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

octavo, 188 manuscript pages, several inlaid items, inscribed in ink in a notebook bound in ¼ cloth and marbled boards, label on front board of the Harvard Co-operative Society, neatly inscribed in ink, else very good. Contemporary ownership inscription by Markwick on front free endpaper.
Manuscript notes kept by a dedicated gardener, likely of upstate New York, with an extensive and highly varied flower garden, complete with hot beds and a conservatory. She notes among other things the date of the first appearance of each flower, notes on how they do, as well as the first appearance in the neighborhood of various types of migrating birds.

octavo, four pages, old folds, inscribed neatly in ink, lacking original mailing envelope, very good.

Letter from an unidentified, but concerned mother to her son, warning him to use caution around a young man with whom her son is friendly, the nature of her worries are not mentioned but can be discerned from the context of her letter:

“My dear Son, -
We rec’d your & your Aunt Hannah’s letter Sat P.M. – It was written the 11th, & appeared to be intended for that day’s mail, but the post mark was of the following day. … We were glad to hear of your pleasant excursion to Newport, and that you had arrived safe at Norton… If Marcus Delano comes to Norton to attend the Examination, as he told me he intended to, & comes to your grand mother’s to stay all night, or indeed to spend much time, I do not know what you will do – But if you see no other way to avoid sleeping with him, I wish you to take the… Read More

octavo, 69 page pamphlet, original printed wraps, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else a good copy.

[Saratoga] Baker & Record, Photographers, circa 1871, albumen photograph measuring 10 ¼ x 13 ¼ inches, on a printed mount measures approximately 14 ⅜ x 17⅜ inches. Printed mount is browned, some chipping along edges, else very good.
The photograph depicts the spring and the interior of the office of Geyser Spring, mounted on cardstock with printed text, describing the spring, discovered in 1870, and giving a brief account of its history, it reads:
"This Wonderful Mineral Fountain was discovered in February, 1870. It was developed by experimental drilling in the solid rock. It is located in the "Coeesa Valley," near Cady Hill, on the Ballston road, one and a half miles south of the principal hotels at Saratoga Springs. The water vein was struck by the drill in the birds-eye limestone, one hundred and fifty feet beneath the surface rock. The water immediately commenced spouting at the surface, being forced up from the depths of the earth by the pressure of its own carbonic acid gas, spouting… Read More

octavo, 59 pp., printed in double column format, lacks frontispiece portrait and wrappers, ex-library, bound in later plain gray cloth, red leather spine label, handstamp on title-page, shelf label on spine, else a good copy. McDade, Annals of Murder 1012
Udderzook and Goss conspired to collect the life insurance money after faking the death of Goss. Later Udderzook murdered Goss, was tried condemned and executed for the crime.

five letters, 18 pages, in very good, clean, legible condition.
Group of letters pertaining to Edward Wigglesworth (1840-1896), a dermatologist who founded the Boston Dispensary for Skin Diseases, headed the Department of Diseases of the Skin at Boston City Hospital, and taught at Harvard Medical School. He was the son of Edward Wigglesworth (1804-1876) who graduated from Harvard in 1822 and studied law at Judge Prescott's office. He helped Dr. Lieber in the publication of the Encyclopaedia Americana, 1829, and served as trustee and president of Massachusetts General Hospital, among other organizations. In 1835, he married Henrietta May Goddard, daughter of Nathaniel Goddard. Dr. Wigglesworth was a direct descendant of the Rev. Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705), Puritan Divine and the author of A Day of Doom
and Meat Out of the Earth.
Dr. Wigglesworth graduated Harvard 1861, M.D., 1865, studied dermatology in Europe, 1865-1870, m. Sarah (Willard) Frothingham, Apr. 4, 1882, the couple had three… Read More

