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1866 MITCHELL'S NEW GENERAL ATLAS1866 MITCHELL'S NEW GENERAL ATLAS Pennsylvania,1866"Mitchell's New General Atlas" published in 1866 by S. Augustus Mitchell bound in brown leather.
Sixteen Massachusetts newspapersSixteen Massachusetts newspapers of the late 1830s and early 1840s and a copy of the Salem Democrat of Salem, Indiana, dated January 1, 1879.
1856 U.S. Half Cent braided hair1856 U.S. Half Cent braided hair extra fine.
1 vol. Harper's Weekly. New York,1 vol. Harper's Weekly. New York, 1872. Vol. XVI. Folio, contemp. 1/4 morocco & marbled bds., gilt-lettered spine; scuffed, corners rubbed away, joints rubbed. Numerous wood-engraved illus. Internally clean. Includes 3 full-page illus. after Winslow Homer: "Making Hay," "On The Beach, Two Are Company," "Under The Falls, Catskill Mountains," Thomas Nast political illus., fold. bird's-eye view of Philadelphia (repaired on verso fold), Aftermath of Boston Fire, double-page Stanley & Livingstone Meeting (split in center). Complete year.
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THE UNITED STATES: 1776-1846 ATTHE UNITED STATES: 1776-1846 AT ONE VIEWThe United States: 1776-1846 At One View. New York: H. Phelps, 1846. Hand-colored lithograph of a variety of statistics related to the United States, including populations, canals, railroads, steam boat routes, mountains, and more. 22 x 30”. Light foxing and creasing particularly at margins. B.
Letters Between the Sturges BrothersLetters Between the Sturges Brothers Most Antebellum Including J.R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA These 58 letters encompass a "snapshot" of antebellum life in the South.Samuel Sturges (1774-1831) was born in Fairfield Co. CT. He arrived in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary war although the exact date is uncertain. They were in Georgia by 1801 and in Waynesborough (now Waynesboro) by 1804. In May of 1804 he married Rachel Lowery (1786-1837). Samuel became one of the leaders of the community one of five members of the Board of Town Incorporators and was elected in 1813 as one of the first five commissioners. He held other town positions through his lifetime there.Samuel and Rachel had three children: Jane Robinson (1809-1817) William Urquhart (1816-1884) and John Reynolds (1827-1862). In the 1830 Census Samuel lists 10 slaves. William seems to have spent most of his career as a hotel keeper although he occasionally became something of a merchant picking up items for townspeople when he or his agents went to New York for supplies. Samuel died in 1831 when his youngest son was only three. Rachel followed but six years later.About this time the U.S. government was moving native peoples off their lands and the Cherokee had prime farm land in Georgia. The tribe appealed to the Supreme Court and won but President Andrew Jackson had the U.S. Army move them off their land anyway in what would be known as the "Trail of Tears". The Cherokee Land Lottery of 1832 indicates that the orphans of Samuel Sturges received lottery number 115 for the 8th District 1st section and Rachel (Rachael) received 143 for the 6th District 3rd Section. William would have been an adult at the time of Rachel's death so presumably he continued raising his younger brother John and the brothers remained close for life. William appears in the mid-century censuses as a hotel keeper but may have been a merchant earlier (implied in some of his letters).By 1844 John had made his way "up east." In the first letter in the collection William writes to John [4 Sept. 1844] in Princeton NJ passing along brotherly advice particularly about health issues: I am glad you took the step you did by entering on your studies soon after your arrival and congratulate yourself & John Shewmaker upon your success in entering the Sophomore class. I trust neither of you will flag yet I would advise that you keep an eye on your health. In that climate the constitution is easily undermined by leading too sedentary a life. Provide yourself with some means of bodily exercise perform some daily labour or take pedestrian exercise. Exercise with the "dumb bells" will tend to expand the chest and develop the muscles of the arms. These may seem of no importance now and may make seemingly no very great improvement in your feelings while you continue the use. They may be used as preventions. He also suggests that the young men enlist an agent to cash checks sent up to them and to hold any monies which were not immediately needed.On occasion William discusses politics in his letters. November of 1844 is one of those occasions being a presidential election year. (reconstructed letters in brackets.) The news political of this State is that sh[e] has cast her vote for Mr. Polk for president. The lat[e] [re]turns indicate that Mr. Polk will be our next President Much [to] the surprise of all politicians. I must feel as an American citizen should feel no little mortification at the result of this [con]test. I do heartily rejoice however that it is over. We have been from one end of this union to the other in a perfect stew and as the Whig "Pot" has boiled over and spilt all the fat in the fire (excuse this sentence) & we cannot make amends I trust we will have a little quiet & a little more trade and I truly hope a good deal more good feeling from our neighbors to another. The people will now return to their uniform Christian feelings. He goes on to note that the local medical college has resumed with an overflow class of 125 students and describes the amusements in town - the theater circus a ventriloquist / magician.William seems to have gone "all out" into Whig politics. The party formed largely in opposition to Jacksonian policies. It advocated investment in roads and railroads to tie the country together economically. Henry Clay one of the better known leaders of the party advocated returning proceeds from the sale of public lands to the states to make these improvements. This would certainly have been an attractive position for these members of the "merchant class " increasing the availability and decreasing the price of goods. At one point William writes referring to the folks in Burke and Waynesboro: Those people are to be envied somewhat for their quiet (seeming) happiness. But truly is a life of that kind to be objected to because of the excess of doing naught that tends to the usefulness or benefits of the human family. They have no meetings or gatherings but for frivolous amusement. He goes on to say that Augusta is determined to turn itself into a manufacturing town but so far "all talk no action." [30 Jan. 1845] In October 1845 William notes that Georgia elected a Whig governor [George Crawford] and would likely elect a Whig senator.Other Whig party leaders included William Henry Harrison and Daniel Webster. After Harrison's death John Tyler became president and his stand on states' rights was even stronger than most particularly attractive to the South as abolition issues were heating up. In 1847 Webster made a trip to this small southern town which William describes in his letter of 29 May: The very distinguished Mr. Webster of Massachusetts has been among us for some time near a week. He being detained on a/c [account] of health. He received from men of all parties the most marked attention and I hope will return well impressed with Southern hospitality and the better understanding our institutions particularly that of slavery. He says he will go home and tell his people what pleasure he derived from this time. He spent one day and night in Waynesboro when all the village visited him except Mr. Douglass.William seems to be a bit mistrusting of politicians generally. In a postscript to his letter of 20 Feby. 1845: A Duel which took place on the morning of the 20th (yesterday) terminated in the death of one of the combatants. They were double Brothers-in-Law and citizens of So. Ca. They fought at a distance of ten paces with muskets. From report there is another hostile party making preliminaries now in the city. They are to fire at 10 feet distant with pistols. This party are men who have been in high confidence in State Offices. It does not speak well of their morals without which no man can be safely trusted or truly great.By late in 1845 John and his friend decided that they did not really like Princeton although specific reasons are not indicated. They seem to have decided on Yale. In December 1845 William advises his brother: After conversation with John T. Shoemaker who had just reached here I have reconsidered your proposition to leave Princeton and now give my consent that you do so if you wish; the only advice I can give you is that you make the best possible use of your time while in any college.. I hope you will get into as few quarrels with the abolitionists in and about New Haven as possible for you must know that this is the hotbed of abolitionism and constant subject for conversation even among the old maids of which that place abounds in confused numbers. And abolition isn't the only issue to be considered [6 Jan. 1846]: I cannot know myself how or why either of the institutions may be the better for your education and would have preferred your graduating at Princeton only because it is know[n] as a "Southern institution "[emph. added] and I had presumed that you were as pleasantly located there as at any place except home.There was also a family connection to the area and it appears that John was curious about the family history and that may have attracted him to New Haven. William writes [18 Jany. 1846]: I am unable to give you as yet any clue to any members of our family. As to our Fathers family I can only say that within the state of Connecticut there must still some reside and very probably many near New Haven. Our Father was I think a native of Fairfield and presume that there was none of his immediate progenitors (?) living at or about the time of his death. I know only of one Brother to him and he died in this place now many years since.. [Nathaniel Sturges Sr. died in Waynesboro 7 Nov. 1826] We have no relations in the north but upon the Father's side and our Mothers being now nearly extinct.. However a number of times William emphasizes that John's education is more dependent on his efforts than on the school he chooses [4 Jany. 1846]: I have no objections to the change [of schools] and leave it entirely to your own discretion to stop at either of the institutions. .There is I think little depending on the institution you may pursue your collegiate