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Virtual Book Fair, June 2020

This list consists of newly-catalogued items from our inventory, offered for the first time at the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s first ever Virtual Book Fair, held online June 4-June 7, 2020.

Snapshots of an African-American Soldier in Vietnam

1. [African-American Photographica]: [Vietnam War]: [PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE COMPRISED OF 145 SNAPSHOTS OF AN AFRICAN- AMERICAN SERVICEMAN DURING IN THE VIETNAM WAR AND AT HOME]. [Various places in Vietnam. ca. 1968-1972]. 145 photographs (all but thirteen in color), most approximately 3½ x 3½ inches. Majority of photographs mounted on black paper stock with non-archival adhesive tape, some photos retain remnants of tape at corners. Some images a bit faded, but generally in very good condition.

Tremendous collection of photographs depicting the personal life and mili- tary service of an unidentified African-American soldier with the last name “Williams” serving in Vietnam during the war and with numerous family photographs at home. The majority of the photographs are undated, but those that are dated place the collection roughly between 1968 and 1972. Other identifying characteristics in the photographs indicate that the sol- dier was likely part of the United States Air Force, 93rd Security Police Squadron, which provided security and air base defense during the Vietnam War. There is a photograph of Williams leaning against the sign for the 93rd SPS dormitory.

Notable in the sixty or more photographs from the soldier’s time in Vietnam are images from an unidentified American Air Force base depicting soldiers in the barracks, a mess hall, and fraternization among soldiers; additional photographs show a heavily-armed Williams manning a bunker, holding an EBONY magazine, posing with a South Vietnamese soldier in an urban set- ting, and staring strikingly at the camera wearing machine gun ammunition and a hand grenade. A series of thirteen images were taken at “Le Van Loc,” a Fundraising Pamphlet Printed by popular Vietnamese night club located on the Tan Son Nhut Air Base, near Sai- African American and Native American Students gon, indicating Williams may have been stationed at or near that base. Personal photographs show individuals of varying ages, presumably family members, who 2. [African-American Education]: [Frissell, Hollis B.]: THE HAMPTON appear alone or in groups, and at times are photographed with Williams. Several NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE AND ITS WORK FOR of these photographs feature children, presumably Williams’, at home and at an NEGRO AND INDIAN YOUTH....HAMPTON’S APPEAL TO THE CHRIS- Elmhurst School function. Williams seems to have been especially proud of his TIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETY [wrapper title and inside front cover text]. motorcycle, as it features in a few shots. [Hampton, Va.: Printed by students of the Institute, n.d., but 1894]. 8pp. Small octavo. Original pictorial self-wrappers. Minor soiling, light wear. Very good plus. A collection of both service and family photographs capturing a young African- American serviceman during the Vietnam War. $1500. A rare fundraising appeal from the illustrious Hampton Normal Institute aimed specifically at the members of the Christian Endeavor Society in 1894. The pamphlet was written by Principal Hollis B. Frissell and printed by the African American and Native American students at the institute. The pamphlet includes several photographs of the campus and the classroom, along with a group shot of the “Class of ‘94.” The purpose of the pamphlet is stated in the second paragraph of text: “This leaflet is prepared especially for the Christian Endeavor Society, in hopes that, with the information it gives of Hampton Institute and its needs, it will arouse interest among young Christians in our work and bring our cause before you as an object worthy of your Christian charity.” Frissell then expounds upon the training of the “head,” “hand,” and “heart” of the Hampton students before enumerating his institution’s funding needs. Donations may be contributed to the institute’s general fund or earmarked for the establishment of one-time or endowed scholarships, or given to the missionary fund, the “apparatus fund,” the housekeeping fund, or as a subscription to THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN. Hampton Institute apparently issued similar pamphlets under the same title on a regular (if not an annual) basis in the 1890s, though whether they issued more than one per year is not known, and any differences are likely only found in the text. OCLC records just seven copies of an 8pp. pamphlet from 1894 with this wrapper title, which we assume is the same as the present copy, though we can- not be sure. It appears that the present copy differs from at least the copies at Duke and Wisconsin, which are dated in print by Frissell, “September 1894.” It is possible, even likely, that the Hampton Institute issued this appeal targeted at the Christian Endeavor Society, as well as other, more general fundraising pam- phlets in the same year. In any case, it is a rare appeal from a significant African American and Native American educational institution. OCLC 6876159. $850. Colonial New Hampshire Builds a Ferry Important to the American Rebels 3. [American Revolution]: [New Hampshire]: [MANUSCRIPT PETITION BY THE SELECTMEN OF PORTSMOUTH TO SET ASIDE LAND FOR A “HIGHWAY AND PLACE” FOR A FERRY ACROSS THE PISCATAQUA RIVER, CONNECTING PORTSMOUTH WITH KITTERY, MAINE]. [Portsmouth, N.H. 1775]. [3]pp. on a single folded sheet. Lightly silked. Minor edge chipping, a handful of clean tears expertly repaired, second leaf inset into slightly larger backing sheet. Very good. Official manuscript copy of a document by His Majesty’s Court of General Sessions of the Peace in New Hampshire assenting to “the humble petition of Benjamin Akarman, Samuel Cutts [and three other] Selectmen of Portsmouth...shewing that an highway and place for a ferry ways to the ferry over the Piscatuqua [sic] River are necessary to be laid out...beginning at the northwest corner of Mr. Eleazer Russells land...which highway...would be a great benefit to the public.... We humbly pray that a committee may be appointed to lay out the same and to award satisfaction to the owner or owners of the land through which the said highway may be laid....At the same court...it was ordered...that the Hon. John Phillips [and two others] be a committee to view, examine & lay out the way... also to estimate the damages sustained by the owners....The Committee reported they “are of the opinion that the way petitioned for is necessary & convenient & have therefore provided and laid out an highway...as follows...which being fully heard...by the Court, it is therefore ordered that the same...be established as a public highway and ferryways. Attest Js. Rindgell.” The document also notes that “the claimants were notified and but one of them appeared.” Though planned and authorized primarily as a civic measure in February, 1775, the outbreak of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord just two months later rendered this ferry logistically valuable to the American army by facilitating troop movements from the Portland area to Boston. Writing from Portland on Sept. 3, 1779, James Thacher, much honored surgeon who served in the Revolution, related that “Orders are now received from General Gates for our regiment to return immediately to Boston. Commenced our march from Falmouth [i.e., Portland] on the 7th instant, passed through Scarborough, Ken- nebunk, and York, to Portsmouth....Having crossed the ferry at Portsmouth on the 10th, we encamped on the common. A number of gentlemen of this town treated us with buckets of punch at the ferry way...we reached Cambridge on the 14th...” – Thacher, MILITARY JOURNAL DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR (Boston, 1823), p.209. Early in the war, General Washington recognized the strategic importance of Portsmouth situated at the mouth of the Piscataqua River. He wrote to General John Sullivan on Nov. 7, 1775, “You are to proceed immediately to Portsmouth... to secure that and other towns, at the entrance of Piscataqua River...to prevent the enemy from passing up the river” – Ford, WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHING- TON, Vol. III, p.145. The ferry continued to serve the area during peace time, until the first bridge between Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine was built in 1822. A colonial New Hampshire document relating to a ferry that provided strategic advantages for the American Revolutionary Army. $1500. Pioneering Hawaiian Vocabulary 4. [Andrews, Lorrin]: A VOCABULARY OF WORDS IN THE HAWAIIAN How the West Was Built: LANGUAGE. Lahainaluna: Press of the High School, 1836. iv,132pp. printed A Mining and Electrical Engineer in Colorado and California in double columns. Modern three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, 5. Armington, Howard C.: [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF ENGINEER spine gilt. Closed tear in upper inner corner of titlepage (not affecting text, and HOWARD C. ARMINGTON, DOCUMENTING HIS PARTICIPATION no paper loss), shallow chip in foredge of titlepage and following nine leaves. IN MASSIVE UTILITY PROJECTS IN COLORADO AND MINING EF- Moderate foxing, faint stain in upper inner margin. Very good. FORTS AND RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION IN CALIFORNIA IN THE A pioneering Hawaiian dictionary, this is the first Hawaiian to English dictionary. EARLY 20th CENTURY]. [Various places in Colorado and California, as described Andrews’s work contains some 5700 Hawaiian words with brief definitions and below. ca. 1907-1913]. 406 photographs (395 silver prints, eleven cyanotypes) occasional usage examples. The final page lists an additional forty non-Hawaiian ranging in size from 2½ x 4 to 5 x 7 inches, one photo 9½ x 13 inches. All but words that have been incorporated into common usage on the islands, including six photos mounted in album. Oblong folio. Textured leather boards, secured by the words for dollar, soap, book, gold, and tobacco. The first forty pages were brads. Some chipping and wear to boards; minor fading and creasing to a few printed in Honolulu in the first half of 1835, and then the printing was moved to photos, but overall very well-preserved. Very good. Lahainaluna, where the work was completed at the high school in an edition of A fascinating album documenting the early career of mining and civil engineer one thousand copies. “The first book-length work issued in Hawaii that contains Howard C. Armington (1884-1966). The photographs in this album record several Hawaiian words and definitions...one of the most important works issued by the projects that Armington worked on early in his career, including electrification Lahainaluna Press” – Forbes. projects in Colorado, and mining, railroad, and dam construction in California. FORBES 983. STREETER SALE 3758. SABIN 100646. JUDD 142. $5000. The photographs that Armington compiled in this extensive album provide out- standing evidence of projects that created an infrastructure allowing for increased migration westward, and increasing exploitation of western resources. The album begins with a photo of Armington as a student and member of the Crucible Club (precursor to the Beta Theta Pi fraternity) at the Colorado School of Mines (1906-07), there are then about 100 photographs highlighting his work with the Central Colorado Power Company (1908-09) building the Shoshone Hydroelectric Plant Complex. Included are images of work progressing on the powerhouse and the dam, with a series of photographs of miners working on the adits (tunnels) for the project. The plant complex was designed to take advantage of the elevation drop through the central part of Glenwood Canyon by diverting water from the river just above Shoshone Falls. Eight adits were created in the canyon wall to allow work to proceed from both ends. When completed, the main tunnel was approximately 12,450 feet long and averaged thirteen feet high by seventeen feet wide. The next section features photos of reinforced concrete pipes being laid at Ned- erland, Colorado for what is now known as Barker Dam and Reservoir and the Kossler Reservoir. This is followed by over a dozen photos of the Western Ce- ment Products Co. in Pueblo, Colorado, showing cement production operation and machinery including a crusher, furnace, curing sheds, and brick machines. In 1911, Armington became an engineer at Tumco in the Imperial Valley near the Arizona border. Tumco was one of the earliest gold mining areas in Cali- fornia, where gold was first discovered by Spanish colonists nearly two hundred years earlier as they moved north from Sonora, Mexico. By 1905, it had been completely abandoned due to speculative over-expansion and increasing debt. Originally named Hedges, it was renamed Tumco in 1910 when The United Mines Company (i.e., T.U.M.Co.) attempted and failed to make a go of it. The album includes a small manually-constructed panorama of the operation made up of four photographs, and more than forty other images showing mining operations, the mining settlement, and people living in what is now a ghost town. Armington also married in 1911, and the photos suggest that his wife, Nona Ross Black, traveled with him to subsequent work sites. A group of more than seventy-five photos illustrate work on the Big Creek Railroad (1912), a standard Rare California Cookbook for the Upper Crust gauge common carrier railroad that operated in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada 6. [Baldwin, Anita M.]: THE PANTOPHAGIST [cover title]. [Hollywood, Mountains in Fresno County. It was originally built to transport men and supplies Ca.: Citizen-News Company, 1933]. 50,[6]pp. 12mo. Original coated black cloth, to the Big Creek Hydroelectric dam site for the Pacific Light and Power Company front board gilt. Wear at corners and spine ends. Very clean internally. Very good. (now Southern California Edison). The railroad photographs are followed by images related to the construction of the dam. The album also includes numer- A rare California cookbook, privately printed for a scion of southern California ous photos of family and friends, and pictures from the International Irrigation society, and reflective of upper class tastes of the day. Anita May Baldwin (1876- Congress held in Pueblo in 1910. Finally, there are three larger cabinet cards: 1939) was the daughter of Elias Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin, a wealthy investor in one of the Colorado School of Mines class of 1902 and two overhead shots of the Comstock mining and southern California lands. Anita inherited the Santa Anita school; and then one larger image of the class on cardstock with a brief summary Rancho from her father, and continued the farming and stock ranching operations. of Armington’s career on the verso. In the same year this volume was published, she wrote the foreword to THE PALATISTS BOOK OF COOKERY (Brown 179), also published in Hollywood. A glimpse into the beginnings of the electrification and AND WHAT ELSE... of the West. $4000. The present volume is dedicated “to those of my friends who have enjoyed the dinners ‘en famille’ at Anoakia [her estate in Arcadia] and Nidjieh Wari.” Included are recipes for appetizers (caviar and bone marrow, among others), vegetables, salads, egg and fish dishes, a variety of meats (beef heart and tongue, rabbit pate, squab salad), and a honey and egg dessert called “Nectar Anoakia.” Of particular note are a handful of Mexican-inspired dishes (including “tripa espanol”), and a bizarre cold salad of salmon roe, avocado, cream cheese, peanuts, and blackberry jam called “The Four Aces.” This little volume is rare in the market, and institutionally. It is not listed in the Browns’ CULINARY AMERICANA, and its publication date comes a year after the cut-off for inclusion in Glozer. OCLC records seven copies, at UCLA, the Bancroft Library, California State Library, University of Iowa, Huntington Library, Los Angeles County Arboretum, and Arcadia Public Library. Only one copy appears in auction records, selling in 2018 for $1320. OCLC 27215317, 228676141. $1250.

