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Signed book: American Grown. First edition, first printing. NY: Crown Publishers, 2012. Hardcover with dust jacket, 9 x 9.5, 271 pages. Signed on the

Ink signatures of Lou Henry Hoover, Helen H. Taft, and Frances Cleveland on individual various size cards; and a hand-addressed and free-franked maili

Eminent and versatile Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (1807–1873) who carried out much of his research as a longtime faculty member at Har

Full hand-addressed free frank, measuring 9 x 7.25 unfolded, with panel measuring 5.75 x 3, addressed in Arnold’s hand to, “Major General Thomas, Comm

Business magnate and merchant (1763–1848) who became the first multi-millionaire in the United States. ALS, one page, 8 x 9.75, May 27, 1805. Letter t

Revolutionary War-dated manuscript DS, signed “Abraham Baldwin Chaplain,” one page, 7.75 x 5.5, July 10, 1780. Document reads, in part: “Recd. Highlan

ALS signed “N. Kaznakoff,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, November 28, 1902. Letter to Barton reads, in part (with grammar and spelling re

Two ALSs, in English, both signed “D. Ben-Gurion,” both on one lightly-lined page, approximately 5 x 8.5. The first letter, dated December 1, 1964, to

Royal Navy vessel under the command of William Bligh sent to Tahiti in 1787 to acquire breadfruit plants; the ship’s master, Fletcher Christian, led a

LS in Italian, signed “dal suo carmo (carissimo) figlio sono la vostra aftisma Madre,” (Of her most dear son I am your most affectionate Mother), thre