOD & DRINK.) Lucy Emerson.
The New-England Cookery.

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(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.) Edward Savage, engraver; after Martin.
Benjamin Franklin L.L.D., F.R.S.

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(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.) Pierre-Michel Alix, after Carle van Loo.
Francklin.

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Lot 151
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
Observations on Certain Documents . . . in which the Charge of Speculation against Alexander Hamilton . . .

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Lot 152
(HAWAII.)
Papers of Charles Dana, who launched Hawaii's first bank in 1854.

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Lot 153
(HAWAII.)
Group of 3 early Hawaiian newspapers.

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Lot 154
(ILLINOIS.)
Letter describing a circular wolf hunt on the prairie, undertaken jointly by white settlers and American Indians.

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(IRAN-CONTRA.) Claude Chauffard.
Letter from a French mercenary arrested in Costa Rica for aiding the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.

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Lot 156
(JAPANESE-AMERICANS.)
Archive of trailblazing New York lawyer George Yamaoka.

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Lot 157
(JUDAICA.) Isaac Leeser, translator.
The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures, Carefully Translated

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(JUDAICA). Moses Lopez.
A Lunar Calendar, of the Festivals, and other Days in the Year, Observed by the Israelites.

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Lot 159
(JUDAICA.) Isaac Leeser, editor.
The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year,

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Lot 160
(LABOR.)
Justicia para los Campesinos! TFWU, Marchamos por la Igualdad!

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Lot 161
(LABOR.)
Group of 4 United Farm Workers posters.

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Lot 162
(LAW.)
The Charter Granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to . . . Massachusetts-Bay in New-England

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Lot 163
(LAW.)
Group of early printings of state and colonial laws.

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(LAW.)
Group of 5 early American printings of books on law.

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Lot 165
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Wide-Awake Head Quarters . . . General Order No. 4.

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Chautauqua Democrat Extra assassination broadside.

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Group of 11 military general orders announcing Lincoln's death and funeral.

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Lot 168
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Group of 3 orders to a Pennsylvania officer from the time of the Lincoln procession in Philadelphia.

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Order posting postal clerks to guard the Postmaster General's house shortly after the assassination.

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Mourning card titled "In Memory of Abraham Lincoln . . . Requiescat in Pace!"

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Dirge, "Unveil thy Bosom, Faithful Tomb" as Sung at the Funeral Ceremonies of the Late President . . . at Springfield.

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Thomas H. Nelson.
An American envoy's letter explaining the reaction to the assassination in Chile.

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Lot 173
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.)
Collection of autographs by some of those select few who were at Lincoln's deathbed.

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Albert E.H. Johnson.
Letter regarding "the papers found upon the person of President Lincoln."

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Ambrose E. Burnside.
Endorsement letter for Marshall's famed portrait of Lincoln.

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) S. Klaber & Co.; after Volk.
Bronze bust of Lincoln.

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Lot 177
(MAGIC.)
Going Fine Since 1889: Ellen E. Armstrong, Magician and Cartoonist Extraordinary.

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Lot 178
(MARITIME.)
Collection of material on the transatlantic telegraph cable and the SS Great Eastern.

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Lot 179
(MARYLAND.)
Rare printing of the Pennsylvania Dutch "Spiritual Labyrinth" broadside, accompanied by manuscript recipes and spells.

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Lot 180
(MASSACHUSETTS.)
The Tears of Son Dropt upon the Grave of his Honoured Mother, Mrs. Deborah Searle of Dorchester.

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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Samuel Hill, engraver.
Membership certificate in the Massachusetts Mechanic Association.

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(MASSACHUSETTS.)
Register of sermons, baptisms and deaths at the Dorchester South Meeting House.

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(MASSACHUSETTS.)
By-laws and minute book of the Georgetown Village Band.

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(MASSACHUSETTS.) [G. Dubois, artist and lithographer.]
View of an encampment of the Independent Boston Fusiliers.

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(MASSACHUSETTS.)
Satirical broadside for a Fourth of July parade in Springfield.

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(MASSACHUSETTS.)
Long run of letters from a hard-pressed Cape Cod codfishing captain to his ship's owners.

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(MEDICINE.) Calvin Cutter.
The Female Guide, Containing Facts and information upon the Effects of Masturbation . . . &c, &c.

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(MEDICINE.)
Broadside for Andrews' Rheumatic Liniment.

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(MEXICAN WAR.) Henry D. Page.
A dramatic first-hand account of an American soldier's capture, near-execution, and escape.

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Lot 190
(MEXICAN WAR.)
Statement on the Siege of Fort Texas, with later rosters and receipts of the Texas Rangers.

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Lot 191
(MEXICAN WAR.)
Volume of the New York Weekly Herald with extensive illustrated coverage of the war.

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Lot 192
(MEXICAN WAR.) Winfield Scott.
General Orders on the court martial and executions of the San Patricios who had defected to Mexico.

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Lot 193
(MORMONS.) John Taylor.
An Answer to Some False Statements and Misrepresentations Made by the Rev. Robert Heys.

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Lot 194
(MORMONS.) [Robert P. Crawford.]
[An Index, or Reference, to the Second and Third Editions of the Book of Mormon.]

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Lot 195
(MORMONS.)
Summons issued to Joseph Smith and others to appear as witnesses in an Illinois court case.

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Lot 196
(MORMONS.) Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Voice of Truth.

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Lot 197
(MORMONS.)
Reply of Joseph Smith to the Letter of J. A. B--- of A---n House, New York.

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Lot 198
(MORMONS.) Jedediah Morgan Grant.
The Truth for the Mormons . . . Read it Through

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Lot 199
(MORMONS.) Cynthia A. Rogers.
Letter by a young second wife in a frontier settlement in Arizona.

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Lot 200
(MUSIC.)
Group of illustrated military sheet music.

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Lot 201
(MUSIC.)
Albums chronicling the life of drummer Billy Gussak.

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Lot 202
(NAVY.)
Pair of large early photographs of the United States Naval Academy.

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Lot 203
(NAVY.)
Papers of Lieutenant James C. Williamson, regarding service in China in the Second Opium War and more.

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Lot 204
(NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Oliver Holmes.
Diary of an exasperated Francestown schoolteacher.

New York

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Lot 205
(NEW YORK.)
Family papers of Judge Anthony J. Blanchard of Salem, New York.

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Lot 206
(NEW YORK.)
Group of 6 early broadsides and newspapers from rural Salem, New York, some unrecorded.

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Lot 207
(NEW YORK.)
Lord's Prayer memorial broadside in honor of a New York boy.

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Lot 208
(NEW YORK.) Asa Lee Davison.
Pair of Independence Day orations not recorded in any library.

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Lot 209
(NEW YORK.) Cadwallader D. Colden.
Memoir . . . of the Completion of the New York Canals,

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Lot 210
(NEW YORK.) Thomas T. Doughty, artist.
United States Military Academy, West Point from Fort Clinton.

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Lot 211
(NEW YORK CITY.)
First Report of the Bank for Savings in the City of New York.

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Lot 212
(NEW YORK CITY.)
Statue of Liberty, American Committee Model.

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Lot 213
(NEW YORK CITY)
Album of diorama preparation photos for the American Museum of Natural History and elsewhere.

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Lot 214
(NEW YORK CITY--BROOKLYN.)
Invitation to opening ceremonies of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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(NEW YORK CITY--BROOKLYN.) John Dunlap Wells.
Diaries of a distinguished Presbyterian pastor, with a letter from Theodore Roosevelt.

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(NEW YORK CITY--BROOKLYN.)
Group of printed power-plant specification books for the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co. and related works.

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(NEW YORK--LONG ISLAND.)
Stud book for a horse owned by the Proprietor of Gardiner's Island.

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(NEW YORK--LONG ISLAND.)
Extensive family papers of Dorothy Post Jones, descendant of a distinguished Brookhaven family.

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Lot 219
(POLITICS.)
"Constitution of the New York State Council" issued by a state chapter of the secretive Know Nothing Party.

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Lot 220
(PRESIDENTS--1800 CAMPAIGN.) Uriah Tracy.
An important letter on the contentious 1800 election.

