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1856 – Letter from an American in Mexico to prominent lawyer in Washington seeking assistance in resolving a claim in the turmoil that followed the overthrow of the dictator, Santa Anna, and suggesting the only way to resume order was for the “Anglo-Saxon race” to take control

1856 – Letter from an American in Mexico to prominent lawyer in Washington seeking assistance in resolving a claim in the turmoil that followed the overthrow of the dictator, Santa Anna, and suggesting the only way to resume order was for the “Anglo-Saxon race” to take control

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1856 – Letter from an American in Mexico to prominent lawyer in Washington seeking assistance in resolving a claim in the turmoil that followed the overthrow of the dictator, Santa Anna, and suggesting the only way to resume order was for the “Anglo-Saxon race” to take control
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Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
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Envelope or Cover. Very good. This three-page stampless folded letter was written on “feby 17, 1856” and sent “in care of [the] American Legation,” which, at the time was located in Mexico City, to the prominent Washington lawyer, James Mandeville Carlisle. It was sent through Vera Cruz, as attested to transit marking on the reverse, to New Orleans on one of Charles Morgan’s steamships that carried mail on that route. There, it received a circular “Steamship / 10” rate stamp and a large New Orleans circular postmark, before being placed in the U.S. mail system. (A former owner has noted in pencil on the reverse that this is the only known strike of this New Orleans postmark to have been made in black ink.) The letter is in nice shape with some old tape repairs to splits along its mailing folds. The letter requests Carlisle, who was well-versed in international law, to aid in resolving a legal claim, perhaps in relation to a land dispute following the Gadsden Purchase, which was common at the time, as well as suggesting that maybe it would be best if an “anglo-saxon” filibuster took control of the country. It reads in part: “On account of the continually disturbed state of this country, along which all communications between this place and Puebla has for some time been interrupted I greatly fear that my last letter . . . has not reached you. . .. My presence in this city [regarding] a claim [has gone unanswered] due chiefly to the inactivity of our Minister, who, without any instructions of the State Department, declines incurring any responsibility himself in pushing the claim. . .. What I wish to effect . . . is an acknowledgement of the debt [but] it is useless for me to say anymore. . .. “The political state of this country has changed very little, since the ‘pronunciados’ took Puebla, some three weeks ago, and which they still occupy. Here Congress is going to meet very shortly, most of the Deputados are liberals and even red republicans. Several important measures concerning freedom of religion, immigration and the property of the clergy are said to be ready to be laid before it which will be adopted. . .. In almost all the streets leading to the ‘gran plaza; and the palace strong barricades are being built . . . it is rumored that strong opposition is feared on the part of the clergy. The present government it seems, has the best intentions, nevertheless I fear it will not last long. . ..”In my opinion this otherwise rich and beautiful country is going to ruins, and will only be able to show what it is capable of producing after the anglo-saxon race takes the management of affairs here, and others, though of the same opinion, are from national pride prevented to say so. . .." . General Antonio López de Santa Anna ruled as the dictator of Mexico from 1853 until 1855. His authoritarian rule and especially his sale of the Mesilla Valley (the Gadsden Purchase) to the United States led to widespread revolt, resulting in his final exile, after which competing conservative and liberal factions fought for control of the government. La Reforma, the liberals, had recently seized control of Puebla at the time of this letter. ,/p> A filibuster was a private individual who engaged in an unauthorized foreign military expedition to foster, incite, or support a rebellion or insurrection in an unstable nation, most often a former Spanish Colony in the Americas, with the goal of establishing a regime that would serve the interests of U.S. citizens. The most notable filibuster was William Walker who unsuccessfully attempted to take over western Mexico and Nicaragua in the 1850s. (For more information see, Irion and Ball’s “The New York and the Josephine: Two Steamships of the Charles Morgan Line” at the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s website, “Steamer Texas in Quarantine” in the 3 Sep 1856 edition of the New York Times, an annotation to the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 in the University of Michigan Library’s Digital Collections, “The Long Shadow: Mexico’s Reforma” in Voekel’s For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861, Bancroft’s History of Mexico, and genealogical records at Ancestry.com.).
1902 - Special Orders directing that transportation be arranged for Corporal Eugene Dupree, who had fought at the Battle of Tientsin, to return to the United States via Japan following the completion of his enlistment

