Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera

An extensive photo album compiled by and documenting the career of aviation pioneer Wilhelm Heinrich Evers.<ul><li>Wilhelm Heinrich Evers (German).</li><li>80 black paper leaves with approximately 367 black and white photographs (all but a few gelatin silver prints) mounted to rectos and versos in dry corner mounts, 3 additional prints laid-in.&nbsp;</li><li>Prints frequently annotated in white album pen in both English and German.</li><li>Commercial album, black textured strong-tied leather over flexible stiff card wrappers.&nbsp;</li></ul> Evers was among the first wave of intrepid pilots to take to the skies following the Wright Brothers' 1903 flight. Active in both Germany and the United States, Evers's Fédération Aéronautique Internationale license number was 190, and he was a member of the Early Birds of Aviation (founded in 1928, limited only to the first 600 or so pilots who flew prior to December 16, 1916). Within the first decade of flight, Evers not only designed, built and flew his own planes in Germany, but was a pilot for the first commercial airline in the United States (The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line, 1913). Later, he would help develop some of the first high altitude aircraft (for Fokker Aircraft and others), held a number of aviation patents, and was among the main designers of the Junkers Ju 88—one of the most important German fighters of the Second World War. Most of these portions of his career are documented in this album with more than 350 original photographs. The album spans about 1910 through 1929 and covers his earliest flights in Germany (1910-1911); his foundational work with Thomas W. Benoist on the world's first passenger airline in Tampa, Florida (1913-1914); his work with Fokker in the 1920s and more. The first approximately 85 photographs document different iterations of Evers's early German flyers of his own design, designated E-I through E-VI and dated 1910-1913. The album then moves to Evers's close work with early aviators Tony Janus and Thomas W. Benoist in St. Louis, Missouri, including another about 85 photographs focusing on Benoist's St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, for which Evers was one of three original pilots. Roughly the final half of the album provides a highly technical glimpse into his work, largely in New Jersey with the Fokker Aircraft Corporation on various projects—including its failed F-32.

Photo Album of Aviator Wilhelm Heinrich Evers

A typed letter by former President Roosevelt to former American ambassador to France Jesse Straus.<ul><li>Franklin Delano Roosevelt (American).</li><li>New York: 1932.&nbsp;</li><li>One-page typed letter on "Executive Mansion" stationary signed by FDR in black ink.</li><li>Letter thanks Mr. Straus for his service and friendship and mentions "the serious problems that lie ahead."</li><li>Jesse Isidor Straus (June 25, 1872 – October 4, 1936) was the son of Isidor Straus (1845–1912) and Ida Straus (1849–1912), both of whom died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.</li></ul>

Typed Letter To Jesse Straus

A letter from Charles Dickens to his servant John Thompson.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: December 17, 1865.</li><li>Written on a single sheet of Dickens’s Gad's Hill Place letterhead. </li><li>With the original envelope addressed in his hand and signed within the address. </li><li>With a recent letter regarding provenance, as well as typescript transcription.</li></ul>

Autographed Letter by Charles Dickens

A&nbsp;scrapbook and associated ephemera relating to the lives and deaths of Isidor (February 6, 1845-April 15, 1912) and Ida (February 6, 1849-April 15, 1912) Straus, who died aboard the Titanic.<ul><li>The scrapbook is debossed with the phrase “News Clippings,” the name of Beatrice N. Straus, and the year 1912.</li><li>Noted items include:</li><li>An autographed letter signed by Ida Straus to her granddaughter Beatrice, dated March 18, 1912.</li><li>A letter from Jewish educator Julia Richman (1855-1912), the first female district superintendent of schools for New York City.</li><li>An 8-page holograph copy of Julia Richman’s speech from the May 12 memorial for Isidor and Ida Straus.</li><li>Three programs from memorial services held honoring the Strauses.</li><li>News clippings pasted into the scrapbook, totaling 36 pages of clippings.</li><li>One page bearing pressed flowers, presumably from a funeral or memorial bouquet.</li></ul> Isidor was, with his brother Nathan, co-owner of Macy’s department store and a U.S. Congressman; both he and his wife were prominent and wealthy members of New York City’s Jewish community and philanthropists particularly interested in questions of education. The Strauses took passage aboard the Titanic to travel back to New York following a winter spent largely in southern France, and both died when the ship struck an iceberg on April 15, 1912. Famously, Ida was offered a seat in one of the lifeboats, but refused to be separated from her husband. Their deaths, and particularly Ida’s love of and loyalty to her husband, became a subject of numerous newspaper pieces, poems and songs in the months that followed the Titanic disaster, and the story continues to be regularly depicted in film and other media more than one hundred years later.