Six letters, 20 pages, two letters retain their original mailing envelopes, in good, clean, and legible condition.
Six letters pertaining to the Coburn family, including three letters by Stephen Coburn to his sisters, two of which were written while he was a teacher on a plantation in Tarboro, North Carolina in 1840.
"Tarboro April 6, 1840
Dear Sister Elvira,
… I was very anxious to learn the result of the series of meetings which you were about to hold and what was the religious state of the Church and community. … But though there should be no more apparent fruit of the revival we ought not to think that God revives his people in ruin. We should believe that he makes the grace and zeal of his people the great instrument of converting the world and he knows whether it is best that the fruits of these should be slow and gradual or more sudden and apparent. Above all we ought to be thankful that thee exists in the church a spirit of Union and Christian love without which it cannot prosper and which… Read More

Three letters, 8 pages, in very good, clean, and legible condition.

1831-39 3 Letters of the Pennsylvania Porter family: From South Carolina Nullification to Murder by Chemistry.
In the second letter in this group, John Porter, then a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, writes his cousin, a Jacksonian Member of Congress, about the "necessity of caution" for "public men" who might "communicate" things said, "in confidence" that "they have reason to repent of afterwards". Unlike the Congressman, who spent 18 years in the House of Representatives, Porter held elective office for only two years and was never again tempted to enter the political arena. Content to spend his life as a small-town businessman, he was therefore not famous, but this letter is proof of his astute grasp of public affairs. Fame, instead, went to his son, Thomas, whose letter, written while a student at Lafayette College, indicates the passion for science which would later make him an eminent Botanist, expert on the flora… Read More

672 letters, 695 pages, mainly typescript, 5 telegrams, one small quarto notebook, circa 1914, 117 manuscript pages, 19 pages of typescript and manuscript notes, approximately 39 bills, receipts, invoices, and other ephemeral items. There is some damp staining and wear to letters in the earlier years, but the collection is in good legible condition.

The collection consists of incoming correspondence and retained carbon copies of outgoing correspondence pertaining to McMahon's writing career during the years 1914-1928. McMahon was a prolific writer for periodicals, particularly those of the Curtis Publishing Company, and others including Country Life. McMahon wrote many articles on gardening, agriculture, and suburban architecture for The Country Gentleman, a magazine published by the Curtis Company. McMahon published a book on the topic in 1917. McMahon was also involved in promoting the work of the National War Garden Commission, during World War 1, which promoted war gardens and food… Read More

The collection includes twenty-one letters, 115 pages, including sixteen letters from Abraham Paul Leech to his son, and five from friends of John Leech to him, with one pencil sketch and fifteen watercolors by Abraham Paul Leech, circa 1859-1870.
These letters were mainly written by Leech from his home in Jamaica, Long Island, New York, to his son, John while he and his mother were away during the summer months, in Connecticut and New Jersey. Leech relates the happenings and incidents that occurred in Jamaica during their absence.
Abraham Paul Leech is remembered as an early friend and correspondent of Walt Whitman. A group of 9 letters from Whitman to Leech and with drafts of Leech's letters to Whitman were discovered in 1985 and sold at Sotheby's in New York (May 22, 1985, item 385) and are currently held by the Library of Congress. These letters dated 1840-41 are the earliest surviving letters of Whitman. Leech was a bookkeeper and member of the Presbyterian Church who lived out his life in… Read More

8 letters, 17 pages, plus a later offprint by William R. Amberson. Incoming correspondence, plus one retained outgoing letter, both typescript and manuscript, several with hand drawn diagrams, in very good, clean and legible condition.

Collection of correspondence from various scientists presenting their arguments, and collaboration on research into various aspects of the analysis of action current curves, muscle heat and nerve heat, includes letters from: Ralph S. Lillie, Ralph W. Gerard, Philip Bard, Archibald V. Hill (Nobel Prize, 1922) and A. C. Downing, both typescript and manuscript, dated 1928-1931. Along with related material.
The correspondents include:
Ralph Stayner Little, biologist, was born August 8, 1875 in Toronto, Canada. He received i=his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1896, and briefly attended graduate courses at the University of Michigan before going on to obtain his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1901. From 1902 to 1924 he held posts as instructor… Read More