Wonderful Dutch Poster for a Buffalo Bill Serial 7. [Buffalo Bill]: BUFFALO BILL – NICK CARTER. [N.p., but Holland. ca. 1900]. Chromolithographic poster, three sheets joined together, 49½ x 33½ inches in total. A bit of slight wrinkling. Near fine. Linen-backed. A stunning poster advertising the Dutch publication of a Buffalo Bill serial magazine, showing the front cover of twelve issues packed with Western excite- ment. The serial is entitled THE BUFFALO BILL ORIGINAL STORIES OF THE FAR WEST, and was printed in six colors and published every two weeks. This poster actually advertises another serial magazine, featuring the adventures of detective Nick Carter, and four of those issues are featured in the corners of this poster. But the star of the show is Buffalo Bill, with the Dutch caption text asking, rhetorically, “Wie kent niet den wereldberoemden held van de Far-West Buffalo Bill” (“who does not know the world famous hero of the Far West Buffalo Bill”)? A dozen Buffalo Bill covers are featured, with the titles given in English and in Dutch. Titles include “Buffalo Bill and Dark Despard”; “The Warbler from Whistleville”; “Buffalo Bill and the Blue Dwarfs”; and “Black Eagle, The Outlawed Chief,” among others. The text announces that the magazine would introduce the reader to the mysterious customs of Indian tribes, and bring not only pleasure, but information. As opposed to Buffalo Bill, the Nick Carter stories are set in major East Coast and Midwestern cities, but introduce some exoticism by featuring stories involving the Chinese, or strange religious sects. By the turn of the century Buffalo Bill had already mounted several tours of England and the Continent, and this striking poster is ample evidence of his great popularity overseas, and the European thirst for adventure stories set in the American West. $4500. “This is the Grape for the Million” 8. Bull, Ephraim W.: THE CONCORD GRAPE. THIS VERY REMARK- ABLE AMERICAN VARIETY IS THE GREATEST ACQUISITION THAT HAS EVER YET BEEN MADE TO OUR HARDY NATIVE GRAPES, AND SUPPLIES THE DESDERATUM SO LONG WANTED, OF A SUPERIOR TABLE GRAPE.... Concord, Ma. March 1859. Illustrated broadside, 19 x 13½ inches. A few small chips and tears in the edges, neat tape repairs on the verso. Old stains and tidelines. Good overall. A striking and persuasive broadside singing the praises of the Concord grape, illustrated with a handsome, large woodcut of a bunch of dark, ripe grapes. This broadside was issued by Ephraim Wales Bull, the New England farmer who de- veloped the Concord grape around 1849. It quickly grew in popularity for its ability to withstand the chilly climes of New England, and for its versatility as a table and juice grape. Here, ten years after his initial cultivation of the Con- cord, Bull attempts to reclaim his share of the market for his grape, by offering direct bulk sales of the vines. The upper half of the broadside is dominated by the illustration of a bunch of Concord grapes, and text touting its virtues – in- cluding its ability to withstand the cold climate of the Northeast, the size of its bunches; the color, taste, and juiciness of its fruit; its imperviousness to mildew, rot, or drop-off, and its earlier ripening and superior taste to rival varieties, the Isabella and the Diana. The lower half of the sheet consists of testimonials from growers and nurserymen as to the fine qualities of the Concord grape, especially as compared to the Isabella. Finally, costs of the vines – individually or by the dozen – are given, with orders to be directed to Ephraim Bull in Concord. We find no copies of this broadside listed in OCLC. A significant artifact of the marketing of a staple American grape, issued by its developer. Rare. $1500. Impressive Clipper Ship Card 9. [California Clipper Ship Handbill]: EXTRA NOTICE. FOR SAN FRAN- The Andrew Jackson was a 1679 ton medium clipper, built in Mystic in 1855. CISCO. ONLY 35 CTS. PER CUBIC FOOT ON THE FASTEST SHIP IN She was a fast sailer, but contrary to what the handbill would imply, she didn’t THE WORLD. THE CLIPPER SHIP ANDREW JACKSON.... New York: set any records on any of her passages. At the time of the voyage advertised here Nesbitt and Co., [1861]. Illustrated handbill, 6¼ x 9½ inches (sight), printed in (December 16, 1861) she was helmed by a Captain Johnson. It is interesting that red, blue, and black. In fine condition. Matted and framed. this voyage to California was scheduled at a time when naval action in the Civil War was ramping up: the USS Constitution arrived at Ship Island at the mouth of A rare and attractive handbill advertising the services of the Andrew Jackson, a the Mississippi River carrying the 26th Massachusetts Regiment to New Orleans; clipper ship bound for San Francisco in late 1861. This is a large handbill, much Great Britain began its embargo on U.S. exports; and the naval blockade of the larger than the typical clipper ship card, and has a wonderful image of Andrew Confederate coast was beginning to show results. Despite the turmoil of the war, Jackson astride his horse, with the American flag behind. The illustration of the handbill states that the ship would depart “by Christmas day, but certainly Jackson was drawn by George F. Nesbitt, who also printed this handbill. on or before the 1st of January.” The clipper ship Andrew Jackson was sold to the British in 1863 and was lost in the Gaspar Straits in 1868. A rare survival. $3750. work itself, originally issued in six parts, each with four plates, features engravings of prominent churches, the state house, the Bank of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania, the United States Mint, and the Academy of Natural Sciences, among other important buildings. A plan of the Eastern Penitentiary was also included in the fifth part, calling for twenty-five plates in a complete copy. The present copy is extra-illustrated with an additional twenty-four plates laid in, being additional copies of Childs’s plates, or later versions of the plates produced for other publications. This allows for a side-by-side comparison of many of Childs’s views with later versions of his images, and an examination of changes made to the views over the years. In his MIRROR OF AMERICA, Martin Snyder describes the order of the plates in bound copies as “erratic.” The bound order of the plates in this copy is as follows: 1) Philadelphia from Kensington. 2) Swedish Lutheran Church. 3) Christ Church. 4) Friends Meeting House Merion. 5) Saints Stephens Church. 6) First Congregational Unitarian Church. 7) State House or Hall of Independence. 8) Fair Mount Water Works. From the West Bank of the Schuylkill. 9) Fair Mount Water-works. From the Reservoir. 10) Bank of the United States. 11) Bank of Pennsylvania. 12) Girard’s Bank. 13) Pennsylvania Hospital. 14) Pennsylvania Hospital. 15) Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Department for Males. 16) Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Department for Females. 17) Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. 18) University. 19) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Extra-Illustrated with Another Two Dozen Plates Laid In 20) Eastern Penitentiary. 21) Plan of the Eastern Penitentiary. 10. Childs, C.G.: VIEWS IN PHILADELPHIA, AND ITS VICINITY; 22) United States Mint. ENGRAVED FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. Philadelphia: Published by 23) Widows and Orphans Asylum. C.G. Childs, Engraver, 1827-1830. [42] leaves, including an extra engraved title- 24) View on the Schuylkill. From the Old Water Works. page, acknowledgements/directions to binder leaf, and two leaves of subscribers’ 25) Schuylkill Canal at Manayunk. names, plus twenty-eight fine engraved plates, as issued (with blank guards) and 26) Eaglesfield. twenty-four variant or later plates laid in. Folio. Modern half red calf and late 27) Sedgeley Park. 19th-century marbled boards, spine gilt, t.e.g. Light shelf wear. Minor foxing. 28) Academy of Natural Sciences. Engraved titlepage trimmed and mounted. Very good. Foredge and lower edge untrimmed. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. A very nice copy of the large-paper edition of Childs’ wonderful view book of Philadelphia, with an additional twenty-four versions of the plates laid in. A handsome large-paper copy of this quite early example of American lithography, HOWES C383, “aa.” DECKER 48:241. DAB VII, pp.467-68. SABIN 12731. and one of the nicest series of city views produced in the nineteenth century. The SNYDER, MIRROR OF AMERICA, pp.70-77. $5000. and black cloth boards, gilt spine titles reading, “PENN. CLOTHING BOOK COS. C & D 52nd INFANTRY P[?] & P OFFICE.” Spine partially split, chipped, and rather worn, boards soiled, edges and corners worn. Binding a bit tender and bowed. Scattered occasional soiling and foxing to text. Good. A voluminous manuscript account book used to track the clothing and equipment transmitted to the soldiers of two companies of the 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment between 1861 and 1865. The meticulous records herein provide sig- nificant research material on the outfitting of Civil War troops, and show that an army marches not just on its stomach, but on its shoes and clothing as well. The majority of the entries relate to clothing, including shorts, pants, coats, caps, blouses, shoes, socks, and other materials needed by the Civil War foot soldier on the move during the conflict. Equipment listed here includes haversacks, and blankets, among other items. Each page is dedicated to a single soldier whose name, company, enlistment location and enlistment date are all recorded in the pre-printed form at top, with various line items, their costs, the rank of the soldier, and his signature recorded in the body of the ledger-like account book. Often, accounts are noted as settled, either before discharge or by death or desertion. Over two-thirds of the entries pertain to Company C of the 52nd Infantry. Importantly, in addition to equipment and clothing, the account book also records transfers, death, discharges, and desertions. The first five entries, for example, provide a snapshot of the fates of various soldiers. The first soldier is noted as discharged, with the last date of equipment listed as Feb. 28, 1862. The second and third soldiers were both “Killed in action at Fair Oaks, Va.” (aka the Battle of Seven Pines, May 31-June 1, 1862). The fourth soldier was discharged some time after June 1862. And the fifth soldier “Died from wounds” after May 18, 1862. Others here are noted as “Died from Disease,” “Died of wound received by acci- dent,” and “Supposed to be killed by the explosion of the Gun Boat Mound City.” The 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was an important unit during the Civil War. The regiment formed in the late-Summer and early-Fall of 1861. They were assigned to the Peninsula Campaign in March 1862, and swiftly saw action at the Battle of Williamsburg and the Battle of Seven Pines (also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks, which is the name used for the soldiers recorded as dying there in the present account book). The regiment then moved to South Carolina (at least one soldier in the present account book enlisted there) and by mid- summer they were in Charleston to witness the ill-fated Battle of Fort Wagner. For the remainder of 1863 and most of 1864, the regiment moved around South Pennsylvania Civil War Clothing Account Book Carolina, until participating in the occupation of Charleston in February 1865. Spanning the Entire War Afterwards, the regiment joined Sherman’s march through the South, and some of the regiment ended the war in North Carolina, where they witnessed the final 11. [Civil War]: [Pennsylvania]: [MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK SPAN- surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston. NING THE LENGTH OF THE CIVIL WAR FOR COMPANIES C AND D OF THE 52nd PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY REGIMENT]. [Various A valuable and research-worthy record of Civil War service covering the span locations in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina. Early September 1861 to of the conflict, filled with unique information on the ground level needs of the late June 1865]. [219],87pp. Large folio. Contemporary three-quarter maroon calf Union foot soldier. $2750. Letters from a Union Private in Louisiana and Off the Mississippi Coast

12. [Civil War]: Smith, Aaron A.: [COLLECTION OF ELEVEN CIVIL WAR LETTERS FROM PVT. AARON A. SMITH TO ADDIE D. JONES DESCRIBING HIS TRAINING IN NEW ENGLAND, HIS TIME AT SHIP ISLAND AND THE EARLY DAYS OF THE UNION OCCUPATION OF LOUISIANA]. [Manchester, N.H., Boston, Ma., Ship Island (off the coast of Mississippi) and locations in Louisiana, as detailed below]. January 22 – December 10, 1862. Eleven autograph letters, signed, (ten with envelopes), totaling [36]pp. Later transcriptions accompany the letters. Old folds, occasional light staining and/or tanning, one letter with small tears repaired with archival tape. In very good condition.

A small but rich collection of early Civil War letters written by Private Aaron A. Smith of Wilton, New Hampshire, to his sweetheart Adaline (“Addie”) D. Jones of West Wilton. The letters describe Smith’s training at bases in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, time spent at Ship Island (off the Mississippi Coast) and his service in Louisiana as part of the Union occupying force in the summer and fall of 1862. Smith eventually served as a musician with his company, giving an interesting perspective on his brief Civil War service. The letters continue until Smith’s death in Louisiana from typhoid fever just over a year into his service. Letters from the western theater of the Civil War, especially at such an early point in Union advances, are uncommon.

Smith’s letters are especially informative of the conditions at Ship Island, describ- ing the poor health conditions there and the Confederate prisoners and escaped slaves he encountered. He also gives valuable information on Louisiana and New Orleans just after the Union retook the region, describing the ongoing resistance efforts of Confederate soldiers and civilians. Smith also transmits his love for his hometown sweetheart, and his hopes that they will meet again.

Aaron Smith (1837-1862) enlisted on October 28, 1861 and mustered into Company “B” of the 8th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, under Col. Hawkes Fearing, Jr. The 8th left Camp Currier (Manchester, New Hampshire) on January 24, 1862, en route for Fort Independence in Boston, where they trained and drilled until transport south was available. They departed Boston for Ship Island, Mis- sissippi on February 15 aboard the E. WILDER FARLEY, and finally arrived on March 15. Smith served the entirety of his comparatively brief enlistment in the Department of the Gulf as part of Gen. Benjamin Butler’s Expedition. In his letters, Smith details his transport to Ship Island and the conditions there, and then gives descriptions of New Orleans. Smith remained at Camp Parapet (just upriver from New Orleans) through September before joining Gen. Godfrey Weitzel’s brigade and participating in the Battle at Georgia Landing (Labadieville), an engagement he describes briefly in his final letter of December 10. Aaron Smith then fell seriously ill and succumbed to typhoid fever on December 22, 1862, according to the REGISTERS OF DEATHS OF VOLUNTEERS. The letters are described individually below:

