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Western Pacific Railroad Co.. E. W. Mason J. P. Quigley J. H. LearyABAA

Western ReserveABAA

DEED CONVEYING "SUFFERERS' LAND" IN THE OHIO WESTERN RESERVE FROM CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS JOSEPH AND MARY PERKINS TO CHARLES PERKINS OF ROCHESTER NEW YORK 22 APRIL 1829

182935388Norwich CT 1829. Folio 9-1/4" x 15-1/4". Printed broadsheet completed in ink manuscript. Signed and sealed with paper and wax seals by Joseph and Mary Perkins; witnessed by Thomas Jackson Jnr. and Mary W. Perkins as witnesses. Signed on verso by Erastus Coit as Justice of the Peace and by Harvey R. Garland as Recorder received on June 4 1832 and recorded July 15 1832. Light age toning old folds a few very light ink stains on verso. Minimal edgewear with a few pinholes at fold corners. Very Good. In 1800 the State of Connecticut granted to her citizens who were sufferers by fire caused by the British during the Revolutionary War a half million acres of land lying within the State of Ohio which was to be taken off the west part of the "Western Connecticut Reserve" now embraced in the counties of Huron and Erie. By an 1803 Act of Ohio the sufferers were incorporated as "The proprietors of the half million acres of land lying south of Lake Erie called 'Sufferers' Land'." The Act required management of the Company by a Board of Directors. The Board was to locate and survey the granted land and to partition it among the different claimants. This part of the Western Reserve was inhabited by Indians who engaged in warfare with the settlers. On July 4 1805 a treaty between the United States and the Wyandot Ottawa Chippewa Munsee and Delaware Shawanee and Pattawatamy nations was signed whereby those Indian nations in consideration of $18916.68 released their claims to all the lands owned by the company. The parties of this deed are likely related to Gen. Simon Perkins also from New London County Connecticut. He was a surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve the first postmaster of the Reserve a founder of the Western Reserve Bank of Warren a Brigadier General in the War of 1812 defending northwestern Ohio and one of the largest land owners in the state of Ohio. The extended Perkins family lived and owned property in Connecticut and the Reserve. Erastus Coit was a well known merchant a Norwich justice of the peace and served as Connecticut's State Representative of Norwich in 1818 and 1820. unknown books

David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC · États-Unis275,00 $US≈ 232,68 €

Western Electric George Bernard ShawABAA

A Sample of Sound Film circa 1928

1928152558New York: Western Electric Sound System 1928. Vintage small two-color bi-fold housing an early sample of sound film promoting Western Electric's Portable Sound System circa 1928. Likely unique as we have been unable to locate another example. The front features "A Sample of Sound Film" in bold red font with illustration of a projector and a screen atop support on front panel with the screen being a die-cut window revealing a single frame of film. The image on the film is of playwright George Bernard Shaw from the 1928 Fox Case Movietone News one of the earliest sound newsreels with three frames of film attached by staple to the rear panel also with die cut window allowing the viewer to hold the bi-fold to the light revealing Shaw. The verso of front leaf beginning with the title "The Voice Behind the Screen" describes the "Western Electric Portable Sound System" featuring a projector amplifier horn and screen designed to fit into four small trunks able to withstand "rough handling in transportation" with a quality compatible to that "of the best equipped theatres." With a contemporary annotation in holograph ink on top of leaf "The Picture is Bernard Shaw." The recto of the second leaf upon which is affixed the three frames of film notes with arrow in red below film strip the "Sound Track" on the film with a simple illustration below a band of horizontal parallel lines noticeable on the film itself between left sprocket holes and film image. To the left of the film strip is the description "This piece of film is a sample of sound film recorded by the Western Electric Sound System." Following below is a physical description and summary explanation of the process "This is called the constant width varying density sound track and is characteristic of all 'Sound-on-Film' recording done by" followed by the Western Electric Sound System logo common to the period. The verso of the second leaf is of an illustration of patrons in a theatre before the screen the screen being the window revealing the still with an illustration in red of a telephone below followed by "Made by the makers of the nation's telephones." 3 x 4.25 inches. Near Fine. Western Electric Sound System unknown books

