Collectibles, Original Historical Documents +

World Welterweight Champion Jack Thompson. Vintage photo of the young black fighter, in boxer's stance. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 , in frame. Light backgrou...

The Man who lost the 1912 World Series. Unusual original group photograph of a Canadian baseball team, with two inscriptions on verso in hand of coach

Yankees Memorabilia. Three items: Original manufacturer's sample of Yankees popcorn holder/ megaphone. Cone-shaped, paperboard. 1960s-70s. Unuse...

Before the Automobile. Interesting issue of The Carriage Monthly, Apr., 1877, oversize 9 3/4 x 1 2 1/4 , 30 + 36 pp. ads, yellow advertising sheet for

Early Canadian Railroading. Early and immensely charming partly printed receipt, American Express Co., "capital $200,000," Hamilton (proba...

Floating down the Hudson. Lengthy letter penned by preacher W.M. Reynolds aboard the "Steam-boat Empire," Oct. 17, 1843, 7 1/2 x 1 2 1/4 ,...

Dawn of an Empire. Group of three attractive partly-printed bills of lading of New York and Erie Railroad, 1855, including one "received from S...

Vehicles of Virginia. Sales catalogue of Norfolk Buggy Co., "Jobbers of Buggies, Surries and Runabouts - Pony Vehicles a Specialty," n.d. ...

Dodge Brothers Factory Notebook. Original manuscript notebook kept by a worker in the Electrical Department at Dodge Brothers plant c. 1923, presumed

Early License Plate. Pre-porcelain, pre-state-issue license plate, New York, no. 97552, believed c. Jan.-Mar. 1910. Individually affixed metal "...

Jack Benny's Maxwell. O riginal sales catalogue for 1915 Maxwell automobile. Detroit: (1915). 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 , (24) pp. Deluxe catalogue, putty o...

No Cars Built. Original sales sheet for 1915 Pilgrim automobile, Detroit: (1915). 7 1/2 x 8 1/4 oblong, black and white. Large full-side-view photo; P

Pierce-Arrow Salesman's Book. 1934 Pierce-Arrow salesman's motivational workbook, "Facts That Sell Pierce-Arrow." 7 1/2 x 1 0 1/2 ...

Rare Ford Showroom Catalogue. 1937 Ford of Canada V-8 passenger car oversize catalogue, probably for customer reference but within showroom only. &q...

Ford Truck Showroom Catalogue. C. 1934 Ford Truck showroom album, used in Canada. A substantial production, for showroom use, or for presentation to i

Early Pontiac. Vol. 1, No. 1 of "Pontiac News," Dec. 28, 1932. 17 x 23, 4 pp., black on salmon newsprint. Dramatic headline typography riv...

Buffalo-Built Truck. Attractive data plate from an Atterbury truck, Model G, truck no. 9634, "maximum speed 40 m.p.h...." Aluminum, 3 1/4 ...

Buffalo-Built Automobile. Sales catalogue, 1920 Parenti, "Tomorrow's Car - Today." 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 , (12) pp. plus double gatefold with ...

Pierce-Arrow Employee's Badge. Radiator shape, arrow through "Pierce" logo across top. White metal, with window containing celluloid n...

Lincoln's First Term. Group of four newspapers, New York Herald, Feb. 15, 19, 20, and Mar. 4, 1861, 8 pp. each. Detailing Lincoln's Inaugura...

The Jacksonian Era is born. Substantial group of about 67 issues of newspaper American Traveller, Boston, Aug. 18, 1829 to June 29, 1830, variously, t

Salt Lake City. Three issues of Deseret News, Utah newspaper, Feb. 1, 15, and 22, 1855. 4 pp. each. Articles on Joseph Smith, Western Summary, migrati

Jacksonian America. Substantial bound volume of newspapers, The Banner of the Constitution, Vol. I, commencing with no. 1. Washington City, Dec. (5,)

Boston Gazette. Paul Revere's design and engraving of masthead of Boston Gazette and Country Journal, June 5, 1769, 4 pp. Dark, readable type, 9...