Isidor And Ida Straus Titanic Passengers Scrapbook And Ephemera

A first-edition catalog published for the occasion of Herbert G. Ponting's photographic exhibition at the Royal Society of Artists Gallery.<ul><li>Photographs by Herbert G. Ponting (English).</li><li>London: The Fine Art Society, 1914.</li><li>24 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes a portrait frontispiece and seven further photographic plates.</li><li>Bound in original wrappers printed in red, with ads to rear and inner covers.</li></ul>

The British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 Exhibition Catalog

Collection of Black Panther handbills from 1969 and 1970.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>New York/Philadelphia: 1969/1970.&nbsp;</li></ul> Mimeographed light yellow handbill issued in New York on December 8, 1969.<ul><li>New York: 1969.</li><li>Two-page handbill on one sheet.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>The recto is headlined “Stop the Persecution of the Black Panther Party” and addresses the death of Hampton.</li><li>The bottom announces an anti-Nixon demonstration at the Waldorf.</li><li>The verso advertises the fundraising efforts of the Defense Committee for the Wilmington 8.</li></ul> Mimeographed beige handbill printed April 1969.<ul><li>New York: 1969.</li><li>1 page.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Announcing a demonstration at the bail hearing for the Panther 21.</li></ul> Mimeographed white handbill printed by the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party.<ul><li>Philadelphia: 1970.</li><li>Two-page handbill on single sheet.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Headlined “Cisco-Kidd Pig Rizzo Oinks Again!”</li></ul>

Black Panther Handbills 

Pamphlet collection of documents regarding the Eleventh Amendment of the United States.<ul><li>Message from the President of the United States, Accompanying A Report from the Secretary of State, and Copies of Acts of the Legislatures of the States of Connecticut, Maryland, and Virginia, Ratifying the Amendment Proposed by Congress, Concerning the Suability of States, in Pursuance of A Resolution of the Two Houses, of the Second of March Last.</li><li>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;U.S. House of Representatives,&nbsp;1798.</li><li>12 pages.</li><li>Duodecimo.</li><li>Side-sewn pamphlet.</li></ul>

Regarding the Eleventh Amendment of the United States

Collection of articles in relation to the Apollo XI dinner held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on July 20, 1969.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 21.</li><li>Sanford Fox (American).</li><li>Richard Nixon (American).</li></ul> NASA Log of Apollo 11 outlining the mission.<ul><li>12 pages of photographs.</li></ul> Official "Accept and Regret" guest list from the event.<ul><li>37 pages of high-resolution scans.</li><li>Handwritten notes from Fox throughout.</li></ul> Blank table seating guide showing the layout of the event.<ul><li>1 page.</li></ul> Blank Century Plaza Hotel card.<ul><li>1 sheet.</li></ul> Presidential Party Apollo XI dinner parking pass.<ul><li>1 sheet.</li></ul> Century Plaza Hotel guest notice regarding extra security measures and procedures.<ul><li>1 sheet.</li></ul> Handwritten seating chart with arrangements for Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong drawn by Fox.<ul><li>1 sheet.</li></ul> Seating diagram drawn in pencil in the hand of Fox.<ul><li>1 sheet drawn on thin tissue paper.</li></ul> Photographs of President Nixon during the ceremony.<ul><li>4 high-resolution color photographs.</li><li>8 inches x 10 inches.</li></ul> Photograph of guests and Bands of the Armed Forces.<ul><li>1 color photograph.</li><li>14 inches x 10 inches.</li></ul> Magazine article photographs of the ceremony and parade.<ul><li>2 sheets.</li></ul> Copy of typed letter written by Robert to Ruth Johnston after the event.<ul><li>1 letter on paper.</li></ul> Official NASA Apollo XI astronaut stamp collector's sheet.<ul><li>1 sheet.</li><li>Quotation by Nixon printed to paper.</li></ul> Typed memo with White House letterhead dated September 9, 1969.<ul><li>1 sheet.</li></ul> Apollo news publication.<ul><li>18 page photocopy to paper.</li></ul> Guest registry for the dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel.<ul><li>27 page high-resolution scans.</li></ul>

