Plain white calling card (1 7/8 x 3 inches) signed in pencil on recto Timoteo Haalilio | Sandwich Islands. On the verso he writes, again in pencil, "I am glad to see Mis [sic] Barnard." Residue of five small glue spots on… more >
Collection of 55 letters, 113 pages of correspondence, in generally very good, clean and legible condition, occasional spotting, soiling, tears and nicks, otherwise good. more >
Paris: De L’Imprimerie Royale, 1734, quarto, eight pages, untrimmed and uncut, a fine copy.
This concerns the shipping of slaves to America, and their barter against, sugar, cotton and other goods, and gives a specimen of the certificate and bill of lading required. more >
New York: Spear & Nesbitt, printers, 1834, second edition, octavo, 15, [1], pp., removed from bound pamphlet volume, light toning to text, else very good. American Imprints 25971, 1 location more >
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 >
quarto, 112 pages, plus blanks, bound in contemporary cloth backed boards, and muslin spine, some minor shelf wear and rubbing, entries in good, legible condition. 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