New York: Printed by R. Spear, [1825], octavo, 36 pages, ex-library, handstamps on title page, text slightly dampstained and wrinkled, bound in 19th century dark blue roan backed thin boards, binding worn, covers detached, else good. more >
293 letters, 573 pp, (76 retained mailing envelopes), dated 4 May 1848 to 27 December 1954; bulk of letters date from 1910s to 1950s; with 3 manuscript journals (1904; 1909-1911; and 1943), a newspaper clipping scrapbook, an estate ledger, and a pedigree… more >
Approximately 310 letters, comprising 1,172 pages, dated 1837-1972, with the bulk (145 letters, 582 pages) written in the 1890s. The letters are mostly manuscript, some are typed, most of the letters are without envelopes, there are several incomplete letters, and 67 undated… more >
oblong quarto, album contains 36 mounted silver prints on 17 cardstock leaves, along with 16 unmounted silver prints of the family, laid in, bound in original cloth, in very good condition. The images measure 4 x 7 ¾ inches, the images are… more >
Boston: Press of Rand, Avery & Co., 1872, 12mo, 54, 4 plates, 24 pp., original printed wrappers, ex-library, small handstamp on upper right-hand corner of front wrapper, some nicks, and chips to edges of wraps, otherwise very good. more >
Large archive of personal and family correspondence consisting of 307 letters, 1055 manuscript and typescript pages, in generally clean and legible condition, many letters accompanied with their original mailing envelopes. more >
New York: J. L. Webster, 1834, folding folio broadside within decorative border, with letter press text giving the steamboat routes, roads, distances, statistics, etc., copyrighted by Webster in 1834, with folding colored map, entitled: Phelps & Squires’ Travellers’ Guide, and Map of… more >
Group of 31 letters, totaling 113 manuscript, (18 retained mailing envelopes), dated 17 June 1862 to 16 July 1890, plus 1 postcard and 1 circular. more >
2- column news report on the front page of the New York Observer, May 19, 1870. Complete issue of the newspaper, 18 x 25 inches, 8 pages, folded in quarters, light toning to paper, slight loss at fold intersections, else good more >
Dramatic eyewitness account of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn’s early morning surprise attack on Holly Springs, Mississippi, the resulting capture by the narrator, a cotton buyer from Rhode Island, and the destruction at the Union supply hub