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Please contact us at Toll-free 1.888.656.2006 or +1.604.734.4700 Email: [email protected] Search for Books and Maps at www.voyager-press-search.com For Detailed Descriptions and Pictures For questions please email us: [email protected] Manuscript Journal of Louis A. Kaiser On Board of USS Iroquois Honolulu and Samoa 1889-1890 Original manuscript journal, 131 pages, dated from July 1, 1889 to December 31, 1890, titled "Cruise Journal / L.A. Kaiser / U.S. Navy, Class of '89.” In period half sheep leather binding. Laid in are Naval Academy assignments and a manuscript map. Very good condition. Louis A. Kaiser was aboard the U.S.S. Iroquois from Mare Island to Honolulu, thence to Samoa and back. His journal contains notes on sailing, seamanship, and remarkable events while on the cruise, interspersed with Captain's comments. From 1882 to 1892, with the Pacific Squadron, Iroquois patrolled to South America, Hawaii, Australia, and Pacific islands, protecting American interests and commerce. She took part in naval action in Panama in the spring of 1885, helping to land Marines to protect American commerce during the revolution. After 10 years of service on the Pacific Station, Iroquois arrived at Mare Island on 24 April 1892 and was decommissioned there 12 May 1892. $750 3 Unpublished Manuscript by John Howard Payne Composer of 'Home Sweet Home A collection of manuscript and printed materials by celebrated poet, playwright, lyricist and Consul John Howard Payne consisting of an unpublished, autograph poem, his first play 'Julia, or the Wanderer', an autograph letter written from Tunis as the resident American Consul dealing with the matter of an insult to the American flag as well as an account of the repatriation of his remains to American home soil from Tunis in Africa to Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown 4 The Collection Consists of: An unpublished manuscript poem titled 'The Sexes of the Flowers according to the System of Linnaeus', written in Payne's neat and distinct hand on the recto and verso of 1 sheet, measuring 8.5 x 9.75 inches. An ALS Autograph letter signed in full 'John Howard Payne', measuring 7.5 x 10.25 inches, written while US Consul in Tunis. One page, densely written on recto only, United States Consulate, Tunis, September 12, 1844. Letter is addressed to an unknown 'Sir & Dear Colleague' and discusses the business affair of one 'Nicolas' and his 'insult to the American Flag'… Payne's first play 'Julia, or the Wanderer' dated 1806 and published by D. Longworth, at the Dramatic Repository, Shakespeare-Gallery in New York, 12mo, 70 pages, contained in a custom made clamshell box. Payne was only 15 years old when he wrote this play and it was withdrawn after only 1 performance - the word 'damne' having been used several times. This may explain its rarity as a published work today. A specially bound volume titled 'John Howard Payne - a Biographical Sketch' by Charles H. Brainard, Coolidge, Washington, DC 1885 providing an interesting Biography and dealing with the repatriation of Payne's remains to Washington 30 years after he died in Africa. The account is very detailed, leaves nothing to the imagination as far as the transportation of the remains are concerned and is accompanied by some photographic plates. Bound in a special full morocco presentation binding, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, silk moire endpapers. A beautifully executed printed work and binding in fine condition. The lot contained in an archival box for extra protection. $2,950 5 GAUDIUM MAGNUM, HABEMUS PAPAM! 16th Century Manuscript about Papal Conclaves by an Agent who conspired to kill a Medici Lottini, Giovanni Francesco L’Instruttioni [...] sopra l’attioni de Conclavi Manuscript, folio, 101 unnumbered pages of text, a very good manuscript, in a later 16th- century hand, uncut, bound in limp vellum. Initials F[rancis] D[avison], his inscription, “Piu meritar che conseguir”, and catalogue number (“Ca: 51”), the inscription and initials crossed out in red, and also in red, the initials P[eter] W[roth] written in The original, and never printed, Italian version of this later sixteenth-century discussion of papal conclaves, with an interesting English provenance Lottini was secretary to Cosimo I de’ Medici, the Duke of Florence, later the Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was rumoured to have been involved in the assassination of Lorenzino de’ Medici, a