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Envelope or Cover. Very good. This stampless letter measures 15½" x 9¾". It was sent by A. M. Fannin and M P Allen to their relatives, care of "Miss L. A. Fannin / Madison / Ga." It bears a faint circular red "Augusta & Atlanta R.R." station agent postmark and a manuscript "5" rate mark. In this letter Fannin and Allen express their concerns about a Scarlet Fever epidemic that has struck their family and its enslaved workers at Madison. "All said all the negroes have had the sarlet fever Sis was so uneasy was the reason why we did not write is it so All had a very sore throat and high fever Ms Allen gave him Dr. Simmon's fever medicine he has quite recovered. . .. you must not expect us down till you all get well I would not have the boy exposed to the scarlot fever. . .. Mrs Chercer is quite sick, Mrs Tom Gibbs is in very poor health unable to leave the house. [the] little girl has gone entirely blind. . .." . Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, Scarlet Fever, was a mostly benign… Read More

New York, 1868. Unbound. Very good. This certificate for ten shares of stock in the Merchants Union Express Company, measuring approximately 11½" x 8¾", was issued to Ketchum Clark of New York on October 16, 1868. It is signed by ''J.N. Knapp'' as Secretary and ''A. P. Ross'' as President. It features a classic central vignette showing an express wagon full of freight being pulled by four racing horses with freight train, ship, and factory in the background. It is franked with a pen-canceled 25-cent Washington revenue stamp (Scott #R44). In nice shape with some wear at the corners. The American Express Company was formed in 1850 with the consolidation of three companies that transported goods, valuables, and specie between New York City, Buffalo, and cities in the Midwest: the Livingston Fargo and Company, Wells & Company, and Butterfield & Watson. Wells served as president and Fargo as secretary. By the end of the Civil War, although American Express had prospered and grown to 900 offices in… Read More

Eagleswood, New Jersey, 1856. Envelope or Cover. Very good. Abby Kelley was a major figure in the national anti-slavery and women's suffrage movements despite a split with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton over the 15th Amendment. As a principal leader of the ultra-radical abolitionists, perhaps second only to William Lloyd Garrison, she traveled throughout the country for over twenty years, often with her equally radical husband, Stephen Symonds Foster, demanding not only immediate emancipation for all slaves, but full civil equality for blacks. After the Panic of 1837, Kelley became the corresponding secretary of the Lynn Anti-Slavery Society, and served as a national delegate to the first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women. To the disgust of more moderate abolitionists, she began giving speeches to "mixed-gender" audiences, something that simply wasn't done by women of her time, and in 1843, Kelley addressed the attendees at the Liberty Party [an anti-slavery party whose… Read More

Ta-ku, China, 1901. This archive from Admiral Kempff's personal files consists of five densely packed, typed "Bulletins" and letters detailing the U.S. Navy's participation in the conflict including its ground fighting at Ta-Ku which he personally directed. Over twelve pages of typed text. The documents contain some details not included in the official history of the action, The Boxer Rebellion: Bluejackets and Marines in China: 1900-1901, published by the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. In the spring of 1900, Admiral Kemph commanded the U.S. naval squadron that was ordered to China waters to support allied land forces in their attempt to relieve the international legations at Peking (today Beijing). During that time, he directed American ground actions in and around Ta-Ku at the mouth of the Pai (today Pei-ho) River. In response to a request from British Admiral Sir Edward Seymour that relayed a request from the foreign legations at Peking, Kempff ordered Bowman H. McCalla, the Captain of… Read More

Canton, China, 1923. Envelope or Cover. Very good. Christian missions in China, despite their nearly non-existent success, faced periodic attacks almost since the first one was established in the mid-1800s and certainly since the Yangzhou Riot of 1867. The attacks reached a crescendo during the Boxer Rebellion when at least 189 Protestant missionaries and 500 native Chinese Protestant Christian were known to have been slaughtered in 1900 alone. However, after the Boxers were defeated, the "Golden Era" era of Chinese missions began almost immediately, and by 1920 over 8,000 missionaries were proselytizing throughout the country. However, an anti-tradition, anti-religion movement, known as New Thought, took hold amongst Chinese students and the intelligentsia toward the end of the first decade of the 20th century. Around 1920, this began to spread to the general population, and by 1922 a full-blown Anti-Christian Movement had developed among the non-Christian general Chinese population. It was during… Read More

Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. Very good. This leaf (VIII.CIX-VIII.CX) measures approximately 8.25" x 12.5" and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d'Ambroise . . . Des Venins. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The upper right corner of the leaf is missing, but there is no loss to the text or images. It contains an illustration which the text (in a rough summarized translation of Paré's French) describes as a Camphur, a fish-eating beast that lives on both land and water with a three and a half foot long horn on its forehead, rear feet like a goose, and front feet like a stag. Many have persuaded themselves that the horn should be an antidote against poisons. Paré, the French royal surgeon for many years, was the preeminent surgeon of his time and is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology as well as a pioneer of surgical techniques, battlefield medicine, and prosthetic design. He additionally had a scholarly interest in… Read More

Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. Very good. This leaf (M.CLXXVI-M.CLXXVII) measures approximately 8.25" x 12.5" and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d'Ambroise . . . Des Distillations. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The image on this leaf shows (roughly translated from Paré's French) a group of men stripping and transporting the inner bark of cinnamon trees. Paré, the French royal surgeon for many years, was the preeminent surgeon of his time and is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology as well as a pioneer of surgical techniques, battlefield medicine, and prosthetic design. He additionally had a scholarly interest in natural history, especially reports of "miraculous" or "monstrous" creatures and malformed births.

Paris, France: Gailot Du Pre and Michel le Noir, 1518. Disbound. Very good. La Mer des Histoires et Chroniques de France takes its title from Mare historiarum

Includes many photographs of the national All-American Soap Box Derby finals at Akron, Ohio
Lancaster and Akron Ohio, 1969-1970.
This archive contains approximately 140 photographs ranging in size from 2.25" x 2.75" to 8" x 10". Most are b/w (about 30) and color (about 110) 3.5" square or 3.5" x 5" snapshots.
The others are b/w and include official "photo finish" shots and professional publicity photos.
Also included is a letter with a xerographic image of another racer and his car. All are in nice shape; about a half dozen of the snapshots have faded a little, and a similar number are blurred. A few of the images have notations in the margins or on their reverse. A few also have insignificant paper remnants on their reverse, presumably from a scrapbook.
These photographs capture David's and his family's involvement in the competition process, various cars, travel, race starts and finishes, cars speeding down derby hills, spectators at local events and packing the grandstands at Derby Downs, celebrity… Read More

Strasbourg: Johann Pruss, 1499. Disbound. Very good. The Hortus Sanitatis, written by an unknown author, was first published in 1491. It describes species in the natural world along with their medicinal uses and modes of preparation. It followed the Latin Herbarius moguntinus (1484) and the German Gart der Gesundheit (1485). Unlike these earlier works, in addition to a thorough discussion of plants, it also includes four more sections describing animals, birds, fish, and stones. Moreover, the author did not restrict himself to dealing only with real creatures, but also includes accounts of mythical animals. This leaf (approximately 8" x 11½") contains Capitulum cii-cvi (Chapter 102-106) from the section title Des Piscibus (Of the Fishes). It is from the 1499 edition published in Strasbourg by Johann Pruss.

Cincinnati: Caleb Clark Book & Job Printer, 1865. Wraps. Very good. Complete 24-page pamphlet. Sound binding. Removed from a sammelband so a little rough along the left edge. Minor soiling to the cover, otherwise in nice shape. In 1780, before Kentucky was a state, the Virginia Assembly (perhaps prodded by Governor Thomas Jefferson) chartered Transylvania Seminary, then affiliated with the Episcopal Church, as the first college west of the Allegheny Mountains. It began in a log cabin in Boyle County and moved to Lexington in 1789. Ten years later, it changed its name to Transylvania University. By 1818, it included a medical school, a law school, a divinity school, and a college of arts and sciences. About the same time, Bacon College of Georgetown was established and it soon changed its name to Kentucky University. At the end of the Civil War, both Kentucky University and Transylvania University were in dire financial straits, and the state legislature approved a merger in hopes of solving… Read More