Binding: Manuscript

FROM THE FILE OF FAMED BIBLIOPHILE SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS: 1753 HANDWRITTEN AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO ANTOINE LE CAMUS, DOCTOR OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE, PARIS REGARDING HIS LATEST WRITINGS "LA MEDECINE DE L'ESPRIT"

Price: $329.99

Publisher: Paris, : 1753

Inscription: Autograph

Seller ID: 0TP111

Condition: Very Good

ALS dated March 9th 1753, Abbe Ducarme writes a reassuring letter to Antoine Le Camus (1722 - 1772 physician, poet also noted for warning the women of his day against the use of cosmetics having mercury). A Monsieur Fueron has loudly criticized Camus' latest work entitled "La Medecine de l'Espirit" (The Spirit's Medicine). The Abbot insists on telling Camus his ideas are excellent explaining that he has noticed people inflicted with ailments and symptoms as desrcibed in Camus' work further attesting to the truths as printed by Camus. In very good shape save for slight fault to the at t...
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1858 CHARMING EARLY PIONEER HANDWRITTEN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM ILLINOIS

By: ABDIEL & JANE

Price: $359.99

Publisher: Giraed, Illinois, : 1858

Inscription: Autograph

Seller ID: 0MV208

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good+

Superb early pre Civil War letter in lovely hand by ABDIEL & JANE - ALS, GIRAED, ILLINOIS, 1858, 4 full pages, 4to. Wonderful letter to cousin urging him to come west, buy a farm and be their neighbor. Super snapshot of early life and family warmth. Fine.
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1772 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER BY NOTED COLONEL, FUTURE BRIGADIER GENERAL OF THE FRENCH ARMY WHO WILL LOSE HIS HEAD TO THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL IN 1793

By: ADAM PHILLIPPE, COMTE DE CUSTINE

Price: $425.99

Publisher: CHARTRES RHEIMS FRANCE, : 1772

Inscription: Autograph

Seller ID: 00JT061

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Good

On offer is a pre French Revolution handwritten manuscript letter dated 1772 written by Adam Phillippe, the Vicomte de Custine, noted Colonel of the French Army to Monsier de Boynes requesting a position for Lieut. Constant, son of a noble Major, perhaps in the Colonies. Shortened at right for small loss but otherwise G.
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ARCHIVE LOT OF 16 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTERS FROM THE FILES OF AIME GIRON FAMED FRENCH POET, NOVELIST AND LAWYER

By: AIME GIRON, Lawyer, Poet, Novelist

Price: $799.99

Publisher: France, : 1890

Seller ID: 00JT75

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

Super archive of sixteen manuscript letters, for the most part signed with numerous signatures requiring further research. Mostly fine to Very Fine. Most are literary matters, some letterheads with dates ranging from 1860s to 1880s. Aime Giron was well suited to both act on the behalf of literary artists as an attorney and confidant as a reknowned poet and novelist and a director of "Figaro". Very rare.; 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall; POETRY, LITERATURE, FRANCE, POET, NOVELISTS, CONTEMPORARY OF ZOLA, FIGARO, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN...
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1913 SIGNED PROOF SHEET FOR WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA - FAMED LINCOLN AUTHORITY AUTHOR

By: ALONZO ROTHSCHILD

Price: $179.99

Publisher: : 1913

Seller ID: 0MV910

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

ALONZO ROTHSCHILD [1862-1915] Jewish-American author and Lincoln authority; member Anti-Imperialist League; author of LINCOLN - MASTER OF MEN [1906]. Signed proof sheet for his bio in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA 1914-15 edition. ; 8 x 11 Inches Approx; JUDAICA, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, DIARY, JOURNAL, LOG, KEEPSAKE, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, AMERICANA, WHO'S WHO, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ; Signed by Autograph
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1846 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER REGARDING THE SHIPWRECK OF THE SCHOONER LYDIA