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Lot 221
(PRESIDENTS.)
A Catalogue of the Second Exhibition of Paintings, in the Athenaeum Gallery

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Lot 222
(PRESIDENTS--1844 CAMPAIGN.)
Protection to American Industry: Candidates for President and Vice-President.

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Lot 223
(PRESIDENTS.)
Vote Against Schlosser! Vote Against Yale! . . . Vote for Roosevelt for the Senate.

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Lot 224
(PRESIDENTS.)
Wedding book of Earl Miller (Eleanor Roosevelt's bodyguard and alleged lover), signed by the Roosevelts as guests.

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Lot 225
(PRESIDENTS--1932 CAMPAIGN.)
Certification of Roosevelt's victory over Hoover, signed by the four tellers of the Electoral College.

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Lot 226
(PRESIDENTS--1944 CAMPAIGN.)
It's Time to Change: FDR Deserts Negro; Embraces Truman.

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Lot 227
(RAILROADS.)
Report of the Engineers, on the Reconnoissance and Surveys, made in Reference to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road.

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Lot 228
(RAILROADS.)
American Car and Foundry Co., Catalog C.

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Lot 229
(RECONSTRUCTION.)
Black Republican and Office-Holder's Journal.

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Lot 230
(RECONSTRUCTION.)
Composite photograph titled "Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1867 and 68."

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Lot 231
(RELIGION.)
Awful Disclosure! Murderers Exposed; Downfall of Popery; Death-Bed Confession . . . of the Right Rev. Bishop McMurray.

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Lot 232
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of Brown University,

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Lot 233
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Group of 3 illustrated membership certificates, including the first engraved view of Providence.

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Lot 234
(RHODE ISLAND.) J.H. Daniels, lithographer; after E. Ackermann.
Street view of Scholfield's Commercial College.

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Lot 235
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Set of Rhode Island Historical Tracts, including the coveted "Bills of Credit or Money of Rhode Island."

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Lot 236
(RHODE ISLAND.) Sidney Rider, editor.
Nearly complete set of the quirky literary-historical biweekly magazine Book Notes.

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Lot 237
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Group of 20 pieces of Rhode Island-related sheet music, most of it illustrated.

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Lot 238
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Group of 3 Rhode Island disaster songsheets.

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Lot 239
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Group of 10 broadsides, including carrier addresses and more.

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Lot 240
(RHODE ISLAND.)
Group of 23 textile labels from Rhode Island mills.

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Lot 241
(SCIENCE & ENGINEERING.)
Notebooks kept by analytical chemist Thomas Hall Garrett during the Civil War and beyond.

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(SCIENCE & ENGINEERING.) Ezra Weld.
Patent exploitation license for an early American washing machine.

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Lot 243
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.)
Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn.

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Lot 244
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Martin M. Lawrence, photographer.
Portrait of John Brown.

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Lot 245
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.)
"The Contrabands at Washington," a long account of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation,

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Lot 247
(SPORTS--BASEBALL.)
Photographs, ephemera, and equipment from the Anglo-American Baseball Association.

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Lot 248
(SPORTS--GOLF.)
Pair of works on the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.

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Lot 249
(SPORTS--HORSE RACING.)
Stud broadside for "The Thorough-Bred Trotting Stallion Dick Thunderbolt!"

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Lot 250
(TENNESSEE.)
Family papers of Thomas C. Ryall, a farmer in Shelbyville.

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Lot 251
(TRAVEL.) [Zadok Cramer.]
The Navigator; Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Alleghany, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers.

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(TRAVEL.) Timothy Dwight.
Travels in New-England and New-York.

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Lot 253
(UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES.)
The Circular, Devoted to the Sovereignty of Jesus Christ.

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Lot 253
(VERMONT.)
Photograph albums of textile machinery made by the Parks & Woolson Machine Company.

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Lot 254
(WAR OF 1812.)
Volume of the Providence Gazette and Country Journal, covering the early months of the war.

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Lot 255
(GEORGE WASHINGTON.)
Textile titled "The Resignation of Pres't Washington."

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Lot 256
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Washington's Farewell Address.

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Lot 257
(GEORGE WASHINGTON.) [John J. Barralet, artist and engraver.]
[Commemoration of Washington.]

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(GEORGE WASHINGTON.)
Odes to be Sung at the Celebration of Washington's Birth-Day, by the Washington Benevolent Society

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Lot 259
(GEORGE WASHINGTON.) William F. Turner.
Letter to the president's great-grand-nephew, discussing his sale of Mount Vernon.

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Lot 260
(GIDEON WELLES.)
Extensive archive of personal and family papers of Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy.

Papers of Gideon Welles

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(GIDEON WELLES.)
Engraved invitation to a White House dinner with "The President & Mrs. Lincoln."

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Lot 262
(GIDEON WELLES.)
Pass for President Lincoln's White House funeral.

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(GIDEON WELLES.) Frederick Halpin, engraver; after Carpenter.
Engraved portrait of Lincoln, inscribed by the artist to Gideon Welles.

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(GIDEON WELLES.)
Ticket to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.

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(GIDEON WELLES.)
Cane said to be made for Abraham Lincoln from the wood of Fort Sumter.

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Lot 266
(GIDEON WELLES.)
3-piece silver tea service owned by the Gideon Welles family.

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(GIDEON WELLES.)
Lincoln Club of Louisiana memorial resolution.

The West

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Lot 268
(WEST.)
Go Ahead! Davy Crockett's 1837 Almanack of Wild Sports in the West.

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Lot 269
(WEST.) Samuel Parker.
Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains.

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Lot 270
(WEST.) Francis Parkman.
The California and Oregon Trail.

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Lot 271
(WEST.) William H. Emory.
Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey.

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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,

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Lot 273
(WEST.)
Act of Incorporation of Wells, Fargo & Company

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Lot 274
(WEST.) George G. Street.
Che! Wah! Wah! or, The Modern Montezumas in Mexico.

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Lot 275
(WEST.) Hal Reid.
Custer's Last Fight: A New Historical Melodrama

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Lot 276
(WEST.)
Group of Western art and reference books, including two Harold McCracken limited editions.

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Lot 277
(WEST--COLORADO.)
Property of the Consolidated Silver Mining Company, Reese River and Union Districts, Nevada.

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Lot 278
(WEST--COLORADO.)
First Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway.

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Lot 279
(WEST--COLORADO.) Michael Beshoar.
All About Trinidad and Las Animas County, Colorado: Their History, Industries, Resources, Etc.

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Lot 280
(WEST--COLORADO.) [William Henry Jackson, photographer.]
Album of views of southwestern Colorado.

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Lot 281
(WEST--KANSAS.)
Letters and map from early Nemaha County.

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Lot 282
(WEST--KANSAS.)
General Laws of the State of Kansas, Passed at the First Session of the Legislature.

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Lot 283
(WEST--MONTANA.) Robert E. Strahorn.
The Resources of Montana Territory and Attractions of Yellowstone National Park.

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Lot 284
(WEST--MONTANA.) Laton A. Huffman, photographer.
The Bow Gun Boys at Dinner.

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Lot 285
(WEST--MONTANA.) Laton A. Huffman, photographer.
Branding Fire, Big Dry.

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Lot 286
(WEST--NEBRASKA.) Henry Pierce.
A Nebraska frontier farmer describes the Indians "killing and burning everything."

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Lot 287
(WEST--NEVADA.)
Silver Mines of Virginia and Austin, Nevada.

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Lot 288
(WEST--NEVADA.) H.L. Williamson.
Broadside poem on Nevada military life titled "A Trip to Pandemonium."

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Lot 289
(WEST--NEW MEXICO.) Edmund G. Ross.
Archive of "Special Message" broadside slips issued as governor of New Mexico Territory.

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Lot 290
(WEST--NEW MEXICO.)
Brand Book of the Territory of New Mexico.

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Lot 291
(WEST--TEXAS.) Gabriel Durán.
"Carta y plan" denouncing the future Texan patriot Lorenzo de Zavala.

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Lot 292
(WEST--TEXAS.) Agustín Viesca.
Decree restricting the militia of Coahuila y Tejas shortly before the revolution.

