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A Revolution is Born. Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia, on the Fifth of September, 1

Prelude to the Storm. A Discourse preached, Dec. 15th, 1774, Being the day recommended By the Provincial Congress, To be observed in thanksgiving to G

Address of the People of Great-Britain to the Inhabitants of America. By Sir John Dalrymple, London, 1775, 62 pp. A conciliatory plea, written for col

England Responds, 1776. Highly important pamphlet, The Rights of Great Britain Asserted against the Claims of America: being an Answer to the Declarat

The Revolution Continues. Scarce pamphlet, 1778, Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs with America, and the Means of Conciliation. By William Pult

The late unfortunate war in America. Important pamphlet, A Letter from Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. to the Commissioners of Public Accounts, Re

First Magazine Appearance of the U.S. Constitution. The American Museum, or Repository of Ancient and Modern Pieces, &c. Prose and Poetical, Vol...

First British Edition of the Constitution. Plan of the New Constitution for the United States of America, agreed upon in a Convention of the States. W

Gordon's American War. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: including an A...

Signing of the Declaration of Independence. Print entitled, "The Unanimous Declaration of the 13 United States of America." Steel engravin...

Financier of the Revolution. Complete newspaper, The Independent Gazeteer; or, the Chronicle of Freedom, Philadelphia, June 5, 1784, 4 pp. With extens

Cloathing for the Continentals. Manuscript document, "Cloathing delivered to Capt. J. Carrs' Compy. in 9th Massa. Regt., commanded by James...

Benjamin Franklin. An interesting conversation piece and curiosity for the collector: a Cosey forgery of a "B. Franklin" D.S., Philadelphi...

Thomas Mifflin. Governor of Pennsylvania, active in Revolutionary War, aide-de-camp to Washington, involved in Conway cabal. Land grant signed as Gov.

The Death of Washington. An Oration on the Sublime Virtures of General George Washington. "Pronounced at the Old South Meeting-House in Boston,...

Approved, John Hancock. Charming pamphlet, An Address of the Legislature to the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.... Boston, 1781. Res

Gen. John Burgoyne. British general in Revolutionary War, surrendered at Saratoga; on return to England, wrote A Letter from Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to H

The Literary History of the American Revolution. By Moses Coit Tyler. Two vols., 3rd printing, American Classics Series, 1967, 521 and 527 pp. "...

The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America. 1735-1789. By Brooke Hindle, University of North Carolina Press, 1956, 410 pp., d.j., index. White st

Trainer of the Redcoats. L.S. of Sir David Dundas, author of the drill-books issued for George III's Army; commander-in-chief 1809-11; "dev...

Epic Poem of the Revolution. Book, Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale and Other Poems. By Thomas Campbell. First Edition. Pub. by T. Bensley; p

Truman Oddity. Limitation leaf inscribed and signed by Truman as President, removed from book. In his hand: "To Dr. John Myers with kindest reg...

In Lincoln's Hand. One sentence in his hand, "If I ever knew I cannot now remember." Clipped from a legal brief known to be 1843, Mena...

Harry S Truman. Imposing, oversize signed photo as President, 11 x 14 (image size 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 ). Two-line inscription in lower blank margin, in dark

James Madison. Signature of the fourth President, clipped and mounted beneath small portrait. 5/8 x 2 1/4 . Fine for display or framing.

Franklin D. Roosevelt. Check with beautiful signature, 1929, as Governor. State of New York check, vignettes at left. Small edge tear in blank area. S

Franklin D. Roosevelt. T.L.S., Executive Mansion, Albany, as Governor of N.Y., 1932, to "Monty" Veeder in Virginia. "Thank you for th...

Franklin Pierce. Signature with closing, "Very respectfully, yr. obnt. Servt., Franklin Pierce, Concord, N.H., April 15, 1862." Penned wit...

Andrew Jackson's Hair. With letters of authenticity from Forrest H. Sweet and Charles Hamilton. Very fine.

Lincoln and Johnson. 1864 election ballot, 3 1/4 x 7 5/8 . Vignette at top of allegorical "Freedom," woman in metal helmet. Ohio, county n...

Franklin D. Roosevelt. Election poster, n.d. but probably for 1932 campaign, 11 1/2 x 1 7. Entitled, "A Gallant Leader" above artist's...

Pres. William Henry Harrison. Mezzotint portrait by Currier, prior to his partnership with Ives. Harrison shown seated at desk. 11 x 14 1/4 . Small bl

Rutherford B. Hayes. Manuscript D.S. as President, 1877, 2 pp., granting "to said John C. Terry, Jr. a full and unconditional pardon," hav...

Lawyer, Theologian and Assassin. Excessively rare pamphlet by Charles J. Guiteau, "Lawyer and Theologian, Chicago." Entitled "A New R...

Herbert Hoover. T.L.S., 1959, from his apartment in Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. "I certainly have a high opinion of President Theodore Roo...

Death of Lincoln. Complete issue of Harper's Weekly, May 6, 1865, 16 pp., containing full-page illustrations of "Scene at deathbed of Linco...

