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	Lot #	Description
	25.	CIVIL WAR ARMY OF OCCUPATION LETTER FROM RICHMOND, VA., with printed letterhead Pay Department U.S. Army, District of Virginia and North Carolina, Office of the Chief Paymaster, Richmond, Va. dated ? 21st 1865 with inked manuscript text addressed to a T.L. Wilcox, Sgt. U.S.V. Petersburg, Va., and dealing with matters of pay.
	53.	1783 CONNECTICUT MANUSCRIPT REVOLUTIONARY WAR DOCUMENT, a single manuscript laid paper letter sheet headed As a general Assembly of the Gov. and Company of the State of Connecticut holden at Hartford on the 2nd Thursday of May And Done 1783- and being a motion on the Memorial of John Graham Shewing to this assembly that he served in one of this States Regiments in the Continental Army for the years vizeld(?) 1778=79 &1780 to replace notes, lost or stolen with new notes, marked lower right A true Copy of Record/Examined/By George Wylly Surds.
	55.	MANUSCRIPT REVOLUTIONARY WAR CLOTHING RECEIPT DATED 1782, a 6.5" x 8.5" half letter sheet on plain laid paper headed Pay Table Office Decem. 5th 1782 and reading A Return is lodg’d in this Office of Provision of Clothing collected in Kent on the 2/6_Tax amounting to three hundred & seventy eight Pounds four shillings & eight pence for which the town is accountable., signed by the Treasurer John Lawrence Esq.; & Certified R. Finn Wadsworth Comtr.
	57.	1794 PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA DOCUMENTS, two identical partially printed documents on laid paper, the first with manuscript additions and the second left blank. The first is enlistment document for the state of Pennsylvania, dated Jan. 5, 1794, and signed by Charles Scaoying, both 8" x 13".
	74.	GENERAL PERSHING TLS, November 12, 1931. A 1p typed letter on John J. Pershing Washington stationery, addressed to Mrs. Austin F. Prescott, congratulating her on her progresses. Mrs. Prescott volunteered for the Disabled American Veterans.
	91.	WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY SILVER PRINT VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS, lot of 27 scenic views of mountainous regions, lakes, rivers, and forests from Yellowstone, Canada, and Florida, all mounted in a card stock matte, and inscribed with the location, handwritten in pen on verso, 4" x 5" (matte).
	100.	EARLY MILITARY DEPARTMENTAL MAP OF WESTERN STATES, 23.5" x 47" from Lake Michigan to the Pacific coast with just top of Oklahoma Territory present, with different departments in different colors, no publisher or print present, but part of lower margin in center is missing.
	155.	UNION QUARTER PLATE CASE WITH DOUBLE TINTYPE PORTRAITS, likely a young, newly married couple, each posed next to a table with stack of leather bound books, mounted in black floral scrollwork Union case.
	171.	1860S PANORAMA OF RURAL MID-ATLANTIC TOWN, LIKELY PENNSYLVANIA, made up of four 5.75" x 6.5" albumen photographs laid on original card stock and overlapping about 0.25" to create a picturesque rural town scape. With distinctive court house building, mounted in original period walnut frame, 12.5" x 32.5". Further research will likely identify this rural village.
	214.	SIGNED COPY OF THE ART OF JOHN KAUFFMANN, Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, 1919, folio, 62pp with 20 tipped-in half-tone plates. Plain card covers with the printed oversized wrappers (originally attached at the spine, but recently expertly repaired and now safely removable); new endpapers; an excellent copy (internally fine) of a book that generally does not weather the years well. One of 500 numbered copies signed by John Kauffmann, the pioneering Australian photo-impressionist.
	226.	CDV PORTRAIT OF DANIEL WEBSTER, as an older gentleman dressed in a finely tailored suit, produced from a DAG portrait by M.P. Simons, an early daguerreotypist from Philadelphia, inscribed underneath: Daniel Webster, Entered according to Act of Congress, 1873, by M.P. Simons, Philada.
	227.	1853 LITHOGRAPHED DIAGRAM OF NEW YORK ASSEMBLY CHAMBER, 1p engraved manuscript containing the names and numerical seating list of the assembly, includes an engraved scrollwork border and seal, Hon. William H. Ludlow, Suffolk, Speaker, John S.Nafew, Albany, Clerk, Deputy Clerks is viewed above, and Diagram of the Assembly Chamber 1853 viewed below, printed by J.E.Gavit, Exchange, Albany, 11.5" x 12.5".