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Lot 293
(WEST--TEXAS.)
A Mexican compilation of key documents relating to Goliad and the Alamo.

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Lot 294
(WEST--TEXAS.) Valentín Canalizo.
Decree waiving the death penalty for certain Texan prisoners of war--but not their leaders.

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Lot 295
(WEST--TEXAS.) Valentín Canalizo.
Emotional message on the capture of General Santa Anna in Texas.

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Lot 296
(WEST--TEXAS.) Valentín Canalizo.
Mexican decree pledging to free Santa Anna, but disavowing any promises made by him while a prisoner.

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Lot 297
(WEST--TEXAS.) Andrew Jackson.
Message . . . Relating to the Condition of Texas.

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Lot 298
(WEST--TEXAS.) José Justo Corro.
Plan to pay for Mexican foreign debt with land in Texas, California and other frontier territories.

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Lot 299
(WEST--TEXAS.)
Republic of Texas deed signed by General Thomas Jefferson Green.

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(WEST--TEXAS.) José Justo Corro.
Decree awarding land to soldiers who had fought against the Texan rebels.

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Lot 301
(WEST--TEXAS.)
Discharge certificate from the Army of the Republic of Texas.

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Lot 302
(WEST--TEXAS.)
Group of 11 speeches and government documents on the Texas annexation debate.

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(WEST--UTAH.)
Charter of Great Salt Lake City, and Ordinances and Resolutions of the City Council.

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(WEST--WASHINGTON STATE.) Elwood Evans.
Washington Territory: Her Past, Her Present and the Elements of Wealth which Ensure Her Future.

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Lot 305
(WEST--WASHINGTON STATE.)
Collection of books and ephemera on the Centralia Tragedy of 1919.

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(WEST--WYOMING.) John H. McIlvain.
Letter from an early visitor to Fort Laramie.

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(WEST--WYOMING.)
Reports and a manuscript re the Teschemacher & deBillier Cattle Company, with close ties to the Johnson County War.

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(WEST--WYOMING.) [Frank Jay Haynes, photographer.]
Group of 11 views of Yellowstone National Park.

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Lot 309
(WEST--WYOMING.)
Early wanted poster and photograph issued by a renowned Cheyenne sheriff.

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Lot 310
(WHALING.) Philip M. Kinsey.
An unusually lively group of letters home from a South Pacific whaler.

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Lot 311
(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Virginia Penny.
Think and Act: A Series of Articles Pertaining to Men and Women, Work and Wages.

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Lot 312
(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Julia E. Smith.
Abby Smith and Her Cows, with a Report of the Law Case Decided Contrary to Law.

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(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Ann Grifalconi, artist.
The man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages . . .

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(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Esther & Roslyn, artists.
What Betsy Ross put together, let no male put asunder.

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Lot 315
(WORLD WAR ONE.)
Broadside issued in occupied Germany under the command of General Pershing.

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Lot 316
(WORLD WAR ONE.) Merl A. McGee.
Letter from a Black doughboy in France.

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(WORLD WAR TWO.)
Navy man's scrapbook showing the gruesome aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack.

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(WORLD WAR TWO.) Florence Hodgson.
Vivid first-hand account of the Pearl Harbor attack by a Honolulu resident.

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(WORLD WAR TWO.)
Diaries kept by a fireman aboard the destroyer USS Gillis in the Aleutians and South Pacific, including Okinawa.

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(WORLD WAR TWO.) Edwin S. Fulgo.
A marine's painting done soon after the Battle of Kwajalein in the South Pacific.

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Lot 321
(WORLD WAR TWO.)
Occupation broadside issued by the United States military government in Frankfurt, 4 days after the German surrender.

Latin Americana & The Caribbean

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Lot 322
(SIMON BOLIVAR.)
Correspondence on the last months of Bolívar and Gran Colombia, and on Bolívar's sword and cloak.

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Lot 323
(BOLIVIA.) Constant Cordier.
The Republic of Bolivia 1908: Its History and Government, Topography and Natural Resources.

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(BRAZIL.) Jean de Léry.
Historia navigationis in Brasiliam.

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(BRAZIL.)
Tratado entre os Commandantes das Forças de Sua Magestade Fidellissima . . . o Imperador do Brazil no Estado Cis-Platino.

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(BRAZIL.)
Correspondence with a British admiral regarding the bloody Cabanagem revolts in Pará.

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Lot 327
(COLOMBIA.) John C. Trautwine.
Rough Notes of an Exploration for an Inter-Oceanic Canal Route . . . in New Granada.

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Lot 328
(COMMERCE.)
Reglamento y aranceles reales para el comercio libre de España a Indias de 12. de octubre de 1778.

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Lot 329
(CUBA.)
Relacion verdadera de . . . la real armada de la flota en la carrera de las Indias, con los Olandeses.

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(CUBA.) [Tomas Romay.]
Descripcion de los ornatos y del bayle publico con que el Real Consulado,

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Lot 331
(GUATEMALA.)
Constitucion de la Republica Federal de Centro-America.

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(GUATEMALA.) Henry Dunn.
Guatimala, or, the United Provinces of Central America, in 1827-8.

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Lot 333
(GUIANA.) Antoine Biet.
Voyage de la France equinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne.

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Lot 334
(LATIN AMERICA.)
Papers of United States Army officer and castanet master LeRoy Glodell, stationed in Bolivia, Panama and elsewhere.

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(MEXICAN COOKERY.) María Antonia Martínez.
Early manuscript cookbook titled "Libro de Cosina."

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1555.) Alonso de Molina.
Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua Castellana y Mexicana.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1577.) [Juan de la Anunciación.]
[Sermonario en lengua mexicana.]

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1607.) [Juan de Mijangos.]
[Espeio divino en lengua mexicana.]

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1623.) Juan Cevicos.
Discurso . . . sobre los privilegios de las sagradas religiones de las Indias.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1637.) Jerónimo Moreno.
Reglas ciertas, y precisamente necessarias para juezes, y ministros de justicia de las Indias

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1644.) Juan de Palafox y Mendoza.
El pastor de noche buena.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1646.) Thomas Gonzalez.
Explicacion de las syllabas sobre el Libro Quinto de Antonio de Nebrija.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1657.)
Group of 5 17th-century Mexican imprints.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1674.)
Sammelband including scarce Mexican sermons from 1674 and 1701.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1676.) Juan Francisco de Montemayor Córdoba.
Pastor bonus, dominus Jesus, sacerdos in aeternum.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1681.)
Group of 6 Mexican sermons.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1689.) Francisco de Florencia.
La casa peregrina, solar ilustre, en que nacio la Reyna de los Angeles.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1690.) Juan Martinez de Araujo.
Manual de los santos sacramentos en el idioma de Michuacan.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1695.) [Antonio de Nuñez; editor.]
Exercicios espirituals de San Ignacio.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1697.) Pedro Muñoz de Castro, et al.
Exaltacion magnifica de la Betlemitica rosa de la mejor americana Jerico.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1699.) José de Lezamis.
Vida del Apostol Santiago . . . con algunas antiguedes y excelencias de . . . Viscaya.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1715.)
Llanto de flora, desatado en sepulchrales rosas sobre el magestuoso tumulo.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1717.) Francisco de Avila.
Arte de la lengua mexicana, y breves platicas . . . de su obligacion á los Indios.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1718.)
Excellentissimo señor . . . el real assiento de la polvora . . . en el pleyto que le han movido la Universidad de Mercaderes.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1736.) Nicolás Quiñones.
Explicacion de la primera regla de la exclarecida madre Santa Clara de Assis.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1747.) José Jerónimo Sanchez de Castro.
Vida de la V.M. Sor Antonia de la Madre de Dios.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1757.) José Joaquin de Ortega.
Nueva aljaba apostolica, con varias canciones. . . para el exercicio de las missiones.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1758.) Juan Mayora.
Relacion de la vida, y virtudes del P. Antonio Herdoñana.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1759.) Horacio Carochi.
Compendio del arte de la lengua mexicana.

