Fine Selection of Autographs and Manuscripts

"A nice salt print measuring 5 3/4"" x 7 1/2"" on paper mount, showing a naval officer wearing a regulation July 1862-July ...

"A great outdoor stereoview card bearing a double 6"" x 3"" photograph showing General Grant sitting in a homemade chair at...

"A great outdoor carte-de-visite of a 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery color guard with field officers present, showing seventeen men near a single ch...

"A good war-date 1/6th plate tintype of a sailor with rank insignia on sleeve, showing him in regulation shirt with scarf with lightly tinted c...

(1801 - 1877) Leader of the Mormon church who succeeded Joseph Smith as head of the church and led the mass migration to Salt Lake Valley. Young was

"A fine broadside, measuring approximately 9"" x 12"", Liberty, [Mo.], Mar. 7, 1860, in which John S. Majors offers "&...

Exceedingly rare broadside advertising the sale in New Orleans of 28 named slaves, 1p. 5 1/4"" x 13"", ""Gravier Stre...

Uncommon poster advertising the auction of the estate of a Lincoln Co., Kentucky man, to include land, a mill, and his slave, 1p. 11 1/2""...

Excellent, rare poster advertising a reward for the capture of a runaway slave, 1p. 9"" x 12 1/4"". The boldly-printed poster re...

A rather graphic early slave arrest warrant, 1p. sm. folio, Warren Co., NC, Dec. 22, 1798, a proclamation in which Justices of the Peace William Johns

(1809 - 1868) American frontier scout, trapper and soldier, served as a guide for John C. Fremont, led forces which put the Pico guerillas in Los Ang

(1734 - 1820) American pioneer who explored the Kentucky region and guided settlers into the area, constructed a fort at what is now Boonesboro, Thre

(1808 - 1895) American clergyman and poet, author of our nation hymn ""America"" (1832), otherwise known as ""My Coun...

(1779 - 1843) American lawyer and poet who , inspired by Americans' tenacity during the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, wrote they lyrics ...

(1846 - 1917) ""Buffalo Bill"", American scout and showman, he started his career as a rider with the Pony Express, and in late...

(1810 - 1891) American showman who opened his circus, ""The Greatest Show On Earth"", merged with James Bailey to form Barnum a...

"A fine and very interesting D.S., a scroll measuring 8 1/2"" x 132"" (11 feet!), New York, Dec. 17, 1868, a petition requ...

"A great 31 letter correspondence totaling 75pp. mostly 4to. covering the period 1852 through 1856, written between Susan M. Tate, her son Samu...

"A great archive of five Georgia Supreme Court documents mostly in folio format, related to the murder of a Mrs. Peggy Saddler by a slave named...

"A fascinating archive concerning the murder of slave Moses by slave Surry, both from Lincoln County, Kentucky in 1808, consisting of ten foli...

"An exceedingly rare slave dealer's business card, roughly 2 3/4"" x 3 1/2"", advertising the services of ""...

"A great manuscript document 4pp. 4to., July 1, 1837 to Mar. 7, 1838, concerning the expense account of Assistant Superintendent and Conducto...

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"A scarce Republic of Texas related piece, a calling card for Memucan Hunt, described on the card as the ""Envoy Extraordinary and Mi...

"A most intriguing and important historical archive, a collection of over 275 pps. of letters and statements compiled in honor of WALTER F. WHI...

(1732 - 1799) First President of the United States and commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Partly-printed D.S. "&q...

(1732 - 1799) First President of the United States and commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. His franking signature "...

(1732 - 1799) First President of the United States and commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. His signature ""Go...

(1732 - 1799) First President of the United States and commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. An fine and unusual Washington

"An interesting Washington-related document, a D.S. 1p. irregular legal folio, [n.p., c. 1786] being an assessment of Virginia estate which inc...

An excessively rare and important association item, a small lock of George Washington's hair clipped as Washington lay on his deathbed and sent ...

(1735 - 1826) Second President of the United States and a drafter of the Declaration of Independence, which he also signed. He later joined Franklin

(1735 - 1826) Second President of the United States and a drafter of the Declaration of Independence, which he also signed. He later joined Franklin

(1743 - 1826) Third President of the United States, author and signer of the Declaration of Independence, ceased the importation of slaves to America

(1743 - 1826) Third President of the United States, author and signer of the Declaration of Independence, ceased the importation of slaves to America

(1743 - 1826) Third President of the United States, author and signer of the Declaration of Independence, ceased the importation of slaves to America

(1751 - 1836) Fourth President of the United States considered the ""Father of the Constitution"", he authored the Federalist p...

(1751 - 1836) Fourth President of the United States considered the ""Father of the Constitution"", he authored the Federalist p...

(1751 - 1836) Fourth President of the United States considered the ""Father of the Constitution"", he authored the Federalist p...

(1758 - 1831) Fifth President of the United States who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase and promulgated the Monroe Doctrine. Fine and important cont

(1758 - 1831) Fifth President of the United States who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase and promulgated the Monroe Doctrine. Uncommon A.L.S. "...

(1767 - 1848) Sixth President of the United States, Secretary of State under Monroe who principally formulated the Monroe Doctrine. Early A.L.S. &q...

(1775 - 1852) First Lady, wife of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. Eight lines of poetry in Adams' hand, signed "&...

(1767 - 1845) Seventh President of the United States, ""Old Hickory"" became a national hero in his defense of New Orleans and ...

(1767 - 1845) Seventh President of the United States, ""Old Hickory"" became a national hero in his defense of New Orleans and ...

(1767 - 1845) Seventh President of the United States, ""Old Hickory"" became a national hero in his defense of New Orleans and ...

(1782 - 1862) Eighth President of the United States, Secretary of State and a close ally of Andrew Jackson. A.L.S. as President ""M. Van ...

(1773 - 1841) Ninth President of the United States, military hero at Tippecanoe Creek and against Tecumseh, died after one month in office. Rare A.L.

(1773 - 1841) Ninth President of the United States, military hero at Tippecanoe Creek and against Tecumseh, died after one month in office. A.L.S. as

(1773 - 1841) Ninth President of the United States, military hero at Tippecanoe Creek and against Tecumseh, died after one month in office. Partly-pr