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Vintage glossy 4 x 5.75 German promotional photograph of Jimi Hendrix, issued by the KA¶lner Stadt-Anzeiger (KA¶lnische Zeitung) for Hendrix's appearance at Studio Dumont in Cologne, Germany, on January 13, 1969, signed prominently in the lower border in felt tip, Jimi Hendrix

The lower portion bears the newspaper's blue-printed masthead and an event-specific inscription: Jimi Hendrix, 13. 1. 69, Pressehaus KA¶ln, directly linking the piece to the date and location of its issuance.

In very good condition, with overall creasing. Accompanied by a detailed provenance letter and a group of 10 glossy photos, 8 x 6 and 6 x 8, of documentary stills from contemporary television footage showing Hendrix participating in the autograph session and signing cards of this exact type.

According to the accompanying provenance research, the card was produced exclusively for a January 13, 1969 autograph session in Cologne, held in conjunction with The Jimi Hendrix Experience's appearance at the KA¶lner Sporthalle that evening during its January 1969 European tour.

The provenance materials identify the event as having taken place at Studio Dumont within the Pressehaus KA¶ln complex and further note that contemporary television footage of the event shows Hendrix seated at a table signing these specially produced newspaper-issued promotional cards.

Few organized autograph appearances by Hendrix are known, making this one of the most thoroughly documented examples from his career. Bearing the printed date, venue reference, and newspaper attribution integral to its design, this signed photocard is a particularly well-documented example from Hendrix's career.

Revolutionary War-dated LS, signed "Go: Washington," and penned in the hand of his trusted aide-de-camp, James McHenry, one page, 7.25 x 9, June 10, 1779. Addressed from "Head Quarters," the letter was sent to New York Governor George Clinton.

In full: "I am honored with your Excellency's favour of yesterday by Col. Malcolm, who has communicated to me the particulars with which you charged him ” I beg leave to refer you to my letter of yesterday which I hope you have received. In that, sensible of the inconvenience of keeping out the militia at this season of the year, I anticipated your wish for their discharge with my warmest acknowledgements for the zeal and alacrity they have discovered on the present interesting occasion."

In very fine to fine condition. Written during a critical phase of the Revolutionary War, this letter concerns New York militia forces called into service under Governor George Clinton, one of Washington's most important wartime allies, in response to a major British offensive in the Hudson Valley.

On June 1, 1779, British forces under Sir Henry Clinton had seized the American fortifications at Stony Point and Verplanck's Point, capturing the strategically important King's Ferry crossing and threatening communications between New England and the Middle Colonies. The New York militia whose discharge Washington discusses had been mobilized to meet this threat, lending particular weight to his expression of gratitude for their "zeal and alacrity."

Written amid the American response to the loss of Stony Point, the letter dates to the same campaign that culminated five weeks later in Brigadier General Anthony Wayne's celebrated midnight assault and recapture of the fortification. The "Col. Malcolm" referenced is Continental Army officer William Malcolm, who frequently served as an intermediary between Washington and New York authorities.

Acknowledging the burden of retaining militia in the field during the farming season, Washington moves to release the troops while maintaining the goodwill of the governor, whose cooperation remained essential to the defense of the Hudson Highlands. Penned by future Secretary of War James McHenry and signed by Washington at the conclusion, the letter reflects the constant coordination required between military and civil leadership during the struggle for American independence.

nteresting and generous collection. 90 plus books, pamphlets and manuscripts from the 18th century to the 20th century.

Highlights include (but are not limited to): Edward Popham "Elogia", William Pulleyn "Church Yard Gleanings", Tibbs "Gothic Tombs", Duncan "Elogium Sepulchralium", "Verses on Gravestones."

RUSSELL, Robert. Map shewing the site of Melbourne and the position of the huts and buildings previous to the foundation of the township by Sir Richard Bourke in 1837. [London, 1837]. Lithographed map, 48 x 64 centimetres; framed and glazed. Closed tears at top right and left, small restoration in bottom left corner, a little soiling.

Very rare. The first map of Melbourne, showing Hoddle’s street plan, the various buildings and town allotments, including dwellings with names of the owners, and natural features. Billot 122a. Reported by Rare Book Hub.

