RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document, and Artifact Auction

Signed book: Universal History, Volume XVII. London: T. Osborne, 1748. Rebound hardcover, 5.25 x 8.5, 628 pages. Signed at the top of the title page w

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 19 x 15.5, August 12, 1856. President Pierce appoints Samuel Babcock as “Collector of the Customs for

ANS signed “Frank. Pierce,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, April 3, 1845. Pierce endorses a letter of recommendation written to Marcus Morton, governor of Mas

ALS, one page, 7.75 x 9.5, June 24, 1848. Letter to John M. Read, a founder of the Republican party and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Cour

One word in Lincoln’s hand, “sufficient,” and three words in Davis’s hand, “drawn on me,” on individual off-white slips clipped from larger documents.

Original printed Union ticket from Lincoln’s 1864 presidential campaign, 3 x 7.25, featuring an eagle vignette at the top and naming Abraham Lincoln a

Civil War–dated partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.5 x 19, June 30, 1862. President Lincoln appoints Charles Fairchild as “an Assista

Original printed National Union ticket from Lincoln’s 1864 presidential campaign, 3 x 8.25, featuring an eagle vignette at the top and naming Abraham

Hardcover autograph album, 5.5 x 8, featuring approximately 250 signatures of politicians and military officials, with multiple signatures to each pag

ALS as president, two pages, 5.5 x 9, Executive Mansion letterhead, October 29, 1874. Letter to Samuel Sharp. In part: “My recent visit to my farm in