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A Provincial Council of the National Union of Public Administration Workers of Havana certificate awarded to Aurora Cuadrado Martin on the 1st of May 1978 for their participation in the May Day activities. <ul><li>Sold as a set of 2: certificate and photograph.</li><li>The certificate is in Spanish and has been signed at the bottom in ink by Fidel Castro and two other signatories.</li><li>Accompanying the certificate is a small black and white photograph of Fidel Castro.</li></ul>

11th World Festival Of Youth And Students May Day Certificate Signed by Fidel Castro

A collection of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Letters&amp;Book%20Subject=Manuscripts%252C%2520Letters%252C%2520Documents&amp;Book%20Subject=Manuscripts%252C%2520Letters%252C%2520Documents%252C%2520Ephemera" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">correspondence</a> from <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Letters&amp;Book%20Subject=Manuscripts%252C%2520Letters%252C%2520Documents&amp;Book%20Subject=Manuscripts%252C%2520Letters%252C%2520Documents%252C%2520Ephemera&amp;query=William%20Jennings%20Bryan&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Jennings Bryan</a> during his time as Secretary of State, 1913-1927.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 25.</li><li>William Jennings Bryan (American). </li><li>Includes&nbsp;25 autograph letters in Bryan’s hand, 23 of which bear his signature.</li><li>The most significant component is a set of 16 Bryan ALS and 9 telegrams sent and/or received during concerning Bryan’s attempts to negotiate a peace in Mexico following Huerta’s coup d’état in 1913.</li><li>There is also a sub-collection of material related to Ben Davis’ managing of Bryan’s funeral and memorial in 1925, which includes architectural sketches of the stone memorial erected for Bryan as well as four letters from Bryan's widow, Mary, and four from two of Bryan's daughters.</li><li>Other contents of note include a TLS from Woodrow Wilson, three ALS from Henry Cabot Lodge, two photos of peace treaty signings (one signed by Bryan), and miscellaneous ALS including letters received from ambassadors (notably, Cecil Rice), cabinet secretaries, and Wilson’s Vice-President.</li><li>For a complete inventory of the collection, please enquire.</li></ul>

Secretary Of State: Letters And 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 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

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

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

An apparently unpublished letter by Darwin regarding a new second American edition of Origin of Species; autographed and signed ("Ch. Darwin") to Charles Layton, Appleton's London agent.<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.

Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Layton In Regards to the Publication of On the Origin of Species

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>

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