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AVIATION: EARLY MOVIE TREATMENT

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Wright, William H.; and John Speaks
Transatlantic Clipper. A Story for the Screen. [U.S., ca. 1940]. Typescript, 77 pp., brad-bound in blue wrappers.
$500
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1940s Collection Hereford Cattle Cows Bulls Breeders 65+ Catalogs State Fair Programs Benton Arkansas Southern
$150
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1937 Important Handwritten Letter from Ira Gershwin to Harold Arlen About George Gershwin’s Death Memorial Hollywood Bowl
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Writer's Catalog of Work Mostly Unpublished

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Perel, Earl Jay
Earl Jay Perel Archive--Banker Box Full of Mostly Unpublished Manuscripts
$850
“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
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Archive 19 Letters James Henderson in Kansas and Missouri Detailed Description of DODGE CITY KANSAS Sam Bass Outlaw
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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
1810s Archive 37 Letters Thomas Connolly Philadelphia Bermuda Ships Travels Land in Kentucky Philadelphia Theatre Burned Down Fire Duel Stephen Decatur
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Archive 51 Letters William Elijah Green Worcester Massachusetts 1802-1850 Family Life Pistol Factory Explosion Brother Lost at Sea
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A small archive of Ina Coolbrith correspondence

Ina Coolbrith
Ina Coolbrith
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1863 Civil War Soldier Diary from Pennsylvania Talks About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Shot Through the Head Heard an African American Preacher
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Manuscript Mining Contract

[Porfirio Diaz]
MINING and MINERAL RIGHTS CONTRACT for “LAS TRES MARIAS”, mine, SIGNED by President PORFIRIO DIAZ (1905)
$325
Archive 70 Letters 1800s from the Family of Thomas Potts James and Abolitionist Isabella Batchelder Pennsylvania Freedmen's Commission
$1500
1860s Archive New York Produce Exchange 4 Manuscript Record Minute Books New York City NYC Commodities Grain Futures Ledgers
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Archive 11 Letters 75 Manuscript Pages Diary of a Trip to Denver Colorado in 1906 Train Travel Through the West
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Photographic Archive of Los Angeles Philharmonic Good-Will Tour of Asia 1956 52 10x13 Photographs Alfred Wallenstein Taken by Leigh Weiner California Music History
$850

Archive of 25 Letters to a N.H. Inventor Family

New England Businessmen Writing to Henrick Aiken and Jonas Bradley Aiken
Correspondence to the Aiken Inventor Family of Franklin, New Hampshire, with One Autograph Letter by Jonas Aiken, 1853–1864 business and family letters documenting the Aiken family of inventors, machinists, and toolmakers
$545
Macpherson's Blues: Philadelphia's Federalist Legionary Corps, 1794-1800
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[British Army 18th century]
MANUSCRIPT LIST OF REGIMENTS, GENERAL AND FIELD OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, 1739/1740.
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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] HANCOCK NAVAL ORDERS

JOHN HANCOCK
Cruise Orders for Massachusetts Navy Sloop "Winthrop" 1782.
$12000
1870s Scrapbook Archive 1000+ Invoices from Chicago Illinois Businesses Rebuilding After The Great Fire of 1871
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1850s Large Archive 250+ Letters Documents Ledgers Saluda Virginia Bristow Family Slave Slavery Documents
$1500

Miniature Writing

John Kendall & unknown
Manucript Epitaph for an Infant, with attached medallion text copied in 1832
$750
1890s Archive Manuscript Minute Book Broadsides for the Lyon Falls Free Reading Room New York
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Howard University Presidential Letter, 1888

Rev. William W. Patton, D.D., President of Howard University
Autograph Letter Signed by HBCU Howard University President & Abolitionist William W. Patton on Student Aid, November 2, 1888, Early Howard University manuscript advocating financial support for theological education
$825

Estate Ledger Page w\ Enslaved Persons Referenced

Manuscript Document
Account Ledger Page 1800–1801, with reference to “Dr. Phillip Robinson, Negro” and a Mutiny Trial, Double-sided folio manuscript account recording labor, goods, and enslaved references
$495

I.C.R.R. Segregated Depot Blueprint

Illinois Central Railroad Company, Engineers of Buildings
Seven 1916–1918 Vellum Architectural Plans for Illinois Central Railroad Depots, Including Segregated Train Depot in Cecilia, Kentucky, Passenger and Freight Station Designs Documenting Jim Crow Segregation Cecilia Ky.
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1855 Handwritten Account Book Ledger for Henry Brown Daguerreotype Photographer Milwaukee Wisconsin
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Jamaica Slaveholding Family

$100 or less
M.E. Hibbert
1852 letter from Munich to Anna Maria Oates in Bath, England, Anti-German, Anti-Catholic
$65

1922 Yellowstone Park

Mrs. J. Stern, a RR tourist
6 page letter from the Mammoth Springs Hotel, staffing from a Pasadewna hotel
$125
1920s Archive National Ideal Benefit Society NIBS African-American Fraternal Insurance Richmond Virginia 27 Letters Documents
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1820s Manuscript Ledger Account Book Construction Building the Black River Aqueduct Masonry Construction New York
$500
Elizabeth Darling Ballantine
1830s Archive Female Missionary Teacher to India Maharashtra 40 Letters Detailing Schools Missions Work Student at Mount Holyoke with Mary Lyon
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[Typescript w/ Hand Corrections]

Guy Cadogan, Rothery
Curiosities of Collecting
$500
1870s Manuscript Ledger Account Book Frederick County Maryland General Store African American Customers 400 Pages
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1840s Archive 80 Letters Ledgers Springfield Buffalo Furnace Pennsylvania Peter Mobley Family Iron Forge
$1500
$100 or less
1850s Manuscript Poetry and Recipe Journal Cookbook Pies and Cakes Virginia Estate
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Play written for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor

IONESCO, Eugene (1909-1994)
Highly important manuscript of L’Impromtu pour la Duchesse de Windsor (1957) performed before Salvador Dali
$15000

George Sand manuscript translation of Shakespeare

SAND, George (1804-1876)
Manuscript of Comme Il Vous Plaira (1856)
$6500

Tudor manuscript leaf from Sir Thomas More

MORE, Sir Thomas (1478-1535)
Manuscript leaf of A Dialogue Concerning Heresies
$3500

Commissioned Shakespeare's Richard II in 1601

[ELIZABETH I, Queen of England, DEVEREUX, Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex], and MEYRICK, Gelly
Highly important manuscript document by which Queen Elizabeth transferred the confiscated lands and property of Sir Francis Englefield to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
$11500

Hobbes' Leviathan signed by Sir Christopher Wren

HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679), WREN, Christopher (1632-1723)
Leviathan (1651) with manuscript endleaves containing accounts of renovations at Hampton Court Palace signed by Christopher Wren
$10000

Jonson folio with an unpublished manuscript poem

JONSON, Benjamin (1572 -1637)
The Workes of Benjamin Jonson (1640)
$12500

MANUSCRIPT LEAF POSSIBLY WRITTEN BY SHAKESPEARE

[SHAKESPEARE, William?]
Manuscript fragment of Vincent of Lérins’ Commonitorium
$25000

1835 on the Erie Canal

John Greenough
Letter on board the Erie Canal boat "Victory", to his mother in Jamaica Plain MA
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1950s Archive Television Advertising Commercial Company New York City Mad Men 100+ Photographs Letters Ephemera Murphy Lillis "59 Park Avenue"
$250
1960 Collection 5 Sketchbooks 100+ Sketches Listed Artist Charles Merrill Mount Paris France Trip Stolen Rare Documents
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