The Manuscript and Collectibles Sale

Partly-printed 5x9½&#34; shipping document listing &#34;<I>one Negro Girl on the Proper acct & Risque of Thomas Oxnard<...

A neatly-penned Philadelphia document, 7½x12&#34;, dated 14 April 1766, showing an account balance of Robert Elton with Thomas Hart. One...

Document written and signed by Charles Hurst, on laid, watermarked paper, 7½x9¼&#34;, no place, 8 May 1778. &#34;<I>Mr....

Document by which Isaac Stidham and Ann Shields &#34;<I>free our Negro Girl named Hetty aged Fifteen years…on condition that she…become b...

A 2-page letter from Tennessee to a man in Tuscaloosa, Al. In part, &#34;<I>I shall be a peaceable citizen under Harrisons administration...

Postcard photograph showing two young black men hanging from the same tree, as a crowd of white people mill about below, some smiling and one pointin

Receipt written by &#34;John Vanderin jun,&#34; 5¼x7¾&#34; &#40;Philadelphia&#41;, 29 Nov. 1778. Acknowledging re...

&#40;1856-1915&#41; American educator; born a slave; head of Tuskegee Institute. Typed Letter Signed on Tuskegee letterhead, 1p, 10½...

&#40;1856-1915&#41; A former slave who founded Tuskegee Institute in 1881; he became recognized as the nation&#39;s foremost black educ...

1892 medal commemorating the establishment of the BMS in 1792. White medal. On the obverse side, the top reads &#34;Baptist Missionary Centenar...

The sailing ship is pictured on one side with &#34;Launched at Harwich Mar. 20 1844&#34; and information on the size. The reverse states th...

Around the outer edge is &#34;The Lord Hath Done Great Things For Us Whereof We Are Glad.&#34; The reverse shows a white man preaching to a...

Bronze portrait medal by Lewis Pingo &#40;1743-1830&#41;, chief engraver of the Royal Mint, for the Royal Society, 1784, one of 574 struck....

Hawaiian language Royal Patent No. 261 Signed by Keoni Ana as Minister of the Interior and for Kamehameha, 2pp, 14¼x8½&#34;, Oahu...

&#40;1844-1926&#41; First Governor of the Territory of Hawaii. Partly-printed Document Signed as Governor, 3pp, 16x10½&#34;, Sou...

Hawaiian language property deed, 2pp, 13¾x8¼&#34;, Oahu, 29 February 1868. A transaction naming physician, historian and ethnolog...

1½pp, 12½x7¾&#34;, 28 January 1857. Deed by which Peter Johnson Gulick buys from O.H. Gulick and Alvah K. Clark the tract ...

&#40;1814-54&#41; He became King &#40;1824-54&#41; after his brother, King Liholiho, died from measles while visiting London. Hawai...

Hawaiian language Royal Patent No. 261 Signed as King, 2pp, 13¼x8¼&#34;, Honolulu, 10 May 1850. Partly-printed and accomplished i...

&#40;1834-63&#41; Reigned 1854-63. Partial document Signed &#34;<I>Kamehameha</I>,&#34; being the signature and seal po...

By Andrew Law, published by E. Lincoln, according to an Act of Congress, 5½x9&#34;, in three parts, single hard-cover volume, 264pp. Pro...

10¾x8½&#34; engraving of &#34; Revd. William Staughton D.D. Pastor of the Baptist Church in Sansom Street Philadelphia,&#...

Issued to &#34;Clement A. Finley of the State of Ohio, U.S. Army, Doctor of Medicine&#34; and signed by William Barton, Professor of Botany...

Partly-printed document certifying that Mrs. Mary P. Moore is a member for life of the Infant School Society by payment of one hundred dollars, 11,...

A rare and desirable membership into the invitation-only intellectual society founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 and still in existence today, 9&...

A rare and unique presentation copy consisting of six pieces: the transmittal envelope sent to the Library of Congress by Charles Zimmerling 14 April

Papers of the U.S. Sailing Ship &#34;Jasper&#34; of Fairhaven, Mass., captained by Elihu Gifford. A group of 19 papers related to the &...

Original ink drawing, c. 1898, showing American and British soldiers, with their respective flags, which they plan to set &#34;<I>floatin...

An archive from the family of Elisha Cotton Winchell, whose family originated in Massachusetts and in 1837 moved to Elmira, Missouri &#40;an 18...

First Edition of <I>Good Times with Our Friends</I>, by Dorothy Baruch and Elizabeth Montgomery, New York: Scott, Foresman and Company,...

A wonderful chalk Tobacciana advertising statue of the famous cartoon character &#34;Jiggs&#34; of &#34;Maggie & Jiggs&#34; fro...

Two albums of over 90 beautiful, pristine orange crate and other fruit labels, most of them 10x11&#34;. Citrus labels were printed between 1880...

A collection of items related to California. Three items are related to Stanford University: two vintage photos labeled &#34;Stanford Collectio...

2 Vols, published by Carey Lea & Cary, Philadelphia, 1829. Written by a British Royal Navy Captain, discussing his observations on various subj...

Most are approximately 13x10&#34;. Ten songs by Stephen Foster are included, among which are: &#34;My Old Kentucky Home,&#34; &#34;...

A group of some 195 photographs of men, women, children and places. Various sizes: 80 are cabinet size or larger; over 55 are carte-de-visite photogr

Group of 28 used envelopes, including 14 Wells Fargo envelopes, 9 cacheted, patriotic Civil War envelopes; one each of Pacific Union Express Co., The

A collection of over 150 song sheets, the majority of which are from the Civil War period or earlier. Over 90 have fully illustrated black and white

Re-constructed shield with gray background containing 39 specimen notes of the first three issues of postage and fractional currency, including the G

&#34;Greiling Münz Sammlung,&#34; issued in Dresden in 1929. There are between 500 and 600 cards from numerous countries laid in the o...

Sixteen handcolored political cartoons, one from 1879 by Currier & Ives &#40;framed&#41;, but most from the 1890s by Keppler and Schwar...

Approximately 200 advertising cards of various sizes, many for companies from the New England area, selling clothing, shoes, soap, cough syrup, threa

Most by Underwood & Underwood, early 1900s, all fine. Includes historic sites in Palestine and Syria, tea preparation in Japan, a Chinese execu...

Carte-de-visite photograph of Agoston Haraszthy, the Hungarian aristocrat who planted the first vineyard in California; he is called the &#34;F...

Colorful labels for a variety of products, such as sewing machines, life insurance, soaps, clothiers, coffee, etc. Overall fine. Should be seen to be

Issued by Governor Levi Lincoln on 19 Oct. 1832 and Governor Edward Everett on 28 Sept. 1838, ordering a &#34;Day of Public Thanksgiving and Pr...

2 Vols, published by Monson Bancroft, New York, 1834 and 1835. This was the first issue of these volumes, which contain 70 portraits and biographies

Carte-de-visite photograph of Tom Thumb&#39;s wedding &#40;10 Feb. 1863&#41;, published by E. and H.T. Anthony from a Mathew Brady nega...

An announcement for the &#34;<B>Farewell Tour of the Golden Gate Vaudevilles</B>&#34; of &#34;100 Performers 100 Count Them...

5¼x7&#34;, each attractively matted and framed to13½x16&#34;. Most are caricatures of The Hunt; the artist on three engraving...