Search Results: Titles starting with G from Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC

Western Trade Token Collection with Additional Exonumia.Collection of forty-eight western tokens plus other exonumia composed mostly of merchant "good for" tokens, several Pony Express commemorative 'so-called-dollars', a tool-check, and a 'dog house' license. These were issued at various locales, mostly in Nevada with a couple from California. The tokens were identified by Palazzo, John Schilling, or Holabird Auctions. Palazzo's old and badly worn cardboard mounts have been replaced with new Lighthouse coin 'flips' and the original information has been transferred. Mixed condition; some near mint and others well-worn (as is common with many tokens). One of the images at the link displays a list of all the tokens which will also be provided in hard copy.Trade tokens were a form of unofficial 'minor coinage' made from base metals such as brass, copper, nickel, or aluminum and usually cast as circular disks, but occasionally as octagons, triangles, or in scalloped shapes. They seldom, if ever, had… Read More

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1858. 3rd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Revised, Enlarged, and Richly Embellished with Engravings." Complete with 267 pages and tissue-protected frontispiece showing the author. 28 full-page diagrams with in-text illustrations throughout. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages; front free endpaper has a faint corner crease. Light cover wear; the gilt cover decoration is in nice shape. The spine is sunned and the lettering is faded but still legible. . Includes information or the game's origin, tables, cues, cushions, balls, rules, techniques, shots, jargon, and playing rooms, as well as sections on billiards humor and Shakespeare as a billiard player. This was the second book on billiards published in the U.S. The Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame notes that "Michael Phelan is considered by many to be the Father of American Billiards as a player, inventor, manufacturer and tireless popularizer of billiards. He played in and won the first billiard… 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

Philadelphia: O. W. Gray & Son, 1877. Unbound. Very good. Approximately 14" x 17" including the margins. Strong, clear image with hand-coloring. This attractive map of St. Louis shows the streets of the city in detail. Additionally, locations of several historically important sites are shown: Lafayette Park, where Jere Frain laid out the city's first baseball diamond in the 1850s, The St. Louis Fairground (now Fairground Park) the site of annual St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Expositions where the first St. Louis Zoo (consisting of a monkey house, a carnivore house, a bear pit, and several other attractions) opened in 1876, Tower Grove Park, which had been donated to the city by Henry Shaw a scant nine years earlier, The Florissant Rail Road, a 16-mile narrow gauge passenger line that would open the following year and run between the intersection of Olive Boulevard and Grand Avenue in the city to St. Ferdinand Street in Florissant, Bridge, unlabeled but the only span crossing the… Read More