	249.	THREE 1880S OHIO POLITICAL PAMPHLETS, about 6" x 9" printed handbills, includes 1st a folded 4pp, single sheet entitled James G. Blaine’s Letter. The Ex-Secretary of State Submits His Ideas of Conducting the Campaign, dated 1892 and dealing with The Tariff Question, PLUS 2nd a single sheet entitled Cleveland and the Union Soldier. A Former Democrat’s Address to His Fellow Comrades., dated Coshocton, Ohio, Sept. 20, 1892, extolling Union vets to vote against Cleveland for vetoing the pension bill, AND 3rd a folded 4pp sheet entitled Another Answer to That Defense of the Ring., dated Whetstone, Dec. 20, 1887, being a rebuttal of of the charges of Mr. Shuler and the newspaper the Forum against the writer W.L. Ferrall.
	255.	AUTOGRAPHED NOTE FROM JOSEPH H. CHOATE, AMERICAN DIPLOMAT AND LAWYER, 5.5" x 8.5" reading 52 Wall St. 15 June 1897 Master Louis Harris; As you requested I send you my autograph and an Yours Joseph H. Choate. Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) American lawyer, historian and diplomat, born in Salem, Mass., graduate of Harvard Law in 1854, admitted to the bar in 1855, N.Y.C., ambassador to England from 1899-1905, first U.S. Delegate at the Hague Peace Conference. Writings include Addresses on Abraham Lincoln and Admiral Farragut & Rufus Choate.
	259.	THREE RELATED PENNSYLVANIA BROADSIDES AND PAMPHLETS DEALING WITH GOV. WILLIAM FINDLAY, all printed on laid paper. This group includes an 8" x 18" broadside published by the Daily Advocate, July 24, 1838, as an extra with heading reading In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Joseph Ritner, Governor of the said Commonwealth A Proclamation. This is a statement of the governor opposing the federal governments introduction of a national currency to replace all others then in common use, such as British or Spanish coinage and of the more common bank-issued paper currency. The governor directs all banks within the state to honor all the paper currency formerly used within the state and to ignore the federal government's attempts at making such currency illegal. The second item is also a printed broadside, entitled A List of the Internal Duties, Paid by each person in the 17th collection district of Pennsylvania, in the year 1816. with three columns of text listing the names and amounts paid in alphabetical order, beginning with David Allen and ending with John Waddle, and signed at bottom with printed signature James Patterson, Col. Of the Rev. 17th Dist. Of Penn., 10" x 13". The final piece in the lot is an 8vo pamphlet in self wraps entitled A Plain Account of the Conspiracy By Which the People Were Cheated Out Of Six Hundred and Ninety Dollars, To Put into the Pocket of William Findlay., 4pp. In essence the pamphlet accuses Mr. Findlay of passing counterfeit notes to the state treasury in exchange for good currency.
	289.	1827 CINCINNATI DOCUMENT WITH PEYTON SYMMES NAME, an interesting manuscript receipt from the United States Land Office in Cincinnati for the services of one of Cincinnati's earliest printers and bookbinders, Looker & Reynolds for certificates and bound ledgers, dated May 1, 1827, signed by the Register Peyton J. Symmes, on plain 7.75" x 9.5" letter sheet.
	300.	1841 INDIANA MANUSCRIPT LAND CONTRACT, folded manuscript 7.5" x 12.5" legal document from Fayette County, Ind., 1847, being the sale of land in this county by William and Nancy Lowery to their son Alexander.
	304.	ILLUSTRATED PARTIALLY PRINTED DOCUMENT FROM HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1844, with illustrated heading of farm animals and products, being a notice to attend the meeting of the officers of the fair, addressed to Joseph Jackson Esq. Mt. Healthy, Ohio, now a suburb of Cincinnati.
	305.	MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SIGNED BY IMPORTANT CINCINNATIANS, 1856, written in pencil on single 8" x 10" plain letter sheet headed Springfield, Jan. 1 1856. The letter is a community letter of appreciation to one Henry H. Davies, Esq., then district attorney for Springfield, presenting him with an ambrotype and signed at the bottom by 10 men and women including Sam Polers, M.A. Allen, G.W. Bliss, Alice Goodell, Seymour Yates, Geo. Borset, E.B. Yates, B. Worthingham, Allen Dean, and Minster Avery.
	309.	19TH CENTURY GLOBE OPERA HOUSE POSTER, BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO, 14" x 42" blue on white, advertising a benefit for Jack Doherty with admission 50 cents, undated but mid- to late 19th century.
	313.	19TH CENTURY BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO, DRY GOODS STORE HANDBILL, 6" x 9" with bold heading reading READ, AND/"DON'T YOU FORGET IT" with 25 additional lines of text advertising the Scott & Moorhead dry goods store.
