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1855 & 1859 - Pair of letters regarding the operation of one of the most productive gold mines in the East that generated over $1 million dollars in its first eight years of operation before the Civil War, approximately $37 trillion in today's money
by James Dorn
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- Used - Very good
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- 1859
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- Envelope or Cover
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$2,750.00
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Sleeoy Creek & Dorn's Mines, 1859. Envelope or Cover. Very good. One three-page and one two-page stampless folded letters. They were sent by James Dorn who owned two mines in partnership with his brother, William Burkhalter "Billy" Dorn, to Joseph Slocum, in New York and Savannah. Both letters are from South Carolina and bear free-frank manuscript postmarks as… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,750.00
1864 - A semi-literate manuscript document certifying a Pennsylvanian was medically unfit for military service illegally franked with postage stamps instead of revenue stamps
by Gainer P Kloom
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- Used - Very good
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- 1864
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- Unbound
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$350.00
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Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, 1864. Unbound. Very good. This one-page manuscript document measures approximately 5" x 8". It was executed at Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, on December 12, 1864, and is illegally franked with two pen-canceled postage stamps (Scott #65 3-cent Washington and Scott #73 2-cent Jackson).
The document reads
"Bfour me gainer Kloom one of… Read more about this item Item Price
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1862 - A Union cavalry detachment refreshes its issue uniforms and blankets in preparation of for General Burnside's ill-fated attack on Fredericksburg
by 1st Massachusetts Cavalry
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- Used - Very good
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- 1862
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$150.00
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Hagerstown, Maryland, 1862. Very good. This uniform receipt measures approximately 10" x 8½'. In nice shape.
It is undated but summarizes the issue of new uniforms and blankets to a detachment from the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry made at Hagerstown, Maryland during the month of November 1862 following the unit's skirmishes in the Shenandoah with Confederates… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
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1911-1948 - A wonderful scrapbook documenting the career of pioneering filmmaker, Robert C. Bruce
by Robert Cameron Bruce
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- Used - Very good
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- 1948
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- Album
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$7,500.00
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Various, 1948. Album. Very good. This heavy album measures approximately 11" x 14" x 2". It was likely compiled by Robert C. Bruce, Jr. to preserve the memory of his father. It contains over 115 pages loaded with around 150 photographs (ranging in size from 3½" x 5" to 10" x 13", theater programs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles,… Read more about this item Item Price
$7,500.00
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1865 - A worried, but resolute, woman informs her husband that she and their children have been twice thwarted in attempts to sail from Galveston to Havana as their blockade runner could not make it through the Union fleet
by Isabella
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- Used - Very good
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- 1865
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- Unbound
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$2,500.00
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Galveston, Texas, 1865. Unbound. Very good. This four-page letter was written by Isabella and her three children (Jumain, Miriam, and Rosa) at Galveston on March 7, 1865. There is no mailing envelope and no decipherable surname. In nice shape.
In this letter, Isabella informs her husband, presumably in Havana that the blockade runner in which they… Read more about this item Item Price
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1853 - A British exporter explains to the treasurer of the first major textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, that shipments of madder have been affected by a lack of available vessels but are unlikely to harmed by the "Russian affair" which should be quickly resolved
by James C. Collier to Ebenezer Chadwick
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- Used - Very good
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- 1853
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- Envelope or Cover
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$450.00
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Manchester, England to Boston, 1853. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This one-page stampless folded letter measuring 15" x 9 ½" unfolded is dated August 12th, 1853. It was sent by J. C. [James Collier] Harter & Company of Manchester, England to Ebnr [Ebenezer] Chadwick, treasurer of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, in Boston. It bears a Manchester postmark dated… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
A Requiem in Memory of Ellsworth & Col. Ellsworth's Funeral March
by George William Warren & Septimus Winner
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- Used - Very good
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- 1861
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- Disbound
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$500.00
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New Yoek & Philadelphia, 1861. Disbound. Very good. Two pieces of sheet music honoring Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, the first Union hero of the Civil War. Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, a friend of Abraham Lincoln, was the Commanding Officer of the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, also known as the Firsts Fire Zouaves. He was killed shortly after… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
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1864 - A long letter from a young woman in Davenport, Iowa providing details about the nearby imprisonment of Sioux warriors and Confederate soldiers, the 108th Regiment of Colored Troops, as well as a deadly draft riot near Grinnell and guerilla raid in Davis County
by Caroline "Carrie" Victoria Ozias
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- Used - Very good
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- 1864
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- Envelope or Cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$1,000.00
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Davenport, Iowa, 1864. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This detailed four-page letter was written by Caroline "Carrie" Victoria Ozias in Davenport, Iowa on 20 October 1864 to her friend, Sarah "Sallie" Rachel McQuiston in Preble County, Ohio. Its mailing envelope is franked with a 3-cent Washington stamp (Scot #65) and postmarked on the 22nd. In nice shape.
