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American Line AMERICAN LINE, LIVERPOOL TO PHILADELPHIA -- Five (5) shipping manifests/ bills of lading, specifying the goods shipped and the steamship carrying each shipment: Issued by Richardson, Spence & Co, European Agents.
Liverpool, England 1888 Original manuscripts Very Good
Partly printed, accomplished by hand, as follow: (1) Three Cases & Seven Bales Merchandise, shipped to Order at Philadelphia, 13 March 1888, aboard the Steamship "Indiana"; (2) Eight hundred, forty-nine bags Potatoes (Williams Selected Magnums), shipped Roberts & Williams at Philadelphia, 18 April 1888, aboard the Steamship "British Prince"; (3) Two Bales Wool, shipped by F. Willey to Order at Philadelphia, 23 April 1888, aboard the Steamship "British Princess"; (4) One hundred Tons Pig Iron, shipped to Order at Philadelphia, 8 May 1888, aboard the Steamship "Lord Gough"; (5) Thirty Cases Granular Preparations, shipped by Alfred Bishop & Sons to J. Wyeth & Bro. at Philadelphia, 22 May 1888, aboard the Steamship "Lord Clive." All bills of lading have embossed six-pence revenue stamps, one vertical fold, and are signed by M. Withers. Each, 8.25" x 13.25"
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American Tobacco Company GROUP OF NINE (9) RECEIPTS FOR TOBACCO, CIGARETTES, PIPES, &c. SOLD TO THE FRANKLE BROTHERS CO. OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO: Shipped from Louisville, KY; Richmond, VA; and Durham, NC.
NY American Tobacco Co. 1933-1934 Original documents Very Good
Nine documents on American Tobacco billheads, each with an engraving of a Native American chief and the NRA logo. Three from 1933, and six from 1934. 7.25" x 8.5" The items sold, along with quantities and prices, include: Five Bros; Cutty Pipe; Weymans C&D; Tuxedo; Tareyton CK; Tareyton PL; Bull Durham; Lucky Strike.
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Anonymous Group of 12 handwritten notebooks, kept by a farmer regarding his crops, 1935-1955 [continuous run, some covering two years].
New York State 1935-1955 Original Very Good
12 pocket-sized volumes, 200-300pp in all, entries in pencil. 6" x 3.5" The farmer tells what he planted and when, which fields, direction of rows, fertilizer tests, cold frames, harvest yields, &c.
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Auditor's Report HANDWRITTEN MEMORANDUM OF ERRORS IN BILLS [FOR] GOODS, FALL & WINTER [18]58-59
Connecticut 1859 Very Good
One page, written in sepia ink on laid paper. Mentions Bigelow & Co., J.M. Warren, Lathrop, Shields & Adams, and others. Finds more than 20 billing errors and shortages and gives the details. For example: "Paper job short in Shields & Adams.one quart kerosene oil short in Hawley.overcharge on 20-1/2 bbl flour in V.P. Slocum bill.7-1/2 yd white florence silk short in Lathrop bill.1/4 doz white wash brushes short.", etc. 12.5" x 8"
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Barzun, Jacques (1907-2012) Group of four letters to historian and biographer, John Lukacs: TLS, 2 ALsS, ANS
Original manuscripts Very Good
(1) TLS, 1-1/2pp, single-spaced, quarto, from 1170 Fifth Avenue, New York, November 7, 1991. In part: "....Your DUEL is a stunning piece of scholarship....You have done a masterpiece of historical writing. Only someone who has toiled to compose a book can perceive the art with which this extraordinary narrative is shaped....The scope, too, is remarkable....One could extract your judgments, characterizations, estimates, and conclusions and make a small book of aphorisms....Present-day Americans do not understand any politics but their own....On the point of Roosevelt's long uncertainty, I happen to have some information you could not know, because it has not yet been published. In 1941 FDR used Rene de Chambrun as propagandist....Yours with admiration and affection, Jacques." (2) ALS, 1p, octavo, in blue ink, from his Fifth Avenue address, Nov 12 /94. "....This autumn has been a series of ailments....It was good to know that you've finished your extraordinary book. Your