Millard Fillmore. Became thirteenth President upon death of Taylor. Very fine, dark signature on 4 x 6 1/2 sheet, "I am truly yours...Washingto...

John F. Kennedy. Collection of nine items: four books, one newspaper, three magazines, and one picture postcard, all relating to the years just before

John F. Kennedy. Group of five items: Eulogies, Nov. 24, 1963, booklet containing messages by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senate Majority Leader Mike M

Hayes Admonishes an Autograph Collector. Unusual item: a letter to "The Honorable Rutherford B. Hayes, Fremont, Ohio" from an autograph co...

U.S. Grant's Last Rites and Coney Island! Rare broadside, printed one side, "A Comfortable Trip to New York and Return to Attend the Obsequ...

Eleanor Roosevelt. T.L.S., 1954, on her personal letterhead, 62 St., N.Y., to a Miss Pickett. "...The incidents you relate are moving surely an...

Eleanor Roosevelt. Vintage silverprint portrait, 8 x 10. In print dress, undated but probably in Franklin's first term. Signed "Eleanor Roo...

Mrs. Franklin Pierce. A.L.S. as First Lady, 8 pp., black-bordered stationery, no date but 1853, not long after the inauguration. To her sister, follow

Lucretia R. Garfield. On her initialed mourning letterhead, 2 pp., 1897, with envelope, to Mrs. Samuel Mathews. "Will it be possible to allow C...

Mrs. Garfield. Signed card "Lucretia R. Garfield / Cleveland, O. / May 1884." Written about three years following Garfield's assassina...

Florence Kling Harding. Wife of Pres. Warren Harding. A.L.S. on U.S. Senate letterhead, 3 pp., undated but between 1915-21, when Harding was a Senator

Mary Lord Harrison. Second wife of Pres. Benjamin Harrison. A.L.S. with two signatures, 4 pp., 1940, on letterhead with her New York City address, to

Bess W. Truman. A.L.S. on White House letterhead, with original envelope in her hand, postmarked Washington, Feb. 23, 1950; letter undated. To Democra

Lou Henry Hoover. T.L.S., 1933 (following Hoover's term), on Stanford University, Calif. letterhead. Inviting Mr. and Mrs. Ward to "join a ...

Mrs. Herbert Hoover. T.L.S., Washington, Feb. 26, 1923, while Hoover was Secretary of Commerce. To "Miss Lane." "...I should be delig...

Frances F. Cleveland. Wife of Pres. Grover Cleveland. A.L.S., Feb. 23 (1891), 2 pp., to Mr. Barrett. "...We are looking forward most eagerly to...

Mrs. Gerald Ford. On White House letterhead, Dec. 7, 1976, following the election. "We are both extremely grateful for the experiences of the f...

Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Interesting collection of five items: 1) A.L.S., 1951, 4 pp., on letterhead of Villa St. Pierre, France, thanking Mr. Blackwell

What would Christmas be.... A.L.S. of Bess W. Truman, on engraved personal stationery, Independence, Mo., n.d. but envelope (also in her bold hand) po

Collection of First Ladies. Interesting group of eight items: 1) White House cards, imprinted "At Home" of Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Truman. 2...

Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Splendid A.L.S. as First Lady, on silver-engraved White House social stationery, Oct. 26, n.y., 3 full pp., to Mrs. [Henry Fai

With Mourning Border. Envelope front in hand of "Lucretia R. Garfield / Free / Ladies / Guilford House / Western Reserve University / Cleveland...

Helen H. Taft. Stiff engraved card inscribed, "Sincerely yours, Helen H. Taft, Washington, D.C." "2215 Wyoming Avenue" engraved ...

On First Day Cover. Bess Truman on steel-engraved F.D.C. for 5 "General Federation of Women's Clubs," postmarked Sept. 12, 1966. With ...

Mrs. Millard Fillmore. Very scarce signature of Pres. Fillmore's second wife, nee Caroline Carmichael McIntosh of Albany, on upper portion of co...

(Mrs. Woodrow Wilson). Thick card steel-engraved in formal script, presumed 1924, "Mrs. Woodrow Wilson desires to express her deep appreciation...

Barbara Bush. T.L.S. on letterhead, "The Vice President's House, Washington, D.C.," Mar. 26, 1981, 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 . "Dear Mayor......

The King Family. Archive of King family photographs, keepsakes and personal memorabilia from the homes of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mother Alber...

Antebellum Missouri. 1852 slave document, a listing for administration of estate of Thomas H. Lewis, Cape Girardeau County. $1,646.40 received for hir

Slave Inventory. Of A.G. Sledge, Alabama, 1862, penned on verso of printed page of Joint Resolutions of General Assembly of Alabama relating to a Conf

Fugitive Slaves. Scarce pamphlet, A Defence for Fugitive Slaves, "against the Acts of Congress of Feb. 12, 1793, and Sept. 18, 1850." By L...

