Search Results: Titles starting with W from Globus Rare Books & Archives

Three Octavo letters (ca. 26x20,5 cm or slightly smaller); the two remaining letters are ca. 22x20,5 cm (8 ¾ x 8 in) and 14x20,5 cm (5 ½ x 8 in). In all 5,5 pp. of text. Three manuscript letters: brown ink on lined paper; one leaf watermarked; two leaves with blind-stamped papermaker’s monograms in the left upper corners. Two typewritten letters: blue text on yellow wove paper; signed in blue ink; printed letterheads of the “Pacific Coast Steamship Company.” All letters docketed in period ink on verso. Foldmarks, the letter from Loring with the ink on several words slightly smeared but still readable. Overall a very good collection.Interesting collection of original business letters illustrating the trade in deer and hair seal skins between Alaskan pioneers and “Wadhams & Co.” in Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco in… Read More

Quarto (ca. 27,5x21 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper, West’s printed letterhead on top. Ink stamp of “James O. Aplan Library Collection” on verso. Fold marks, but overall a very good letter.Rare original Wild West letter, giving an insight into the 1878 trial of notorious Deadwood gambler and stagecoach robber Samuel S. Hartman, or “Laughing Sam.” The letter was written by Laughing Sam’s attorney Isaac E. West and addressed to “My dear Sheriff” – most likely, to the sheriff of Pennington County Frank P. Moulton (1845-1922), who based in Rapid City where Laughing Sam was being detained.Laughing Sam, “a hard case <…> widely known in the [Black Hills]” (Three Omaha Men, while on their Way Home from Deadwood, Corraled and Robbed by Three Road Agents// St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 27… Read More

Oblong Folio album (ca. 23x39 cm). 25 card stock leaves with tissue guards. With 100 original gelatin silver photos each ca. 8,5x11,5 cm, (3 ¼ x 4 ¾ in). With two period postcards mounted on verso of the front cover (a real photo postcard and a printed postcard, each ca. 8,5x13,5 cm or 3 ½ x 5 ½ in). All photos with period manuscript white ink captions in English. Period manuscript white ink presentation inscription on verso of the front cover: “Presented with Compliments by The Iranian State Railways to Lt. Col. G. E. Wheeler.” Period hardcover album with a sheep spine, fastened with a string; both covers with painted Persian miniatures and designs. Binding rubbed on extremities, corners slightly bumped, the right lower corner of the front board with a crack, the front leaf without a tissue guard, but overall a very good… Read More

Small Octavo bifolium (ca. 19x12 cm). 1 p. Brown ink on blueish lined paper. Addressed to “B.” on verso of the second leaf. Fold marks, otherwise a very good letter written in a legible hand.Historically interesting letter, written by Jasper S. Whiting, surveyor of the lower California and the Mexican state of Sonora, who contributed to Lieut. Ives’ exploratory expedition up the Colorado River in 1857-1858. Whiting was “the second in command to Captain Stone upon the survey of Sonora. Mr. Whiting is to start with a small party and survey the coast as far as Guaymas, where he is to be joined by Captain Stone and the remainder of his expedition” (Report upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives <…> By Order of the Secretary of War. Washington: Government Printing Press,… Read More

Two albums with a total of 199 gelatin silver photographs including one panorama ca. 7 x 18.5 cm (2 ¾ x 7 ¼ in.), twenty photographs between ca. 14 x 9 cm (5 ½ x 3 ½ in.) and ca. 12 x 16.5 cm (5 ¾ x 6 ½ in), and the rest ca. 8 x 11 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¼ in.) and smaller, loosely mounted in windows or on leaves, the majority with period blue ink manuscript captions on the leaves. Also included is one drawing in period black ink ca. 13 x 20 cm (5 x 8 in.) titled "Repairing Land Lines, Long Beach Ascension. " One oblong quarto album ca. 25 x 29.5 cm (9 ¾ x 11 ½ in.) with 52 white album leaves. Period manuscript blue ink label on endpaper: “H. M. Island of Ascension 1910-1913.” Includes a newspaper clipping ca. 4.5 x 8.5 cm (1 ¾ x 3 ¼ in.) titled “Gold… Read More

Quarto bifolium ca. 24,6x20.2 cm (9 ½ х 7 ¾ in). 3 pp. Brown ink on yellowish wove paper. Blind-stamped papermaker’s monogram in the left upper corner of the first page. Addressed, stamped, and sealed on verso of the last leaf. Fold marks, slightly age-toned, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.A historically important original autograph manuscript letter written by Corp. B. Wingate the very same day the siege of Veracruz ended with Mexico’s surrender, triumphantly writing to his folks back home in Indiana about “one of the greatest battles ever won by American arms,” talking about Mexican soldiers flocking to General Zachary Taylor, the next US President, and “beging [i.e. begging] for something to eat,” fiercely stating that the city of Mexico “must hear the barking of our buldogs [i.e.… Read More

Quarto (ca. 25x20 cm or 10x8 in). 1 p. Black ink on lined laid paper with the printed letterhead of the “Office of the District Attorney of Lassen County, State of California, James Branham, District Attorney.” Foldmarks, a minor tear on the centrefold, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.A historically interesting original autograph manuscript letter by one of the earliest Masons in California and the founder of Lassen Commandery No. 13 of the Knights Templar at Susanville, Gen. Allen Wood (Ca. 1812-1890), informing a Sir Knight from Plumas County and a pioneer California lawyer about the “cold blooded affair” of one of the first murders investigated in Lassen County, mentioning “a considerable feeling” among the inhabitants about the prisoner’s expected arrival in Susanville, and discussing the… Read More