![Autograph Letter Signed] 'Patriot' Editor H.H. Carroll to New Hampshire Senator Charles G....](/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
![Manuscript] West Indies Trade during the Revolutionary War. Account Current of Captain Charles...](/pictures/thumb/44702.jpg?v=1636732417)
Philadelphia: 1783. 1 sheet. 12.5 x 7.5 inches. Dated May 27th, 1783, covering the account details from July 19th, 1782 to February 19, 1783. Line items include pay outs, ship cargo, and assorted fees. During this period of time, Captain Charles Clement was engaged in the West Indies trade and..... More
![Printed Tax Form] Revolutionary War Era State Tax Collector Statement for John Pierce, of...](/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
![Broadside] [Nomination for Election in May, 1776] At a General Assembly of the governor and...](/pictures/thumb/44597.jpg?v=1636732405)
[New London]: [Printed by Timothy Green], 1775. 1 sheet. 24 [of 33] cm. "The Gentlemen, nominated by the votes of the Freemen, to stand for Election in May next, as sent in to the General Assembly, holden at New-Haven on the second Thursday of October, 1775, viz. The Honorable Jonathan..... 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
![Autograph Letter Signed] Senate politics surrounding the first modern American Bankruptcy Law...](/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
![ALS] Early Political letter of Joseph Stevens Buckminster on the Election of 1800. Later...](/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
Philadelphia: 1769. 1 sheet; [4] pp. Bifolium. 9 x 15 inches. Dated March 4, 1769, printed announcement of probate completed in manuscript signed by Benjamin Chew which is affixed with a seal to a true copy of the will, also signed by Chew (and apparently in his handwriting), of William..... More
Springfield: Daily State Register Job Print, 1868. 25 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy. Inscribed on front wrapper "Compl. of plaintiff." President Lincoln signed into law a temporary income tax to help finance the Civil War. William Springer, an Illinois lawyer, refused to pay on earnings from..... 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
![Manuscript Document] Early Opponent of Entitlements, Georgia Senator Thomas Cobb's Corrected...](/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
![Archive] Thirteen Letters to John Riggs Davis Oxford, Connecticut. Connecticut, Isaac Beecher...](/pictures/thumb/44665.jpg?v=1637031221)
Cincinnati, [OH] & Oxford, [CT], 1862-1865. 18 pp. With original envelopes. Thirteen letters, many concerning the business affairs of brothers Isaac Beecher Davis and John Riggs Davis, grandsons of Colonel John Davis (1755*-1848) during the time of the Civil War. Isaac Beecher Davis (1817-1895), the younger brother of John R., left..... More
1877. 3 x 4 3/4 inch card on mustard-colored stock. A rare ticket of admission for the congressional vote counting after the election of 1876. "Counting the Vote for President and Vice-President. Admit Bearer. To Gallery of the House of Representatives." # 732. February 19, 1877. Signed in facsimile by..... 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
México: Imprenta, Esquina del Cinco de Mayo, 1878. 122 pp. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. At the head of the title Jurisdicción de la República Mexicana, Rit. Es. Ant. y Acep. On page 3: "Sup. Cons. del Gr. 33o. de Mexico R.A.A.E. Gr. Sec. General". Owner signed and dated..... More
Eugene Golomshtok (born Eugenii Alexandrovich Golomshtok, Russia, 1897-1950) was a Russian émigré anthropologist, photographer, and authority on permafrost. He studied archaeology with Bruno Adler in Russia before he received his MA from University of California at Berkeley in 1923, where he was also the photographer of Phoebe Hearst Museum of..... More
![Printed document completed in manuscript and signed] City of New York, ss: By C. Godfrey Gunther,...](/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
![ALS] Inventor Richard M. Hoe Pays Christopher Pearse Cranch $100 for a Painting of Venice....](/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
![ALS] Maine Senator John Holmes on Political Maneuvering before the Controversial 1824...](/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
![Manuscripts] Two Financial Documents Concerning the Hutchinson and Wentworth Families. Edward...](/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
![Colonial Manuscript Document] In the House of Rep[resentatives] Nov. 3. 1748. Thomas Hutchinson](/pictures/thumb/44630.jpg?v=1637031219)
[MA]: 1748. [1] pp. Bifolium. 6 x 6 inches. A written certification requesting pay for Thomas Hutchinson, for his Service as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1747: "These may certifye that the Honorable Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. attended the Speaker of the House of Rep. in the year..... More
![Appeal of Macalester and Stebbins to the people of Illinois, Philadelphia, June, 1851] To the...](/pictures/thumb/37649.jpg?v=1636732395)
[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
![Manuscript Signed] John Joy Leases Land in Boston Commons from Loyalist John Singleton Copley....](/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