1902 - Special Orders directing that transportation be arranged for Corporal Eugene Dupree, who had fought at the Battle of Tientsin, to return to the United States via Japan following the completion of his enlistment

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1902 - Special Orders directing that transportation be arranged for Corporal Eugene Dupree, who had fought at the Battle of Tientsin, to return to the United States via Japan following the completion of his enlistment
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Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
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Peking, China, 1902. Unbound. Very good. This one-page Boxer Rebellion document on onion-skin paper reads: United Sates Legation Guard Peking, China, July 21st, 1902 Special Orders No. 63 (Extract) 1. There being no Army Transport available the Quartermaster Department will furnish transportation by commercial line to Eugene Dupree, late Corporal, Co. "B", 9th Infantry, discharged by expiration of service from Tonggu [Tanggu], China, to Nagasaki, Japan, where upon arrival he will report . . . for additional transportation to the United States. . .." An endorsement on the reverse from the "Office of the Depot Quartermaster, Nagasaki, Japan, Nov. 6th 1902 reads: "Transportation furnished the within named discharged soldier form this point to San Francisco, Cal. O the U.S.A.T. Crook." . Dupree had deployed to China with the U.S. Army's 9th Infantry Regiment. He fought in the bloody campaign to relieve the international settlement at Tientsin (Tiajin) and the legations at Peking (Beijing) which were under siege by a combined force of Boxers (the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists or Yìhéquán, which was a violent, anti-foreign and anti-Christian peasant movement) and the Imperial Chinese Army that lifted the siege of the international community. After victory at Peking, the 9th began occupation duty, and Dupree's company was assigned to the logistics base at Tanggu, a port district within Tientsin. (For more information, see Dupree's letter to the editor "At Battle of Tientsin: New Bern Boy Tells of His Experience. Slaughter of Chinese. With the Famous 9th" published in the 7 September 1900 issue of the New Bern Weekly Journal, Bowden and Warner's The Boxer Rebellion, and Harlow's Logistical Support of the China Relief Expedition.) Original source American documents letters from the Boxer Rebellion are exceptionally scarce. At the time of listing, no others are for sale in the trade. Two similar items have appeared at auction per the Rare Book Hub, and OCLC shows several institutions hold American Boxer Rebellion personal papers collections. .
Circa 1890 – Cigar band for a cigar sold or distributed on a Colorado Midland Railroad train

Circa 1890 – Cigar band for a cigar sold or distributed on a Colorado Midland Railroad train

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Circa 1890 – Cigar band for a cigar sold or distributed on a Colorado Midland Railroad train
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Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
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Unbound. Very good. This cigar band has a central motif featuring a standing Native American warrior holding a shield that displays a Colorado Midland Railroad logo. Text on the band reads, ”Colorado Midland Rail Road”. . The Colorado Midland Railway which was incorporated in 1883, was the first standard gauge railroad built over the Continental Divide in Colorado. It ran from Colorado Springs to Leadville and through the divide at Hagerman Pass to Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction. John J. Hagerman gained control of the company in June 1885 and sold it to the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, which changed its name to the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1890 and operated it as a subsidiary line. Some railroads provided cigars on their trains that were branded with company logos. They are also known to have been sold and distributed by the New Haven, Lehigh Valley, Old Colony, and Boston & Albany Railroads. (For more information, see “The Colorado Midland Railway” at the Rio Grande Info website and “Railroad Cigars?” at the railroad.net website.) Cigar bands from the Colorado Midland Railroad have infrequently appeared for sale on . .
Boo-Boo the Barrage Balloon