Royal Books, Inc. · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

Western Photographica. South DakotaABAA

Vernacular Photo Album of Northeastern South Dakota Depicting Life on the Rural Prairies

19041259Various locations in South Dakota 1904. About very good. Twenty-seven silver gelatin photographs and six postcards on eighteen leaves; photos 4 x 5 inches. Small album. Original black cloth manuscript label on cover. Light wear and soiling. Some images lightly faded; most captioned in ink. Postcards a bit worn and soiled. A short but interesting album of photographs documenting life on the rural South Dakota prairie in 1904. A later caption reveals a bit of the backstory for the album: "Edward Merritt and ranch in S.D. when he and Rev. E.C. Smith had a week's vacation 1904. Carson's Ranch" and the first images in the album are of Carson's Ranch located about eight miles from Bradley South Dakota. Photos include shots of the house the family outbuildings and agricultural work. One photo shows two wagons back to back on an open prairie one of them stuck in a rut. Two mules stand patiently attached to the wagon in the foreground and the caption reads "Wagon with 80 bu wheat in the mire in the prairie on way from Carson's Ranch to Garden City S.D. Mr. Carson is in the wagon." During the week on holiday the author traveled around the northeaster corner of the state in the area between Aberdeen and Watertown. Named places include Waubay Bradley Garden City and Bristol. Several images show the parsonage at Montrose and we presume this is the home of the accompanying Rev. E.C. Smith as Montrose is near Sioux Falls farther south. Several images taken on the prairie show the group out in a buggy. In the first the buggy is slightly askew with horses disconnected and passengers standing around. The caption reads "Rev. L.L. Layne and wife & Edward Merritt after the accident crossing a bridge near Waubay S.D." The next photo shows the group laughing and eating pies "eating dinner on the prairie between Waubay and Enemy Swim Lake." The next two photos are blurry alas but both relate to local Native Americans. One shows a hole in the ground labeled "Dug out where 'Iron Star' Indian lived near Waubay S.D." and the second shows a cabin with a horse out front captioned: "Residence Indian ponies and canoe of Blue Dog Indian Enemy Swim Lake Sisseton Tribe Sioux Indians S.D." Though not an extensive album we nonetheless find it fascinating for its glimpse into life in rural South Dakota at the turn of the century. unknown books

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

Connecticut Western ReserveABAA

WHEREAS AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT HOLDEN AT NEW-HAVEN ON THE SECOND THURSDAY OF OCTOBER 1796 AN ACT WAS PASSED FOR INCORPORATING THE PROPRIETORS OF THE HALF MILLION ACRES OF LAND LYING SOUTH OF LAKE ERIE WHICH ACT IMPOWERED THE AGENTS OF SAID PROPRIETORS IN GENERAL MEETING ASSEMBLED TO LAY TAXES ON SAID PROPRIETORS AND TO APPOINT THE TIMES WHEN PAYABLE; AND ALSO IMPOWERED THE COLLECTORS OF SAID PROPRIETORS TO MAKE SALE OF THE RIGHTS OF SUCH PARTS THEREOF AS SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO DISCHARGE THE TAX OR TAXES WHICH THE PROPRIETOR OR PROPRIETORS OF RIGHTS MIGHT NEGLECT OR REFUSE TO PAY.

