Fine Autographs and Artifacts

Collection of 13 checks signed by noteworthy 19th-century businessmen, including: steamboat ferry operator and San Francisco mayor Charles James Brenh

Mailing cover bearing a Byrd Antarctic Expedition II three-cent postage stamp, 5.5 x 4, postmarked at Little America, Antarctica, on January 31, 1934.

ALS in French, signed Alph. de Candolle, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 6.5, February 3, 1891. Untranslated handwritten letter to a colle

ALS, one page, 8 x 9.75, September 18, 1831. Handwritten letter to William Gwynn, in part: "The Bearer Mr. Booth, has undertaken to dispose of ...

DS, signed Mathew Carey, twenty five copies at one third & nine months, one page, 8 x 9.75, no date. Subscription form for the publication of Ri...

Unusual two-page printed poem and letter, "Me and Andra" and "Interesting letter from Mr. Carnegie," published by the Dunfermlin...

Hand-addressed mailing envelope imprinted with Carnegie's New York return address, 6 x 3.5, addressed in Carnegie's hand in ink, "C. W....

Manuscript DS, one page, 8.25 x 11.75, January 31, 1785. Court filing document regarding his invention of the power loom, in part: "The Rev'...

Original sketch by Vint Cerf of a diagram of the "National Internet, ca. 1977," which details the connection between the "PRNET,"...

LS in French, signed Chalais, one page both sides, 8.25 x 13.5, February 11, 1626. Untranslated letter signed just five months before his gruesome exe

Civil War-dated printed circular from the Treasury Department and Salmon P. Chase as the secretary of the treasury, one page, 8.25 x 13.5, dated April

ALS signed Wm. S. Clark, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.25 x 10.5, February 16, 1851. Handwritten letter from Gottingen, where he was attending

ALS signed Tho:s Clarkson, one page both sides, 7.5 x 9, no date. Handwritten letter regarding the beautiful English countryside, in part: "Did...

Partly-printed DS, one page, 6.75 x 4.75, May 24, 1813. Pay order issued to the Treasurer of the City of New York, in part: "Pay Holden & L...

LS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 12.75, no date but docketed February 20, 1805. Letter to "the Legislature of the State of New Y...

ALS signed R. Cobden, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, February 27, 1854. Handwritten letter to "Lord Canning," complaining a...

Manuscript DS in French, signed Colbert, one page, 9.5 x 14.25, 1678. Financial document headed "Extrait de L'Estate G'nal," appro...

Partly-printed DS in French, signed Collot-d'Herbois, one page, 7.75 x 12.5, 1793. An untranslated extract from the Register of Orders of the Pu...

Scarce unsigned handwritten manuscript by the Marquis de Condorcet, one page both sides, 6 x 7.75, no date. A fascinating, untranslated passage on the

Two items: a glossy 7 x 5 photo of Conover at his desk, signed and inscribed in the borders in black ballpoint by Conover; and a booklet entitled &q...