rate of production is really splendid, and the quality of the product certainly deserves the recognition that was expressed in the Pennsylvania History Magazine. Doesn't this latest work of yours qualify for the you-know-what prize?...Affectionate regards, Jacques." (3) ALS, 1p, 12mo, in blue ink, Nov 12/95. "The letters are very good indeed. Coming from academics in a hoity-toity university, they are a tribute to your art & scholarship....I hope you can use the approving words to get a publisher....Mississippi is not at all a bad Press....My health & energy are returning slowly....All the best, Jacques." (4) ANS, 1/2p, handwritten note on an engraved announcement, from San Antonio, Mar. 9, 2007. "...Thank you for your fine book about G.K. [George Kennan]. It does him full justice. He was a good & great man. Trust you are well. Ever, Jacques." [This note is especially poignant in that it is handwritten on an announcement titled "Jacques Barzun to his Friends," telling them that a "lack of finger control" prevents him from answering their letters.] Barzun, recently deceased, was a French-born American historian of culture and ideas, winner of America's Presidential Medal of Freedom, and knight of the French Legion of Honor. Along with his friends and correspondent John Lukacs, Barzun helped establish the modern discipline of cultural history.
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750.00 USD
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Batterson, J.H. HANDWRITTEN LETTER (ALS), NATCHEZ [MISSISSIPPI], APRIL 12TH, 1834 TO MESSRS. JACOB & CAMPBELL, WELLSBURG, BROOKE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Original manuscript Very Good
1-1/2pp, quarto, with integral address leaf, postmarked Natchez, MI, April 13. Small hole caused by opening wax seal, no text loss. 11" x 8.5" In part: "I hereby enclose on you a draft on the Bank of North America at Philadelphia for $1200 twelve hundred dollars -- for which I gave our note, Believing it would be more to my Employees interest than to run the risk of dangers on the Train in bringing up Silver....I shall have to spend a few days at Louisville & Cincinnati...." [signed J. H. Batterson]. Postscript: "I have got through with all the glass Except the bit Bottles -- which I shall have to take back to Louisville or Cincinnati...." [signed J.H.B.]. Brooke County, Virginia (now West Virginia since 1863) was created in 1797 from part of Ohio County and named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia from 1794 to 1796.
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Baugh, John and Benjamin Harley, Appraisers HANDWRITTEN INVENTORY AND APPRAISAL OF GOODS, LATE OF THE FIRM OF WILLIAM T. HOLLOWBUSH & CO...A SCHUYLKILL CANAL BOAT (NAMED MAY REBECCA) & RIGGING, AND TEAM OF TWO BAY MULES OF SAID BOAT & GEARS, &C...$825.00 .... 26 July 1859
26 July 1859 Original manuscript Very Good
2pp in sepia ink on heavy paper. The inventory also includes: Four lime cars, various bay horses and mules, "Tools at the Kilns & quarries at Port Kennedy," "Lime stones at Pottsville," scales, "a lot of lime at Frick's Locks," "Powder in powder house at quarries," &c., &c. The total appraised value of the inventory is $10,961.71 and the appraisal is signed by John Baugh and Benjamin Harley. On the verso page is an appraised list of good "retained by the Assignor under exemption Laws," including: goods in various named rooms of the dwelling house and the smoke house, all growing produce, garden tools, two riding carriages, tack, &c. Along the right margin at the bottom of this page is written: "E.W. Frick's Trust Estate." This page is also signed on the same date by the appraisers. Port Kennedy, an industrial village on the Schuylkill Canal in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was a thriving center of the 19th-c. lime industry. Firck's Locks. a village along the Schuylkill Canal in Chester County, PA, occupied 18 acres of land since abandoned to a nuclear power plant, nevertheless winning a place on the National Register of Historic Sites.