course in or at least much less than upon your own industry and pursuit after knowledge. [18 Jany. 1846] I cannot deem it necessary or even prudent to lay out any path for your future course through life.. I desire you if it suits you to study Law. He is for any education that can be obtained - for anyone. It appeared that John's friend John Shewmaker could no longer afford to live in the East and continue in college. [8 Nov. 1845] If I were John I would exact the sum sufficient from my guardian to take me [through the] course - It might infringe a little upon my estate but the "value recd." would doubly compensate for the expenditure so made.William makes another interesting recommendation to his brother. [18 Jany. 1846] I will propose one thing which in after I think you will not repent(?) of following and this is that you look about when you return home for a good wife with a comfortable little fortune not however for her fortune alone. Earlier he warned of marrying in haste. He notes that there are six weddings in the next few weeks and hopes those who "act in haste" may not have cause "to repent at leisure" [8 Nov. 1845]. He also relates the story of a friend Nancy W. who became engaged to a gentleman she knew only a short time [20 Octr. 1845]. Her guardian persuaded her to wait a bit to marry. Two days later the man was engaged to her sister according to William proving the adage "one of the name was as good as the same." William does however suggest the man would have made a good husband. He had been twice widowed and had 3 children including an infant of only three months probably explaining his "rush to the altar."Along with the "states' rights" issues of the Whig party abolition was rearing its head as William's comment about New Haven indicates: A rumour is at present being circulated from Burke that Saml. Russell has run off with some several Negroes the property of different person near Waynesboro. Sam has very mysteriously disappeared from Burke and since the Christmas Holiday the negroes have not been heard of and further proof of his guilt by the testimony of a gentleman returning from the ??? part of this state that he saw him on board of some Steam Boat bound westward. The supposition is that he has [illeg.] his course for Texas via New Orleans and steps have been taken to follow him. We can only hope that justice may reach the offenders of the Law so speedily as to be to others a good warning . A letter from his niece Abby indicates the general attitude of this family toward "the help." She went to Savannah for a visit and [11 Feb. 1846]: On my way home I stopped at Waynesboro for three or four hours. While there I went round to see Cousin Betsy Douglas whom I found quite well. .I saw all the servants they were all quite well and want to see you very much indeed. Whenever they see me the first question is when did you hear from Mas. John and how is he. You know they are all to be sold next month. Uncle William is going to try and buy them all in as he hates to have them separated. Old Aunt Beckey hated it very much she can scarcely speak of it without tears coming into her eyes. A letter from William a month or so later indicates that he did just that. [9 March 1846] I remained in the village [Waynesboro] until after the sale which resulted in my purchasing all the negroes except little Becky who Mr. Dowse bot [bought] for Abby & Mary Ann and her daughters who was bot by Sid Dowse as was previously agreed upon. The servants are all now well satisfied and hope not to be harassed by the fear of being sold again soon. For the present they will all remain in Waynesboro but I presume soon to find a good situation for Lizzy here. Eliza will remain with Dr. Mst. and Celia will remain as a kind of nurse to Old Aunt Becky. In nearly every letter the servants send their regards and William reports their health status as well as that of the family.Health was a major concern especially in Georgia summers. The end of May brought the end of the school term and the end of the social season especially as that segment of the population would generally leave for the worst of the summer. In May 1845 William wrote: I . commend your contemplated tour on foot. I cannot advise however to make the tour if you must expose yourself to the sun through the month of July. Having been shut up in coledge [sic] regulation for many months previous I should think you are but ill prepared to much exposure to the sun and the consequent fatigue of such an undertaking. . I would advise.a trip as a manner of recreating the mind and seeing something of the many places of renown of which our glorious land abounds. He notes there was a party for a newly married couple This party winds up the gayiety of the village at least for this season. Many of those who move from Burke left the same week for their summer residences and the village is now left with its usual number of "Summer inhabitants " and entirely rid of its young folks. .I am sorry to say that old Aunt Becky's health is fast declining though she yet continues to go about. The rest of our servants are all well. Apparently William followed other residents of Burke County and went to Madison Springs: I am at quite a delightfull place being one of the fashionable resorts for the gay and