Western and Historical Americana

1p, 7.5 x 7.75", New York, 19 March 1804. To William Eustis, in Washington (DC), informing him that he is enclosing letters for Mr. Gore (Chris...

a partially printed document on vellum appointing James F. Millar First Lieutenant in the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry, dated May 14, 1861, with st

3pp, 5 x 8", Galena, IL, 22 Oct. 1868. To J Russell Jones (1823-1909), Galena businessman (railroads), member of the Illinois Republican Commit

autographed on recto with a penciled note on verso, President Jas. A. Garfield, March 4, 1881, inauguration day. On July 2, he was shot by Charles Gui

8" x 10", B-&-W; in lower right margin: For Father Francis Benham - with best wishes, John Kennedy.  Condition: Minor scuffing o...

1921-1924 (with a few later items); 33 items and scrapbook, nearly all addressed to Gertrude Gleaves Gompers, Samuel's wife and biographer. As...

lot of nine items related to James Fisk, Jr., the American stock broker and corporate executive, featuring Fisk's clipped autograph; four CDV ph...

a black leather album, 8" x 10", titled in gilt on front cover Autographs, with the owner's name calligraphed on first page, G.W. Holm...

lot of 2, including the clipped portion of a letter signed by John J. Audubon, which reads: ...regards to your Dear Fire Side believe me ever Your F

lot of approximately 100 items related to James A. Hope (1818-1892), a noted portrait, landscape, and historical genre painter, including 20+ photogra

6pp, 7 x 8.75", ALS in French, ca 1841. To Jerome-Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (Napoleon's youngest brother) describing the exhum...

3pp, 5.25 x 8", Nantucket, n.d. Addressed to Mrs. Gay(?), contents personal (when various people were visiting Boston or Nantucket, etc.). Ma...

lot of 6, including 3 ALsS and 3 ANsS from Clara Barton (1821-1912), teacher, nurse, and humanitarian who founded the American Red Cross in 1881. 3

a shoulder-length portrait of Mary Livermore, featuring her signature at the bottom margin of the photograph, with Hardy's Boston, Massachusetts...

Hawks, Francis L. Narrative of the Expedition of An American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under

Tolstoi (Tolstoy), Leo*(n). New York: Gottsberger, 1886. Six volumes, 16mo, brown cloth covers with black and gilt. Title page also notes: Translated

Anon. n.d., but probably the last, 1915, edition of this size. 24mo in blue printed paper wraps with red imprint and printer's ornament of a har...

24mo, in dark greenish cloth, 30 numbered pages. An early guide to Kansas City "entertainment." First half lists "working women,"...

L'Amerique Septentrionale & Meridionale divisee en ses pricipales parties,…, by Gerard Valck, Amsterdam. Hand-colored copper plate engraving...

8" x 10.75" (sight); framed and matted to 14.75" x 17.5". Cartouche upper left corner with Virginia and Maryland, by H. Moll, Ge...

recently hand-colored. A New Map of North American from the Latest Discoveries, 1761. Matted and framed, 14 x 18", 11 x 14.5" (sight). Joh...

16" x 19.5"; not colored; London: H.D. Symonds. Including most of Tennessee, although it was still the "Southwestern Territory" ...

Engraved for Carey's American Edition of Guthrie's Geography improved. Engraved by W. Barker. Framed and glazed 16.25 x 22.25"; visible...

viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode-Island of Aquanishuonigy the Country of the Confederat...

Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Veteribus Noti. Vienna, Libraria C.R. Small folio in marbled paper boards; pages are double, tipped onto tabs in binding; e

lot of 3. Includes a small triangular piece (approx. 0.4 x 0.7") reported to have been taken from the Liberty Bell with a note signed by the co...

patinated metal lamp, possibly repainted, featuring WESTERN UNION in glass letters on two sides that still light up; 17" wide, 26" tall. M...

hickory shaft topped by 3" cast silver head decorated with classical motifs, below a .75" brass collar, inscribed with WP Aug 1769, and an...

lot of 12, includes Vol. I, No. 1 through Vol. I, No 12. Nos. 1-7 are in newspaper format and dated March 9, 1901, Topeka, Kansas, with masthead The S

lot of 65 camera-ready prints of cartoons produced by Cecile Starr between the 1930s and 1940s, signed, dated, and captioned in ink by the artist; mos

an extensive collection of European Automobile Racing images, ca. 1921-1939, amassed by the racer, T.A.S.O. Mathieson, consisting of approximately 2,1

ca. 90 negatives, including 80 silver nitrate glass and 10 celluloid, most measuring 5" x 7", some in original negative boxes, others loos...

