Search Results: Titles starting with C from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

Tampa: Field, nd circa 1880, Albumen photograph, measuring 7 ¼ x 9 ⅛ inches, mounted on a cardstock mount, measuring 7 ⅞ x 9 ⅞ inches, with the photographer's name, Field, of Tampa, Fla. In gilt on right hand edge. Some spotting and light wear to image, corners of mount bumped, else very good.
The image depicts an unidentified Florida plantation house, which has clearly seen better days, its owners are on the front porch.

octavo, 27 page pamphlet, original printed wraps, front wrapper detached but present, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else good.
Biles, was accused through the means of deceptive accounting of stealing some $ 11,000.00 in cash over a period of time, unnoticed, by his employers, and absconding after a mistake in his bookkeeping was discovered.

Three Volumes, quarto, Manuscript Letter Copy Books containing 1525 pp., with approximately 1500 business letters of four different cashiers for the Ilion Bank, of Ilion, Herkimer County, New York, dated between 1 April 1853 and 7 September 1859. The Ilion Bank, had as its president the arms manufacturer, Eliphalet Remington, who was the bank's president from the time of its founding in 1852 to his death in 1861.
The letters, in the present volumes, were written by four different cashiers of the bank: Robert H. Pomeroy (1853), John A. Rasbach (1856), H. H. Devendorf (1856 and 1859), and Floyd C. Shepard (1859). The letter copy books contain the day to day business correspondence and reflects the activities of the bank, in the letters the cashier writes to various individuals and other banks, about their returning bank notes for collection, or about sending them their own drafts on their bank, and the various business transactions and activities of the bank including mortgages, claims, requesting… Read More

quarto, two page autograph letter signed, old folds and creases otherwise very good. Rene Auguste Chouteau, to whom this letter was written, was assistant to Pierre Laclede in the founding of St. Louis in 1763-1764. For some time, under the Spanish regime, he and his half brother Pierre traded among the Osage Indians, but chiefly he was identified with St. Louis, of which by his death in 1829 he had become the wealthiest citizen and largest landholder. Born in New Orleans, he had connections there all his life, particularly in the mercantile field, as exemplified by the present letter, which is written in French. Cavelier & Fils were the agents of the fur traders in New Orleans. This letter replies to a letter of May 26th, received by "le Courrier," in which Chouteau had ordered various goods. It touches on various business affairs and also mentions two names significant in the history of the fur trade, "Mr. Robidou," the elder Joseph Robidoux, and "James Makay", the former Nor'Wester who a decade… Read More

octavo, 46 page pamphlet, original printed wrappers, wraps detached but present, ex-library, handstamp on title page, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, wraps chipped along edges, else a good copy.
"August 15th, 1895, the United States filed suits against the Coetermans-Heinrichs-Keck Diamond Cutting Company, a corporation under the laws of the State of Ohio, Herman Keck and Franz Van Reeth, claiming penalties for alleged violations of the Contract Labor Law…."

Octavo and quarto, 13 pages, inscribed on sheets of lined paper in pencil, in very good clean condition. “What I saw while a Prisoner of War
I enlisted in the 8th Me Regt. Co I May 6, 1861. Was taken prisoner at the battle of Drewy’s Bluff Va., May 16, 1864 they took me to Libby Prison same day. They put us in the upper story; Castle Thunder was opposite Libby Prison while in Libby they gave us bean pods and all after we picked out the pods but a few beans was left.
May 23d 1864 Left Libby Prison for Danville, Va, Arrived at Danville 24. 25 left Danville for Andersonville, Ga May 30th arrived at Andersonville Ga. The stockade wos was ma built out of timber hewn on two sides, so they would be tight when put together they was about 14 feet in length they were set in the ground 2 or 3 feet the sentry boxes were built on the outside of the stockade so the guard could look over into the prison to watch we Yanks. Inside of the stockade was the deadline; it was posts set in the… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. Large archival collection consisting of: 2273 letters, 5636 pages, plus 16 diaries, and 9 banker's boxes (approximately 11 linear feet) of ephemeral materials, all dated 1898-1990, the bulk from 1920s-1960s. The correspondence centers on Phyllis Hart Clark and her family. There are 623 letters written by Phyllis (mostly retained copies) and 647 incoming letters. Her husband Raymond G. Clark writes and receives 201 letters. As a couple Phyllis and Raymond receive 450 letters, and their son Philip writes and receives 293 letters. The ephemera includes several thousand pieces including folders of typed and manuscript notes, brochures, circulars, handouts, pamphlets, postcards, telegrams, etc., all dated 1930s to 1980s [for further description see below].

