AN UNRECORDED LETTRE MISSIVE FROM FRANCIS I Saint-Prix (“Sainct Prys”): 20 October 1540. Pot folium (12”[1] x 8 ¼”, 305mm x 209mm). With a header, sixteen lines of text, a signature and a countersignature. Directed verso in five lines. Watermarked with a handled pot with two lines of text.....
Oil on paper, mounted to board. Circa 1860. Oval: 11 3/4” x 10 ¼”, 297mm x 264mm. Captioned at lower-center in paint: “Schim-a-co che/ High-Lance/ Crow” with the final line expanded in ink to “A [Crow] Indian”. Numbered “108” in graphite at lower-left. A signed conservator’s photograph mounted to a......
Valladolid, 1586. Folio (12 1/8” x 8 13/16”, 308mm x 223mm): 48 leaves, pp. [96] (blank, illumination, 89pp. carta executoria, 3pp. notaries’ marks, 2pp. blank). With one full-page body color and liquid gold illumination and 12 body color and liquid gold headlines. Bound in contemporary brown morocco with blind rolled.....
Portsmouth: 1902. Folio (12 1/2” x 8 ¼”, 315mm x 210mm): 91 leaves, pp. [176] (1 pp. obscured by title-page, 175 pp. log of the H.M.S. Glory) [6] (6pp. blank). With a pictorial title-page and 68 finely drawn ink and watercolor maps, track charts, and illustrations of the ship's mechanical.....
AN 1830’S ALBUM OF PACIFIC SKETCHES, WITH THE EARLIEST DETAILED VIEW OF HONOLULU Ca. 1837–1840. Oblong quarto (9 3/16” x 11 5/8”, 234mm x 295mm). 28 leaves, of which 6 are blank. With a pen-and-ink sketch torn and mounted to the front paste-down and one to the rear paste-down, a......
Ca. 1903–1904. Oblong folio (9 7/16” x 13 5/16”, 239mm x 337mm). With 152 gelatin-silver photographs of Lhasa and Tibet, tipped-in with corner mounts to a modern photograph album, mostly 4 to a page (each approximately 3 x 4 in.), numbered in the negative, and captioned in a modern hand.....
GEORGE BELLOWS ILLUSTRATES H.G. WELLS Breakfast is ServedConté crayon on card.Sheet: 26 5/16” x 20 ⅝”, 669mm x 526mm; ruled: 554mm x 449mm.Signed “Geo Bellows” at lower left (within the image).Titled as above and numbered (“-7-”) in graphite (below the image).1922. Mr. Barnstaple AwakesConté crayon on card.Sheet: 29 ⅛” x 22 ¼”.....
Ca. 1888–1894. Folio (13 5/8” x 8 3/8”, 346mm x 212mm): 144 leaves, mechanically numbered 1-288 (written to p. 203, with graphite captions to p. 207) in blue ink to the upper fore-corner of each page; pp. 1-30 tabbed and mechanically lettered A-Z (no X) in blue ink. With 4.....
THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MAP PROPOSING THE BALTIMORE AND PORT DEPOSIT RAILROAD [Hazlehurst, Henry Richard]. Map of the proposed Rail Road to Port Deposite [sic]. Graphite and red and black ink on three sheets joined. “Scale. – 1 Inch to the Mile” WITH Hazlehurst, Henry Richard. Map and Profile.....
[Manuscript Book of Hours – Use of Rome.] Officium Beate Marie Virginis secundum Romanã Curiam. [Barcelona, ca. 1490.] Octavo (6” x 4 5/16”, 153mm x 110mm): 4 binder’s blanks (paper), 1 vellum blank, foll. 1-96 97 (blank) 98-113 114 (lineated only) 115-153 154-155 (both lineated only) 156-159 160 (blank) 161-215.....
MANUSCRIPT MAP OF NEAH BAY, OPPOSITE VANCOUVER ISLAND Scarborough, James Allen, Captain. Neah Bay (manuscript map). Ca. 1838–1848. Scale: 1:2400. Graphite and ink and wash on wove paper (11 ¾” x 19 7/8”, 299mm x 505mm. Sometime folded in four (with additional creases, perhaps from rolling), with three losses.....
LOCKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT’S HAIR, SENT TO A LADY BY CAPT. BASIL HALL Slough, 23 March 1832. Single sheet (half a sheet of cut writing-paper: 7 3/16” x 4 ½”, 183mm x 114mm) mounted to heavier stock. With a small (ca. 8mm) patch of red wax affixing a dozen.....
de’ Medici, Marie. Letter signed. Fontainebleau: 26[1] May 1608. Single sheet (8 1/2” x 7 5/16”, 216mm x 186mm). Secretary hand, 11 lines, signed “Marie”. Two transverse folds and a vertical fold. Deckled on the upper and right-hand edges. Some soiling at the edges and a few abrasions or spots.....
