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Rare 19th century example of Johnson's Map of Florida
WARD, BENJAMIN P. AND ALVIN JEWETT JOHNSON.
Johnson’s Map of Florida.
New York: Johnson and Ward c. 1866.
Rare 19th century example of Johnson’s famed post-Civil War era map of the state of Florida. One page, the hand-colored lithographic map depicts the state in full with color coding according to county shortly following the close of the American Civil War with references to towns, railroads, villages, depots, swamps, the territories of Native American tribes, forts and battle sites related to the Seminole Wars, Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, Indian Hunting Grounds between Fort Poinsett and Key Biscayne Bay, Tampa Bay and the Okefenokee Swamp. Additionally notes the course of a proposed canal route leading from Tampa to the Atlantic and the Arredondo Grant to the west of St. Augustine. An inset map in the lower left hand quadrant details the Florida Keys. Featuring the fretwork style border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1863 to 1869, the map was published by Alvin Jewett Johnson and Benjamin P. Ward as plate number 43 in the 1866 edition of Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas, the last edition of the Johnson Atlas to bear the Johnson and Ward imprint. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 15.5 inches.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 138512
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Rare early 18th Century English Map of the State of Florida
A New and Accurate Map of East and West Florida. Drawn from the best Authorities. [18th Century Map of Florida].
London: [c. 1765].
Engraved 18th century English map of the state of Florida; one of the earliest printed maps of the state which appeared in the London Magazine in March of 1765. One page, the map is divided into British East and West Florida, showing South Florida as a group of over 50 islands and a number of wide navigable water routes from the Gulf to the Atlantic. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.75 inches by 17.5 inches.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 138232
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"My dear Johnnie": Rare typed letter signed by Winston S. Churchill to his brother Major John Churchill; framed with an original duotone print of Yousuf Karsh's iconic portrait of Churchill “The Roaring Lion”
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. [YOUSUF KARSH].
Winston S. Churchill Typed Letter Signed.
London: December 9, 1955.
Rare typed letter signed by Winston S. Churchill to his brother and only sibling, Major John Churchill, framed with an original duotone print of Yousuf Karsh’s famed portrait of Churchill “The Roaring Lion” which, in May 1941, was featured on the cover of Life magazine and brought Karsh international fame. One page, on Churchill’s 21 Hyde Park Gate, London letterhead, the letter is addressed to Major John Churchill and reads in full, “9” December, 1955. “My dear Johnnie,” I am indeed obliged to you and Kitty for your birthday token and good wishes. The portraits are beautifully done and I am delighted to be able to hang them in Chartwell. Thank you both so much. “Yours sincerely, Winston S. Churchill.” John Strange Spencer-Churchill, known as Jack Churchill, was the younger son of Lord Randolph Churchill and his wife Jennie, and Winston Churchill’s only sibling. He served in the South African Light Horse alongside Winston in the Second Boer War in 1899–1900 and later fought in World War I. After the war, he became a businessman in the City of London firstly as a partner at stockbrokers Nelke, Phillips & Bendix from 1906 and then at Vickers, da Costa, making partner in 1921. In fine condition. Double matted and framed with an original duotone print of Yousuf Karsh’s famed portrait of Churchill taken in 1941. The portrait measures 9 inches by 10.5 inches. The entire piece measures 15 inches by 20 inches. Rare and desirable.
Price: $18,000.00 Item Number: 139273
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"You will have the vote. Truth is great and will prevail": Rare First edition of John Masefield's My Faith in Woman Suffrage
MASEFIELD, JOHN.
My Faith in Woman Suffrage.
: The Woman's Press [1910].
First edition of the English Poet Laureate’s speech delivered in the Queens Hall, February 14th, 1910. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 135641
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"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace": Rare Henry Shrady Ulysses S. Grant Bronze Bust
GRANT, ULYSSES S.] HENRY MERWIN SHRADY.
Ulysses S. Grant Bronze Bust.
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Original bronze bust of Ulysses S. Grant by Henry Shrady, the famed sculptor of the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial on the west front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Mounted on socle and base, the entire piece measures 18.5 inches in height. In fine condition. An exceptional piece of Americana.
Price: $22,500.00 Item Number: 102885
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"the most widely read journal in the United States throughout the period of the Civil War": Rare continuous run of 260 issues of Harper's Weekly covering the entirety of the American Civil War; profusely illustrated with engravings depicting all of the war's major events and battles
Harper’s Weekly, A Journal of Civilization. [Harper’s Weekly’s Complete Coverage of the American Civil War: January 1, 1861-December 30, 1865].
New York: Harper & Brothers January 1, 1861-December 30, 1865.