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Lot 360
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1762.) Juan Díaz de Arce.
Libro de la vida del proximo evangelico, el vener. Padre Bernardino Alvarez.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1765.) Joseph Eugenio Valdes.
Vida admirable, y penitente de la V. M. Sor Sebastiana Josepha.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1779.)
Group of 3 medical tracts.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1785.) Bernardo de Gálvez.
En real cédula de 10 de Marzo . . . aprobar una poderosa compañía para el comercio

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1787.) José de Avila.
Coleccion de noticias de muchas de las indulgencias plenarias y perpetuas.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1797.) Antonio de San Miguel.
Statuta ecclesiae mexicanae necnon ordo in choro servandus.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) Bartholomé de Letona.
Perfecta religiosa, contiene tres libros.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.)
Reglas de la Compañia de Jesus.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) José Gomez de la Parra.
Fundacion y primero siglo del . . . Convento de Sr. S. Joseph . . . de la Puebla.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) Augustin de Quintana.
Confessonario en lengua Mixe,

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) [Juan Benito Díaz de Gamarra.]
Errores del entendimiento humano,

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) Andrés Fernandez de Otanez.
Formulario manual de las ceremonias . . . Militar Orden de Calatrava.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) Juan Anselmo de Moral y Castillo.
Platicas doctrinales de contricion, confesion, y satisfaccion

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) Pedro de Arenas.
Vocabulario manual de las lenguas castellana, y mexicana.

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.)
Clara y sucinta exposicion del pequeño catecismo impreso en el idioma mexicano.

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(MEXICO.) Carlos María de Bustamante.
Galeria de antiguos principes mejicanos, dedicada a la suprema potestad nacional.

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(MEXICO.)
Pair of pamphlets in honor of Agústin de Iturbide, Mexico's first president and first emperor.

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(MEXICO.)
Constitucion politica del Estado Libre de Chihuahua.

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(MEXICO.) Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Esposicion . . . del programa proclamado para la verdadera regeneracion de la república.

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Lot 379
(MEXICO.) Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Escelentisimo Señor.

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Lot 380
(MEXICO.)
Extraordinario de ahora.

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Lot 381
(MEXICO.) Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga.
A sus conciudadanos.

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Lot 382
(MEXICO.) José Joaquin de Herrera.
Decree creating customs offices on the new Mexico-United States border.

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Lot 383
(MEXICO--MANUSCRIPTS.)
Confirmation of arms and nobility in favor of the Diez y Mora family.

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Lot 384
(MEXICO--MANUSCRIPTS.)
Manuscript privateering regulations issued during the Mexican-American war.

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Lot 385
(MEXICO--MANUSCRIPTS.)
Extensive estate papers of the Vivanco mining family, including an early signature of Miguel Hidalgo.

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Lot 386
(MEXICO--MANUSCRIPTS.)
Estate and property documents of the Juan Antonio Canales family of Mier.

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Lot 387
(MEXICO--MANUSCRIPTS.) Charlotte Biggs.
An American woman's letter describing ten difficult years of life in Mexico.

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Lot 388
(MEXICO--PHOTOGRAPHY.)
Album titled "La Nacion Mexicana a fines del siglo XIX en su era de paz."

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Lot 389
(PANAMA.)
Group of 3 pamphlets on the road proposed by the Chiriqui Improvement Company.

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Lot 390
(PERU.)
Tesoro Peruano de un mineral rico . . . sacado a luz en este de España.

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Lot 391
(PERU.) Alejo de Alvitez.
Puntual descripcion, funebre lamento, y sumptuoso tumulo de . . .

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Lot 392
(PERU.) José Hipólito Unanúe.
Guia política, eclesiástica y militar del Virreynato del Perú para el año de 1794.

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Lot 393
(PERU.) Mariano Eduardo de Rivero and Johann Jakob von Tschudi.
Antiguedades Peruanas: Atlas.

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Lot 394
(PERU.) Charles J. MacConnell.
Letters from an early American tourist on the Peruvian Central Railway, and more.

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(american indians.) george catlin.
Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio.

London: George Catlin, Egyptian Hall, printed by C. & J. Adlard, 1844

25 hand-colored lithographs, each 22½ x 16½ inches. 20 text pages. Folio, publisher’s ½ calf, moderate wear including a light scrape touching the gilt title on front board, tastefully rebacked with most of original backstrip laid down; interleaving paper renewed, plates mounted on tabs; quite minor wear to plates (a few ½-inch chips at the corners, a few closed tears under an inch) and minimal foxing.

First edition, first issue. After creating his most important paintings in the American West in the early 1830s, Catlin had been giving public lectures on his paintings in Great Britain from 1841 onward, sometimes with a group of American Indians in what was essentially one of the first Wild West shows. For this seminal portfolio of large-format lithographs, he selected what he felt were the 25 most popular images from his shows. “In The North American Indian Portfolio, Catlin immortalized those scenes that would become forever associated with life on the Great Plains–buffalo, buffalo hunting, galloping horses, bronco riding, and roping”–Reddin, Wild West Shows, page 43.

Catlin first issued these 25 plates with printed captions bound with the 20 pages of introductory text. Later issues put out by Bohn or Chatto & Windus were variously either mounted on card without captions, or had six extra plates, or had only 16 pages of text. A lovely, well-preserved copy. Abbey Travel 653; Field 258; Howes C243 (“c”); Sabin 11532; Wagner-Camp 105a:1.

Estimate

$40,000 – $60,000

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(alaska.) adolphus w. greely.
The author’s working copy with manuscript revisions of his “Handbook of Alaska.”

[New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1909], with manuscript notes circa 1914

Photographic plates. 280 pages. 8vo, unbound signatures; lacking all front matter, frontispiece plate, and “General Map of Alaska”; minor dampstaining; extensive revisions in the author’s hand and by inserted typescript notes.

Adolphus W. Greely (1844-1935) is best remembered as the leader of the 1881-1884 Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, which successfully explored Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic, but also resulted in the unpleasant deaths of most of his crew. Greely recovered to command the Army’s Signal Corps, and supervised the construction of an elaborate telegraph network in Alaska in the first years of the 20th century. In conjunction with that project, he authored this extensive Handbook of Alaska, which went through four editions in his lifetime, 1909, 1914, 1919, and 1925. Offered here is his personal copy of the 1909 first edition, with his extensive revisions made in preparation for a new edition.

All four editions of the Handbook are available on Hathitrust, allowing for easy comparison. The first three editions seem to have been produced from stereotype plates, with the only substantial differences seen in the title pages and prefaces, and all coming to 280 pages in the main body. The fourth edition is 330 pages.

The text contains dozens of corrections in three forms: handwritten on the original pages, handwritten pieces tipped in, and typewritten pieces tipped or laid in. These revisions appear to have been made to pages from the 1909 first edition, with notes frequently referencing data and events through 1913. Greely’s intent was apparently to have these revisions reflected in the 1914 edition, but the main body of text in the second edition was simply reproduced via stereotype plates from the first. The publisher may have decided that a complete resetting of the type was not cost-effective. Not until 1925 was Greely able to publish a complete revision of the text, but the changes seen here are unevenly reflected in the 1925 edition. Page 45 contains a revised partial sentence on a typed slip which is ignored in the 1925 revision, with the chapter moved to later in the book on page 140. Many more substantial revisions can be seen, ranging from added paragraphs to completely revised tables and charts. The table of mountains and volcanoes on page 268 has heavy revisions on a duplicate sheet, while a summary chronology on page 260 has a whole additional typescript and manuscript sheet extending it through 1914. In short, these are edits for an early revision of the text which was never published.

Arctic Bibliography 6112; Smith 3824. Provenance: an old typescript description from an unknown dealer promises “We purchased this from a descendant, directly out of family storage.”

Estimate

$400 – $600

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(american indians.)
“Ledger art” self-portrait by the Sioux leader Crow Dog, made during his murder trial,

Deadwood, SD and elsewhere, 1882-1887

in an autograph book kept by a local resident during and after the trial. [75] manuscript pages. Oblong 12mo, 4 x 7 inches, original embroidered cloth with printed title “Aldine Album” produced in 1878, minor wear; minimal wear to contents.