OP NOTE: This auction had a variety of other material of significant Australian historical interest.

LOG OF THE FAMOUS AMERICAN CLIPPER SHIP "FLYING CLOUD" 19th Century

Kept daily by Captain Winsor, outlining the seventh voyage of the Flying Cloud from December 9, 1859 through January 5, 1862. Her track was from New York to London, to Hong Kong, to London, to Melbourne, to Hong Kong, and to London, where she was sold upon arrival to British interests. An informative and interesting log.

Notable remarks include the sighting of the Robin Hood and the good deal of money bet on which of the two ships would reach Hong Kong first. Winsor writes on May 21, after his arrival in Hong Kong, that Flying Cloud "beat the Robin Hood seven days on the passage. The smartest English ship in the China trade."

He also notes that at least one bet of 400 English pounds was placed on the Robin Hood and several of lesser amounts. On August 7, 1860 Flying Cloud ran into a typhoon after leaving Hong Kong. The ship was on a lee shore, and "it blew the most violent continuous thirty-six hours. I have been going to sea for thirty-five years and never saw such a gale as this before. It has made the Flying Cloud look a wreck. Still, no ship could behave better. Made very little water, lost no spars, but any quantity of sails."

Approx. 46 printed double pages. Kept in a large oblong folio volume in wraps printed by M.F. Maury of the United States Hydrographical Office. Contained in a modern folding box with gilt calf spine.

Condition Report: The spine has a taped repair and the covers show wear.

VERHOEVEN, BEN and GAYLORD SCHANILEC.

Sylvae: Fifty Specimens printed directly from the wood with historical anecdotes & observations. [Stockholm, Wisconsin]: Midnight Paper Sales, 2008. One of 26 large-paper lettered copies (and 120 small-paper lettered copies), with 25 wood specimens cased with the book. Bound by Booklab 2 in quarter-sawn white oak with an alum-tawed goatskin spine, in the medieval style, housed in the dark cloth clamshell case of issue. 15 x 10 inches; 192 pp., with 53 relief prints (wood cuts and wood engravings), some folding, and 25 wood specimens mounted in a tray. Fine.

This imposing large-paper issue contains samples of various woods in a tray in the rear compartment of the clamshell case. It has not previously come to auction. As Schanilec writes on his website: "Twenty wooded acres surround Midnight Paper Sales in western Wisconsin. This book documents the journey of Ben Verhoeven and Gaylord Schanilec into the woods to create a work not only about these trees, but of these trees.

In all 24 species have been catalogued through image, historical anecdotes, and notes taken during the cutting, milling, engraving and printing. The 53 images consist primarily of long grain and end grain specimens which have been taken from this property. In each case the image is manipulated through either color, impression, engraving, or some combination of the above to emphasize a certain characteristic of a species. The text varies as well from tree to tree, focusing on what role each played in the local history and in this project." A detailed account of the preparatory work on the book is at: https://www.midnightpapersales.com/sylva_progress/sylvae_process.html

EXTENSIVE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN PHOTOS & EPHEMERA.
Comprising over 160 individual items, including some excellent vintage photographs, with many personal, behind-the-scenes Brownie Kodak-type images of Nicholas II, his wife, and children at various events and locations.

Photographs of Tsar Alexander II on maneuvers, CDVs of various court figures, a death CDV of Grand Duke Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, 1865, as well as vintage color lithograph trade cards depicting royal family members, postcards, cabinet cards, two glass negatives—one depicting Alexander III and the other an interior scene of an imperial residence—and two glass projection slides, as well as a few imperial currency notes.

Also includes 50 English Wills's color cigarette cards depicting scenes of Russia, circa 1910, press release photos published after the overthrow and death of the imperial family, circa 1917-1918, and other related material. Greatest individual size 8.5 x 11.25 inches (22 x 28.5cm).

(lot 36) Rare Books & Bookworm Online

Dickinson, Emily. POEMS… Second Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. 12mo. With facsimile of "Renunciation" at front, 230 pp. Bound in original white cloth backed in green cloth, all edges gilt, with gilt to covers. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE; issued in two variant bindings by the publisher. Other variant offered by this auction firm as the prior lot.

