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1860s Decals

Charles Palm
Advertising card for transfer ornaments, With a 'gem' transfer portrait as sample
$50 $100 or less

1847 tuition receipt

H.B. Carner
Manuscript card, Buffalo NY
$45 $100 or less

1777 Express Rider

Josiah Brinsmaid & Brig. General Silliman
Signed receipt for ride to Danbury, before Tryon's raid
$750

Incl. letter with drawing from Akira to 'Chris'

Edward Greey (book), Akira (manuscript and letter)
THE BEAR-WORSHIPPERS OF YEZO: And the Island of Karafuto [Saghalin] or The Adventures of the Jewett Family and Their Friend Oto Nambo + Manuscript version of similar story., 1883 book + letter + photos + a manuscript translation/version of THE BEARS IN MT. NAMTOKO, by Kenji Miyazawa, by a Japanese writer/teacher as a birthday gift to a friend.
$425

Parallel text in English, French, and Arabic

Sabiha Al Khemir
From Cordoba to Samarqand: Masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic art in Doha - De Cordoue à Samarcande (2008), a selection of masterpieces, spanning the art of the entire Islamic world, “from Córdoba to Samarkand”
$85 $100 or less

Scarce offprint reg. Cook's Australia "discovery"

R. H. Cambage, F.L.S.
Captain Cook's Pigeon House, and Early South Coast Exploration. (1916), The Pigeon House was discovered and named by Captain Cook on the 21st April, 1770, or two days after his discovery of the eastern coast of Australia.
$165

Let the travelers from the past salute the future!

Josephine Saint-Hilaire (Helena Roerich)
ON EASTERN CROSSROADS: LEGENDS AND PROPHECIES OF ASIA (1st, 1930)
$100 $100 or less

ca500 engraved plates of early Britain (1807-1811)

James Storer; John Greig
Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, Containing a Series of Elegant Views of the Most Interesting Objects of Curiosity in Great Britain., 10 Volume Set. Accompanied with Letter-press Descriptions.
$390

1st editions, not the 1964 reprints

Suiho Tagawa
Norakuro Corporal & Platoon Leader - 2 early Mangas - (1933/1936), A rare set of two original pre-war Japanese manga books from the celebrated "Norakuro" series by Suiho Tagawa, one of the pioneering figures in the history of Japanese manga.
$595

Racist Christmas Ad for a Michigan Hotel

Allen James Rowe
1938 - An elaborate racist hotel advertisement in pidgin English
$100 $100 or less

Fireworks Price List

New York & Pennsylvania Fireworks Company
1936 - Fireworks company advertising price list
$100 $100 or less

From the S.S. Europa to New York City by Catapault

"Marian"
1934 - Mail delivered to New York City by a mail plane catapaulted from the ocean liner, S. S. Europa
$100 $100 or less

"Velly Melly Klis mas, my sendee you."

U.S.S. Paul Jones
Circa 1930 - Photographic Christmas card from from the U.S.S. Paul Jones in Chefoo, China
$100 $100 or less

Twenty-Mule Teams and Borax Wagons

Pacific Coast Borax Company
1910 & 1912 - Two lettersheets featuring illustrations of Death Valley's famous Borax-Hauling Twenty-Mule Teams
$100 $100 or less

Bullfrog - Goldfield Railroad Route Map

Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad
1909 - Business letter on a Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad Company Lettersheet with a full-page map of the Bullfrog-Goldfield Route
$100 $100 or less

Lowell, Massachusetts Business Map

A. Davis, Publisher
Circa 1863 - Advertising envelope with an all-over map on the reverse that shows the locations of the major businesses in Lowell, Massachusetts
$100 $100 or less

Selling Bibles to the Odd Fellows

F. H. Butler & Company
1852 - Promotional broadsheet advertising the sale of Bibles for displaly upon International Order of Odd Fellows altars
$100 $100 or less

"The Mother of Fraternities"

Union College
1849 - Invitation to the Union College's graduation exercises and ceremony honoring its earliest "Greek" literary societies
$100 $100 or less

The Lilliputians "Sixth American Tour"