In August 1881, the Brulé Sioux subchief Crow Dog (1833-1912) shot and killed tribal police commander Spotted Tail, who had been handpicked by federal authorities and was regarded as an accommodationist. The facts of the killing were not disputed; in accordance with Sioux custom, Crow Dog made restitution to Spotted Tail’s family and the matter was regarded as settled. However, the federal Indian agent pressed charges, and Crow Dog was brought to trial in Deadwood, SD in March 1882. The jury pronounced him guilty, but the United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction, ruling that as the killing took place on tribal land, the federal government had no jurisdiction. The ruling remains of seminal importance to Indian law today.

This autograph album dates to 12 March 1882, during the trial. Standing out among these inscriptions is a hand-colored drawing in ink and colored pencil which represents Crow Dog on horseback killing a mounted rival. Behind him is a representation of his name: a crow riding on the back of a dog, linked by a line to Crow Dog’s head. The drawing is done in the well-documented ledger art style which was commonly practiced among the Plains Indians during this period.

In addition, the volume contains dozens of signatures from the key figures in the trial: jurors, bailiffs, attorneys, and more. 15 of the Sioux witnesses signed by mark, with the marks made within calligraphic captions, including Spotted Tail Jr. One page contains the signatures of all 13 jurors, with names matching those listed in the 17 March 1882 issue of the Black Hills Daily Times, including one juror who was replaced due to illness, along with his replacement. The two court bailiffs also signed this page. 4 of the jurors also added fuller inscriptions on separate pages. 18 other South Dakota men also signed the volume, almost all of them dating their signatures in March 1882, including General John Cook; interpreter Charles Talkett; attorney Thomas E. Harvey; E.E. Corbin of the Sidney & Black Hills Stage Line; and Lead City newspaper editor Dolph Edwards.

The album is accompanied by a 2013 letter by the director of the Plains Indian Ledger Art Project, placing the drawing in historical context. This was one of at least three albums produced at the time of the Crow Dog trial, each with very similar Crow Dog drawings, and similar sets of witness signatures framed in the same calligraphic hand. Reproductions of the other two known drawings (one at Deadwood’s Adams Museum) are included. A Black Hills Daily Times article dated 15 December 1882 describes the creation of these drawings, explaining that the captive Indians would “while away their spare moments by filling out autograph albums for their pale-faced friends. . . . They generally draw illustrations of some valorous deed performed while at war with their natural enemies–the Crows and Pawnees.” The same newspaper also noted: “Crow Dog’s autograph is a very plain and comprehensive specimen of calligraphy. It consists of a crow riding on the back of a dog.”

Several entries were made in the book after March 1882. The original owner made stops in Albuquerque, NM and Agua Fria, AZ in August 1882; Lynx Creek, AZ in May 1883; Prescott, AZ in 1883; Jerome, AZ in May 1884; Arizona in December 1884 (where a fellow traveler signed “Snow bound, Black Hills, Yavapai Cn., Arizona”); Pine Cienega, NM in 1885; and Beaumont, CA in the fall of 1886. Three pages of entries are made in Chinese.

The album’s compiler and original owner are not credited, but one entry by U.S. Attorney Hugh Campbell is addressed with “my highest respects to an independent and upright juror who dared to do his duty in face of a maudlin sympathy & a silly press.” A list of witnesses near the rear of the volume in a distinctive tidy hand perfectly matches the signature and inscription by juror Frederick Ernest Bachelder (1846-1915) of Portland, SD, who may well have been the original owner. He signed the book with the inscription “Now is the time for hungry men to hang together.” Bachelder spent most of his adult life in as a railroad clerk and newspaper editor in Clinton, Iowa but spent two years in the Deadwood area from 1880 to 1882 and returned to Clinton in 1884 (per Pierce, “Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy” page 333).

Provenance: collection of the late South Dakota antiques dealer Jim Aplan; through two other parties and thence by auction to the consignor.

Estimate

$10,000 – $15,000

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(american indians.)
Scrapbook kept by the notorious Indian impersonator Edgar Laplante, a.k.a. Chief White Elk.

Various places, 1908-1920

Approximately 18 manuscripts, 33 postcards (most of them Real Photo postcards), 52 other photographs, 9 handbills and programs, and numerous clippings, all mounted on the stiff coated-stock leaves of a somewhat dismembered 1919 textile sample book of the United American Tailors of Chicago. Folio, 18 x 16 inches, pictorial red, white and blue gilt cloth, worn; contents generally worn, with many of the larger clippings ragged at the edges.

Edgar Laplante (circa 1888-1944) was a con man from Central Falls, RI. In his longest-running scam, from about 1917 to 1926, he assumed the character of Chief White Elk (or sometimes Prince Tewanna Ray), and toured the world singing, dancing, and giving speeches on Indian rights. His purported tribal affiliation was generally left vague, although we find one reference to him as a “Cherikee.” His wife Burtha Thompson often accompanied him, billed as “the Princess.” He was imprisoned for fraud in both Switzerland and Mussolini’s Italy. This is his own personal scrapbook kept as Chief White Elk, apparently maintained to demonstrate his credentials to the gullible. It is filled with photographs, testimonial letters, promotional broadsides, newspaper clippings, and more. Highlights:

A letter from the chairman of an American Red Cross chapter in California testifying that “Dr. Whitelk” volunteered during the influenza outbreak, “thinking not of himself but only of the welfare of the helpless who were left in his charge,” 14 November 1918.

Letters from the offices of the Treasury Department and Committee on Public Information addressed to Chief White Elk, thanking him for his patriotic endeavors, 1918.

A promotional photograph of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody with a quite possibly forged inscription, “With my best compliments to Chief White Elk, W. Cody, May 15th 1914.”

A photograph of “Milton J. Thompson, my father-in-law” which ties the album to Laplante, although his born name appears nowhere in the album.

Certainly one of the strangest lots to pass through Swann’s Americana department–and we have seen some strange ones.

Estimate

$2,000 – $3,000

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(american indians.) george catlin.
North American Indians.

Philadelphia, 1913 [printed by Oliver & Boyd of Edinburgh]

3 color maps (one folding) among 180 numbered color plates. ix, [3], 298; xii, 303, [1] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher’s gilt pictorial cloth, minor wear; minimal wear to contents; title pages in red and black.

Estimate

$800 – $1,200

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(american indians.)
Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Grand Central Art Galleries.

[New York], December 1931

Poster, 21¼ x 13¼ inches, on cardboard; discoloration in text areas, moderate wear including 1½-inch chip in upper left corner and a pair of 2-inch closed tears on the bottom edge.

This is generally regarded as the first major exhibition of American Indian art, as opposed to an anthropological collection of curios. The poster features a piece by one of the exhibited artists, Oqwa Pi (1899-1971), also known as Abel Sanchez, from the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico.

Estimate

$600 – $900

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(american indians.)
Poster for a Sun Dance to be held at D-Q University in California.

Davis, CA, 2 August 1976

Poster, 23 x 14½ inches; moderate wear and soiling, stapled to a slightly larger piece of plywood, with two bumper stickers and another poster (all worn and soiled) affixed on verso.

D-Q University in Davis, California was one of the first six tribal colleges and universities in the United States, remaining in operation from 1971 to 2005. This poster advertises a Sun Dance to be led by Oglala Sioux medicine man Leonard Crow Dog (1942-2021), spiritual leader of the American Indian Movement, which would be the “first time in history on the West Coast.” However, he had been sentenced to federal prison in 1975 for his role in the Wounded Knee incident, and would not be released on parole until March 1977. Leonard Crow Dog was the great-grandson of the Sioux leader Crow Dog (1833-1912) featured in lot 3.

Mounted on the other side of the board are three other period pieces from circa 1976: a “Boycott Coors” bumper sticker, an official-looking Bicentennial “200 Years of Freedom” bumper sticker emblazoned with the vulgar Spanish term “puro pedo”; and a poster by the California Institution for Men Prison Preventers: “Prison Has Something for Every Body,” with the name of a student contact inked below.

Estimate

$600 – $900

American Revolution

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(american revolution–prelude.) nathaniel whitefield.
Whitefield’s Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1760.