Camp Currier: January 22, 1862. [2]pp. With envelope. Smith writes just days our Reg. since we have been here, it is considerable sickly...last Friday I raised before he leaves for Boston. His tone is light and focuses on the personalities in some blood from my stomach, but the next day I went on duty feeling as well his and Addie’s choir in Wilton. In fact, Smith writes that he’s just received her as usual.” Smith attributes this to the sand in the food, but Ship Island proved letter as “Sargent [sic] Marshall, Abiel Livermore and myself were spending the to be a very unhealthy place. By the end of the war, 153 Confederate prisoners evening in singing.” Smith also asks about which regiment a friend of theirs has and 232 Union soldiers had died due to contaminated water and related fevers joined in hopes that he can locate him later. and infections. Smith closes the letter somberly: “I hope and trust we shall be spared to meet again...I think I realise the danger before me, hope I shall be Fort Independence: February 10, 1862. [2]pp. Smith is now in Boston, waiting to prepar [sic] to meet it.” for the ship south, and his thoughts have turned more serious. He writes that he hopes his and Addie’s feelings for each other will not dim, since “when we shall Ship Island: May 8, [1862]. [4]pp. With envelope. “We are here still, on this meet again I cannot tell, as separations must occur on Earth I must reconcile desert.” Things are no better on Ship Island. Smith includes some brief accounts myself to it.” He then veers into a religious vein: “The hand of God can protect of the Union battles in Mobile and Baton Rouge, and continues his descriptions us from all harm, and guide us safe through many dangers, I wish I had more of the heat and the sand. The heat has gotten worse: “It is not very healthy, faith in Him and more love for Him. Addie it is my deep desire, and has often from nine to three o’clock....A great many are having very bad eyes caused by been my prayer, that you may seek and find if not the love of God and I hope the white sand reflecting to the sun’s rays....Some have lost their sight and been live a more consistent christian life than I have.” Nevertheless, no one seems discharged.” He insists his health is fine, but notes that he avoids going outdoors to know (or will tell) where they are headed: “where we shall go to, I think that whenever possible. Smith also records some fascinating interactions with escaped no officer under Gen. Butler knows, those that put confidence in reports believe slaves. He reports that they “frequently come over here and are quite tickled we shall go to Ship Isl. but I do not put so much confidence in them as I did, by to get here. I heard one say that their masters represent us to be very cruel and doing so have been obliged to contradict a part of some of my letters.” Smith tell them we will cut off an arm, starve and whip them if we get them....This one mentions the wreck of a troop ship and marvels that more lives were not lost. said if they should get him they would hang him, for the negroes were planning Towards the end of the letter, perhaps to lighten the tone upon closing, Smith an insurrection and he was at the head. He said he could not get much to eat, seems to allude to a joke between him and Addie (and his mother?) that he was and the soldiers do not have much either, his master he said was in the army and married before (he was not): “I am some forgetful, perhaps I never was married, hoped we will kill him.” He closes morosely with a count of the graves in the if I have been and you should see her [his mother], tell her to be of good cheer...I cemetery (79 as of writing), “...brothers husbands sons and fathers, killed and must close now. I send a kiss for you...As we all are past furloughs I think I shall buried in such hast [sic] that no one can tell where they lay, this is the result of not try to go home again to see my wife.” war, and still for one side it is just.” On Board E. WILDER FARLEY: [February 16, 1862]. [2]pp. With envelope. This Camp Parapet: May 24, 1862. [4]pp. With envelope. Smith is finally on the is a brief letter letting Addie know that they are almost underway to Ship Island: move, detailing his departure from Ship Island as part of the Union occupation “We are in the greatest state of confusion possible. I am now down on the second of New Orleans. He notes the defenses, in particular the “parapet,” built up by deck trying to write a few letters, or what I shall have to pass as such. There the Confederates, who anticipated the Union invading from the north, rather than are scarcely five rays of light that can get to my paper, can find a better place in coming up river from Fort Jackson. He also describes the efforts of locals to de- our cellar or in the barn than this to write in.” Still, Smith is optimistic about stroy military equipment and foodstuffs that would be of value to Yankee invaders. this war: “I hope and expect not to stop more than a year, as the prospects are They even attempt to befoul the waterways by dumping sugar and molasses into that the war will not last long, and if spared think will be back within that time.” the river. Smith writes, “When they heard we had taken Ft Jackson and only a few gun boats had got up to N. Orleans, the soldiers at this place ran in every Ship Island: April 22, 1862. [4]pp. With envelope and three small seashells. direction some even over the parapet into the ditch of water, some took off their Smith has arrived at Ship Island and paints a vivid picture of the pestilent sand, equipments and burnt them then put on citizens clothes, to prevent them being the soldiers in camp, and the various inhabitants, including Confederate pris- caught with soldiers uniform on....The carriages of the guns were burnt by the oners of war: “Our Sothern [sic] prisoners run about at their leisure, appear to women, the guns spiked, the equipments and every thing that the soldiers left enjoy themselves very well...the ladies frequently take their work and sit out on that would fall into our hands were burnt, and all done by the women.” Smith the shady side of a building and talk with the men. Some appear to be quite also includes observations on the poverty he has seen: “The destitution of the friendly to the union, a lady told a man in our squad...that there are one half people, white and black in this state and Miss. is not a fable but a reality, there in N. Orleans that are union people if they dare to be....” But then he heard are not but a very few that had money enough to live comfortable....I hardly know from a girl who “said she wished she could put out the eyes of the northerners where to stop there is so much to write about....” Smith closes with some notes with those guns with bayonets, she thought the northerners were not any better for his mother and chaste love for Addie. than the n[__]s.” Nevertheless, illness is already a problem: “Two have died in Camp Parapet: July 9, 1862. [4]pp. With envelope. This letter is less focused on Camp Parapet: August 15, 1862. [2]pp. With envelope. This letter is chiefly combat and troop movements and is more conversational, with casual thoughts camp news, with Smith in apparently good spirits. Things are quiet, however: about the civilian world and life in camp. Smith writes that the “4th of July was “We soldiers are getting to be quite lazy. Particularly I am, as I am a musician so rainy here that the Reg.’s could not appear in parade at noon and night, while they cannot detail me to do work which is called policing. I have no guard duty the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Hail Columbia’ was to be played...” in which to do so I am not up nights, and exposed to the rain, and heat daytimes. The Smith had prepared to perform. Smith is a Musician now, so he has been spared musicians have to do what the major says, but he very seldom has any thing for the discomfort of guard duty during the heat and the rain, though not the bore- us to do out of the regular course of duty.” Aside from some rambunctious of- dom of inaction in camp. He reassures Addie about his health, reiterating, “The ficers, the rest of Smith’s update is quite peaceful, as he and his comrades spend blood I spit on the Isl. was caused by the sand that I had eaten and drank. It came their days catching up on letters to friends and families, baking beans, and hoping from my stomach, and was only what I spit out in three or four times. I guess my for more music to sing. lungs are well enough now, as I have got over the horid colds I caught...” Smith mentions election day, but does not mention much about politics, focusing instead Camp Parapet: September 8, 1862. [4]pp. With envelope. Another quiet letter, on Addie’s “election cake” and how much of it he would eat if he was there. The although there are rumblings of potential combat. Even so, Smith muses about main problem for Smith, in this letter, is the numerous untrustworthy peddlers Addie traveling down to visit him, although he’s not quite sure how that could selling junk at exorbitant rates and giving phony currency in change. Perhaps be arranged. He returns to the topic of the draft, and how those avoiding the inspired by these experiences, Smith also has some strong language about the draft make it sound worse than it is: “I think folks are apt to be more scart [sic] locals: “The people here are a mixed set, from most every nation in the world, than hurt. But this war is an awful occurrence. I sincerely hope it will soon end, but those called Creoles, are the most numerous, ignorant, and degraded...The in order to have it, we must have the men. Sisters must be willing to part with people have not much good principals [sic] are much inferior to the Northerners their brothers, fathers and mothers with their sons, and none try to restrain those in interlectual [sic] cultivation.” whose duty it is to go.” Smith closes with several unsettling items, including news that “there are quite a large force of guerrillas very near us, on the south side of Camp Parapet: August 5, 1862. [4]pp. Folded, with envelope. Curiously, Smith the river.....A few Regs. have been sent after them. I do not think we shall stop wrote this letter on stationery featuring an engraved view of the port of New here all winter, but by three or four weeks we shall be on the march after the Orleans, produced by Louis Schwarz, New Orleans publisher and bookseller. rebels. The government have neglected to furnish the musicians with swords as Prussian-born Schwarz (1819-1893) emigrated to New Orleans and by the 1850s the ‘Army Regulations’ require, so I bought me a revolver to protect myself by.” had a monopoly on German-language literature. By the time of Smith’s letter, Schwarz had helped form the mostly-German Hansa Guards Battalion, which Thibodaux, Camp Stevens, La.: December 10, 1862. [4]pp. With envelope. Smith was absorbed into the 4th Regiment, European Brigade of the Louisiana Militia, wrote this letter approximately ten days before he died. He begins by apologiz- detailed to defend New Orleans. Schwarz was made captain of Co. “B.” Upon the ing profusely for the substantial delay since his last letter; it had been over two Union victory, Gen. Butler used the European Brigade briefly as a police force, months. Smith’s regiment has relocated to Thibodaux (about 70 miles from New but then dissolved them in May, 1862. For some reason, in this letter, Smith Orleans), after fighting in the Battle at Georgia Landing. Smith is definitely sick addresses Addie as “Addia,” both in the letter and on the envelope. He begins at this point: “The march was very hard for me and camping out I caught a very with pleasantries about home, but then shifts to discussing the draft, apparently bad cold. At the time of the battle I was most sick, but the excitement kept me in response to Addie: “I do not care if they do have to draft, I hope they will and along very well.” Smith describes how he assisted in the hospital all night, attend- not be so long getting the Reg.’s ready waiting for them to enlist.” He continues, ing to Union as well as Confederate soldiers. He is less sanguine about combat putting a brave face on things: “I presume there are many young men now in N. now that he has seen it: “War is awful, if anyone don’t think so let them be in a Hamp. with long faces, fearing they may be drafted. I should like to see them, battle and try it, to have shells exploding about you, and grape and canister shot and I guess I would plague them, I would laugh at them any way. The worst and bullets whistleing about your head, makes any one feel most indescribable.” part is thinking about it, soldiers will feel quite at home when they have been in From Smith’s account, he seems to have contracted several of the numerous dis- the army six months or a year [Smith has been in about ten months]. Some get eases that plagued soldiers on both sides. In fact, two out of three deaths during homesick and it wears and worries them most to death, some pine away and get the Civil War were caused by disease. Every soldier had dysentery at some point, discharged on that account, but there are not many such.” Smith also reports that and many suffered from one or more of any number of other ailments. He writes, there have been Confederate guerrilla attacks and that they have located weapons “I have the fever and ague some so do most all.” “Ague” was malaria and af- concealed in houses in Carrollton. Units were dispatched from his regiment to flicted about 20 percent of troops. Smith would have first developed a high fever assist in securing the area. Once again, his role as a Musician proves to be an along with the “shakes,” followed by debilitating weakness that would leave him advantage: “...if I was not a fifer probably I should had to have gone.” bedridden for days or even weeks. The symptoms would gradually subside and he could return to duty, but the fever periodically returned and the process was repeated. Smith writes that he was sick again during their stop in Tigersville, and then notes that “There is a good deal of shaking among the soldiers, the shakes this season I have been told by the people are very bad among all.” He closes the letter hoping “I can write often now...I have several letters to answer perhaps they will think I am very sick or dead. Changes take place in the army so any one cannot be always prompt in writing.” A final page of text in a different hand (Addie’s?) is added after Smith’s letter. The ink is faint and the hand is difficult to read, but it is dated December 27 from West Wilton (New Hampshire) and starts by explaining that Smith’s mother had been by to see how his health was, suggesting that his friends and family did not know yet that he had died. A detailed and intimate account from a soldier in the early days of the Civil War, with significant content on life at Ship Island, and the early days of the Union occupation of Louisiana. Andrea Mehrländer, THE GERMANS OF CHARLESTON, RICHMOND AND NEW ORLEANS DURING THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, 1850-1870 (Berlin/ New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2011). REGISTERS OF DEATHS OF VOLUN- TEERS, 1861-1865. RECORDS OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, 1780-1917. Record Group 94. ARC ID: 656639. National Archives. Washington, D.C. $4250.

Signature of the Famed Explorer 13. Clark, William: [MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT, SIGNED, BY WILLIAM CLARK AS GOVERNOR OF MISSOURI TERRITORY, ATTESTING TO THE SERVICE OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN ST. LOUIS AND HOWARD COUNTIES IN THE TERRITORY]. St. Louis. May 5, 1818. Manuscript document, signed, on the lower half of one side of a folio sheet. Paper seal of Missouri Territory affixed to the left of Clark’s signature. Docketed in manuscript. Old folds, with a touch of light staining along the folds. Near fine. A document signed by famed explorer, William Clark, during his service as Gov- ernor of Missouri Territory, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and Commander in Chief of the Militia. Written by Clark’s secretary at St. Louis on May 5, 1818, the document is signed by Clark with a flourish. In the text, Clark attests to the service of James Allcorn as Justice of the Peace in Howard County, and also that Stephen Hemsted, Senior, and Peter Ferguson have served as Justices of the Peace for St. Louis County. William Clark (1770-1838) fought with Anthony Wayne in the Old Northwest. Then, at the invitation of Meriwether Lewis, he joined in leading the famous historic overland expedition to the Pacific in 1804-6. After his return, Clark became Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the western country, a post he held for many years. He served as Governor of Missouri Territory from 1813 to 1820. This document is written in the hand of Frederick Bates, Secretary of Missouri Territory, and is also signed by him. To the left of William Clark’s large signature is the paper seal of Missouri Territory. $6000. History and Description of an Important Colorado Mining District 14. Cushman, Samuel, and J.P. Waterman: THE GOLD MINES OF GIL- PIN COUNTY, COLORADO. HISTORICAL, DESCRIPTIVE AND STA- TISTICAL [cover title]. Central City: Register Steam Printing House, 1876. 136pp., including numerous advertisements. Pages 121-128 repeated. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, some chipping along the spine. Clean internally. Near fine. A rare, locally produced account of Colorado gold mining, including a brief history of the gold discoveries in Gilpin County, descriptions of specific lodes, etc., with many interesting advertisements for Colorado mining companies, drill dealers, banks, and all manner of professionals and merchants. It is the first history and descriptive account of Gilpin County, which was the source of most of the gold mined in Colorado in the 1860s and early 1870s. “A scarce locally printed history and description of the Russell and Gregory diggings, with much on the later strikes and development of the mining camps and interior towns” – Eberstadt. Not in Graff. HOWES C978, “aa.” McMURTRIE & ALLEN (COLORADO) 305. WYNAR 3525. EBERSTADT 135:252. $3000. over his shoulders to protect him from the morning chill. Davis would maintain that he was unaware he had donned his wife’s clothing. The more appealing version – quickly elaborated upon by Northern satirists in newspapers, magazines, and prints – was that the Confederate president had attempted to avoid capture by dressing himself up in women’s clothing.

