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Item #6735 [Collection of Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed by Gold Miner and Surveyor...

[ALASKA - KODIAK ISLAND – GOLD MINING] LASCY, Albert (ca. 1827-1917)

[Collection of Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed by Gold Miner and Surveyor Albert Lascy, Giving a Detailed Account of His Gold Exploration near Karluk, Uyak and Uganik Bays on the Northern Kodiak Island]

1893.

Price: $1,500.00

Item #10036 [Collection of Two Original Manuscript Journals of Meteorological Observations with...

[ALASKA – KODIAK & RUSSIAN MISSION/IQUGMIUT]

[Collection of Two Original Manuscript Journals of Meteorological Observations with Additional Notes, Kept in St. Paul’s Harbour, Kodiak in 1838-1846 and the Kuigpak Russian Orthodox Mission (Iqugmiut/Russian Mission) on the Lower Yukon River in 1848-1854].

Price: $25,000.00

Item #6738 [Collection of Three Original Autograph Letters Signed by W.D. Smith, Owner of the...

[ALASKA – SHUMAGIN PACKING COMPANY] SMITH, W[illiam]. D.

[Collection of Three Original Autograph Letters Signed by W.D. Smith, Owner of the “Shumagin Packing Company” in the Chignik Bay (Alaska Peninsula), Addressed to His Agents in San Francisco and Discussing Financial Operations and Shipping of Supplies and Canned Salmon]

1889.

Price: $1,500.00

Item #8940 [Beautiful Custom Bound Keepsake Diary (Typewritten Manuscript) of a Leisure Trip of...

[AMERICAN TOURISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, SRI LANKA & INDIA] HENSHAW CHICKERING, Alla [Sarah] (1887-1950); [HENSHAW, William Griffith] (1860-1924)

[Beautiful Custom Bound Keepsake Diary (Typewritten Manuscript) of a Leisure Trip of an Affluent California Family in ca. 1905 across the Mediterranean, Holy Land, Egypt, Sri Lanka, and India, Presented to the Compiler’s Father and Illustrated with Thirty-Four Original Photos Taken on the Trip; the Diary is Titled:] To Papa from Alla. Souvenirs d’affection. Dec. 25, 1918.

Ca. early 1900s & 1918.

Price: $2,250.00

Item #8253 [Typewritten Manuscript Account of the Fifth Ascent of Aconcagua, by British Climber...

[ARGENTINA - ACONCAGUA - FIRST AMERICAN ASCENT] [De La MOTTE, Edward].

[Typewritten Manuscript Account of the Fifth Ascent of Aconcagua, by British Climber Edward de la Motte and American Mountaineer James Ramsey Ullman, Being also the First American Ascent of Aconcagua, Titled:] Horcones Valley and Aconcagua. February/March 1928.

Ca. 1928.

Price: $2,250.00

Item #8248 [Autograph Note Signed by an American Engineer and Surveyor of Lower California and...

[CALIFORNIA - COLORADO RIVER SURVEY] WHITING, Jasper S.; [IVES, Joseph Christmas] (1829-1868)

[Autograph Note Signed by an American Engineer and Surveyor of Lower California and Sonora, Talking about Him Joining Lt. Ives’ Exploratory Expedition to the Colorado River].

San Francisco: 22 October [1857].

Price: $950.00

Item #8247 [Original Autograph Letter to an Agent of a Potential Buyer for a Mining Property in...

[CALIFORNIA - MINING] [STECH, Baron Ferdinand]

[Original Autograph Letter to an Agent of a Potential Buyer for a Mining Property in California, Urging Him to Make up His Mind and Complete the Negotiations Because the Repairs of Machinery Need to Be Done and the Mine Needs to be Pumped before the Winter Rains].

San Francisco: California: 21 September 1872.

Price: $950.00

Item #8245 [Original Autograph Letter Written by a Young Gold Miner in Sacramento City, Telling...

[CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO] ALLISON, William P.

[Original Autograph Letter Written by a Young Gold Miner in Sacramento City, Telling the Latest News from the Gold Mines and Mentioning the Latest Cholera Epidemic in the City].

Sacramento City: 14 September 1852.

Price: $950.00

Item #8948 [Original Autograph Letter Signed by a Mate on the San Francisco Trade Brig “Ida D....

[CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO – TRADE SEAMEN & WOMEN AT WORK] [CATTLE, J.?]

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by a Mate on the San Francisco Trade Brig “Ida D. Rogers,” Describing the Ship’s Recent Trade Voyage to Costa Rica, His Salary, a Spaniard Sailor on the Brig “Who did not Know the Bow from the Stern of a Vessel,” Quick Growth of San Francisco, Favorable Conditions for Doctors, His Private Life, Views on Politics and Disapproval of Women Going to Work; the Letter Mentions American President Andrew Johnson, Politician Francis Preston Blair Sr., &c.].

