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Charles A. Lindbergh at the Dawn of His Career as a Professional Pilot by Charles Lindbergh

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Seller: The Raab Collection

Title: Charles A. Lindbergh at the Dawn of His Career as a Professional Pilot
Author: Charles Lindbergh
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 30/04/1925. Acquired from the family and never before offered for saleIt also also relates to his other passion - his motorcycle, which started his interest in machines and transportation while he was a teenagerWhile barnstorming in southern Minnesota, Charles Lindbergh met a graduate of the Army Flying School who told him that cadets flew the most modern and powerful airplanes. Lindbergh enrolled right away and arrived in San Antonio, Texas, on March 15, 1924. Lindbergh was joined by 103 other young men. He graduated first in his class from U.S. Air Service Flying School at Kelly Field in San Antonio, on March 14, 1925. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Air Service Reserve Corps at that time. Following graduation, in late March 1925, Lindbergh went to Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, to find a job in aviation. In April he accepted a job with the Robertson Aircraft Corporation as chief pilot. Robertson was an aviation service company based at Lambert Field, and it had been awarded the St. Louis-Chicago airmail route. While waiting for that contract, Lindbergh flew at Lambert Field, now as a professional pilot.While Lindbergh is well known for his exploits in the field of aviation, becoming the first pilot to complete a transatlantic flight in 1927. Yet few know that before becoming an airplane pilot, his interest in machines and transportation led Lindbergh to spent his passion and a fair amount of time piloting an Excelsior motorcycle.In 1919, when Lindbergh was in high school, he ordered a new twin-cylinder 1920 model Excelsior ""X"" motorcycle from Martin Engstrom's hardware store in his hometown of Little Falls, Minnesota. The Engstrom and Lindberghs were friends in that town. He paid $290 for the motorcycle and was known around town for his fast and sometimes reckless riding. Locals remember him riding along the steep banks of the Mississippi River past a local power plant on his way back and forth to town. Lindbergh didn't just use the Excelsior for around town rides, it also carried him some significant distances, especially considering the roads at that time. In 1920, he rode from Little Falls to Madison, Wisconsin to attend engineering school at the University of Wisconsin. His marathon Chicago-Louisville run was made in the summer of 1921, when Lindbergh traveled from Madison to Camp Knox, Kentucky, for ROTC training in field artillery. A year later he made a trip to Lincoln, Nebraska where he entered flight school.Lindbergh loved the Excelsior and kept it for 23 years, until finally donating it to the Henry Ford Museum in 1943. Ford and Lindbergh were good friends, so he thought it would be a fitting place to display the motorcycle. The bike sat in original condition for around 30 years, before being fully restored in the 1970's.Autograph letter signed, Anglum, Missouri, located adjacent to Lambert Field near St. Louis, April 30, 1925, to Engstrom, who had sold him the motorcycle. “Several years ago I bought a motorcycle from you and have lost the bill of sale. In order to get a Missouri license, a bill of sale is required. Can you send me a duplicate? I am flying at Lambert-St. Louis Field here at present.”So in this letter Lindbergh not only talks of flying, but mentions Lambert Field. It is the earliest letter of Lindbergh mentioning flying that we have ever seen or can find in a search of public sale records going back decades. That alone makes it an extraordinary find.It is also the only letter of Lindbergh relating to his love of motorcycles we can find. It comes with a photograph of Lindbergh’s motorcycle, on the verso showing the imprint of the Henry Ford Museum. At top left is written, “I sold this motorcycle to Charles Lindbergh in 1919. In 1927 it was put in the Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Mich.” It is signed M.A. Engstrom and dated October 1st, 1970. Engstrom was elderly when he wrote this, and got the date of Lindbergh’s flight and the date of the donation of the motorcycle wrong. We know from an earlier account by Engstrom that when Lindbergh completed his epochal flight, that in the town of Little Falls, ""People were just wild — they acted like they were mad around here.” There are two other pictures showing Lindbergh on this motorcycle included.

David Rittenhouse Writes To John Nicholson About Tax Dodgers: I Know Of No Better Way Of Preventing Them From Cheating Than To Allow Interst To The County Treasurer by DAVID RITTENHOUSE

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Title: David Rittenhouse Writes To John Nicholson About Tax Dodgers: I Know Of No Better Way Of Preventing Them From Cheating Than To Allow Interst To The County Treasurer
Author: DAVID RITTENHOUSE
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: DAVID RITTENHOUSE (1732-1796). Rittenhouse was an American inventor, clock maker, mathematician, stateman and financier. He was the first director of the United States Mint and belonged to the American Philosophical Society.JOHN NICHOLSON. Nicholson was a Revolutionary-era Pennsylvania state official. He partnered with Robert Morris in western land speculation that bankrupted both. He was sent to debtors prison in 1800 and died there shortly thereafter.ALS. 1pg. 8 x 6 . January 20, 1787. No place [likely Philadelphia]. A rare autograph letter signed D. Rittenhouse addressed to John Nicholson. Rittenhouse was then the Treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania: I think it will be difficult to prevent the Collectors from taking the Dollar Money in Taxes and I know no better way of preventing them from cheating than to allow Interest to the County Treasurer to the first of January 1787 only. I had already recommended this to the Treasurer of Bucks on his application to me on the Subject. It is addressed to Nicholson on the verso, and he docketed it Letter from David Rittenhouse Esqr Jany 20th 1787. There is a professional tape repair on the verso to a vertical tape separation and other lesser defects. Rittenhouse ALsS are rare.

Club Book of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club of New York 1905 by Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club

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Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co.

Title: Club Book of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club of New York 1905
Author: Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description: (NY), 1905. Color plates, folding b/w chart. 12mo. 174 pp. plus 15 color plates. Early and rare. Officers, members, yachts, races, rules, uniforms, signals, club house regulations, etc. The folding chart is of Cold Spring Harbor and vicinity, and the 15 color plates contain multiple images - eighteen per page - of the private signals of member yachts. Backstrip perished, else VG

Lona: A Fairy Tale. by WRIGHT, Dare.

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Title: Lona: A Fairy Tale.
Author: WRIGHT, Dare.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket
Description: NY:: Random House,. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. B0007EFBLW . Illustrated with black and white photographs by the author. First edition. Previous owner's stamp inked out on front free endpaper, else very good in a fair (edge worn with several small chips and tears, clear tape repairs along the top and bottom edges) dust jacket. .

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