Archives International Auctions Auction 88 October 24, 2023

Archives International Auctions - Sale 88 84 October 24, 2023 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com EPHEMERA - EARLY U.S. MILITARY MUSTER ROLL Massachusetts 436 436 Muster Roll, Company of Foot, 1802 With List of More than 60 soldiers with Printed Instructions on Back Massachusetts. 1802, Military document with very detailed Muster-Roll instructions on front, black text, with William Donnison, Adjutant-General at bottom. William Donnison (1754-1834) was an American soldier for the Massachusetts Militia for more than 10 years. Donnison fought in the Revolutionary War and was the aide to Massachusetts Governor Hancock in 1786 before becoming Adjutant General in 1788. He served in the role of Adjutant General until 1813. On the back of the document is a handwritten Muster-Roll of an 1802 Foot Company, with the names and ranks of enlisted soldiers, some print is faint and difficult to read. Piece is in Fragile condition with significant damage and staining. Interestingly, a split at the bottom has been stitched back together and repaired with thread. Unusual piece related to early American military history. ���������������������������������������������������� Est. $250-450 EPHEMERA - HISTORIC CALIFORNIA MILITARY BROADSIDE California 437 437 Emmet Club, 1883 Advertising Broadside for a Sunday Family Excursion to Martinez, California San Francisco, California, September 23, 1883. Broadside, 6 x 12 inches, Advertisement for the Emmet Club’s regular Sunday family excursion to Martinez, touching at Vallejo and Benicia both ways, on the new steamer “Petaluma.” The excursion was to leave Clay Street at 10 AM and would return at 7:30 PM. Tickets were 50 cents, while children could attend for free. The Emmet Club was likely a familial or Irish-related organization related to Robert Emmet (4 March 1778 - 20 September 1803), an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Robert Emmet’s older brother, Thomas Addis Emmet emigrated to the United States shortly after Robert’s execution. He eventually served as the New York State Attorney General. His descendants (who included the prominent American portrait painters Lydia Field Emmet, Rosina Emmet Sherwood, Ellen Emmet Rand, and Jane Emmet de Glehn) helped advance his standing among the Irish diaspora. Emmet has various namesakes throughout the United States, including a statue in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $200-400 EPHEMERA - HISTORIC NEW YORK CITY MAP New York 438 438 Magnificent Magnus Map of NewYork City and Brooklyn, ca.1855 New York City, 1855. 34 inches by 21 inches, Printed in black on thin off-white paper, Extraordinary map of New York City issued by Charles Magnus in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence. Depicts the entirety of Manhattan as well as most of Brooklyn, Bedford, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Queens, Ravenswood, Astoria, Jersey City and Hoboken. An inset map at the bottom center shows Long Island. The whole map is rendered in extraordinary detail with special attention given to individual streets, blocks, parks and even important buildings. The map shows the beginnings of Hunters Point of Long Island City in Queens. Important ferry crossings, canals, and railroads are also indicated. Manhattan maps notates various districts including Manhatanville, Yorkville, and Harlem. Central Park has yet to manifest and though the grid structure above 155th is ghosted in, it had yet to be officially planned. Where Columbia University stands todays shows the location of the New York Lunatic Asylum. In the lower right quadrant is an elaborate medallion features the full text of the Declaration of Independence as well as sigils representing each of the original 13 colonies. Map was printed by Charles Magnus. Magnus (16 March 1826 – 3 May 1900) was a printing entrepreneur, whose business was based in New York, NY. Magnus is known for his color lithographs of city views, song sheets, maps and patriotic illustrations for stationery and covers during the American Civil War. Appears in Fine to VF condition with archivally reinforced folds due to light splitting, Rare in any condition. ������������������������������ Est. $500-1000 EPHEMERA - HISTORIC POLITICAL Italy 439 439 Universal Republican Alliance, ND (ca.1850s), Subscription Certificate Italy, ND (ca.1850s). Unissued Subscription Certificate for Joseph Mazzini’s Universal Republican Alliance. Giuseppe ( Joseph) Mazzini (22 June 1805 – 10 March 1872) was an Italian politician, journalist, and activist for the unification of Italy and spearhead of the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. An Italian nationalist in the historical radical tradition and a proponent of social-democratic republicanism, Mazzini helped define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican state. Mazzini’s thoughts had a very considerable influence on the Italian and European republican movements, in the Constitution of Italy, about Europeanism and more nuanced on many politicians of a later period, among them American president Woodrow Wilson and British prime minister David Lloyd George as well as post-colonial leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Veer Savarkar, Golda Meir, David Ben- Gurion, Kwame Nkrumah, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sun Yat-sen. ������������������������������ Est. $55-110