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

Pennsylvania, California and Japan, 1968. Unbound. Very good. This collection of 20 b/w and color photographs ranges in size from 4.25" x 3" to 9" x 7.5". 11 snapshots picture the dealer and his wife interacting with their hosts in Japan. One large b/w image shows all of the U.S. dealers who were attending the event posing before a Japanese Air Lines airplane at Los Angeles and holding a large sign that reads, "JAL Welcomes Toyota Jet Away to Japan Oct. 23, 1968". One mid-size b/w image shows all of the U.S. dealers posing in a reception room in Japan. It is captioned "Compliments of Japan Travel Bureau in Kyoto 1968". One large color image, dated "1968. 10. 29" shows the group posing in front of Toyota's headquarters building. Five of the large images show Toyota facilities in Japan Four have separate caption slips; one caption slip is missing: "Cylinder blocks machining line in Kamigo Engine Plant," "Assembly line of Corona Mark II at Motomachi Plant," "High Speed Test Track on the… Read More

This stampless folded letter has no rate marking but bears a rather scarce New York City "clamshell" postmark dated "OCT/11". There is a stain at the top center of the letter, however, the address and text are quite legible. A small piece of the letter is missing, no doubt it was torn when Governor Greene hurriedly broke the wax seal to receive this update on his daughter's health.The letter reads
"I am sorry to write you that Mrs Ward lays sick with a nervous fever which is now in the 10th day - it is natural that I should be apprehensive for her safety. Our Doctors think the Symptoms yesterday and this day more favorable than when I wrote you on the 9th. / Your ever obedient Son / S Ward / 11 Octor 1802."
While serving with distinction as an officer during the American Revolution, Samuel Ward, Jr., the son of a former colonial governor of Rhode Island (Samuel Ward), married Phebe Greene, the daughter of the second state governor of Rhode Island (William Greene). After the war, Samuel and Phebe… Read More

Nuremberg, Germany: Anton Koberger, 1493. Disbound. Very good. The Nuremberg Chronicle was the most important of the 15th century universal histories and the most extensively illustrated book of its time. Its narrative begins with the creation and runs until the 1490s. It was written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, a physician and humanist, on commission by two Nuremberg merchants. This Latin edition was printed in Nuremberg in 1493 by Anton Koberger. The leaf (12" x 16½"), Folio CXIX, contains seven woodcuts by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwulf and their apprentices including Albrecht Durer. The woodcuts on this leaf include Maximinus, Gordianus, Philp the father, Philipp the son, Decius, Pontion the martyr, and the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. It also includes a long list of martyrs who suffered horrible deaths. . THIS LEAF WILL BE SHIPPED SAFELY ROLLED IN A MAILING TUBE..

Peking (Beijing), China, 1910. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This three-page letter is written on illustrated Chinese stationery (each leaf has a different illustration) measuring 5" x 9". It was sent on 29 May 1910 by a young woman in Peking, Debra or Delia Seavens, to her Uncle Wilson Smith in Montclair, New Jersey. It is enclosed in a "red-band" envelope that is franked with a 10-cent dragon stamp (Scott #129) and bears two Peking postmarks. A Peking transit mark is on the reverse along with an indistinct U.S. receiving mark. The letter was routed "Via Siberia" as indicated on the front of the envelope. A typed onion-skin enclosure is included. In nice shape. Transcript will be included. Ms. Seavens was serving within Peking as she references travelling out of the city with a female associate. Although the letter doesn't indicate the mission's name, it was likely associated with the Anglican Society to Propagate the Gospel as at the time, it had the most prominent presence in the city.… Read More

Washington DC: U.S. Senate, 1852. Stabbed binding. Very good. 32nd Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Miscellaneous No. 73: April 26, 1852. Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin praying A grant of land to aid the improvement of the Wisconsin river between Fort Winnebago and the Beaulieux Rapids.
Approximately 6.5" x 9". Two pages of text, seven full page maps with blank backs, and one chart with blank back. Never bound; connected with the original string through a single stab hole. Minor edgewear with dampstain at the upper corner of several leaves; otherwise in nice shape. The stabbed binding made it impossible to scan all of the maps without causing damage.
The pamphlet "showeth that the improvement of the Wisconsin river above Fort Winnegago, so as to facilitate the passage of lumber, rafts, and flat boats, is a matter of very great importance, and that such a work would tend to enhance the value of the lumbering, agricultural and iron interests of the country washed by the Wisconsin river and… Read More

