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[CARIBBEAN - JAMAICA - SHIPWRECK]

[Two Detailed Manuscript Testimonials of a Voyage of the Merchant brig Jane to the West Indies in 1780, and the Circumstances of Her Shipwreck during the Savanna-la-Mar Hurricane, Notarially Certified in Montego Bay and London; [WITH] a Period Copy of Jane’s Portledge Bill for 1781].

Montego Bay (Jamaica) - London: 1780-1781. Three Folio Manuscripts (ca. 44x28 cm, ca. 40x26 cm and ca. 36,5x22 cm) folded.....

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[CARIBBEAN TRADE ARCHIVE],

[Archive of Over Fifty Documents Relating to the Final Days of the British Schooner "Lima"].

1865. About 50 documents in about 75 pages. The documents in the archive are generally in very good condition, however.....

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[CARIBBEAN- HAITI] MILNE, Robert

[Two Historically Important Autograph Letters Signed by a British Merchant from the Kingdom of Haiti to his Brother, Giving a First-Hand Account of the Kingdom and full of Information about the Coffee Trade and the Major British & American Merchants Active There, His Plans in the Nearest Future to Dispatch...

Cape Henry, Haiti: 1813-1814. Cape Henry, Hayti [sic!], 18 July 1813 and 4 February 1814. Folio (ca. 31x19 cm) and.....

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[EUROPE - BOOK OF HOURS' LEAF] [COENE], [Jean IV, Studio of]

[Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from the “Prayers” Part of a French Latin Book of Hours, with the lines from Two Prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary: O Intemerata… and Obsecro te…, Illustrated with a Miniature Portrait of the Blessed Virgin Mary].

Paris: ca. 1510-1520. Single leaf, manuscript on vellum, written/decorated area ca. 14,5x8 cm (ca. 5 ½ x 3 ¼ in);.....

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[EUROPE - BOOK OF HOURS' LEAF] [COENE], [Jean IV, Studio of]

[Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from the “Suffrages to Saints” Part of a French Latin Book of Hours, Appealing to Saint Martin and Saint Fiacre and Illustrated with Miniature Portraits of Both Saints].

Paris: ca. 1510-1520. Single leaf, manuscript on vellum, written/decorated area ca. 14,8x8 cm (ca. 5 ¾ x 3 1/8 in);.....

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[EUROPE - CRIMEAN WAR] PERCEVAL, Ernest-Augustus (1835-1924)

[Collection of Seven Original Autograph Letters Signed, Written During the Siege of Sevastopol, Which Describe the Battle of the Great Redan, the Explosion of the French Magazine on November 15, 1855; Fights between French and British Soldiers; an Arm Amputation he Assisted with; Mentions Several British Commanders; Lists the Menu...

Balaklava Bay, Camp before Sevastopol: 14 February 1855 – 14 April 1856. Seven ALS, including six small Octavo ones, ca.....

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[EUROPE - ENGLAND - REGENCY DRESS]

[Album with Thirty Original Watercolours Showing English Costumes of the Regency Era]

[England]: ca. 1820. With thirty mounted watercolours, five large images ca. 20,5x14,5 cm (8 x 5 ¾ in) or slightly.....

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[EUROPE - GREECE - ATHENS] CUSHING, Joseph Jr. (1806-1879)

[Interesting Content Rich Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife with a Description of Temples and Other Antiquities of Athens, Including the Acropolis, the Prison where Socrates was Sentenced to Death, the “Bema” or pulpit “where Demosthenes and other orators went to address the people," Hill of Areopagus, Temple of Hephaestus...

Athens: 6 December 1851. Quarto (ca. 27x21 cm). 7 pp. On two bifoliums. Brown ink on bluish wove paper, addressed.....

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[EUROPE - NAPOLEONIC WARS] COUTINHO, Domingos António de Sousa, 1st Conde and Marquis de Funchal (1760-1833).

[Manuscript Report by a Notable Portuguese Diplomat, Reporting on Napoleon's 1800 Campaign in Italy, including the Battle of Marengo].

Livorno: 6 July 1800. Folio (36,5x24 cm). 10 leaves stitched together over pink ribbons; pink stitching in gutter mostly gone.....

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[EUROPE - RUSSIA - NAPOLEON 1812 CAMPAIGN],

[Anonymous Period French Manuscript Account of Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia in 1812 Titled:] Campaigne de Russie. Toujour victorieux depuis 19 ans, Napoleon revait la conquete du monde, et les limites de la terre semblaiens trop rapprochee, pour fixer le terme de ses exploits!...