39 letters, 114 pages, in good, clean, and legible condition.
Collection consisting mainly of incoming correspondence from a variety of military officers from many different posts on military and personal business; including General David B. McKibbin, Major John B. Furay, Col. Robert Hall, Major Fred. D. Ogilby, William A. Bell, President of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, Nathan Myrick, fur trader and Sioux Agency Post trader, General John M. Wilson, Medal of Honor recipient, amongst many others.
Henry Goddard Thomas was born in Portland, Maine, on April 4, 1837. At the age of twenty-one he graduated from Amherst and then studied law and was admitted to the Maine bar. He enlisted in the 5th Maine as a private in April, 1861, and was commissioned captain in June. This command fought at the battle of First Manassas, after which, on August 5, 1861, Thomas accepted a commission as a captain in the newly authorized 11th U.S. Infantry. He was on recruiting duty until the summer of 1862… Read More

8 volumes, quarto, bound in original ¼ and ½ leather, and cloth covered boards, all volumes show rubbing and wear to edges, corners, spines, with one volume lacking spine, a couple of others having chipped spines. The diaries were kept in a legible hand and are written in ink. Each page of the diary is two days, with about ¾ of the days filled in. The amount of days where entries were filled in are as follows: 1908 - 233 entries; 1909 - 275 entries; 1910 - 293 entries; 1911 - 319 entries; 1912 - 291 entries; 1913 - 250 entries ; 1914 - 287 entries; 1915 - 285 entries, for a total of 2233 entries out of a possible 2922, or 76% of the diaries are completed.Most of the entries have to do with his legal profession, discussing such matters as court cases, divorces, deeds and mortgages, guardianships, slander, bankruptcies, marriage applications, estate settlements, etc. There are however numerous personal entries as well.
John W. McDowell was the son of James W. and Nancy J. (Rea) McDowell. He was born… Read More

4 letters, quarto, 7 pages, written on the letterhead of the Chicago Theological Seminary, of which Hammond was then treasurer, in very good, clean and legible condition.
Henry L. Hammond (1815-1893) was born in Smyrna, New York; graduated from Oberlin College in 1838, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1841. He came west to Michigan in 1842, organizing the First Congregational Church of Detroit, and was its pastor until 1850. He then served as pastor of the Congregational Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1850-1856, when he moved to Chicago to become editor of the Congregational Herald, a post he held until 1861. He preached in Princeton Illinois from 1861-1862. Hammond was an ardent abolitionist and was fearless in preaching against slavery. While preaching in Princeton he got up a petition which gained many signatures, sent to President Lincoln, urging him to use his war powers to free the slaves. His wife was the sister of Owen Lovejoy, Illinois abolitionist, congressman and… Read More

94 letters, 219 manuscript pages, (with 52 retained mailing envelopes), plus 3 telegrams and 1 receipt, all dated from 1882 to 1893, as follows: 41 letters, 60 pages, (with 10 mailing envelopes), written by Charles Emerson Benton to his son Everett, plus 3 telegrams, and 1 receipt, all dated 1882-1888, all of the letters are posted from Guildhall, Vermont, to Everett in Boston, or Waverly, Massachusetts. One of the letters by Charles is actually a copy written to his nephew, J. H. Benton, Esq. 13 letters, 33 pages (with 10 mailing envelopes), written by Adda Chamberlin Benton to her son Everett, dated 1884-1893, these letters are posted from Guildhall, Vermont to Everett either in Boston, or Waverly, Massachusetts. 40 letters, 126 pages (with 32 mailing envelopes), written by Jay Bayard Benton to his brother Everett, dated between the years 1882-1889, Jay Bayard Benton writes from Guildhall, Vermont and from Northumberland, New Hampshire. The later correspondence to his brother Everett was sent from… Read More