Rare continuous run of 260 issues of Harper’s Weekly, covering the entirety of the American Civil War. Folio, five volumes, bound in full buckram with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, illustrated with hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations, many from noted American illustrators including portraits of Union and Confederate Army Generals and Officers, battlefield scenes, maps, city views, and dozens of satirical caricatures and cartoons, many from noted American illustrators. Of note are dozens of illustrations by American painter Winslow Homer early in his career, including the “Great Sumter Meeting in Union Square,” “The Sharpshooter,” and “The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.” Also of note are hundreds of illustrations by Thomas Nast, considered the “Father of the American Cartoon,” including several Christmas scenes, including the first modern depictions of Santa Claus, beginning in the January 1863 issues. In very good condition. Bookplates. A very rare and fascinating literary and political chronicle covering all of the war’s major events and battles.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 142619
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Le Vasseur's "Alexandre Dumas Illustré" edition of Dumas' Les Quarante-Cinq
DUMAS, ALEXANDRE.
Les Quarante-Cinq. [The Forty-Five Guardsmen].
Paris: A. Le Vasseur et Cie, Editeurs nd.
Le Vasseur’s “Alexandre Dumas Illustré” edition of third and final work in Dumas’ Valois trilogy. Quarto, original wrappers, frontispiece, illustrations by d’Alphonse de Neuville. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117946
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"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor": The Amontillado edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe
POE, EDGAR ALLAN.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. [Including: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Gold Bug, Raven, Eureka].
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1884].
The Amontillado edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo, 8 volumes bound in full morocco by P.B. Sanford with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume by R. Swain Gifford, Frederick Church and others, etched engraved vignettes to the title pages. One of 315 numbered copies signed and dated by the publisher on the limitation leaf of each volume, this is number 290. In fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 118042
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RARE PRINTED LETTER SIGNED BY THEODORE HERZL IN the wake of the collapse of Zionist fundraising efforts in Russia
HERZL, THEODOR.
Theodor Herzl Printed Letter Signed.
: December 19, 1903.
Printed letter signed by the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, in the wake of the collapse of Zionist fundraising efforts in Russia. One page, printed, sent from Vienna on December 19, 1903, the letter is in German and translates into English as, “As of around the 23rd of Oct. we have requested that you, in consideration of the current situation in Russia, which for a longer time has made the collection and delivery of the Shekel impossible to us, to compress in the fund-raising of the Shekel in your country as quickly as possible, and to send us the funds raised as soon as possible. As of now our Circulars have not achieved any results; you must have noticed that our funds are nearly exhausted and that the duty of Western comrades becomes – in the breach, which, because of the paralyzed organization of Russia, has come to break – to jump in and act so as not to let our entire apparatus collapse. We request that you therefore, once again, do what is possible to shore up our financial reserves.” Signed at the conclusion by Theodor Herzl, “Herzl” and countersigned by Oser Kokesch, an early Austrian-Jewish supporter of Herzl. As the Paris correspondent for Vienna’s Neue Freie Presse, Herzl was strongly affected by the infamous Dreyfus Affair, the 1894 conviction and exile of an innocent French-Jewish army officer, which Herzl covered for his newspaper. As a firsthand witness to the rise of French anti-Semitism, Herzl wrote The Ghetto, a drama focused on Jewish-Christian relations, and it was during this period that he became committed to the formation of a Jewish state. In 1896, he published his most influential work, Der Judenstaat, a practical outline for the realization of a Jewish homeland, in which Argentina and Palestine were considered as potential locations. In August of 1903, Herzl traveled to Russia to discuss the Interior Minster’s call for the suppression of the Zionist organization and the country’s ongoing and disturbing anti-Semitic pogroms. Herzl managed to win over the minister’s support for Zionism by suggesting that doing so would encourage Jewish emigration from Russia. While in Russia, Herzl was notified of Britain’s consent to the establishment of a Jewish settlement in East Africa. Many of the leading Zionists remained skeptical, however, seeing only the abandonment of the goal of a homeland in Palestine. After long discussions, Herzl was able to claim, on August 26th, a clear victory when Congress voted both to empower an investigating commission to explore the British option and to reaffirm its support for the long-cherished dream of a homeland in Palestine. This fundraising letter was written amidst the challenged facing Russian Jews and the possibilities open to the Zionist movement. In near fine condition.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 143208
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First Edition of A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln; Signed by both Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney
FONER, ERIC AND OLIVIA MAHONEY.
A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.
New York: 1990 CHS/ W.W. Norton & Company.
First edition of this early work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by both Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carl Steinbrenner.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 119339