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Paper Making in Troyes, France, fourteenth-century

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Louis Le Clert (1835-1935)
Le Papier, Recherches et Notes pour Servir a L’Histoire du Papier, principalement à Troyes et aux environs depuis le quatorzième siècle
$150

The first monograph in book form on Saint Helena

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[Dr. Francis DUNCAN]
A Description of the Island of St. Helena, first edition, and very rare on the market.
$800
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1960's Civil Rights Race Relations w/ Bible Verses and Slavery Booklets Against Racial Integration
$410

Civil War Memorial

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Clark, Rufus W
The Heroes of Albany, A Memorial of the Patriot-Martyrs of the City and County of Albany, Who Sacrificed Their Lives During the Late War in Defense of Our Nation, 1861-1865
$175

1860 Alta California Newspaper Pony Express MO

The Alta California - Saturday June 30 1860 - 8 page Newspaper - Sent By Freeman & Co. Express Oval
Troops Ordered to Protect Pony Express Route at Camp Floyd Utah - Overland Mail Route, Stebbins - Telegraph Extensions Westward line from Nebraska 45 degree line Toward St. Joseph MO
$325

The Case of Ireland Stated Historically 1880

Peter T Sherlock
The Case of Ireland Stated Historically: From the Earliest Times to the Present 1880
$125

UNIQUE GLIMPSE OF HARVARD'S PAST

(Harvard University); Kingsbury, H. P. D., editor.
THE HARVARD CLUB BOOK 1897-98: Containing Historical Sketches and Lists of Members of the Social, Literary, and Athletic Organizations of Harvard University.
$350

TO COMMEMORATE HELL GATE BREWERY OF MANHATTAN

Ehret, George.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF BREWING: With an Illustrated History of American Beer.
$300

Describes his travels and botanical observations.

Sir Spenser ST JOHN
Life in the Forests of the Far East: Or, Travels in Northern Borneo - 2 vol. with numerous illustrations (1862)
$625

Kingdom of Ava ruled upper Burma from 1365 to 1555

Michael Symes
An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, sent by the Governor-General of India in the Year 1795.
$1790

Extraordinary condition. Undamaged map and pages

Marco Polo, W. Marsden (translation)
The Travels of Marco Polo, A Venetian, in the Thirteenth Century ..... (1818), RARE FIRST EDITION of Marsden's translation and the second edition in English overall.
$2250

General Freemont Tree Large Format Mounted Photo

$100 or less
1888 Reeses California Views No.63
Santa Cruz California, Sea Beach Hotel
$100

Magnum Photography Great

Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Nordmeer
$400

Colman's CA Line for San Francisco Clipper Ship

WM T. Colman
The Extreme A 1 Clipper Ship Neptune's Favorite - Multi Color, Colmans Flag , Dolphins pull Neptune, Nesbitt & Co. Printers imprint, some wear corners, Paper label Nov 1859.
$750

General J. Wilson Indian & Navy Agent Attorney Law

C.H. Johnson - One page Letter to General John Wilson
1853 Monterey California to San Francisco, To San Francisco canceled Stampless folded Letter from C.H. Johnson California pioneer , merchant, San Lois Obispo resident in 1856, In 1882 wrote history of San Luis Obispo
$275

Wreck Steamer Independence Gold Rush Letter Sheet

From Sketch of Mr. Cross, Passenger
February 16, 1853 - Wreck Burning Steamer Independence On Island Of Margarita 150 Lives Lost, 150 lives of the 430 passengers and crew perished in the disaster. The survivors were stranded on the island for three days before rescue
$650

Multi-Color Sutton Clipper Ship Card To California

Nesbitt & Co. Printers
1860s Garibaldi Sutton & Co. Clipper Ship Card Emery Master at New York for San Francisco, 4 1/8 X 6 1/2 inches multicolored enamel card depicting Garibaldi wearing a red shirt. Horsemen leading troops to battle ,Popular Ship! sharpest best clippers up!, some wear at corners ,minor creases
$750

