Search Results: Titles starting with C from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

Tampa: Field, nd circa 1880, Albumen photograph, measuring 7 ¼ x 9 ⅛ inches, mounted on a cardstock mount, measuring 7 ⅞ x 9 ⅞ inches, with the photographer's name, Field, of Tampa, Fla. In gilt on right hand edge. Some spotting and light wear to image, corners of mount bumped, else very good.
The image depicts an unidentified Florida plantation house, which has clearly seen better days, its owners are on the front porch.

octavo, 27 page pamphlet, original printed wraps, front wrapper detached but present, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else good.
Biles, was accused through the means of deceptive accounting of stealing some $ 11,000.00 in cash over a period of time, unnoticed, by his employers, and absconding after a mistake in his bookkeeping was discovered.

Three Volumes, quarto, Manuscript Letter Copy Books containing 1525 pp., with approximately 1500 business letters of four different cashiers for the Ilion Bank, of Ilion, Herkimer County, New York, dated between 1 April 1853 and 7 September 1859. The Ilion Bank, had as its president the arms manufacturer, Eliphalet Remington, who was the bank's president from the time of its founding in 1852 to his death in 1861.
The letters, in the present volumes, were written by four different cashiers of the bank: Robert H. Pomeroy (1853), John A. Rasbach (1856), H. H. Devendorf (1856 and 1859), and Floyd C. Shepard (1859). The letter copy books contain the day to day business correspondence and reflects the activities of the bank, in the letters the cashier writes to various individuals and other banks, about their returning bank notes for collection, or about sending them their own drafts on their bank, and the various business transactions and activities of the bank including mortgages, claims, requesting… Read More

quarto, two page autograph letter signed, old folds and creases otherwise very good. Rene Auguste Chouteau, to whom this letter was written, was assistant to Pierre Laclede in the founding of St. Louis in 1763-1764. For some time, under the Spanish regime, he and his half brother Pierre traded among the Osage Indians, but chiefly he was identified with St. Louis, of which by his death in 1829 he had become the wealthiest citizen and largest landholder. Born in New Orleans, he had connections there all his life, particularly in the mercantile field, as exemplified by the present letter, which is written in French. Cavelier & Fils were the agents of the fur traders in New Orleans. This letter replies to a letter of May 26th, received by "le Courrier," in which Chouteau had ordered various goods. It touches on various business affairs and also mentions two names significant in the history of the fur trade, "Mr. Robidou," the elder Joseph Robidoux, and "James Makay", the former Nor'Wester who a decade… Read More

octavo, 46 page pamphlet, original printed wrappers, wraps detached but present, ex-library, handstamp on title page, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, wraps chipped along edges, else a good copy.
"August 15th, 1895, the United States filed suits against the Coetermans-Heinrichs-Keck Diamond Cutting Company, a corporation under the laws of the State of Ohio, Herman Keck and Franz Van Reeth, claiming penalties for alleged violations of the Contract Labor Law…."

Octavo and quarto, 13 pages, inscribed on sheets of lined paper in pencil, in very good clean condition. “What I saw while a Prisoner of War
I enlisted in the 8th Me Regt. Co I May 6, 1861. Was taken prisoner at the battle of Drewy’s Bluff Va., May 16, 1864 they took me to Libby Prison same day. They put us in the upper story; Castle Thunder was opposite Libby Prison while in Libby they gave us bean pods and all after we picked out the pods but a few beans was left.
May 23d 1864 Left Libby Prison for Danville, Va, Arrived at Danville 24. 25 left Danville for Andersonville, Ga May 30th arrived at Andersonville Ga. The stockade wos was ma built out of timber hewn on two sides, so they would be tight when put together they was about 14 feet in length they were set in the ground 2 or 3 feet the sentry boxes were built on the outside of the stockade so the guard could look over into the prison to watch we Yanks. Inside of the stockade was the deadline; it was posts set in the… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. Large archival collection consisting of: 2273 letters, 5636 pages, plus 16 diaries, and 9 banker's boxes (approximately 11 linear feet) of ephemeral materials, all dated 1898-1990, the bulk from 1920s-1960s. The correspondence centers on Phyllis Hart Clark and her family. There are 623 letters written by Phyllis (mostly retained copies) and 647 incoming letters. Her husband Raymond G. Clark writes and receives 201 letters. As a couple Phyllis and Raymond receive 450 letters, and their son Philip writes and receives 293 letters. The ephemera includes several thousand pieces including folders of typed and manuscript notes, brochures, circulars, handouts, pamphlets, postcards, telegrams, etc., all dated 1930s to 1980s [for further description see below].

