Americana

Charter of the Woonsocket Fire Corporation

Woonsocket Fire Corp.

$50

[Signed]

Benjamin Franklin, Volumes 1-3

Van Doren, Carl

$750

The History of the Navy of the United States of America.

COOPER, James Fenimore.

$325

Nice Little Stash of New Old Stock Trade Cards

[Trade Card] Clinching Screw Fastened Boots and Shoes--H.A. Warriner, Dealer in Boots, Shoes & Rubbers Warren, Mass

$20

“Abi. S. Jackman”

(Amateur Manuscript Periodical) The American Weekly. “The Fatal Model; or, From Gloom to Sunshine.” Vol. I, No. 1. Bakers River, Conn. 1897, complete issue of a hand-drawn “story paper” imitating professional publishing

Postmaster John C. Kinney

Worldwide Stamp Album

[POSTAL HISTORY] Cosmopolitan Postage Stamp Album c1890s-?, INCLUDED: Hartford Post Office sample-cancel sheets, by Postmaster John C. Kinney

$500

Culture Wars.

Jones, Howard Mumford

[MICHIGAN & HARVARD] (Pre-publication) One Great Society: A Statement About Humane Learning...with Typed letter signed (TLS) from the author, Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar / professor University of Michigan & Harvard

$125

Jerry Benzer, Artist

(ART) A Visual Archive of Public Life in New York City-- Two original sketchbooks by artist-observer Jerry Benzer, ca. 1980s

$425

Criminology

1920's/30s Boise, Idaho Police Bulletin: A Man Wanted for Embezzlement.

$250

Election Sermon of 1779

Dana, James, D.D.

[Revolutionary War-Era Connecticut Imprint] A Sermon, Preached Before the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, at Hartford, on the Day of the Anniversary Election, May 13, 1779., contemporary waste-paper wrappers

$375

American Literary Autograph

Holmes, Oliver Wendell (Sr.); Henry Oscar Houghton

Autograph Letter Signed (“O. W. Holmes”) to his publisher Henry Oscar Houghton (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.), regarding two poems for The Atlantic. Beverly Farms, Mass., July 4, 1885.

$375

Philip Trajetta (Filippo Traetta) (January 8, 1777 – January 9, 1854)

[Early American Music Theory — Philadelphia, 1829] An Introduction to the Art and Science of Music. Written for the American Conservatorio of Philadelphia.

$250

Connecticut River Boundary Dispute w/ MAP

Adams, Welles, et al.

(MAP) The Boundary Line Between the Towns of Wethersfield and Glastonbury, History of the Controversy Before the General Assembly,...1874

$125

Ypsilanti, Michigan

(Michigan) Genealogical Memoirs Of The Samson Family. Ypsilanti, Mich. : Printed for the Compiler by the Commercial, 1890.

Samson, Erastus.

$95

ONE OF THE FIRST SUBSCRIBERS, DR. KINSEY

One Magazine., Volume VI, Number 10, October 1958

Slater, Don, editor

$50

1810s Archive 37 Letters Thomas Connolly Philadelphia Bermuda Ships Travels Land in Kentucky Philadelphia Theatre Burned Down Fire Duel Stephen Decatur

Archive 51 Letters William Elijah Green Worcester Massachusetts 1802-1850 Family Life Pistol Factory Explosion Brother Lost at Sea

JOURNALS OF THE HON. WILLIAM HERVEY IN NORTH AMERICA...from 1755 to 1814.

HERVEY, William

$400

Remember! Prophylaxis Prevents V.D.

[Poster] Prophylactic Materials Are Available in this Orderly Room

[Pre-fire] Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Education, From September 1, 1865, to August 31, 1866

Pre-fire 1866 Chicago Publication

$120

MARSHALL, John

Royal Naval Biography; or, Memoirs of the Services of all the Flag-Officers... Post Captains and Commanders....

$1200

Macpherson's Blues: Philadelphia's Federalist Legionary Corps, 1794-1800

[British Army 18th century]

MANUSCRIPT LIST OF REGIMENTS, GENERAL AND FIELD OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, 1739/1740.

Bravado of 19th Century Hard Rock Miners

[Occupational Photo] 19th Century Large Format Miners Photograph with Tremendous Detail

Cruise Orders for Massachusetts Navy Sloop "Winthrop" 1782.

[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] HANCOCK NAVAL ORDERS

JOHN HANCOCK

$12000

Jefferson-Hemmings Affair and other Controversies.

"Junius Philaenus".

A Letter to Thomas Jefferson.

Auguste Couder after John Trumbull.

Count Rochambeau at Yorktown, 1781.

$2400

F. C. YOHN (American, 1875-1933)

A Steamboat during a Mississippi Flood.

$1750

1815 battle painting of Essex vs. Phoebe

William Wilson (fl. 1800-1820)

Action between H.M.S. Phoebe and the American Frigate Essex off Valparaiso, Chile, 28th March 1814.

$16500

Unrecorded Wisconsin Land Promotional

Faast, Benjamin

A Few Choice Farms in the Ojibwa and Meadowbrook Communities, Southern Sawyer County, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Colonization Society. Eau Claire, Wisconsin

"A MILITARY DICTIONARY; or, Explanation of the Several Systems of Discipline of Different Kinds of Troops, Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry;

CHARLESTON HUSSAR'S MILITARY DICTIONARY

DUANE, WILLIAM

$795

When I am sick I want my parents to watch over me

Wood, C.R.

[Cholera] ALS from C.R. Wood, Detroit, Michigan to Parents Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus Wood, Montpelier, Vermont August 1832

[Yellowstone] Tourists' Guide to the Great Northwest via the Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway, Illustrative and Descriptive--Issued by the Passenger Department, Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway

Not the Prettiest of Items but Unrecorded?

Clarey, John E.

$125

Candid and Cute Farmyard Scene

Photo and Glass Negative "On the Farm. Pure and Strait." [Sic]

Phillips, T.N.

$75

Continental Army Colonel's Inscribed Copy.

[Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati].

"The Institution and Proceedings of the Society of the Cincinnati...May 10, 1783....

$1500

Hawaii Laws 1843

[Hawaii]

The Laws and Resolutions Passed at the Annual Council of the Hawaiian Nobles and Representatives convened according to the Constitution, at Lahaina, April, 1843, 1st and only edition

STEWART, Major General David.

Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: With Details of The Military Service of the Highland Regiments of Scotland.

$650

TONE, William Theobald Wolfe.

School of Cavalry; or, System of organisation, instruction, and manoeuvres, proposed for the Cavalry of the United States.

$600

Ragland, Thomas, et. als.

[WEST POINT]. An Expose of Facts, Concerning Recent Transactions, Relating to the Corps of Cadets of the United States Military Academy, at West-Point, New-York.

$450

Rudolph Valentino's 18th c. costume plate books.

Jefferys, Thomas

A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, particularly Old English Dresses, in English and French.

$12000

1890s Archive Manuscript Minute Book Broadsides for the Lyon Falls Free Reading Room New York