Results for: North America Including Arctic

[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA – GOLD QUARTZ MINING]

[Autograph Letter Signed Describing the Operations of a Gold Quartz Mill in the Pleasant Valley near Placerville, El Dorado Country, the Author’s Partnership with the “Pleasant Valley Quartz Lead” owned by “Mr. Deihl,” and His Concerns about the New Steam Boiler].

Placerville: 9 July 1857. Quarto (ca. 24,5x18,5 cm). 3 pp. Pencil on two leaves of blueish wove paper. Fold marks.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed Describing the Operations of a Gold Quartz Mill in the Pleasant Valley...

Price: $950.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA – GREAT FLOOD OF 1862] HARDY, William Harrison (1823-1906)

[Autograph Letter Signed to his Business Partner Samuel S. Kennedy, Emotionally Describing the Effect of the Great Flood of 1862 in Sacramento, and Mentioning that the “Excitement is Terrible” and that the “Huntington, Hoplins & Co.” Hardware Store was under “Water Two Feet Deep”].

Sacramento: 9 December 1861. Quarto (ca. 24,5x19 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on laid paper, blind-stamped paper maker’s monogram in.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed to his Business Partner Samuel S. Kennedy, Emotionally Describing the...

Price: $1,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - 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. Quarto bifolium (ca. 23,5x18 cm). 3 pp. Pencil on laid paper, written in a......

Read Full Description about Original Autograph Letter to an Agent of a Potential Buyer for a Mining Property in California,...

Price: $950.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA – SANTA CLARA VALLEY FARMING] GHOLSON, Toliver Craig (1823-1898)

[Autograph Letter Signed with the Original Envelope, Talking about Farming in the Santa Clara Valley, Prices for Barley, Flour, Horses, Cattle and Milk Cows, Average Wages, the Increased “Emigration,” and Saying that “This Valy is Healthy and Pleasant and is Bound to Bee a Wealthy Place”].

Santa Clara Co., California: 12 September 1852. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x20 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed with the Original Envelope, Talking about Farming in the Santa Clara...

Price: $950.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, UTAH & COLORADO]

[Album of Sixty-seven Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Railroad trip through California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado].

ca. 1899. Quarto (25.5x17.5cm). 17 grey album leaves. With 67 mounted original gelatin silver photographs, with eight larger ones ca.....

Read Full Description about Album of Sixty-seven Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Railroad trip through California, Nevada,...

Price: $950.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA] [BAEGERT], [Johann Jakob] (1717-1772)

Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien: mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten. Geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher lang darinn diese letztere Jahr gelebet hat. [News from the American Peninsula California..,]

Mannheim: Churfürstl. Hof- und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773. Second Edition (With Corrections). Small Octavo (17.5 x 10.5 cm), [xvi], 358, With one.....

Read Full Description about Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien: mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher...

Price: $2,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA] [BUNZO, MAEKAWA AND SAKAI, JUNZO],

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].....

Read Full Description about 海外異聞 [Kaigai Ibun - Ichi Mei Amerika Shinwa: A Strange Tale from Overseas, or a New...

Price: $5,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - CRIMEAN WAR] MEREDITH, Edmund Allen (1817-1898)

[Autograph Letter Signed “Meredith” to James McFesters, the Mayor of Bowmanville, Regarding Russian Guns Captured During the Crimean War and Transferred to Canada].

Toronto: Secretary's Office, 19 May 1859. Folio (ca. 33x20,5 cm). 2 pp., with an integral blank leaf. Brown ink on.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed “Meredith” to James McFesters, the Mayor of Bowmanville, Regarding...

Price: $525.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - GREAT SLAVE LAKE]

[Album with over 160 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Great Slave Lake and the Nearby Rivers, Showing Early Gold and Metal Prospecting (most likely by Cominco Employees), Hudson’s Bay Company Steamers “Athabasca River” and “Distributor,” RCMP Boat “Resolution,” “Speed II” Schooner, Fort Resolution, Fokker Planes G-CASM, and G-CASQ and...

ca. 1929. Oblong Quarto (ca. 18x30 cm). 65 card stock leaves (27 blank). With 162 original gelatin silver snapshot photographs.....

Read Full Description about Album with over 160 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Great Slave Lake and the Nearby...

Price: $1,750.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - HAIDA GWAII & NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA]

[Album with 151 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Haida Gwaii, Northern BC, and the BC Interior, Taken During WW2 by a Serviceman of the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers].

Ca. 1940s. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 18x30 cm). 31 card stock leaves. With 151 gelatin silver photographs, including ca. 59.....

Read Full Description about Album with 151 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Haida Gwaii, Northern BC, and the BC Interior,...

Price: $1,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - MONTREAL] CHARLAND, Louis (1772-1813); CHABOILLER, Louis (1766-1813); RICHARDSON, John (1755?-1831)

[Manuscript Signed Document in French of Charland’s Request for Payment of his Salary at the District of Montreal and Signed by Him, and two Justices of Peace, Chaboiller and Richardson].

[Montreal, at the weekly session of the District de Montreal], 10-11 June 1800. Folio (ca. 32,5x20 cm). 1 p., with.....

Read Full Description about Manuscript Signed Document in French of Charland’s Request for Payment of his Salary at the...

Price: $650.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - NOVA SCOTIA - HALIFAX]

[Album of 50 Original Albumen Photographs Showing the Royal Artillery Park in Halifax, the Officers’ Mess, Close-Up Photos of the Artillery Guns, Eight Group Portraits of the Artillery Officers, with Many Names Marked, Group Portraits of the Officers’ Wives and Families, etc.]

Ca. 1880s. Oblong Folio (ca. 28x38 cm). 23 stock album leaves. With fifty mounted albumen photos, the majority are from.....

Read Full Description about Album of 50 Original Albumen Photographs Showing the Royal Artillery Park in Halifax, the...

Price: $2,500.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - ONTARIO - LONDON ]

[Album of 53 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of London, Ontario, Premises of the “McPherson Fruit Company,” and including a Portrait of its General Manager and Future Owner R.R. Scott].

ca. 1903-9. Oblong Octavo (ca. 15x18 cm). 22 grey stock album leaves. With 53 mounted gelatin silver photographs of various.....

Read Full Description about Album of 53 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of London, Ontario, Premises of the “McPherson...

Price: $650.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - UPPER] STUART, Rev. John (1740-1811).

[Autograph Letter Signed "Jn. Stuart" to His Son, James Stuart, then Personal Secretary of Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada Sir Robert Milnes].

Kingston [Upper Canada]: 8 November 1803. Folio (ca. 32,5x20 cm). 1 p. (with three lines on verso). Brown ink on.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed "Jn. Stuart" to His Son, James Stuart, then Personal Secretary...

Price: $525.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - 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. Small Octavo bifolium (ca. 20x12,5 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on lined laid paper, blind-stamped.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of a Jewellery Store in Eddyville, Iowa, to His Brother in...

Price: $750.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - COLORADO] DYNES, Joseph (Canadian, 1825-1897).

[Sepia Watercolour and Ink Painting:] Mount of the Holy Cross, Colorado - Drawn from Nature by J. Dynes. Quebec V.C. [Canada].

1879. Mounted on period board with manuscript title on recto and verso. One small spot mildly rubbed, otherwise a very.....

Read Full Description about Sepia Watercolour and Ink Painting:] Mount of the Holy Cross, Colorado - Drawn from Nature by J....

Price: $750.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - FLORIDA]

[Collection of Fifteen Original Albumen Stereoview Photographs of Florida from the America Illustrated Tropical Series].

ca. 1875. Fifteen albumen stereoview photographs each ca. 10x14.5cm (4 x 4.5 in) All mounted on original thick card, all.....

Read Full Description about Collection of Fifteen Original Albumen Stereoview Photographs of Florida from the America...

Price: $525.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - IDAHO - GOLD RUSH] ROBINSON, D.H.

[Autograph Letter Signed by a Gold Miner in the Idaho Territory, Describing His Prospecting on the Salmon and Lemhi Rivers and at the Boise Basin near Idaho City].

Idaho City, I.Ty. 11 February 1867. Octavo bifolium & additional single Octavo leaf (ca. 19x14,5 cm). 5 pp. Brown ink.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed by a Gold Miner in the Idaho Territory, Describing His Prospecting on the...

Price: $950.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - IOWA – FARMERS & SUFFRAGETTES] GLASPEY, Joseph Holliday (1819-1900) & GLASPEY/REBBEKE, Mary Jane “Jennie” (1857-1927)

[Autograph Letter Signed by an Iowa Farmer, Talking about the Women’s Rights Movement in Iowa, His Corn Fields, Prices for the Agricultural Produce, Joking about His Wife’s Weight and Quoting his Son’s “Scalawagerous” Poem About Spanking; With a Letter From his 13-Year Old Daughter Jenny, Talking About School, Farm Work...

Marshall County, Iowa: 4 June 1870. Folio bifolium (ca. 31,5x19 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on lined laid paper. Written.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed by an Iowa Farmer, Talking about the Women’s Rights Movement in Iowa,...

Price: $950.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - MEXICAN WAR] MCCALL, Mary Dickinson.

[Autograph Letter Signed Mary Dickinson McCall to her renowned brother George McCall in the 4th Infantry care of the quartermaster in New Orleans, Recounting his Recent Heroism.]

Philadelphia: 15 June [1846]. Quarto (ca. 27 x 21cm). Five Pages. Brown ink on light blue very thin wove paper.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed Mary Dickinson McCall to her renowned brother George McCall in the 4th...

Price: $525.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - NIAGARA FALLS] WALTON, Frederic E.

[Album with Twenty-one Original Watercolours Signed "F.E.W." and Titled:] Sketches in the United States of America and Canada.

ca. 1892. Quarto (27 x 24). With 21 monochrome mounted watercolours ca. 12.5 x 24.5cm (5 x 9.5 in.). Period.....

Read Full Description about Album with Twenty-one Original Watercolours Signed "F.E.W." and Titled:] Sketches in...

Price: $850.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - OREGON - BRITISH COLUMBIA (FRASER RIVER GOLD RUSH)]

[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.....

Read Full Description about Early Interesting Atmospheric Letter from an American Fortune-Seeker in Oregon, Written at the...

Price: $950.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - OREGON] GUYLES, R.B.

[Interesting Autograph Letter Written by R.B. Guyles, an Emigrant to the Oregon City Talking about His Experience in the City, Plans to go to the Walla Walla Mines, Local Climate etc.].

Oregon City: 25 June 1850. Large Octavo (ca. 25x19,5 cm). A bifolium, written on two pages and addressed on the.....

Read Full Description about Interesting Autograph Letter Written by R.B. Guyles, an Emigrant to the Oregon City Talking about...

Price: $750.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - SAINT PIERRE & MIQUELON]

[Sepia Watercolour, Unsigned but Titled and Dated]: "Vue de l'ile St. Pierre-Miquelon 29 Janvier 1839 D'apres une Croquis pris en Juin 1853" [View of St. Pierre-Miquelon Islands from January 29, 1839 After a Sketch, done in June 1853].

1853. Sepia watercolour ca. (25.5 x 37 cm). Mounted and matted and with separate manuscript brown ink title on paper.....

Read Full Description about Sepia Watercolour, Unsigned but Titled and Dated]: "Vue de l'ile St. Pierre-Miquelon 29...

Price: $1,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

[NORTH AMERICA - TEXAS - EARLY US AVIATION – ELLINGTON FIELD]

[Album with ca. 260 Original Early Gelatin Silver Photos (mounted and loosely inserted) of the US Air Service Training Base at Ellington Field, Showing Aerial Views of the Base, Houston and Nearby Towns, Planes on the Ground and in Flying Formations, Numerous Wrecked Planes, Portraits of the Cadets, Mechanics, Commanders...

Ca. 1918-1919. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 18,5x27,5 cm). 45 card stock leaves (several blanks). With ca. 234 mounted gelatin silver.....

Read Full Description about Album with ca. 260 Original Early Gelatin Silver Photos (mounted and loosely inserted) of the US...

Price: $3,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

North America Including Arctic

Refine search results