Condition: Covers soiled; endpapers toned, old gift inscription to front endpaper, else clean with only the rare occasional minor spot of foxing.

Seamus Heaney. Beowulf. 1999. 1st. Signed & inscribed by Heaney dated 6-X-'99. Mint in pictorial dust jacket.

More photos and a more detailed description of the letters and other ephemeral material in this lot can be found at the auction house site https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/hansons/catalogue-id-hanson11004/lot-62a1f5bd-ff6b-438c-99d9-b48900c53a15

Group of 9 volumes, as listed below. 8vo, cloth, dust jackets; light wear. FIRST EDITIONS.

All the Pretty Horses. 1992. TWO COPIES (1 with ink ex-libris) * The Crossing. 1994 * Cities of the Plain. 1998. TWO COPIES * The Road. 2006 * The Stonemason. (1994) * No Country for Old Men. 2005 * The Gardener's Son. (1996).

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Excerpts from the catalog notes:

This is an example of a ptolemaic map of the ancient world. It is one of the final representations of the known globe before the discovery of the New World.

One of the earliest printed maps of the world, it was published only 40 years after the invention of printing. The map is surrounded by twelve wind heads "Holding" the map are the three sons of Noah - Sem, Ham, and Iaphet.

This suggests the theological view of the sons of Noah repopulating the Earth after the Great Flood. To the left and on the opposite side of the map are illustrations of strange and mythological creatures. The creatures were used to illustrate the inhabitants of the undiscovered and unexplored lands. "What gives the map its present-day interest and attraction are the panels representing the outlandish creatures and beings that were thought to inhabit the furthermost parts of the earth... a six-armed man, possibly based on glimpses of a file of Hindu dancers… a six-fingered man, a centaur, a four-eyed man from a coastal tribe in Ethiopia; a dog-headed man from the Simien Mountains, a cyclops, one of those men whose heads grow beneath their shoulders, one of the crook-legged men who live in the desert and slide along instead of walking; a strange hermaphrodite, a man with one giant foot only (stated by Solinus to be used as a parasol but more likely an unfortunate sufferer from elephantiasis), a man with a huge underlip (doubtless seen in Africa), a man with waist-length hanging ears, and other frightening and fanciful creatures of a world beyond." (Shirley 19)

About the work: This important and historic woodcut is from Hartmann Schedel Liber Chronicarum, more commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle (in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten in the first German edition published 6 months after the first Latin edition.

Both editions were limited to 2000 printings. It was published in Nuremberg in 1493 by Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister.

The work included numerous illustrations that were completed by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and members of their workshop.

The entire Nuremberg Chronicle included maps and town views, but also depicts historic information including the invention of the printing press, development of the game of chess, navigational voyages, and important constructions.

Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) was a German writer, physician, and book collector. He is most remembered for his famous work Liber Chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle. He published some of the first printed views of many cities.

Provenance: early manuscript notes on map and marginalia (see below); early ownership inscription on title dated 1600, (reading in part: "Dis Buch hatt mir der Edel und Vest Ernst von und zu Asch[...] geschenckt", signed by Johann Schustle [?], apparently "Pfarrer zu Landshut" [?], with the date 1493 added beneath) Paper Size: ~ 23" by 16 3/4" (Fold Out) Paper Type or Special Features: Folio Woodcut with Professional Hand-coloring

The catalog notes on this item were very brief:
Asia.- Arndt (Johann) De Vero Christianismo, text in Tamil, Halle an der Saale, 1751.

Additional notes: De Vero Christianismo (Latin for "On True Christianity") is a famous 17th-century devotional book written by the German Lutheran theologian Johann Arndt. First published in German as Vier Bücher von wahrem Christenthum between 1505 and 1606 (and later translated into Latin and many other languages), it became a foundational text for Lutheran Pietism.