In this Currier & Ives print Jefferson Davis is pursued by gleeful Union soldiers bran- dishing pistols and swords as he flees in the aforementioned petticoats and bonnet. Davis exclaims, “Let me alone you bloodthirsty villains: – I thought your government more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children!” He holds a knife in his right hand and a bag of gold under his arm. Be- hind Davis, his wife Varina Howell yells to the soldiers in pursuit, “Look out you vile Yankees, if you make him mad he will hurt some of you!” Three Union soldiers chase Davis, each shouting at the Confederate president. The first exclaims, “Surrender Old Fellow, or we will let daylight into you; you have reached your last ditch!” The middle pursuer shouts, “Its no use trying that shift, Jeff, we see your boots!” The last soldier yells, “Give in Old Chap, we have got a $100,000 on you!”, referring to the reward that President Andrew Johnson issued for Davis’ capture. Jefferson Davis in Drag and On the Run This incident provided a boon for political satirists of the day, who began produc- 15. [Davis, Jefferson]: THE LAST DITCH OF THE CHIVALRY, OR A ing scores of cartoons depicting Davis as a bearded Southern belle, often wearing PRESIDENT IN PETTICOATS. Washington, D.C.: Currier & Ives, 1865. petticoats, hoop skirts, and bonnets. In the wake of Davis’ arrest, P.T. Barnum Lithographic broadside, 11¼ x 16 inches. Unevenly trimmed, two repaired tears. announced that he would pay $500 for Davis’s dress, and “Jeff in Petticoats” soon Backed on thin archival paper. Very good overall. became a popular post-war song in the North. Historian Andrew F. Rolle has noted that the “North’s treatment of Jefferson Davis symbolized the humiliation A scarce lithograph satirizing Jefferson Davis’s infamous 1865 chase and arrest, being inflicted upon the South.” showing the Confederate President fleeing capture disguised in petticoats and a bonnet. Just prior to his arrest, the Confederate president committed a gaffe that OCLC locates nine copies. Not in Reilly, nor in THE UNION IMAGE or THE only added insult to injury in the wake of the south’s defeat in the Civil War. On CONFEDERATE IMAGE. the morning of May 10, 1865, federal cavalrymen apprehended a small group of CURRIER & IVES: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 3714. PETERS, CURRIER Confederates that included Davis and his wife Varina, both of whom had camped & IVES: PRINTMAKERS TO THE PEOPLE, p.292. WEITENKAMPF, PO- overnight near Irwinville, Georgia. Amid the confusion, Davis attempted to flee LITICAL CARICATURE IN THE UNITED STATES, p.151. OCLC 46269362, unrecognized, but not before his wife hurriedly threw her shawl and raincoat 954153915, 818725088, 1136564673. $1500. Attacking Voting Rights for African Americans 16. [Fifteenth Amendment]: HEDGEHOG’S GRAND COMBINATION OF THE POWERS OF DARKNESS, WILL EXHIBIT AT JAKE KEY’S ROOST.... [N.p., perhaps Philadelphia.] ca. May 5, 1870]. Letterpress broadside, 10 x 6. Short closed tear at top margin. Very good plus. A scarce and decidedly racist broadside advertising a faux rally to oppose African- American suffrage achieved through the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had been adopted earlier in 1870. The Fifteenth Amendment barred states and the federal government from denying the right of suffrage by reason of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The broadside could also be seen as a parody of a minstrel broadside, given its content and layout. The songs include “Nigs, I want to be Sheriff,” “The Evil Spirit is in me,” “Hens and Chickens gone to roost,” “XVth Amendment Exem- plified,” and “Benefits of Civil Rights Bill.” The “performance” is scheduled to end with Professor Hedgehog’s “celebrated feat of swallowing A LIVE NEGRO!” Another especially egregious assertion of the text reads, “During the performance of this celebrated troop, the Roost will be hermetically sealed so as to retain the delightful odor of the negroes.” The admission notice at bottom claims that the “Front seats reserved for the Colored Ladies. No white folks admitted without special permission of Professor Hedgehog.” OCLC records six copies, at the Library Company of Philadelphia, Yale, Duke, the University of Virginia, American Antiquarian Society, and the Clements Library. The University of Virginia’s catalogue note posits that the broadside could have been printed in Philadelphia “in reaction to the city’s ‘Grand Celebration in Honor of the Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment,’ which was held on May 5th, 1870.” This is the same date as the event advertised on the present broadside. OCLC 123490143, 166640701. $1250. Retire to Florida! 17. [Florida]: [Real Estate]: THE HOME-SEEKER’S GREATEST OPPOR- TUNITY. FLORIDA LAND. Jacksonville, Fl.: Sutherland, McConnel & Co., 1911. Broadside, 24¼ x 18¼ inches. Faint tideline along right edge and bottom edge. Very good. A dazzling large-format promotional real estate poster touting the wonders of the Sunshine State in the early 20th century. Issued a decade before the Florida land boom really caught fire, this broadside is emblematic of the promotions that led thousands to invest in their savings for the dream of a quick profit or a comfortable retirement. Advertising language is incorporated into and ranged around & inside a large arch (with a citrus and floral background) and two large pillars. The poster was commissioned by the Colonization Department of Suther- land, McConnel & Company, a Jacksonville real estate development company, and was designed for use by Auck Brothers, agents for Sutherland, McConnel in Bucyrus, Ohio. Among the “1,000,000 acres to choose from,” speculators and farmers are called to the “First Grand Opening” of land in Duval County, “generally considered to be the best tract for general farming purposes in the State of Florida...some 27,000 acres in extent, virtually in a solid body, commencing within ten miles of the heart of the city of Jacksonville, a most patronized South-Atlantic seaport.” The poster touts Florida for its virgin soil, pure water, good schools, fine churches, a healthful climate, big crops, altitude and drainage, and more. Two small “coupons” are incorporated at the bottom of the poster, encouraging the interested real estate buyer to “Tear this off and mail today without fail!!” One is an order form for a promotional catalog entitled, “Will Florida Land Earn Money.” The other coupon reserves “a berth for me in your Special Sleeping Cars for the LandSeeker’s Excursion on the First (or) Third Tuesday in February, March (or) April, 1911.” Rare, with only one copy listed in OCLC, at the University of Florida. OCLC 22288349. $1100. An Unrecorded Steam Power Broadside 18. Greenleaf, William R., and Ezekial Montgomery: SILVER CREEK STEAM-ENGINE WORKS! Silver Creek, N.Y.: Greenleaf & Montgomery, 1853. Letterpress broadside, 12¼ x 11¾ inches. Moderate edge wear, minor loss near top edge. Some creasing, minor soiling and staining, Overall, very good. A seemingly-unrecorded early industrial broadside from the town of Silver Creek, New York. Silver Creek, on the shore of Lake Erie, was founded in the early 19th century by Massachusetts residents, incorporated in 1848, and became an important Great Lakes port town until the coming of the railroad. The area had a number of businesses active in producing machinery (including Howes Babcock) given its strategic location in the country’s westward expansion. The present broadside advertises a steam engine works operated by Greenleaf & Montgomery. William R. Greenleaf and Ezekiel Montgomery formed the company to produce steam engines and mill machinery through the use of steam power. Here, they argue for the superiority of steam-operated saws, touting their ability to cut “twenty- five feet of lumber per minute.” The company also advertises their invention of “Mully Heads for Saw Mills” which will “saw more lumber with less power than any sash mill can, and are less liable to get out of repair.” No copies reported in OCLC, the NUC, or any other sources we could find. Possibly, a unique surviving steam power broadside from Upstate New York in 1853. $950. “M’Ville”; later 1926 ownership inscription by Peter J. Delay on front pastedown. Text lightly toned and occasionally spotted. Withal, a very good copy. The rare first separately-printed directory of the California Gold Rush town of Marysville, and the first printed there. It is also one of the earliest Marysville imprints. Founded in 1850, Marysville was named for Mary Murphy Covillaud, a member of the Donner Party and wife of the foremost landowner of the region. Quebedeaux notes that it “quickly became a major trading center for the northern mines during the gold rush, and an important supply port at the confluence of the Feather and Yuba rivers....This directory, once thought to exist in only two copies, is one of the most famous for a gold rush community, with especially important advertisements.” In fact, more than half of the work is devoted to a classified section of business advertisements, providing an important window into the economic makeup of the town. The main text of the directory includes a “Sketch of the City,” the town charter and supplemental acts, an alphabetical residential directory, a “Classification of Trades and Professions” (basically a listing of businesspeople alphabetized by type, from “Auction and Commission Merchants” to “Watchmakers and Jewelers”), a list of city and county officials and departments (including the fire department), listings of schools, churches, societies, and stage lines. One page contains the “Names of Packers who own and pack Mules from Marysville to the adjacent Mines.” Following the list is a note reading, “In addition to the foregoing, there are twenty Mexicans who own trains of Pack Mules. The whole number of Mules owned in this city, and which are packed here for the mines, is above Four Thousand; and the waggons employed in Transporting Merchandize number over Four Hundred.” Eberstadt notes that “The rarity of the book is due, no doubt, to the series of fires and floods which alternately burnt and inundated the settlement during this period. Within a few months of its publication Marysville was swept by two fires involving a loss of nearly half a million dollars.” Howes claims it is the first book printed in Marysville, period. Commensurate with some other frontier printings, the work is comprised of differently-colored paper stocks – in this case, seven different colors. This is the first copy recorded in the market since John Howell-Books offered a copy in their landmark Catalogue 50, in 1979. OCLC lists nine copies over A Rare California Gold Rush Directory two records, but some of those are photocopies or microfilm, according to the institutions’ own online catalogues. As far as we can confirm, only six copies are 19. Hale, Clarkson, P., and Fred Emory: HALE & EMORY’S MARYSVILLE authentic, and only five of those are complete, at the California State Library, CITY DIRECTORY. AUGUST 1853. FIRST PUBLICATION. Marysville: Huntington Library, DeGolyer Library, New York Public Library, and New-York Printed at the Marysville Herald Office, 1853. [4],133pp. Original half calf and Historical Society. The Yale copy has two leaves in facsimile. marbled boards, spine gilt. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, a few small nicks in the spine leather, corners exposed. Top quarter of front free endpaper torn. Nu- An important and rare early California Gold Rush town directory. merous “Received” rubberstamps of the Marysville Sheriff’s Office throughout COWAN, p.170. GREENWOOD 394 HOWES C632, “b.” QUEBEDEAUX 125. the text, some of which are filled out and dated 1902 by the town’s sheriff Steve ROCQ 15582. SPEAR, p.186. STREETER SALE 2741. AII (CALIFORNIA) Howser, with his separate ownership inscription in several places and a few marked 254. HOWELL 50:418. OCLC 11823518, 24597637. $12,500. Hamilton Confesses to His Affair with Mrs. Reynolds 20. Hamilton, Alexander: OBSERVATIONS ON CERTAIN DOCUMENTS CONTAINED IN No. V & VI OF “THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE YEAR 1796,” IN WHICH THE CHARGE OF SPECU- LATION AGAINST ALEXANDER HAMILTON, LATE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, IS FULLY REFUTED. Philadelphia: Printed for John Fenno, by John Bioren, 1797. 37,[1],lviii pp. Gathered signatures, stitched, as issued. Text moderately tanned, most prevalent on the titlepage. Old tideline in the lower margin of ten leaves. Very good, in original unsophisticated condition, untrimmed and unopened. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. The first edition of the infamous “Reynolds pamphlet,” in which Hamilton de- scribes his affair with Maria Reynolds and admits to paying off a blackmailer. In the pamphlet Hamilton takes the extraordinary step of admitting to adultery in order to clear his name of financial scandal in his office as Secretary of the Treasury. While successful in its purpose, it destroyed any hope of a political career on the national stage, and provided salacious ammunition for his enemies. A second edition, printed in 1800, was published by Hamilton’s opponents to keep the scandal alive in the election of 1800, after the Hamilton family had purchased and destroyed most of the original edition. HOWES H120. EVANS 32222. SABIN 29970. FORD 64. SHEIDLEY 36. RE- ESE, FEDERAL HUNDRED 68. $32,500. The Colonial Governor of Massachusetts Aggravates Revolutionary Tensions 21. Hutchinson, Thomas: THE SPEECHES OF HIS EXCELLENCY GOV- ERNOR HUTCHINSON, TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. AT A SESSION BEGUN AND HELD ON THE SIXTH OF JANUARY, 1773. WITH THE ANSWERS OF HIS MAJESTY’S COUNCIL AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RESPECTIVELY. Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill..., 1773. 126pp. Original plain blue-grey wrappers, stitched as issued. Half of front wrapper lacking, wrapper chipped along the spine, wrappers very lightly stained. Occasional light tanning. Very good. Untrimmed. Fine evidence of the growing schism between crown and colonies with regard to the nature of political power and authority. “These speeches were printed in the MASSACHUSETTS GAZETTE AND BOSTON WEEKLY NEWS-LETTER between January and March of 1773. The House ordered 700 copies printed for itself and 100 for the Council on March 6, 1773” – AMERICAN INDEPEN- DENCE. “When [Samuel] Adams organized the correspondence committees in November 1772 and initiated the movement by publishing the ‘Rights of the Colonists,’ Hutchinson gave life to the movement by delivering before the General Court, on Jan. 6, 1773, an elaborately argued address designed to prove that since ‘no line can be drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies’ the Parliamentary supremacy must be admitted; and ‘if the supremacy of Parliament shall no longer be denied, it will follow that the mere exercise of its authority can be no grievance’” – DAB. The complete text of this address is printed herein, along with other speeches made during the same session. These speeches immediately preceded the explosive publication of Hutchinson’s letter back to England, leaked via Franklin. HOWES H854. EVANS 12856. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 97. DAB IX, pp.439-43. SABIN 34086. $3750. 23. Karsh, Yousuf: [Original Gelatin Silver Print Portrait Photograph of Mangosuthu Buthelezi]. [N.p.: The Photographer, ca. 1963]. Original glossy double-weight gelatin silver print from negative, 14 x 11 inches (inclusive of margins). Captioned in pencil on verso. About fine. An original print of one of the superb photographs taken by Yousuf Karsh on loca- tion in South Africa during the filming of the 1964 Diamond Films production, ZULU, directed by Cy Endfield. Karsh's invitation to join the production and photograph the cast and locale resulted in a sequence of photographs of a very high order. The present image, an imposing portrait of future political leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi in character as Zulu King Cetshwayo kaMpande, shows the subject in full ceremonial garb, seated in a substantial throne-like setting. The image is identified as "No. 5-31" in the series. Although this project is not as widely known as Karsh's formal portraiture, examples of the resulting images have featured prominently in both museum and print retrospectives of his career. $850.

22. Karsh, Yousuf: [Original Gelatin Silver Print Photograph of a Zulu Ceremonial Assembly]. [N.p.: The Photographer, ca. 1963]. Original glossy double-weight gelatin silver print from negative, 10 1/4 x 10 5/8 inches (on 11 x 14-inch sheet). Captioned in pencil on verso, with labels. About fine. An original print of one of superb photographs taken by Yousuf Karsh on loca- tion in South Africa during the filming of the 1964 Diamond Films production, ZULU, directed by Cy Endfield. Karsh's invitation to join the production and photograph the cast and locale resulted in a sequence of photographs of a very high order. The present image depicts a very large gathering of Zulu men and women in full ceremonial dress engaged in a tribal dance in a large open area surrounded by huts, a fence and many additional tribes-people, against the background of the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains. In the lower left corner, with his back to the camera, appears Mangosuthu Buthelezi in regal dress, standing before one of the large tusks that are incorporated in his throne. On the verso appear two labels, the first asserting: "The Following Credit Line Must Be Used: Karsh, Ot- tawa." The second label is that for Karsh's agency: Rapho Guillumette. Although this project is not as widely known as Karsh's formal portraiture, examples of the resulting images have featured prominently in both museum and print retrospec- tives of his career. $850. As the gold fever rose, mapmakers moved quickly to fill the demands of those who wanted cartographic information regarding the mines. John Lawson was a surveyor in San Francisco, and this map, heavily promoted as the best available for those going to the mines, was issued both as a separate map (as here) and bound into a folder. It was the first map to depict all the gold regions on a large scale, and shows the area from Pyramid Lake in the north to Santa Cruz in the south (the map is oriented with north to the left and east at the top). The Sierra Nevada mountains are the easternmost portion, and Lake Tahoe is identified as “Mountain Lake.” The streams and rivers of the region are heavily dotted with the locations of diggings and indications that there is “gold found One of the Earliest Separately Issued Maps of the Gold Region on all these streams.” “Larkin’s Gold” is situated near the mouth of the Bear 24. Lawson, John T.: LAWSON’S MAP FROM ACTUAL SURVEY OF THE River, Sutter’s Fort is located, and the San Joaquin River delta is shown, with GOLD, SILVER & QUICKSILVER REGIONS OF UPPER CALIFORNIA a note that “swamps overflowed in the winter season.” Silver and quicksilver EXHIBITING THE MINES, DIGGINGS, ROADS, PATHS, HOUSES, mines are shown in the region south of San Jose, and pine, cedar, and redwood MILLS, STORES, MISSIONS, &c. &c. New York: Snyder, [1849]. Lithographic forests are also noted. map, 15½ x 21¾ inches. Old folds. A touch of foxing and wrinkling. Near fine. Not in Phillips’ MAPS. “Large scale maps, such as this, are the only satisfactory In a green cloth case, gilt leather label. ones of the gold region...from 1849 on almost every map showing California at The second separately issued map of the California gold regions, published in all indicates the ‘gold region’...but, with few exceptions, on such a small scale as New York in January 1849. Lawson’s map is preceded only by Larkin’s map of to be of little value” – Streeter. A rare and important map. 1848, which showed just the Sacramento valley. This is the Volkmann copy, with WHEAT, GOLD REGIONS 102. WHEAT, TRANSMISSISSIPPI 625. STREETER his bookplate on the cloth case. SALE 2541. $7500. Mather Disparages Andros and Pleads for Support for New England and Its Colonists 25. [Mather, Increase]: A NARRATIVE OF THE MISERIES OF NEW- ENGLAND, BY REASON OF AN ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT ERECTED THERE. Contained in: A SIXTH COLLECTION OF PAPERS RELATING TO THE PRESENT JUNCTURE OF AFFAIRS IN ENGLAND.... London: Printed, and are to be sold by Richard Janeway, 1689. [2],34pp. Small quarto. 20th-century marbled paper wrappers. Moderate wear to wrappers. Occasional light foxing and tanning, paper flaw in leaf B1, not affecting text. Very good. Lower edge untrimmed. This is the first of five works written by Increase Mather for publication while he was in London as an agent of New England from 1688 to 1692. It was first published as a handbill in December 1688, and reissued in this collection of political papers the next month. Mather gives a tribute to the character of the New Englanders, suggesting it was in England’s best interest to aid and encourage them. Instead, he complains, Sir Edmund Andros had been arbitrarily installed as governor by James II and the original charter was suspended. In 1686, James II had revoked the Charter of Massachusetts, creating a Dominion of New England under Andros. Mather then details Andros’ many abuses of his power by prohibit- ing assembly, suspending habeas corpus, invalidating land titles, and supporting taxation without vote. Mather probably intended this text to be distributed to the Parliament called by James for January 1689. When James was deposed in December 1688, it opened the door for a new hearing by William of Orange. While the Dominion dissolved, this created legal problems for both Massachusetts and Plymouth. Plymouth never had a royal charter, and the charter of Massachu- setts had been revoked. Mather petitioned the Lords of Trade for a restoration of the old Massachusetts charter. However, William III was concerned that this would result in a potentially Puritan government, so the Lords of Trade decided to solve the issue by combining the two colonies. The resulting Province of Massachusetts Bay combined the territories of Massachusetts and Plymouth along with Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands that had been part of Dukes County in the Province of New York. Both the original issue and this printing of Increase Mather’s NARRATIVE... are quite rare in the market. SABIN 81492. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 689/169. HOLMES, INCREASE MATHER 79-B. CHURCH 714. BRINLEY SALE 338. ESTC R5574. $4500. a small two-panel elevated panoramic image of the town. Interspersed with the Gold Springs images are a few from Fay, Nevada, including the largest image in the album, featuring “Four Generations” of a Native American family. Meigs was evidently in Gold Springs to work for or visit the Buck Mountain Gold Mining Company, whose buildings and claims are featured in photographs here. The Jennie Mill is also captured in a handful of images, including the “Jennie Hoisting and Air Plants,” the “Interior Jennie Mill – The Stamps and Amalgam Plates,” and the “Jennie Shaft.”

