Search Results: Authors starting with W from Globus Rare Books & Archives

Small Octavo (ca. 18,5x11 cm). 2 pp., with an integral blank leaf. Black ink on Joynson’s laid paper watermarked ‘1862’. Mild fold marks, small mount residue on verso of the second blank leaf, otherwise a very good letter.“My dear Sir, I thank you for the compliment that you have paid me. But I have never at any time taken part in any public meetings with which I was not directly connected & now I think it rather far late to begin. Your practical local application of the principles of the Association appears to be to do you real honor.”George Waddington was an English clergyman, traveller and church historian. A graduate of the Trinity College, Oxford, he was the Dean of Durham (1840-1869), Warden of Durham University (1862-69), an original member of the Athenaeum Club‚ London on its foundation in 1824. He travelled… Read More

Octavo (ca. 20,5x20 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on beige wove paper. Fold marks, but overall a very good letter, written in a legible hand.A historically interesting original autograph manuscript letter from the pioneer days of Grayson County, capturing tensions along the border of the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) and the newly admitted state of Texas (1845). The letter, written in ca. the late-1840s, notifies a Chickasaw Indian Agent and former superintendent of Indian removal about a horse theft by Shawnees in the frontier town of Preston (Grayson County, TX).In 1822, a band of the Missouri Shawnees, numbering about 270 families, migrated south into Mexico, in the eastern part of Spanish Texas. Sixteen years later, shortly after Texas achieved independence, most Shawnees were forcefully relocated to the neighboring Indian Territory, mainly to the Chickasaw and… Read More

Oblong Small Folio album ca. 24,5x31 cm (9 ½ x 12 ¼ in). 30 card stock leaves (3 blank). With 33 original photographs (mostly mounted, three loosely inserted), including 29 gelatin silver photos and four albumen. The gelatin silver photos include three large photos, from ca. 21x27,5 cm (8 ¼ x 10 ¾ in) to ca. 14x20 cm (5 ½ x 8 in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 10,5x15 cm (4 ¼ x 5 ¾ in) to ca. 5,5x8 cm (2 ¼ x 3 in). With four large albumen studio photos of Corfu, each ca. 20,5x27 cm (8 x 10 ½ in). All mounted photos with period ink manuscript captions on the mounts, many also with ink dates on the mounts. Two leaves with the compiler’s extensive manuscript notes on verso. With two mounted ink-drawn plans, ca. 18,5x20,5 cm (7 ¼ x 8 in) and 17,5x24 cm (6 ¾ x 9… Read More

Octavo (ca. 21x16,5 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on bluish paper; inscription on the 4th page “Translation of Chl. Waterton’s letter to __”. Fold marks, otherwise a very good letter.A good 19th century English translation of Charles Waterton’s letter to the commander of Fort St. Joachim, Branco River, Portuguese Guiana (modern Brazil). The original letter was written in Spanish during Waterton’s first exploratory journey into Guyana’s remote inland in 1812, with one of the purposes being to study the nature of the wourali poison, better known as curare. The description of the meeting with the Portuguese commander, as well as the Spanish text of the letter were published in the first edition of Waterton’s travel account "Wanderings in South America, the South-West of the United States and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820 and… Read More

Quarto (ca. 27,5x21 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper, West’s printed letterhead on top. Ink stamp of “James O. Aplan Library Collection” on verso. Fold marks, but overall a very good letter.Rare original Wild West letter, giving an insight into the 1878 trial of notorious Deadwood gambler and stagecoach robber Samuel S. Hartman, or “Laughing Sam.” The letter was written by Laughing Sam’s attorney Isaac E. West and addressed to “My dear Sheriff” – most likely, to the sheriff of Pennington County Frank P. Moulton (1845-1922), who based in Rapid City where Laughing Sam was being detained.Laughing Sam, “a hard case <…> widely known in the [Black Hills]” (Three Omaha Men, while on their Way Home from Deadwood, Corraled and Robbed by Three Road Agents// St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 27… Read More

Each small octavo (ca. 17,5x11 cm); black ink on watermarked laid paper. In all 6 pp. Of text in English. Mild fold marks, otherwise near fine letters.Two letters to fellow scientists from a Finnish philosopher and sociologist Edward Alexander Westermarck, who at the time worked as a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1907-1931), and a professor of practical philosophy at the University of Helsinki (1906-1918). In the first letter Westermarck notes that he has just returned from Morocco and discusses his recent publication: “The article in Sexual Problems is a translation of the chapter in my book (which will be out at the end of this month or in the beginning of November), but I could not tell whether the translator has given all the footnotes. I thank you for your Chronique and for your kind appreciation of… Read More