fashionable of this State & SoCa. I have been drinking freely of the medicinal water here and find from it a great benefit induced thus far. I feel my strength much recovered & can see a decided improvement in fullness of person. After a period he writes John again apologizing that he has not written sooner but he did not want to be thought unsociable. [8 Sept. 1845] I have recovered in a very considerable degree the strength that a debility of two summers had rid me of. I consider the water here efficacious & the air fine and bracing but the constant exercise the spirits are compelled to take in part with the company goes a greater ways in the restoration of many visitors than anything else. .I think I have come in for my share of the good benefits of very agreeable society and do offer up my thanks for the advantage enjoyed. Indicates (at end of the letter) that it has been a dry year: So far as I can learn the health of that part of Georgia considered sickly in summer is better than I've known and the people have nothing to complain of but the shortness of the crop. They will make a sufficiency of provisions and a ? crop of cotton. This will for those who are out of debt but those - and they are many - who presumed to pay old debts from the proceeds of this crop must be disappointed. In the counties of the state from this to the Tennessee line the crop of provisions promises to be so short that many have made arrangement to leave the country and seek some place where corn is plenty. There has been quite a flood of emigrants from Carolina to Tennessee in search of cheap provisions. I am glad to know that they will find it quite low there. Considerable distress must be experienced among the poor of some sections as they have neither provisions or the means to buy them. Yet we feel assured that there will be no starving as the sympathies of the more independent class will move them to the relief of the needy. Even into October he notes the relative health of the area during the summer but with the dry weather comes "insufferable heat."As winter came around however he recommended to John that he find a doctor up in New Haven: I would advise that you get a good Medical person to vaccinate you as the Small Pox seems to be traveling the "country all over" - and you are by necessity associated with persons from every part of the land. Of course smallpox vaccinations were used even by George Washington during the Revolutionary War and William understood exposure risk to the disease in those urban population centers. Less clear seems to be their understanding of other "tropical diseases." In 1848 [3 July] he writes to Johns that there is much sickness in Augusta. Germans were working on a canal living in filthy conditions and the doctor was reporting cases of yellow fever. We now know that neither "Germans" nor "filthy conditions" (per se) would have been responsible for this outbreak - but more likely the canal itself since this would have been an excellent breeding ground for the mosquitoes that carry this disease (although that knowledge did not come until construction of the Panama Canal though suspected somewhat earlier).Besides politics slavery and other moral issues late in John's college career William addresses the other "third rail." You must excuse me my dear Brother that I have never mentioned the subject of Religion when writing to you. . That I know a just part is for us to perform which upon this earth and that we will have to account for all the deeds done in the body to a just God is sufficient to warn me always to a proper course through life. He goes on to say that he has not joined a church because he finds many of the "code of laws governing them" impossible for mere mortals to follow and many of them are "petty and unnecessary." However a couple years earlier when niece Abby joined the Presbyterian church William commented [28 April 1845] I consider the garb of Religion gives peculiar beauty to the female (young particularly) character.Another view of the Southern social scene comes from Abby's letters. Abby married 20 May 1846 and several letters from William deal with John's preparations to return home for both the wedding and summer break. In the autumn Abby writes that she and her new husband left Bath shortly after John did (presumably to return to school) and they went to the seaboard then on to Mr. Jones' family home. Although worried about how she would be received by his family she was received warmly as a member of the family. She tells her cousin [30 Sept. 1846]: ...for nothing is more pleasant than to be beloved particularly in the circle in which we are to move and I sincerely trust that hereafter my actions will not be such as to forfeit the confidence and esteem of these kind friends.You can readily perceive my dear Uncle that my situation at first upon arriving at the home of my husband was peculiarly delicate and embarrassing. A few weeks had wrought a strange and sudden revolution in my existence. A young girl surrounded by her family circle engrossed with maidenly occupation and concerned only with the passing events of the home was transformed into the wife the home of her childhood forsaken and a new train of duties attendant upon this change opened to her view. This responsibility for a time