American, ca 1912, struck for R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Connecticut. A two-handled sterling trophy engraved Presented to / Aviato...

a remarkable collection of 450+ photographs accompanied by a folio album containing 35+ pages of newspaper clippings, ticket stubs, and ribbons along

an unidentified sixth plate portrait of a young antebellum Naval officer, wearing the pre-1852 undress frock coat with lieutenant straps. The oval bra

a scarce ambrotype of the ubiquitous Burnside (1824-1881) taken as colonel of the 1st Rhode Island with a faint date of June 18, 18?? penciled in the

wearing the early state-issue gray uniform. The Badger is armed with a musket, oval US plate, and newly issued leather gear. The distinctive single-br

a casual portrait of a captain wearing a kepi with the numeral 2, inked Lt. James Warnock/2nd OVI in case behind image, and a fully armed and equipped

a rather heavy-set anonymous infantryman sits for his portrait next to the photographer’s patriotic flag draped stand. Gilded numerals 99 (or 97) on h

a clear ambrotype of a triple-armed Pierce taken as sergeant some time during the first year of his service. Accompanying the image is an insightful 4

unidentified 2nd lieutenant of the Washington Greys wearing both shoulder straps and dress epaulettes on dark single breasted frock coat with cuffs tr

three tintypes and one tinted ambrotype of anonymous Civil War Navy enlisted men wearing typical fatigue blouse and round cloth cap without tally. Non

an unidentified private wearing the rare crossed ax insignia of the Pioneer Corps with imprint of undocumented photographer Maynard & Willis, Mi...

an image replete with character — all identified and uniformed gray, armed with sabers and cheroots! Lavishly written in period pencil behind the plat

accompanied by an early 20th century inked label that reads, Gross’s brother Andrew/Picture taken some time/at or during the Civil War, /and his dog.

lot of 2. Includes a sixth plate daguerreotype of a gentleman housed in a velvet-covered octagonal case, the deteriorating silk pad with E.D.T. in blo

comfortably but not conclusively an anonymous Southerner with a lengthy penciled sentiment written in the case that reads, May The 10th 1861/My Darlin

a sixth plate military portrait with early brass mat impressed with blind stamp of Tomlinson Ambrotypes and 1854 patent date together with a slightly

a damaged quarter plate showing a pair of unidentified privates in matching light-colored frock coats, full leather equipment, and M1842 muskets, and

both fully equipped privates, unidentified, but certainly brothers said to have originated in Kentucky. These fresh-faced early Federal recruits (the

the less common full standing view published by Anthony after Brady. First Colonel of the 6th Wisconsin in the famed Iron Brigade, Cutler was severe

three corps commanders including John Newton (1st) and George Sykes (5th) by Addis, and O.O. Howard (11th) published by Anthony. The Sykes carte bears

including corps commanders Christopher C. Augur (22nd) and William B. Franklin (19th) by Henry Ulke. Franklin served in both theaters, was wounded dur

corps commanders Darius Couch (2nd & 23rd) and John G. Parke (9th) by Brady. Also, Samuel Heintzelman (3rd), no back mark, with a clipped autogr...

orange bordered cartes of the gunboat USS Essex taken in July 1862 and the steamer St. Maurice at anchor, both by McPherson & Oliver, Baton Roug...

a period copy shot of a Navy paddle frigate at anchor in an unknown location. No back mark. The purpose-built vessel, likely the USS Powhatan, is heav

a fancy leather album 8.5" x 11" containing 60 military cartes including 41 mostly uniformed 6th NY Battery members along with 78 sundry c...

a fine collection with unknown provenance put into an album comprising 30 uniformed photographs of regimental staff and company grade officers includi

4.5” x 6” leather album with pebble cover embossed The Defenders of the Union, containing 28 widely distributed commercial portraits — 9 CDV photograp

a mixed group comprising 26 mostly lithographic cartes of Union Generals and wartime personalities many with H. Mestre y ca., Habana back mark, all co

probably once part of an album, the group includes 18 ink-signed and 1 pencil-signed officers, plus another unknown, having either Brady or Beardsley

a CDV of the enigmatic Stryker without back mark with an identical mounted albumen autographed in ink beneath portrait, S.W. Stryker, Col. Comd 44th R

a sublime collection of mostly anonymous enlisted men with one Company D officer tentatively identified—all candid views of soldiers engaged in variou

comprising 12 military cartes once part of a larger indexed album that now includes eight identified officers, two named officers not found, two unide

an unrelated group of 4 officers and 7 enlisted men including 6 signed cartes, all with Maine imprints. The identified officers are Capt. John S. Hay,

an early unsigned oval vignette of three regimental officers being Lt. Colonel Charles L. Matthies (seated left) and Major William S. Robertson (seate

with imprint of noted Black photographer J.P. Ball, Cincinnati. The unknown company grade officer shoulders his sword amidst Ball's elaborately ...