Apollo XI Century Plaza Presidential Dinner and NASA Apollo 11 Collection

Second-edition copy of The White House: A Historic Guide inscribed by JFK and Jackie Kennedy.<ul><li>Mrs. John N. Pearce (American).</li><li>Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association, 1962.</li><li>Limited numbered edition of 75, this being number 62.</li><li>Inscribed by John and Jackie Kennedy on the limitation page, "For Chris with the affectionate regards of his friends John Kennedy and love from Jackie. Christmas 1962."</li><li>Bound in the original full red morocco, title gilt to spine, covers double ruled in gilt, with marbled pastedowns and endpapers.</li></ul> The publication of this book was overseen by Jackie Kennedy as part of her restoration and preservation of the White House.&nbsp;These were earmarked by the Kennedys to be given away as Christmas gifts to each member of the Kennedy administration and very close friends.&nbsp;This edition was from their last Christmas together.

The White House: A Historic Guide

A broadside printing of a proclamation issued by King Charles II, calling for the arrest of Edward Whalley and William Goffe as regicides.<ul><li>Charles II (English).</li><li>By the King: A Proclamation for the Apprehension of Edward Whalley and William Goffe.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Christopher Barker and John Bill,&nbsp;1660.</li><li>Silked on verso and stitched into 19th-century marbled paper boards, with leather label on front cover.</li></ul> Edward Whalley was a leader in Cromwell's army, and also one of the signatories to the death warrant for Charles I. William Goffe, Whalley's son-in-law, also served as a judge at the trial of the king, and was a Roundhead politician and military leader. At the Restoration, Whalley and Goffe fled to the colonies in New England. Charles II issued this warrant for their arrest, though neither were ever detained or tried. Whalley died ca. 1675, and Goffe ca. 1679.

 Proclamation for the Apprehension of Edward Whalley and William Goffe

An apparently unpublished letter by Darwin regarding a new American edition of Origin.<ul><li>Charles Darwin (English).</li><li>Down, Beckenham, Kent: November 26, [1869].</li><li>3 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bifolium of Down, Bromley, Kent, stationery, with "Bromley" crossed out and corrected to Beckenham.</li></ul> Charles Darwin (1809-1882) writes to Charles Layton, London agent for Appleton, about bringing out a revised and expanded second American edition of On the Origin of Species. The letter is a reply to Layton's of the day before, in which he'd inquired after stereotyped plates of the English edition. In part: "The last or 5th Edit. of the Origin was printed off some months ago &amp; it is impossible to supply stereotypes. I hope that you will inform Mr. Appleton of what I have said of the increased size of this last &amp; 5th Edit. As 2000 copies of this Edit were printed, there will not be a new Edit. for a considerable time ... If Mr. Appleton will reprint this 5th Edition ... I will pledge myself to endevour to persuade Mr. Murray to supply stereotype plates of my new book on the Descent of Man; but as I never before heard of such such a scheme, I have no idea whether he will comply. At any rate I will please myself, on the above conditions &amp; on the terms suggested in your letter, to send over the sheets as printed &amp; stereotype casts of the woodcuts. But please remember my new book will not got to press for many months." Appleton had published the first American edition of Origin in 1860, from Murray's second English edition. In keeping with the terms of the present letter, Appleton published the second American edition, based on the 5th English edition, in 1870, followed by the first American edition of The Descent of Man in 1871.

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