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California Gold Rush Impact. Keith AnnABAA

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS Signed.; To her "Very Dear Son" Lathrop C Keith & "Miss Marcy" Winslow March 14th 1852

California Gold Rush: Havens Langdon H.: Judd JW. J. W.ABAA

AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY J.W. JUDD TO GUY R. PHELPS REGARDING A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY FOR LANGDON H. HAVENS A FORTY-NINER AND MEMBER OF JOHN WOODHOUSE AUDUBON'S ILL-FATED OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA IN 1849

1849WRCAM49949New York 1849. 1p. of a bifolium docketed on verso of second bifolium leaf. Mailing folds slight edge discoloration else fine. An intriguing note regarding life insurance for a forty-niner traveling to California in 1849 with Henry Webb and John Woodhouse Audubon. The note reads: "Langdon H. Havens wants a life insurance permit for California to go over the Overland Route in company with persons bearing dispatches from our Government in a Company of 100 or more. He wants to leave for Washington immediately." Perhaps the twenty-six-year- old Haven sometimes spelled Havens originally intended to join a safe government- sponsored expedition from Washington but he was in fact among the 100 Forty-Niners who embarked on a famously ill-fated overland expedition led by Army Colonel Henry Webb with John Woodhouse Audubon son of the famous ornithologist as his second in command which left New York on February 8. <br> <br> The company proceeded by ship train stagecoach and riverboat to New Orleans and from there by steamer across the Gulf of Mexico to the mouth of the Rio Grande where they arrived on March 13 - an odd overland route dictated by Webb a veteran of the Mexican-American War. There disaster struck. A dozen men died of cholera the company's money was stolen and leadership conflict led Webb to leave the company with a dozen followers. Some of the remaining stalwarts including Haven followed Audubon onward trekking for seven months through Mexico and Arizona the survivors finally reaching San Diego in November. Some then took a boat to San Francisco; others continued overland to the gold fields. As meticulously recorded by Audubon a naturalist and painter in his own right the entire venture has gone down in history as "one of the most poorly-planned" Forty-Niner expeditions "on record." Haven though nearly dying en route was one of the fortunate few who "made it to California." An appealing note dated in the famous year of the California Gold Rush that eerily anticipates the dangers inherent in overland travel in America in the 19th century. unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis600,00 $US≈ 507,66 €

TIELKE or TIELCKE Johann GottliebABAA

Beyträge zur Kriegs-Kunst und Geschichte des Krieges von 1756 bis 1763

5632Finely engraved vignette on titles each different 48 engraved plates of maps plans & charts six heightened in color on 40 folding sheets & one folding printed table. Six vols. Large 4to cont. speckled boards several with minor rubbing red vellum lettering pieces on spines. Freiberg: Barthel 1775-76-78-81-84-86. First edition of this outstanding history of the German campaigns during the Seven Years' War describing the strategies employed during the conflict. Tielke 1731-87 wrote a series of works on military history and science based on his extensive theoretical knowledge as well as first-hand combat experience - he was wounded at the Battle of Torgau. Tielke not only recapitulates the decisive moments of these campaigns he also furnishes case studies regarding tactics artillery and fortification. The present work received much praise for its precise methodology presentation of arguments and judicious use of historical examples. The finely executed plates include highly detailed maps and battle-plans including those for Schweidnitz and Maxen plans and cross-sections of fortifications and charts of formations and their evolution during the course of the battles. Many of the plates contain complex diagrams highlighting trajectories and lines-of-sight and are clearly intended for the instruction of field engineers. A fine copy. ❧ A.D.B. Vol. 38 pp. 286-88. Jähns 1870f.: "Die wissenschaftliche Gründlichkeit der Beiträge die Sicherheit der Behandlung die Genauigkeit in den Angaben und nicht zum wenigsten die kluge und massvolle Art in welcher der Verfasser die geschichtliche Darstellung für seine theoretischen Anschauungen nutzbar macht verschafften dem votrefflichen Werke den lebhaften Beifall aller Einsichtigen.In so lehrreicher Weise wie dieser Ingenieur für sein Fach hat kein damaliger Taktiker Friedrichs Feldzüge für das seinige ausgebeutet.". hardcover books

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · États-Unis1 350,00 $US≈ 1 142,23 €

Gold Robert L.ABAA

Boderland Empires in Transition: The Triple - Nation Transfer of Florida.

196960665bdCarbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 1969. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters 258 pp. Fine in a Very Good mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear and sunned spine. From dust jacket: With the conclusion of the Treaty of Paris in 1763 Great Britain emerged from the Seven Yearsâ€™ War as proprietor of the worldâ€™s most extensive colonial empire. England had expropriated the French claim on the North American continent and had forced Spain to barter her holdings in Florida for the return of vanquished Havana. Thus the Treaty of 1763 permanently shattered French ambitions in North America and severely curtailed Spanish colonial power for twenty years the period of British control in Florida. During the years necessary to accomplish the exchange of colonial rule in Florida the imperial rivalry among France Spain and England reached its denouement in the struggle for the Mississippi Valley and the Florida gulfcoast. Perhaps the most dramatic result of the exchange of colonial power was the removal of the entire Spanish population to Cuba and New Spain. Remarkably the evacuation of St. Augustine required only ten months. Although the relocation of the Spanish Floridians facilitated imperial transfer the displaced colnists suffered in their exchange of homelands. Mr. Gold traces the distress and eventual ruin of the major resettlement at Ceiba Mocha east of Havana in the Matanzas province. Florida in migrantes in Cuba and New Spain were confronted with similar hardships of relocation and economic duress as the Spanish exodus carried them abroad. Along with relating the exchange of colonial rule in terms of the population of Florida Mr. Gold examines and evaluates cultural religious and political changes. Southern Illinois University Press, (1969). First Edition. hardcover books

Lighthousebooks, ABAA · États-Unis20,00 $US≈ 16,92 €

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