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Whaling Journal for the ships Chili and South Boston, 1845-1851
by Williams, Thomas William; Williams, Eliza Griswold
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€7,005.00
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Whaling journal kept by Thomas William Williams while serving as mate aboard the Chili, 1845-47, and as Captain of South Boston, 1851. In calfskin ledger book, half blank, with foxing and soiling throughout internal pages, and worming in margins, particularly at the blanks at end, and rear bindingin numerous places and on binding, else internally sturdy. With 1865 letter written… Read more about this item Item Price
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Archive of material related to the career of Antarctic explorer Lawrence "Titus" Oates, 1908-1910
by Oates, Lawrence "Titus"
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€910.65
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Archive of eight pieces of ephemera and manuscript material related to the career of Lawrence "Titus" Oates, 1908-1910, shortly before he joined Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition, while Oates was serving as a member of the Inniskilling Dragoons stationed in Egypt and in India. From the family collection of Oates' superior officer Frederic Arthur Bashford fryer and Frances Esme… Read more about this item Item Price
€910.65
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1862 Los Angeles Subpoena signed by Sheriff Tomas Avila Sanchez and Judge Benjamin Hayes
by Avila Sanchez, Tomas; Hayes, Benjamin Ignatius
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- 1862
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€420.30
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City and County of Los Angeles subpoena, served on December 6, 1862, to Frederick M. Frisbie. 8.35" x 12.25". Some chipping to margins. Single sheet, partially printed with manuscript filled in on the front by Judge Benjamin Ignatius Hayes, who was the first judge of the district court that served Los Angeles, San Diego and San Bernardino counties in California.
The… Read more about this item Item Price
€420.30
![The Ice Summit of Iztaccihuatl [with]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/943/699/1590699943.0.m.jpg)
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The Ice Summit of Iztaccihuatl [with] "Mountaineering in Mexico"
by Eckenstein, Oscar [Crowley, Aleister]
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- 1901
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€887.30
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New Year's card featuring mounted photograph of "The Ice Summit of Iztaccihuatl. (5286 m. = 17343 feet), Photographed January 28th, 1901, by Oscar Eckenstein". With accompanying article in "The Climber's Club Journal", "Mountaineering in Mexico" (full volume V-VI offered). Card measures 8.5" x 5.5", image itself 6" x 3.5". Mounted to heavy stock cardboard with printed greeting to reverse. Discoloration… Read more about this item Item Price
€887.30
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Eleventh Anniversary of the Alpha Phi Literary Society, of Howard University
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- 1882
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€140.10
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Flier for the Eleventh Anniversary of the Alpha Phi Literary Society at Howard University for April 21, 1882. Double sided, with programme, including prayer, music, and discussion listed to reverse with speakers.
Removed from scrapbook with remnants of newspaper articles above the programme listing. Modest staining and creasing. An intact but fragile piece. With pencil checkmark in two places to reverse.… Read more about this item Item Price
€140.10
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Pacific Coast Diary of 1875, Containing Useful Memoranda and Tables for Reference
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- 1875
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€326.90
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1875 edition of the Pacific Coast Diary published for A. L. Bancroft & Company, essentially a California-specific version of the regular mass produced pocket diaries from the period, with a 36 page printed almanac in the front containing a list of dates of Chinese festivals, 1875-6, a Hebrew calendar, a list of public buildings, fire stations, and hack fares in… Read more about this item Item Price
€326.90
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Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. Buke I, Helu 35. Honolulu, Iulai 26, 1862
by [Hunka Kuihelani]
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- 1862
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€1,167.50
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Single issue of Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, from the first full year of its run, July 26, 1862. Darkening, modest dampstaining, and worming holes throughout, still entirely legible and remarkably sturdy and easy to handle. Faded ownership signature along top edge of Huaka Kuihelani (c1806-1892, as 'H. Kuihelani'), a Hawaiian nobleman and later Privy Counselman to King Kalākaua.
This issue begins with… Read more about this item Item Price
€1,167.50
![Manuscript funerary inscription for Michitomi Jokichi Dofu, son of Dutch trader Hendrik Doeff and Japanese courtesan Uryono [bound into] Herinneringen uit Japan](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/333/151/1589151333.0.m.jpg)
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Manuscript funerary inscription for Michitomi Jokichi Dofu, son of Dutch trader Hendrik Doeff and Japanese courtesan Uryono [bound into] Herinneringen uit Japan
by Doeff, Hendrik [道富丈吉]
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- 1824
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€6,071.00
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Manuscript death notice and funerary inscription for Michitomi Jokichi Dofu (1807-1824), son of Dutch trader, linguist, and longtime resident of Dejima, Hendrik Doeff, and Japanese courtesan Uryono. The manuscript is folded and bound into a first edition copy of Doeff's account of his eighteen years in Japan working as factor for the Dutch East India Company.
Single sheet on rice paper,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Portrait photograph, inscribed by Chickasaw tribal leader and Governor, Douglas H. Johnston
by Johnston, Douglas H.
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€1,167.50
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Mounted photograph portrait of Douglas H. Johnston (1856-1939), longtime Chickasaw Governor and tribal leader. 5.5" x 3.8" in 9" x 6" mount, with chip affecting inscription to top right corner of reverse. Photograph produced by George W. Moore of Denison, Texas
Signed and inscribed by Johnston on the reverse of the mount as "Gov. Chickasaw Nation Indian Territory", putting the date… Read more about this item Item Price
€1,167.50
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Fantasy in Art
by Dollens, Morris Scott
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- 1951
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€560.40
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Unrecorded second edition, following a 30 copy limited edition issued in 1950. Spiral bound, in blue paper boards.