By: AMANDA F. KELSEY

Price: $229.99

Publisher: Westbrook, Ct, : 1846

Inscription: Autograph

Seller ID: 0MV688

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Good+

1846 AMANDA F. KELSEY - ALS [STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER], Westbrook, Ct., 1846, 3 pages, 4to, plus integral address leaf. Writing to her nephew about the family's concern that he was on board the Shipwreck of the Schooner Lydia. Ms. Kelsey writes of the many nights of missed sleep by her mother, sick with worry over the reports of the Lydia's sinking. Very touching description and familial connection. Manuscript PAID postal marking. Overall in good shape though a bit fragile and some creases to the folds in one or two spots but still quite legible.
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1862 - 1863 SMALL ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN CIVIL WAR LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A 48th REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER

By: AMOS B. GEORGE

Price: $685.99

Publisher: WENHAM MASSACHUSETTS MASS MA CAMP BANKS LOUISIANA, : 1862

Seller ID: 00MV126

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good+

On offer is a small archive of 3 manuscript letters handwritten by Amos B. George, Co. A 48th Regt. Mass. Volunteers, two written in 1862 from Camp Lander in Wenham, Mass. and one written in 1863 from Camp Banks, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 5 x 8 (folded sheets), 10 pages total; with two original transmittal envelopes (postal cancel/ stamp removed from one envelope), with fine Civil War era content: [10/8/1862] "... We have got our uniforms now so that we are all ready for visitors, and I want you to be sure and come... I hope that we shall come down to Newburyport as a company, before we go, ...
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SUPERB COMMUNE POSTER 1870-1871 FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR POSTER CALLING FOR 'L'HUMANITE'

By: ANTI-WAR COMMUNE

Price: $149.99

Publisher: France, : 1871

Inscription: Autograph

Seller ID: 00JT57

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

Incredible, anti-patriotic French document calling for an end to violence and calling for "L'Humanite". France was considered by most Prussians as being very aggressive regarding the loose coalition of states prior to the formation of the German Empire. The conflict led to the end of the Nalpoleonic era and to France becoming the only republican great power. The document is headed - TUER EST TOUJOURS UN CRIME! - To Kill is Always A Crime.
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1833 15 PAGE FRENCH DOCUMENT ISSUED FOR THE UNIVERSAL JUBILEE OF POPE GREGORY XVI SIGNED IN PRINT BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF BOURGES FEATURING FANTASTIC COAT OF ARMS

By: Archbishop of Bourges

Price: $449.99

Publisher: France, : 1833

Inscription: Autograph

Seller ID: 00JT64

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Good+

The Archbishop of Bourges signed in print this superb fifteen page "POUR LE JUBILE UNIVERSALE ACCORDE PAR...GREGOIRE XVI A L'OCCASION DE SON EXALTATION. Additional signature on the back, perhaps Amelia Denis. Ink has burned through causing very small loss to text. Sensational vignettes and seal.
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1914 ALS HANDWRITTEN LETTER SIGNED BY GENERAL W.T. SHERMAN'S MILITARY SECRETARY AND CONFIDANT

By: ARTHUR OTIS GRANGER

Price: $359.99

Publisher: Cartersville Georgia, : 1914

Inscription: Autograph

Seller ID: 00MV22

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

[CIVIL WAR INTEREST - GENERAL SHERMAN] Arthur Otis GRANGER [b.1846] During the Civil War, Private Granger had been General W. T. Sherman's military secretary and confidant. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the 15th Penn. Cavalry. ALS, 1914, 1p, 4to. To Wm. Hayes Ward, Editor of The Independent, dated New York City Feb. 9/14; "I want to congratulate you upon your admirable statement: 'How old is the Universe?' It is most interestingly and kindly put." One brown stain touching one letter o/w VG.
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1795 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT RELATING TO THE IMPRISONMENT AND RELEASE OF A 68 YEAR OLD MAN FROM THE INFAMOUS AND NOTORIOUS PRISON AND LUNATIC ASYLUM 'THE BICETRE'