Cambridge, Mass., Riverside, 1861, large quarto, yearbook album with 110 oval salt print portraits, measuring 6 x 5 inches, 28 of faculty members, each signed, one of the African American porter, (unsigned), plus 82 portraits of class members, all but four of which are signed by the subject with their hometown, binding worn, backstrip defective, front board missing, images are in good clean condition.
The faculty include the photographs and signatures of several prominent scholars and educators including: historian and regent of the Smithsonian Institution Cornelius Conway Felton (1807-1862), preacher and author Andrew Preston Peabody (1811-1893), biologist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), poet James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), botanist Asa Gray (1810-1888), philosopher Francis Bowen (1811-1890), musical scholar Francis James Child (1825-1896), modern Greek scholar Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles (1807-1883), Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) who would transform Harvard and be its longest-serving president.

octavo, 22 page pamphlet, lacking wrappers, ex-library, handstamp on title page, bottom 1/3 of title page torn away, and missing, with loss of imprint information, else textually complete, a good reading copy.
"Dunbar, twenty-one years old, killed the nephews of his step-father, one by a blow, the other by hanging in a tree, fearing they might inherit the property which he felt should come to him." – McDade, Annals of Murder, 269

Six photograph albums, with 894 photographs, with several related ephemeral items, documenting the lives and travels of this Philadelphia family in the first quarter of the 20th century.

The Firth family was a prominent Philadelphia family which had married into another one, the Livezey's, whose seat was their estate Glen Fern, in Germantown. Thomas Livezey was a miller and friend of Benjamin Franklin, and large property owner. The Livezey family sold much of their estate in the 19th century to the city of Philadelphia and it became Fairmount Park. The Firth Family lived in a palatial mansion on Allen's Lane, before moving to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the 1930s.

1. Album documenting a month-long Hunting Trip on the Upper Yellowstone and in the mountains of Wyoming September – October 1908, by Thomas T. Firth
Oblong small quarto, 62 photographs, measuring 3 â…� x 5 â…ž inches, mounted on 49 black paper leaves, binding worn and scuffed, else very good. Photographs identified in… Read More

12 letters, 19 pages, mainly quarto, some damp-staining and toning to paper, else neatly inscribed in ink, in good, clean legible condition.
In 1839, French immigrant John Bouvier published the first edition of his classic "Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union," hoping it would be "useful to the profession" as the first legal dictionary based on American law. Well-received by such notable jurists as Chancellor James Kent of the New York Supreme Court and Justice Joseph Story of the United States Supreme Court, it was revised by Bouvier in 1843 and 1848. After his death in 1851, it continued to be updated and published anew through more than 20 editions and is still in print.
These 12 autograph letter, sent to Bouvier over a period of 23 years, spanned his career from small-town Pennsylvania newspaper publisher to Philadelphia lawyer and Judge, and reveal his intermingling interest in politics and law… Read More

eight letters (plus two faded letters), 15 pages, some letters damp-stained, and spotted, as well as being a bit brittle, in generally good condition, and readable.
William Cullen Bryant, American romantic poet, journalist and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post, here writes his brother, (the earliest letter 1815 is written to his father), concerning business affairs and family news. His brother John had removed to Princeton, Putnam County, Illinois, and the two brothers apparently were partners in land and real estate there. Bryant mentions difficulties with the Post
in two letters, which he was hoping to sell amidst the financial difficulties of 1837. Bryant did not sell the paper but remained its editor in chief for half a century (1828-1878) The Evening-Post became not only the foundation of his fortune but also the means by which he exercised considerable political power in New York City, and State but nationally as well. The letters also mention Bryant's botanical interests… Read More