Cambridge, Mass., Riverside, 1861, large quarto, yearbook album with 110 oval salt print portraits, measuring 6 x 5 inches, 28 of faculty members, each signed, one of the African American porter, (unsigned), plus 82 portraits of class members, all but four of which are signed by the subject with their hometown, binding worn, backstrip defective, front board missing, images are in good clean condition.
The faculty include the photographs and signatures of several prominent scholars and educators including: historian and regent of the Smithsonian Institution Cornelius Conway Felton (1807-1862), preacher and author Andrew Preston Peabody (1811-1893), biologist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), poet James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), botanist Asa Gray (1810-1888), philosopher Francis Bowen (1811-1890), musical scholar Francis James Child (1825-1896), modern Greek scholar Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles (1807-1883), Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) who would transform Harvard and be its longest-serving president.

octavo, 22 page pamphlet, lacking wrappers, ex-library, handstamp on title page, bottom 1/3 of title page torn away, and missing, with loss of imprint information, else textually complete, a good reading copy.
"Dunbar, twenty-one years old, killed the nephews of his step-father, one by a blow, the other by hanging in a tree, fearing they might inherit the property which he felt should come to him." – McDade, Annals of Murder, 269

42 letters, 204 handwritten pages, with envelopes, dated 5 April 1870 to 20 February 1892, and a couple of newspaper clippings; correspondence informs of the social history of the families, sickness, deaths, work, people moving about, keeping in touch with family who moved away, etc., there are a couple of letters dealing with women's medical issues.
*Quotes from the letters can be emailed on request.
Nancy Russell Sever Chase (1835-1908) and husband Rev. Henry L. Chase (1832-1905)
Henry L. Chase was born on 9 September 1832 in Westford, Vermont. He was the youngest of five children born to farmer Truman Chase (1790-1871) and Laura Ballard (1794-1872) of Westford. In 1865 Chase was living in Carver, Massachusetts, where he was listed as a clergyman. Online searches show Chase to have been a Congregational minister who served in Carver, Massachusetts (1865); Dyersville (1867-1870) and Green Mountain (1870-1882), both in Iowa, then later, in 1885, he was appointed to a church in Hutchinson, Minnesota.… Read More

236 letters, 312 pages, 50 deeds, receipts et cetera, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
Nathaniel Goodwin was born in Hartford, Connecticut, March 5, 1782, and died there May 29, 1855. He was apprenticed to a printer in Albany, and afterward became a teacher and land-surveyor. At Hartford he was for many years City treasurer and judge of probate, and was often employed in the settlement of estates, He published Descendants of Thomas Olcott (1845), and The Foote Family (1849). After his death appeared his Genealogical Notes of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, with a memoir (1856).
This collection consists of incoming correspondence written to Nathaniel Goodwin as well as retained copies of Goodwin's outgoing correspondence, 1811-1855. The correspondence is almost entirely business related, involving the settlement of estate, land disputes, and other legal matters. Several letters have manuscript surveys, ranging from nearby towns in Connecticut… Read More