Meigs includes a handful of casual photographs of Salt Lake City before the images shift to Colorado. The main reason for Meigs’ presence in Colorado seems to be as an observer or participant on the Kansas-Colorado Railway surveying team. Various photographs are captioned “Kansas-Colorado Rail- road Surveyor’s Camp,” “Kansas-Colorado Railway Grading Camp,” “K-C Ry. Party,” “The Garcia House K-C Ry. Camp,” “K-C Ry.,” and “K-C Ry. Camp.” Many of the men associated with the Kansas-Colorado Railway surveying team are identified here, namely H.L. Titus, E.L. Wadsworth, C.W. Orr, O.R. Smith, a man named simply “Jack,” plus two unnamed im- ages of the same man who may be Meigs himself. This man bears a striking resemblance to the man featured in some of the earlier family shots and the handful of later images dated in 1920-21 at the end of this album.

Meigs visits and pictures (often scenically) several Colorado locations, such as Beaver Creek, Portland, Turkey Creek (the only dated photograph in the album emanates from Turkey Creek and is captioned “Sept 20th, 1908”), Canon City, the Balanced Rocks at Lytle, Paradise Park, St. Charles River, Nepesta, Manzanola, Adobe (where Meigs records the scene of a train wreck in two images), Garden of the Gods, Cheyenne Canyon, Monument Park, the With Vernacular Scenes of a Utah Gold Mine “Mine Entrance” at Manitou, Colorado Springs, Royal Gorge, and alfalfa farmers and a Colorado Railroad Surveying Team at Lamar. Some photographs have been removed from the later leaves of the album, though these are likely later family images not related to the engineering 26. Meigs, Stanley V.: [ANNOTATED VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH content. Five images are stored in an envelope mounted to the inside rear cover; ALBUM BELONGING TO RAILROAD ENGINEER STANLEY V. MEIGS, these appear to be additional images of Gold Springs, with one of the settlement, FEATURING SCENES IN A UTAH GOLD MINING CAMP AND WITH two of the blacksmith’s shop, and two of the exterior of the mine shaft. A COLORADO RAILROAD SURVEYING TEAM]. [Various locations in Utah and Colorado. ca. 1908]. 150 original photographs, from 2 x 1¼ inches to 4¾ x Stanley V. Meigs appears in a few engineering publications from early in the 20th 5¾ inches, and a handful of studio shots, most captioned in white ink. Oblong century. In May 1911, Meigs is listed as a member of the Western Society of octavo. Contemporary black cloth, covers and interior pages ruled in white ink, Engineers from Pueblo, Colorado, though he was serving as a draftsman for the ownership name “Stanley V. Meigs” written at bottom of front cover in white Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Los Angeles. Later that year, Meigs ink. Minor edge wear. Some photographs trimmed to fit the assembler’s aesthetic, registered a patent for a flanged-wheel railway motor car. He went on to be- but in generally nice shape. Overall very good. come the Assistant Construction Engineer for Union Station in Los Angeles in the 1930s, compiling a report called THE UNION PASSENGER TERMINAL, The personal annotated vernacular photograph album of Stanley V. Meigs, a LOS ANGELES: AN EARLY HISTORY OF THE CITY AND ITS TRANS- railroad engineer based in Pueblo, Colorado. The album is peppered with some PORTATION AND THE PROCEEDINGS LEADING UP TO THE UNION family photographs, including Meigs and a baby, but is mostly concerned with TERMINAL. The present album dates earlier than Meigs’ time in Los Angeles, mining and engineering ventures in Utah and Colorado in 1908 or earlier. and likely represents the start of his engineering career. The album opens in Gold Springs, Utah, with several images of the settlement, A striking collection of western images focused on mining, the railroads, and the surrounding mountains, some interiors, four pages of family photographs, and western scenery in Utah and Colorado. $3000. Record of Methodist Meetings in Antebellum Missouri 27. [Methodism]: [Missouri]: [MANUSCRIPT METHODIST CLASS MEET- permanent pastor. Several of these ministers make repeat appearances, including ING BOOK FROM PLEASANT GROVE, MISSOURI, 1841-57]. Pleasant Richard Bond, Jacob Sigler, W.W. Redman (Redmund), George Smith, and E.M. Grove, Mo. 1841-1857. [86]pp. Oblong octavo. Original limp calf, with “Henton’s Marvin. In total, twenty-five ministers are listed, from the Auburn, Bowling Class” written in ink on front cover. Wear and staining to binding, manuscript Green, and Louisiana Circuits of the St. Charles District, Missouri Conference. notes on covers. First leaf detached (but present), another leaf with a closed tear Interspersed throughout are quotations from scripture and the Methodist BOOK running most of the length of the page (due to ink burn?). Minor worming at OF DISCIPLINE, and injunctions to holy living. inner margin of first and last leaves, some staining and tanning throughout, but The class membership begins with John and Jane Henton, along with several other overall very good. In cream cloth clamshell box with paper label. Henton family members. The size of the class averages from twenty-five to thirty A comprehensive and well-preserved manuscript register for a Methodist class members for the years covered here. Other families and names that recur are the meeting in rural Pleasant Grove, Missouri, in the heart of the Ozarks. The Thomas family headed by James W. and Melinda, the Gillum (Gillam) family, record provides information on the congregation and its members – including Mary Wren, Margaret Farr (Pharr), Margaret Anderson, Susan Smith, Ebender African Americans – in a now extinct town in central southern Missouri in the Crow, and the Litteral (Literal) family. Over the years, members died, transferred, two decades preceding the Civil War. or withdrew, and new members joined, including Robert Riggs, Rachel Poor, Dalana Jinnings, Nancy Corhorn, Mary Jameson, Margaret Hickerson, and Eliza The first leaf has the title “Pleasant Grove Class Book” in a large, flowing hand. Meander. Tolivor Henton, Reuben Henton, and Washington Henton form the Members are listed for each year, along with their marital status (“State in life”), small group of “coloured members” recorded between the years 1851-53, with a whether they’ve been baptized (“State in grace”), their attendance at meetings, and note that “Lucy Crow joined in Jan. 15, 1855. Jessa Henton’s colored girl joined how much they’ve paid toward the “quarterage” tithe. There are three shorter, the same time.” Later additions include Richard Williams and Sarah Newton. less-detailed lists of “coloured members” as well. Also noted for each year is the class leader, and the ministers and preachers for the circuit who served the con- The “class meeting” appeared early in the development of Methodism. John gregation that year; Pleasant Grove was apparently not large enough to support a Wesley saw it as a crucial tool for enabling Methodists to “watch over one another in love,” and to support and encourage fellow members in their faith. Wesley believed the class meeting was so important that it became a requirement for membership in a Methodist congregation. The meetings included men and women (women sometimes taught and led meetings) of all ages and spiritual maturity, and all levels of social standing. Typically, the class leader would issue signed paper tickets as proof of active membership in a class. Wesley began the practice in 1741, and in 1743 he refined the system by linking their issuance to quarterly pastoral visits (the “quarterage” tithes mentioned above). Early tick- ets were simple slips of paper bearing manuscript annotations, but by the later eighteenth century tickets were printed locally in a variety of sizes with scripture verses and decorative elements. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tickets were more uniform and printed according to conference specifications, along with pre-printed class leader books. The ticket system (similar to communion tokens in the Presbyterian church) ensured that only those who met the high standards of the movement could actively participate. The class meeting system and the use of tickets waned during the 1800s and ended in the early 20th century. We have no tickets related to this class, however the fact that this class leader book is entirely in manuscript suggests that Pleasant Grove was unusually remote or unusually poor, possibly both. A valuable record of the Methodist congregation in Pleasant Grove, Missouri, a small rural hamlet deep in the Ozarks, information that is almost certainly unat- tainable anywhere else. $3750.

Promoting Land Sales in Civil War-Era Missouri: “The quality of land has nothing to do with the price.” 28. [Missouri Land Promotional]: HOMES IN MISSOURI FOR THE MIL- LION! R.W. DUNSTAN & CO...ST. LOUIS, MO., HAVE JUST RECEIVED FROM THEIR SURVEYORS, LOCATIONS FOR OVER 350,000 ACRES OF THE MOST CHOICE FARMING LANDS IN MISSOURI! [caption title]. St. Louis: Foote, Printer [ca. 1860s]. Broadside printed in black and red, 13½ x 10¼ inches. A few light creases. Near fine. An apparently unrecorded and visually striking Missouri land sale broadside from the Civil War era. The title touts the availability of “350,000 acres of the most choice farming lands” and offers the land to “settlers, traders and others for 12½, 25 and 50 cents per acre.” The Dunstan Company also offers “Second hand Lands and Improved Farms in Every County in the State,” promising “Taxes Paid in All Western States and Territories” and “Mineral Lands Bought and Sold.” The company also promotes 250,000 acres in Illinois. R.W. Dunstan was a real estate and general land agent in St. Louis in the 1860s. Regarding the printer, a St. Louis business directory from 1863 lists W.E. Foote, “Job printer, on N. 3rd, opposite the post office,” the same address as given in the imprint here. No copies of this broadside appear in auction records, the trade, or in OCLC. The only St. Louis imprint by Foote in OCLC, Margaret Cummins’ LEAVES FROM MY PORT FOLIO, is dated 1860. Possibly a unique surviving promo- tional for early land development in Missouri at a turbulent moment in its history. $3000. her musical interests. Many of the photographs are non-professional, and were likely taken by Ann or a friend or family member. Several of the professional pictures of country music artists – including Eddy Albert, Faron Young, Porter Wagoner, and the Maddox Brothers and Rose – are signed by the stars themselves.

Two locations can be identified from the pictures – Uncle Roy’s Beautiful Sun- set Park in Jennersville, Pennsylvania and Circle A Ranch in Deer Park, New Jersey, but a variety of small clubs, auditoriums, jamborees, and honky tonks are depicted. The album features mounted photographs capturing notable musicians, such as Hank Thompson (several photos, including one of their tour bus), Shorty Long, Hank Snow, Kenny Roberts, Clair “Tiny” Mickey, Sally Starr, Mickie Evans, Tim Holt, the Tune Dusters, the Eckert Family, and oth- ers. One original photograph shows Ray Meyers, an accomplished steel guitar player despite being born without arms, signing an autograph with his right foot. The musician photographs are interspersed with some family photographs.

Most notable are the dozen photographs featuring Bill Haley & His Comets at the height of their fame. Their most famous song, “Rock Around the Clock,” which is credited by some for bringing rock and roll music to the mainstream, was released the year before, and then featured in and popularized by the release of the film, THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, in March 1955. Two of the Bill Haley photographs are signed, though the compiler trimmed them a bit, and a few of them feature Haley with various local women identified in the captions.

Accompanying the album are twenty-one larger promotional photographs, many of which are signed. These include Hank Snow (color photo, signed on verso); Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys (signed by Snow in the image); another of Hank Snow by himself (signed in the image); Faron Young (signed in the image); Porter Wagoner, Junior “Speedy” Haworth, and Don Warden A Treasure Trove of Early Rock and Roll (signed by all three in the image); Eddy Arnold (signed in the image); Lash La and Country Music Photographs and Autographs Rue (signed in the image); Jesse Rogers (inscribed to “Ann” on verso); Maddox 29. [Music Photographica]: [ANNOTATED VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH Bros. and Rose (signed in bottom margin); the Eckert Family (giant photographic ALBUM KEPT BY AN EARLY POPULAR MUSIC FAN, FEATURING postcard signed by all on verso); Rosie and Retta (signed by Retta Maddox on BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS, HANK THOMPSON AND THE BRAZOS verso); Gordon Terry, “Champion Old-Time Fiddler (signed in the image); prolific VALLEY BOYS, HANK SNOW, AND OTHERS IN THE EARLY DAYS singer-songwriter Jean Shepard (with her signature on the verso); Lloyd Arnold OF ROCK AND ROLL, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONAL SIGNED (inscribed on verso); Lloyd Arnold with his band, the Rockin Drifters (inscribed PHOTOGRAPHS]. [Pennsylvania and New Jersey. May to June, 1955]. 130 to “Ann” in the bottom margin); cowgirl TV hostess Sally Starr (inscribed on black and white photographs, measuring from 2 x 3½ inches to 8 x 10 inches, the verso, “To Ann Lovingly Sally Starr”); Don Reno & Red Smiley and the Ten- almost all with printed captions in the margins dated May or June 1955, most nessee Cut-Ups (signed by the whole band on the verso); the Wilburn Brothers also with manuscript captions written below the image in red or blue pencil. (signed by both in the image); and a few unsigned photos, including one featur- Plus, two souvenir programs; one 6-x-9-inch promotional color photograph, ing Jimmy Dean. There are also two souvenir programs laid in – a promotional signed; and twenty 8 x 10-inch promotional black and white photographs, most program for Webb Pierce (signed by him inside) and a SOUVENIR PICTURE signed. Square folio. Contemporary red leatherette photograph album. Covers ALBUM GRAND OPRY (with signatures by Kitty Wells and Lester Wilburn of soiled, front cover detached, minor edge wear. One leaf detached, minor wear the Tennessee Mountain Boys inside). to photographs, album pages toned, chipped, and somewhat brittle. Very good. A wonderful collection of early rock and roll and country music notables compiled A fantastic personal photographic record of early rock and roll and country music by a fan in 1955, at the point when rock and roll was beginning to emerge in the stars from 1955, compiled by a woman named “Ann” who traveled to document popular culture. $3000. Rare Study of the Nez Perce Language 30. [Nez Perce Language]: [Morvillo, Anthony]: [Cataldo, Joseph]: GRAM- MATICA LINGUAE NUMIPU. AUCTORE PRESBYTERO MISSIONARIO E SOC. JESU IN MONTIBUS SAXOSIS. [Second titlepage:] A NUMIPU OR NEZ-PERCE GRAMMAR. BY A MISSIONARY OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Desmet, Id.: Indian Boys’ Press, 1891. [6],255,iv pp. Original pebbled cloth. Minor wear to extremities. Stamp of the St. Joseph’s Mission in Slickpoo, Idaho on front free endpaper. Very good plus.

