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