![Item #44619 [Autograph Letter Signed] 'Patriot' Editor H.H. Carroll to New Hampshire Senator...](/pictures/thumb/44619.jpg?v=1637031218)
Washington [NH]: 1842. [3] pp. Bifolium. 8 x 10 inches. Written February 8, 1842, a day after the House voted 106 to 93 not to censure John Quincy Adams for speaking out against slavery in the face of a “gag rule” one of which was known as the "Atherton Gag"..... More
Hartford, [CT]: 1778. 2 sheets. Dated January 14th, 1778 & June 5th, 1778. Two documents pertaining to the receipt of payment for the military service of Reuben Smith, from Charles Kellogg, Paymaster to the Militia of the State of Connecticut. Cash received of Oliver Ellsworth, Esq. 1. [Manuscript Signed] 9x 5..... More
Hartford, CT: 1781. 2 sheets. Dated November 30th - December 25th, 1781. Two documents pertaining to the service and payment to John Davis, a soldier of the 2nd Connecticut Regiment, who asks another soldier to obtain his payment for him. 1. [Manuscript Document Signed]. November 30th, 1781 and signed by John..... More
![Item #44693 [Printed Tax Form] Revolutionary War Era State Tax Collector Statement for John...](/pictures/thumb/44693.jpg?v=1636732416)
Dorchester, [MA]: 1780 -1781. 1 sheet. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. State tax collector form for the year of 1780 for John Pierce of Dorchester. Form includes manuscript calculations for Polls, Houses and Lands, and Personal Estate tax which totaled £68.18.3 Taxes were needed as the war dragged on. Massachusetts revised..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1874. 23 pp.; 43 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. 43d Congress, 1st session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. 229, including part 2. OCLC locates 6 print copies of part 1 and 1 of part 2. Very good copies with light soiling; first..... More
![Item #45287 [Autograph Letter Signed] Senate politics surrounding the first modern American...](/pictures/thumb/45287.jpg?v=1637031223)
Washington, D.C. 1840. [7 pp], with integral address. 8 x 10 inches. An unusually astute description of the debates, maneuverings, and workings of the Senate about bankruptcy legislation in the shadow of the upcoming 1840 presidential election, which pitted the Whig candidate William Henry Harrison against incumbent Martin Van Buren..... More
![Item #44696 [ALS] Early Political letter of Joseph Stevens Buckminster on the Election of 1800....](/pictures/thumb/44696.jpg?v=1636732416)
Boston: 1800. [4] pp. Bifolium. 8 x 9.75 inches. Written to an unnamed friend from Harvard (with some connection to then President John Adams) in the midst of one of the bitterest Presidential campaigns, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, Harvard class of 1800, and instructor of two of Theodore Lyman's children, and..... More
n.p. [1861]. [1] sheet. 7.75 x 4.5 inches. Signed by Ernest G. Chormann, Brig. Gen. Fitz John Porter, Col. William Woods Averell, Chief of ordnance Charles P. Kingsbury, and Assistant Adjutant-General Andrew J. Alexander (for Gen. George Stoneman), with the note "approved" by three signatures. Though undated, it was likely..... More
![Item #44232 [Manuscript Document] Early Opponent of Entitlements, Georgia Senator Thomas Cobb's...](/pictures/thumb/44232.jpg?v=1636732400)
[Washington, DC]: 1827- 1828. [1]; 31, [1] pp. 8 x 10 inches. A corrected manuscript of Georgia Senator Thomas Cobb's 1828 Speech opposing "The Bill on Making Provisions for the Surviving Officers of the Revolution." Cobb had introduced an earlier resolution on January 11, 1821 (that was defeated in a...... More
[Washington D.C.]: [Printed by William A. Davis], 1817. 3 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Number 23 in brackets at the top. The committee proposed the current version of the American flag, recommending "to reduce the stripes to the original thirteen ... and to increase the stars to correspond with the..... More
![Item #43956 [Printed document completed in manuscript and signed] City of New York, ss: By C....](/pictures/thumb/43956.jpg?v=1636732397)
New York: 1865. 1 sheet. 8.5 x 14 inches. Signed by C. Godfrey Gunther three times. Issued to Thomas McLelland (also McClelland), detailing the times of operation and route limits of the license to operated a stage line (first registered in 1853), including extensions and changes of his route, from..... More
![Item #45518 [ALS] Inventor Richard M. Hoe Pays Christopher Pearse Cranch $100 for a Painting of...](/pictures/thumb/45518.jpg?v=1636732423)
New York: 1868. 1 pp. 8 x 9.75 inches. Hoe's letter, dated March 31st, 1861 is to artist, writer, and caricaturist C.P. [Christopher Pearse] Cranch in reference to a painting of Venice. Hoe tells Cranch: "I am so well pleased with the picture of Venice that I herewith enclose my..... More
![Item #44216 [ALS] Maine Senator John Holmes on Political Maneuvering before the Controversial...](/pictures/thumb/44216.jpg?v=1636732399)