A series of 14 listed photographs of Dollens' artwork, with an unlisted signed plate, "Evolution", at rear. Printed index and about the artist page, with Dollens' Los Angeles address label tipped in. Additionally signed on first blank.
Dollens was a well-regarded illustrator during the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Manuscript notebook of Police Constable in Kingston upon Hull, England, 1849-1858, including records of deportations to Australia
by Kilburn, John
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- 1849
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€1,868.00
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Manuscript notebook of Police Constable John Kilburn while serving in the Hull Constabulary, 1849-1858. 140pp, with brass clasp. Split largely into two distinct sections, with a few pages of later cash accounts.
John Kilburn was appointed to the Kingston upon Hull Constabulary as Police Constable No. 33 in 1847, less than a decade after the creation of the Hull Police force.… Read more about this item Item Price
€1,868.00
![БАБА-ЯГА: СКАЗКА [Baba Yaga: A Fairy Tale]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/464/852/1588852464.0.m.jpg)
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БАБА-ЯГА: СКАЗКА [Baba Yaga: A Fairy Tale]
by M. B. Зайцева [M. V. Zaitsev]
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- 1930
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€186.80
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First edition. 12 pages in stiff cardboard wraps, with color image to front. 4 color plates to text. Published in Harbin, China, center of Russian (and Jewish) émigré life in Asia during the 1920s and '30s. No date provided, published approximately 1930 by the Zaitsev publishing house. A sharp, attractive, and well-preserved copy. Item Price
€186.80
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[The New Testament in the Cherokee Language]
by Boudinot, Elias; Worcester, Samuel
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- 1860
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€793.90
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First edition of the complete New Testament published in the Cherokee language. Individual portions of the Bible and New Testament were printed from the 1820s onward, with work contributed primarily by Cherokee printer and journalist Elias Boudinot and missionary Samuel Worcester, with contributions from numerous others, including Stephen Foreman and Chief Charles Hicks.
Printed by the American Bible Society in 1860,… Read more about this item Item Price
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"Civil Rights." Speech of Hon. Robert B. Elliott, of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives, January 6, 1874.
by Elliott, Robert Brown
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- 1874
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€793.90
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First edition. 8pp. Two 2pp. double-sided sheets with one folded 4pp. sheet. Extremely fragile piece, on brown and heavily chipped paper, with substantial loss to margins and some splitting, partially affecting text, though with minimal loss along folds. Edges friable and still flaking in portions. Please see note these issues, visible in the high resolution photos. A significant speech given… Read more about this item Item Price
€793.90
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O-gi-maw-kwe Mit-i-gwa-ki (Queen of the Woods). Also Brief Sketch of the Algaic Language
by Pokagon, Chief [Simon]
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- 1899
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€1,167.50
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First edition. Frontis portrait of Pokagon, with two additional single page illustrated plates and one two-sided page photographic plate at rear. Pink publisher's notice tipped in between copyright page and dedication. Ownership information to front pastedown. Some pen underlines to text, some dog-eared pages. Binding firm. Rubbing to cloth at ends of spine.
A scarce first edition of what is often… Read more about this item Item Price
€1,167.50
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Travel album of Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1867-1873, with sketches, watercolors, and 17 of some of the earliest photographs of Morocco
by Hooker, Joseph Dalton
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- 1867-1873
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€6,304.50
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Folio album, with sketches, watercolors, and photographs by Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1867-1873, with a total of 51 pieces on paper mounts, sheet size 14" x 10", including 17 captioned photographs of Morocco, taken during his 1871 visit to North Africa.
Joseph Dalton Hooker is best known for his role as the Director of Kew Gardends, and as Charles Darwin's closest friend… Read more about this item Item Price
€6,304.50
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"Mormon" Women's Protest: An Appeal for Freedom, Justice and Equal Rights; The Ladies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints protest against the tyranny and indecency of Federal Officials in Utah, and against their own disfranchisement without cause
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- 1886
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€420.30
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First edition. Original wraps. Removed from a collection of pamphlets, with stitch markings visible at margins near spine along front and rear covers. Spine perished with binding cloth to replace it. Some rubbing and area of paper loss to front cover. Internally clean and bright.
A significant document in the history of women's suffrage in the United States, this pamphlet records… Read more about this item Item Price
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Darktown Barbacue
by Cook, Will Marion [Mitchell, Abbie]
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- 1904
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€233.50
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Sheet music supplement for the Chicago Sunday American, April 16, 1905, pp. 5-8. Paper toned but remarkably well preserved. 12.5" x 10.5".
Wonderfully illustrated cover designed by Henry E. Brevoort, with an image of African American singer Abbie Mitchell in the center of the front cover, with the billing 'Sung by Miss Abbie Mitchell in "The Southerners"'. The Southerners was a… Read more about this item Item Price
€233.50
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An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies. Anno Tertio & Quarto Gulielmi IV. Regis. Cap. LXXIII
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- 1833
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€560.40
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'An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies; for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to the Services of such Slaves.' [913]-939. Folio, disbound. Ownership signature along top edge, with some erased mathematical figures in pencil along the bottom. First and last leaves browned heavily chipped with substantial loss… Read more about this item Item Price
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Address of the Saint John Temperance League to the Temperance Public
by Demill, Nathan Smith
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- c1850
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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€233.50
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An apparently unrecorded broadside printed for the Saint John Temperance League of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. No date, circa 1850. Edges slightly rough, some bunching of paper at folds. 12.5" x 5.25". Signed in type by William Henry Hathaway (or Hatheway, 1825-1908) and Nathan Smith DeMill (1804-1864).
Nathan DeMill was a Loyalist and a prosperous merchant, shipowner, and lumberman in… Read more about this item Item Price
€233.50
