Collectibles, Original Historical Documents +

Hendrik Willem van Loon. Journalist, lecturer, awarded Newberry Medal, books on art, history, and geography. Two T.Ls.S., both attractively penned, 1

Mary Ellen Chase. Novelist, essayist, author of Harvey, professor of English at Smith College. A.L.S., Northampton, Mass., 1940, 2 pp., on social plan

Richard Le Gallienne. English author of many books. This example, Prose Fancies, with ten-line paragraph signed, on flyleaf. Flamboyant Art Nouveau fl

Alfred C. Kinsey. Sex researcher whose work received considerable publicity. T.L.S., 1952, on letterhead of Indiana University, to Peter Briggs of Lad

Puerto Rican Journal. Unusual manuscript journal of noted Puerto Rican author and teacher Carmen Gomez Tejern, 325 pp., describing her two trips to Eu

Copperhead Collection. A splendid collection of six items relating to the Copperhead movement: 1) Pamphlet, "Copperhead Conspiracy in the North...

Colonial New York. D.S. of George Clark, colonial Governor of Province of New York, 1736, land grant of 4,000 acres to Joseph Sackett, Orange County,

Hamilton Fish. Lincoln's appointee as Commissioner of Exchange of Union prisoners. Splendid signature of Fish on 3 pp. lease for his property at...

Maine Politics 1860-63. Group of three letters from Maine politicians concerning "census taken, used by Buchanan's last litter of pigs. We ...

To Daniel Webster. A.L.S. of Jerome Buck, Mercantile Library, Philadelphia, Aug. 12, (18)52, 1 p., 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 , to Hon. Daniel Webster. Bold notati

1804 Election for President and Vice-President. Broadside, State of Massachusetts, setting forth requirements of Electors. Senate resolution of June 1

Know Nothings. Printed broadsheet, "Platform of the American Party of Massachusetts." 8 1/4 x 9 1/4 oblong. N.d. but dated 1853 in older p...

A Design to Dissolve the Union. "Correspondence between John Quincy Adams...and Several Citizens of Mass., concerning the charge of a Design to...

De Witt Clinton. D.S., 1822, as Governor of N.Y., appointing a coroner of Saratoga County. Also served as Mayor of New York City, and Presidential can

Samuel Tilden. Presidential candidate opposing Hayes, this controversial election resulting in Tilden's loss by one electoral vote. He left his ...

Teapot Dome. Group of letters of Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney Gen., acquitted in 1927 in Teapot Dome Scandal. One A.L.S. and four T.Ls.S., 1921-22, al

Andrew Curtin. Civil War Governor of Pennsylvania. D.S., 1854, an Act to develop mineral lands, namely coal. Fine dark signature at upper left of docu

At the point of the bayonet. Letter of J.W. Cooke, Catskill (N.Y.), Nov. 6, 1838, 8 x 10, 1 p. An excited and wholly optimistic letter on the Whig vic

John F. Kennedy. Bronze medal, 3" diameter, bearing profile view of the President, with famed quote, "We shall pay any price...to assure s...

Petersburg, Virginia. Stampless letter, Apr. 20, 1841, from Chas. Jordan, to Col. Scott in Franklin City, Mass., 1 p., 25 manuscript rate on cover. ...