[Rarebooks] FS: GOOD OLD STUFF

[Norman Kane]

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[PENNA. IRON FOUNDRY FAMILY].  DOC., 3-1/2 X 7-1/2 inches, Potts Grove, Feb. 4, 1794.  

Estate of Saml. Potts by Thos. Potts. For amount of consideration money for the Plantation, Islands, & half of 10 acres of land held … with J. Rutter, sold … 2400 pounds. (The Potts family and the Rutter family had intermarried and held many properties in common.)  $100



EDDIE RICKENBACKER, famed flying ace, &c.  Nice diagonal signature, 1932, on a card.  $50



WISTAR PARTY INVITATION.  Printed card completed in hand, 2-1/2 X 4-1/4 inches,

Embellished with a portrait of the famous Dr. Caspar Wistar who began this series of celebrated  parties. This invitation is to Dr. John  L. LeConte, leading American geologist and entomologist. During the Civil War he was a surgeon with the rank of Lt. Colonel. (Dr.Wistar threw open his house once a week in the winter for gatherings of students, scientists, &c, who met and discussed subjects of interest. “These assemblies, celebrated in the annals of Philadelphia under the title of Wistar parties, were continued long after his death.”) $100



DELAWARE HUNDRED SURVEY.  Doc., 5-1/2 X 7-1/2 inches, May, 1750.  Richard Peters orders that the survey of  1746 of Appoquinimink Hundred in New Castle County be accepted. He names the surveyors. Peters was Secy. of the Land Office from 1736-1760 & Provincial Secy. From 1742/43 to 1762.  (The Upper and Lower Counties of Delaware were part of the Penn Proprietorship, but with local government. They had the same Governor as Pennsylvania until the Revolution.) About 75 words. Scarce and important. $300

PHILADELPHIA MILITIA DOCUMENT. 4-1/2 x 5 INCHES, Northern Liberties, Sept. 24, 1790. Major Peter Paris to Col. Thos. Proctor, ordering that George Lechler & Caspar Shipe[?] should act as drum and fife major to the 5th Battalion, Phila. Militia. $100

GEORGE LOGAN. Receipt, June 1, 1798, for 292 pounds, from Thos. Stewardson, from the estate of Sarah Logan “on account of a legacy.” SIGNED TWICE BY LOGAN, so as to acknowledge the receipt of a second sum. (US Senator from Pa., the person for whom the famous “Logan Act” is named, prohibiting private citizens from conducting foreign affairs. He was the grandson of James Logan, Penn’s Secy, and married to Deborah Norris, Sally Wister’s friend.) $150

COLONIAL DIARIST.  CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL.  Receipt signed  June 18, 1735,    for 40 shillings paid by James Steel[?] “for work done at Pennsbury” (Wm. Penn’s mansion on the Delaware.) Marshall is remembered as the author of a valuable Revolutionary diary.  $150

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