Grand rue [Paris]: A Besancon, De l'impririe de la V Bogillot, c. 1775. Silk cover, near fine, minus less than 10, small wear holes through the silk. Tarnished silver wire filigree loops around the entire perimeter of the book, as well as the spine. Both the front and back cover..... More
![Item #3306 Four [4] Letters with Mailing Envelopes and Ephemera; An Extensive, near complete...](https://montgomeryrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3306.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1786538917)
Savannah / Atlanta / Denver: c. 1972 - 1980. Four densely written letters, two-sided, three are full manuscript and one is typed with a manuscript closing. Includes four Air Mail envelopes, two with legible dates. Flattened, very good with mailing folds and some edge tear where extricated from original wiriting..... More
Balt. & Ohio Railroad, Sept. 14, ?8. SIGNED "Benj. F. Butler" as Manager, R.A.D.V. (Railroad Authority for Disabled Veteran Soldiers), 4.25" x 2.25", on franked ticket for "John White from Washington to Columbus via Balt. + Ohio R.R.", in another hand. Circular, blue stamp in lower right, punched by conductor..... More
Washington DC: nd. SIGNED "Frances F. Clevelend in fountain pen on Executive Mansion Card Signed. 4.5" x2.75", 1p. 16mo. Fine signature is full breadth of the card. Grover Cleveland first met Frances when she was an infant and doted on her, even buying her a baby carriage. After her father..... More
Washington DC: nd. SIGNED "Frances F. Clevelend in fountain pen on Executive Mansion Card Signed. 4.5" x2.75", 1p. 16mo. Fine signature is full breadth of the card dated 1887 in bottom left corner. Grover Cleveland first met Frances when she was an infant and doted on her, even buying her..... More
Internationally published: Hachette, Rocher, Verlag, Mercure de France, et. al. April 1945 to April 1961. A once personally owned archive of one hundred and thirty [130] letters written to George Duhamel post WWII. These 130 letters are a mix of ALS, TLS and ANS, leaning mostly toward typed, signed originals..... More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1856. First Edition. Brown paper wraps. INSCRIBED from the author: "President Fillmore / With the best respects of Edward Everett" at top of title page. 5.75" x 9", pp. 6 - 50. Incidental fox dots, wrinkle at bottom right corner, separation at paper spine..... More
Ridgefield, CT: June 15,1960. 7" x 10.5", 2 pp., on personal letterhead stationary. Very readable, written in blue ink on both sides. Stamped mailing envelope included. Alice Geraldine Farrar (1882 – 1967) was an American soprano opera singer and film actress, noted for her beauty and acting ability. She had..... More
Sussex County, England: January 17, 1783. 29.75" x 21" vellum document with scalloped top edge, folded bottom edge secured with red wax seal, two vertical and three horizontal folds. In addition to the wax seal, there is an embossed blue revenue stamp and two ink stamps, one on the front..... More
Comprises: 1.) Image of an ornate miniature oval plaque on mount imprinted "The People's Choice'." Text on image relates "In God We Trust / The Union Must and Shall be Preserved / The Peoples Choice...Let Us Have Peace." Verso boldly imprinted "...The Norris Engraving and Publishing Co. ...Agents Wanted For..... More
New York: June 1st, 1895. SIGNED "Benjamin Harrison". 4.75" x 1.5" adhered to cardboard backing. Typed "Very sincerely yours", followed by signature. In a different hand beneath the signature is the provenance, "written to C. Ellis Stevens from Fifth Ave. Hotel NY. June 1st 1895" Benjamin Harrison (Aug 20, 1833..... More
Boston, MA: January 11, 1894. 5" x 3", off-white postal. one-cent note card, canceled at Back Bay, Boston. In this note she politely apologies for being unavailable for a previously scheduled appointment. Julia Ward Howe (1819 – 1910) is perhaps best remembered as the the author of the Battle Hymn..... More
