Americana
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James M. Cain, editor, The Lorraine Cross, Volume 1, No. 7, March 20, 1919, published by The 79th Division, United States Army, 1919.
“Mange is on the Decline.” “Cudgels Taken Up.” “Atrocities in Verse: ‘Over the top with Rastus Brown’”. “Inoculation of 79th is Ordered.” These and other article titles and sections and features make this issue of The Lorraine Cross, uber-scarce in any condition and not currently available even on WorldCat dot org . This issue, in Fair…
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CHARLEVOIX, Pierre Francois Xavier de (1682-1761), Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France : avec Le journal historique d’un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l’Amérique Septentrionnale [sic] / par le P. de Charlevoix, de la Compagnie de Jesus, A Paris : Chez Rollin fils, libraire …, MDCCXLIV [1744], 6 vol. : ill., cartes, plans ; 17 cm (12mo).
![CHARLEVOIX, Pierre Francois Xavier de (1682-1761), Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France : avec Le journal historique d’un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l’Amérique Septentrionnale [sic] / par le P. de Charlevoix, de la Compagnie de Jesus, A Paris : Chez Rollin fils, libraire …, MDCCXLIV [1744], 6 vol. : ill., cartes, plans ; 17 cm (12mo).](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/187A5733.jpeg)
Full contemporary calf, spines gilt in six compartments with red morocco title-pieces, small repair to the first map, light light old moisture rings on some maps. Previous owner signature. The same work as previously described in the duodecimo edition. Complete of all maps and plates. No foxing, a very good copy. Offered by Librairie Michel…
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Belknap Jeremy, The history of New-Hampshire.
Volume I. Comprehending the events of one complete century from the discovery of the River Pascataqua. Volume II. Comprehending the events of seventy five years, from MDCCXV to MDCCXC. Volume III. Containing a geographical description of the State, with sketches of its natural history, productions, improvements, and present state of society and manners, laws and…
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Chambon, LE COMMERCE DE L’AMÉRIQUE PAR MARSEILLE, ou Explication des Lettres-Patentes du Roi, portant Reglement pour le Commerce qui se fait de Marseille aux Isles Françoises de l’Amérique, données au mois de Février 1719.
Et des Lettres-Patentes du Roi, pour la liberté du Commerce à la Côte de Guinée, données à Paris au mois de Janvier 1716. Avec les Reglemens que ledit commerce a occasionnés, par un citadin*. Two quarto volumes (211 X 260 mm) marbled fawn sheepskin, spine with five decorated bands, boxes decorated with small stamps, brown…
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Holley Orville Luther, The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review
Published for H. Biglow, Kirk & Mercein, 1817, New York, volume 1 to volume 3 under a single binding, 432 p., index, 480 p., index, 480 p., 6 issues per volume, 1817, 1818, full cloth, with title piece, signature of the Canadian lawyer Mondelet, a few not obstrusive ink spots. Offered by Librairie Michel Morisset…
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Copy of Stride Toward Freedom, Inscribed to A. Philip Randolph—with Randolph’s Extensive Notes
Asa Philip Randolph was a pioneer crusader for Civil Rights. In 1925, he founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (the Pullman Porters). In 1963, he was one of the Big Six organizers of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Full-page inscription by King: “To my dear friend A. Philip Randolph. / In appreciation of…
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Abraham Lincoln Signed Check to “William Johnson (Colored),” the President’s Valet, Who Accompanied Him to Antietam and Gettysburg
William Henry Johnson was a free black servant who accompanied the president-elect on his journey from Springfield to Washington, D.C., while Lincoln was under threat of assassination. Lincoln’s identification of Johnson as “Colored” would facilitate the latter’s cashing of the check. On arrival in the capital, Lincoln found employment for Johnson stoking the furnace of the…
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William Henry Harrison Four-Language Sea Letter Signed as President
An incredible rarity. Fewer than 40 of Harrison’s presidential signatures are known to exist in any format, from complete to partial letters and documents, down to clipped signatures that retain some proof of the date. Of those, only a dozen or so complete documents signed as president are known in private hands. Succumbing to pneumonia…
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Thomas Jefferson’s Premature Hope for Reconciliation with John Adams, Sparked by the Death of Jefferson’s Daughter
A remarkable, poignant letter from Jefferson’s presidency, prematurely anticipating reconciliation with his predecessor and longtime compatriot, though he still holds one grudge. “He & myself have gone through so many scenes together…that I have never withdrawn my esteem, and I am happy that this letter gives an opportunity of expressing it to both of them.…
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President John Adams Reflects on Presidential Leadership
A wistful letter to a Harvard friend in which Adams mentions some guileful political colleagues and laments the “popular Passions of the times” and the general neglect of his political writings. “The Difficulty of leading or guiding Millions, by any means but Power and Establishments can be known only to those who have tried Experiments…