A rare and early work on the Nez Perce language. The basic text and the first titlepage are printed in Latin, befitting a Jesuit work. Nez Perce is a highly endangered language, with the estimated number of current fluent speakers at fewer than one hundred. As native speakers of this and other Native American languages disappear, these grammars will become more and more important, and correspondingly more rare.

Some identify Anthony Morvillo as the author of this Nez Perce grammar, includ- ing Edward Ayer; others credit Joseph Cataldo, including Wilberforce Eames and Charles W. Smith. OCLC lists about fifteen copies under both authors. The work is exceedingly rare in the marketplace. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (NEZ PERCE) 5. SMITH, PACIFIC NORTH- WEST AMERICANA 621. SCHOENBERG 79 (the Decker copy). DECKER 37:147a. SOLIDAY 562. $800. of a shaft, and the ore sorting plant. Other images show the locations of other mines and their surrounding buildings, including North Star Gulch, Courier Gulch, Elkhorn, and Outlook Mountain (though Perkins was likely referring to “Lookout”). Two photos show Charles Sonnleitner, manager at the Caledonia Mining Company in 1917, near a mine at Outlook Mountain. Four of the photo negatives show W.R.C. Johnstone and his ranch. There are also images of the house and ranch of W.J. Crooks, and of Crooks with his horses and family, and two shots of T.E. Picotte, publisher of the WOOD RIVER DAILY TIMES, the second daily paper circulated in Idaho Territory. Approximately fifty negatives show the local terrain with detailed captions, al- lowing one to retrace Perkins’ steps through the region that includes Croesus Park, Joaquin Hill, Climax Hill, and Fish Mining Scenes and Daily Life in Idaho and Utah Creek. Perkins returned in 1917, 1918, and 1919 and took photos of structures at the Dollarbride mill, the “rediscovery” of the Hemlock mine, and the Egan 31. Perkins, Thomas A.: [COLLECTION OF 421 PHOTOGRAPHIC and Ellingsen ranches. NEGATIVES DEPICTING LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF IDAHO Next is a series of approximately eighty-five images in and around Marysvale, Utah AND UTAH, INCLUDING MINING ACTIVITY, AND HOME LIFE IN in 1912. In addition to images of the terrain, there are a number of photos of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA]. [Various places in Idaho, Utah, and California commercial buildings, including those of the Southern Utah Wholesale Company, (see below). ca. 1907-1929]. 421 photograph negatives, 4½ x 6¾ inches each. the Grand Hotel, and a restaurant. There are also many views of the settlement House in three button-fastened negative albums. Moderate wear to albums. One itself, including building and homes with their residents standing outside. There negative torn, a few negatives faded or warped. Very good overall. are about fifteen images in and around Minidoka in 1909, including homes and A fascinating collection of original photographic negatives created and organized other structures and a dam. Several shots from Tuscarora, Nevada and the Bull by Thomas A. Perkins (1859-1938), surveyor, mining engineer, and accomplished Run Basin in California in 1909 finish out this section. amateur photographer, and brother of feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Finally, there are approximately 100 images from Southern California in the Almost all of the negatives are numbered with corresponding dated captions either 1920s, of which about half show Perkins’ homes in Pasadena, his wife, Margaret, written on the negative sleeves or compiled in lists at the end of each album, and youngest son, Thomas. Other images show the neighborhood and scenes sometimes with notes from Perkins about exposure times and photo quality. from Goff Island and Three Arch Bay near Laguna Beach, where they would The images begin in 1907 with about 150 shots taken in and around Hailey, Idaho camp and swim. and the Big Wood and Little Wood Rivers. Perkins was involved with the Silver An excellent collection of images on mining and life in the early 20th century Fortune mine, and there are several images depicting miners and mining operations West. $4850. there, including a cabin, the portal shed and its interior, a man moving a car out Commodore Perry Returns to Japan in 1854: An Amazing Thirty-Foot Long “Black Ship” Scroll of the American Fleet on Its Second and Most Decisive Visit, Descended Through the Perry Family 32. [Perry Japan Expedition]: [Black Ship Scroll]: NANPO GUEN. [VISIT TO SHIMODA]. [N.p., but probably Tokyo. ca. 1856]. Ink and watercolor on twenty-five linen-mounted rice paper panels joined into a scroll, measuring ap- proximately 10½ inches x 29½ feet. Mounted on a wooden roller with silk tie, housed in a custom balsa wood box. Intermittent creasing, fairly regular small chips to bottom edge, sometimes costing a bit of the image area. Very good. An incredible, informative, and beautifully rendered “Black Ship Scroll,” giving a thirty-foot long visual account of the visit of Commodore Perry’s U.S. naval squadron to Shimoda in the wake of the signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa. It is an awe-inspiring artifact of a momentous event in American and Japanese his- tory, and a brilliant work of art. Perry’s 1854 arrival in the remote port of Shimoda aroused great curiosity and was recorded both by anonymous artisans as well as real artists, the latter being the case for the present scroll. One of Perry’s interpreters, S. Wells Williams, reported seeing similar scrolls depicting the naval visit just a few weeks after they anchored. He wrote in his account of the visit: “A pictorial representation of our squadron and description annexed, and an account of the war between England and China, were seen today by officers....” Williams goes on the remark that it was forbidden to sell these scrolls to Americans, and in fact being a non-trading closed society, Japanese officials discouraged personal purchases of any kind by U.S. personnel. Evident in the present scroll is the Japanese fascination with American military technology. Perry’s official account made note of the Japanese being insatiably inquisitive when invited on board: “When visiting the ship, the mandarins and their attendants were never at rest: but went about peering into every nook and corner, peeping into the muzzles of the guns....They were not contented to merely observing with their eyes, but were constantly taking out their writing materials, their mulberry bark paper....” The present scroll depicts the deck and equipment details of one of Perry’s frig- ate steamers, as well as handsome harbor scenes of the numerous ships at anchor (including a moonlight view), brilliantly-colored American flags flying from the masts of the ships, undulating coastlines, maps of the locations of Perry’s ships, the narrative of their travel from Edo Bay, a portrait of Commodore Perry and two of his interpreters, and an account of naval gun salutes and the burial of a sailor with a rendering of his tombstone. Also shown is a small American military band, large portraits of several of Perry’s ships, a detail of an American landing party departing one of the imposing Black Ships, and much more. On the whole, the expert illustrations give not only the details of Perry, his men, ships and their armaments, but a sense of the level to which the American squadron impressed the Japanese. Accomplished by an artist that would almost certainly have had firsthand knowledge of the visit of the American squadron, it is a far more artistically- meeting took place at Yokohama from February to June 1854, where Perry insisted polished memorial of Perry’s extraordinary visit than many of the more folk-art that negotiations begin, and at that time there was an exchange of diplomatic type scrolls that make up the majority of surviving examples. gifts. A provisional treaty was signed in 1854 but the full trading treaty was not completed until 1858 after Townsend Harris came to Japan as U.S. Consul, and Perry’s sudden arrival near the entrance to Tokyo Bay at Uraga on July 8, 1853 set about finalizing the negotiations. with two sloops and two paddle-steamer battleships, carrying letters and gifts to deliver to the Emperor, threw the Japanese authorities into a tailspin. The Perry’s return in 1854, with a much more substantial force, provoked the same reports went back to the Emperor, who immediately took ill, presumably fearing curiosity and trepidation among the Japanese populace as his first visit, if not an invasion. For several days there was a stand-off, the smaller Japanese vessels more so, and it is this second visit that is captured in the present scroll. The amassing around the American vessels, one of which had ninety-two cannons. Americans arrived by steam frigates (the “black ships of evil men”) as well as under Local warlord families took up arms all around the Bay and made promises of men sail, with their canons and howitzers conspicuous. This second visit to Edo Bay for the defense of Edo. For five days the stand-off continued and Perry stayed in was a purposeful display of the United States’ superior military force to impress his cabin and let it be known he had a letter from President Fillmore to deliver an essentially feudal society – all the better for Perry to encourage the signing to the Emperor, and only the Emperor or his emissary could receive it. The of a treaty allowing American whalers to use the islands as a resupply outpost of Japanese first threatened him, then tried to bribe him to leave and go to Nagasaki America’s burgeoning economic empire and Pacific expansion. to complete his mission. Perry stood firm and ignored the Japanese demands. Following the signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa on March 31, 1854, Perry visited Perry sent out smaller boats to start surveying the area and the Japanese stood the two ports named as open to American ships, Shimoda and Hakodate. Ameri- aside, wondering if the cannon would strike them. On July 14 a hastily erected cans were also allowed to travel inland from these ports to a proscribed distance tent was put up on the shore of the bay, and two sons of the Emperor, Princes of seven ri (approximately seventeen miles). Officers were allowed onshore and Ido and Toda, came down by Imperial barge from Edo and sat in the tent to the manners, appearance, and customs of the Americans were of nearly insatiable receive the letters. Perry arrived with his troops, his marching band playing, interest to the inhabitants of these remote fishing villages. This was the first flags flying. He formally delivered the letters and said he would be back in a interaction common Japanese citizens had with Westerners. year for an answer to the President’s call for a trade treaty with Japan, protection for shipwrecked sailors, and the establishment of refueling stations for American The present scroll descends from the Perry family, specifically Calbraith Perry ships in the Western Pacific. The Japanese asked Perry to leave quickly, but he Rodgers, famed aviator and Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry’s great-grand- stayed anchored for a further three days, then spent some time doing surveys of nephew. The scroll is accompanied by a later typed transcription of an 1858 other parts of Edo Bay, returning via Okinawa, to winter at the American station account of Commodore Perry’s life by R.S. Rodgers. in Hong Kong. One of the more impressive examples of a Black Ship Scroll, documenting Perry’s Perry returned the following February with a larger flotilla, strengthened by second interaction with the Japanese rulers and people, executed by an accom- newly-completed battleship steamers sent out from the United States. The second plished Japanese artist, and descended through the Perry family. $62,500. Large Archive of Records of an African-American Civil War Regiment 33. Prickitt, William A.: [Civil War]: [ARCHIVE OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM The 25th Regiment was organized January 3 – February 12, 1864 at Camp A. PRICKITT, COMPANY G, 25th UNITED STATES COLORED IN- William Penn, near Philadelphia, the first camp created for training United FANTRY REGIMENT, RECORDING THE RECRUITMENT, ARMING, States Colored Troops recruits. On March 16 they sailed for New Orleans on CASUALTIES, AND DEATHS IN THIS AFRICAN-AMERICAN REGI- the steamer Suwahnee, which sprung a leak off Hatteras and put into harbor at MENT]. [Various places in Louisiana and Florida. 1864-1869]. Seventy-six items. Beaufort North Carolina. They served temporarily under Gen. Wessons until All items are folded. Occasional light wear and mild toning. A few forms starting April, when they were able to continue to New Orleans, arriving May 1. They to separate at folds (no loss to text), but most forms are very good to near fine. were subsequently attached to the defences of New Orleans, Department of the Gulf, until July 1864. They were then transferred to the District of Pensacola, A fascinating collection of materials relating to the daily operations of Company and assigned to Fort Barrancas and later Fort Pickens. They mustered out on G of the 25th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, collected by its captain, December 6, 1865 (see Dyer, p.1727). The majority of these items are retained William A. Prickitt. The many items in this archive document all aspects of the copies of inventories, returns, troop musters, invoices, and related records, mostly service of this African-American regiment over the course of the final year of centered on the Company’s garrison duties at Fort Barrancas. the Civil War, providing vital information on recruitment, outfitting, arming, and paying the soldiers, as well as providing a record of losses due to desertion The United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) were regiments in the Army and death. composed primarily of African-American soldiers, although members of other minority groups also served, including Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, and William Augustus Prickitt (1839-1929) enlisted as a private with the 14th New Asian Americans. By the end of the Civil War, U.S.C.T. regiments constituted Jersey Regiment on August 9, 1862, was promoted to sergeant, and finally to about one-tenth of the Union Army, although they had a casualty rate about captain of Company G, 25th Regiment, United States Colored Troops. After the 35% higher than white Union troops. Nevertheless, the U.S.C.T. fought with war he went on to become an attorney (see below), then banker and member of distinction: fifteen U.S.C.T. soldiers received the Medal of Honor, among nu- the New York Stock Exchange. In 1897 he was appointed American Consul at merous other awards. Rheims, France, and later Consul General in Auckland, New Zealand. In July 1862, Congress passed the Confiscation Act freeing slaves whose owners Many of the items in this archive are in original envelopes as organized by Prickitt, were in rebellion against the United States, and then the Militia Act of 1862 and are grouped accordingly below in lists, with Prickitt’s envelope titles. This empowered the president to use former enslaved men in any capacity in the army. is especially the case with “Returns,” or accounts of equipment, which were re- Lincoln opposed early efforts to recruit black soldiers, although he approved of quired monthly or quarterly (March 31, June 30, September 30, December 31), the army using them as paid workers. However, once he issued the Emancipa- depending on the type of equipment, with all forms to be enclosed in the same tion Proclamation, recruitment of African Americans became widespread. On envelope. All forms are designed to be completed in manuscript, including their May 22, 1863 the War Department issued General Order 143, establishing the titling, so titles vary slightly from document to document. In some cases Prickitt Bureau of Colored Troops to better facilitate the recruitment and mustering of seems to not have had the necessary form at hand, and so either adapts similar African-American soldiers. Regiments of infantry, cavalry, engineers, light artil- forms or creates the form entirely in manuscript. All forms have printed and/or lery, and heavy artillery units were recruited from all states of the Union. 175 manuscript docket titles. regiments totaling more than 178,000 “colored” soldiers served during the last two years of the war. An intriguing and highly informative record of the recruitment, arming, and casualties of an African-American regiment during the Civil War. Such an ex- U.S.C.T. regiments were led by white officers, and rank advancement was limited tensive and meticulously maintained archive is unusual to find. A detailed list for black soldiers, with very few receiving commissions. At first, black soldiers of the contents is available on request. received less pay than their white counterparts, usually no more than half, but Frederick H. Dyer, A COMPENDIUM OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION they and their supporters lobbied and eventually gained equal pay. The courage (Des Moines, Ia.: Dyer Pub. Co., 1908). Samuel P. Bates, HISTORY OF THE displayed by black troops during the war played an important role in African PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS, 1861-1865 (Harrisburg, Pa.: B. Singerly, State Americans gaining new rights after the war. In his speech, “Should the Negro Printer, 1869-1871). Joseph B. Ross, compiler, TABULAR ANALYSIS OF THE Enlist in the Union Army?” delivered at National Hall, Philadelphia on July 6, RECORDS OF THE U.S. COLORED TROOPS AND THEIR PREDECES- 1863, Frederick Douglass stated: “Once let the black man get upon his person SOR UNITS IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his (Washington, D.C.: N.A.RA., 1973). “William A. Prickitt, Ex-Consul, Dies at shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that 89” in NEW YORK TIMES, January 8, 1929, p.30. $8750. he has earned the right to citizenship.” Douglass was a prominent supporter of recruitment for the U.S.C.T., and Douglass’ two sons, Lewis and Charles, were two of the first to enlist in Massachusetts. Important Archive of an American Reporter in China During World War II and the Early Years of the Cold War: A Wealth of Primary Source Material 34. Ravenholt, Albert: [China]: [ARCHIVE OF MATERIAL RELATING TO THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR AND POST-WAR CHINA, 1944 – 1954, COMPILED BY JOURNALIST ALBERT RAVENHOLT, DESCRIBING THE POLITICAL, MILITARY, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL SITUATION IN CHINA, AND THE COUNTRY’S FUTURE]. [Various places in China]. 1944-1954. Twenty-five letters, thirty-three interviews, forty-nine press releases, forty-four reports, thirteen publications, two photos, one business card. In all, one linear foot of material. Various paginations, as described below. Occasional manuscript corrections to text, all annotations are noted in list below. Occasional toning or rumpling to paper. In very good condition. A substantial and important archive of primary source material collected by United Press war correspondent Albert Ravenholt, including his reportage, interviews, notes, collections of press releases, and periodicals from a decade spent reporting from China during World War II, the Chinese Civil War, and the early years of the Cold War. Ravenholt’s archive provides an unparalleled, firsthand view into the political, economic, military, international, and social forces at work in China from the waning years of World War II into the Cold War and the control of the country by the Chinese Communist Party. The great majority of material in this archive consists of unique, unpublished material gathered by Ravenholt in the course of his reporting in China, gathered on the scene over the course of a decade. Excerpts from the interviews that he conducted and the reports he gathered were used to create his stories, but this archive presents his research materials in their unedited, complete form. Apart from its use in his journalism it is, to our knowledge, unexamined and unstudied. The collection includes correspondence and interviews conducted by Ravenholt with figures in Chinese political, military, and economic affairs from both the Chinese Nationalist and Communist sides of the conflict, as well as with Ameri- can military and business leaders. The collection also contains a great amount of material gathered by Ravenholt over the course of a decade spent in China, including press releases, propaganda (both anti- and pro-Communist), American military directives, reports on Chinese industry and the prospects and proposals for its reconstruction, considerations of American business opportunities in China, and much more. In all, the Ravenholt archive presents the entire spectrum of the issues at work in a country occupied by Japan, and then fighting for its future at the dawn of the Cold War. Albert Ravenholt (1919-2010) was born in rural Wisconsin to Danish immigrants, and was drawn to journalism from an early age. After high school, he found a job as a cook on a Swedish freighter bringing timber to the Asia. He landed in Shanghai and, noting that Japan was already at war with China, did not reboard. Following the U.S. declaration of war on Japan, Ravenholt volunteered with the International Red Cross to lead medical relief convoys into the Chinese interior. In 1942, recovering from a bought of dysentery, he got his first reporting job, working for the United Press as a war correspondent covering China, India, and Burma. In 1945 he became U.P. Bureau Chief for China and India, and later a fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs, stationed in Peking until the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) overthrow. After the end of the Chinese Civil War, Ravenholt returned to the Institute of Current World Affairs and was a founding member of the American Universities Field Service, an apprenticeship program organized by several American colleges and universities to send qualified students out as foreign correspondents. Raven- holt also continued his research and writing throughout Asia, and maintained a second home in the Philippines. The bulk of this extensive collection focuses on the economic situation in China immediately following Japan’s surrender in August, 1945. This includes reconstruc- tion of financial systems and national infrastructure, but also restoring Chinese control to industries taken over by Japanese occupiers, and codifying Chinese autonomy over foreign (especially American) investments in China. While there is not extensive combat reporting during the Chinese Civil War, interviews and press releases from both the anti-Communist Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang and the CCP reveal sharp tensions over who is best suited to guide China’s future. The format of paper sizes in this archive varies, although there are consistencies in sizes of paper per publisher or creator. Most of Ravenholt’s typed reports are on onion skin. His notes and reportage were typed or written on any available paper. The CCP, issuing press releases from Yenan, used a mimeograph machine that regularly printed significantly off-center. Those leaves often appear hand-cut, as though rudimentary print-shop equipment was lacking. Press releases issued by the Republic of China (Kuomintang of China, or KMT) in the wartime capital of Chungking are more refined, but still feature blotchy ink and paper of varying quality. Paper was scarce in China during the war years and afterwards. Materials are sorted into six sections (Correspondence; Interviews; Press Releases, Propa- ganda, and U.S. Military Directives; Business and Industry; Miscellaneous Notes and Reports; Publications) and then listed chronologically within each section. A fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the work of one of the most impor- tant journalists covering the emergence of modern China. A complete inventory of the approximately 150 items in the archive is available upon request. Stephen R. MacKinnon & Oris Friesen, CHINA REPORTING: AN ORAL HIS- TORY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM IN THE 1930s AND 1940s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). W. Langhorne Bond, ed. James E. Ellis, WINGS FOR AN EMBATTLED CHINA (Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001). T.H. Shen, THE SINO-AMERICAN JOINT COMMIS- SION ON RURAL RECONSTRUCTION: TWENTY YEARS OF COOPERA- TION FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970). John King Fairbank, CHINABOUND: A FIFTY YEAR MEMOIR (New York: Harper & Row, 1982). $6000. Upon returning to Britain after two years abroad, Roberts worked with lithographer Louis Haghe from 1842 to 1849 to produce the lavish lithographs from his watercolors of the places and people of the Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia. He funded the original folio edition through advance subscriptions which he solicited directly. The scenery and monuments of Egypt and the Holy Land were fashionable but not yet among British artists, and so Roberts quickly accumulated 400 subscription commitments, with Queen Victoria being subscriber No. 1. It exceeded all other earlier lithographic projects in scale, and was one of the most expensive publications of the nineteenth century. Annabel Wharton notes that Roberts’ work has “proved to be the most pervasive and enduring of the nineteenth-century renderings of the East circulated in the West” (p.161); indeed, reproductions of Roberts’ works are still sold today. The success of the folio issue was sufficient to persuade Day & Son to take on the publication of a quarto edition of “one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth- century publishing” (Abbey), with the “plates...reduced to the required size by means of photography” (advertisement in the MONTHLY LITERARY ADVERTISER, June 1855).