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Beers, J.D. Engraved bank note, accomplished by hand, New York, 27 December 1839, confirming payment for two cargoes of cotton
NY 1839 Original edition Fine Signed
One leaf, printed by Coolidge & Lambert, 57 Wall St.; copper-engraved devices. 4" x 9" The note declares: "Sixty days after sight of this third [note] of exchange (first and second unpaid) pay to the order of S.V.S. Wilder, Forty two hundred Pounds Sterling, received of him as an advance on Two Cargoes of Cotton, shipping per Alexander at Savannah & Rose at Mobile." Signed by J.D. Beers, President of Messrs. Humphreys & Biddle, Liverpool.
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Bergson, Henri (1859-1941) Autograph Letter, Signed (ALS) to Frederic Lefevre at the office of his literary journal, "Les Nouvelles Letteraires," dated at Paris, 23 Fevrier 1930: In French.
Original manuscript Very Good Signed
1-1/2 pages, written on card stock, 3.5" x 4.5", with the original stamped envelope. Bergson apologizes for his tardiness in thanking Lefevre for sending the last installment of his "Une heure avec...." Bergson blames his lag on a resurgence of his ailment, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to use a pen. He mentions his pleasure in reading Lefevre's interesting, lively pieces, penetrating Picasso's privacy, etc. Signed, H. Bergson. [Lefevre edited "Les Nouvelles Letteraires," an artistic and literary journal, from 1922 to 1949.]
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Blight, J.C. Handwritten records of his 1861 Lancaster County estate auction: detailed below.
Caernarvon Township, PA 1861 Original manuscript Removed Good Signed
30pp ledger sheets (12" x 7.5") with handwritten entries on 17 pages, preceded by a page of legalities (few stains on first page): "Conditions of the Public Sale, held the 26th day of November A.D. 1861 of the goods and chattel of the assigned estate of J.C. Blight....The highest and best bidder shall be the purchaser...." Also covers disputes. Persons buying goods for less than $5 must pay cash. For goods over $5, the bidder has 90 days credit; &c. Signed by James McCaa. James McCaa, born in Scotland in 1807, was appointed Justice of the Peace of Caernarvon Township, Pennsylvania, in 1842. The 1850 federal census lists him as a wagonmaker. The Blight sale, recorded in this document, included many household goods of the day, tools of many sorts, furniture, grind stone, looking glass, chains, horse covers, harness, whips, Bloom wagon, iron to forge, carriages, shoeing box, anvil, barrels, baskets, coal wagon, &c. Surnames of purchasers include: DeHaven, Reigart, Weaver, Ringwalt, Hornberger, Hertzler, McCormick, Rinzer, Moody, Foreman, Lincoln, Simpson, Welsh, Moyer, Plank, &c. Caernarvon Township was at the time in Lancaster County, now in Berks County, PA.
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Bradshaw Family GROUP OF 18 HANDWRITTEN RECEIPTS AND PROMISORIAL NOTES BETWEEN BRADSHAWS & VARIOUS OTHERS, COLUMBIA & NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Columbia & Nashville, TN 1854 Good Signed
18 items, written in various inks by various hands. Two items have had the signatures cut away to indicate payment of the debt. Several examples follow: A receipt dated at Nashville, October 1805, showing that William Bradshaw paid off a $22.75 debt on behalf of William Porter; a receipt dated at Pulaski, April 28, 1851, for machine parts purchased from Jerome & Butler; an 1837 seamstress bill to Mary Bradshaw for altering a dress and for altering & bleaching a straw bonnet; an 1840 receipt made out to Smith & Bradshaw for one Plough Line (13 cents); a Columbia receipt for two loads of wood in 1854; a bill for dental operations made out to Miss E. Bradshaw for gold plugs and reparations in the total amount of $34, performed by F.H. Budger; a $900 promissory note to the Union Bank at Columbia, signed by Ann Bradshaw on 30 April 1838; &c. Various sizes.
