Brunswick, Maine: Nov., 2, 1858. "Your favor of Nov. 6 I have just rec'd. I regret very much that I have no autograph of the Emperor and have never had any. While in Europe I received some notes from distinguished men but they have long since passed into the hands..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed ("John S.C. Abbot") to Mr. Edward Brown Houghton

Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. First edition, a regular paper issue? Said to have been issued in thin, regular and thick paper issue, the first two from same setting imposed on 8vo and thick paper issue imposed as 4to. Type on title slightly larger than other copies that..... Read More about Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette delivered at the Request of Both...

[Boston]: Office of the Daily Commercial Gazette, n.d. [August, 1830]. Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution. This Boston broadside, published by the [Boston] Daily Commercial Gazette, contains extracts from the London papers detailing the July 1830 Revolution in France that overthrew Charles X. It is presumably one of the..... Read More about Revolution in France! [drop title

Paris: Desnos, 1764. Read More about Generalites d'Amiens. [Atlas

N.p. [Paris?]: 1748. Building Code, Paris 1748. Read More about Les Loix des Bâtiments, suivant la Coutume de Paris, Traitant de ce qui concerne les Servitudes...

Cambridge: The University Press, 1954. First edition. Read More about Robert Estienne Royal Printer. An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus

Paris: Georges Blaizot & Claude Guerin, Juin, 6,1972-18 Juin 1974. One of the greatest sales of the century. Read More about Bibliotheque Raphael Esmerian...in 5 Parts...Avant-propos de M. Jacques Guignard for Part I;Part...

New York: The Grolier Club, 1971. First edition, one of 1000 copies. With the former owner's signature of legendary, Washington Irving scholar, Andrew Breen Myers. Read More about The Library of Jean Grolier. A Preliminary Catalogue … With an Introductory Study "Jean...

Paris: Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1833. Early response to the French conquest of Algeria in 1830 and subsequent plans for its annexation to France. While the initial hopes of “men of various parties in England” had been that the 1830 expedition would see a favorable outcome from the French administration..... Read More about Appel en Faveur d'Alger, et de l'Afrique du Nord, par un Anglais

London: J. M. Richardson ... and J. Ridgeway, 1808. Third edition. A plea for the repeal of a policy of systematic hostility toward American commerce from this financier and statesman who married the eldest daughter of Senator William Bingham of the United States - an alliance to which, according to..... Read More about An Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council; an an Examination of the...

Paris: Se Vend chez Nyon Pere et Didot, [ca. 1742]. Early edition. Interest tables and facts, a “ready reckoner”. Read More about Les Comptes Faits ou le Tarif General de touttes les Monnoyes

Washington, D.C: 1818. Read More about Report of the Select Committee ... in Relation to the Claim of the Representatives of late Caron...

London: 1880. Read More about Madame de Maintenon, A Memoir