was felt very acutely but the cordial reception of which I have spoken of before in a short time banished these feelings and I felt not only reconciled to but delighted with my future prospects. Every member of the family welcomed me to their midst and I already feel identified with them in every particular. Later she adds: I have been busily employed preparing for housekeeping which I hope to commence about the last of November. I look forward to the time with a great deal of pleasure and yet with fear to [sic] for I have so little experience in the mysteries of housekeeping. I dare say I will do many things that is wrong yet all had to learn by experience .I suppose that I will have to do the same. She then suggests that she will have William or someone pick up items for her that are cheaper in the North than at home another reality of Southern life even antebellum.John graduated from Yale in 1847 but seems to have remained in the north for a bit. There is one letter from William addressed to John in New Haven with a postal stamp for July 1848. William for his part married Georgia Ann Ward (1826 - 1905) on 10 Aug. By 1850 John had returned to Georgia where the 1850 census shows him as a 22-year-old schoolteacher living with William plus just over a dozen single men two couples and a widow with two daughters in the hotel/boarding house. John seems to have also been studying law in Augusta at the same time. In 1852 John became County Surveyor for Burke County and there are about 20 letters from the 1850s relating to this role. One of the early ones is to another surveyor asking what they charge for surveying etc. apparently trying to determine his rates in this new occupation. Another letter relates to measurements of the variation in magnetic deviation from true north. A few of the requests become rather insistent: I am getting in a hurry about that surveying and I wish you to come over tonight - so that you can make an early start as I wish you to do some surveying in different places.Most of the letters contain requests for surveys or documents from earlier surveys but one contains political opinions along with a request for paperwork on a property. Sam P. Davis [9 July 1852] suggests that political excitement is waning and only a 3rd candidate is likely to get people interested again. He notes that if the election is only between the present candidates he would vote for Pierce since "Pierce can show a clean hand on the n---er question [his underline]. This is more than can be said of Scott." The question of slavery was foremost in the minds of local "movers and shakers." Scott had come out as anti-slavery (a problem for southern voters) in spite of the Whig pro-slavery platform (a problem for northern voters). Daniel Webster rejected by his Whig party as their candidate ran as a Union Party (basically Southern Whigs) candidate and despite the fact that he died before the election still received several thousand Georgia votes!In 1860 John was still living in William's hotel/boarding house along with 15 men many of whom were also law students or lawyers and an older woman and her adult son. He never seems to have found his "good wife with a comfortable little fortune" suggested by brother William but he did seem to be building his own home. After the November election South Carolina seceded and several other states called their own conventions. Georgia's election of delegates to the convention that would determine her course occurred on the second day of the new year. These delegates then convened in Milledgeville on the 16th to begin debating the issue. By the 19th George Crawford convention president and former Whig governor declared Georgia officially seceded from the United States. Within two more weeks the infant Confederate States of America formed and two months later the offspring nation was at war with her northern parent. The last six letters are war da Condition: Variable as expected. Only one with insect/rodent damage extensive enough for loss of text.
USS Brooklyn Landsman George TittleUSS Brooklyn Landsman George Tittle Civil War Archive This archive of seven letters written between January 16 and June 18 1861 by Surgeon??Ts Steward George A. Tittle aboard the USS Brooklyn gives the reader an eyewitness account of some of the earliest actions of the war at Fort Pickens in Pensacola as well as Brooklyn??Ts encounter with a notorious English blockade runner at the start of her illicit career. On January 16 1861 Tittle writes his sister mentioning obliquely the Brooklyn??Ts mission to besieged Fort Sumter: Since you received my last we have been to Charleston - arrived there on the 12th and returned here on the 14th... Only two of our officers have resigned they are from Alabama all the others are ?true blue.? The Brooklyn had been sent to deliver new orders to the ship Star of the West which was en route to Fort Sumter with desperately needed supplies. However Confederate shore gunners forced the supply ship to abandon her mission before the Brooklyn caught up with her. After reconnoitering the defenses at Charleston the Brooklyn returned to Hampton Roads where she was loaded with troops and artillery to reinforce various forts in Florida in an attempt to prevent their seizure by Rebel forces. On January 31 