The collection contains 254 photographs, mainly cyanotypes, housed in five identical contemporary oblong octavo, photograph albums, bound in ¾ pebbled red and brown cloth, images mounted on card stock leaves, some wear and rubbing to binding, several shaken, some leaves loose, else very good.
The family is unidentified, and the locations of most of the photographs are not identified either, however, it appears that the family lived in Rhode Island as there are images of North Kingston, Providence, and Newport, among other coastal locations, as well as Boston and nearby towns in Massachusetts. The family also traveled to Danville, Vermont, and Montclair, New Jersey, and there are images from both locales.
There are both exterior and interior views of their "shingle style" home. One of the family members appears to have been a member of the Rhode Island National Guard, as there are images of him in uniform and at various firing ranges in Rhode Island. There are images of coastal towns and villages,… Read More

49 letters, 83 manuscript pages, 12 postcards, correspondence mainly written in ink, in very good, clean, and legible condition, many letters written on Howard University letterhead.

George H. Safford was the seventh secretary and treasurer of Howard University in Washington, D.C., serving from January 19, 1899, to September 21, 1909. Safford, like Howard's president at the time, Rev. Jeremiah Eames Rankin (1828-1904), the institution's sixth, was white. (Rankin served from 1890-1903). Safford, like Rankin, also appears to have been a New Hampshire native.
Safford prior to his appointment at Howard worked for G. Peterson & Co., the contractors who built the Washington reservoir in the 1880's and as Second Assistant Postmaster General in the 1890's. After his service at Howard, Safford worked in the Department of Agriculture in Washington.
The correspondence generally concerns family and domestic affairs and only occasionally touches upon his work at Howard.

13 letters, 17 pp., dated 12 October 1893 to 26 January 1916; plus 43 pieces of related ephemera and 1 photograph; two of the letters undated; one letter badly chipped, lacks lower portion, affecting text; ephemera consists mostly of tax receipts, cancelled checks, newspaper clippings, etc. The letters concern McGary and his family.
Daniel Leonidas McGary (1833-1902)
Daniel Leonidas McGary was born 28 January 1833 at Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky. He died on 22 April 1902 at Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas. His ancestors were among the pioneers of Kentucky. His great grandfather, Hugh McGary, accompanied Daniel Boone to the "dark and bloody ground" and took the first Bibles into that section. The parents of Daniel L McGary died when he was very young, and when old enough he was sent to St Louis and placed in the commercial house of relatives, where he clerked by day and studied law by night. After finishing his law studies, he removed to Nebraska Territory, and on 10 May 1855, was… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. 20 letters, 59 pages, several letters illustrated with sketches, letters dated 1922-1941, the bulk from 1923-1924, with 9 pencil and pen sketches, 17 printed and manuscript ephemeral items, including: exhibition lists, catalogs and price lists, Christmas cards designed and printed by the artist, the ephemera dates from 1912-1941, with nine snapshot photographs, plus accompanying negatives. Collection of love letters from Albert Sterner, an academically trained artist, painter, draughtsman and print-maker, who as an older married man, at the age of 60, seems to have fallen hard for the younger Flora Temple Lash. Sterner divorced his first wife and later married Flora. The letters discuss Sterner's artistic life and his relationship with Flora. [March 14, 1923] New York, to Flora Temple Lash, Philadelphia "Darling! If ever in my life I did what I longed not to do it was then when the door closed last night and I left you. I crossed the wet… Read More

A collection of manuscript letters dated 1846-1888, in French, from the family of Paul Arpin, identified as the "oldest French journalist" in the United States, and his brother-in-law Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont.

Paul Arpin1 (b. France 1811 – died New York, 1865), was editor of the New Orleans Bee, and later in charge of the New York Courier Des Etats Unis. He married Caroline Boyer in New Orleans. The family was well-connected in France, with social links to the artist Hippolyte (Paul) Delaroche and others. He wrote largely for the "American Cyclopedia" contributing biographical notices on eminent Frenchmen.
There does not seem to be an Institution recording any of Paul Arpin's letters or papers in their holdings per OCLC.

Henriquel (1797-1892) was a prominent painter-engraver in Paris throughout much of the 19th century, and awarded the title of Commander of the French Legion of Honor, continued productive work until near the end of his life.
The collection is… Read More