Washington, [D.C]. 1824. [2] pp. 8 x 10 inches. Dated Washington, 9 March 1824. John Holmes (1773-1843), Senator from Maine was a supporter of W.H. Crawford, the Congressional Caucus candidate, and writes about the chances of John Quincy Adams, the Jackson-Calhoun coalition, and Henry Clay in different states and regions-..... More
![Item #44263 [Manuscripts] Two Financial Documents Concerning the Hutchinson and Wentworth...](/pictures/thumb/44263.jpg?v=1636732401)
Boston: 1769. 2 sheets. 1. "His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq, to the Estate of Edward Hutchinson, Esq Decd. 12x8 inches. Includes the entries "to cash paid Presidt Hoyoke on acct of Mr. Ruck's estate..." and "By legacy of Edwd Hutchinson to Mr Wentworth £4 with interest from March 1753 to..... More
[Philadelphia, Pa.]: [B. Mifflin, Printer], 1851. 19 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. After the initial route was laid out in 1824, construction on the Illinois and Michigan Canal began in 1836, only to be suspended for several years after the Panic of 1837 which set the state of Illinois into..... More
![Item #45570 [Manuscript Signed] John Joy Leases Land in Boston Commons from Loyalist John...](/pictures/thumb/45570.jpg?v=1636732447)
Boston: 1796. [4] pp. Bifolium. 7.25 x 9 inches. Dated March 7th, 1796, lease for land in Boston Commons from painter John Singleton Copley (1738 -1815), to John Joy, whose brother Benjamin Joy, was an East India merchant who served as the first U.S. Consul to India. Both Joy brothers..... More
Weimar: Verlegt von dem Gebr. Hoffmann, 1821. [6], xviii, [4], 91, [6], 96-168; 176; 240, [1] pp. Illus. with 20 copper-engraved, aquatint plates (19 boldly colored on thick wove paper, 4 are double-page, one with tissue guard), 6 copper-engraved maps (5 folding), and 2 folding tables. 4to. Contemporary three quarter..... More
![Item #44631 [Archive] Three ALS by Colonel Joel Stone Concerning Loyalists in Upper Canada, one...](/pictures/thumb/44631.jpg?v=1637031219)
[Ontario, Canada]: 1795-1816. [6]pp. 8 x 12 inches. Three letters from Colonel Joel Stone, Connecticut loyalist who settled in Canada, at three phases in his time there. In the first he is requesting an extension on his timber lease as his business grows, in the second, he is seeking compensation..... More
![Item #44701 [Printed Document Completed in Manuscript] Duties Collected for a Wheel Carriage in...](/pictures/thumb/44701.jpg?v=1636732417)
Northampton; West Springfield, MA: 1801. 1 sheet. Docketted on verso. 6.5 x 8 inches. November 30th, 1801, signed in Northampton by Jos. Lyman [Jr], Collector of the Revenue, 10th Division, Massachusetts. Duties collected from Samuel Flower, of West Springfield, for a two wheel carriage, "having a top drawn by one..... More
[México], Biblioteca Mexicana de Obras Raras y Curiosas, [Offset Vilar]:, 1953. [16] pages, facsim.: 177 leaves. 8vo. Limited edition facsimile of the 1637 edition. Initialed and numbered III of XX copies printed on Hammermill Cockletone of a total run of 120 copies. Biblioteca Mexicana de Obras Raras y Curiosas Volumen..... More
Mexico: Impressas en Mexico con las licencias necessarias, en la Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, en el Puente del Espiritu Santo, 1767. [title page, frontis: lacking] 12 preliminary leaves, 160 pp. 5 3/4 x 4 inches. Contemporary vellum with cloth ties. First edition. First edition of the Spanish-Otomi dictionary, by..... More
![Item #44269 [Manuscript Document Signed] Letter of Election results of Concord NH for the 13th...](/pictures/thumb/44269.jpg?v=1636732402)
Concord [NH]: 1810. 1 sheet. 8 x 12.5 inches. Election Results from Concord, New Hampshire, for the Representatives of the 13th Congress, 1810, a true copy from the record attested to by John Odlin and signed by the three Selectmen of Concord, Nathaniel Abbot, Edmond Leavitt, and Therburn Wiggin. Addressed..... More
![Item #44677 [Three Bail Bonds Signed] Assigned by New York County Sheriff James Morris, for...](/pictures/thumb/44677.jpg?v=1636732411)
New York: 1799 -1800. 3 broadsheets. Approx. 8 x 12 1/2 inches. Three bail bonds, printed and completed in manuscript, issued & signed by New York County Sheriff, James Morris (1764-1827) on the verso. With seals. 1. The earliest, dated March 30th, 1799, was issued to and signed by Garrit Van..... More
![Item #44022 [Autograph Letter Signed] Civil War Captain Thomas Glover Pens a Scathing Letter ...](/pictures/thumb/44022.jpg?v=1636732397)
Camp Selkirk, Maryland: 1861. [4] pp. Bifolium. 12 x 7.5 inches. October 21, 1861. A wonderful, fervent, political letter regarding politics and the effect of the upcoming election in New York on the war effort from an officer of the 71st Regiment of the New York Volunteer Infantry, Capt. Thomas..... More
![Item #44682 [Manuscript Receipt Signed] Balance for the Postage of Post Master General, George...](/pictures/thumb/44682.jpg?v=1636732412)
Pittsburgh: 1798. 1 sheet. Docetted on rear. 7.75 x 6.75 inches. "The United States to George Adams ...For the Postage of sundry Public letters & papers for the months of July, August, September, and October, 1798. Pittsburgh 1st November 1798. Received of John Wilkins....by Isaac Craig ... $14.12 in the..... More