A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 2

(PRESIDENTIAL ALMOST-RANS): Lot of four signed photos (two of each signer), all 8" x 10" color, showing Presidential almosts COLIN POWELL ...

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN: (1860-1925) American lawyer and politician, Secretary of State, and the chief prosecutor who dueled with Clarence Darrow in th

GEORGE BANCROFT: (1800 - 1891) American historian, Secretary of the Navy, and founder of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Rare S.P., a ca

ROBERT F. KENNEDY: (1925 - 1968) American politician who successfully managed his brother John's presidential campaign and was later appointed A...

MONTGOMERY BLAIR: (1813 - 1883) American politician who defended Dred Scott before the Supreme Court, later served as Lincoln's Postmaster Gener...

LOUIS D. BRANDEIS: (1856 - 1941) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, remembered for his powerful devotion to the freedom of speech. Bold, full sig

JOHN C. CALHOUN: (1782 - 1850) Vice President of the United States and an ardent supporter of slavery and the Southern cause in Senate debates. D.S. a

THOMAS C. CLARK: (1899 - 1977) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Attorney General under Truman. Nice oversize I.S.P. 11" x 14" sepia...

HENRY CLAY: (1777 - 1852) American politician, the "Great Pacificator" who supported the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 wh...

(HENRY CLAY): A fine Brady CDV, probably taken from an earlier daguerreotype, of the great statesman Henry Clay posing with his wife taken in their la

HENRY DE SAUSSURE: (1763 - 1839) Director of the mint (1794) who produced the first gold coins minted in the United States. A.L.S. 3pp. 4to., Charlest

HANNIBAL HAMLIN: (1809 - 1891) Vice President of the United States under Abraham Lincoln and prominent abolitionist. A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., Bangor, Nov. 7,

HANNIBAL HAMLIN: (1809 - 1891) Vice President of the United States under Abraham Lincoln and prominent abolitionist. A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., Hampden, Oct. 16

WILLIAM L. MARCY: (1786 - 1857) American statesman, Senator, Secretary of War (1845 - 1849) and Secretary of State (1853-1857). Fine content L.S. &q...

CALEB BLOOD SMITH: (1808 - 1864) Secretary of the Interior in Lincoln's administration, seconded Lincoln's nomination in the 1860 National C...

(POLITICIANS): A fine lot of 21 original, possibly unpublished, vintage b/w photographs of Democratic Party bigwig Lewis Weinstein with various Americ

HARLAN STONE: (1872 - 1946) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1941-1946) and advocate of judicial self-restraint. Fine S.P. 11" x 14" b/...

WILLIAM STRONG: (1808 - 1895) Supreme Court Associate Justice who wrote the opinion in the Court's reversal of the Legal tender Act of 1862. A.L...

DANIEL D. TOMPKINS: (1775 - 1825) American politician, Vice President of the United States under James Monroe. Partly-printed D.S. as Governor, 1p. sm

DANIEL D. TOMPKINS: (1775 - 1825) American politician, Vice President of the United States under James Monroe. Partly-printed D.S. as Governor, 1p. sm

DANIEL WEBSTER: (1782 - 1852) American lawyer and statesman who verbally jousted with Calhoun in the Senate and later supported Clay's compromis...

(POLITICIANS): Good lot of five pieces including an A.L.S of DANIEL WEBSTER, 1p. 4to., [.n.p., n.d. c. 1842] recommending a professor for a position a

(POLITICIANS): A neat grouping thirteen items in various formats signed by vintage American politicians, including: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (T.L.S. heavily

(POLTICIANS): Good lot of seven pieces in various formats including ALFRED E. SMITH, T.L.S. 1p. 8vo., New York, Nov. 25, 1922 a letter of thanks to th

(POLITICIANS): A lot of nineteenth and early-twentieth century political and Americana autographs and related material, in various formats, includes:

(POLTICIANS): A nice lot of seven autographs by American political leaders, includes: EUGENE MCCARTHY (signature on a 1968 campaign flyer measuring 8

(POLITICIANS): Fine lot of five b/w photographs of Democratic Party hotshot Lewis Weinstein with various political leaders, signed by: MICHAEL DUKAKIS

(POLITICIANS): A fine grouping of 16 autographs by prominent American political figures from the 1960s-1990s in various formats. Signatories include:

(JEWISH-AMERICAN POLITICIANS): A nice grouping of three items by prominent Jewish-American politicians, includes: HENRY KISSINGER (I.S.P. 8" x ...