Spanning Two Centuries. Interesting trio of newspapers: Russell's Gazette, Boston, Oct. 17, 1799. Edge wear, toned, fair. New England Palladium,...

Civil War Newspapers. Group of six war-date titles, comprising three Northern, two Southern, plus William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, this latte...

Jefferson Davis Elected President of Confederacy. Reported in New York Herald, Feb. 11, 1861, 8 pp. News of Southern Confederacy at Montgomery, &quo...

Prelude to a World at War. Bound volume of small-town weekly newspaper, Red Wing Republican, Red Wing, Minn., Sept. 7-Dec. 28, 1938, 8 pp. ea., curiou

Germans on the March 1692. Early news-sheet, forerunner of the newspaper. The London Gazette, May 16-19, 1692, 7 x 11 1/4 , 2 pp. Astonishingly profus

John F. Kennedy Assassination. Substantial collection of 18 newspaper sections reporting the assassination, its aftermath, and related. Comprising: Th

Man in Space. Fascinating assemblage of newspapers reporting space news: Philadelphia Inquirer, July 21, 1969, dramatic headline, "Man Walks on...

Radical Literature. Another issue of The Black Panther, Oct. 3, 1970. Cover photos of "Comrade" Kim Il Sung, Ho Chi Minh, and Mao Tse Tung...

Radical Literature. Newspaper, The Black Panther, published by Ministry of Information, Black Panther Party, San Francisco, Oct. 10, 1970, 20 pp. &q...

The Front Page. Eight famous events presented by The New York Times on one section of eight front pages, 1918-1945. Including end of World Wars I and

The New Map of the United States. Appearing on front page of Jan. 4, 1863 issue of New York Herald, 8 pp. Map, 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 , delineating old and new

Louisville Daily Courier. Kentucky newspaper, Apr. 24, 1861, 4 pp. Onset of war: troops through Baltimore, fighting in Maryland, Jeff Davis reported i

Don't Tread on us. Boston Gazette & Country Journal, Apr. 14, 1777, 4 pp. "An Act to protect goods and estates of those having left sam...

Very disagreeable.... Pennsylvania Chronicle and Universal Advertiser, Oct. 31 to Nov. 7, 1768, 12 pp. News of regiments arriving from Ireland "...

Down with the Gerrymander! Salem Gazette, April 2, 1814, 4 pp. Half of front page featuring a drawing of map of Massachusetts rendered as a snakelike

John Adams. Independent Gazeteer or Chronicles of Freedom, Philadelphia, June 20, 1789. Article referring to John Adams. Interesting ads, including Ro

World War II Newspapers. Group of ten different Guinea Gold, printed in the jungle of New Guinea. Apr. 26 to Aug. 3, plus Oct. 19, 1945. Taking of Ber

Clarence Darrow. Superlative A.L.S. on capital punishment, of one of the most important legal minds of the twentieth century. On his personal letterhe

The Men behind the Curtain. Pair of T.Ls.S. of attorney Roy M. Cohn, on his New York letterhead, both to Lawrence E. Spivak, early host of "Mee...

William Jennings Bryan. Three-time Presidential candidate; prosecuting attorney in Scopes trial. Cabinet photo. Fine.

Westfield, N.J. Group of 26 legal documents, 1868-1897. Mortgages, deeds, tax, sale, etc., mainly relating to real estate. Very good.

Legal Archive. Group of 92 documents, 1860s to 1890s, of numerous types of legal papers for Elizabeth, N.J. (near Newark and New York City): incorpora

Pioneer Medical Text - with Southern Association. Surgical Observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases; and on aneurisms

Early Medicine. Group of eleven issues of The Medical Examiner, Philadelphia, June 22, 1839- Feb. 22, 1840, some consecutivity, 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 , genera

Manual of Surgical Anatomy. First American Edition of this significant work by H.M. Edwards, Philadelphia, 1828. "Containing a minute descripti...

On Epidemic Cholera. Epidemic Cholera: Its History, Causes, Pathology, and Treatment, by Dr. C.B. Coventry, Buffalo, 1849. 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 , 119 pp., br