29 letters, 38 pp., (no envelopes), dated 8 March 1851 to 26 July 1984, the bulk of the letters are incoming originals dated 1951-1957 (only one letter is post 1957); there are 3 outgoing copies of Habib's letters, the rest are incoming; letters are mostly typed and signed, only two letters are handwritten.
The 3 outgoing letters are retained copies, Habib wrote 1 letter in 1952 to O.T. Foster, secretary of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand and provides Foster with a short biography of himself before officially meeting with him and his organization; and 2 letters in 1957 to Walter W. Orebaugh, Esq., American Consul General, Port of Spain, Trinidad; Habib's 2 letters to Orebaugh concern Habib being assigned to work under Orebaugh at Port of Spain, asks help to find housing for himself and his family, forwards his travel plans.
The 26 incoming letters to Habib were written by the following individuals:
- Henry J. Vaux, School of Forestry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2… Read More

104 letters, 534 manuscript pp., dated 19 December 1869 to 1 March 1875, with the bulk dating from 1870-1874. 7 letters are not dated, but fall within the same general time frame of the rest of the collection.
The bulk of the letters were written to Lettie C. Hayes Grant by her family: parents Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Grant, her brother O.W. Hayes, and sister Belle Hayes. There are two letters written to Lettie's husband, Col. Robert P. Grant and four letters written to Lettie's father, Daniel Hayes, with one letter written to her brother O.W. Hayes. These seven letters, which are not written to Lettie, were also written by the same members of the Hayes family.
Lettie C. Hayes married Col. Grant in 1870, thus the letters mostly deal with the first four years of her marriage when she moved from her family home to live with her husband in Barbours Mills, Lycoming Co., Pennsylvania, and later in Sterling Run, Cameron Co., Pennsylvania, where she begins to set up her own home and family. Her parents and… Read More

Collection of 43 letters, 184 manuscript pages, dated 23 December 1864 to 10 June 1898; the bulk, (33), of the letters date from 1864 to 1873.
The correspondence in this collection consists of four different groups of letters. The first group is from female friends and cousins writing to Kate E. Carr when she was a single woman (Dec. 1864-Dec, 1872). The second group was written to Kate when she was engaged to Dr. Carlton, these letters being both before and after their wedding (June 1870 to Sept. 1872). The third group consists of miscellaneous letters written back and forth between Kate, her mother, and brother William, then a final, and smaller, fourth group of correspondence between Kate's brother Frank and his wife Nellie (1888-1890).
Carr Family of Bradford, New Hampshire
Daniel Carr was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, 2 August 1801. His father, Moses Carr, was born 10 October 1778 and died 10 February 1815, and his mother, Abigail Noyes, was born 11 February 1777 and died 20 July 1863.… Read More

49 letters, 120 manuscript pages, written on folio and quarto size sheets, some letters are joint letters, having one page written by a parent, another page from a sibling, all letters dated from 20 June 1819 to 15 October 1860. There are also 15 pieces of manuscript and printed ephemera, dated between 28 May 1820 to 9 May 1866. The ephemera includes a medical receipt (1820); foodstuff account (1824); account book of the household goods of Fewkes (1819); 1 manuscript page of verse (no date); manuscript confirmation of shares of stock in the New England Lace Manufacturing Company (1829); receipt for "two stocking frames" (1832), presumably the first stocking frames ever built in America; business card of Joseph Fewkes for his shoe and boot shop in New York City (c1830s); 2 used envelopes (no dates); 1 manuscript page of genealogical data of Benjamin Fewkes, his wife, and children includes birth dates of Fewkes and his wife, their marriage date, the birth dates of his children (not dated, c1830s); 3 cut… Read More