JOHN S. MOSBY
(1833 - 1916) Confederate officer, 'The Grey Ghost' led his Partisan Rangers on numerous troublesome cavalry raids against Union forces and supply trains. Excessively rare and most desirable war-date S.P., 2.5 x 4 in. sepia, a chest-up view of Mosby in uniform, boldly signed ‘Jno. S. Mosby' in black ink across the bottom of the print. The verso bears the backstamp of E. J. Rees & Co. of Richmond, and shows two pencil identifying inscriptions. The contrast of the image is slightly light otherwise in fine condition overall. Sold with a period printed facsimile copy of Mosby's farewell address to his troops, chipped at the edges and moderately toned.

Note: The auction description does not explicitly identify the whether this is a printed portrait or an actual photo, it does state it is an original Mosby autograph.

This important and historic print is from Hartmann Schedel Liber Chronicarum, more commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle (in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten. This is from the first German edition published 6 months after the first Latin edition. Both editions were limited to 2000 printings.

It was published in Nuremberg in 1493 by Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister. The work included numerous illustrations that were completed by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and members of their workshop. This very likely included the young Albrecht Durer as well.

The work included maps and town views, but also chronicles historic information including the invention of the printing press, development of the game of chess, navigational voyages, and important constructions.

Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) was a German writer, physician, and book collector. He is most remembered for his famous work Liber Chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle. He published some of the first printed views of many cities.

Provenance: early manuscript notes on map and marginalia (see below); early ownership inscription on title dated 1600, (reading in part: "Dis Buch hatt mir der Edel und Vest Ernst von und zu Asch[...] geschenckt", signed by Johann Schustle [?], apparently "Pfarrer zu Landshut" [?], with the date 1493 added beneath) Paper Size: ~ 11 1/2" by 16 3/4"

Paper Type or Special Features: Folio Woodcut

Two (2) Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909) chromolithographs, "Old Ramon" and "A Cheyenne Buck," from the portfolio "A Bunch of Buckskins." Published by Robert Howard Russell, with printed copyright information in the lower left corners (1901).

Housed as issued in the original portfolio case with printed title label and fabric ties and includes Introductory Note by Owen Wister.

Each Sheet: 20 in. H x 15 in. W. Introductory Note: 25 in. H. x 19 1/2 in. W. Portfolio: 26 3/8 in. H x 20 in. W x 1/4 in. D. 1901. 

Note: "A Bunch of Buckskins," was a portfolio that originally contained eight (8) lithographic images of Western subjects, was regarded as Frederic Remington’s most successful print series. It was published in 1901 by frequent Remington collaborator R.H. Russell. (The original pastels from the portfolio were included in the artist’s first solo gallery exhibition in New York in December 1901).

This pair of chromoliths sold at Chase Antique Auctions on August 1-2 for $984, somewhat lower than the house low estimate of $1,600.

Two (2) Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909) chromolithographs, "Old Ramon" and "A Cheyenne Buck," from the portfolio "A Bunch of Buckskins." Published by Robert Howard Russell, with printed copyright information in the lower left corners (1901).

Housed as issued in the original portfolio case with printed title label and fabric ties and includes Introductory Note by Owen Wister.

Each Sheet: 20 in. H x 15 in. W. Introductory Note: 25 in. H. x 19 1/2 in. W. Portfolio: 26 3/8 in. H x 20 in. W x 1/4 in. D. 1901. 

Note: "A Bunch of Buckskins," was a portfolio that originally contained eight (8) lithographic images of Western subjects, was regarded as Frederic Remington’s most successful print series. It was published in 1901 by frequent Remington collaborator R.H. Russell. (The original pastels from the portfolio were included in the artist’s first solo gallery exhibition in New York in December 1901).

This pair of chromoliths sold at Chase Antique Auctions on August 1-2 for $984, somewhat lower than the house low estimate of $1,600.

Rare large half plate Civil War ambrotype photograph depicting nine (9) Confederate soldiers, likely all members of the 19th Georgia Infantry, and members of the Johnson Family of Georgia, seated and standing outside an army tent.

This image was taken in June of 1862 when John Hutchins Johnson (1807-1864) pictured far right, front, seated and holding a hat), and members of his family traveled from his plantation in Coweta County, Georgia to Richmond, VA to visit his sons, members of the 19th GA Infantry, whose regiment was stationed nearby.

