Nine Centuries Of Historical Documents

A.L.S., probably retained clerical copy, of Maj. Gen. Elijah Wadsworth, 4th Div., O(hio) Militia, "Head Quarters, Cleveland," Sept. 10, 18...

Pleasing collection relating to the Queen of American warships, the U.S.S. Constitution: Large chock-shaped block of richly textured, hewn wood, with

Rare cover, flag-blue cachet "U.S. Frigate Constitution / Commemorating the Inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...Mar. 4th, 1933." P...

War of 1812 manuscript list of clothing received by some 35 soldiers of Lt. Perez Loring, of whom about two-thirds have signed, some with an "X...

Manuscript receipt for "2 Large Tinn Kettels with Covers (and) 2 Quart Potts and 12 Pint Cups..." purchased by Town of Newbury Port (Mass....

Manuscript order of Capt. Thomas L. Campbell, U.S. Ordnance, 4 x 8. "The Contractor will deliver Six lbs. of Candles for the Guard at the Arsen...

Dramatic, eloquent letter lamenting the fearful cholera epidemic raging in New York. From William N. Chadwick, who has fled to Greenfield Hill (Conn.)

Superb, profoundly moving A.L.S. of James William Denver, namesake of Denver, Colorado, to his wife, on their eighteenth wedding anniversary, looking

Letter of physician A.H. Smith, "New Burgh" (N.Y.), Sept. 12, 1807, 3 pp., 8 x 12 1/2. To noted Dr. Charles Smith, New Brunswick, N.J. Int...

Three dryly humorous T.Ls.S. of Boston architect Albert M. West, 266 Washington St., 1893, 6 pp., on early typewriter, blue ribbon on handsomely water

Letter of firearms salesman E.S. Parmenter, Utica, N.Y., June 23, (18)97, 2 pp., 7 3/4 x 10. To Percy Bowker, Wakefield, Mass. "I have severed ...

Length letter of Mississippi River town settler N. Lynch, Rock Island (Ill.), Apr. 17, 1849, 8 x 9 1/2, 4 full pp. + 2 pp. postscript on half-size blu

Manuscript legal A.D.S. of Justice William Imlay, stating that "Martha Blackwell of the Township of Upper Freehold...single woman, hath by her ...

Letter on pictorial stationery from G. Rundle, local agent of Singer Manufacturing Co., "89 Canal St., Opposite the Fountain," New Orleans...

Letter with splendid Grange Movement content, from Theodore Seinscott, Eagleport, Morgan County, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1875, 6 1/2 x 7 3/4, 2 full pp. To Sing

Group of six letters from Cyrus Stedman, the first penned aboard ship departing Boston harbor, "Sat. Night," postmarked Oct. 1, (1836), an...

Highly interesting A.L.S. of Sir Frederick Treves, English physician and surgeon to Royal family, physician to and friend of the Elephant Man, author

Splendid lettersheet "Merchants and Planters Prices Current," Mobile, Feb. 21, 1846, 9 x 11, 2 pp., closely printed with exhaustive inform...

Tall glass-domed radio broadcasting tube, salvaged from one of the first radio stations in America. Made c. 1925, one foot high, Western Electric #212

Old handmade dagger, 16" long, carved bone handle, hand-engraved steel. Probably mid-nineteenth century, North African origin. Blade tooled wit...