海外異聞 [Kaigai Ibun - Ichi Mei Amerika Shinwa: A Strange Tale from Overseas, or a New Account of America].
Tokyo: Seifuen Juō, Kaei kōin, [1854]. First Edition. Complete in 5 vols. Quarto (ca. 25x17,5 cm). [26], [20], [21], [18].....
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[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. Small Octavo bifolium (ca. 20x12,5 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on lined laid paper, blind-stamped.....
[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. Quarto (ca. 27,5x21 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper, West’s printed.....
[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...
Philadelphia, 15 & 16 June [1846]. Quarto (ca. 27x21 cm). A bifolium and a single leaf with 5 pp. of.....
[Early Interesting Atmospheric Letter from an American Fortune-Seeker in Oregon, Written at the End of the First Year of the Fraser River Gold Rush; the Author Dissuades the Addressee From Mining of the Fraser River, Calling the Rush a “Humbug” and a “Specklation among the Steam Boat Men,” and Mentions...
Dayton (Oregon): 27 November 1858. Octavo (ca. 20,5x16 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on laid paper, written in a legible.....
[Original Autograph Letter Signed by an Oregon Pioneer Margaret McLean, Talking about the Leaders of the United Presbyterian Church of Oregon, Her Family’s Upcoming Wagon Trip to the Oregon Coast, Where They Planned to Have “Plenty of Fresh Oisters [sic!] and Big Fish in Abundance,” a School Teacher in Eugene...
Eugene City, Oregon, 18 June 1866. Two Octavo bifoliums (ca. 19,5x11,5 cm). 8 pp. Brown ink on creamy lined wove.....
[Original Autograph Letter Written by a Forty-Niner from Cayuga County (NY), Talking about His Voyage to the Oregon Territory Onboard the USS “Massachusetts” in Winter 1848-May 1849, Life and Work in the Oregon City, Local Climate, Prices, Plans to go to the Walla Walla Mines, &c.].
Oregon City, 25 June 1850. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x19,5 cm). 2 pp. Dark brown ink on bluish wove paper. Addressed.....
[Original Autograph Letter Signed by a Gilmer Resident to His Sister “Mrs. Mary Key,” with the Account of the Debates before the Elections to the House of Representatives, the Loss of Lemuel Dale Evans, Whose Character is Nevertheless “One of the Most Spotless in Fact of any Man in the...
Gilmer [Upshur Co.], 16 July 1857. Large Octavo (ca. 24,5x19,5 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on bluish laid paper. With.....
[Autograph Letter Signed to the Secretaries of the American Home Missionary Society, Reporting on his Attempt to Establish a Church in Western Texas, and Talking about his Visits to Indian Point, Victoria, De Witt County, Gonzales, Seguin, and New Braunfels, and high Prices for food in Western Texas, &c.]
Near Sequin, Guadalupe Co., Texas: 5 March 1848. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x20 cm). 3,4 pp. Brown ink on blueish wove.....
[Autograph Letter Signed to Their Son, Mentioning the United States Secession (1860-1861) and a Conflict between Native Americans and Mormons, Apparently in the Utah Territory].
2 June 1860. Octavo (ca. 19x12 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on laid paper bifolium, blind-stamped monogram in the left.....
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