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Fort Bridger, Wyoming, 1888. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This four-page letter signed "J" [James Van Allen Carter] is datelined "The Willows / Aug 26 188[8]". It is enclosed in a green 2-cent Washington stamped envelope (Scott Type U71/U72) postmarked "Fort Bridger / Aug / 27 / 88 / Wyo." and addressed to Carter's mother in Lexington, Missouri. In nice shape. A transcript will be provided. The letter, about pioneer life at Fort Bridger, reads in part: "Observe the heading and see the airs we are putting on . . . The Willows! . .. Of course it's inconvenient to have to go to Bridger to get a beefsteak or a box of matches. . .. This work is tedious and presents some worry nearly every day. My crop is apt to fall short, [but] My pasture feed is very fair yet. . .. As I sit out front of the cabin and look southward, viewing the beautiful Unita mountains, I know how much Ma would enjoy the same. They have almost lost their snow - only a shot here and there on the highest peaks. I hope there'll… Read More

"2½ Thousand Short Shingles & 4500 Long"Brocton and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, were located within about seven miles of each other, about 25 miles south of Boston and 35 miles east of Providence, Rhode Island. Both of these manuscript account books were kept between 1823 and 1828.One is for Sylvanus Keith & Company, who, based on the entries, operated a lumber mill in or near Brocton. It contains eighteen pages with a total of over 300 entries. The entries are for
Sales of lumber, wood, chips, logs, boards, and shingles,
Services to include cutting and hewing wood, and
Purchases of coal and labor
Another account book from this company is held by the Winterthur with entries for rum, coffee, sugar, and other household staples. The other is for Clifford Carver & Company, whose lumber mill was located near Bridgewater. It contains 49 pages with approximately 600 entries. The entries are for
Sales of timber, wood, and boards,
Services, to include surveying timber, cutting lumber, and carting wood, and… Read More

London: Remington and Co, 1886. Hardcover. Very good. Approximately 6" x 9". Complete: Vol. 1 with 244 pages. Vol. 2 with 260 pages; map and 20-page catalog in rear. Original brown diapered cloth with black decoration and gilt lettering. Very good. Sound binding; front hinges of both volumes beginning to crack. Vol. 1 is slightly cocked. Text pages generally clean but toned; some foxing to the preliminary pages and endpapers. Minor shelf-wear. Folding color map is in nice shape; one short (.5") split at the end of one fold. First published in French as Souvenirs del a vie militaire en Afrique at Paris in 1852, this is a fascinating first-person account of life in the French Foreign Legion in Algeria that spans the years from 1840 to 1851. Chapters include: The Province of Algiers, and Spahis, The Darha, Khamis of the Beni-Ouraghs, A Winter Campaign, The Sahara and the Great Desert, The Province of Oran, and Expedition to Kabylia. A note in the preliminaries of Vol 1 relates that… Read More

London: Printed for D. Henry, 1776. Disbound. Very good. This very important edition of The Gentleman's Magazine was being read in London at the same time the American Colonies were declaring their independence. It is filled with news that made it clear a political explosion was about to occur. Most importantly, it includes the proclamation of May 15th that set the stage for thirteen separate colonies to announce that they had become the thirteen United States of America on the following July 4th The Resolution of May 15th that was signed by John Hancock on behalf of the Continental Congress that all but proclaimed American independence by declairing "Whereas, it appears absolutely irreconcilable to reason and good Conscience, for the people of these colonies now to take the oaths and affirmations necessary for the support of any government under the crown of Great Britain, and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed, and… Read More

"Taking survivors aboard. . .."
This large album measures 12" x 9.5" and contains well over 250 glued-in photographs, most measuring about 4" x 2.5". The photographs are captioned in white ink on 46 of the album's 48 pages. Ten additional photographs are laid-in including a 10" x 8" official group photograph of the crew (with a two-inch closed tear) and two smaller portrait photos of Chambron in uniform (one is full length). Everything is in nice shape.
The well-composed photos picture all members of the ship (quarterdeck, bow, guns, lifeboats, etc.), the ship's crew (many identified), dirigibles, other U.S. Navy vessels, dirigibles, airplanes, depth charges, prisoners, torpedoed and burning ships, rescue operations with survivors including mascots, and much more.
The Corsair III, a luxury yacht, was built by T. S. Marvel Shipbuilding for J. P. Morgan and launched in December 1898. After Morgan died, it was inherited by his son, J. P. Morgan Jr.
With the outbreak of World War One, the yacht was leased… Read More