Newport, RI: James “Franllin,” [1759]

[22 of 24] pages. 12mo, restitched; lacking final leaf, otherwise moderate wear.

Contains the first known appearance of “The Patriot’s Prayer,” which reached greater fame when appended without attribution as an appendix to Paine’s Common Sense in 1776. “Let me not faction’s partial hate / Pursue to Britain’s woe / Nor grasp the thunder of the state / To wound a private foe / If, for the right, to wish the wrong / My country should combine.” The reference to Britain was changed to America by the time it was reprinted with Common Sense. See the entry on “American Patriot’s Prayer” in John Vile, “Prayer in American Public Life: An Encyclopedia,” pages 50-51.

The printer was James Franklin Jr. (1730-1762), running the Newport shop founded by his father and owned by his widowed mother Ann, where his famous uncle Benjamin Franklin had once apprenticed. James in turn had apprenticed with Uncle Ben in Philadelphia. This was the last almanac published by the Franklins in Rhode Island. Alden, Rhode Island 208; Bristol B2089; Drake 12807. Not traced at auction since a 21 June 1917 Scott & O’Shaughnessy sale (possibly this copy). 3 in ESTC.

Estimate

$1,000 – $1,500

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(american revolution-prelude.)
Volume of the Pennsylvania Gazette, complete for 1772.

Philadelphia: Hall & Sellers, 2 January to 30 December 1772

53 weekly issues complete, each 4 pages, plus 5 one-leaf supplements, bound in one volume. Folio, 16½ x 10 inches, in sturdy early 20th-century ½-buckram library binding; first leaf worn with slight loss and repairs, moderate wear to contents including occasional tape repairs, minor dampstaining from October onward; uncut.

The Pennsylvania Gazette was a weekly newspaper which had once been published by Benjamin Franklin. This volume covers a year between the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party.

The 25 June issue reports on the Gaspee Affair, in which a British customs schooner was burned by Rhode Island colonists: “a great number of People in Boats boarded the Schooner, bound the Crew, and sent them ashore, after which they set Fire to the Vessel, and destroyed her.”

The 11 November issue describes a militia drill by the Boston Cadets under Colonel John Hancock, and prints an exchange of correspondence between Boston’s Governor Hutchinson and freeholders led by Samuel Adams.

The formation of a pre-revolutionary Committee of Correspondence in Boston was reported in the 18 November issue, in reaction to the response from Governor Hutchinson: “It was then Moved that a Committee of Correspondence be appointed . . . to communicate and publish the same to the several Towns in this Province, and to the World.”

The volume has passed through the ownership of 3 institutions, and the consignor has verified its proper release by all three.

Estimate

$3,000 – $4,000

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(american revolution–1775.) “john anderson.”
Anderson Improved: Being an Almanack, and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1775.

Newport, RI, [1774]

[32] pages. 12mo, stitched; moderate wear and dampstaining including slight loss to illustrated half-title.

The author advises his fellow colonists in a preface: “Wear the manufactures of your own country . . . stop all trade with Great-Britain . . . take up a firm resolution to have no farther connexion with them.” The predicted result: “that America may rise to the summit of freedom and happiness, and prove the guardian of liberty to all the rest of the world.” Alden, Rhode Island 529; Drake 12841; Evans 13115.

Like many 18th-century almanacs, this was used for occasional memoranda or diary entries. This one has two notes regarding British incursions at Jamestown, RI. One reads “Ninth of Octo’r, fired upon the ferry, Jm’s Town.” The other briefly notes a brutal December raid (in which the British burned many buildings and shot an 80-year-old man): “Between the ninth & tenth, burnt the ferry.”

Estimate

$400 – $600

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(american revolution–1775.)
Issue of the Massachusetts Gazette, two weeks before Lexington and Concord.

Boston: Mills & Hicks, 3 April 1775

Issue 919. 4 pages, 15 x 9¾ inches, on one folding sheet; dampstaining, folds, stitch holes, trimmed on bottom edge with partial loss of one line to Page 2.

The Gazette was a Loyalist paper. This issue features the final letter from a long series written by Daniel Leonard, writing under the pseudonym “Massachusettensis.” Here, two weeks before Lexington and Concord, he attempts to discourage patriots from taking up arms: “Do you expect to conquer in war? War is no longer a simple, but an intricate science, not to be learned from books. . . . His Majesty’s generals, Gage and Haldimand, are possessed of every talent requisite to great commanders. . . . Alas! my friends, you have nothing to oppose this force, but a militia unused to service, impatient of command and destitute of resources. . . . Nothing short of a miracle could gain you one battle.”

Also included is a brief note on the imminent posting of General Howe to America, where he soon became commander in chief of British forces: “It is said that, with the additional Forces ordered for America, Lord How was to come out with two Regiments of Horse.”

Estimate

$1,000 – $1,500

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(american revolution–1775.)
Loyalty petition from what is now Portland, Maine.

Falmouth, ME, 1 June 1775

Manuscript document, 11¾ x 7¾ inches, 2 pages on one sheet; separations and moderate wear at folds, 4 tape repairs.

In 1775, Falmouth was a sprawling township in the northern section of Massachusetts which would soon become known as the District of Maine. The most populous section of Falmouth was “the Neck,” which would be broken off as the city of Portland ten years later. Falmouth Neck was the site of considerable revolutionary action, including “Thompson’s War,” a standoff between the Royal Navy and a patriot militia in early May 1775. The present document was written in Falmouth shortly afterward to ensure loyalty among the “several hundreds on ye Neck.”

“Agreeable to a resolve of our provincial Congress on the 8th of May ult’o, the Committee of Correspondence in this town, in order to know who are enemical to the rights of mankind and the interest of America, having proposed the following declaration of agreement to be sign’d by the inhabitants thereof, we the said inhabitants do heartily & cheerfully subscribe the same, viz:

We solemnly and sincerely declare that it is our opinion that the ministry of Great Britain and the Parliament have of late invaded the constitutional rights and liberties of this country by prosecuting their avowed design of raising a revenue here without our consent, as well as arbitrarily infringing our charter, and altering the civil government of this province, and therefore, to prevent a state of slavery, do sincerely and heartily agree and engage to do our utmost to carry into execution whatever measures have been or may be consistently recommended by the Continental and our provincial congresses for the purpose of opposing and frustrating those evil designs and for the preservation of our happy constitution, until a reconciliation between Great Britain and America upon constitutional principles can be obtained, which God grant may be speedily brought about, and that we will readily and heartily join our countrymen on all occasions in defence of our said rights and liberties as we trust our cause is righteous, and that we may succeed. We shall endeavor to oblige all persons to pay due obedience to the general resolves of Congress in particular, one for the regulation of the militia, to obey the orders of the several military officers who have been or shall be elected by the several companies and regiments, agreeable to the resolves of Congress, and to preserve peace and good order among ourselves and safety to the lives and properties of every individual among us.”

This is not the original petition with signatures. Added in a different hand is a note: “This was signed by several hundreds on ye Neck, indeed all but the Custom House officers, Mr. Pagan, who gave ye committee a very handsome letter in excuse, and Mr. Courning[?], and I don’t recollect any body except those who have left us. This method was agreed upon by ye committee to find out who were enemies, as the presumption was that those who were Tories &c would not sign it.”

Similar resolutions were passed in other New England towns during these early months of the Revolution, but this Falmouth resolution does not seem to be published.

Estimate

$2,500 – $3,500

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(american revolution–1775.) samuel stearns.
The North-American’s Almanack, and Gentleman’s and Lady’s Diary, for . . . 1776.

Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, et al., [1775]

[24] pages. 12mo, stitched; uncut, foxing and dampstaining, moderate wear, final leaf defective with loss of perhaps 5% of the text.

Issued during the Siege of Boston, this almanac features William Gordon’s “An Account of the Commencement of Hostilities between Great-Britain and America, in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay,” which runs over each of the 12 monthly calendar pages in sequence. It also includes an eyewitness account of the Battle of Lexington, quoted at length in Sagendorph’s America and Her Almanacs, 89-93 as “the most striking example of this kind of on-the-spot reporting.” After that can be found “Sir Richard Rum’s Advice to the Soldiers and Others” and “Directions for Preserving the Health of the Soldiers in the Camps.” The almanac makes a prophetic prediction for the 4th of July: “Thunder.” Drake 3260; Evans 14473; Sabin 90943.

