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Elbert Hubbard gifted to Wm. Mather Lewis

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$100 or less
Herman SCHERVEE (1867-1923, photographer)
Photogravure portrait of Elbert Hubbard from a photograph by Schervee, inscribed by Hubbard and presented to William Mather Lewis, an indicator of the warm association between two influential public intellectuals from the early 20th century.
$100

‘This is the original version P.H.’

Paul HORGAN
Original carbon-copy typescript, signed, of the uncut version of ‘The Devil’s Trill a short novel by Paul Horgan’, the ‘much revised’ version was published in ‘Good Housekeeeping’ Magazine for May and June 1951
$950
c1920 U.S.S. Huron Asiatic Fleet Siberia China Pacific Tour Photo Album
$2500

20th Century High Point of Western Americana

Kern, Edward M (Commentary by Seymour Dunbar)
[California] Fort Sutter Papers--A Transcript Together with the Historical Commentaries by Seymour Dunbar
$3750

Calaveras Big Tree Hotel Stationary

Job Whiteside
Calaveras Big Tree Hotel Stationary
$200
[Ciphering Books] Three c1800 Handwritten CIPHERING BOOKS Mathematical Formulas VULGAR FRACTIONS
$225

1850 Letter from Mariposa

Charles Wallace
Mariposa November 20, 1850
$150

3 Page Letter - View of Baltimore

1853 Baltimore Maryland Illustrated Letter Sheet
Baltimore via New York Packet to Germany via France paid 30 in blue , Franco and paid packet red cancels., May 17 1853 View Baltimore Maryland
$475

'Poor Scholar' Friend of Poe Adventure Novelist

ALS from Captain Thomas Mayne Reid to Grace Greenwood/Sara Lippincott declining an invitation to submit a story for the Little Pilgrim as his pen is "under mortgage".
$200
1960s Appalachian Church Lg. Folio Photograph Album
$1000
1950s Mental Health Psychiatry Psychology Pioneers Photos (7)
$1000
19thc Meiji Japan Samurai Sword Tsuba Collection Photo Album
$1500
1970/80s Motorcycle Body Paint Nudes Artist Photo Archive
$2500
1920s Alaska Gold Mine Dredge Archive Quality Photo Album (450+)
$2500

Union Defeat at First Manassas (Bull Run)

John Owen Lashley
1861 – An exceptionally detailed letter from a Confederate soldier regarding the defeat of the Union Army at the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), List price has been discounted for this show.
$1500

An Edison Executive's Correspondene Archive

John I. Beggs
1896 – An archive of letters from an Edison Company executive to his daughter who was touring France and Italy to learn French and Italian and receive treatment for her chronic rheumatism, List price has been discounted for this show.
$550

Philadelphia High Society

Lydia Leming Smith
1847 – Letter from a Philadelphia socialite discussing balls, a visit with Henry Clay, concerts, Parisian fashion, the new custom of using envelopes to mail letters, and a catastrophic shipwreck, List price has been discounted for this show.
SOLD

St. Louis Land Agents Help Find a Relative

Aaron T. Crane and Abraham Beck
1819 – Reply by two early St. Louis land agents to a man in Ohio searching for a relative who had gone west, List price has been discounted for this show.
$750

Civil War Next-of-Kin Letter

Joel F. Crocke
1865 – Letter from a Union soldier to the wife of a friend informing her of the circumstances of her husband’s death, List price has been discounted for this show.
$225

A Militia Unit Enters the Confederate Army

"Willie"
1861 – An early soldier’s letter describing the bittersweet march through his hometown as his unit left to muster into service and the inedibility of bread provided by the camp kitchen, List price has been discounted for this show.
SOLD

Old China Trade Correspondence

To William Shepard Wetmore
1832-1837 – Four letters to William Shepard Wetmore concerning his business operations in South America, China, and New York, List price has been discounted for this show.
$1250

Colonial Runaway Slave Advertisement

Gideon Treat
1772 – A New England colonial manuscript “Advertisement” offering a ten-dollar reward for the capture and return of a runaway slave from New Milford, Connecticut, List price has been discounted for this show.
$4250

Disinfecting Tuberculosis Patient Letters

$100 or less
Dr. R. H. McCutcheum
1955 – Letter from the Pennsylvania Department regarding the unnecessity of disinfecting mail originating at a Tuberculosis Sanitorium, List price has been discounted for this show.
$100

Battle Line Conversations between Enemies

Sergeant Aaron Crouch
1864 – Letter from a Union sergeant on the battle lines near Petersburg describing mortar bombardments how Northern and Southern troops would call cease-fires so they could have friendly conversations, List price has been discounted for this show.
SOLD

Civil War Kanawah Campaign Letter

S. B. Robinson
1862 – A Union soldier’s letter describing the short and important, but little-remembered, Confederate Kanawha Valley campaign that drove the Northern Army out of western Virginia and into Ohio, List price has been discounted for this show.
$225
Lyman, Samuel.
MANUSCRIPT A Disputation, Read before the Moral Society, May 4, 1802., The Immortality of the Soul Defended Citing Native Beliefs, Brahmins, and Mahometans
SOLD

Dickens vs Bentley

Bentley, George. Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]. Bentley, Richard [1794 - 1871].
MR. DICKENS And MR. BENTLY. [accompanied by] ANs [3] by Richard Bentley [1839], 2 to Rev Richard Barham.
$1500

20 original caricatures

Paul HORGAN
“Par Avion by Paul Horgan 1977, to amuse Peter & Ina [Joray] air borne New York – Palermo 1977 Love from Paul’, an original book (drawings with manuscript).
$200