56 pocket diaries, totaling approximately 6167 pages of diary entries, plus 420 pages of memoranda, accounts and notes, various bindings, entries in ink in very good, clean and legible condition.
An unusually lengthy run of diaries in which Funk records the daily events of his life. He records the incidents in his many business activities, domestic and daily life, and his time in the State Legislature. The diaries present over half a century of Bucks County history as lived by one of its prominent citizens.
Henry Schleiffer Funk (1844-1937)
Henry Schleiffer Funk was born on 23 December 1844 at Springtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry Funk (1804-1845) and his wife Susan Schleiffer (1804-1900). The Funk family were Bucks County residents going back at least to his great grandfather Abraham Funk (1734-1788). Henry Funk's father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Abraham Funk, were all buried at the Springfield Mennonite Meetinghouse and Cemetery at Pleasant Valley, Bucks… Read More

19 letters, 39 pages, plus 10 manuscripts totaling 76 pages, as well as related ephemeral material.
The collection consists of the following items:
19 letters, 39 pp., dated 4 September 1809 to 11 December 1821; 8 letters are not dated, but are from the same period, early 19th century, as the rest of the letters in the collection, which includes:
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John Casey to Joshua Casey, [Ferrisburgh], 1809.
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Charles Smith to Edward Casey, 1815.
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Beloved Mother to Beloved Friend and Respected Husband, Lanesborough, 1816.
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Alexander Ely to Eli Garlish, dated Pittsfield, 1816.
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Edward Casey to Mary Casey, New York, 1816.
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J. Bis[sup] to Edward Casey, Pittsfield, 1817.
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? to Edward Casey, Mr. [Stanneys], 1817.
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Gideon Norton to Edward & Mary Casey, Pittsfield, 1817.
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Lucy Norton to Edward & Mary Casey, Lanesborough, 1818.
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Sally Norton to Mary N. Casey, Lanesborough, 1819.
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Edward Casey to ? , Pittsfield, 1821.
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Remaining… Read More

57 letters, 87 pages, plus 10 manuscript receipts and promissory notes, two printed circulars, in generally very good, clean and legible condition, several letters with splits along folds, otherwise very good.An interesting correspondence pertaining to the life and career of Isaac D. Barnard of West Chester, Pennsylvania. The letters touch upon his service in the War of 1812, legal career, his terms in the State Senate of Pennsylvania and as a United States Senator. The issues and politics of the day are discussed both at the statewide level and nationally. Political factionalism and party politics are discussed, as are economic issues including the beginnings of the States identity as an industrial powerhouse, and the nuts and bolts details of politics, dealing with influence and job seekers. Barnard was an interesting and promising man whose career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of forty three.Isaac D. Barnard was born at Chester, 1791, died at West Chester, 1834. He studied law a… Read More

46 letters, 93 pages, dated 22 April 1838 to 15 Aug 1856. All of the letters are incoming written to William F. Sanborn, master brick mason, living at Lowell, Massachusetts. These folding stamp-less letters, are written in ink and in legible hands. The lot includes 15 letters by Lavinia L. Fiske, of Deerfield, NH, both before and after she married Sanborn. There are also 14 letters from Ann S. Fiske (1817-1883), later Ann S. Moulton after marrying Asa P. Moulton (1829-1901) of Deerfield and Meredith, (the sister of Lavinia L. Fiske), as well as 2 letters from Harriet Fiske, (another sister of Lavinia). Brothers of William F. Sanborn, Nathan (3) of Sanbornton, NH and David (3) of Boston, MA also write. The remaining letters appear to be other relatives, friends, or associates, writing from Deerfield, Nashua, and Sanbornton, New Hampshire.William F. Sanborn was born 9 Nov 1816, at Sanbornton, New Hampshire. He was the son of David Sanborn (1783-1847) and Sally "Sarah" Copp. The Sanborn family was the… Read More