By: AUBIN, JOURDAIRE

Price: $2,145.99

Publisher: Paris FRANCE, : 1795

Seller ID: 00MV1008

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

On offer is a superb, unique circa 1795, Year 4 of the Revolution, manuscript document relating to the liberation from prison of a 68 year old man. [Almost an extraordinary age for a man in prison conditions of the era.] The prison was the famous Bicetre and this is a detailed account of the affair. The man had a fake passport and had been arrested by soldiers. This is all the more an exceptional document given the 150+ year history of the Bicetre which in its ay was an orphanage, military hospital and lunatic asylum. The Bicêtre is most famous as the Asylum de Bicêtre where in 1793 Superinten...
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DECEMBER 31 1959 AVEC LES VOEUX DE CHARLES ET AUDOUIN DOLLFUS SIGNED AUTOGRAPH PHOTO OF DOLLFUS ASCENDING 42,000' USING 105 BALLOONS

By: AUDOUIN DOLLFUS

Price: $359.99

Publisher: : 1959

Seller ID: 0MV1475

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

AUDOUIN DOLLFUS - French Physicist/Astronomer/Discoverer. In 1950, it was thought the planet Mercury, because of its small size, had probably lost its atmosphere through the escape of the molecules into space. Dollfus announced that he had detected a very faint atmosphere from polarization measurements carried out at the Pic-du-Midi Observatory in the French Pyrenees. He also investigated the possibility of an atmosphere around the Moon. The rate of thermal dissipation into space of all but the heavier gases (which are cosmically very scarce) from the Moon is so high that an atmosphere cannot ...
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1945 Gossipy World War II Homefront Letter to a Soldier Stationed in France from His Opinionated Aunt Two Days before Japan Surrenders

By: Aunt Mary

Price: $149.99

Publisher: France, United States, : 1945

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0012037

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a typewritten letter to a young soldier named James who is currently overseas serving in France from his Aunt Mary back home. The letter was written on August 12, 1945, six days after the United States dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, three days after the United States bombed Nagasaki and two days before Japan surrendered, ending World War II. It is no surprise, then, that the tone of Aunt Mary?s letter is anxious. She begins by sharing a paragraph about Snook, presumably her son, who joined the army one week before, and is in. She is desperately hoping Snook will find a way to come ...
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ARCHIVE LOT OF US NAVY DOCUMENTS RELATIVE TO THE WWI CAREER OF ENSIGN JOHN WESLEY BEATTY JR. SON OF FAMED SCALP LEVEL TRADITION ARTIST AND CARNEGIE DIRECTOR EMERITUS

By: BEATTY, JOHN WESLEY, Jr.

Price: $885.99

Publisher: Boston, MA, : 1918

Seller ID: 000457

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

Ensign John Wesley Beatty Jr. , the son of Cora and John Wesley Beatty Sr. , archival lot of twenty [20] letters, documents and ephemera relating to his service for the US Navy during World War I, including Naval orders, request for leave, examination, TLS Office of the Commandant 4th Naval District, TDS US Naval Torpedo Station etc. Many unresearched signatures of admirals (Daniels, Allen) and other Naval personages. There are two TLS on Congressional letterhead wherein Beatty Jr. Is using his father's standing in the Pittsburgh community to have his Congressman do whatever necessary to get B...
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1963 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY AMERICAN DIXIELAND BAND LEADER HANDWRITTEN TO HIS PAL 'BUNNY' CAPTAIN OF A UNITED STATES NUCLEAR CRUISER

By: BOB CROSBY

Price: $445.99

Publisher: HAWAII, : 1963

Seller ID: 00MV582B

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Good

On offer is a charming, cheery, intimate long ALS dated 1963, handwritten on both sides, by Bob Crosby (1913-1993) American Dixieland bandleader and vocalist, best known for his group Crosby and the Bob-Cats. [He was also an entrepenuer as evidenced by the business letterhead for his car rental business in Honolulu.] His brother was Bing Crosby. He writes to "Babs & Bunny" [Mrs. and Captain Burton H. Shupper, Commanding Officer of the USS Providence]. Crosby writes that he leaves Dec. 26 for Las Vegas. "Have to go to hell so I can afford to live in paradise" [Hawaii]. Crosby is...
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HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER SEEKING ADVICE AND PHILOSOPHIZING ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR, ENLISTMENT AND INTIMATE FAMILY MATTERS

By: Brother of William Ives of Company K, 10th Regiment R.I.V.

