CICERO, DIALOGUS WITH MARGINALIA, PRINTED1505 Dialogus by Ciceronis. Printed 1505 by Quentel Modern limp vellum binding. Much marginalia persists including miniature designs and an occasional hand with a pointed...
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1469 CATHOLICON PRINTED INCUNABLE LEAF(GUTENBERG ATTR.)An early printed leaf of the Catholicon of Johannes Balbus of Genoa. Mainz, first printed in 1460, this from the second impression in 1469. Galliziani folio...
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DEVON FARM ARCHIVEA collection of materialrelated to Devon Farm, Nashville, Tennessee (plus 2 horse/cattle catalogs related to nearby Richland Farm). Includes: a medal for the Tennessee Agricultural and Mechanical...
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10 ASST. CHARLES DICKENS BOOKS, INCL.1ST EDITIONS, CRU...Ten (10) assorted writings, sketches, and plays, primarily by Charles Dickens, including SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADS. 1st item: SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADS,...
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W.W.I MANUSCRIPT OF U.S. LT. COL. MONROEA MEANSA type and bound manuscript detailing the day to day service of a young Pennsylvania man in training and in combat in WWI. Colonel Means wrote this manuscript for his...
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AN ANTIQUE MAP, "MAP OF LAMPASAS SPRINGS,TEXAS, LAMPAS...AN ANTIQUE MAP, "Map of Lampasas Springs, Texas, Lampasas County," DALLAS, CIRCA 1884, hand colored lithograph on paper with manuscript, published for Central...
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A REPUBLIC OF TEXAS MANUSCRIPT, SAMHOUSTON, SIGNED, LE... HOUSTON, SIGNED, LETTER TO SAM MAY WILLIAMS, CEDAR POINT AND GALVESTON, SEPTEMBER 1, 1841, hand-inscribed blue ink on Ives, Stergas & Co. cream laid...
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A REPUBLIC OF TEXAS BILL OF LADING FORSMUGGLER AND FOR... SMUGGLER AND FORGER MONROE EDWARDS, NEW ORLEANS TO GALVESTON, MAY 1, 1836, lithograph and manuscript ink on paper wove paper, shipping supplies listed...
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TWO ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS, ON PAPER,ORIENTALIST SCEN...Two Illustrated Manuscripts, on paper, Orientalist scene, having men on horseback, sight size 9 1/4" x 6" and 6 x 9 1/4". Provenance: The Estate of Alan...
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15TH C. JAVANESE MAJAPAHIT BRASS SARASWATIFIGURESoutheast Asia, Indonesia, Eastern Java, Majapahit Empire, ca. 15th to 16th century CE. This is a rare brass depiction of the Hindu goddess Saraswati, the goddess of...
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4 LETTERS HANDWRITTEN ON BOARD THE WHALESHIPGOSNOLDWHILE ON A WHALING VOYAGE WITH STOPS AT HONOLULU, YOKOHAMA AND THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. THE FIRST LETTER IS DATED FEB. 16, 1873. IT IS WRITTEN TO MR. HENRY WILLIS, NEW BEDFORD,...
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DANTE ALIGHIEIRI
LA COMEDIA di DanteAlighieri con la nova espositione de Alessandro Vellutello. Venice: Francesco Marconi for Alessandro Vellutello, 1544. Large 8vo, 87 wood-engraved illustrations, 3 of them...
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* DICKENS CHARLES The Posthumous Papersof the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman & Hall 1837. 8vo rebound in 3/4 calf over marbled boards marbled endpapers gilt-lettered spine. First English edition in book form early...
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Historic Guthrie Oklahoma/ChickamaugaPresentation Gavel to First Major D.B. Dyer With associated newspaper clipping and printed pamphlet relating to the opening of the Oklahoma Territory in 1889. The symbolic...
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Gilman Marston Civil War General andPolitician Manuscript Archive 233 letters 82 essays and speeches ca.80 deeds receipts and miscellaneous business records. Ca 1830-1900 (bulk 1834-1859). A son of Orford New...
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Five Richard Kidder Meade, Jr. ConfederateCivil War Letters, Civil War Era Photographs, Paintings, Meade Family Archive Virginia, 1861-1862: letter from Fort Sumter, March 21, 1861, to sister Julia Meade (1830-1906),...
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[Bonnet Carré Point Manuscript Map]"Subdivision of Batture at Bonnet Carré Point in the Parish of St. John Baptist LA" 1892 ink and hand-coloring on linen paper by George H. Grandjean with a detailed description...
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MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS LEAFAnexquisitely detailed book of hours manuscript leaf framed to depict both sides of the leaf 4.25'' H x 2.5'' W sight 14'' H x 12.5'' W frame. Private collection Grosse Pointe...
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Ben E. Green Politician & Colonel UnpublishedHandwritten Memoirs & Related Ephemera 406pp manuscript; 2 pamphlets. Ca 1900. It never ceases to amaze how so many arguments for the causes of the Civil come together combine...
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An Important Miami Pipe With Ties tothe 1795 Treaty of Greenville delicately carved curly maple stem with engraved bands of German silver and diamond-shaped inlay; brass mouthpiece and German silver tip; stem...
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*SWAMMERDAM JAN Tractatus physico-anatomico-medicusde respiratione usuque pulmonum. Leiden: Danielem Abraham & Adrian a Gaasbeeck 1667. Thin 12mo full vellum manuscript marginalia to title page. First edition of Swammerdam's...
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[Civil War - Manuscripts] Capt. HenryG. Thomas 11th US Infantry Civil War Letters Lot of 2 letters written by Captain Henry G. Thomas 11th U.S. Infantry 2nd Division V Corps Army of the Potomac. First is 4pp...
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Charles Hook Armco Steel Company Lotof Manuscripts & Documents Lot includes letters photographs pamphlets mostly from the late 1930s through the 1960s. Born in 1880 the youngest of four children of Henry and...
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[Civil War - Manuscripts] Civil WarSoldier's Letter Describing Sherman's March From Savannah GA 4pp dated January 5 1865 at Savannah Georgia. Writing to his brother P.H. Richardson You have doubtless learned...
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Early North Carolina Ephemera mid 18thto mid 19th century, most from central North Carolina counties, partially printed and manuscript surveys and court documents including bonds, judgments, arrest warrants, deeds,...
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