“Office U.S. Boundary Commission/ Washington Decr 20. 1856” Single sheet of blue-lined writing paper (9 5/8” x 7 ¾”, 245mm x 197mm). Blind-stamped at upper left “PLATNER & PORTER/ CONGRESS” surrounding a depiction of the Capitol, within an octagonal frame. Sometime folded in thirds. Hole-punched at upper left just below.....
THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF LEGRAND’S UNFINISHED TREATISE ON THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ANCIENT GREECE Legrand, Jacques Guillaume. Galerie antique. Monumens de la grèce ou collection des chefs-dœuvre d’architecture, de sculpture et de peinture antique. Gravés d’après les meilleurs auteurs, comparés entre eux et accomagnés d’un texte historique, analytique & descriptif.....
A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATIONFROM THE FIRST U.S. NAVAL MEDICAL HERO Providence, 28 June 1839. Single sheet of writing paper (folded: 9 15/16” x 7 13/16”, 252mm x 198mm). Blind-stamped at the upper left. Written on the recto of the first folium, directed on the verso of the second folium.....
PRESENTATION COPY TO MARIE-LOUISE, EMPRESS OF FRANCE & DUCHESS OF PARMA [Milan: ca. 1826.] Oblong folio (15 7/16” x 18 7/16”, 392mm x 469mm). With a calligraphic ink manuscript title-page; graphite, ink and water-color dedication to Maria Luisa, heightened in gold; a calligraphic ink manuscript dedication to Maria Luisa;.....
Suungaaciq, Alaska; 14(?) May 1778. Single sheet, mounted (8” x 4.5”, 202mm x 115mm). Graphite, chalk and ink on paper. Near fine, with a little soiling. Mount marked “46” at lower left and “Natives of” [Prince Williams Sound] at lower right. Presented in a blue morocco clam-shell box.John Webber (1751–1793).....
Autograph letter to Gen[era]l T[ravis] G[reene] Broocks, signed. Marshall: March 17th 1857. Single leaf (9 11/16” x 8”, 246mm x 203mm). Verso blank. In 12 compartments from 3 folds, flattened. Faintest tanning to the edges. Ink offsetting to the verso. 20mm blind-stamp (partially worn) to the upper-left corner.James Pinckney Henderson.....
PASTORIUS RELIEVED OF HIS DUTIES AT GERMANTOWN [Frankfurter Landgesellschaft.] Manuscript letter of attorney transferring agency of the Frankfurt Land Company from Francis Daniel Pastorius to Daniel Falkner, Johannes Kelpius and Johannes Jawert. Frankfurt-am-Main: 24 January 1700. Pot bifolium (13 5/16” x 16 9/16”, 338mm x 421mm; ): ink manuscript.....
Ca. 1596–1598. Gouache, gilt and silver gilt on vellum (sheet: 20 ¾” x 14 7/8”, 526mm x 383mm; frame: 26” x 21”). With some flaking and craquelure of the pigment. Vellum a little cockled, as usual. Framed floating in UVIII plexiglass recto and verso.Charles III de Croÿ (1560–1612), 4th Duke.....
AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY TO PROFESSOR THOMAS GAISFORD WITH THE ACCOMPANYING ALS TIPPED IN London: John Murray, 1836. First edition. Octavo (8 11/16” x 5 5/8”, 221mm x 143mm): π2 2π4 A-S8 (S8 blank), 2A4 χ2 [$2 signed]. 156 leaves, pp. [2] (half-title, blank) i-v vi-vii [2] (directions for the plates, contents).....
Eleven maps of Maryland: nine manuscript and two lithographed. 1833-1837. Manuscript map of Washington and Frederick Counties. Single sheet (19 ½” x 27 ¼”), laid down on linen. Ink and wash. Manuscript map of the District of Columbia and Anne Arundel, Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties. Single sheet (19.....
Manuscript map at a scale of 2 miles to 1 inch. [Philadelphia, ca. 1778]. Twelve sheets joined (outer borders: 51 3/8” x 53 1/8”, 1305mm x 1350mm). Black and sanguine ink, hand-colored. Mounted on linen. Framed to full museum specifications. Some peripheral soiling. Repairs to the joins and some edge-tears.....
Three manuscript maps surveying Lord Fairfax’s lands along the Potomac River. 1736, [1737], 1737. Winslow, Benjamin. A Plan of the Upper Part of Potomack River called Cohongorooto, survey’d in the Year 1736. Pen and ink with wash on paper. 18 ½” x 45” sheet, 28” x 55” framed. Titled.....