Price: $469.99

Publisher: ESSEX CONNECTICUT CT, : 1862

Seller ID: 0MV868

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Good

ALS with one name only (Hough?) letter dated 8/9/62, Essex, Ct., 4 pages, 4to. Writes to his brother Will (William C. Ives, Washington DC), Co. K, 10th Reg. R.I.V. "Should I enlist for 3 years, wait to be drafted for 9 months, or buy a substitute, etc." Comes with postmarked stamped (pink 3 cent) cover [ink notes on cover]. Overall in very good shape save for some tears at the folds amd the odd rust spot.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; CIVIL WAR, AMERICANA, CONFEDERATE, UNION, CONNECTICUT, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGN...
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1962 - 1963 ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN AND TYPED LETTERS TO AND FROM 'BUNNY' SHUPPER COMMANDER OF A UNITED STATES NUCLEAR MISSILE CRUISER

By: CAPTAIN BURTON H. SHUPPER, C.O. USS PROVIDENCE et al

Price: $1,255.99

Publisher: USS PROVIDENCE YOKOHAMA JAPAN, : 1962

Seller ID: 00MV582

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Good

On offer is a sensational archive of vintage United States Naval letters and notes, typed and handwritten by and to Captain Burton H. Shupper, Commanding Officer of the USS Providence, a nuclear weapons capable missile cruiser. Collectors and historians of US Naval history will delight in the breadth of authors, most heroes of World War II and the Korean conflict, represented in the incoming letters to Captain Shupper. Dated mostly 1962-63 the letters to Captain "Bunny" Shupper there are approximately 50 TLSs and about 21 ALSs; most with Shupper's retained carbon copies of the letters ...
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1818 "CEDULE" SUBPOENA TO M. ROUEN OF THE AUGUSTINE HOUSE TO APPEAR BEFORE THE MILITARY COURT OF BOURGES 21ST DIVISION

By: CAPTAIN OF THE STATE, MAJOR JEAN BLANCHARD

Price: $99.99

Publisher: France, : 1818

Inscription: Autograph

Seller ID: 0JT114

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Good+

1818 formal ADS calling upon M. Rouen to present himself on the 3rd of June, 1818 to the Court of Bourges of the 21st Division. Multiple signatures require further research. In good+ shape save for some soiling and slight discoloration.
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1895 EDICT FROM THE ARCHBISHOP OF BOURGES FEATURING FANTASTIC COAT OF ARMS

By: CARDINAL BOYER, Archbishop of Bourges

Price: $149.99

Publisher: France, : 1883

Inscription: Autograph

Seller ID: 00JT84

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good+

The Archbishop of Bourges, Cardinal Boyer, pronounces to his clergy and parishioners as the annual Christmas collection. Sensational coat-of-arms of the Cardinal and vignette. 4pp.
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1819 CALLIGRAPHIC LATIN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH DOCUMENT TITLED 'FORMA SACRAMENTI'

By: CARDINAL DE LATIL, ARCHBISHOP OF RHEIMS, BISHOP OF CHARTRES

Price: $885.99

Publisher: CHARTRES FRANCE, : 1819

Seller ID: 00JT072

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

In a beautiful petite calligraphic hand titled 'Forma Sacramenti' matters of the Church are dealt with in Latin and then signed by Cardinal de Latil [Jean-Baptiste Marie Anne Antoine de Latil], Archbishop of Rheims and Bishop of Chartres. Included is a short late 19th century handwritten biography of de Latil. Some loss from the neatly cut seal otherwise VG. Beautiful ornaments.; Folio - over 12 - 15 tall; DE LATIL, ROMAN CATHOLIC, FRANCE, CHURCH OF FRANCE, RELIGION, NAPOLEONIC ERA, CATHOLICISM, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LET...
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Binding: Manuscript