[Findlay, Ohio]: [S.A. Spear], 1858. 8 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Rather than giving speeches, Eli Thayer (1819-1899) felt emigration could overturn slavery, and to this end raised funds to move northern men and anti-slavery proponents into territories and border states to swing the popular vote. He would later argue..... More

Bridgeport [CT]: 1897-1898. 4 pp. 5 x 8 inches. Three letters from theater historian and biographer, Joseph Norton Ireland to collector and biographer, Douglas Taylor . 1. Letter, dated December 8th, 1897. 1 pp. Ireland tells Taylor of the decline in his physical and mental faculties, before he summarizes his..... More

Litchfield, CT: 1787. 1 sheet. 6.25 x 4 inches. Signed by four important Connecticut figures. Payment Order issued August 11th, 1787, for the sum of 24 shillings, taxed by the Supreme Court, against Joseph French for counterfeit bills of credit of the state of New York. Order written & signed..... More

Charleston [SC]: 1779 & 1784. 2 sheets. 7.5 x 7 inches. A salary receipt signed by H.[Henry] G. Pendleton for December 28th [1777] through March 26th, 1778, for Eight Hundred and Fifty Five pounds, Sixteen Shillings, Three Pence, dated June 23rd, 1779. [Affixed to] A letter From the Government House..... More

Petersburg, VA: 1864. 1 sheet. 5 x 7.5 inches. Dated July 1, 1864. Special Order 70. List of 13 men who "after careful and important investigation", are ordered to lose one month's pay for their offense. Order commanded by Brig. Genl. Potter and signed by his adjutant, Daniel Wright. Very..... More

Connecticut: 1814. [2] pp. Bifolium with integral address. 7.25 x 11.75 inches. The orders to publish the court martial verdict of Thomas Bevins, an extremely important case involving the free speech of citizen soldiers. A True copy of a General Court Martial, "presided by Abel Rossiter in New Haven in..... More

Morelia: Tip. de Alfonso Aragon, 1903. 301 pp. + [42] leaves of plates. Illus. with b/w plates. 12mo. Later gray card covers with brown cloth spine. First Mexican edition. The work, commonly known as the Relación de Michoacán, containing a list of the Mexican rulers and their conquests, was commissioned..... More

[Mexico]: Impr. del gobierno, en Palacio,á cargo de J.S. Ponce de León, 1876. 27 pp. 8vo. Later stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Negotations over the presidency of Mexico between Potasio Tagle, Porfirio Diaz' Secretary of the Interior, and José María Iglesias (1823-1891), president of the Supreme Court and self declared..... More

Charleston, SC: 1848. [4] pp. Bifolium. 8 x 10.5 inches. A wonderful letter filled with descriptions and anecdotes of prominent military and political figures including Andrew Jackson. Dated Feb. 28th, 1848, just as the Mexican American War was concluding (the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo occurred less than..... More

Greenwich, RI: 1762. 1 sheet. 7.5 x 6 inches. May 21, 1762. Two promissory notes, one for thirty-five shillings the other for thirty-six, signed by Nathaniel Bowdish of West Greenwich Rhode Island, taken from Hezikiah Lord, and witnessed by Nathaniel Cogswell, and Samuel Stewart. Lord has signed the verso of..... More

[Boston]: 1815. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Folio. 35 x 21 cm. First edition. An important broadside noting the deficiencies of the volunteer militia. One of two states, this with the fourth line in bold-type. Opens: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. General orders. Head-quarters, Boston, June 17th, 1815. : On the 15th inst..... More

Boston: Printed by Adams and Nourse, 1786; 1787. [487]-545, [1] pp.; [546]-627, [1] pp.; [87]-168] pp. and [169]-257, [1] pp. Folio. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. First editions. The key documents that reported on the revolt that fundamentally altered U.S. history. Beginning in 1786, only three years after the..... More

[Vermont]: 1765. 1 sheet. 7 x 3 inches. "To John Peck of Salisbury in his Majesties name you are hereby Commanded to make your personal appearance Before John Hutchinson Esqr at his Dwelling house in Salisbury forthwith to give Evidence of all you know in Diver Cases wherein Sundry persons..... More