Sugar and Slaves. Very rare colonial pamphlet on the slave trade: Considerations on the Present Peace, As far as it is relative to the Colonies, and t

Slave Poster. "$50 Reward...Ranaway from the subscriber, on Saturday the 28th [1852]...A Negro man named Jim, about 5 feet 6 inches high, brigh...

...To Be Treated Humanly. Manuscript note for "hire of negro man Morris for the year 1843, the said negro is to have the usual summer and winte...

Woman of Color. Antebellum inventory of about seventy items, 3 pp., including a Negro "woman of color" named Diane, and a Negro man by the...

Plantations in Jamaica. In an intricate agreement, this oversize indenture from the reign of George II awards sugar plantations with "all the n...

A Free Yellow Boy Sold as a Slave. Georgia, 1819, legal document, partly printed, 7 1/2 x 1 2. Fining James Wofford and David Smith $150 for attemptin

Underground Railroad. Document, Georgia, 1820, requiring posting of $200 bond to prevent enticing his slave Elijah from running away from his master,

Protection of a Slave. Underground Railroad-related legal document, levying a $200 fine on three defendants "for harboring" a runaway slav...

Young Black Woman. Ambrotype. In ornately trimmed dress, stylish coiffure. 2 x 2 1/2 , gold metal mat. Cover of case detached, a few minor blemishes i

One Negro girl.... Court appraisal of Absalam Huff's property: "One sorrel rifle $60, one brown mare $25, one Negro girl $283, cash $43.67....

I cannot help treating them kind.... A.L.S. of W. Parker, Hope Territory, to brother in Franklin, Tenn., 1855, 1 p. "...I am very glad Mr. Rice...

Rare Black Playbill. "Dred - Founded on the celebrated novel by Mrs. H(arriet) B(eecher) Stowe, dramatized expressly for the Boston Museum.&quo...

Anti-Black Sentiment. Lengthy letter, Allegany County, Md., Sept. 4, 1839, 3 1/2 pp., 8 x 10, integral address-leaf with Frostburg c.d.s., to Danville

Old Man Marsh. A.L.S. of slaveowner L.J. Mallard, to James Le Conte, Macon, Ga., Feb. 26, 1861. "I have concluded to take Old Man Marsh. You wi...

Negro Girl named Milly. Manuscript receipt, Dec. 13, 1856, 7 x 8. "Received of Eliza F. McNeil & William H. Hicks, administrators of John M...

Ku Klux Klan. Unusual assemblage of KKK stationery and documents, apparently Maine, c. 1929: Two blank pages of "Kligrapp's Cash Book,"...

Nazi Gunner's Notebook. Highly unusual item: a bound notebook of a German gunner, including hand drawings of planes and ships. 6 1/2 x 8 3/4 , a...

Hitler is the Last Hope of those Who Have Nothing. Official NSDAP electioneering broadside, Mar. 1, 1932, Hitler vs. Hindenburg. Printed both sides, 9

March Ahead for your Nation. Rare broadside issued following von Hindenburg's death to prepare the German people for Aug. 19, 1934 plebiscite to...

Nazi Pennants. Two different, each with black swastika on white circle, red ground, with cord at one edge: 1) 7 1/2 x 1 7 1/2 , salesman's sampl...

Nazi Medley. Group of sixteen different, authentic pieces: five campaign ribbons; five metal badges, about 1 1/2 " diameter, one with ribbon; t...

Final Solution. August 1940 Directive for troops down to company level, printed both sides, 8 x 11 1/2 sheet, replete with anti-Semitic "guidel...

Artifacts of the Horror. Two items: Authentic section of barbed wire from Theresienstadt, the "model" concentration camp and gateway to he...

Anti-Semitism. Very rare broadside extolling "racial purity" books by Dr. Robert Korber, issued by Vienna University, 1939. Korber's v...

From Hamburg to Vienna. Scarce broadside, 1938, black type on tan paper, 8 1/2 x 1 1 3/4 , to German people, preceding vote for "Anschluss with...

Diamonds are not Forever. Oversize, elaborate deluxe Nazi publication, Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich, Oct. 1942, "6 Jahrgang [year of publicatio...

Nazi Culture. Another issue of Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich, June 1942. (26) pp. Photographic studies of NSDAP building in Berlin, with architectural

Felix Rosenblueth. A.L.S. twice - with his original name and new one, Pinchas Rosen. Signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence, and Israel&...

Voyage of the Damned. The title ascribed to the St. Louis, the German ship forced to return to Europe in 1939. About 900 Jewish refugees were passenge

Nazi Postcard Collection. Splendid collection of seventeen different Nazi era postcards, all slightly oversize, with imprinted postage, many with Hitl

Concentration Camp Money. Engraved currency, "Theresienstadt, am 1 Janner 1943," 20 Kronen, Star of David and likeness of Moses holding ta...

Anti-Hitler Broadside. 1932, colored cartoon entitled, "Political Cabaret in Pictures." Featuring 8 comic panes, attacking Hitler's st...

Anti-British Poster. German verbal attack on Churchill and his maritime blockade policy, causing them "to suffer hunger and distress." Ove...