28 letters, 89 pp., (19 retained mailing envelopes), the bulk of letters are handwritten, a couple are typed, dated 16 December 1936 to 23 December 1940; all of the letters were written to Edna Bokholt; there are letters from friends and family (7), from male suitors: Darl Beier of Grand Island, Nebraska (5 letters); Earl while attending C.M.T.C. at Fort Snelling, Minnesota (7 letters); and Irvin Redlinger of Millboro, South Dakota (9 letters); the collection also includes 29 photographs, 16 are in a small album, and also an 87 manuscript pp autograph/verse book dated 1933, plus 40 pieces of paper ephemera, both printed and manuscript, including postcards, calling cards, greeting cards, invitations, newspapers clippings, telegram, brochures, programs, pages of verse, commencement cards, etc.
Edna Bokholt (1918-1997)
Edna Bokholt was born 2 April 1918 in Winner, South Dakota, the daughter of August N. Bokholt (1872-1944) and his wife Velma Altheda Woodruff. Edna was enumerated living… Read More

68 letters, 117 manuscript pages, in very good clean and legible condition.

Collection of incoming letters to Pennsylvania newspaperman and printer, turned lawyer, judge and large land-owner.
Edward M. Paxson, early in his career was a newspaperman and subsequently went into law, and eventually served as a Supreme Court Justice in Pennsylvania for eighteen years. Paxson was one of the largest real estate owners in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. – see Davis, William W. H., A. M., History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania [New York-Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1905].
Paxson was the son of Thomas Paxson, a prominent Pennsylvania Quaker, of Bucks County. The correspondence deals with all aspects of Paxson's career his newspaper holdings, real estate and land investments both in Pennsylvania and in Virginia, law and politics, and family. Many of the letters deal with Paxson's newspaper and printing business which included papers in both Bucks County and Chester County, Pennsylvania. There… Read More

Large collection of 326 images of Alaska, 98 photographs, 139 real photograph and 89 photochrome postcards assembled and taken by Carl W. Rogers, of Fairbanks, and Iditarod, Alaska, mainly of Iditarod and other now abandoned mining camps along the Iditarod River, including Dikeman, Georgetown, Ophir, Flat City, Flat Creek, Ruby, and many others. The images date between 1908-1911. Many of the images were taken by Rogers and some have his signature on the verso. The images record these now largely vanished settlements, mining camps, trading posts, Native villages, roadhouses, pioneer cabins at the beginning of the mining boom that brought thousands to the shores of the remote Iditarod River. The images also include inhabitants both Native and white.
The September 26, 1910, issue of The Alaska Citizen of Fairbanks, carries the following announcement concerning Rogers:
"Sendoff For Carl Rogers – Last Sunday evening about sixty members of the Christian Science church assembled at the home of Mr. and Mrs.… Read More

Manuscript archive consisting of 507 letters, 693 pages, both manuscript and typed, (without retained mailing envelopes), dated 1902-1923, the bulk of correspondence being from 1916 to 1923. Correspondence includes 161 retained copies of letters (174 pp) written by Judge Fanning; plus 346 incoming letters (519 pp), written to Fanning by various politicians, judges, attorneys, business associates, clients, friends, or family. Also included are 180 pieces of ephemera, of which 58 pieces deal with Judge Fanning's interest in the Yolo Olive Company. Other ephemeral materials deal with his legal work as a general attorney. His legal practice dealt with the settling of estates, handling injuries, etc. The ephemeral items include various notes and memorandum, legal papers, telegrams, postcards, hand drawn maps/plats, etc.The archive can be grouped into three sections: Fanning's political activities, his general legal practice, and his interest in the Yolo Olive Company, a plan to find investors to purchase… Read More

sixteen letters, 51 pages, inscribed in ink and pencil, primarily dated 1902, but includes one letter dated 1894 from Knut Lindblom to his brother Axel, several letters in Swedish, some minor wear and soiling, else in good legible condition.
Axel Lindblom, a Swedish immigrant to America writes to his brother and fellow immigrant Knut, describing his life as a sailor, first aboard the U.S.S. Wabash and then the Decatur. He also discusses family life, and writing to his mother and sister who were still back in the "old country."
Sample Quotes:
"New London, Sept. 8th [1902] on board U.S.S. Decatur
Dear Brother,
… You want me to tell you some thing about terms and things on board a sea going ship. Well, this torpedo boats are altogether different from the "white ships". In this boats you can do almost any dam thing you please. You get up at seven o'clock in the morning get your breakfast at 7 30 at eight o'clock sweep down deck, take a look all over and see that… Read More