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$1,000.00
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1877-1965 - Archive of materials related to General Richard Henry Pratt, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and Robert Utley's publication of Pratt's memoirs
by General Richard Henry Pratt & Robert Utley
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- Used - Very good
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- 1965
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$2,250.00
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Various, 1965. Very good. This lot consists of nine items.
1) One is a cabinet card taken by Havens of Savannah, Georgia that has been annotated "My first and only whiskers Fla. 1877". In civilian clothes but taken in Florida while Pratt was a First Lieutenant in the 10th Cavalry Regiment and in charge of… Read more about this item Item Price
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1863 - A Union officer writes a letter home, reveling in how his regiment was humiliating Southern civilians and woul soon be stealing their property to "civilize, discipline and . . . educate the negro.
by Winslow P. Spofford
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- Used - Very good
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- 1863
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- Envelope or Cover
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$350.00
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Beaufort, South Carolina, 1863. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This 3-page letter was written on May 23, 1863, at Beaufort, South Carolina by Winslow P. Spofford, an officer assigned to the 11th Maine Infantry. Its mailing envelope bears a "Due 3" handstamp and an Old Point Comfort, Virginia transit postmark dated July 16th. In nice shape.
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$350.00
1907 - Photograph of a booming California gold mining town that is a ghost town today
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- Used - Very good
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- 1907
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- Unbound
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$300.00
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Skidoo, California, 1907. Unbound. Very good. When this 5" x 7" photograph of Skidoo, California was taken in 1907, one year after the Skidoo mine opened, when it had around 700 residents and was a booming gold rush town. Today it is a ghost town in Death Valley National Park. In nice shape. . The Skidoo mine operated… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
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1492 - Hand-colored incunable leaf from the Cronecken der Sasson (Chronicles of Saxony), 1492
by Konrad Botho (Conrad Bote)
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- Used - Very good
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- 1492
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- Disbound
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$350.00
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Mainz, Germany: Peter Shoeffer, 1492. Disbound. Very good. In 1492, a year before the famous Nuremburg Chronicle, the rarest of the early European "world" histories was published, the Chronicles of Saxony. Its author was a goldsmith, Konrad Botho (Conrad Bote), and it was printed in Mainz, the last work of the famous Peter Shoeffer, who had learned the… Read more about this item Item Price
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1527 - Leaf from William Claxton's translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend), printed in 1527with all references to the "pope" obliterated at the command ofHenry VIII following his excommunication by Pope Paul III in 1538
by Jacobus de Voragine and William Claxton
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- Used - Very good
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- 1538
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- Disbound
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$400.00
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Westminster, England: Wynkyn de Word, 1538. Disbound. Very good. The Golden Legend, or Legenda sanctorum (Readings of the Saints) is a collection of 153 hagiographies originally compiled by Jacobus de Voragine between 1259 and 1266. It was one of the most popular texts of the Middle Ages and printed throughout Europe in more editions than the Bible. It… Read more about this item Item Price
$400.00
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1535 - Leaf from the Supplementum Supplementi de le Chroniche (Suppliementum Supplements to the Chronicle) of Giacomo Filippo Foresti
by Giacomo Filippo Foresti
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- Used - Very good
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- 1535
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- Disbound
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$50.00
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Venice, Italy: Bernardo Bindoni, 1535. Disbound. Very good. Giacomo Filippo Foresti first published his Supplement at Venice in 1483. It was a popular universal chronicle of its time and reprinted several times. It mixes mythological, historical, and Christian figures and treating all on an equal footing. It contains chapters on the Sibyls, the Trojan War and other similar… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
