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[NORTH AMERICA - 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. Quarto (ca. 27,5x21 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper, West’s printed.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - 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...

Philadelphia, 15 & 16 June [1846]. Quarto (ca. 27x21 cm). A bifolium and a single leaf with 5 pp. of.....

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[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.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - OREGON - PIONEERS] [MCLEAN, Margaret Rebecca, née Davidson] (1835-1925)

[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.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - OREGON – FORTY-NINER] GUYLES, R.B.

[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.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - OREGON – ROGUE RIVER WAR] BARKWELL, M.C., Surgeon General of Oregon Territory; WIXOM, Henry Walker (1820-1888); COOMBS, L.J., Surgeon, Oregon Mounted Volunteers

[Collection of Two Original Autograph Letters Signed and Three Period Copies of Certificates of Service and Discharge, Detailing on the Medical Service and Supplies in the Second Regiment, Oregon Mounted Volunteers during the Rogue River War of 1855-56].

Jacksonville & Fort Leland, 8 May, 10, 16, 28 August, 4 September 1856. Five original Folio manuscripts, each ca. 30,5x19.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - TEXAS – DEMOCRATS & ELECTIONS] [HILL, James, Attributed to] (1836-1881)

[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.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - TEXAS – PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONARIES] HAWLEY, Rev. J.L.

[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.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - US SECESSION] JAMES, Nathan & Catherine

[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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[PERRY EXPEDITION IN JAPAN - BLACK SHIP SCROLL] [ASIA - 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].

Several scenes dated Kaei 7 [1854], but possibly a slightly later, Meiji period copy. Hand-painted scroll ca. 1085x27,5 cm (ca.....

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[SAINT HELENA – NAPOLEON’S TOMB]

[Original Gouache Drawing on a Plant Leaf (possibly, Saint Helena Redwood), Showing Napoleon Bonaparte’s Tomb in the Valley of the Willows on St. Helena].

ca. 1820s. Gouache drawing on a plant leaf ca. 16,5x11,5 cm (6 ¼ x 4 ½ in), mounted on a......

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[SOUTH AMERICA - PERU]

[Original Watercolour, Titled:] Pachacamac Ruins. The remains of Inca Cities – Lima, Peru. Car from Callao. March 4.

Ca. 1910s. Watercolours on paper ca. 17,5x25,5 cm (7x10 in). Mounted on a period album leaf ca. 23,5x30 cm (9.....

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[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.].

[Collection of Two Original Autograph Letters Signed and Three Period Copies of Certificates of Service and Discharge, Detailing on the Medical Service and Supplies in the Second Regiment, Oregon Mounted Volunteers during the Rogue River War of 1855-56].

[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...

[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].

[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].

[Original Gouache Drawing on a Plant Leaf (possibly, Saint Helena Redwood), Showing Napoleon Bonaparte’s Tomb in the Valley of the Willows on St. Helena].

[Original Watercolour, Titled:] Pachacamac Ruins. The remains of Inca Cities – Lima, Peru. Car from Callao. March 4.

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