Collectibles and Original Historical Documents

Rapidan Mining Co. and Blue Ridge Smelting Co. Letter from J. Barker, Mansion House, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1857, 3 pp., concerning smelting of ore to produc

The City by the Bay. Two letters from San Francisco to "Cousin Alice" in Conn., 1859-60, 7 pp. in all, in a small, meticulous hand, evokin...

My pigs cannot be beaten! A truly different letter, with pink vignette of a large pig and piglets on letterhead of M. Guilbert, Cotswold Sheep, Cheste

Two Medical Letters. 1) From Dr. Gale, Amesbury, 1853, 1 p., to a doctor in Lowell (Mass.?), describing symptoms of "Mr. George Jewell, the pat...

Civil War. As viewed by Frank Leslie's Illustrated. Group of eight issues: Mar. 23, 1861; June 21, July 12, Sept. 6 and 27, Nov. 6, 16, and 22, ...

Civil War. Group of six pictorial magazines of 1862: Three Leslie's, Feb. 15, Mar. 8 and 29; and three Harper's Weekly of Jan. 11, 18, and 2...

Civil War. As covered by Harper's Weekly: nine issues of 1862: Feb. 1 and 8, Mar. 1, 8, 15, and 24, Apr. 5, 19, and 26. Covers of U.S. Grant and...

Civil War. News in Harper's Weekly, seven issues of Oct. 18 and 25, Nov. 1, 15, and 22, Dec. 20 and 27, 1862. Including centerfolds of Battle of...

Civil War. Harper's Weekly, nine issues of Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, and Sept. 6, 13, 20, and 27, 1862. Battle of Cedar Mountain, Morgan's ...

Civil War. Harper's Weekly, seven issues with war content: May 3 and 10, June 7, 14, 21, 28, and July 19, 1862. Coverage of Battle of Pittsburg ...

Almanac of 1798. By Nathaniel Low, a very scarce year for this publication. Hand sewn at spine, 22 pp. Published by Fleet, Boston. Back cover with min

Atlantic Monthly. Volume of Jan.-June 1864, six issues of this magazine, still published today. Since its inception in 1857, it emphasizes work of lit

Adventure. Lot of 30 issues of this popular mens magazine, specializing in short stories of war, adventure, and exploration. 1938 (nine), 1941 (ten),

Blue Book. Group of eight issues, 1933-40, men's magazine of adventure stories, including some by Pulitzer Prizewinning writers. 1933 (one), 193...

St. Nicholas Magazine. Two bound volumes of one of the premier children's publications of the era, containing issues from Nov. 1904 through Oct....

French Department Store Catalogue. Agenda Burard de Bon Marché, 1913, 7 -1/2 x 1 1, -3/4 " thick. Unusual catalogue of this renowned Frenc...

Industrial Edition. Rare Pennsylvania local history: The Windber Era, 1901, "Illustrated Industrial Edition," 64 pp. oversize magazine, 13...

Autograph Library. Collection of about 100 issues of Manuscripts and Manuscript Society News, together with about 60 issues of The Pen and Quill (U.A.

Flooding in Louisiana. "Mississippi Levees - Speech of Hon. Joseph H. Acklen, of Louisiana, in the House of Representatives, Feb. 5, 1879."...

Women's Lib of 1844. The Lowell Offering, written, edited and published by Female Operatives employed in the Mills, published by Misses Curtis &...

Early Methodism. Book, Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, published 1808 by Wilson & Hitt, N.Y., 14th ed., 214 pp., for...

First Man in Space. Moon Shot, Alan Shepard's inside story of America's race to the Moon, co-authored with Slayton. Shepard's signature ...

Barlow's Journal. Considered the most reliable account of seafaring in the seventeenth century. Transcribed from the original manuscript by Basi...

Annual Register. Volume containing a "View of the History, Politics, and Literature" for 1807. Interesting articles on abolition of slave ...

The Weekly Register. Bound volume, Mar. through Sept. 1812, edited by Niles, and published at Franklin Press, Baltimore. Providing "a record of...

Journal of David Brainerd. An Account of the Life of Mr. David Brainerd [1718-1747]. 318 pp. A diary of his life: expelled from Yale, he and his broth

Voyage Round the World. And Visits to Various Foreign Countries in the United States Frigate Columbia, Attended by her consort, the Sloop of War John

Lord Nelson. C.S. Forester's biography of the English naval hero. First edition, published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1929, 353 pp., deckle...

The Crystal Fount. Edited by Arthur. Published by Lamport, Blackman & Law, 1854, 258 pp., red leather, all edges gilt, gilt front and back cover...

Coal Mining. Early technical work on one of America's foremost coal mining regions: Brown Hematite Ore Ranges of Lehigh County (Pennsylvania), b...

Social Injustice. Two items reflecting man's inhumanity to man: 1) Laws, Treaty, and Regulations relating to the Exclusion of Chinese, July 1903...

Italian Genocide Policy... Against the Slovenes and the Croats. Book published 1954 by Institute for International Politics & Economics in Beogr...

Song Books and Almanacs. Three songbooks, 1863-1880, totalling 248 pp., of New Orleans Minstrels, Sweet Singer, and Last Words, containing lyrics for

Beadle's Dime Song Book. Nos. 1-6, bound together. 1860, 432 pp., with about 420 songs, including "Poor Old Slave," "Johnny Is Go...

The Singer's Own Book. Leatherbound book, 1841, containing words to songs performed by popular singers of the day, with over twenty names listed...

Unlikely Edition of Alexander Pope's Classic. An Essay on Man in Four Epistles, dedicated to Lord Bollingbroke, his friend, who inspired Pope to...

The Memory of Washington. Reminiscences, Anecdotes & Sketches in the Life of Washington and his Family. Preface by N. Hervey (no author shown). ...

The Humorous Speaker. By Oliver Oldham. "Amusing pieces...in prose and verse, original and selected." Published by Ivison & Phinney, N...

Walker Evans' American Photographs. Eighty-seven plates of American people and places of the 1930's, though the lens of this important photo...

A Treatise on Political Economy... Or the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wealth, by Jean Baptiste Say. Published by Gregg & Eliot, ...

Librarian of Congress. A.R. Spofford. Interesting collection of nine Ds.S., 1870's, for such transactions as acknowledgement of book entitled Be...

Earth, Sea & Sky. By Northrop. Unusual salesman's sample of this book, with leather choices (mounted inside covers), language choice (Englis...