179933509Hartford 1799. Printed folio broadside 7-3/8" x 12-1/4" completed in manuscript and docketed in manuscript on verso. Old folds light foxing else Very Good. An evidently unrecorded document on Connecticut claims to the Western Reserve not located on ESTC OCLC or NAIP as of March 2017. "A general meeting of the agents of said proprietors held at Hartford on the 17th May 1797" established a schedule of taxes. But Frances Bradley of Fairfield failed to pay. Thus on January 15 1798 her property was sold for the amount of unpaid taxes to Walter Terry of Fairfield. Lothrop Lewis of Fairfield the tax collector here officially transfers the property to Terry. His deed dated March 30 1799 is acknowledged on April 5 1799. Lothrop Lewis whose name is printed also signs in ink; witnesses were Lewis Sturges and Samuel Rowland. In 1786 Connecticut relinquished claims to land west of Pennsylvania except for the Western Reserve a portion of what is now south of Lake Erie in northeast Ohio. Connecticut assigned some of the Reserve to its citizens as compensation for losses suffered during the Revolution; and sold the rest to a consortium of Connecticut men including Moses Cleaveland who had formed the Connecticut Land Company. Their speculations were not successful there being no effective local government in the Reserve capable of unraveling the tangle of land titles. Thus taxes imposed were frequently not collected. To force payment of the tax on January 15 1798 Lothrop Lewis conducted the sales. Carpenter: ORIGIN AND LOCATION OF THE FIRELANDS OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Ohio Archeological and Historical Quarterly Volume 44 April 1935 page180. Lothrop a/k/a Lathrop Lewis 1759-1817 born in Fairfield was its tax collector for many years. Lewis Burr Sturges 1763-1844 born in Fairfield graduated from Yale was clerk of the Probate Court from 1787 to 1791 a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1794 to 1803; and a Federalist Congressman from 1805 to 1816. He spent his later years in Ohio. Samuel Rowland 1769-1837 was born in Fairfield admitted to the bar in 1794 was a lawyer and town clerk for 42 years and turnpike surveyor to the New York State line. Perry: THE OLD BURYING GROUND OF FAIRFIELD CONN. A MEMORIAL OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF FAIRFIELD. 1882 p.164. unknown books

David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC · États-Unis500,00 $US≈ 423,05 €

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A Grammar of the Mpongwe Language with Vocabularies: by the Missionaries of the A.B.C.F.M. Gaboon Mission Western Africa

Time Table for Special Passenger Train from Grafton to Parkersburg

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR. DECEMBER 5 1857. IN MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. VOL. II. SED11

Photograph of a San Antonio Parade Float Labeled "For Our Boys at the Front" and Featuring a Model Bi-Plane

WESTERN: A Journal of Literature Education and Art. New Series

Western Electric Telephone Apparatus and Cable Catalog No. 9

DEED CONVEYING "SUFFERERS' LAND" IN THE OHIO WESTERN RESERVE FROM CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS JOSEPH AND MARY PERKINS TO CHARLES PERKINS OF ROCHESTER NEW YORK 22 APRIL 1829

The Scottish metrical romance of Lancelot du Lak.

Rules constitution and tables of the Western Provident Association established at Exeter May 1848.

VIRGINIA MAPS ATLASES & GEOGRAPHY MAP OF THE DOUTHAT SURVEY: CONTAINING 102000 ACRES SITUATED IN THE COUNTIES OF BATH AND ALLEGHANY VA

Told Under a White Oak Tree. By Bill Hart's Pinto Pony Edited by His Master William S. Hart

REPORT TO THE WESTERN SANITARY COMMISSION ON THE GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITALS OF ST. LOUIS MO

PETITION TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED

REPORT OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY CANADA WEST TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS. BY CHARLES B. STUART CHIEF ENGINEER

A Sample of Sound Film circa 1928

Vernacular Photo Album of Northeastern South Dakota Depicting Life on the Rural Prairies

Partly printed document with certificates

POINTS ON DETECTIVE WORK AND SECRET INVESTIGATION FOR MERCHANTS BANKERS LAWYERS RAILWAY COMPANIES PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CORPORATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS

The Statutes Of Western Australia. By Authority. 2 volumes

Small Archive of Eighteen Glass Plates with Images of Life in South Dakota

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