Washington DC: U. S. Senate, 1892. Disbound. Very good. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in response to a resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant, transmitting a communication of the port physician of Philadelphia relative to the danger from the introduction of cholera through immigration. 52nd Congress, 2nd Session, U.S. Senate Executive Document #13. Washington, DC: 1892. Complete and in nice shape In this 10-page pamphlet which has been removed from a bound volume, E. O. Shakespeare, the Philadelphia Port Physician described the Cholera risk posed by steerage passengers arriving from Europe and argues against removing immigration restrictions. He specifically noted: "It is true that official declarations now indicate that cholera is no longer widely epidemic in Germany, Holland, or Belgium . . . the disease still lingers in those countries, and I wish to warn you that such official declarations rarely. . . represent the real truth. . .. Cholera exists to-day in southwestern… Read More

Shanghai, China, 1854. Unbound. Very good. This two-page stampless folded letter between merchants measures approximately 16" x 10" unfolded. It was sent from Smith, King & Company in Shanghai to Dane, Danet & Company in Boston. It is datelined "Shanghai / 11th April 1854" and bears a bold "24" rate marking along with a London District postmark on its front evidencing its transport from Shanghai to London via the ship Marseilles. Subsequently it was sent to Boston via the ship Atlantic; a London forwarding agent handstamp and Boston receiving postmark are on the reverse. In nice shape. A transcript will be provided. In this letter the Smith, King & Co. agent relates the excitement that had occurred in Shanghai's recently established foreign business community as the Taiping Rebellion was rollicking China. "Our community has been in considerable excitement. The Imperial soldiers in the rear of the foreign residences made several attacks upon parties of gentlemen who were out walking & some of… Read More

"In years to come . . . recall to your mind this place and the Indian massacre, the white men you saw brought into town kild and scalped as they was mining, not one half mile out of town."
Atlantic Gulch, Wyoming, 1872.
This manuscript letter measures 5"x8". It is in nice shape and was laid-down years ago on a marbled bookboard. There is no mailing envelope since it was given in person by a father to his ten-year-old son along with "½ gr of native gold taken out with his assistance at the mouth of Atlantic Gulch by my own hand." A transcript will be provided.
The letter reads in part
To be kept as a memento of your Three years' residence in this camp. In years to come it will recall to your mind this place and the Indian Massacres, the white men you saw brought into town kild and scalped as they was mining, not one half a mile out of Town. The long cold winter of 1872 with cabbin buried in snow the mercury 40 below zero, part of this gold you took out with your own hand a few days after your tenth… Read More

Sheffield, England, 1875. Unbound. Very good. This illustrated partially-printed invoice on thin paper measures approximately 10" x 15.5" unfolded. It was prepared by William Jessop & Sons, Steel Manufactures of Sheffield, England for crucible steel sold to J. C. Hand & Company in Philadelphia. The document is dated February 7, 1875. It is annotated in black and red ink in a hand different from the drafter. A partially-printed two-page import certificate measuring about 5.5" x 9" is attached. It is signed by C. B. Webster, the United States Consul at Sheffield. This certificate bears a red wax/paper seal attached to a short green cord. Both documents are attached to a plain green trifold file cover sheet that reads in part: "Mch 15 75 / J C Hand & Co / Str 'Kennelworth' / from Lpool. . .." In nice shape with a little wear. There is an old tape repair to the reverse of the green cover. The invoice billhead contains three illustrations: One shows a factory titled "Park|Works / Sheffield" A… Read More

[Washington, DC}: [Congressional Globe], 1888. Very good. Restriction of Chinese Immigration. Speech of Hon. Wm. M. Stewart, of Nevada, in the Senate of the United States, August 7, 1888. Presumably published in Washington, DC at the Congressional Globe Office. Complete; stapled binding. This 20-page speech provides one of the best concise histories of Chinese immigration into California which began with the Gold Rush when they "engaged in mining the ravines and gulches which had previously worked over by the whites . . . and very little attention was paid to them. . .. They were not regarded by the people . . . as an evil." That, however, does not mean they were seen as the equals of white settlers. In fact, "Many leading Democrats . . . in the early days in California saw the Chinese as a good substitute for slaves and advocated their importation by the State to be used for reclamation of the swamp lands . . . and production of rice. . .." With time, miners began to resent the ever-growing… Read More

"You may expect to see me branded as a coward and a traitor, although I went out of the door when some of the above went out the windows. . .."
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1838. Envelope or Cover.
This stampless folded letter, which was sent by John Strohm to a relative in Ohio, measures 15½" x 9¾". It is datelined "Harrisburg Dec 22nd 1838"." It bears a circular Harrisburg, Pennsylvania postmark, a paid handstamp, and a manuscript 25 rate mark. In nice shape. A transcript will be provided.
In it, Strohm described some of the events that occurred after both the Whigs and Democrats presented differing ballot tallies certified by partisan judges that would decide the control of the state's House of Representatives. The Whigs already controlled the Governorship and the Senate, so a victory in the House would have given them complete control of the state. Tempers ran hot, and violence appeared imminent.
"Tis true, we are no longer molested with lawless intruders, nor in danger of personal violence, but we… Read More