writer, who in turn had assassinated the previous Duke of Florence Alessandro de’ Medici. Lottini, under order of Cosimo I was supposed to have masterminded the assassination. Very recent scholarship has exonerated both Cosimo I and Lottini and put the blame squarely on Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Head of the House of Habsburg and father-in-law of Alessandro 6 This is the original, and never printed, Italian version of this later sixteenth-century discussion of papal conclaves, with an interesting English provenance. Examining the processes by which Popes are elected, Lottini (1512-1573) gives much attention to the human politics and roles of personability in elections. He touches on the political importance in Italy of the office, the interest of foreign powers, and the fact that Popes are generally of old age (this increases the frequency of conclaves). Lottini spent much time at Rome and in the present text he notes “I have found myself at many conclaves”. He uses the term “papabili” (“papables”), presumably a pun on capabili/capables and a word still employed by Vaticanologists for papal contenders. The work was composed in the years 1555-1573, as the one name mentioned in the text is Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, Pope Julius III (1487-1555). The manuscript very possibly came into the possession of the English collector, F. Davison (1573-1613) Please contact us for a detailed bibliographical description as well as further details on provenance. $7,500 7 Journal of a Journey into Tsarist Russia in 1868 Shepherd, Charles William Manuscript journal of Shepherd’s 1868 visit to Moscow, St. Petersburg and the fair of Nizhny Novgoro (Gorky), together with his accounts notebook, passport, two ALS letters, and other miscellaneous ephemera relating to his voyage Manuscript Journal, 8vo, roan-bound, 21 pages completed in a neat hand by Shepherd, a further 2 pages at front giving his itinerary; Notebook: A small wallet-style morocco-bound notebook, the first 20 pages containing Shepherd’s accounting for his visit, a further 8 pages with miscellaneous notes; Passport: an Edward Stanford wallet-style passport, with Shepherd’s name in gilt to the flap, containing the passport for Shepherd issued in August 1868, signed by Stanley (Earl of Derby) and counter-signed by Shepherd, 11 pages of the passport stamped and signed by various officials during Shepherd’s journey; 2 ALS from Shepherd to his father: a 2 page letter written from St. Petersburg 2nd September, 1868, and an 8 page letter written from “Nijni Novgorod” 8th September, 1868; a trade card with a receipt to verso and notes by Shepherd; and a further receipt for M. Fuller and Shepherd for costs accrued on the passage to St. Petersburg. Charles William Shepherd, of Trotterscliffe, Kent, made several visits to Continental Europe and elsewhere, including two visits to Iceland in the 1860s $3,750 8 An interesting record of a visit to Tsarist Russia. Shepherd’s writings are very detailed and provide a fabulous insight into life in Russia during a time of great upheaval and just 5 years after the abolition of serfdom. It shows the vast differences between Moscow, St. Petersburg and regional cities such as Nizhny Novgoro. But rather than attempt to describe what Shepherd saw and experienced, it is probably best to let him talk for himself: “…from the lower town you reach the Nizhny fair over a wooden bridge half a mile over, which is put down every year on purpose of the fair and taken away again on account of the ice. … every conceivable article can be seen: even sowing machines and crinolines. The fair is divided into quarters there being a Chinese, a Siberian, a European and a Caucasus-Bokara-Persian quarter, the whole covering more than 600 acres. On the river sides are huge warves and mountains of bales of cotton, wool, horsehair, timber, silk and raw-hides, endless rows of barrels of wine, butter…half an acre of church bells all hung up. The iron sheds are nearly a mile in length. The two rivers are covered with every size steamers, boats and rafts. Thousands of chests of tea and raisings and dried fruit from Persia…smoking in the fair is prohibited with a fine of 25 rubles (£3 sterling)…” “…there are towers, domes, spires, cupolas and minarets of nearly 500 churches, convents and monasteries all surrounded with a glittering, gold Greek cross, painted the most beautiful colours…towers and pyramids of green glazed tiles…” “…the whole of the way from St.