Tittle writes from Key West: ...tomorrow we leave for Tortugas where we will leave a lot of Howitzers and Field Pieces we have on board for the Fort there then we will proceed to Fort ?Pickens? (Santa Rosa Island near the Pensacola Navy Yard) where we will leave the Soldiers we received on board from Fort ?Monroe. The Brooklyn arrived at Fort Jefferson on Dry Tortugas on February 2 and then proceeded on their mission to reinforce Fort Pickens. When they arrived off Pensacola on February 6 they found a truce in effect at Fort Pickens similar to the one governing events at Fort Sumter. The Pensacola Navy Yard and the other surrounding forts had been seized but the rebel commander promised not to attack Fort Pickens if the US did not reinforce the tiny garrison there. Since neither side wanted to be the one to start a shooting war the Union warships were ordered not to land their reinforcements. Quoting Tittle??Ts February 7 letter (note that this letter is mistakenly dated 1860 but references the contents of the January 31 1861 letter): The troops are still on board of us... On our arrival here we received dispatches ordering us not to land the troops until further orders from Washington. The Union squadron comprising USS Wyandotte (which had escaped Pensacola Navy Yard where she was under repair when Florida seceded from the Union) USS St. Louis USS Sabine and USS Brooklyn packed with soldiers patrolled off Fort Pickens for the next ten weeks. On April 12 Fort Sumter was attacked by Confederate forces in Charleston igniting the war. Events quickly developed in Pensacola when the news arrived as Tittle relates in his letter of the 21st: On the night of the 12th inst. it was rumored that the secessionists were making preparation for an attack on Fort Pickens before sunrise in consequence of which we received the ?Sabine??Ts? & ?St. Louis? Marines and some of their sailors on board and ran up near the Fort and landed them with the soldiers and our Marines (in all about 350 men) who immediately marched into the Fort; this manouver being seen by the secessionists caused them to postpone the attack... Yesterday the Sailors & Marines returned from the fort to the fleet - there are now over one thousand men (soldiers) in the fort and they are engaged day and night in mounting guns inside and erecting Sand-Batteries and placing large Mortars along the beach while the sailors are busy with boats landing Ordnance provisions &c from the Store Ships. Two weeks later he proudly writes his sister that: The work on Fort Pickens and the several Batteries on Santa Rosa island is so nearly completed as to be able in a very few days to defy the whole force of the Southern Confederacy. The last letter of the archive is dated June 8 1861 and finds the Brooklyn off the mouth of the Mississippi River in company with USS Powhatan capturing blockade runners. On May 31 the Brooklyn encounters the soon-to-be notorious British blockade runner General Miramon: on the 31st a steamer hove in sight with a secession flag at her peak and on discovering us hauled down the secession and hoisted the English flag and stood off to the S.W.; we immediately went in pursuit of her and when we were about a mile and a half astern of her fired a shot to heave her to but she paid no attention to it; we then gave her a 10 inch shell (from our pivot Gun) which burst directly over her and had the desired effect; she proved to be the ?Genl Miramon? (formerly a Mexican Man of War) bound from Havana to New Orleans. - as our captain had some doubts as to her being a legal prize he sent her in charge of a prize crew to the captain of the U.S. Str. ?Niagara? off Mobile who left her at Havana a short time ago for him to decide if she is a prize or not. A former warship belonging to the conservative rebel faction in the Mexican civil war of 1860 the General Miramon had recently been purchased in New Orleans by blockade runners. Official records show that Mr. Golding the British captain carried British registration for the ship and claimed that he sailed from Havana with a cargo of cigars before news of the blockade had arrived hence the question of her status. The Brooklyn??Ts prize crew sailed the Miramon to Mobile where records show that Captain Golding begged Captain McKean of the USS Niagara to let him into port. The Miramon was out of coal and food and had a very sick woman passenger on board. Despite signing a pledge to not offload or accept any cargo in exchange for being allowed to dock Golding promptly sold his cargo and bought another to export escaping to Havana before he was caught. His actions led to a serious diplomatic incident between the US and Britain at the highest level. The Miramon made five blockade runs before being captured for good under the name Elizabeth on May 27 1862 by USS Keystone State while inbound to Charleston. George A. Tittle enlisted in the US Navy on January 11 1859 as a surgeon??Ts steward. He served aboard the USS Brooklyn until she was decommissioned for overhaul in October 1861 re-enlisting as surgeon??Ts steward on December 3 for duty on the USS Kearsarge. He was on board Kearsarge when she sank the CSS Alabama off Cherbourg France on June 19 1864. He completed his term of enlistment on December 2 1864 after Kearsarge??Ts return to the US.
