[Offered in Partnership with Kate Mitas, Bookseller] V.P. 1933-1935 and 1943. Five holograph diaries, each wrapped in brown paper with the title written on the front wrapper. First two diaries 7 x 5 inches, third diary 8-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches, fourth and fifth diaries 10-1/2 x 8- 1/4 inches. 190pp.....
Fishkill? 1776. Single sheet measuring 8 x 9 ½ inches. Mounted at margin, fine condition. A letter written by Henry Wisner as Chairman of the New York Provincial Congress's Committee of Safety in 1776 concerning the wintering of two of the first vessels to be be built by the newly.....
V.P. 1930s-1940s. Various pieces of incoming correspondence and ephemera from the Coquettes, with additional photographs including an album documenting her time with the bands. With thirty-three letters pertaining to her music career and thirty or so letters from her family from the 1930. Generally fine condition. Emma Helkema, originally of.....
New York: 1854-1855. Anthony letters measuring appx. 8 x 5 inches, fine condition. Offered with the papers of Edwin Clark from 1855, which consist of appx. 230 other varied pieces of incoming and outgoing correspondence from 1854-1855, pertaining to Clark’s career as a shipbuilder, his family life and local projects.....
Various Places: 1839-1860. Various size letters, generally fine condition with one document split in the middle. From the collection of Dr. Otto Oren Fisher. A varied collection of correspondence from Lydia Huntley Sigourney from her prolific period in the mid-nineteenth century. Sigourney writes on a range of subjects to varied.....
Arkansas: 1854. Letter measuring 8 x 6 ½ inches. Some slight tears at folds, near fine. An interesting letter written by a woman to her sister after spending a holiday by herself without domestic help. The author quotes a passage from Marion Harland’s poem “”Alone,” and laments her holiday spent.....
Mt. Pleasant: 1910-1921. Limp leatherette journal measuring 6 ½ x 4 inches, 170 pages. Some chips to spine, fine contents. Christian N. Lund was born in Norway in 1846 to Mormon parents, and immigrated to the United States in 1869, first arriving in Salt Lake City and eventually settling in.....
Charleston: 1866. Autograph letter, signed by a John (last name unknown,) addressed to R.W. Grange Esquire at Racine College in Racine Wisconsin. Some tears at folds, near fine. Appx. 1,000 words. A lengthy and atmospheric rumination on a holiday spent in South Carolina by an author known only as Bob.....
Mostly California: 1956-1972. Letters with original envelopes retained, fine condition, with a few ephemeral items from Lehmann’s career collected by Mahler included. Forty-five letters total, with two additional telegraphs and three signed photographs and several copies of a color photograph of the pair together on stage, appx. fifteen are short.....
N.P. 1922. Oblong 8vo, wraps, 9 x 6 inches. Rear wrap detached, tears and chips to front wrap, fine contents, very good overall. An uncommon first edition copy of Manuel Gomez Miralles’ photographic survey of Costa Rica. Miralles was one of Costa Rica’s most prolific photographers, operating for many decades.....
Boston: 1851. Autograph letter signed by Whipple and addressed to Oakes at her Brooklyn address. Fine condition. 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches bifolium. An interesting letter written by critic Edwin Percy Whipple to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, encouraging her to publish in Graham Magazine. He then offers sympathies on a......
Philadelphia: 1876. Autograph letter signed by Cooke. Fine condition. An interesting and candid letter written by Jay Cooke to [Edwin M.] Lewis, the trustee in charge of Cooke’s assets following the dissolution of his company in 1873 and the ensuing financial panic. The letter specifically concerns shares of the Western.....
N.P. Treasury Department, 1793. Partially printed document signed by Hamilton and finished in another hand. Fine condition. With the original receipt from Ben Boomfield Autographs, sold in 1954 to the previous owner. Among Hamilton’s many signal achievements as the first Secretary of the Treasury under the new Constitution was his.....
Washington: 1857. Autograph letter measuring 8 x 5 inches bifolium, with free franked stampless cover. Fine condition. An interesting letter written by James W. Denver, written while he was serving as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, describing crime on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1857. He writes: “We have great.....
Bridgeport: 1870s-1890s. Scrapbook measuring 11 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches. One page detached, else about fine with minimal wear. A meticulously kept record of the career of Frank Taylor, a private investigator in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the 1880s. Taylor was the Superintendent of the Connecticut Detective Agency, and worked for.....
Philadelphia: 1758. Single sheet measuring 12 ½ x 7 ½ inches, some tears with loss at lower edge, very good condition. From the collection of Edward D. Ingraham, Esq., and printed in facsimile in Jay Smith and John Watson’s American Historical and Literary Curiosities; Fac-similes of Original Documents Pertaining to.....
N.P. 1833. 18 pp. 10 x 8 inches, approximately 4500 words. Authorial corrections throughout. Henry Smith’s memoir has long been recognized as one of the major sources chronicling the Black Hawk War. The conflict against the Sauk and Fox tribes lasted only a few months, from April to August 1832.....
N.P. 1909. Silver gelatin print 5 ½ x 3 ¾ inches on larger mount. Some fading, very good overall. The Nebraska Indians were perhaps the most successful and longest tenured American Indian barnstorming baseball team, playing for twenty-one years, from 1897-1917, and touring prolifically. The first team was composed of.....
Fort Sill: 1890s. Gelatin silver print measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¾ on larger mount. Very good contrast. An image taken by an unknown photographer of the Kiowa chief Ado-Ete, or Big Tree, at Fort Sill. The subject on the far left is identified on the verso as “Kowalty.” The.....
N.P. 1940. Heavy cardstock broadside with large photographic illustration of Armstrong, 28 x 22 inches. Near fine with some normal wear. Ellen Armstrong was the daughter of the magician John Hartford Armstrong, and began performing alongside her father and mother-in-law when she was very young.After her father’s death in 1939.....
Berkeley: 1972. Double sided poster measuring 17 x 11 inches. Some creases, wear and small holes in corner, very good overall. A poster for Shirley Chisholm’s campaign produced at her East Bay Campaign Headquarters for the California Primary on June 6, 1972. We find no other records of this poster.....
New York: 1910-1920. Photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on larger mount. Some fading to image, wear to mount, very good. Walter Baker was a founder of the Colored Photographers Association and owned and operated a studio and school on Lenox Avenue at 133rd Street in New York in.....
Most California: 1900-1950. One linear foot, generally fine condition. Mildred Smith was a writer who worked with Zane Grey in various capacities, including as a co-writer on several plays, as his secretary, longtime travel companion and paramour. After her involvement with Grey, Smith continued writing, trying to sell material under.....
Carson: 1881. Single sided receipt measuring 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches. Near fine with a small tear to bottom of page. A receipt issued for passage from Carson to Badie, Nevada, in 1881 aboard the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, issued with a note that reads “Chinamen” in the remarks.....
Plymouth: 1813. Plymouth, Devon, England: 21st July 1813. Folio, 7 pages (13 1/8 x 8 ¼ inches), duty blindstamp, small ink stamp to upper inner margin of the first page, two seals to the last page, signed twice by Galindo. Toned, some small repaired tears (using reversible archival ph-neutral paper-repair.....