David Roberts (1796-1864) was born at Stockbridge near Edinburgh, and at the age of ten was apprenticed to Gavin Buego, a house painter. He continued to work for Buego after the end of his Celebrated Illustrations of the Holy Land apprenticeship, carrying out work in imitation stone-work and paneling at Scone 35. Roberts, David: THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT, Palace and Abercairney Abbey. By 1818, Roberts had become assistant scene- & NUBIA. AFTER LITHOGRAPHS BY LOUIS HAGHE...WITH HISTORI- painter at the Pantheon Theatre in Edinburgh, moving to theatres in Glasgow CAL DESCRIPTIONS BY THE REVD. GEORGE CROLY [VOLS. I-III], and finally in late 1821 to the Drury Lane Theatre in London where he worked WILLIAM BROCKEDON [VOLS. IV-VI]. London: Lithographed, Printed with Clarkson Stanfield. Both artists exhibited regularly at the Society of British and Published by Day & Son, 1855-1856. Six volumes bound in three. [6],35,[4]; Artists, the Royal Academy, and the British Institution, and by 1830 Roberts was [2],3; [1],3; [2],9; [2]; [2]pp. 250 lithographic plates total, including tinted portrait able to give up his theatre work. In these early years he toured Scotland and the of Roberts, six tinted titlepages with vignettes, 241 tinted lithographic plates Continent, visiting Spain in 1832-33. after Roberts with descriptive leaves (of which ninety-four are colored), two His desire to travel farther afield was finally realized when in August 1838 he engraved maps. Quarto. Elaborately gilt contemporary navy blue morocco with traveled to Alexandria. It is claimed that he was the first European to have unlim- two gilt-tooled borders alternating with gilt triple fillet borders, gilt centerpiece, ited access to the mosques of Cairo – with the proviso that he did not desecrate spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the holy places by using hog’s bristle brushes. Leaving Cairo, he sailed up the the other compartments with repeat decoration in gilt, gilt Greek key dentelles, Nile to record the monuments represented in the Egypt and Nubia sections, and a.e.g. Contemporary inscription of front free endpaper of each volume (“Henry traveled as far as the Second Cataract. Wilson”). A few small scuffs and scrapes to boards and extremities, a few light spots of foxing (heaviest to portrait and vol. 1 titlepage), but overall very clean On his return to Cairo, Roberts formed a party which included John Kinnear, and crisp throughout. A handsome set. who left his own account of the ensuing journey to Cairo, Petra, and Damascus (published in 1839). The party adopted Arab dress and set out with over twenty First quarto edition of David Roberts’ remarkable depictions of the Holy Land camels and a native bodyguard. Their route to Petra took them via Mount and Egypt. Roberts enjoyed a wide popularity in his day for his European views, Sinai, St. Catherine’s Monastery, and Akaba. The period at Petra (or Idumea) but his outstanding success was certainly the present work, on which the modern was for Roberts one of the high points of the entire journey. Only trouble with appreciation of his art is based. local tribes forced him to move on to Hebron. From here, rumors of plague in With Original Photographs Jerusalem forced a detour to Gaza, Askalon, and Jaffa before it was safe to enter the Holy City. He also visited Jericho, Lake Tiberias, and other biblical sites. 36. [Santa Barbara]: ALL ABOUT SANTA BARBARA, CAL. THE SANI- Finally Roberts made his way to the Mediterranean via Nablus and Nazareth and TARIUM OF THE PACIFIC COAST. Santa Barbara, Ca.: Daily Advertizer visited the coastal cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Acre. Baalbek was the last place Printing House, 1878. 96,[3]pp. plus eight original albumen photographs (includ- visited before a combination of ill-health and the worsening political situation ing frontispiece) on five leaves. Text printed in double columns. Original brown forced him to abandon hopes of reaching Damascus and Palmyra. Instead he cloth, gilt, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt backstrip. Very light shelf wear, traveled to Beirut and then home. Santa Barbara bookseller’s ink stamp on front pastedown. A touch of light foxing, but the photographs very clean. Small hole in gutter of leaf with pp.83-84, not A handsome set of the quarto edition of Roberts HOLY LAND, a monument of affecting text. A handsome copy. illustrated 19th century travel. ABBEY 388. Annabel Wharton, SELLING JERUSALEM: RELICS, REPLICAS, A rare promotional volume encouraging settlement in Santa Barbara, and an THEME PARKS (University of Chicago Press, 2006). $11,500. early California book illustrated with original photographs. The photographs were all produced by the Santa Barbara firm of Hayward & Muzzall, who were active from 1874 to 1883. They show important sites in the town, including a handsome frontispiece photograph of the Franciscan mission, a group of friars standing on the mission steps, and a view under the archway of the mission aqueduct. Other images show Santa Barbara College, a vineyard, a large photograph of the Arlington Hotel, a view of the bay, and an image of the beach with some twenty-two riders on horseback in the distance, and three people sitting on the rocks in the foreground.

The text is largely composed of testimonials in the form of let- ters, reports, editorials and articles touting the virtues of life in Santa Barbara, and its capacity for growth. Included are letters by pioneers and visitors such as W.L. Oge, S.P. Brinkerhoff, Dr. M.H. Biggs, Charles Nordhoff, and many others. The let- ters describe the healthful quality of life in Santa Barbara, its mineral resources, climate, agricultural potential, society, the neighboring Montecito and Ojai valleys, and Santa Barbara as a place of “mental cure.” Several of the text pieces previously occurred in newspapers including the Santa Barbara DAILY ADVERTIZER, which printed this book. The final three pages contain detailed statistics on climate, giving scientific proof to the preceding prose. This copy, like the DeGolyer copy, bears the ink stamp on the front pastedown of Santa Barbara book- seller H.A.C. McPhail, who was active in the 1880s and 1890s.