(NEW YORK POLITICS): Interesting lot of seven pieces related to Tammany Hall politics in the 8th Ward of New York including a 12mo. paperbound book, 8

FIDEL CASTRO: (b. 1927) Cuban revolutionary who led the guerilla campaign against Batista, overthrowing the dictator and replacing him with the first

FIDEL CASTRO: (b. 1927) Cuban revolutionary who led the guerilla campaign against Batista, overthrowing the dictator and replacing him with the first

ERNESTO "CHE" GUEVARA: (1928 - 1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, allied with Fidel and Raul Castro in their succ...

CAMILIO CIENFUEGOS: (d. 1959), one of the most important of the Cuban revolutionaries, a close associate of Che and the Castro brothers. Cienfuegos ro

FULGENCIO BATISTA: (1901 - 1973) Cuban soldier and corrupt dictator whose brutal regime was overthrown by Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959. Ear...

FULGENCIO BATISTA: (1901 - 1973) Cuban soldier and corrupt dictator whose brutal regime was overthrown by Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959. Par...

FIDEL CASTRO: (b. 1927) Cuban revolutionary who led the guerilla campaign against Batista, overthrowing the dictator and replacing him with the first

ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA: (1794 - 1876) Mexican general and politician, a President of Mexico who sought to crush the Texas Revolution, seizing the

MARIANA OF SPAIN: (1635 - ?) Queen of Spain, second wife of Philip IV. A.L.S. "Yo la Reyna" penned on the left half of a letter to her, 1p...

EVA PERON: (1919 - 1952) Wife of Argentinean President Juan Peron who struggled to obtain improved peasant welfare, woman suffrage, and health and lab

PHILIP IV: (1605 - 1665) King of Spain who saw his country ravaged by famine and ill-advised wars, lost Portugal, Roussillon and Holland. A.E.S. &qu...

LAZARO CARDENAS: (1895 - 1970) Mexican soldier and political leader, President of Mexico 1934-40. Partly-printed D.S. as President 1p. folio, Mexico C

(JOHN II): (1397 - 1479) King of Aragon and Navarre who arranged the marriage of his son Ferdinand to Isabella of Castille uniting Spain. A document f

MIGUEL CEGARRA: Venezuelan patriot and statesman who served under Simon Bolivar during the wars for independence. Also Governor of the province of Mer

25180.: (1879 - 1940) Russian Communist leader who with Lenin organized the Bolshevik October Revolution, defeated by Stalin in their struggle for con

NIKOLAI BULGANIN: (1895 - 1975) Commissar and Politburo member, an intimate of Stalin and Khrushchev, exiled from real power in 1960. Scarce I.S.P. 7

NIKOLAI BULGANIN: (1895 - 1975) Commissar and Politburo member, an intimate of Stalin and Khrushchev, exiled from real power in 1960. Scarce T.L.S. on

GEORGI CHICHERIN: (1872 - 1936) Russian Bolshevik and a leader of the 1905 Revolution, succeeded Trotsky as Commissar of Foreign Affairs. T.L.S. 1p. 8

MIKHAIL I. KALININ: (1875 - 1946) Russian politician, an early supporter of the Bolsheviks, formal head of the Soviet state (1919-1946) and chairman o

NIKITA KHRUSCHEV: (1894 - 1971) Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union who crushed the Hungarian Revolution and "blinked" when thr...