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[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.....

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[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.....

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[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.....

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[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.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH] DIX, J.

[Historically Important Autograph Letter Signed from Early Prospector, J. Dix to his friend Jack, Dated Yakobi Island, Alaska July 7, 1895. This Content Rich Letter Describes Dix's solitary life on Yakobi Island and the Difficulties he Encountered Trying to Prospect on it as well as Giving the Latest News on...

Yakobi Island, Alaska: July 7, 1895. Quarto (ca. 26 x 20 cm). 2 leaves written recto and verso so 4.....

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[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.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR] FOSTER, Charles Warren (1830-1904)

[Autograph Letter Signed by Charles W. Foster, an 18-Year Old Serviceman of the Corps of Engineers, Written in Mexico City in the Last Weeks of the Mexican-American War].

Cassa de Correa, City of Mexico: 7 April 1848. Quarto bifolium (ca. 24,5x19,5 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on watermarked.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - NEVADA TERRITORY] SALOMON, Leon

[Autograph Letter Signed from the Nevada Mining Town Virginia City, Mentioning Aurora (once a Gold and Silver Boomtown, but now a Ghost Town)) and Several of its Citizens, Including A.M. or C.D. Wingate, Joe Coddington and Francis Garesche].

Virginia City: 15 November 1864. Quarto (ca. 25x19 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on lined laid paper, blind stamp “Pacific.....

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[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.....

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[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.....

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[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.....

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[PACIFIC - AUSTRALIA - GOLDFIELDS] HOWORTH, W.

[Journal of H.M.S. Lily on her Homeward Voyage to England, from Melbourne Around Cape Horn via Rio de Janeiro just After the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria].

18th Jan. - 7th May 1855. Quarto ca. 25.5 x 22cm (10 x 8 ½ in.). 15 pp, each page.....

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[PACIFIC - AUSTRALIA - SYDNEY] ASHTON, Sir John William (Australian, 1881-1963).

[SYDNEY HARBOUR: Watercolour Signed with Initials and Dated "W.A. 98" (lower right)].

1898. Watercolour ca. 24 x 33cm (9.5 x 13in). Watercolour in very good condition. Recently matted. This atmospheric attractive watercolour.....

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[PACIFIC - HAWAII - MAUI] CROCKER, Whaling Master Geo[rge]

[Historically Early and Important Autograph Letter Signed from Whaling Master Geo[rge] Crocker to his Business Partner in New Bedford, MA, Merchant John Russell, Dated Mowee [Lahaina?, Maui], Nov. 29th,1834. This Content Rich Letter Describes the Crew Including Native Hawaiians, Conditions on the Ship Including a Hurricane, Punishments and Injuries the...

[Lahaina?, Maui]: Nov. 29th,1834. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25 x 20.5 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink written in a legible hand.....

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[PACIFIC - HAWAII] CALKIN, Milo (1810-1872) & CALKIN, Evelyne (née Johnson) (1817-1899)

[Two Early Hawaiian Autograph Letters (on one Bifolium) Signed to Dr. George Clymer, the Surgeon on USS “Cyane”, with the Latest News from Honolulu, Talking about Calkin’s Business, “Real Sandwich Island Winter Weather,” “Quiet, Sober and Sedate” Social Life in Honolulu, Eveline Reading Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Milo’s Recent Asthma Attack...

Honolulu, Hawaii: 22 December 1843. Quarto bifolium (ca. 24,5x20 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on wove paper, written in a......

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[SOUTH AMERICA - 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. Quarto (ca. 28,5x22 cm). 25 numbered leaves of typewritten text. Occasional period ink corrections in text. Vertical centrefold.....

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[SOUTH AMERICA - BRAZIL - RIO DE JANEIRO] BARBOSA, Januario da Cunha (1780-1864)

[Protocols and Procedures for Burials in the Churches of Rio de Janeiro] Exposição do Padre Januario da Cunha Barbosa a El-Rei D. João VI sobre as sepulturas nas Egrejas do Rio de Janeiro.

Rio de Janeiro: Ca. 1813-1816. Folio (ca. 33x20 cm). 4 pp., with two integral blank leaves, tied with two pink.....

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[SOUTH AMERICA - BRAZIL - RIO DE JANEIRO] LAINE, J.H.

[Autograph Letter in French from a Young French Cotton Merchant in Rio de Janeiro to his Father, Signed “J.H. Laine,” with the latest News about the Brazilian Market].

Rio de Janeiro: 20 September 1816. Quarto (ca. 25,5x19,5 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper, addressed and.....

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Manuscripts & Drawings

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

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

[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].

[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.]

[Autograph Letter Signed by Charles W. Foster, an 18-Year Old Serviceman of the Corps of Engineers, Written in Mexico City in the Last Weeks of the Mexican-American War].

[Autograph Letter Signed from the Nevada Mining Town Virginia City, Mentioning Aurora (once a Gold and Silver Boomtown, but now a Ghost Town)) and Several of its Citizens, Including A.M. or C.D. Wingate, Joe Coddington and Francis Garesche].

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

[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.].

[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].

[Journal of H.M.S. Lily on her Homeward Voyage to England, from Melbourne Around Cape Horn via Rio de Janeiro just After the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria].

[SYDNEY HARBOUR: Watercolour Signed with Initials and Dated "W.A. 98" (lower right)].

[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.

[Protocols and Procedures for Burials in the Churches of Rio de Janeiro] Exposição do Padre Januario da Cunha Barbosa a El-Rei D. João VI sobre as sepulturas nas Egrejas do Rio de Janeiro.

[Autograph Letter in French from a Young French Cotton Merchant in Rio de Janeiro to his Father, Signed “J.H. Laine,” with the latest News about the Brazilian Market].

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