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1517-1518 - Leaf from La Mer des Histoires et Chroniques de France (The Sea of Stories and Chronicles of France)
by Anonymous
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- Used - Very good
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- 1518
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- Disbound
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$100.00
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Paris, France: Gailot Du Pre and Michel le Noir, 1518. Disbound. Very good. La Mer des Histoires et Chroniques de France takes its title from Mare historiarum Item Price
$100.00
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1493 - Incunable leaf from the Liber chonicarum (Nuremburg Chronicle)
by Hartman Schedel
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- Used - Very good
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- 1493
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- Disbound
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$200.00
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Nuremberg, Germany: Anton Koberger, 1493. Disbound. Very good. The Nuremberg Chronicle was the most important of the 15th century universal histories and the most extensively illustrated book of its time. Its narrative begins with the creation and runs until the 1490s. It was written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, a physician and humanist, on commission by two Nuremberg… Read more about this item Item Price
$200.00
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1533 - Leaf from the Romisch Historien (History of Rome) by Titus Livius (Livy) discussing the conflicts between Rome, Carthage, and Macedon during Punic and Macedonian Wars of the Third Century BC
by Titus Livius (Livy)
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- Used - Very good
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- 1533
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- Disbound
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$100.00
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Mainz, Germany: Johann Schoeffer, 1533. Disbound. Very good. The History of Rome, originally titled Annales, and often referred to as Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City) is a monumental history of ancient Rome, written in Latin between 27 and 9 BC by the Roman historian Titus Livius (Livy). The work covers the period from the… Read more about this item Item Price
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1519 - Leaf from the most beautiful illustrated book of the 16th century, Die geuerlicheiten und eins teils der geschichten des loblichen streitbaren und hochberumbten helds und Ritters Tewrdannckhs (The atrocities and part of the stories of the laudable, combative and famous hero and knight Tewrdannckhs)
by Maximilian I and Melchior Pfintzing
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- Used - Very good
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- 1519
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- Disbound
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$250.00
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Augsburg, Germany: Johann Schonsperger, 1519. Disbound. Very good. Die geuerlicheiten, often referred to as simply Theuerdank, was written by Emperor Maximilian I, polished by his secretary, Melchior Pfintzing, and first printed in Augsburg in 1517 by Johann Schonsperger. Trimmed along the top edge to facilitate its original binding.
The book's type was designed by Vinzenz Rockner,… Read more about this item Item Price
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1900-1901 - An exceptionally detailed archive of U.S. Naval operations in support of allied ground operations during the Boxer Rebellion from the personal files of Admiral Louis Kempf, the commander of the U.S. flotilla in Chinese waters
by All related to Admiral Louis Kempff
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- Used
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- 1901
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$7,500.00
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Ta-ku, China, 1901. This archive from Admiral Kempff's personal files consists of five densely packed, typed "Bulletins" and letters detailing the U.S. Navy's participation in the conflict including its ground fighting at Ta-Ku which he personally directed. Over twelve pages of typed text. The documents contain some details not included in the official history of the action, The Boxer… Read more about this item Item Price
$7,500.00
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1761 - A deed transferring ownership of a "tenement" in the heart of Boston located between entrances to Faneuil Hall and the Great Town Dock
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- Used - Very good
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- 1761
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- Unbound
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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$750.00
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Boston, 1761. Unbound. Very good. This three-page transfer of property on a bifold paper sheet measures 18" x 15" unfolded. The document is dated 30 July 1761. Payment was completed and the deed recorded at the Suffolk County Records of Deeds on 1 September 1761. In nice shape. Some storage fold splits have been neatly repaired with archival… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