a vignetted portrait of Jennie Wade, the only civilian killed directly during the Battle of Gettysburg, with Isaac G. Tyson's Gettysburg, PA imp...

an album of unknown provenance containing 28 cartes including 9 Confederate subjects highlighted by a fine CDV of R.E. Lee, 14 mostly unidentified civ

6" x 8", on 8.5" x 10.5" card. Pencil notation on bottom of card John Singleton Mosby 1838-1916 (Mosby's date of birth was 1...

by McPherson & Oliver, Baton Rouge, showing a civilian organ grinder playing for an audience of small boys, context unknown.  Condition: O...

anonymous sixth plates, ca. 1850s. Champ is shown dressed in a suit with cravat and neatly trimmed hair. A different photographer took the image of hi

and two cabinet cards of his wife, Martha. The tintype, a ca 1870s laterally reversed copy of a carte de visite (see Lot 175). The plate has been hand

with Ferguson's autograph on recto, and additional inked information on verso in two different hands. The first, C.B. Hughes Artist Church St. a...

with imprint of Morse's Gallery of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tennessee and 3 cent revenue stamp on verso and dated August 31st, 1865 on red rul...

with his signature recto on blank margin of mount. Additionally signed in ink on verso in two distinct hands: Hughes Photographer. Nashville Ten and

with imprint of Morse's Gallery of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tennessee on verso, along with a 3 cent revenue stamp and dated on a red-inked rul...

with Ferguson's autograph on recto on blank margin of carte. Additional inked autograph on verso in two hands, August 31, 1865 and then in Fergu...

2pp, 17 1865 on 8" x 4.75" ruled letter sheet. Written two days before Ferguson was hanged, Ferguson penned this letter to his wife Marth...

descended directly in the family of William Fuson Dyer, first Director of Information for the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Both of wrought iro

view of Custer as Brigadier General at his headquarters in the field, Army of the Potomac, Virginia. Illustrated in Katz' Custer in Photographs ...

4 orange mounts from the The War for the Union series and 1 yellow mount from War Views, all wartime commercial endeavors published by Anthony. The or

on orange mount published by Anthony with printed text on verso. A later commercial effort capturing Grant and family in a detached, almost surreal se

on yellow mount published by Anthony after Brady with printed text on verso. From the War Views series, No. 2434, titled Major Gen. Burnside and Staff

silver gelatin prints, 7" x 9.5", mounted on larger grey boards, ca 1900, printed from the original negatives taken by Alexander Gardner o...

a portrait of Forrest in his later years; 7.5" x 9.25", mounted on cardstock, 8" x 10". Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) was...

an albumen photograph on cream-colored mount, from the glass negative by Alexander Gardner, as operator for Mathew Brady, with Gardner and Brady'...

salted paper photograph by C. Levy of Richmond, 1863, mounted on 4.5" x 4" cardstock with calligraphic inscription Presented by Capt. H. W...

an anonymous oil on cardstock painting of General George W. Morgan derived from a photograph; 6" x 8" (site), gilt and gesso frame, 12&quo...

Smith, Benjamin G. The Great Civil War: A History of the Late Rebellion with Biographical Sketches of Leading Statesmen and Distinguished Naval and Mi

4pp, 7.75" x 9.75". On letterhead Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi, In the Field and dated Mch 15, 1865, 12 miles from F...

lot of two ALsS. Both are on Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri letterhead, preprinted for 1868. Addressed to an unknown General

ALS, 1 1/2pp on ruled Headquarters Army of the United States, Washington, D.C. Feb. 27, 1868. Written to Major General George Gordon Meade as Head of

1862-1865; 104 letters. An 18-year-old shoemaker from Abington, Mass., William Foster enlisted as a new recruit in the 12th Massachusetts Infantry o

1861-1919; 130 items, including 85 war-date letters (including 56 soldiers letters): James H. Dunn, 1861-1863. 51st and 80th Indiana Infantry. 23 let

1862-1865. 29 items, all soldiers' letters, all war date, including: Orlistes Catey, 1862-1863. 69th Indiana Infantry. 6 letters Charles Catey...

lot of 4, includes a post war cabinet card of Commodore P. Eppert with imprint of Martin, Bloomington, Ill.; a 21pp typed carbon copy manuscript entit

24 ALsS, 6 documents. A 100 day regiment raised in Hamilton County, the 137th Ohio Infantry served its brief time in the service (May-August, 1864)

includes 2 Civil War diaries, 17 war-date letters, 3 photographs, including an early, Civil War era portrait of Dickson plus a cabinet card and silver

1861-1866, 32 items (all but two war date). The roster of Civil War engagements involving the 1st Ohio Cavalry reads like a novel, including some o