Columbia do not have this image

[ANONYMOUS, but George ROOKWOOD a possibility, photographer]
['Maison Punk' - excellent view of Columbia University on 49th and Madison], I could not find this image in the Columbia Archives
$300

The Wiltfang copy. Malmo conspirator. Scaleboard

[Johan BUGENHAGEN, and others, compilors].
[Church Ordinances, in Danish] Den rette Ordinants ..., historic binding & extensively annotated
RESERVED

With Small Manuscript Archive

Tompkins, B.
The Theory of Water Finding by the Divining Rod, Its HIstory, Method, Utility and Practice
$195

Early Veterinary Practice

Anon.
Manuscript Veterinary Note Book 1827
$240

Flavors of the Past

Algar, Matilda
Manuscript Recipe Book 1886
$195

First Latin American to Win Nobel Prize in Lit

Mistral, Gabriela
[Nobel Prize Winner] Gabriela Mistral Literary Archive
SOLD

Perfect Present for Any Fan of Baseball

Mize, Johnny
[Manuscript] How to Hit
$275

The Great Casey Stengel

Stengel, Casey with Harry T. Paxton
[Baseball Hall of Fame] Manuscript Casey at the Bat: The Story of My Life in Baseball as told to Harry T. Paxton.
SOLD

Audrey Hepburn as Best Actress

Watts, Schuyler
[Tony Awards] Three Working Manuscripts for the Play "Undine"
$350

American Playwright and Theatre Historian

Mitchell, Loften
[African-American Playwright] Original Typescript Copy for "Star of the Morning"
SOLD

A Treasured & Tragic Love Token, 1844-45

Silas R. Howe; Fanny Palmer (Illustrator)
Flower Tokens - Friendship Album Made by a Young Man for His Beloved, Completed by his Mother After His Untimely Death
SOLD

Gold Mining in Alaska

Anon
Alaska Miner's Memorandum Book With Handwritten Notes, containing Mining Laws, Homestead Act, Legal Forms and Other useful Information for the Miner and Prospector. Compliments of Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska.
$650

WORLD WAR II HOSPITAL TRAINING

A. Alfred Solomon, M.D
1942 Correspondence from an Army Doctor in OCS Training to His Wife
$150

Correspondence re: Nobel Prize Recommendation

F. R. Harris & George Zuelzer
1937 to 1944 Cardiac Hormone Therapy archive, hope for Nobel Prize as one denied for diabetes treatment
$350

1844 Book Publisher

Jonas Winchester
Circular/lettersheet of The New World newspaper, with letter to the Merriam brothers in Springfield
$200

1894 Secondhand Bicycle

$100 or less
Charles M. Day
Letter requesting parts to a Columbia bicycle, from Winchendon MA
$45

Wicker Baby Carriage

$100 or less
J. Frank McIntire
Children's Carriages, 1874 Boston illustrated billhead
$45

1920s Champagne

$100 or less
Georges Chappaz & Alexandre Henriot
The Champagne Vine Country and Champagne Wine, with manuscript notes
$45

1889 Cement

$100 or less
The Newark Lime & Cement Manufacturing Company
Illustrated billhead receipt, for cement made at Rondout NY
$65
THE PEOPLE ARE A SETT OF FAWNING OBSEQUIOUS EMPTY HEADED, DULL BRAINED WOULD BE SNOBS…
$295

Anson A. Brooks Stone-Mason Ledger

ANSON A. BROOKS STONE-MASON LEDGER - WESTBROOK, CONNECTICUT
$495

Sailing For Mauritius

SAILING FOR MAURITIUS: THE DIARY OF AMERICAN CONSUL GEORGE FAIRFIELD
$4795

A Spoof Travel ABC from the 1600s

Anonymous
Seventeenth Century German Manuscript Abecedarium
$650

Printed Utah Territory Document Used in 1863

[Nevada Territory][Utah Territory]1863 Comstock Lode Mining Claim Indenture Printed in 1861 as Utah Territory
$125

Unrecorded Collection of Sheet Music

$100 or less
Kelly, Eleanor Mercein
[Manuscript Music and Lyrics] Songs
SOLD

Musicologist's Dream Document

Raymer, Morell
Yodeling Kid's Collection of Songs--Old Time, Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
$1200

A LETTER FROM D.H. HEYWOOD

A LETTER FROM D.H. HEYWOOD, A PROMINENT COLORADO SURVEYOR
$395

A LETTER FROM D.H. HEYWOOD

A LETTER FROM D.H. HEYWOOD, A PROMINENT COLORADO SURVEYOR
$395

Digging For Gold In Wyoming - 1876

Digging for Gold In Wyoming Territory in 1876
$1295

Connecticut Militia Records - 1835-1846

Connecticut Militia Records - 1835-1846
$1595

New Orleans - Merchant Samuel Wright Oakey letters

New Orleans - Merchant Samuel Wright Oakey letters
$295

Virginia's Founding Fathers

Rare documents from one of Virginia’s founding fathers - Pendleton, Edmund. (1721–1803)
$3875

Lieut. Elisha Nye Peirce Civil War Archive

Lieut. Elisha Nye Peirce Civil War Archive
$6895

1898 Letter to Spanish American War

"Donald" an Alpha Delta Phi fraternity brother
Amhert College news to classmate at war, 1st U.S. Vol. Engineers, Military Camp No. 1, Porto Rico
$125

East Haddam, Connecticut

$100 or less
Connecticut - East Haddam - 1804
$75

Battle of Quebec Prisoners

A List of Canadian Taken Prisoner Just After The Battle of Quebec In The American Revolution
SOLD

Civil War Letter - The 5th Ma.

North Carolina Letter Describing Battles By a Soldier In The 5th MA.
$375