[ca. 1820-1825]. Folio (ca. 32,5x22 cm), 73, [2] stitched with a string. Brown ink on watermarked lined paper, text in.....

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[EUROPE - RUSSIAN VENICE EMBASSY 1656]

[REMARKABLE PRIMARY SOURCE ON 17TH CENTURY RUSSIAN-WESTERN EUROPEAN RELATIONS]. Relatione d’Alcuni Costumi de’Sig.i Ambasc. Moscoviti, che ora si trovano in Livorno per passare all’Ambasciata di Venezia [Autograph Letter by an Anonymous Author from Livorno Witnessing the Muscovite Embassy to Venice (1656-1657) and Containing Vivid Observations and Remarks About Russians].

Livorno: ca. 1656. Quarto, ca. 27x19,5 cm (10 ½ x 7 ¾ in). Four pages; brown ink on cream laid.....

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[MIDDLE EAST - EGYPT & NUBIA]

[Rare Collection of Twenty-Seven Early Original Watercolour Views of the Nile, Taken During a Cruise in Winter 1864-1865 and Showing the Ancient Sites and Cliffs of Upper Egypt and Nubia, and the Second Cataract].

November 1864 - February 1865. Twenty-seven original watercolours on paper, including one three-part panorama ca. 13x108,5 cm (5 x 42.....

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[MIDDLE EAST - EGYPT] GENTZ, Wilhelm and Ismael, MUELLER, Leopold and WELSCH, Charles

[Collection of Nine Original Drawings by Wilhelm and Ismael Gentz, Leopold Mueller, and Charles Welsch, Used as Prototypes for Illustrations in Georg Ebers’ Encyclopaedic Work “Aegypten in Bild und Wort (Stuttgart & Leipzig 1879-80);” [Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque] [With]: Complete Sets of both the First German and the First...

ca. 1870s. Pencil, pen, ink and wash on album paper, some heightened in white, all but one signed by the.....

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[MIDDLE EAST - HOLY LAND - PALESTINE]

[Collection of Twenty-eight Very Attractive Original Watercolour Views of the Holy Land; [With:] Two Watercolours from the Same Travel Showing Surghaya village in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains (Syria) and the Acropolis in Smyrna/Izmir (Turkey)].

March-May 1893. Thirty original watercolours on paper, from ca. 8,5x17,5 cm (3 ¼ x 7 in) to ca. 8,5x12,5 cm.....

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[MIDDLE EAST - TURKEY] FOURCADE, Pascal Thomas (1769-1813)

[Autograph Letter Signed to Jean-Denis Barbie du Bocage (1760-1825 - French Cartographer and Geographer) About a Geometrical map of the Plain of Bournabat Along with a View of Mount Sipylos].

Smyrna [Turkey]: 27 Thermidor, year 11 (14 August 1802). Quarto (ca. 24x19,5 cm). 1 p. Brown ink on laid paper.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - ARIZONA TERRITORY] HARDY, William Harrison (1823-1906); GARRISON, John George (1831-1908)

[Historically Significant Archive of Twenty Autograph Letters, Nineteen Signed by William Hardy and Addressed to His Business Partner John G. Garrison and one Letter from Garrison to Hardy, Describing the Pioneering Days of Hardyville (now Bullhead City) and Prescott, Including the Construction of the first Dwellings, Skirmishes with the Native...

San Francisco, Hardy’s Landing, Hardyville, and Sacramento: 1862-1868. Twenty letters written on single pieces of paper or bifoliums, from ca.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - ARIZONA – PHOENIX] MCNEIL, Homer H. (1856-1942) (Printer & Publisher)

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by an Arizona Pioneer Homer McNeil to His Brother, Written on the Official Letterhead of his “Daily and Weekly Arizona Gazette”, and Talking about the Smallpox Epidemy in Phoenix, McNeil’s Work in the Printing Office, His New “Girl” and a Greyhound Pup he Had Bought for...

Phoenix, Arizona: 8 September 1883. Quarto (ca. 25x30 cm). 4 pp. on two separate leaves with printed letterheads of the.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - FRASER RIVER GOLD RUSH] MITCHELL, William (1802-1876)

[Autograph Letter Signed to His Brother “Charlie,” Describing His Recent Fur Trade Expedition in the Puget Sound, and Sharing His Impressions on the Fraser River Gold Rush].

Fort Nisqually, Washington Territory: 6 September 1863. Quarto bifolium (ca. 28,5x23 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on blueish watermarked paper.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - 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.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - BURGLARS, ROBBERS & A MURDERER] MYERS, Jerome, [Stockton Police? Official]

[Original Manuscript Signed by a Stockton City Official, Describing the Appearance of Several Criminals Held in Custody, and Asking for Help in the Investigation of Their Crimes, Which Included Burglaries, Robberies and a Murder].