86 letters, comprising 607 manuscript pages, most with envelopes, written in ink, pencil, with a couple typed. The letters are written in legible hands. The letters are written by Lila and Belle Jacobs mainly to their mother, but also to their father. The collection includes the following: 15 letters, 88 pages, dated 1893; 42 letters, 287 pages, dated 1894; 24 letters, 205 pages, dated 1895; 5 letters, 27 pages, undated; 3 postcards; and 2 pieces of paper ephemera, which are from the same time period.While the envelopes tend to be addressed to their mother at East Windsor, Massachusetts, the actual letters themselves are generally addressed to "Mama and Papa" or "Dear ones at home." The letters written by Lila and Belle are written while the girls are away for three years studying at Dalton High School in Dalton, Massachusetts, which is about 7 miles distance from where the family lived in East Windsor. The girls are staying with family (an aunt and uncle) while they attend school. The relationship… Read More

194 letters, 242 manuscript pp., mostly stamp-less letter-sheets, dated 3 June 1822 to 27 September 1854; of the 194 letters, 168 of the letters were written by various individuals to Henry Mason Morfit, Esq.; the remaining 26 are miscellaneous letters written to and from various individuals, perhaps regarding cases, or projects Morfit was involved with, or working on.
The letters appear to have been sewn into a ledger at one time and removed, and contain small holes in the inner margins. Also included are 9 pieces of ephemera which includes 1 cdv photograph (identity unclear); several manuscript receipts, manuscript copy of a deed, a couple of manuscript pages of accounts, etc.
The letters are addressed to Morfit at his Washington, DC office and are written by individuals (usually merchants) from Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City primarily, with a couple of letters addressed from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Washington, DC; Hagerstown, Maryland (family); Rochester, New York; and Alexandria,… Read More

Collection of 29 manuscript letters (totaling 39 pages + address panels, mostly folio and quarto) dating 1783-1791 to George Hale (b. 1759 d. 1803) of Glastonbury, Connecticut, from various correspondents (including Yale classmates) writing to him at Glastonbury and (for awhile) Providence RI. Correspondents include: Jabez Peck, Isaac Welles, Roswell Welles, "John Hiwill," Ashbell Welles, his older brother, Elisha Hale, Nabby Kimball, Zebediah Tracy, Abner Moseley, Nathaniel Tallcott Jr., and Elijah Killack. Together with: 7 chit receipts contemporary with these letters and later; a very worn BOSTON EVENING-POST (Numb. 1567, Sept. 23, 1765); and three other family items. Condition: clean, but worn and torn, with occasional textual loss consequent to original opening of wax seals.
George Hale was descended from Samuel Hale who landed at Watertown, west of Boston in 1634, who settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1635, until in 1690, Glastonbury was set off as a separate parish. George's father… Read More

13 letters, 42 manuscript pages, dated 30 July 1835 to 9 August 1840, plus 11 pages of manuscript papers written by the Rev. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer to "Rev. Dr. Vermilye, Pearl St," concerning Van Rensselaer's father, General Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764-1839). The Rockwood and Vermilye families were intermarried.Description of the Correspondence: 1 letter written by Erskine Hazard, Esq., to Charles G. Rockwood, addressed to him "Care of Wm. M. Vermilye, Esq., Cash'r Merch't Exc. Bank, New York," informing Rockwood of the death of his brother (Erskine) in Cuba from the Yellow Fever, dated Philadelphia, 30 July 1835. "Philadelphia, 30 July 1835....I rec'd your letter a long time since announcing your having changed your situation in business and intended before now to have written you but have been too much occupied -- I am now compelled to adopt this course as the one that would be most likely for your mother to received with the least shock the melancholy news of the death of your… Read More