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...