![Item #45833 [McGraw-Hill Sales Brochure for the Publication of] "The Madrid Codices of Leonardo...](/pictures/thumb/45833.jpg?v=1679083662)
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1974]. [14] pp excluding covers on [5] leaves, some folding. Illustrated with color facsimiles and reproductions. Sq. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. "McGraw-Hill takes pride in announcing the first publication ever of one of the great manuscript finds of the 20th century" An elaborate announcement for..... More
![Item #45807 [Trade Catalogue] Catalogue with Prices to Agents of the Oval Steel Engravings for 8...](/pictures/thumb/45807.jpg?v=1679083662)
New York: [Moore & Goodspeed.], n.d. [but 1872]. [4 pp.] bifolium. 5.5 x 8 inches, Moore & Goodspeed were an engraving firm specializing in political prints, perhaps beginning as early as 1850 in New York, at 37 Park Row, though that attribution by the NYPL to a Washington portrait has..... More
![Item #45797 [Advertisement for] Spratts Patent (America) Limited [Dog and Poultry Supplies on]...](/pictures/thumb/45797.jpg?v=1679083661)
New York: (1887). 1 sheet. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8.5 x 7 inches. "To Secretaries of Shows: Spratts Patent (America) Limited / Contractors to the Kennel Club and all important Dog Shows, the Crystal Palace, Birmingham, Dairy, and all principal Poultry Exhibitions..." Advertisement mentions their improved Poultry, Pigeon, Rabbit, Bantam..... More
![Item #45697 [Manuscript Receipt] Paid Commissions for the State of Connecticut in Account with...](/pictures/thumb/45697.jpg?v=1679083661)
CT: 1791. [1 pp]. 7 x 6 inches. Manuscript receipt, dated May 7th, 1791, from the State of Connecticut in Account with Gideon Granger itemizing a series of duties charged for legal work such as appeals, wills, and petitions. Marked as paid. Total £6.1. Political essayist and lawyer Gideon Granger..... More
![Item #44775 [Small Archive] Three Letters from Joseph Norton Ireland, Offering to Sell His...](/pictures/thumb/44775.jpg?v=1679083660)
Bridgeport [CT]: 1897-1898. 4 pp. 5 x 8 inches. Three letters from theater historian and biographer, Joseph Norton Ireland to collector and biographer, Douglas Taylor . 1. Letter, dated December 8th, 1897. 1 pp. Ireland tells Taylor of the decline in his physical and mental faculties, before he summarizes his..... More
![Item #44768 [ALS] Correspondence Between Selectmen Woodward Abraham of Marblehead, and Moses Hoyt...](/pictures/thumb/44768.jpg?v=1679083659)
Marblehead; Newburyport, [MA]: 1793. [1] pp. Bifolium. with integral address. 6 x 7.5 inches. January 16th, 1793 letter from Woodward Abraham, Town Clerk of Marblehead, to Selectmen of Newburyport. Abraham expresses the wish of the Selectmen of Marbletown, to "... send by Mr. Ebon Ebenezer] Brown, the bearer hereof Abigail..... More
![Item #44756 [ALS] Benjamin Lincoln Business Correpondence to Otho Holland Williams [with]...](/pictures/thumb/44756.jpg?v=1679083659)
Boston;: 1791. 2 sheets. 1 b/w engraved portrait. 1. Brief letter dated May 3rd, 1791, 7.25 x 9 inches; addressed to Otho Holland Williams, collector in Baltimore, informing Willams of a forthcoming package from Captain Field. [with] 2. B. Lincoln. Engraved portrait, with facsimile signature. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2..... More
![Item #44747 [Manuscript Land Deed Signed] For Property in Farmington, in the Colony of...](/pictures/thumb/44747.jpg?v=1679083658)
Farmington, CT: 1749. 1 pp. 7.5 x 12 inches. Dated September 8th, 1749. John Lewis sold 4 acres of land for 16 pounds to James Smith. both of Farmington. Signed by Lewis and witnessed by Thomas Hart and Anna Hart and signed again by Thomas Hart, Justice of Peace. Rev..... More
![Item #44690 [1761 Deed Completed in Manuscript] Payment for Land in Newton, New Hampshire in...](/pictures/thumb/44690.jpg?v=1679083658)
[NH]: 1761. 1 sheet. Docketed on verso. 8 x 13.25 inches. Dated May 7th, 1761. Signed and sealed. Receipt of payment of 92 1/2 Spanish Milled dollars to Nathan Hale, Newbury, Massachusetts Bay from Moses Carlton, for an eighteen and a half acre tract of land in Newton, New Hampshire..... More
![Item #44666 [Manuscript Receipt Signed] Payment Received from the Estate of Edward Hutchinson for...](/pictures/thumb/44666.jpg?v=1679083657)
Boston: 1752. 1 sheet. 6.5 x 4 inches. December 6th, 1752. Signed by John Steel. "Received of ... Edward Hutchinson, as he is the executor to the deceased, twenty seven shillings & seven pence farthing lawful money - in full of the other side." Verso contains itemization which is for..... More
![Item #44317 [Manuscript Document Signed] Colonial Rhode Island Promissory Notes. Rhode Island,...](/pictures/thumb/44317.jpg?v=1679083656)
Greenwich, RI: 1762. 1 sheet. 7.5 x 6 inches. May 21, 1762. Two promissory notes, one for thirty-five shillings the other for thirty-six, signed by Nathaniel Bowdish of West Greenwich Rhode Island, taken from Hezikiah Lord, and witnessed by Nathaniel Cogswell, and Samuel Stewart. Lord has signed the verso of..... More
![Item #44280 [Manuscript Deed] 18th c. Colonial New England Land Agreement Between Edward...](/pictures/thumb/44280.jpg?v=1679083656)
Boston: 1727. [1] sheet. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. October 16, 1727. Lease agreement between Edward Hutchinson (1668-1752) of Boston in the County of Suffolk, to James Stinson (1679-1749) of Georgetown (originally from Ireland) in the County of York (later Maine) for a farm house, barn, and 20 plus acres of..... More
