Elist 21 – Photographs, Gold Mining, Revolutionary War, Prints, China, Australia

Elist 21 – Photographs, Gold Mining, Revolutionary War, Prints, China, Australia

91 items including woodcut prints from the “Nuremberg Chronicle” published in 1493; an American Revolutionary war privateering commission for Loyalist David Fenton; a pair of Qing Dynasty Ancestor portraits; Japanese wood block prints of Westerners including a camera lucida; photo album of an engineer for the Catskill Aqueduct, Hudson River Siphon and NYC Subway 1910-1916; Manuscript letters from an American gold seeker in Victoria, Australia to his sweetheart in Massachusetts, with a sketch, 1854-55; handsomely colored Family crests by Joseph Edmondson from “Crests of the English Nobility”, 1764; a handsome Bible, previously owned by the family of Jacob Gater, the leader of a ‘Swing Riot’ in Berkshire, England, Winchester 1774; photograph album with correspondence by an American Baptist missionary to Burma, 1905. Books, maps, prints, photographs, postcards, ephemera.