Estimate

$600 – $900

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(american revolution–1778.)
Bill for maintenance on Philadelphia’s wetlands “when the English was here.”

[Philadelphia], circa 1778

Manuscript document titled “Account of work done by Wm Jones in the Middle District of Greenwich Island.” One page, 13¼ x 8¼ inches, docketed simply “No. 1” on verso; unevenly trimmed, partial separations at folds, 3 cello tape repairs on verso with stains bleeding through.

Greenwich Island was an area of desolate swampland to the south of Philadelphia, requiring maintenance of dams and sluiceways to allow for a minimum of settlement and navigation. With the threat of British invasion of the new Continental capital, it may have gained some strategic importance. Here is a detailed accounting of work done on the island by William Jones from May 1776 to April 1777: “repairing the old sluice,” “stoping leaks,” “laying in Keen’s Bank to my hazard.” The British took possession of the city in September 1777. Jones continued his work on the maintenance of the island’s primitive infrastructure, adding one entry: “1778 April 17th to May 16th, 59 days work mending banks & stoping leaks when the English was here.” The British evacuated Philadelphia the following month.

Greenwich Island has since been filled, connected to the mainland, and incorporated into the southern part of the city; the Citizens Bank Park baseball field is built on what was once the island.

Estimate

$500 – $750

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(american revolution–1779.) state of new hampshire.
Broadside on “a new Proportion to be a Guide for paying Taxes in this State.”

Letterpress broadside, 16¾ x 13¼ inches, signed in type by John Langdon as speaker and E. Thompson as secretary, docketed “a new proportion for taxes 1779” on verso; short separations at intersection of folds, otherwise minimal wear; uncut.

Describes a new method for assessing taxes in the midst of the war, involving detailed inventories of farm produce and livestock. The selectmen are asked to record, among other things, “all Male Polls from eighteen Years and upwards , except Persons engaged in the Army during the War” and “all Male and Female Negroe and Molatto Servants, from sixteen to forty-five Years of Age.” Evans 16389. 3 in ESTC, and none traced at auction since 1924.

Estimate

$600 – $900

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(american revolution–1780.)
An Act for Filling Up and Compleating this State’s Quota of the Continental Army.

[Hartford, CT: Hudson and Goodwin], October 1780

Letterpress broadside, 12¾ x 8 inches, signed in type by George Wyllys as secretary of the Connecticut General Assembly; skillfully restored including a repaired 3-inch tear and a few letters in facsimile.

A Connecticut broadside act ordering the recruitment of 4,248 troops to serve for three years. Evans 16741.

Estimate

$1,500 – $2,500

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(american revolution–1781.) state of new hampshire.
An Act for Raising . . . Beef, Towards the Support of the Continental Army.

Letterpress broadsheet, 2 pages, 15½ x 10 inches, signed in type by Meshech Weare as president of New Hampshire and others; minimal separations at intersections of folds; uncut.

An order to raise 1,400,000 pounds of beef, “well salted and packed in barrels,” payable by each town in six installments to appointed collectors. The allotments of each town are listed, ranging from 40,641 pounds due from Portsmouth down to 880 pounds each from some of small rural towns in Grafton County. Pork was allowed to be offered as a substitute at the “proportion of eleven Pounds of Pork for fifteen Pounds of Beef.”

The act is recorded in the 1916 “Laws of New Hampshire: Revolutionary Period, 1776-1784,” page 353. However, we trace no other examples of this broadsheet in OCLC, ESTC, Evans, or elsewhere.

Estimate

$1,200 – $1,800

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(american revolution–history.)
The New Game of the American Revolution.

Boston, MA: Lorenzo Burge, 1844

Hand-colored engraving laid down on board, 14¼ x 18¼ inches, folding in half to convenient folio size, backed in sheep at fold, with illustrated label and empty rules pocket on verso; moderate wear and foxing with slight loss at one corner.

This playing board shows 60 landing spots, each representing an event in the history of the Revolution. Each has either a dated caption or a hand-colored illustration. The players proceed from “Playing Soldier” through the Stamp Act, Tea Party, Bunker Hill, Declaration of Independence, a prison ship, surrender of Cornwallis, Treaty of Peace, and finally at the center “The Land of Freedom & Plenty.” Only the board is offered here; the rules and playing pieces are long since gone. None traced at auction since 1998, and only one in OCLC–at the University of Delaware, which similarly possesses only the playing board.

Estimate

$800 – $1,200

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(american revolution–prints.) d.c. johnston, lithographer.
A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practised at Boston.

Boston: Pendleton’s Lithography, 1830

Hand-colored lithograph, 13¾ x 10 inches; repaired 4-inch closed tear, laid down on stiff paper, tipped to mat board along top edge only.

A careful re-engraving of this 1774 British satirical print by Francis Edward Adams, showing Boston customs officer John Malcolm after he had been tarred and feathered, threatened with hanging, and forced to drink tea. Apparently scarcer than the original; none traced at auction since 1937.

Estimate

$600 – $900

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(american revolution–prints.) henry s. sadd; after matteson.
The First Prayer in Congress, September 1774,

New York: John Neale, 1848

in Carpenters Hall, Philadelphia. Mezzotint, 20¾ x 25¾ inches; minimal wear including light crease in lower left margin, very faint scratch in image; proof copy.

Estimate

$600 – $900

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(art.)
Papers of critic and curator Charles M. Kurtz.

Various places, bulk 1885-1910

More than 180 items (0.6 linear feet), including 6 diaries dated 1885-1898, approximately 120 letters to and from Kurtz and family members (some with original envelopes), and more; condition generally strong.

Charles McMeen Kurtz (1855-1909) was a notable art critic and curator. Born and raised in New Castle, PA, he attended Washington & Jefferson College and the National Academy of Design, where he launched National Academy Notes, which ran through 1889. He rose to prominence as an assistant to curator Halsey Ives with the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, worked with the 1898 St. Louis Exposition, was Assistant Director of Fine Arts for the American exhibits at the 1900 exhibition in Paris, and served as art director for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. In the last years of his life, he headed the Buffalo Arts Academy.

The collection includes 6 of Kurtz’s annual diaries: 1885, 1886, 1888, 1892, 1894, and 1898, each with a few weeks or months of entries. In the earliest two diaries, he is a young journalist and curator in Manhattan, on the staff of the American Art Association (predecessor of Sotheby’s New York), often reporting “no picture sold” or occasionally better news. On 14 January 1885 he reported a sale to a celebrity minister: “Henry Ward Beecher in, bought a Chrisanthemum picture by Miss Buell, $75.” He was a regular at exhibition openings and other art-related social events across town. In 1886 he mentions several visits to Bierstadt in May and June. The 1888 diary was written in Minneapolis. 17 January 1888: “First load of effects including painting left by sleds for St. Paul. . . . Went inside the walls of the burnt Universalist Church, all covered with ice formations of great beauty.” 1892 finds him in Chicago preparing for the Columbian Exposition. 30 November 1892: “Prof. Ives and I had Japanese commissioners T. Tegima and Y. Yambe with us at University Club for lunch. Evening, I went to Palette Club reception where I engaged 2 pictures.” 1894 finds him still in Chicago, packing up and shipping paintings from the Columbian Exposition. 2 January 1894: “First lecture given at the new Art Institute Building. Crowded house, audience very kindly and appreciative.” In May 1894 he arrives in Paris. In New York on 15 March 1898, he noted “Judy very much distressed by my recklessness in continuing to buy pictures in these bad times.”