Marysville CA Nisenan Indian Slave Nursemaid Photo

Indian Slave Name Rose Bought By W.T Ellis Nursemaid
CDV Photo by Wilbur's Enameled Cards Gallery located in Marysville Yuba County California since about 1866., Sierra Nevada - Native American - Gambling Miner Sold Nisenan Indian Girl to W.T. Ellis - Grocer, Forwarder , Steamer Owner Marysville California
$2750

Wide Angle

$100 or less
Evi Antonatos and Marie Mauzy, and the M. G. Tsangaris Collection
Early Photographic Panoramas of Greece, Foreword by Mark Mazower
$100
1893 Everett (Boston) Massachusetts Town Souvenir Illus. Book
$300

FASCINATING 1747 FOLIO SET OF MAPS & DESCRIPTIONS

Bowen, Emanuel; Herman Moll.
A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY: Being a description of all the...known world; [two volumes with 68 maps (most double plate) and 2 engraved plates].
$9500

Important account of the French Wars of Religion.

H[enrico] C[aterino] Davila
The History of the Civill Warres of France, Translated Out of the Original [Italian]
$550
$100 or less
Eckman, James
THE HERITAGE OF THE PRINTER
$7.50
De Re Militari, 1670 Book on Roman Military Warfare by Flavius Vegetius Renatus
SOLD

Three volume set on the history of Cuba

D. Jose Martin Felix de Arrate, D. Antonio Jose Valdes and D. Ignacio Urrutia y Montoya
Los Tres Primeros Historiadores de la Isla de Cuba
$500

Collection of pamphlets relating to New England

Various
Leather Bound Collection of Pamphlets Relating to New Hampshire and Massachusetts
$250

My First Days in the White House

Huey Pierce Long
My First Days in the White House
$125

An scarce title from William Pickering's press.

Simon Fish, d. 1531
A Supplicacyon for the Beggars, Reprinted from the original edition of 1524
$450

Germany Attempts to Reckon with Horror and History

$100 or less
Erich Preuss
Remember that/Denket Daran!/Pensez-y!, A guide through the memorial sites of the formcer Concentration Camp Dachau
$95

Gillrray Outdoes Himself

Gillray, James
Presages of the Millenium; With the destruction of the faithful . . ., A restrike from the original copper plate.
$375

Macbeth Illustrated by Salvador Dali 1st Ed 1946

William Shakespeare
Macbeth Illustrated by Salvador Dali 1st Ed 1946 w Slipcase
$365
WW I GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR CAMP FOR RUSSIANS – ALBUM - 90 PHOTOGRAPHS
$750

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Woodbridge, F. E. (For the Committee)
John H. Surratt REPORT, The Committee on the Judiciary, ...message of the President of the United States, communicating a report of the Secretary of State relating to the discovery and and arrest of John H. Surratt.
SOLD
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR ARCHIVE – ELMER GREENLEAF  - CO. H 1ST MONTANA INF
$575

History of the Crusades Steve Runciman Easton

A History of the Crusades Steve Runciman 2002 Easton Press 3 Volumes
$415

Very early view of Austin

A.B. LAWRENCE [and others?]
A History of Texas, or the Emigrant's Guide to the New Republic, 3rd issue: Austin view. Texas for would-be settlers
$500

The "Bix Six" Celebrates Horace Greeley

Greeley Committee
One hundredth anniversary of the birth of Horace Greeley, First President of Typographical Union No. 6, New York Theatre, February 5, 1911
$150
1883 – US INDIAN SERVICE RE: MAJOR JAMES McLAUGHLIN- NOTED INDIAN AGENT
$245
ABRAHAM LINCOLN – CURRIER & IVES  NEW YORK CITY FUNERAL PROCESSION
$650

Diffusion of paper technology from Asia to Europe

$100 or less
Anne Basanoff
Itinerario Della Carta Dall’Oriente all’Occidente e Sua Diffusione in Europa
SOLD

LEXINGTON in OLD VIRGINIA - Author Signed

$100 or less
Henry Boley
1936 - Lexington in Old Virginia, Home of Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute
$75

Humiston, 'Children of the Battlefield'

Civil War: Sgt. Amos Humiston & 'Children of the Battlefield' CDVs
$400

Signed first edition 'Voyages of Nicholas Ball'