![Item #44277 [ALS] William M. Evarts Declines the Invitation to Speak at the Boston Latin School....](/pictures/thumb/44277.jpg?v=1679083655)
Windsor, VT: 1881. [4] pp. Bifolium. 5 x 7.5 inches. Dated Windsor, Vermont, October 25, 1881, and written on"Runnemede" stationary, the name of his summer estate, William M. Evarts expresses his regret to President of the Latin School Association, Charles K. Dillaway, for declining the invitation to speak at this..... More
![Item #44276 [ALS] Historian George Richards Minot Resigns his Clerkship of the Massachusetts...](/pictures/thumb/44276.jpg?v=1679083926)
[Massachusetts]: 1792. [1] sheet. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. February 2, 1792. George Richards Minot writes to David Cobb, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Though honored by his recent appointment as Judge of Probate of Wills & Co. for Suffolk County, Minot expresses equal regret in abandoning his position..... More
![Item #44257 [3 ALSs] Correspondence from Maine Politician and Historian, William Willis,...](/pictures/thumb/44257.jpg?v=1679083653)
Portland, [ME]: 1837-1868. Collection contains three letters, spanning three decades of William Willis' political career. The first, dated October 2, 1837 (1 pp.), is a brief request for the recipient to forward a letter for signature. In the second letter, dated July 23, 1860, (2 pp.), Willis requests Dr. Fogg's..... More
![Item #44256 [ALS] Congressman John Lynch Urges Senator William Fessenden to Use His Influence to...](/pictures/thumb/44256.jpg?v=1679083653)
Washington, D.C. 1865. [2] pp. Bifolium. 5 x 8 inches. Dated and signed Washington,May 16, 1865, by Congressman John Lynch (1825-1892) who claimed that Governor Cony's suggestion of moving the Pay Department to Augusta was a mistake and indicates that Fessenden's assistance in the matter would "save the Govt. more..... More
![Item #44234 [ALS] Correpondence of a Young Massachusetts woman to her friend speaks of lonliness...](/pictures/thumb/44234.jpg?v=1679083652)
Gardiner: 1811. [2] pp. Bifolium with integral address. 6 x 7.5 inches. August 19, 1811, Gardiner Massachusetts, Catherine Fuller to Mary Woodberry of Ipswich. Good example of a letter between young women friends. "Worthy creature, it is a long time since I had an opportunity of writing to you, but..... More
Eugene Golomshtok (born Eugenii Alexandrovich Golomshtok, Russia, 1897-1950) was a Russian émigré anthropologist, photographer, and authority on permafrost. He studied archaeology with Bruno Adler in Russia before he received his MA from University of California at Berkeley in 1923, where he was also the photographer of Phoebe Hearst Museum of..... More
![Item #44821 [Autograph Letter Signed] From a Union Soldier Stationed at Seneca Creek in the Fall...](/pictures/thumb/44821.jpg?v=1677606605)
Seneca Creek, [MD]: 1862. [4] pp. Bifolium. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. October 13th, 1862, from "Charley", who tells his father about what his life has been like in Seneca Creek, Maryland, where he expects his Company will be stationed for some time. The previous Friday, they had marched to Edwards..... More
![Item #44624 [Autograph Manuscript Signed] Copy of "The Vacant Chair", Civil War Song, Written and...](/pictures/thumb/44624.jpg?v=1677606605)
Newton Centre, MA: 1891. [2] pp. Bifolium. 4 x 6.75 inches. Later copy written and signed by Washburn of his Union poem, "The Vacant Chair", signed in Newton Centre on March 14, 1892. Written above Washburn's signature is the poem's original date and location: Worcester, November 16, 1861. Henry S...... More
![Item #44623 [Manuscript Document Signed] Brigadier General Potter Issues a Special Order to...](/pictures/thumb/44623.jpg?v=1677606604)
Petersburg, VA: 1864. 1 sheet. 5 x 7.5 inches. Dated July 1, 1864. Special Order 70. List of 13 men who "after careful and important investigation", are ordered to lose one month's pay for their offense. Order commanded by Brig. Genl. Potter and signed by his adjutant, Daniel Wright. Very..... More
![Item #44594 [ALS] Union Soldier Writes His Wife & Children from Camp on Rutherford Creek, Near...](/pictures/thumb/44594.jpg?v=1677606604)
Rutherford Creek; Tennessee: 1864. [4] pp. Bifolium. 5 x 8 inches. A camp life letter, about soldier's illness, no doctors, no medicine, ate only sauerkraut, peaches and plums, other very sick, still at work on stockades. Dated April 7th, 1864, the day before the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment..... More
![Item #44593 [Autograph Letter Signed] Civil War Soldier Writes to His Brother From the Trenches...](/pictures/thumb/44593.jpg?v=1677606603)
VA: 1864. [3] pp. Bifolium. 7 x 4.5 inches. Dated July 9th, 1864. O.D.P. [no name given] writes to his brother, Albert, beginning "In the Trenches Near The Appomattox River" telling him of the woes of keeping paper and stamps handy; and joking about his inability to swim, "Tell Frank..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1966). xx, 338 pp. Illus. with 18 b/w photos, 1 folding chart, and 1 map. 8vo. Cloth. First printing. Signed by the author. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket but for a tear to the upper edge. More
New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1974. x, 135 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. Includes the Sanskrit (with English translations) and Tibetan texts of this work of the late tantric period. Scarce. Very good, light soiling and wear to wrappers, contents fine. More