Book dated 1821.Book dated 1821.
1766 LONDON CHRONICLE NEWSPAPERFascinating1766 LONDON CHRONICLE NEWSPAPERFascinating early example. Dated April 24, 1766. shipping info This item can be shipped in-house.
1861 Harper's Weekly ''Charleston1861 Harper's Weekly ''Charleston Duringthe Bombardment of Sumter''.
A hand coloured print in supportA hand coloured print in support of John Wilkes imprisoned for libelling Parliament dated 1768 together with 19th c. prints titled ''Un Tournoi'' and '' Un Melee''.
1812 alphabet and verse sampler,1812 alphabet and verse sampler, four lines of letters and numbers over an eight line verse titled "The fair Ladie's wish", stitched on last line "Philena Severance", lower panel 15 window building with birds perched on roof beside a fenced garden, "1812" written in pencil bottom center, silk on linen, unframed, American, possibly Massachusetts or New Hampshire, early 19th century, 13 x 10 in. Tear to linen ground upper left and upper right, browning and fading. The Estates of Ward and Stout Families, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Twenty-five black and white engravingsTwenty-five black and white engravings (16th to 18th Century, all cut)
1800 Georgia law digest: Robert1800 Georgia law digest: Robert and George Watkins, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia, From Its First Establishment as a British Province Down to the Year 1798, Inclusive, and the Principal Acts of 1799: In Which is comprehended the declaration of Independence; The State Constitutions of 1777 and 1789, with the alterations and amendments of 1794: Also the Constitution of 1798 , printed by R. Aitken, Market Street, Philadelphia, 1800, early pages include the address to the public dated Augusta, 1 July 1799, probably original full calf leather, 837 pp. plus index, 10 x 8-1/4 in. Binding fair, added end papers and spine reinforcement, extensive abrasions and losses at corners and spine, spine with extensive darkening and flaking, moderate overall browning and foxing, title page dark with dampstains.
TWO SIXTH PLATE TINTYPES. AmericanTWO SIXTH PLATE TINTYPES. American 3rd quarter-19th century. Two seated gentlemen in uniform one with a sword the other with a Springfield-type musket.
Lot of two Pre Civil War Daguerreotypes;Lot of two Pre Civil War Daguerreotypes; one with man in stovepipe hat, the other Dated 1854, both also illegibly identified on inner case lining.
1854 U.S. Seated Liberty Quarter1854 U.S. Seated Liberty Quarter very fine.
A Pennsylvania land grant on vellumA Pennsylvania land grant on vellum dated 6-22-1798, granting a property in Lycoming County named "Aberdeen" to James Strawbridge, and signed by Pennsylvania governor and Founding Father Thomas Mifflin (1744-1800). Mifflin was a Philadelphia merchant who was expelled by the Quakers for joining the Continental Army during the American Revolution, in which he served first as one of George Washington's aide-de-camps and then as Quartermaster General. After the Revolution he was the last President of Pennsylvania, succeeding Benjamin Franklin, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, in the course of which he was a Signer of the Constitution, and then the first Governor of Pennsylvania. This document was also signed by the first Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth, James Trimble (1755-1837), and by one Nathaniel Irwin.
Dated 1908 1922 and 1924Dated 1908 1922 and 1924
William Jennys American, 1774-1859William Jennys American, 1774-1859 Portrait of a Gentleman and Portrait of a Lady: Two
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[Civil War Ephemera] Two telegraphs[Civil War Ephemera] Two telegraphs on Baltimore & Ohio Railroads on telegraph letterhead the first from George William Brown to John Work Garrett April 21 1861 informing him that he had met with President Lincoln and the Cabinet and had been assured that the Massachusetts Regt. would be removed to Harrisburg the second from John E. Wool to the commandant of officers at Baltimore September 20 1862 ordering the safe passage to Baltimore of George L. Dobbin a political prisoner on parole Estimate $ 100-150
1851 Steel Engraving ''Hasting''after1851 Steel Engraving ''Hasting''after J.M.W. Turner engraved by R. Wallis image area 23'' x 15 1/2''.
