A selection of newly cataloged letters, documents, artwork, and thin pamphlets.
A 1920s anti-drug police photograph, captioned, "Over three million dollars worth of drugs and dope outfits seized by the New York Police Narcotic Squad were destroyed to-day." The scene has handwritten signs in the background identifying heroin, cocaine, hashish, and opium. 7-7/8 by 6 inches. Gelatin silver print with good.....
Price: $150
A pair of Second World War-era photographs of American scientists cultivating the coca plant at the US Plant Introduction Station near Miami, Florida. 6-3/8 by 7-3/8 inches. Gelatin silver prints with mimeographed captions mounted to the back (verso) of the image. Both photos are fine.
Price: $85
A small archive of three manuscript documents prepared by the free colored residents of the island of Antigua, petitioning for additional rights and, in the heart of the proposal, equality with white citizens. The manuscripts, written in 1830, near the end of slavery in the British Empire, also illustrate the.....
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First Edition. An unofficial and idiosyncratic urban planning proposal for a City Beautiful-style development for the outskirts of southeastern Madrid, illustrated with architectural drawings and blueprint plans for infrastructure. The author describes his Ciudad Parque (Park City) as "the most beautiful and hygienic that can be built, since it meets.....
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First Edition. A pamphlet discussing the consciousness-expanding benefits of taking drugs like LSD, mushrooms, and nitrous oxide. Several pages are also devoted to the Aquarian Alphaphone, a newly invented device for measuring brain waves. The author taught esoteric astrology and alternative healing beginning in the 1960s; the Claregate Metaphysical Group.....
Price: $200
First Edition. A nice grouping of promotional materials from the theatrical productions of Ray Bradbury's plays, with at least one piece of ephemera from 25 plays (or combinations of short plays). This collection includes 12 posters (about 11 by 17 inches), one of which is signed by the cast and.....
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![Item No: #364036 [West Indies] Significant Autograph Letter, Signed, from a...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364036.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717775207)
An extraordinary eight-page manuscript letter from Ralph Cleghorn (1804–1842) who was born into slavery in St. Kitts in the West Indies and became a leading abolitionist and advocate for black civil rights in the British empire. Near the end of his short life, Cleghorn was appointed president of the Council.....
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![Item No: #364025 [First North Carolina Printing of the CSA Constitution]...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364025.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717775211)
First Edition. A scarce early separate printing of the first (provisional) Constitution of the Confederate States of America, in original condition. This document was published for use at the North Carolina state convention that opened on May 20, 1861, and formalized the state's secession from the Union and its joining.....
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![Item No: #364032 [Jamaica] A Schedule of Deeds & Papers Delivered by John Blake...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364032.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717775208)
A manuscript calendar of legal actions concerning a plantation in Jamaica consisting of "several Penns Lands Mess'ges Tenem[en]ts Slaves & real Est[at]e in Jamaica under the Will of Alger Pestell deceased. The list of dates and events begins in 1763 and continues through 1777, encompassing several generations of Bryan Edwards's.....
Price: $500
A 1-1/2 page manuscript letter from the planter Nathaniel Hall to Joseph Banks, thanking Banks on behalf of the Bahama Agricultural Society for sending them East India cotton seed (either Gossypium arboreum or G. herbaceum) and Bengal bean (Mucuna pruriens) to the island. Banks's "Very Valuable present" of cotton seed.....
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The original hand-painted artwork for seven final and three trial dust jacket designs by one of the most acclaimed British lettering artists of the second half of the 20th century. These designs, for the London publisher Collins, date from the very beginning of Michael Harvey's career, which included some 1500.....
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A 2-1/2 page manuscript letter from an Antiguan slave owner and planter to an unnamed recipient, probably an M.P. or government minister, about personnel issues on the Council of Antigua, of which McKinnen was a member. The letter was written while McKinnen was visiting Wales. The first matter related to.....
Price: $750
A 1-1/2-page manuscript document arranging the sale of the Road Estate (also known as the Road or Cades Bay Plantation) in Antigua for £6,200. This original document is signed by the seller, Valentine Morris, and the buyer, Dr. John Brooks. The Roads Plantation is not described in this document, but.....
Price: $750
![Item No: #364030 [Jamaica] [Fair Copy of a Well Known Will Making Provisions for...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364030.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717775209)
A contemporary fair manuscript copy of a seven-page will that has been reprinted and cited a number of times for its explicit acknowledgment of the author's "four Quadroon children" born to a formerly enslaved woman, Betty Grant, who the author bought and emancipated. This copy is docketed and designated for.....
Price: $1,500
First Edition. A pamphlet version, in English and Amharic, of Haile Selassie's speech made upon his return to the capital Addis Ababa following the defeat of the Fascist Italian army, which had seized the country in 1935. In this speech, Selassie, who came to power in 1916, described previous Italian.....
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A brown toned albumen silver print of one of one of Taber's most enigmatic views of San Francisco's always bustling Chinatown—an improbably empty alley with a ghostly image of a child at the intersection of two streets. Taber obviously retouched the negative to remove figures from the upper part of.....
Price: $300
An albumen photograph, 4-7/8 by 7-7/8 inches, of students and faculty of the Occidental Mission School on the steps of the First Presbyterian Chinese Church in San Francisco. The image shows nearly fifty small children in Chinese-style dress, along with older men and women, both Anglo and Chinese. The class.....
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An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of five idols in a Chinatown temple. Most likely, this is the temple at 9 Brooklyn Place, off of Sacrament Street, where the Lung Gong Association (Longgang gongsuo; now the Lung Kong Tin Yee Association) had its headquarters in the late 1880s.....
Price: $600
A terrific original albumen print of one of Taber's best-known images of Chinatown in San Francisco, a view of the open storefront of the Cheong Wo & Co. shop at 847 Dupont Street (at the corner of Washington Street). In this image, three clerks stand at the front of the.....
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Albumen photograph, 4-7/8 by 8 inches, of the exterior of Hang Fer Lo, the leading Chinese restaurant in San Francisco before the earthquake. It operated on two floors above Columbo & Co. Cigars, on Dupont Street, between Sacrament and Clay Streets in Chinatown. The entrance is located under a small.....
Price: $250
An albumen photograph, 4-13/16 by 7-15/16 inches, of the exterior of a Chinese church in San Francisco. The building is two stories, with a central entrance up a short flight of stone stairs. The second floor has a narrow balcony decorated with hanging plants and paper lanterns. This is one.....
Price: $250
Albumen photograph, 4-13/16 by 7-15/16 inches, of the interior of a Chinese restaurant, showing the entry hall opening out into the dining room, which has tables and chairs but no people. This view is captioned in the image in a narrow strip along the bottom of the print. This image.....
Price: $150
A very nice ninethenth century albumen street scene photograph of San Francisco's Chinatown. This photograph shows a sunlit Clay Street looking down hill, possibly from just below Stockton Street. A Chinese man in a work apron is walking in the foreground, facing the camera. Other men walk away from Taber's.....
Price: $600
An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of the exterior of the Hang Fer Lo restaurant and the Colombo cigar factory on Dupont Street, between Sacramento and Clay Streets in San Francisco's Chinatown. Hang Fer Lo was the leading Chinese restaurant in the city before the earthquake. It operated.....
Price: $750
A medium format photograph, possibly a gelatin silver print, of an altar with a bearded god statue. The statue is decorated with peacock feathers placed on a carved wooden altar. Pots and urns of various sizes sit on the altar in front of the idol. 7-3/4 by 9-3/4 inches. The.....
Price: $300