Kurtz’s correspondence file includes many art world figures, such as French dealer Charles Sedelmeyer, German art dealer Adolf Paulus, Charles Ward Rhodes (Kurtz’s assistant on the 1898 St., Louis Exposition), New York dealer Samuel P. Avery Jr., Louisville author Lydia Avery Coonley Ward (5); and artists Charles Sprague Pearce, Patty Prather Thum (3), Walter Appleton Clark, William Henry Howe, Edward Gay, William Anderson Coffin, Joseph Pennell, and Swain Gifford. Other letters are written to or from family members. 13 letters written by Kurtz are present, most to his sister Kate Wilder Kurtz (1875-1949) (they referred to each other as Nunky and Kick-Kick).

A packet on Kurtz’s estate includes lists of art in his collection, and an auction catalog for its dispersal by Fifth Avenue Art Galleries in February 1910. Artists in his collection included Childe Hassam, Ralph Blakelock, and many more. Another folder contains memoranda relating to his art career: lists of his art loaned to institutions in Louisville in 1898, St. Louis in 1900, and Rochester in 1906; Kurtz’s bill to John Wanamaker for curating a Mihály Munkácsy exhibition in Philadelphia in 1887; and a flier for a St. Louis Artist Guild meeting led by Halsey Ives. His notebook on the 1900 Paris exhibition includes notes on each nation’s art halls (“Portugal: the less said the better”).

Other highlights include a minute book of the C.H. Art Circle of Louisville, KY, 1906-1907 (connection to Kurtz unknown); a partial manuscript essay apparently by Kurtz titled “Impressions of the Primitives in Italy”; and an unpublished group of stories by Kurtz, “Five Stories Never Told Before, for Children of All Ages,” in typescript with manuscript corrections, 1898.

Estimate

$2,000 – $3,000

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(art.) f. luis mora, artist.
Shaw Prize poster from the Salmagundi Club, signed by its members.

[New York], 1911

Poster print, 20 x 27¼ inches to sight, mounted on board, with 45 pencil signatures; moderate wear including two punctures in lower margin and 3-inch crack in upper margin; not examined out of modern frame.

The Salmagundi Club, a venerable New York art club, gave a prize each year sponsored by patron of the arts Samuel Shaw. The winning painting was reproduced for the members, with their signatures added below. This winning entry is a beach scene by artist Francis Luis Mora (1874-1940). It is inscribed to member Leigh Hunt by Shaw, with 45 additional signatures in the lower margin including notable artists Charles Schreyvogel, Edward Potthast, Paul Cornoyer, Gifford Beal, Albert Lorey Groll, Thomas Fogarty, Ernest Blumenschein, Eugene Speicher, Henry B. Snell, Walter Granville-Smith, and Mora himself.

Estimate

$400 – $600

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(art.)
Invitation to the formal opening of the 1913 Armory Show, the first major modern art exhibition in America.

[New York], 17 February 1913

Engraved card, 4¼ x 6½ inches, blank on verso; minor staining, minimal wear.

The International Exhibition of Modern Art, more commonly remembered as “the Armory Show,” was held at New York’s 69th Regiment Armory from 15 February to 15 March 1913. It introduced a broader American audience to controversial European artists such as Duchamp, Matisse, and Cézanne. The reaction of mainstream critics was generally vicious, but its importance continues to resonate, including a November 2013 anniversary auction of Armory artists at Swann (which is located across the street from the Armory). None traced at auction; one is held by the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art as part of the papers of organizer Walt Kuhn.

Estimate

$1,000 – $1,500

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(aviation.)
Small but substantial archive of Hugo Eckener, the Zeppelin company, and the Hindenburg disaster.

Various places, 1935-1938

47 items in 4 folders; condition varies.

Hugo Eckener (1868-1954) led the Zeppelin operations from 1917 until he was sidelined by Hitler in the late 1930s, including Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and the American Zeppelin Transport Inc.; he also commanded the Graf Zeppelin airship on many voyages. This lot, from the papers of Eckener and his American-based assistant, captures the rapid decline of transoceanic airship travel in the wake of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster and deteriorating diplomatic relations.

Perhaps the highlight of this lot is a retained carbon of Eckener’s letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, dated Washington, 25 May 1937, accompanied by a 23 May hand-corrected draft. Writing just three weeks after the Hindenburg disaster, Eckener pleads for a supply of subsidized American helium to replace the highly flammable hydrogen fuel which had destroyed the Hindenburg. The successful airship industry had “with one stroke been checked by the disaster that befell the Hindenburg. . . . We must not assume the responsibility of continuing with our lighter-than-air merchant ships without the use of helium. It depends upon your Government, Mr. President, if it is prepared to enable us to use safe Helium, and . . . would represent a tremendous step forward in world traffic for the benefit of mankind.” Eckener’s quest for American helium was well reported in the press in May 1937, but this important letter appears to be unpublished.

Also included are 4 other personal Eckener items: 2 fan letters written to him in 1937 and 1938; an invitation issued to Eckener by the Germania club at Dartmouth College in 1938; and an apparently unpublished piece of photostat sheet music, “Wings of Victory,” dedicated to “Dr. Hugo Eckener, Air Ambassador,” by Mona Reed of Cleveland, OH.

Also included are 9 letters and postcards addressed to Friedrich Wilhelm “Willy” Von Meister (1903-1978), a German immigrant to New York who acted as Eckener’s personal representative, dated 1935-1938. One is signed by Eckener and others; one is a copy of a letter from the White House, thanking Eckener for the 1937 Zeppelin calendars. A Mr. Theilig thanks Von Meister for a complimentary trip aboard the Hindenburg from New York to Great Britain in July 1936, describing its pleasures at length: “While over the Hudson the ship rolled a few times very slightly. It was so little that I paid no attention to it. Afterwards I was told that that was the worst rolling the ship had ever done. . . . I felt that the first night on an airship was not made to go to bed early, so we enjoyed the company of a couple bottles guten Weines. . . . The whole matter feels so natural . . . the airship is really ready for the commercial field.” Famed American airship captain Thomas “Tex” Settle wrote a 4-page letter in December 1935, expressing his hopes to retire from the Navy by 1940 “unless the Navy should experience a tremendous expansion” and jokingly asking “Will you give old Tex a job as office boy?” Settle has enclosed a photograph of the captains of his destroyer group in Haiphong. One envelope is addressed to von Meister on a Zeppelin Von Hindenburg illustrated cover. In addition, 5 other letters and postcards appear to be addressed to Von Meister as representative of the company. In October 1938, Charles E. Rosendahl (the captain of the fatal Hindenburg flight who survived the wreck) wrote from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, hoping to write an article on the superiority of airships for trans-Pacific flight; this carbon copy was forwarded to “Willy” for response.

One folder contains 19 American newspaper and magazine clippings on Zeppelin, many of them gathered by a clippings service in 1938. Finally, an envelope of 7 pieces of ephemera includes a 1938 Lufthansa brochure; a maquette for a brochure for the Graf Zeppelin LZ130 airship in parallel English and German; a brochure and newspaper for Cleveland’s 1936 centennial celebration; a photograph of a caricature of an NBC reporter aboard an airship; and an invoice for copper and rubber washers shipped by the Zeppelin company in 1938. A ticket for a “Zeppelin Hindenberg Eckener Feier” was to be held by a New York German-American group on 10 May 1936. Taking place four days after the disaster, we feel safe in assuming the event was canceled.

Estimate

$2,000 – $3,000

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(bible.) michael zinman, compiler.
The American Bible: Original Leaves from Rare and Historic Bibles Printed in the Colonies

Ardsley, NY: Haydn Foundation for the Cultural Arts, 1993

and the United States during the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries. 38 Bible leaves, each hinged to mat, with [31] accompanying text leaves. Folio, 22 x 14 inches, contents loose in 4 cloth folding cases with gilt morocco labels as issued; in original condition; #47 of 100.

First edition, limited to 100 numbered sets. Includes leaves from the 1663 Eliot Bible in Massachusett, the first in any language printed in America (pictured), and from editions in other indigenous languages; the 1782 Aitken Bible, the first complete English-language Bible printed in America; from the first complete Bibles in German, French, Hebrew, and Spanish, and the first New Testaments in Greek, Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedish printed in America; and from various noteworthy English-language editions. Includes a preface by the compiler, and an introductory essay, “The Bible and American Culture,” by Mark A. Noll.

Estimate

$2,500 – $3,500

Civil War

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