Lt. Col. Thomas Coke (T.C.) Johnson stands at far left holding the hand of his seated wife, Ella Wiggins (1840-1911), with their young son at her feet. Just a few weeks after this image was taken, T.C. Johnson was killed leading the 19th Georgia Infantry into action at the Battle of Mechanicsville.

According to family records, the soldier standing just behind T.C. is his brother, Richard Allen Johnson (1845-1914). Seated at J.H. Johnson's right is family friend and distant relative Rev. Dabney Jones. Jones' son sits beside him, under the flag, wearing a beard without mustache.

The older woman standing beside Ella Johnson may be J.H. Johnson's second wife, Mariah.

Not pictured in this image is John Hutchins Johnson's sons Lt. William Henry Harrison "Adjutant" Johnson (b. 1840, who would be killed in action at Oluste, FL, in 1864).

The Georgia Digital Library, which provided some of the information for this entry, has another photographic view of this same family gathering which does include William Johnson standing next to T.C. Johnson.

Additional information was provided by a 1938 letter by Edgar H. Johnson, son of a fourth brother, John Andrew Johnson (1837-1900), written to Thomas Coke Johnson III. It is not clear if John is in the photograph.

The ambrotype measures 5 1/2 in. H x 4 1/4 in. W. and is housed in a gilt metal mat with oval opening (4 1/2 in. H x 3 1/2 in. W). Also included in this lot is a group of eight (8) assorted daguerreotypes, tintypes and ambrotypes of various unidentified family members in civilian clothing, ranging from ninth to sixth plate sizes.

This fascinating album with 24 albumen photographs was from a collection of photos of Hawaii created by James J. Williams. Williams took the photographs circa 1890s. The album is bound in black 1/2 leatherette over cloth with storage box.

It includes the hand-written list of the included photographs. The subjects for his photograph collection were Princess Ka'iulani, surfers, landscapes, cityscapes, agricultural scenes, Iolani Palace, Honolulu, Waikiki, flora and other natural landscape, commerce, and more.

In particular his portrait of the last princess of Hawaii, Ka'iulani, is rare.

James J. Williams (1853-1926) was an English-born photographer. He documented the Kingdom of Hawaii and its royal family. He operated a photography studio in Honolulu, and his work there remains significant.

Paper Size: Box ~ 11 1/2" by 14 1/2"; Album ~ 10 1/2" by 13 1/2"; Photographs ~ 7 1/4" by 9 1/2"

Wilkes sailed along and surveyed the whole Northwest coast and his exploring parties penetrated into the interior at many points..." Hill notes that Wilkes "sailed into the Antarctic Ocean and along the Antarctic Continent from 150° to 97° East, reporting land at a number of points in the region now know as Wilkesland. He visited Tonga, the Fiji group, and the Hawaiian Islands in 1840, and in 1841 explored the west coast of North America.

The findings were timely, in view of the dispute with Great Britain over the Oregon Territory, and he also visited San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River...." The numerous engravings and plates include striking depictions of Pacific islands and their natives, Hawaiian volcanoes, Australia, the continent of Antarctica, an early rendition of the outpost at Astoria, an encampment on the Sacramento with Californios relaxing, mountains in the distance, Mt. Shasta, etc., and an important map of the Western half of the contemporary United States. Present volumes believed complete but not collated.

Nine volumes with numerous steel-engraved plates, vignettes, woodcuts, copper-engraved maps, etc. Variously sized. All but one in blind-stamped cloth stamped in gilt, one in quarter vellum over parchment boards. Later volumes from Wilkes' landmark Narrative.

Seven of which are rare first edition presentation copies for the State of Missouri from the Congress of the United States. As Howes notes, this was "The first United States scientific expedition by sea.

Forbes 1517, 1589; Haskell 1, 15, 19; Hill 1746, 1866, Howes W-414, Rosove 353.A1, 354-1.A1. Seven volumes bearing State of Missouri presentation bookmarks. Comprises: Plus two additional volumes: