Manuscripts & Original Documents

1958. Carte de voeux. Très bon. Aucune reliure. Signé par l'illustrateur. Ed. originale. Carte de voeux de l'artiste israëlien Michael Argov pour l'année 1958. 23 x 15,5 cm, 2 ff., avec une lithographie originale en couleurs en page 3 numérotée 13/50, signée et datée à la mine de plomb, en page deux un envoi autographe signé à la plume. Bel état..

Dessin. Bon. Pas de couverture. [circa 1950] 3 pages A4 anopistographes, chacune ornée d'un dessin original à la mine de plomb (1 grand et 2 petits). 3 croquis sur papier, esquisse d'un projet de Jean Effel autour de la justice. Le dessin principal montre un oiseau tenant le rôle d'accusé dans une salle d'audience, une autre planche est divisée en quatre cases dont seule la première contient un dessin, la troisième planche contient un croquis très sommaire, légendé. Petits faux plis..

This book was sent to Dr. David Bartlett of the Univ. of Colorado by Dr. Levy of France. Personal letter from Dr. Levy to Dr. Bartlett included. Text is very good——clean & tight & unmarked. Moderate shelf wear with 2 creases on front cover that intersect the spine. Dr. Bartlett's name written on front.

1873. Near Fine. 5 handwritten letters to William Ward, 1873-1879, regarding the Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad, which existed from 1872 to 1885; it was succeeded by the Philadelphia Midland Railroad. William Ward was one of the organizers of the Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad and in 1874 was the president and treasurer pro tem. Letters #1 and #2 (Sept. 5 and Dec. 5, 1873) are from Jos. H. McKeehan, an attorney in Philadelphia, who is writing about deliquent subscribers to the railroad. Letter #3 (Dec. 18, 1873) is from the Village Record, a newspaper in West Chester, Pa., with a copy of the advertisement that ran in the paper listing the dates that instalments from railroad subscribers were due in 1872. Letter #4 (Nov. 26, 1875) is from John Smith of Ridley Park, about a plan to petition to vacate a street and public ground adjoining Mr. Bartol's purchase. Letter #5 (Sept. 8, 1879) from the superintendant of the Government Paper Mill in Dalton, Mass., complaining about the… Read More

1905. Good +. Signed 3-page typescript of a agreement of sale between the American Baptist Publication Society and John Wanamaker. The American Baptist Publication Society sold to John Wanamaker the Crozier Building at 1420 and 1422 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, for $900,000. The Crozier Building was designed by Frank Miles Day & Brother and was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1980. American merchant John Wanamaker (1838-1922) had made $1.5 million in profits and interest from his stores in Philadelphia and New York in 1904, suggesting that his acquisition of the Crozier Building was an investment. The Crozier Building has continued to function as a successful office building to this day. In Good+ Condition: chipping at edges; loss of lower corner of first page, with minor loss of text; separating along some of the 2 horizontal creases in each page; signatures are clean and intact.

Buff House wrap, good clean volume.