This book was also issued in wrappers, but without photographs. It is rare in the market, with only two copies offered in the past fifty years, to our knowledge – a copy that appeared twice at auction (in 1985 and 1989) and a copy sold privately circa 2005. A highly desirable work, encouraging early development of southern California, illustrated with original photographs. CLIFTON SMITH COLLECTION 109. KURUTZ, CALI- FORNIA BOOKS ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL PHO- TOGRAPHS 54 and p.12. TO DELIGHT THE EYE 17. COWAN, p.567. ROCQ 13570. HOWES S99, “aa.” $16,500. Early and Unrecorded Santa Barbara Map 37. [Santa Barbara]: Chase, H.G.: MAP OF SANTA BARBARA CITY RE- is given, including City Hall, the courthouse, schools, churches, the Potter Hotel, VISED ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAP ISSUED FOR THE CITY and the Southern Pacific Railroad depot. Further inland are the new Oak Park ENGINEER’S OFFICE FOR 1907.... Santa Barbara: G.G. Childers, [1907]. Tract, Neal’s Addition, and the Van Vactor Meyers Addition, all of them just inside Lithographed map, 14¾ x 21½ inches, printed on coated paper. Old folds. Tape the town line, and the Van Vactor lands abutting the mission property. Several repaired on the verso, and a few tape repairs on the recto, but not interfering parcels of what was then “country” lands are shown and identified by owner, with the overall presentation of the map. About very good. including significant family names such as Thompson, Pinkham, and Hollister. A rare real estate map of Santa Barbara, showing hundreds of blocks in the city, OCLC has listings for later versions of this map, with information updated to as well as the location of new additions near the Santa Barbara Mission and larger 1913 (two copies), 1914, 1915, and 1918 (one copy each), but no record of this land holdings on the outskirts of town. This map was issued by the H.G. Chase 1907 map, which is possibly the earliest issued by Chase. Not in the catalogue Real Estate firms, located at 728 State Street, and was printed by G.G. Childers, of the Clifford Smith collection of Santa Barbara. Rare and significant. $1500. whose premises were at 928½ State. The location of a few significant buildings 38. [Southern, Terry, and Mason Hoffenberg]: Kenton, Maxwell [pseudonym]: CANDY. Paris: The Travellers Companion Series / The Olympia Press [October 1958]. With: Kenton, Maxwell [pseudonym]: LOLLIPOP. Paris: The Travellers Companion Series / The Olympia Press, [June 1962]. Two volumes. Uniform pale green wrappers, printed in black. Spine of first volume slightly sunned and a trace rolled, otherwise about fine. Second volume a bit sunned at spine with small sharp bump above the final ‘P’, lower forecorner slightly bumped, final two leaves have a faint tide-mark in the extreme lower forecorner, otherwise very good and bright. {} The first volume is the first edition, first printing, published as TC 64. After the French court condemned this title (along with sixteen others) in May of 1959, some sets of sheets were equipped with variant cancel prelims and distributed under the title LOLLIPOP. The original text was then reprinted in 1962, retaining the LOLLIPOP guise and continued designation as TC No. 64, as represented by the second volume present here, which has been signed by Terry Southern on the titlepage. The price on the rear wrapper of the first edition retains the original price of 1,200 Francs, but has a faint erased stroke through it. Among the most successful of the many satirical romps of its generation written for hire for Maurice Girodias, often by post-war American expatriates, and the source for one of the least successful film adaptations of the next decade. KEARNEY & CARROLL 5.64.1. & 5.64.3. $2500. An American Soldier in Cuba, in Words and Pictures 39. [Spanish-American War Photographica]: Lansing, Horace C., 2nd Lieut.: [PROFUSELY ANNOTATED VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM KEPT BY 2nd LIEUTENANT HORACE C. LANSING, DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN MILITARY OCCUPATION OF CUBA JUST AFTER THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR]. [Mostly Pinar del Rio, Cuba; but also Montauk Point, N.Y.; Huntsville, Al.; Savannah, Ga.; Havana and Viñales, Cuba. 1898-1899]. [69]pp., including 113 sepia-toned photographs with substantial handwritten annotations, photographs ranging from 2¼ x 3¼ inches to 4¾ x 6¾ inches, plus two additional photographs and a few ephemeral items laid in. Contemporary tan buckram, corners covered in calf. Moderate wear to extremi- ties. Hinges reinforced, a few leaves tender or with closed tears, a handful of photographs faded, two photographs defaced. Withal, in very good condition. A captivating annotated vernacular photograph album assembled by Chillicothe, Ohio native Horace C. Lansing, a second lieutenant in the 15th Company, U.S. Signal Corps Volunteers. According to a handwritten personal military service record written by Lansing himself that opens the present album, after his enlistment at Camp Bushnell in Columbus in April 1898, Lansing trained on Long Island, in Huntsville, and in Savannah before sailing to Cuba. He served in Cuba from December 1898 to April 1899, landing in Havana before transferring to Pinar del Rio, where he spent the lion’s share of his time. He concluded his service in Viñales. All of these activities are recorded in the present album. A caption on the verso of one of the laid-in photos, and the clipping of Lansing’s obituary included here, notes that he was the youngest commissioned army officer who served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The album opens with training at Montauk Point on Long Island, showing cavalry drills, a picket line, and a shot of a “reception given [by] Pres. McKinley.” About a dozen pictures record Lansing’s time in Alabama, namely their camp, a shot of soldiers “waiting for mess,” a logging camp, the headquarters of Gen. Wheeler, and various Huntsville buildings. There are also a few views from the dock at Savannah, and shipboard pictures of some of the 1,500 soldiers bathing nude on their way to Havana before Lansing and his unit arrived in Cuba. The remainder of the album captures Lansing’s time in Cuba. The photographs emanate from Havana, Pinar del Rio, and Viñales, and are profusely annotated at times. The album contains two broad views of Havana harbor showing the wreck of the USS Maine, the sinking of which drew the United States into the Spanish- American War, and a close-up view of the mast of the Maine rising above the water with its rigging intact. After leaving Havana, the first of the Signal Corps’ troops landed at Pinar del Rio on December 12, 1898. Lansing’s pictures show the streets of Pinar del Rio, scenes outside the church after services, a “Coffee House” in the town, a regiment of Cuban soldiers, the Hotel Ricardo, the Signal Corps’ camp, exterior and interior views of the telegraph office, and the stringing of telephone wires. Other photos show the military prison, “A ruined Spanish fort,” a railway station, “A Spanish block-house,” a Pinar del Rio “Native,” the Signal Corps headquarters, scenes from a “sham battle,” the captured Spanish Army barracks, the “Governors Palace,” the officers’ mess tent, and Lansing’s own tent, captioned, “Our Home.” A couple of large photos from Pinar del Rio show dense crowds celebrating the official transfer of the city to U.S. control on January 1, 1899. An elevated view of the town of Pinar del Rio taken “from top of Spanish Barracks” is dated February, 1899. Lansing also occasionally photographed the “Cuban scenery” and countryside he encountered, including a shot of the “Entrance to Cuban Tobacco plantation On the Kings Highway” outside Pinar del Rio. He also pictures a pack mule train “carrying tobacco from [the] plantation to town and a Cuban tobacco farm including the “Building where tobacco is put to dry.” Lansing is himself pictured and identified in several photographs. General George W. Davis and his staff appear here, as well, including Lansing, who evidently joined Davis’s staff for a brief time. He also includes several photographs of a Cuban academic he befriended named Maximo Abaunza, Director and Professor of Natural History and Agriculture at the Instituto de Segunda Ensenanza de Pinar del Rio. The photos also show Abaunza’s family. One particular image in Pinar del Rio depicts a baseball game played before a large crowd, captioned, “Two strikes.” The last two images in the album show the “Picturesque mountains north of Viñales, Cuba” and an “Immense cave” close to the city. Lansing traveled from Viñales to Havana, where he left on April 20. He arrived in New York on April 27, and was finally back in Chillicothe, Ohio on May 13, 1899. Lansing spent the latter years of his life in California, evidenced by the ephemera laid in here, which also includes his 1945 Sons of the American Revolution membership card. A substantial and engrossing personal record of a young Ohio soldier’s service during the American occupation of Cuba after the Spanish-American War, with numerous scenes in rural western Cuba. $4250. Prospectus for a Map of Mexico That Was Never Published 40. Staples, Estevan M.L.: [Staples, Stephen McLellan]: PROSPECTO PARA LA PUBLICACION DE UN MAPA JENERAL DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS MEJICANOS...[caption title]. [New York. ca. May 25, 1831]. [2]pp. on a folded folio sheet of yellow paper. Text in Spanish. Quarto. Old folds, minor toning. Near fine. A rare prospectus and early subscriber’s order form for an unpublished map of Mexico, proposed in 1831 by Stephen McLellan Staples, the surveyor general for the Mexican state of Chihuahua, and author of LA GRAMATICA COMPLETA DE LA LENGUA INGLESA EN CASTELLANO. Staples’ map, which would have been a valuable firsthand addition to the cartography of the early Mexican Republic, was never published – he died less than a year after producing this prospectus. Staples’ map was to include a view of the cathedral and a plan of Mexico City, including the names of streets, plus a separate plan of the interior of the National Palace of Mexico, as well as a view of the building. Staples includes proposed details for the various aspects of the map in the text on the first page, and top of the second page. This is followed by the conditions of subscription; one could buy both the map and plan for $15, or each of them separately ($12 for the map or $5 for the plan). Staples signs in print after the subscription options, dating them May 25, 1831 in New York. The second page concludes with a partially- printed form for subscribers to write their name, address, and number of copies, which is blank in this example. Stephen McLellan Staples was born in Gorham, Maine in 1800. He was educated at Bowdoin College in 1821, and moved to Philadelphia to open an academy where he taught English and Classics. In 1825, he published an English grammar designed for Spanish speakers, the first such work published in America. Later that year, he moved to Mexico, and served as the surveyor general for Chihuahua for several years. Bad health forced him to move back to Philadelphia in 1830, and he died of consumption in Philadelphia in February 1832, just about nine months after he published the present prospectus. It is a shame that Staples never produced his map, as it would have provided posterity with a valuable and first-hand contemporary view of independent Mexico in the first decade of its existence. Staples’ cartographic work in general is very rare, with only a few results of any kind in institutions, including a map of Parras in Coahuila (1828), a manuscript preliminary plan of Mexico City (1828), and a manuscript map of northern Mexico, including Exter and Wilson’s Grant (1828, Streeter Texas 1120). OCLC records just three physical copies of the present prospectus, at the American Antiquarian Society, the Clements Library, and the University of Texas at Arlington. OCLC 84276409. $850. Horse Racing in Texas in 1851 41. [Texas]: [Horse Racing]: [AUTOGRAPH ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT DOCUMENT, SIGNED BY FOUR PARTIES INVOLVED IN SETTING THE TERMS FOR A HORSE RACE IN ANTE-BELLUM TEXAS]. [Gon- zales County, Tx.]. October 18, 1851. [2]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old folds, a few ink smudges. Very good. An original manuscript agreement setting the terms of a horse race in Texas in 1851. The document is signed by the principal parties to the contest, Byrd Smith and Richard Parr, both of Gonzales, Texas, as well as witnesses C.C. DeWitt and A.S. Miller. The agreement, totaling approximately 375 words, reads in part: “Article [sic] of agreement between Byrd Smith...& Richard Parr...we the above named parties agree to run a Race six weeks from this date, said race to be run between A.S. Miller’s & John G. King’s on the old tracks, the distance of eight hundred yards...the said Byrd Smith to run a certain Bay horse called by the name of Boy Jim...the above named Parr is to run a certain sorrell [sic] mare called Lucy Red Fox...for the sum of one thousand Dollars...the above race to be run between the hours of 12 & 4 o’clock.” Each of the horses is identified in the agreement by physical marks, and with brands written as symbols. Additionally, there is a description of the filly whose “left hind foot is white a little above the hoof [with] a white strike in the said hoof and a few white hairs in her face.” The weight each horse is to carry is stipulated and each horse owner was required to post a $500 bond at the time of signing, to be held by one William A. Matthews, in case of forfeiture. The six names mentioned in connection to this race all had solid backgrounds in antebellum Gonzales County, Texas. C.C. DeWitt, A.S. Miller, and William A. Mathews are all listed as stockholders in “An Act to Establish & Incorporate Gonzales County College.” John G. King, Sr., a grant holder in Gonzales County, died there in 1856. Byrd Smith was a private in an 1841 Gonzales County militia company. Finally, Richard Parr was killed in Gonzales County in 1855 – over a land squabble, not a horse racing debt. Antebellum Texas documents on sports of any kind are exceedingly rare. Material relating to horse racing is especially hard to find, considering the state did not officially sanction the sport until well into the 20th century, after pari-mutuel betting was approved in 1925. $2250. A Galveston Educator Pledges Loyalty to the Union After the Civil War 42. [Texas]: [Civil War]: AMNESTY OATH [caption title]. [Galveston. 1865]. isting rebellion with reference to the Emancipation of Slavery; so help me God. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, 8¼ x 9½ inches. Three JAMES P. NASH. Sworn and subscribed to before me this 8th day of JULY, 1865, vertical folds. Minor toning, foxing, soiling, and edge wear. Very good. at Galveston, Texas. H. BEARD Captain and Provost Marshal.” The signer of the Amnesty Oath, James P. Nash, was likely the same James P. Nash who was A rare Civil War amnesty oath, attested to and signed by James P. Nash in Galves- an early educator and professor in Galveston. ton on July 8, 1865. The partially-printed document is signed by him twice, and also dated and signed by the Captain and Provost Marshal Harry Beard. The This 1865 amnesty oath appears to exist in two states: one blank below the line, oath reads, in full: “1865, at Galveston, Texas” and one with a dotted line added above the printed words “Captain and Provost Marshal.” The present example is the former, and “Amnesty Oath. I, JAMES P. NASH, do solemnly swear in the presence of Al- likely first state of the document, before the dotted line and “Captain and Provost mighty God that I will hereafter faithfully defend the Constitution of the United Marshal” were added later. States and the union of States there=under; and that I will in like manner abide by and support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the ex- Amnesty oaths are scarce in the market; this one is especially interesting for its association with an early Galveston educator. $2000. County in the years immediately following the family’s arrival. She intended that her story provide instruction and entertainment for her youngest daughter, who was too young to remember their life on the western frontier of the country. The work is an important source of information about early frontier life in the region.

The text is enriched by four original photographs. The frontispiece is a photograph of a drawing of the Tillson family home, presumably in Illinois. The remaining three photographs are carte de visite portraits of Christiana, John, and Charles Tillson, each facing a page of memorial text. Charles Tillson was actually born while the family was out west, in Hillsboro, Illinois in 1823.

“One of the rarest and best of the personal narra- tives of life on the western frontier of the 1820s” – Streeter. “One of the most remarkable and historically valuable of pioneer portrayals of life in the log cabin era of the Early West. The author was the wife of John Tillson Pioneer Illinois History, with Original Photographs of Edwardsville, who, as postmaster and county treasurer began his career in Illinois in 1819. The narrative was privately printed by the surviving children 43. [Tillson, Christiana Holmes]: REMINISCENCES OF EARLY LIFE IN of Mrs. Tillson ‘for our family alone, and for those connected with us by the ILLINOIS, BY OUR MOTHER. [Amherst, Ma.: Privately printed, ca. 1873]. attachments of a half century’” – Littell. iv,130,[2, errata leaf],[131]-138pp. plus four mounted photographic prints. Original maroon cloth, front board gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Spine and Only three copies appear in auction records at all, including the Streeter copy, one-third of front board sunned, moderate insect damage, spine ends and corners and none since 1969. OCLC records twenty copies in institutions, though that frayed. Contemporary 1874 ownership inscription in pencil on front flyleaf. Text number might be influenced by digital copies or holdings of the reprint, published a bit toned, but clean, one leaf detached (but present). Very good. as A WOMAN’S STORY OF PIONEER ILLINOIS by the Lakeside Press in 1919. Streeter’s copy, with a presentation inscription from Robert H. Tillson, A rare work recording the story of an early pioneer woman and her family on the sold in 1967 for $300. This is the first copy ever handled by this firm. Illinois frontier in the 1820s. Christiana Tillson travelled from Boston to Illinois in 1822 to join her new husband John, passing through Wheeling, Zanesville, A wonderful, privately-printed family memorial documenting a little-known time and Chillicothe, Ohio before eventually trekking down the Ohio River to Shaw- in frontier Illinois. neetown, Illinois. Mrs. Tillson’s narrative, which she recorded for posterity at HOWES T268, “b.” GRAFF 4152. STREETER SALE 1516. BUCK 155. LIT- the very end of her life, contains much local and regional color on Montgomery TELL 1038. $5250. Illustrated Broadside for Puerto Rican Tobacco Products 44. [Tobacco]: [Puerto Rico]: LA RECREATIVA. MIGUEL PONS Y BUJOSA, FORTALEZA 22, SAN JUAN PUERTO-RICO. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Lit. Boletin, 1884. Engraved broadside, 20 x 11 inches, on very thin paper. Minor chipping along edges, a few spots of faint foxing. Very good. In tan cloth portfolio. A visually-striking engraved broadside with sharp images and attractive typography advertising Puerto Rican tobacco, and Don Miguel Pons y Bujosa’s premiere tobacco products in particular. In the upper third of the sheet, there is a large vignette of an elegantly dressed woman smoking a cigar, sitting atop shipping crates and barrels, and holding tobacco leaves and the end of a cornucopia overflowing with cigars and tobacco canisters. On the left, a large marine anchor leans against the crates and in the foreground are several smaller crates and canisters labeled with different types of cigars (brevas, conchas, flor fina, regalia). In the background, one can just make out a large ship on the water. This image was likely used on the seal for the firm’s cigar boxes as well. Surrounding the vignette are rectos and versos of the medals awarded to the firm in the three expositions highlighted in the text: “medalla de plata y mencion honorifica en la Féria Exposicion de Ponce en 1882, medalla de oro de primera clase en la Exposicion Agricola é Industrial de tabaco de 1883 y últimamente con medalla de plata en la Universal de Am- sterdam” (silver medal and honorable mention at the Ponce Exhibition in 1882, a first-class gold medal at the Agricultural and Industrial Tobacco Exhibition of 1883, and recently with a silver medal at the Amsterdam Universal). The lower two-thirds has a list of current prices and available packaging for twenty-seven varieties of tobacco, followed by brief notes on sourcing the to- bacco and some specifics on shipping costs and policies for commercial clients. Tobacco, along with sugar and coffee, had long been a cash crop in Puerto Rico, but because it lacked the esteem of Cuban tobacco, most of it was consumed lo- cally, and only small quantities were exported to Europe. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Cuba began importing Puerto Rican tobacco for “tripa,” or filler, the individual tobacco leaves used in the body of the cigar. This did much to enhance the reputation of Puerto Rico’s tobacco trade, and once the U.S. seized the island, tobacco became a substantial part of Puerto Rico’s economy. It is unclear how successful Miguel Pons y Bujosa was in the long term, however he does appear as a member of the San Juan city council in the May 5, 1891 issue of GAZETA DE PUERTO-RICO (p.5). We could find no instances of this broadside in OCLC, and this is the first copy we have seen. $1350.