RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

Partly-printed vellum DS, one page, 14.5 x 18, August 10, 1852. President Fillmore appoints Peter T. Swaine as “Brevet Second Lieutenant in the First

ALS signed “Frank’ Pierce,” one page, 5 x 7.5, July 12, 1852. Letter to an unidentified gentleman. In full: “In your note of the 9th inst you ask for

Desirable partly-printed vellum DS, signed “Franklin Pierce” as president and “Jeffer. Davis” as secretary of war, one page, 14 x 17.75, March 25, 185

ALS, one page both sides, 6.25 x 8, July 25, 1867. Letter to Laura Pleasonton, daughter of Buchanan’s deceased friend Stephen Pleasonton. In full: “I

ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, no date but circa 1853–1856. Letter to J. H. Dillon, likely written while serving as US minister to Great Britain. In part: “O

Civil War–dated ALS as president signed “A. Lincoln,” one page, 5 x 8, Executive Mansion letterhead, April 20, 1864. Letter to Secretary of War Edwin

Mount Pleasant, Illinois poll book from the 1840 national election, one page, 28 x 8, dated November 1840. This page has the names of 52 voters and th

Handwritten endorsement, signed “Taylor and Lincoln,” with six additional words in Lincoln’s hand, “And the plaintiff doth the like, Taylor & Li...

Docketing notation, in pencil, unsigned, on a manuscript promissory notes for $200 each, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, May 1, 1855. Notes read: “One year aft

Bold ink signature, ostensibly as president, “Abraham Lincoln,” on an off-white 3.75 x .75 slip affixed inside an autograph book. Affixed to the oppos

Original 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait of Lincoln seated in a distinguished full-length pose. Published by E. & H. T. Anthony of New York, f...

Hardcover autograph album, 5.75 x 9, with 181 signatures inside, with a few single-page signatures, some signatures on affixed clipped slips, and some

Extraordinary war-dated handwritten pass as president, signed “A. Lincoln,” 3.25 x 2, December 28, 1864. In full: “Allow Mr. Gray & one other to...

Partly-printed war-dated DS as president, one page, 15 x 19, February 22, 1865. President Lincoln appoints Butler Fitch to be an “Assistant Pay Master

Rare original broadside printing of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, one page, both sides, 5.5 x 8.5, January 14, 1863. Navy department general or

Long strip of black mourning crepe, 35 x 5.5, worn by Admiral C. H. Eldredge while guarding Lincoln as he lay in state at New York’s City Hall on Apri

ALS signed “O. D. Taylor,” two onionskin pages of graph-like paper on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.25, Taylor & Co. letterhead, April 15, 1865...

Endorsed bank check, 8.5 x 3.5, filled out and signed in another hand, payable to Hon. A. Johnson for $250.00, March 7, 1853, endorsed on the reverse,

ANS, in pencil, as president, signed “A. J.,” on a 3.5 x 2.5 card, in full, “Let Nicholas Vedder be entered on the list of Pay Masters to be nominated

Manuscript DS as president, one page, 8.25 x 13.5, September 25, 1875. President Grant informs Francis Rew that he is “hereby retained as Collector of