	321.	1849 INDIANA DEMOCRATIC MEETING BROADSIDE, broadside published as a Weekly Times Extra Delphi, Ind., May 5, 1849, 7.75" x 16", detailing a Democratic Meeting held at the courthouse in Delphi on the previous Monday, primarily dealing with nominating candidates for the Senate and House of Representatives.
	328.	1847 MANUSCRIPT LETTER DEALING WITH LAND ISSUES, June 27th 1847, 4pp handwritten manuscript written by George Murphy a resident of Berrian Michigan, to an old friend, James Lyon in Green Co. Ohio, for an inquiry of land purchased in Michigan. Also mentioned: friendships, crops, land surveys and a new railroad line, routed from Detroit to Kalamazoo.
	330.	HAND-COLORED MAP OF CLARK COUNTY, IND., 25" x 41" entitled Clark Co., Indiana., dated 1904, Rand McNally & Co.
	333.	19TH CENTURY LICKING COUNTY, OHIO, FARMERS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION BROADSIDE, on 11" x 13.75" yellow card stock with bold heading reading Warning!/Farmers Protective Association with nine lines of text and three columns of names below. This association was quite active in Ohio politics during the first quarter of the 20th century.
	334.	MANUSCRIPT OHIO CENTENNIAL ODE BY COATES KINNEY, a 9pp manuscript poem entitled Ohio Centennial Ode and signed at the end Coates Kinney, on nine 5.25" x 8.5" letter sheets with text on single side. This ode appears to have been written by a Unionist with lines such as A hundred years of Freedom! Freedom such No other people on the earth had known Till our America the world had show what Freedom meant. No look of slave might touch Our earth, no masters lash outrage our heaven…The Declaration of the Great July, Fired by the Ordinance of Eighty-Seven, Flamed from the River to the Northern Sky; Ay, that flame rose against the arctic stars, And shone a new aurora across the land. A body scored with stripes of whip and scars of branding-iron seemed to understand Soulless though reckoned by our Union’s pact That it was Man, for whom that heavenly sign Lit up the North; and while the bloodhounds tracked Him footsore through Kentucky, stars benign Befriended him and brought him to our shore…. Coates Kinney (1826-1904)American poet, served as a Major during the Civil War, spent most of his life in Ohio. Kinney was invited to compose and deliver an ode in honor of the Ohio Centennial Celebration at Columbus on September 4, 1888.
	335.	1876 LANCASTER, OHIO, DRY GOODS STORE HANDBILL, with U.S. Centennial heading, Office of Richards & Webb Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Boots, Shoes, Slippers, Rubbers, &t., &t., Lancaster, Ohio., 8.75" x 10.25".
	338.	19TH CENTURY FAIRFIELD COUNTY, OHIO, SABBATH SCHOOL BROADSIDE, on 5" x 12" peach-colored paper advertising the annual meeting of the Brushcreek Union Sabbath School Association, dated 1875.
	340.	SIX EARLY OHIO HANDBILLS AND DOCUMENTS, includes a ca 1886, 1p partially printed Shook's Universal Remedy/Farm Recipe voucher for ailing Hog Cholera and Pneumonia, signed by Shook, 7" x 8.5", PLUS a June 9th, 1901, 4pp illustrated pamphlet entitled 40th Anniversary & Flag Dedication of the Hudepohl Combination, in Cincinnati, Ohio, written in German, 6.25" x 9.5", PLUS a ca 1880 handbill from the Cincinnati Gazette, advertising price rates for 1880, 5" x 11", PLUS an 1886, 1p illustrated manuscript entitled Historical Collections of Ohio, advertising a three volume encyclopedia of Ohio, with two engraved portraits of Henry Howe viewed on top margin, 8.25" x 14.75", PLUS a 1p program announcing an annual picnic for the Madison Tp., Franklin Co., O. School Campus, Friday, May 21st, 1897, 5.5" x 8.5", AND a 1p partially printed summons from The State of Ohio, Green County, SS: sent to Robt McKnight/Edward Walton/and others, to appear for trial in Xenia, Ohio.
	341.	19TH CENTURY ANTI-POLITICAL MACHINE HANDBILL FROM CINCINNATI, printed document entitled: Vote the Citizens' Ticket./"The people vs. the Machines--is the Issue." An anti-political statement announcing the corruption amongst political figures in Cincinnati. The need for change is imperative, vote for the Citizens' Party Ticket. Several political candidates are mentioned including: Mayor-Theodore F. Horstman and Judge Superior Court-Rufus B. Smith, 6.5" x 10.5"
	350.	OHIOANA: ADDRESS OF GENERAL THOMAS EWING AT THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT MARIETTA, OHIO, JULY 15TH, 1888..., of the Settlement of the Northwest Territory. (Second Edition.) Printed for the Woman's Centennial Association, Marietta, Ohio. 8vo, card stock wrap with green front and back cover, 16pp.