$100 or less
First 1895 edition, signed ‘Voyages of Nicholas Ball’ of Block Island
$99

Description of Jerusalem, published in 1517

Wanckel, Nicolaus
Ein kurtze vermerckung der heyligen Stet des heyligen landts, in und umb Jerusalem. (1517)
$3750

Water Mills and papermaking in Pennsylvania

$100 or less
Jane Levis Carter (1911-2004)
The Paper Makers, Early Pennsylvanians and their Water Mills
$30

Asserting the Monroe Doctrine in Music and Song

Dewing, E. B. (words) and J. P. Webster (music)
Get out of Mexico! Song and chorus.
$425

Guide Book to Bermuda

$100 or less
Bushell
Picturesque Bermuda, Bushell's Handbook
$75

Picturing the Holy Lands

Carne, John
Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor &c., Illustrated In a Series of Views Drawn From Nature By W.H. Bartlett, William Purser &c. With Descriptions of the Plates by John Carne Esq.
$400

"Let Them Eat Cake"

Thiers, A[dolphe, 1797 - 1877]. Bodin, F[élix. 1795 - 1837].
The HISTORY Of The FRENCH REVOLUTION. In Three Volumes. From the French of A. Thiers and F. Bodin.
$750

Naval Disaster

Anon
A Narrative of the Loss of the Royal George, of 108 Guns, Sunk at Spithead, August 29th, 1782; with a Concise Account of Colonel Pasley's Operations on the Wreck in 1839 & 1840
$400

Planning for School Integration, 1954

$100 or less
Segregation and the Schools
$75
$100 or less
Thompson, James Westfall
THE MEDIEVAL LIBRARY
$25

Greece

Duruy, Victor
HISTORY OF GREECE, AND OF THE GREEK PEOPLE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ROMAN CONQUEST, Eight volumes. Translated and Edited by M.M. Ripley.
SOLD
$100 or less
Geck, Elisabeth
JOHANNES GUTENBERG, FROM LEAD LETTER TO THE COMPUTER
$20

England

Smollett, Tobias
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE THE SECOND, (DESIGNED AS A CONTINUATION OF MR.HUME'S HISTORY.) IN FIVE VOLUMES. A NEW EDITION, WITH THE AUTHOR'S LAST CORRECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS
$225

Personal Book from a Veteran of Pickett's Charge

$100 or less
Major Robert Stiles
Four Years Under Marse Robert, A Book from the Personal Library of S.W. Paulett of Farmville, Virginia and inscribed by Him a Member of Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment, Hunton's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps, A.N.V.
$75

Death in Philadelphia

Emerson, Gouverneur, M.D.
Medical statistics; consisting of estimates relating to the population of Philadelphia, with its changes as influenced by the deaths and births, during ten years, viz. from 1821 to 1830, inclusive., With a presentation inscription linking two social activists of the time.
$300

A Spoof Travel ABC from the 1600s

Anonymous
Seventeenth Century German Manuscript Abecedarium
$650

A Letter of Thanks from Robert E. Lee's Biographer

$100 or less
Douglas Southall Freeman
Autographed 1926 Letterhead - The News Leader - Richmond, VA, Freeman thanks contributor for information used in Vol. 4 of Lee's biography.
$65

On the road and off in colonial Algeria

Anonymous
Two photo albums of colonial Algeria, Documenting the Algerian Centennial of 1930 and a road trip
$750

Kansas

$100 or less
ADMISSION OF KANSAS. SPEECH OF HON. L.F.S. FOSTER OF CONNECTICUT BY THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, JUNE 25, 1856.
$35

The 112Th Regiment Of Illinois Volunteer Infantry

History Of The 112Th Regiment Of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, In The Great War Of The Rebellion, 1862-1865
$545

Canada

LA Province de Quebec et L'Emigration Europeenne. - 1870
$145

The Siege of Fort Erie

The Siege of Fort Erie
$295

Military fortification and engineering textbook

Text Book of Fortification and Military Engineering, for Use at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Part I.
$250

Photographs of Sudan, 1885

Royal Engineers with the Suakin Field Force
Suakin Expedition Photographs, Suakin Field Force, Sudan.
$950