Carl and Theodor Rosenfeid
1896-1897 - Theater program for the popular German comedic trio of "midgets" known as the Liliputians who toured throughout the United States for at least six seasons at the end of the 19th century
$100 $100 or less

An Imperial Russian Stud Master Visits America

Samuel Walter Taylor, Jr.
1893 - An upper-crust equestrian journal retracts a negative report on the Russian Imperial Stud Master
$100 $100 or less

1883 - Texas Land Transfer on Surveyor Letterhead

Will. H. Bonnell
1883 - Land Transfer certification on the illustrated letterhead used by the "District and County Surveyor for Bexar County" in San Antonio, Texas
$100 $100 or less

One of the Earliest Baltimore & Ohio Locomotives

Edward Stabler
1846 – A Baltimore and Ohio stock certificate featuring a famous generic illustration of an early locomotive
$100 $100 or less

Scholar or Dunce? Make Your Choice

Unidentified
Circa 1825 – An academic reward of merit featuring an illustration of a post-chaise and a cautionary couplet
$100 $100 or less

Fanny and William get Married

The Blanford Family
1798 – Two documents related to the marriage of a Kentucky couple: a parental consent certificate and a marriage bond
$100 $100 or less

Pro-Republican and Pro-Suffrage Campaign Flyer

The Republican Party
1880 – Pro-Garfield presidential campaign flyer that demands married men consult with their “equally interested” wives before casting their vote
$250

Christmas in a Contraband Camp

George E. Remore
1864 – A New York soldier sarcastically describes life at Camp Wadsworth, which was a contraband holding encampment located in Fairfax, Virginia
$750

No, not that Southern Pacific Railroad

Southern Pacific Railroad Company
1857 - Notice from the Southern Pacific Railroad (aka Texas Western Railroad, aka Vicksburg and El Paso Railroad, and aka the Texas and Pacific Railway) announcing an upcoming installment payment
$300

Hats, Caps, and Furs in New York City

Swift, Hurlbut, & Company
1851 – An impressive multicolor two-page broadsheet for one of the preeminent hat companies in New York
$400

An Eccentric Navy Chaplain Sells his Books

Edward C. Bittinger
1849 – Documents related to the sale of books to an important Philadelphia book firm by a prominent, but odd, Navy Chaplain at Sing Sing, New York
$150

Certification of a Rural Illinois School

Hiram Roy
1849 – Certification of a rural Illinois common school in Kane County by its School Directors
$250

The Virginia Militia Defends Richmond

Edmund Taylor and George Turner
1814 – Two pages from the 2nd Virginia Regiment’s orderly book kept while stationed at Camp Holly Springs in defense of Richmond
$1,500

The Wisconsin Band's Trip to the Rose Bowl

Wally Degner
1959-1960 – Archive of material related to the University of Wisconsin Marching Band's trip to and participation in the 1960 Rose Bowl festivities
$750

Santa Fe Railroad Tower Worker Photographs

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
1940s – Two photographs showing a dispatcher and lettermen at work from inside a railroad tower and central traffic control office
$200

Pan-American Airlines Clipper and Crew Photographs

Pan American Airlines
1930s-1940s – Six photographs of Pan American Airlines Clippers and Crews
$125

Travel on a Japanese Steamship Line

Toyo Kisen Kaisha
1922-1923 – Travel brochure advertising voyages on the Toyo Kisen Kaisha (TKN) Oriental Steam Ship Company
$175

A Fatal Panama Steamship Wreck

Nathaniel Fisher and Company
1908 – Mailing envelope recovered from a fatal shipwreck between a Panama Railroad Company steamer and a heavy White Line freighter
$250

A Tribute to Missionary Nurses

Unlisted
1900 - “The Nurse in the Foreign Field”
$150

Rent-to-Buy Railroad Cars

Purchased by Thomas M. Drysdale
1870 – A $1,000 share stock certificate issued by The Railroad Car Trust of Philadelphia
$200

The "Know-Nothings" Declare their Platform

The American Party
1854 – A broadsheet promoting the American Party (the Know Nothings) that includes its American Principles and the American Party Platform
$1,000