RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Literature

Remarkable grouping of four pieces of ornate black lace belonging to Martha Washington, possibly mourning lace, ranging in size from 5 x 4 to 12.75 x

ALS signed “Th: Jefferson,” one page, 7.75 x 9.5, March 30, 1826. Letter to the Reverend John McVickar, the first Professor of Moral Philosophy and Po

Desirable full free frank, measuring 9.75 x 7.75 unfolded with a center panel of 4.75 x 3.25, boldly addressed in Jefferson's hand to "The ...

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 14.25 x 17.25, June 18, 1810. President Madison appoints John Gassaway as "a Second Lieutenant...

Signed book: Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette. First edition. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1835. Full red morocco lea

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, signed "J. Q. Adams," one page, 14 x 18.5, April 24, 1828. President Adams appoints Francis H. Greg...

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.75 x 9.75, January 1, 1831. President Jackson grants James Poodwine a parcel of land "at Cr...

Partly-printed vellum DS, signed “Andrew Jackson" as president and "M. Van Buren" as secretary of state, one page, 10 x 14.5, May 21,...

ADS, signed “Wm. H. Harrison, A d C,” one page, 8.25 x 4.25, March 26, 1794. A food supply order issued from "Headquarters" in Greenville,...

Partly-printed DS as president, signed “J. Tyler,” one page, 21.5 x 16.5, September 4, 1844. Four-language ship's paper issued to "William ...

ALS as president signed “J. Tyler,” one page, 4.5 x 7, August 16, 1844. Letter to John Branch, the Territorial Governor of Florida, in part: "S...

Millard Fillmore's personal copy of Eulogy on Gen. Zachary Taylor by Hon. Jos. R. Ingersoll. Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, 1850. Softcover...

ALS, one page, both sides, 8 x 10, February 23, 1844. Letter to New York Congressman William A. Moseley, in part: "I had not noticed the articl...

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15 x 18, April 3, 1858. President Buchanan appoints John Grimes Walker as "a Lieutenant in the...

Civil War-dated DS as president, one page, 15 x 18, March 13, 1863. President Lincoln appoints Francis A. Walker as "Assistant Adjutant General...

Civil War-dated partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 14.75 x 19.75, July 15, 1864. President Lincoln appoints Lemuel B. Norton as a &quo...

Lengthy war-dated autograph endorsement, signed as president, "A. Lincoln," on the reverse of a lightly-lined one page letter written to L...

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.5 x 19, March 21, 1870. President Grant appoints Theodore Cooper as "First Assistant Engine...

Scarce partly-printed DS as president, one page, 17 x 14, April 29, 1881. President Garfield appoints Francis W. Seeley as "Postmaster at Lake ...

Signed book: The Life of Gen. James A. Garfield by J. M. Bundy. Illustrated first edition. NY: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1880. Hardcover with custom c...