Collectibles and Original Historical Documents

Title Pages. Group of three different, 51/4 x 81/4 to 71/4 x 12, printed in London: 1) "Chronicles of Kings of England," 1696. 2) "Me...

Map of Germany. C. 1740-1750 by Emanuel Bowen, engraver of maps to George II and Louis XV, and one of the foremost mapmakers of his time. Including pa

A New Map of North America from the Latest Discoveries, 1763. Title within a scrollwork cartouche at lower right. Detailing the French and Indian War,

Etats-Unis de L'Amerique. French map, title in cartouche at lower right, including date "20 Janvier 1783." Steel engraved, 81/2 x 9, p...

Luke Usher Business Archive. Letters, 1890-98, from the Adirondack region of New York State. About 215 letters, manuscript and typed, many multiple pa

Life in the West. As described in a 3 pp. letter, 1842, from John L. Cross to his children. From Jerseyville(?), Ill., to family in Somerset County, N

From Hotels around the World. Collection of about 57 letters, on decorative hotel letterheads, from a correspondent travelling in the Far East and Eur

Gayly dressed colored people.... Two letters from parents to their sons, 1892, 7 pp. in all, on letterheads of Princess Anne (Hotel), Virginia Beach,

To President Grant. Letter from a frantic wife and mother, to the President, Nov. 14, 1869, 3 pp., pleading for presidential clemency for her unfortun

From Santa Martha, Columbia. South America, 1836, to Messrs. Sullivan & Barbour, Boston, from Samuel Howe, a merchant, 2 pp. He wants a Cooper t...