[Washington, D.C.]: Printed by Lemuel Towers, 1859. 16 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. Garnett Bowditch Adrain (1815-1878) was a New Brunswick attorney who served two terms in Congress from 1857 to 1861. Here, in opposing the Buchanan administration's candidate for Speaker of the House, T. S. Bocock of Virginia..... More

New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Printers; Anson D.F. Randolph, 1863. 16 pp.; 16 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. Later printing & first edition. This issue of Loyal Publication Society, No. 17 is one of three variants. Good copies, 17 with detached and chipped front wrapper; 13 lacking its..... More

[Philadelphia]: n.p., 1899. 10 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy. "Read before the American Philosophical Society, October 20, 1899." Institutional stamp on first leaf, gift slip tipped into rear wrapper, from Henry Carey Baird, March 14, 1900. Alexander Williams Biddle (1819-1899), grandson Clement Biddle, was an officer in..... More

Washington, D.C. Union Congressional Committee, 1864. 15 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. Abridgement of edition published by D. Van Nostrand, New York, 1864. A very good unopened (uncut) copy, soiling on wrappers, edgeworn, with mail fold. Sabin 3483n. More

[Washington D.C.]: 1834. [1 pp.] bifolium. & 1 sheet 6.75 x 9 inches. 8 x 10 inches. Brief letter, dated June 5th, 1834, with integral address to Richard Smith, Esq., regarding a banker's draft. John Bell (1797-1869) of Tennessee, served in the US House of Representatives (1827-1841), and was then..... More

n.p. n.p., 1856. 16 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Philemon Bliss (1813-1889) was an Ohio Congressman, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory, a Missouri Supreme Court justice, and later Dean of the Law School for the University of Missouri. Here he demolishes quite adroitly, the..... More

Washington [D.C.]: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1866. 7 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. A very good unopened (uncut) copy, lower edge worn, mail fold. More

Washington, D.C. Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1856. 7 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Edges worn else very good. Sabin 9065n. LCP. Afro-Americana 1789. Dumond p. 33. More

New York: 1863. 1 sheet. 7.25" x 3" inches. Printed check from South Branch, Bank of Commerce in New York. Dated November 19th, 1863, No. 326. Payment of $43.65 issued to Dumont Frelinghuysen. Signed by James Knox, Treasurer of Central Rail-Road Company of New Jersey. Stamp affixed. Good, trimmed closely..... More

New York; Northridge, CA: 1950-1972. 52 items. Mostly 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Mostly typed letters signed by radio broadcasting pioneer and First president of Broadcast Music Inc, (BMI) Carl Haverlin (1899-1985), who was also a renowned authority on Abraham Lincoln & the Civil War, the majority concerning the Civil..... 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

Newport News, VA: 1863. [2] pp. 8 x 10 inches. February 15th, 1863. R.H. Irwin of Company E, 51st Regiment, 2nd Division, 2nd Brigade, 9th Army Corps. of the Pennsylvania Infantry. Irwin writes to his uncle & aunt, and, after commenting on his march from Fredericksburg, tells them of the..... More

Humbolt Camp; Mount Sterling, OH: [1862]. [3] pp. Bifolium + pictorial envelope. 5.5 x 9 inches. March 10th, [1862]. First portion of letter is from E.M. Simmons to his brother, and second portion to A.W. Morgan. The pictorial envelope is addressed to Edwin Forbes of East Hartford, CT, with a...... More