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1849 - 1854. Letters addressed to the Surveyor General of Iowa and Wisconsin, Caleb Booth. Reporting the surveyors work in the field, laying out what was then the near West. Blue stationery, 15" x 9" folded in half, with flattened mailing folds. All letters are docketed on the rear with..... More
Stonewall, TX: 1970 - 1977. SIGNED "Lady Bird" in brown ink with additional notes of acknowledgment. 6.5" x 8.5" on LBJ Ranch letterhead. All letters are in fine condition with only a center mailing fold. Includes two, original, free frank envelopes addressed to Honorable James Webb. Most of the content..... More
Bridgeport, CT: December 17, 1920. Simon Lake Signed Check. Partially-Printed Document, Bank Check measuring 2-5/8" x 6.5", Signed "Simon Lake" as the Payer of $8.25 on check from The Argonaut Salvage Company payable to Bridgeport Cornice Works, Ink, drawn on the Bridgeport Trust Company. SIMON LAKE (1866-1945): Lake built the..... More
Wilcox County, AL: February 16, 1859. Folio, 15.5" x 12.5" folded horizontally through the center. Completely in manuscript with ink on blue paper with lined columns. A full accounting: credits on the left side of the ledger sheet, debits on the right. Docketed on verso; "Estate of Levi H. Seltzer..... More
Versailles, France: April 12, 1712. 20" x 10.5" vellum with a 2.5" up fold at the bottom. Threaded attach at the bottom right is a paper / wax embossed seal of a mounted cannoneer on the front and heraldic seal on the rear. His regal 6" signature on the document..... More
Tuileries, Paris, France: Nov. 19, 1841. Boldly and elegantly signed by Louis Phillip (1773 - 1850), moniker the "Citizen King", King of the French from 1830 to 1848. The last French monarch to bear the title "King", and the only French monarch to descend from the Orléans branch of the..... More
Cairo, Egypt: Maktbit Misr, 1985. First Edition. Signed: “Naguib Mahfouz” Naguib Mahfouz, (1911 - 2006) has been the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1988). He spent most all of his life in Cairo, where he published his first novel in 1939 and ten more were written..... More
Cairo, Egypt: Maktabit Miser, 1943 - 1965. 5 of 6 are First Editions. Card covers with color illustrations, mostly two staple binding or glued backing. [1] Radobees, second edition, 1943, Maktabit Misr, Cairo, Egypt, Inscribed to Ghorab, "To the friend who is talented and liked, /S/". Chip at top /..... More
Cairo, Egypt: The American University in Cairo Press, 1992. First English Language Edition. Quarter blue cloth with red paper over boards and titling in gilt on the spine. Signed by the author "Naguib Mahfouz / 13-4-1392" Hijri date equals 4-13-1992. 9" x 6.5 ", pp. 2-308,Naguib Mahfouz, (1911 - 2006)..... More
1941 - 1973. Museum caliber archive of material chronicling the work and societal impact of the greatest war cartoonist of The Greatest Generation. More than 55 described items, some are very rare including one of a kind items. Twenty-nine books (29), most first editions including: the 1941 FE of Star..... More
Montauban, France: Self-published, September 1, 1839. Quarter brown leather with marbled paper over boards. The title in gilt on the spine indicates an intentional preservation of this work. 4.5" x 7", 237 pp. of manuscript copy of "Murat", a short book by Alexandre Dumas, origninally published as part of his..... More
Cairo, Egypt: Maktbit Misr, 1985. Inscribed to To Atia Al-Daour: “My brother Atia Al-Daour with love and appreciation, /s/”. Naguib Mahfouz, (1911 - 2006) has been the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1988). He spent most all of his life in Cairo, where he published his..... More
Palace of the Tuileries, Paris, France: April 29, 1861. 18" x 15.5", partially printed on vellum. Signed by then Emperor of France, Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. In December 1851 he staged a coup d'etat and one year later proclaimed himself Emperor. While the counter signature of the Grand..... More