	351.	GOVERNMENT PAMPHLET ON LANDS IN ILLINOIS, 1848, 1848 single printed 12mo page entitled Report of the Acting Secretary of the Treasury.
	352.	PRINTS OF DIXON, ILL., BRIDGE, BEFORE AND AFTER DISASTER, both 9" x 12.25" with ornamental border and marked Dixon Telegraph Print after photographs by Keyes of Dixon, first entitled The Disaster At Dixon-The Bridge Before The Catastrophe From The North Side and second The Disaster At Dixon-Ruins Of The Bridge From The South Side. This is probably the collapse that occurred May 4, 1873 when about 200 people gathered on the bridge to witness a mass baptism of new Baptist converts. Approximately 56 people were killed in the collapse (although only 48 bodies were recovered).
	366.	1873 BOURBON COUNTY, KY., AGRICULTURAL FAIR BROADSIDE, tabloid-sized supplement, 14" x 22", entitled The True Kentuckian, being a list of all the State Fair events and competitions for 1873 with Brutus J. Clay listed as president of the fair. List includes horse racing.
	369.	1889 CLARK COUNTY, IND., VOTERS BROADSIDE, 9" x 20" and dated 1889 with detailed text descriptions of each of the polling places in the county, printed by Clark County Record Print, Charlestown, Ind.
	371.	PANORAMIC SILVER PRINT OF EARLY THE HYDE PARK LUMBER CO., CINCINNATI, OHIO, ca 1910, 10" x 35.5", in period frame (11" x 36.5") showing the yard with early trucks parted in foreground, signed in negative Photo By C.B. Stone, 1702 Elm St. Cin., O.
	372.	OHIOANA: NOTICES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO IN THE FIFTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1856, Columbus, Ohio, 1857. 12mo, half calf with marbled boards and embossed spine marked Autographs. Included is a description of each member serving and the autograph of each. Also included is the signature of Mrs. A Turpin, wife of Ebenezer S. Turpin, member of the house, viewed on cover page, 48pp with an additional 78pp of autographs.
	375.	1931 BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO, ILLUSTRATED AUCTION POSTER, 18" x 24" on light card stock with bold heading PUBLIC AUCTION/GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE with illustrations of farm machinery from the Farm Machinery, General Hardware and Fixtures of F.H. Berk & Co. Trenton, Ohio, due to the death of the owner with Vern & Art Allbauch auctioneers. Printed by Nonpareil Print, Hamilton, Ohio.
	404.	HITCHCOCK & WALDEN'S ENGRAVING FOUNDER BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, with 30 oval portraits and one slightly larger of Wesley in center. Interestingly one of the gentlemen is an African American, 9.75" x 13.75".
	407.	MANUSCRIPT PLAY ENTITLED THE FINAL RESULT OF INTEMPERANCE AND GAMBLING, eight legal-size page manuscript play entitled The Final Result of Intemperance and Gambling being a 19th century morality play promoting ??, in which a husband kills someone while drunk and goes to the gallows leaving a loving wife and daughters to fend for themselves.
	416.	AUSTRIAN BOOK ON ANATOMY, 1832, entitled Anfangsgrunde der Anatomie des Gesunden Menschlieden Rorpers?, by Dr. Adolph Friedrich Dempel, 1832, Vienna, 12mo in marbled boards with morocco title patch on spine, 256pp.
	417.	1862 FARM AUCTION BROADSIDE, nice Civil War era broadside for a farm auction near Easton, Mass., 13.5" x 17.5", matted and framed, 20.5" x 25.5".
	430.	MANUSCRIPT LETTER ON STEAM-POWERED FIRE PUMPER WITH DRAWING, 7.5" x 9.75" lined letter sheet dated Washington D.C. May 9, 1880 with very detailed pencil drawing of a self propelled steam fire engine, 3.25" high x 6" long on lower front page, written by John W. Reid. The letter has nothing to do with the drawing, but John mentions that I have seized upon the only available sheet of blank paper in the house for the purpose of writing a letter and even this I find has an unfinished picture of a self propelled steam fire engine. It is the work of Lorin.
	431.	1837 ADDRESS TO GERMAN SCHOOL CONVENTION IN PITTSBURGH, by William Steinmeier, being an 8vo 4pp pamphlet in self wraps. The speech is arguing for the promotion of self-help organizations among the population of the people of German descent in the United States.
