Search Results: Authors starting with K from Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC

Three sketchbooks created by a budding artist who later found success as a commercial illustrator of horse races, trucks, and railroad trains.These 8" x 11" standard-size spiral notebooks contain a total of approximately 425 pages, almost all filled with detailed pencil sketches of construction sites. Photographs and clippings from magazines and newspapers are both laid in and attached to about ten pages. Among the many projects documented in the sketchbooks are work at Gifforf Pinchot State Park, the expressway that would become Interstate 83, filtering basins for the P. H. Gatfelter Co., the Quarryville Sr. High School, U.S. 30 and 230, Borg-Warner Corporation headquarters, etc. The vehicles and equipment in Karsten's drawings are usually annotated with company, manufacturer, numbering, and/or license information. The sketches and photographs are all in nice shape. The clippings have tape stains, Karsten was a talented artist from York, Pennsylvania whose works have appeared on national magazine… Read More

"The beaver in the hhd is as good as a parcell as ever came from Annapolis & I could have sold it all here at 13S a pound round, the box is a parcel of Suparlative Spring beaver from Pennopscot. . .."
Boston to London, 1735.
This two-page stampless folded letter measures 15" x 11¾" unfolded. It was sent by William Clark in Boston "To Mr Christr: Kilby / Mercht / In London". The letter was favor carried by a ship's master, Captain Cary. In nice shape. Transcript will be provided.
The letter which is primarily about the export of beaver pelts reads in part:
"Inclosed you have Invoice and bill of lading for the three hhd [hogshead] and a box of Beaver. . .. Inclosed are the three first bills of Exchange with the letters of advice & the beaver in the hhd is as good as a parcell as ever came from Annapolis & I could have sold it all here at 13S a pound round, the box is a parcel of Suparlative Spring beaver from Pennopscot, you may order the sale of it as you see it. . .. the number of skins I put at… Read More

Nashville, Tennessee, 1846. Unbound. Very good. This four-page stampless folded letter with two pages of text measures 16½" x 10" unfolded. It was sent by Charles M. King in Nashville to Miss Anna Louisa Bockins of Philaldelphia. The letter is dated May 13, 1846, and bears a circular Nashville postmark dated May 24. In nice shape. A transcript will be provided. Charles reports that war fever that had gripped Nashville and describes his trip from Philadelphia. "There was a large war meeting held at the Court house on the 19th inst on which occasion governor Brown . . . addressed the citizens a great strain of eloquent war speeches, the excitement here is very great on last evening the requisition arived . . . calling for 3 regiments of Vollenteers amounting to twenty eight hundred & fifty men there are three companys of vollenteers ready formed & parading through the City daily, playing Yankee doodle, hail Colombia and various other airs. . .. The drums are continually ringing through my head. .… Read More

Oldenburg, Germany: Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Wenz-Vietor, Else. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete. Text in German (Sutterlin typeface). Striking color illustrations throughout; seven of them are full-page. Sound binding; front hinge starting to crack. No names or other writing. Clean pages with a few light finger smudges. Cover has some minor edge wear. This is a children's tale about a doll's misadventures from the time she was taken outside by her owner's dog until she was found and returned by a kindly dwarf.