Oblong Folio album (ca. 23x39 cm). 25 card stock leaves with tissue guards. With 100 original gelatin silver photos each ca. 8,5x11,5 cm, (3 ¼ x 4 ¾ in). With two period postcards mounted on verso of the front cover (a real photo postcard and a printed postcard, each ca. 8,5x13,5 cm or 3 ½ x 5 ½ in). All photos with period manuscript white ink captions in English. Period manuscript white ink presentation inscription on verso of the front cover: “Presented with Compliments by The Iranian State Railways to Lt. Col. G. E. Wheeler.” Period hardcover album with a sheep spine, fastened with a string; both covers with painted Persian miniatures and designs. Binding rubbed on extremities, corners slightly bumped, the right lower corner of the front board with a crack, the front leaf without a tissue guard, but overall a very good… Read More

Small Octavo bifolium (ca. 19x12 cm). 1 p. Brown ink on blueish lined paper. Addressed to “B.” on verso of the second leaf. Fold marks, otherwise a very good letter written in a legible hand.Historically interesting letter, written by Jasper S. Whiting, surveyor of the lower California and the Mexican state of Sonora, who contributed to Lieut. Ives’ exploratory expedition up the Colorado River in 1857-1858. Whiting was “the second in command to Captain Stone upon the survey of Sonora. Mr. Whiting is to start with a small party and survey the coast as far as Guaymas, where he is to be joined by Captain Stone and the remainder of his expedition” (Report upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives <…> By Order of the Secretary of War. Washington: Government Printing Press,… Read More

Two albums with a total of 199 gelatin silver photographs including one panorama ca. 7 x 18.5 cm (2 ¾ x 7 ¼ in.), twenty photographs between ca. 14 x 9 cm (5 ½ x 3 ½ in.) and ca. 12 x 16.5 cm (5 ¾ x 6 ½ in), and the rest ca. 8 x 11 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¼ in.) and smaller, loosely mounted in windows or on leaves, the majority with period blue ink manuscript captions on the leaves. Also included is one drawing in period black ink ca. 13 x 20 cm (5 x 8 in.) titled "Repairing Land Lines, Long Beach Ascension. " One oblong quarto album ca. 25 x 29.5 cm (9 ¾ x 11 ½ in.) with 52 white album leaves. Period manuscript blue ink label on endpaper: “H. M. Island of Ascension 1910-1913.” Includes a newspaper clipping ca. 4.5 x 8.5 cm (1 ¾ x 3 ¼ in.) titled “Gold… Read More

Announcement to the army of General Zachary Taylor's victory at Buenavista. "General Santa Ana, on sustaining that overwhelming defeat, is known to have retreated upon San Luis de Potosi, and probably will not stop short of the Capital. " Hopes that "all may participate in the joy that is now spreading itself throughout the breadth of our land. " Thomas Williams (1815-1862) was a lieutenant upon signing this note, but later became a Brigadier General in the Union army.

Quarto bifolium ca. 24,6x20.2 cm (9 ½ х 7 ¾ in). 3 pp. Brown ink on yellowish wove paper. Blind-stamped papermaker’s monogram in the left upper corner of the first page. Addressed, stamped, and sealed on verso of the last leaf. Fold marks, slightly age-toned, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.A historically important original autograph manuscript letter written by Corp. B. Wingate the very same day the siege of Veracruz ended with Mexico’s surrender, triumphantly writing to his folks back home in Indiana about “one of the greatest battles ever won by American arms,” talking about Mexican soldiers flocking to General Zachary Taylor, the next US President, and “beging [i.e. begging] for something to eat,” fiercely stating that the city of Mexico “must hear the barking of our buldogs [i.e.… Read More

Quarto (ca. 25x20 cm or 10x8 in). 1 p. Black ink on lined laid paper with the printed letterhead of the “Office of the District Attorney of Lassen County, State of California, James Branham, District Attorney.” Foldmarks, a minor tear on the centrefold, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.A historically interesting original autograph manuscript letter by one of the earliest Masons in California and the founder of Lassen Commandery No. 13 of the Knights Templar at Susanville, Gen. Allen Wood (Ca. 1812-1890), informing a Sir Knight from Plumas County and a pioneer California lawyer about the “cold blooded affair” of one of the first murders investigated in Lassen County, mentioning “a considerable feeling” among the inhabitants about the prisoner’s expected arrival in Susanville, and discussing the… Read More