Boo-Boo the Barrage Balloon

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Boo-Boo the Barrage Balloon
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Eclectibles (United States)
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inside back cover reinforced with age-darkened "scotch tape". Cover wear.
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England: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1944. inside back cover reinforced with age-darkened "scotch tape". Cover wear.. 22 pp. color illustrated stiff wrappers. The story of an anthropomorphic dirigible and his family. There design is influenced by an elephant. The story line supports the war effort as Boo-Boo becomes a hero by taking down an enemy plan. Color illustrations throughout except for inside cover illustrations (gray tones). Oblong quarto. 11" x 8 1/2". Scarce item.
Concord

Concord by Tom Lecky

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Concord
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Tom Lecky
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
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Ardsley, NY: Understory Books, 2022. New. 10 x 8 inches. 33 duotone images. Hardcover. First edition of 150 copies. Printed at The Studley Press, Dalton, Massachusetts. Concord traces several days in New Hampshire's capital, an unplanned visit that worked its way outward from hotel room balcony to state buildings, to the inner and outer edges of this New England city. This is Tom Lecky's first photobook without text but a narrative of movement emerges in the brick façades, the public sculptures, car parks, and in the desire paths running through the grassy outskirts.
A Pillar of Iron: A Novel About Cicero and the Rome He Tried to Save

A Pillar of Iron: A Novel About Cicero and the Rome He Tried to Save by Caldwell, Taylor

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A Pillar of Iron: A Novel About Cicero and the Rome He Tried to Save
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Caldwell, Taylor
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1965. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 75x16x114. Book club edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken, rear jacket panel stained with 2 inch closed tear to corner, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. 1965 Hard Cover. 700, [1] pp. "Taking us back to Rome in its greatest period -- the time of Caesar and Pompey, the era of Dear and Glorious Physician -- Taylor Caldwell has written her most ambitious novel, a majestic and poignant story that unfolds as Roman democracy faces its own inexorable decay. Its hero is Cicero -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, the pillar of iron, the brilliant and idealistic lawyer, dramatically but precariously devoted to the defense of a nation and republic on trial. Across this rich stage move some of the most vivid characters in history: Scaevola, the incredible, obese lawyer who helped Cicero win his first great case before Sulla; a uniquely-drawn Caesar, sophisticated and devious, yet a man who once said to Cicero: 'I trust only you in Rome'; Catilina, the remarkably handsome and charismatic aristocrat bent on the destruction of all Rome; Noe ben Joel, the Jewish intellectual who half converted Cicero to belief in the coming Messiah; and the great tumultuous society that was Rome in the first century before Christ. History knows Marcus Tullius Cicero in many fragmentary ways: as the author of De Republica, as the compelling and courageous orator who stood against Catilina, as a voluminous correspondent and Consul of Rome. Miss Caldwell has meticulously recreated the whole man. Here is Cicero as a young middle-class law student, passionately in love with the girl Catilina destroys; as a rising public figure whose assassination has been mysteriously ordered; and as husband, friend, devout skeptic, and sharp-tongued patriot. A Pillar of Iron is a major historical novel, casting in sharp relief the embattled nobility and insidious debauchery of Cicero's Rome. Its theme is eerily modern, its canvas animated by the great figures of a civilization hovering on the brink of an abyss. Taylor Caldwell, the author of Dear and Glorious Physician and A Prologue to Love, is one of the most successful woman novelists of our generation. Her present novel is based on a prodigious job of research that began in April of 1947, when she translated hundreds of Cicero's letters in the Vatican Library. Miss Caldwell, in trips to Athens and Rome, has personally authenticated a vast amount of information -- and has drawn the story of Cicero from many of his own words, from his diaries, from the historian Sallust, from his letters to Atticus and Julius Caesar." Includes: Part One - The Child and the Youth; Part Two - The Man and the Lawyer; Part Three - The Patriot and the Politician; Part Four - The Hero. "Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900 - August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback. In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke), and Captains and the Kings. Her last major novel, Answer as a Man, appeared in 1980.

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