"At the request of Col Fremont I send you the inclosed answer to the charge made at the Attorney Genl's Office of fraud in the Survey of his Mariposa Grant."
San Francisco, 1859. Unbound.
Both Blair and James had been free-soil Democrats who were instrumental in both forming the new Republican Party in 1856 and securing John C. Fremont to run for President on its ticket. Although, Fremont was not one of the major candidates to represent the Republicans in his hat was still in the ring, and this letter suggests that he, Blair, and James were preparing to defend against lingering political charges of fraud regarding his ownership of the most important California goldfield, the Mariposa Ranch.
James's letter is datelined "San Francisco / Aprl 5th 1859 reads,
"My Dear Sir / At the request of Col Fremont I send you the inclosed answer to the charge made at the Attorney Genl's Office of fraud in the Survey of his Mariposa Grant."
Its envelope is franked with a 10-cent green type 1 Washington stamp (Scott… Read More

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 is, in effect, an encyclopedia of the saints with its chapters organized by the date of their feast days. This leaf (approximately 7" x 10") is from the English translation, a later edition, by William Claxton printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498. 47 lines of text plus headline. Double column.It is headlined "The lyfe of Saynt Edwarde kynge & cofessour." This was King Edward the Martyr who ruled from 975 to 978 when he was assassinated at the order of his stepmother, the Dowager Queen Ælfthryth. While the Golden Legend claims he was stabbed by a member of the kitchen staff, other accounts claim it was by a band of traitorous… Read More

An attractive advertising cover featuring a large illustration of the St. Louis Independent Packing Company with two enclosed invoices. The illustrated envelope is franked with a two-cent red Washington stamp (Scott #487) and posted with a 1917 machine cancelation. All are in nice shape; the left edge of the envelope has some very light toning.The envelope illustration shows the company's massive plant located in St. Louis's 'Butcher Town" which at one time was home to 27 different meat packing companies of which Independent was the largest.
The two enclosed invoices were for a variety of products including Bologna Sausage, Bacon Round Jowl Butt, Beef Sides, Bacon Fat Back, Salt Butts, and Tubs of Pure Lard. Each bears a purple overstamp reading "Sausage shipped by Local Freight at Buyer's risk of Spoilage."
At one time Texas longhorn steers were carried across the Mississippi River on the Carr Street and North Market ferries from railyards in East St. Louis. Once on the Missouri side, they were… Read More

New York City, 1897. Unbound. Very good. This example of the first U.S. paid-reply postal card set (Scott #UY1) is unsevered; the postal message card (Scott #PM1) remains attached to its postal reply card (Scott #PR1). The indicia on both one-cent cards feature a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant as President. The postal message card was sent from D. Appleton and Company to Lieutenant J. C. Bush, U.S. Army at New York City's Governor's Island. It bears a duplex New York City postmark dated October 2, 1897. The postal reply card is uncancelled; it features an illustration in gold, blue-black, and gilt of a set of Appleton's Military Library Great Commanders Series. There is a near invisible two-inch mended split along the right edge of the message. Still in nice shape with little other wear; displays well from either side. The text accompanying the illustration of the book set reads in part: "Miniature Reproduction of "The Army and Navy" Artistic Edition of / Appleton's Military Library Great… Read More

New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, 1923.
This 8" x 6" album contains 37 b/w photographs, each measuring approximately 4.75" x 3". The crisp, well-composed snapshots are chronologically arranged and neatly glued to the album pages. Most have been captioned in white, but much of the writing has faded.
In addition to the rugged workmen, equipment, and environment of 1920s oil fields, these images show the men's Model T Ford, roadside tent camping, and a big campsite at Cleveland's Euclid Beach Park. Ohio became home to one of the first oil booms in the United States in the 1860s after a blacksmith, William Jeffrey, drilled a successful well in Trumbull County. The discovery of oil near Woodville in 1892 started a boom that lasted until 1905 by which time the area was mostly drained although drilling and pumping continued in a few of the area's fields.
A historically valuable visual record of life as a traveling roughneck in the eastern oil fields.
Rather scarce. At the time of this listing, no other Ohio… Read More

London: Strangeways, Printers, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Privately printed and limited to 100 copies. Green cloth cover with printed paper spine label. 35 deckle-edge pages with photo frontispiece of an actual diary page. Protective tissue present. Light wear. Minor sunning to spine; label chipped. Clean pages. Owned by famed book collector Waring Jones, whose signature (in ink) and edition annotation (in pencil) are on the front free endpaper. This is the foundation of Conrad's masterpiece, The Heart of Darkness.