WILLIAM STRICKLAND AFTER THOMASWILLIAM STRICKLAND AFTER THOMAS BIRCH (AMERICAN 19TH CENTURY) BETHLEHEM PENNSYLVANIA c. 1815 Aquatint: 15 x 21 in. (sight) Framed
1856 Large cent MS 651856 Large cent MS 65
1800 Georgia law digest: Robert1800 Georgia law digest: Robert and George Watkins, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia, From Its First Establishment as a British Province Down to the Year 1798, Inclusive, and the Principal Acts of 1799: In Which is comprehended the declaration of Independence; The State Constitutions of 1777 and 1789, with the alterations and amendments of 1794: Also the Constitution of 1798 , printed by R. Aitken, Market Street, Philadelphia, 1800, early pages include the address to the public dated Augusta, 1 July 1799, early full calf, inscribed in broad script on end paper "James Thomas, His Book, price ten dollars, May 29th, 1803", 837 pp. plus index, 10-3/8 x 8-1/4 in. Front board loose and weak, extensive scuffs, abrasions, large burn on front board, interior with dampstains in early pages, light to heavy browning throughout with scattered foxing, hinges cracked.
Leatherbound Books: History StephensLeatherbound Books: History Stephens Alexander H. A CONSTITUTIONAL VIEW OF THE LATE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. Vols. I-II. Philadelphia: National Publishing Co. 1868.; Guizot M. A POPULAR HISTORY OF FRANCE. Trans. Robert Black. Vols. I-VI. Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat n.d. (circa 1870).; THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. 2 vols. Boson: James Munroe 1842-1843.; Lincoln Abraham. THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley. Vols. I-VIII. New York: Lamb Publishing 1905; Marmontel Florian and Arnaud. NUMA POMPILIUS SECOND ROI DE ROME LES INCAS and VARBECK. Biblioteque Amusante editions. 6vols. Paris and Venise: n.p. 1787-1788. In orginal paper bindings.; Irving Washington [Diedrich Knickerbocker]. A HISTORY OF NEW YORK. Vol. II. New York: Inskeep & Bradford 1809. (25pcs) Provenance: Estate of the late Francis D. ''Skeeter'' McNairy Savannah Georgia. Back   Inquiry    Previous Item  Next Item © Charlton Hall Auctions. Images descriptions and condition reports used on this site are original copyright material and are not to be reproduced without permission. For further information telephone 803.779.5678   © 2012 CHARLTON HALL GALLERIES INC.
19th century map of Charleston,19th century map of Charleston, S.C., "The Siege of Charlestown", depicting the June 18, 1776 British attack on Charleston Harbor, published by Richard Phillips, London, 1806, copper engraving on laid paper, 10-1/2 x 14-1/4 in. (page). Loose, toning, minor foxing, stains, creases, minor tears and losses at margins (not affecting map).
WILLIAM STRICKLAND AFTER THOMASWILLIAM STRICKLAND AFTER THOMAS BIRCH (AMERICAN 19TH CENTURY) BETHLEHEM PENNSYLVANIA c. 1815 Aquatint: 15 x 21 in. (sight) Framed
A quantity of about fifteen 19thA quantity of about fifteen 19th century and later prints and paintings.
U.S. 1778 privateer license, partiallyU.S. 1778 privateer license, partially printed document headed "Congress. The Delegates of the United States…", licensing William McFadden, Commander of the Sloop Mars, belonging to John Maxwell Nesbitt and Co., "to fit out and set forth the said Sloop in a warlike manner…by Force of Arms, to attack, subdue and take all ships…carrying Soldiers, Arms, Gunpowder, Provisions…to any of the British Armies or Ships of War employed against these United States…Philadelphia, August 4, 1778", signed in brown ink, "Henry Laurens" as President, "Chas Thomson" as Secretary, and "T[imothy] Matlack, Secy of the Council of Pennsa", 8-3/4 x 13 in. Separated into four sections vertically at folds, rejoined with paper tape on verso, folds through "n" of "Laurens" and "Matlack", minor holes, edge chips and losses, marginal dampstains, toning. Descended in the family Lewis Tawes Matlack (later Birkhead), a descendant of Timothy Matlack, the engrosser who hand lettered the Declaration of Independence.