1567 book of Cato’s (Marcus Porcius) agricultural treatise concerning plant and animal husbandry, edited by Swiss physician Theodor Zwinger. METHODUS RUSTICA CATONIS ATQ. VARRONIS. Praeceptis aphoristicis per Locos communes digestis a Theodoro Zwingero typice delineata & illustrata. (Publisher) Basilae: Petri Pernae opera atque impensa. Cum Privilegio. No date (1567). Small 8vo., 494pp (22pp index), contemporary limp vellum over boards with leather thong […]
Lot 524: Orlando Furioso by Ariosto Ludovico, Published 1547
ORLANDO FURIOSO, Ariosto Ludovico, Venice: by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547. 8vo, bound in later full brown leather with gilt design to covers, gilt foliate and lettering to spine. Title page within an elaborate woodcut frame; with multiple illustrations inside the text at the beginning of each canto and throughout. 6 1/4 in. x 8 1/2 in. x 2 […]
Lot 523: Military Annals of Tennessee, 1866; with Eyewitness Notes
THE MILITARY ANNALS OF TENNESSEE: CONFEDERATE by John Berrien Lindsey. Nashville, TN: J. M. Lindsley & Co, 1886. First Edition. 910pp. Original publisher’s gilt-pictorial boards, gilt spine and marbled endpapers. The book reviews in detail regimental histories with their military operations and memorial rolls. Numerous portraits throughout. Notations by George W. Samuel, a member of […]
Lot 522: Pr. Greg Ridley Copper Civil War Plaques, Lee & Grant, Plus Sketches
Two (2) Greg Ridley (Tennessee, 1925-2004) bas relief copper plaques of Civil War Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, plus four (4) Ridley pen sketches on envelopes. 1st item: Oval copper portrait plaque depicting General Robert E. Lee in Confederate uniform. Signed lower right and dated “’95”. Matted and framed in a wood frame […]
Lot 515: 6 TN Confederate Civil War Related Letters Incl. POW
Group of six (6) Civil War-era letters written by or addressed to Confederate Private James Polk Blakemore (called Polk), 18th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. Includes four written by Polk as Prisoner of War at Camp Butler, Illinois, plus Nashville and Middle Tennessee content. Letters discuss details of POW life (“…it is the same thing over and over every day get […]
Lot 513: CSA Gen. William Loring and JD Bulloch Photos, Letters, CSS Alabama related
Archive of 3 letters and 3 autographed Cabinet Card photographs of Confederate General William Wing Loring, AKA Loring Pasha, and of Cmdr. James D. Bulloch, Confederate spy and chief Naval Representative to England, from the collection of CSN 1st Lt. Richard Fielder Armstrong of the CSS Alabama, plus 2 Confederate post-war pieces of souvenir “currency.” 1st grouping: The […]
Lot 510: Gen. Alex P. Stewart ALS Civil War Letter to Capt. Wm. Tabb’s Sister
Confederate General Alexander P. Stewart (1821-1908) ALS to the sister of Captain William Henry Tabb, dated July 2, 1862, in response to her letter begging him to intervene for his release from Johnson’s Island Prison. Tabb and many soldiers in his regiment, the 14th Mississippi Infantry, were captured at the Battle of Fort Donelson. Stewart had […]
Lot 508: Civil War Era Autograph Album with Broadside, MS, TN, AL related
Autograph Album with pasted in Broadside and other ephemera related to CSA Capt. William H. Tabb, 14th Mississippi Co. G, Agency Rifles (b. 1837, killed in battle outside Atlanta, 1864). The album’s signature collection was begun in 1860 as Tabb’s Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN memory book and includes autographs of about 20 of his classmates […]
Lot 507: Archive of Capt. William Tabb of MS, CSA, Killed Atlanta
An archive of letters and ephemera related to Confederate Captain William Henry Tabb (1837-1864), 14th Mississippi Regiment Co. G, Agency Rifles. Includes a 2 1/2 in x 2 in tintype photo of Tabb in Civilian clothes, his two signed appointments to 1st and 2nd Lieut. of the Agency Rifles Company of the Army of Mississippi signed by […]
Lot 500: Alexander Hamilton ALS, Whiskey Rebellion
Alexander Hamilton ALS authorizing Colonel David Henley “to make advances on account of the pay due to the Troops of the United States in the Territory South West of the Ohio” up to $3,000. Dated September 18, 1794. The 10 in x 8 in double sheet letter is mounted at the top of the second page […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- …
- 642
- Next Page »