Stockton, CA: 7[?] March 1864. Quarto bifolium (ca. 24,5x19 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on lined laid paper. Written in.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - RANCHING][WILCOXSON, Jefferson] (1809-1898)

[Original Autograph Letter Signed and Addressed to Noted Californian Pioneer Jefferson Wilcoxson, Written by His Ranching Partner “Jack”, Possibly by His Brother Jackson, With News from the Union Cattle Ranch near Marysville, Yuba Co.]

Union Ranch [near Marysville, Yuba County, California]: 14 March 1854. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x19,5 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH] HINKLEY, Timothy Duane (1827-1907 or 1914)

[Autograph Letter Signed by California Gold Miner and Future Pioneer of Seattle, Timothy Hinkley, with an Early Description of the Weaverville Gold Mining Town, Mentioning its Stores, Hotels, “Gambling Halls and Whorehouses,” as well as the “Shasta Courier” Gold Mining Newspaper Founded by his Brother].

Weaver Creek, Trinity County, California: 1 June 1852. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x20 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on bluish wove.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA – HUMBUG CREEK GOLD MINING] GRAY, Stephen H.

[Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife Rowena, Talking About His Gold Mining at the Humbug Creek (Siskyou County, Northern California), with the Details of Sluicing Operations, Notes about the Local Mail Service, His New Cat, and Expressive Passages Reassuring in His Love and Fidelity].

Humbug Creek, CA: 15 March 1863?]. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x20 cm). 5 pp. Brown ink on blueish watermarked laid paper.....

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[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.....

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[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.....

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[Two Detailed Manuscript Testimonials of a Voyage of the Merchant brig Jane to the West Indies in 1780, and the Circumstances of Her Shipwreck during the Savanna-la-Mar Hurricane, Notarially Certified in Montego Bay and London; [WITH] a Period Copy of Jane’s Portledge Bill for 1781].

[Archive of Over Fifty Documents Relating to the Final Days of the British Schooner "Lima"].

[Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from the “Prayers” Part of a French Latin Book of Hours, with the lines from Two Prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary: O Intemerata… and Obsecro te…, Illustrated with a Miniature Portrait of the Blessed Virgin Mary].

[Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from the “Suffrages to Saints” Part of a French Latin Book of Hours, Appealing to Saint Martin and Saint Fiacre and Illustrated with Miniature Portraits of Both Saints].

[Album with Thirty Original Watercolours Showing English Costumes of the Regency Era]

[Manuscript Report by a Notable Portuguese Diplomat, Reporting on Napoleon's 1800 Campaign in Italy, including the Battle of Marengo].

[Anonymous Period French Manuscript Account of Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia in 1812 Titled:] Campaigne de Russie. Toujour victorieux depuis 19 ans, Napoleon revait la conquete du monde, et les limites de la terre semblaiens trop rapprochee, pour fixer le terme de ses exploits!...

[Rare Collection of Twenty-Seven Early Original Watercolour Views of the Nile, Taken During a Cruise in Winter 1864-1865 and Showing the Ancient Sites and Cliffs of Upper Egypt and Nubia, and the Second Cataract].

[Collection of Twenty-eight Very Attractive Original Watercolour Views of the Holy Land; [With:] Two Watercolours from the Same Travel Showing Surghaya village in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains (Syria) and the Acropolis in Smyrna/Izmir (Turkey)].

[Autograph Letter Signed to Jean-Denis Barbie du Bocage (1760-1825 - French Cartographer and Geographer) About a Geometrical map of the Plain of Bournabat Along with a View of Mount Sipylos].

[Autograph Letter Signed to His Brother “Charlie,” Describing His Recent Fur Trade Expedition in the Puget Sound, and Sharing His Impressions on the Fraser River Gold Rush].

[Original Manuscript Signed by a Stockton City Official, Describing the Appearance of Several Criminals Held in Custody, and Asking for Help in the Investigation of Their Crimes, Which Included Burglaries, Robberies and a Murder].

[Original Autograph Letter Signed and Addressed to Noted Californian Pioneer Jefferson Wilcoxson, Written by His Ranching Partner “Jack”, Possibly by His Brother Jackson, With News from the Union Cattle Ranch near Marysville, Yuba Co.]

[Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife Rowena, Talking About His Gold Mining at the Humbug Creek (Siskyou County, Northern California), with the Details of Sluicing Operations, Notes about the Local Mail Service, His New Cat, and Expressive Passages Reassuring in His Love and Fidelity].

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

[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].

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