	441.	1870 HARLEIAN SOCIETY PARTIALLY PRINTED DOCUMENT, LONDON, a 3" x 5" partially printed receipt to a Rev. G.U. Huntington for membership in the London-based Harleian Society for the year 1870 and for the sum of One Guinea. The Harleian Society is a registered charity established in 1869. "Its official objects are the transcribing, printing and publishing of the heraldic visitations of counties, parish registers or any manuscripts relating to genealogy, family history and heraldry" (http://harleian.co.uk/).
	445.	FIREMARKS: BULAU'S FOOTPRINTS OF ASSURANCE, a documentary record of trade signs, or firemarks, stamps, and coins. Bulau, Alwin. Footprints of Assurance. New York, N.Y.:The McMillan Company, 1953. Illustrated 4to with blue cloth boards, 319pp.
	449.	AGRICULTURE: HOOPER'S WESTERN FRUIT BOOK: full title being Hooper's Western Fruit Book: Collection of Facts, from the Notes and Experience of Successful Fruit Culturists, Arranged for Practical Use in the Orchard and Garden, by E.J. Hooper, 1858, Cincinnati, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 12mo in embossed green cloth boards, 355pp with ads in rear, with two frontis plates and three fruit plates, one hand-colored.
	452.	ROMAN HISTORY: C.H. WEISE'S EUTROPII BREVIARIUM HISTORIAE ROMANAE, 1827, Lipsiae (Lipzig, Germany), printed by C. Tauchnitii, 32mo in half calf with marbled boards 95pp text in Latin.
	453.	1823 READING, PA., ALMANAC, in German with title reading Der Rene Readinger Calender 1823, (Rene Readinger Calender 1823), small 8vo in illustrated self wraps with 36pp, published by Johann Ritter, Reading, Pa., with hand-sewn binding.
	455.	HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ANN PAMELA CUNNINGHAM, "The Southern Matron," Founder Of The Mount Vernon Ladies Association." 12mo with blue card stock cover. Printed for the Association at the Marion Press, New-York 1903, 55pp. A documented account of Ann Pamela Cunningham's attempt to restore and preserve the estate and grave of George Washington. Cunningham was the founder of the Mt. Vernon Ladies Association.
	464.	ARCHIVE OF WILLARD N. KNOWLES, NEW ENGLAND MERCHANT SEAMAN, early 20th century archival group consisting of a DS, 1p, 4to, New York, June 1, 1938, Seaman’s Certificate of Identification, from U.S. Department of Commerce with attached photo and thumbprint, PLUS a completed partly printed DS, a folded Citizens Seaman’s Identification Card originating at the Port of Boston, Feb. 21, 1919, with appropriate stamps, photo and thumbprint, PLUS a collection of Customs envelopes, PLUS two real photo postcards of Knowles, one in seaman uniform and second in suit and derby, PLUS studio seated photograph of Knowles in seaman uniform, 5" x 7.5", PLUS studio portrait of Knowles as a younger gentleman, 6" x 8", PLUS turn-of-the-century portrait of young lady identified as Mrs. Lillian Knowles (his wife) on studio mount, 3.25" x 5", PLUS a bound seaman's diary, 3.5" x 6" with entries dated 1911-21 in which Knowles describes his life as Chief Engineer serving aboard several vessels with ports of call including Africa, Cuba, Nova Scotia, and the Panama Canal, AND Knowles' bound diary and accounts for 1926 aboard the tugboat George S. Tice of Port Richmond, Staten Island.
	469.	EARLY RAILROAD EXCURSION BROADSIDE TO CINCINNATI, printed by the Ohio State Journal Print. Columbus, O., entitled Annual Cheap Excursion to Cincinnati on Monday, Nov. 9 Via Pan-Handle Route Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis R'Y. Includes a listing of destinations, rates, and a notation of Cincinnati and interests, James McCrea, General Manager, and E.A. Ford, General Passenger Agent, printed on lower margin, 8" x 18.5".
	479.	TWO ILLUSTRATED 1953 DOG RACING DELUXE PASSES, each with a view of a greyhound on frontal, from the Volusia County Kennel Club, Daytona Beach, includes map of the kennel club on verso, 2.25" x 3.75".
	397.	PAIR OF MIDCENTURY MODERN ARM CHAIRS WITH BLACK LEATHER, Full description coming soon
	398.	FOX MANUFACTURING CO. ARMCHAIR, Full description coming soon Caning and Green Upholstery
	405.	AMERICAN FURNITURE CO. CABINET/BENCH COMBINATION, Full description coming soon
	473.	AUTUMN LANDSCAPE BY GAMBLE, ST. LOUIS ARTIST, Full description coming soon

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