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Buckham, Harriette C.S. BOOK LOVER'S VERSE: Impromptu.
NY 1903 Original manuscript Original Wraps Very Good
12pp, typewritten text and homemade covers. 6" x 5" Dedicated to Howard S. Ruddy, an early 20th-century NYC bookseller. The text begins: "Ye Olde Bookshoppe. Part I. At the Entrance. Dear Bookshoppe olde, whose atmosphere of books and tomes so quaintly...," &c.
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Campbell, Helen Dudley AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS), NEW YORK, 31 AUGUST 1889, TO STEPHEN C. MASSETT, COMPOSER, RE HER SINGING ONE OF HIS SONGS
1889 Very Good Signed
2pp. Tipped into an old manila folder. 8" x 5" Stephen C. Massett (1820-1898) worked as an actor, composer, author, monologist, &c. His papers are at Georgetown University. In part: "110 W. 40th St., New York.I thank you for letting me have the manuscript of your new song, "My Heart Is Free." There is a simplicity in the melody, and a charm in the words, which I much like. And I shall take great pleasure in singing it, at my concerts this winter. I am obliged to you for placing my name on the title page, and I sure [sic] Mr. George Law will be complimented and pleased by the dedication." Signed in full by Helen Dudley Campbell.
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Cardwell, H.W. HANDWRITTEN 1927 AUTO TRIP DIARY
Norwich, CT 1927 Full-Leather Very Good
Entries are in a small, neat hand, in blue ink, and are easy to read. 4.5" x 2.5" The diary begins March 25, 1927: "Bought Marmon [automobile] - list $1,895 - 3% war tax, $56.85 - freight, $71 - extra tire & cover, $27.15 - total $2,050." Cardwell records 11 grease & oil changes during the year: mileages, gasoline, etc. "Bought Little Marmon No. 808895 from Mr. Beach, N. London, speedometer read 6...Arrive Norwich 27...Alice short ride 30...Bill Spalding short ride 50." The next 27 pages document where Mr. Cardwell drove, and with whom, including a trip to Plymouth and Cape Cod, &c., and finally reaching 8173 on the speedometer by the end of December. This is an excellent record of the costs incurred in buying and maintaining a car in the US in 1927.
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Carey, Matthew (1760-1839) Autograph Note, Signed (ANS), dated June 11 [ca. 1800], to John Scofield Esq.
Original manuscripts Very Good Signed
One-half page in ink. "My dear Sir / I am particularly desirous of seeing you this afternoon. Yours truly, M. Carey / June 11." Addressed on verso, with note at top: "Matthew [sic] Carey." Remnant of wax seal. 4.25" x 8" Mathew Carey (1760-1839) was an Irish-born American publisher and economist who lived and worked in Philadelphia, arriving there in 1784. Over the next few decades, Carey was very active in local and national affairs as well as editing and publishing a variety of tracts, periodicals, and books, including the first American atlas published in America.
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Cargill, Oscar Thick volume of handwritten notes on four series of lectures by Prof. Oscar Cargill, kept by student Kathryn Law Brennan at NYU, 1936-38
NY 1936 Original Hardcover Very Good
605 pages, written in a legible hand; author's bookplate. Hand-tied cloth binding with label. 8" x 5" Oscar Cargill, listed in Burke & Howe, authored a number of books in the fields of literature and drama and taught at NYU. Following is an outline of the notes in this thick volume, written by Kathryn Law Brennan. (1) Roots of National Culture: Colonial literature through J. Fenimore Cooper (notes dated Sept 1937-Jan 1938). (2) The Romantic Triumph: a quick review of the early period, then large sections on Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Longfellow, Thoreau, Whitman, et al (notes dated Sept 1936-Jan 1937). (3) The Rise of Realism + The Social Revolt + Contemporary American Literature (notes dated Feb-May 1937). (4) The Rise of American Drama (notes dated Feb-May 1938).
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