San Francisco: 14 July 1867.

Price: $950.00

Item #8950 [Original Autograph Letter Written by a Gold Miner in the Garden Valley (El Dorado...

[CALIFORNIA – EL DORADO COUNTY] [CLARK, S.M.?]

[Original Autograph Letter Written by a Gold Miner in the Garden Valley (El Dorado County), Talking about His Sea Voyage, Being Fed with “Hard Bread & Stinking Meat,” Gold Mining in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Tree Cutting, Plans to Take a “Job of Fluming to Carry Water from one Hill to Another,” California Climate, Liberal Public Attitude to Sundays, and Mentioning: “I have never Found that Large Nuget of Gold you Told me to Send you, but I Expect to Soon”].

Garden Valley, 17 April 185[8 or 9?].

Price: $1,250.00

Item #8952 [Original Handwritten, Signed, and Notary Certified Deed of the Sale of the Millerton...

[CALIFORNIA – MILLERTON/FRESNO CO.] MORROW, Jessy (1827-1897); CARROLL, Hugh Augustus (1828-1899)

[Original Handwritten, Signed, and Notary Certified Deed of the Sale of the Millerton Ferry across the San Joaquin River (now the site of the Millerton Lake, Fresno County) from Jesse Morrow to Ira McGray on June 9, 1855].

Millerton: 9 June 1855.

Price: $1,500.00

Item #8953 [Original Autograph Letter Signed from Moores Flat (a Gold Mining Town Later Abandoned...

[CALIFORNIA – PIONEERS & GOLD MINERS] MURRAY, John Sutherland (1818-1882), [MOORE, Henry M.]

[Original Autograph Letter Signed from Moores Flat (a Gold Mining Town Later Abandoned in the Early 20th Century), Written by a California Forty-Niner and Talking about the Construction of a “Store-Room” in the General Store or the Hotel of a Town Founder H.M. Moore, Successful Gold Mining, When “an Ounce of Beautiful Gold” was Obtained after an Hour Washing “under Disadvantageous Circumstances,” Nevada County Pioneer and Gold Miner James Weaver, &c.].

Moores Flat (Nevada Co.): 1 January 1854.

Price: $1,750.00

Item #8954 [Original Autograph Letter Signed by George Spurr - a Renowned Forty-Niner and...

[CALIFORNIA – SACRAMENTO] SPURR, George Graham (1828-1903)

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by George Spurr - a Renowned Forty-Niner and Sacramento Pioneer, then the Owner of a “Tea and Coffee Saloon” on the K Street, Delivering the Latest News about His Correspondent’s Sons and Describing Sacramento’s “Deplorable Condition” during the 1853 Flood: “Streets are Like Swamp & Goods are again Transported in Flat Boats from the Levee to Places of Designation. All Business Matters Seem Suspended & Grim Merchants Count their Future over Hot Stoves & Brandy Smashes…”].

Sacramento City: 30 March 1853.

Price: $1,500.00

Item #8955 [Original Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of the General Store in Oak Valley...

[CALIFORNIA – YUBA COUNTY REPUBLICANS] ADKISON, Lewis D. (1816-1903)

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of the General Store in Oak Valley Lewis D. Adkison, Addressed to George R. Bearss from his Hometown of Peru (IN), Talking about the Latest News from the Oak Valley, His Sympathies to the Republican Party, and the Results of the California General Election and the US Presidential Election of 1856].

Oak Valley [Yuba Co.]: 14 November 1856.

Price: $1,250.00

Item #6823 [Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from Peking to Hankou (a part of...

[CHINA - BEIJING-HANKOU RAILWAY]

[Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from Peking to Hankou (a part of present-day Wuhan), along the Line of the Unfinished Peking-Hankou (Jinghan) Railway, with the Eye-Witness Account on the Railway Construction, Notes on the Meetings with the Railway Company Officials, Chinese Workers, Inhabitants of Nearby Villages, Local Places of Interest etc., Titled:] V – de Pekin à Hankao.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #8246 [Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of a Jewellery Store in Eddyville, Iowa, to His...

[COLORADO - PIKE’S PEAK GOLD RUSH] BARKER, Leverett N. (1834-1930)

[Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of a Jewellery Store in Eddyville, Iowa, to His Brother in Oriskany Falls, New York, Talking About his New Shop, the Construction of a Railroad Planned to Reach Eddyville, and a Description of the Recent Pike’s Peak Gold Rush].

Eddyville [Iowa]: 25 January 1859.

Price: $850.00

Item #8252 [Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Defense of Dakota Outlaw “Laughing Sam”...

[DAKOTA TERRITORY - DEADWOOD OUTLAW] WEST, Isaac E., Attorney at Law (1838-1900) & “Laughing Sam” (Hartman, Samuel S.)

[Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Defense of Dakota Outlaw “Laughing Sam” (Samuel S. Hartman), and Mentioning the New Governor of the Dakota Territory William A. Howard, the First State’s Attorney of the Lawrence County A.J. Flanner, and Yankton’s Store Owner and Public Figure A.W. Lavender].

Yankton, D[akota]. T[erritory]: 25 April 1878.

Price: $1,850.00

Item #8255 [A Historically Important Manuscript Diary Documenting Butler's Work in Egypt as a...

[EGYPT (KHEDIVATE OF)] BUTLER, Alfred Joshua (1850-1936)

[A Historically Important Manuscript Diary Documenting Butler's Work in Egypt as a Tutor to the Sons to Khedive Tewfik Pasha, with Detailed Descriptions of His Conversations with the Khedive, His Ministers and Courtiers, European Diplomats and Residents, Mutiny in the Egyptian Army in February 1881, Religious Holidays, State Ceremonies, Coptic Churches and Monasteries, Anecdotes from Egyptian Life, Account of the Chios Island Earthquake, Butler’s Excursions to the Antiquities of Turkey and Greece, etc., Titled:] Notes Taken in Egypt, &c. 1881.

15 January – 10 May 1881.

Price: $6,500.00

Item #8942 [Collection of Three Original Manuscripts, Reporting on the Voyage to Jamaica of a...

[JAMAICA - HURRICANE]

[Collection of Three Original Manuscripts, Reporting on the Voyage to Jamaica of a British Merchant Brig “Jane” in August 1780 – March 1781, Including a Detailed Account of “Jane’s” Wreck and Damage in the Mouth of the Great River during the Savanna-la-Mar Hurricane on October 3, 1780].

Montego Bay (Jamaica), 10 January 1781; London, 24 July and 31 August 1781.

Price: $1,850.00

Item #8931 [Large Original, Very Finely Hand-Painted “Black Ship Scroll,” with Twenty-Two...

[JAPAN - PERRY EXPEDITION – BLACK SHIP SCROLL]

[Large Original, Very Finely Hand-Painted “Black Ship Scroll,” with Twenty-Two Watercolour Scenes and Portraits, Illustrating the Negotiations in Yokohama during Commodore Matthew Perry’s Naval Expedition to Japan and the Signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa in February-March 1854].

Price: $37,500.00

Item #10024 [Interesting Autograph Letter to John Whishaw, Secretary of the African Institution,...

[MALI - TIMBUKTU] RITCHIE, Joseph (ca. 1788-1819)

[Interesting Autograph Letter to John Whishaw, Secretary of the African Institution, Written at the Beginning of Ritchie's Ill-Fated Expedition to Africa, to Introduce Sidi Hassuna D'Ghies, who was a son of the Prime Minister of the Pasha of Tripoli, and Later Would Become the Pasha's Foreign Minister, and Additionally he was Later also Connected to the Fate of Alexander Laing].

Price: $1,250.00

Item #8249 [Autograph Letter Signed from Mary Dickinson McCall to her Renowned Brother, Captain...

[MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR] [McCALL, George Archibald] (1802-1868); MCCALL, Mary Dickinson (1799-1881)

[Autograph Letter Signed from Mary Dickinson McCall to her Renowned Brother, Captain of the 4th US Infantry Regiment George McCall, Talking about His Recent Heroism during the Battle of Palo Alto, the Occupation of Matamoros, the Regiment’s Possible Move to Monterrey, the Anecdote about General Winfield Scott and a “Plate of Soup,” and Mentioning Several American Public Figures, Including John Cadwalader, Joseph R. Ingersoll, William L. Marcy, John M. Read Jr., and others].

Philadelphia: 15 & 16 June [1846].

Price: $1,250.00

Item #10025 [Autograph Letter Signed to a Superior (Most likely Governor-General of Bengal,...

[NEPAL] GARDNER, Edward (1784-1861) [Resident in Kathmandu 1816-29]

[Autograph Letter Signed to a Superior (Most likely Governor-General of Bengal, Francis, Earl of Moira (later 1st Marquis of Hastings) Reporting the Latest Intelligence Including Troop Strengths and Movements of the Gurkhas (Nepali Troops) in the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-16)].

Price: $1,250.00

Item #8933 [Historically Significant Collection of 102 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of...

[NEVADA – PETROGLYPHS] [MILES, David (Dave) Francis] (1902-1977); JOHN W. WALKER ELECTRIC STUDIO

[Historically Significant Collection of 102 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Archaeological Excavations, Artefacts and Petroglyphs Discovered in Eastern Nevada by Members of the “National Cosmographic Society” (Ely), Which David Miles was a Secretary of; With a Later Manuscript Draft of a Letter (Most Likely, Authored by Miles) to an American Archaeologist Frank H.H. Roberts, Talking about His Latest Archaeological Discoveries near Potosi Mountain Southwest of Las Vegas].

Photographs: ca. 1920s; manuscript: ca. 1940s-1950s.

Price: $3,750.00
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