nd. WILLIAM SHIRLEY AND CROWN POINT. Shirley’s Rough message to the Massachusetts General Court and House of Representatives... Read More about Govr. Shirleys Rough Messa. to the Represen. for an Establishment for the Quarter Master &...
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Havana: January 21, 1928. Reading in part: "We are charmed with Cuba. Our Eyes rest with delight upon the beauty of Cuba...We cherish the thought that Cuba in her liberty and indepedndence is the vindication of the idealism of the people of the United States." Read More about Typed Manuscript , Signed. A part of Chamber of Commerce Address on Cuba
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. IN DUST JACKET. Read More about Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy
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Washington, D.C: Blair and Rives, 1847. The Bill appropriating Three Millions of Dollars to enable the President to enter into negotions for the restoration of peace with Mexico. Read More about Speech of Hon. John A. Dix, of New York, on the Three Million Bill. : Delivered in the Senate of...
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Boston: George R. Holbrook & Co, 1848. Twelfth Edition. The author, a clerk on a steamboat and then a Mexican War Volunteer, was captured by Canales' band of Guerillas and experienced a rigorous Captivity. He describes the wretched internal conditions, incidents of the War, his final escape and perilous return..... Read More about Adventures in Mexico; Experienced During a Captivity of Seven Months
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Wilmington, DE: Press of Ferris Bros., Printers, 1883. First edition, one of 50 copies. Privately Printed in a Small Edition. Both this work and DuPont's EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE JOURNAL-LETTERS … were issued in privately printed editions of only fifty copies for private distribution, and are exceedingly rare. Eberstadt states that..... Read More about Official Dispatches and Letters of Rear Admiral Du Pont, U.S. Navy. 1846-48.1861-63
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Washington: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1814. An important record of the war economics. Days after becoming the Secretary of the Treasury, Dallas was requested by the Committee of Ways and Means (letter from John W. Eppes) for suggestions on ways to sustain public credit and reduce the war debt..... Read More about Letter from the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, to the Secretary of the Treasury, on...
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Washington, D.C: Dec. 19 , 1879. A letter from the Senator of Vermont to fellow Republican, and U.S. Representative from New York, Simeon B. Chittenden. Reading in part: I have just rec'd from Mr. William Allen Butler a letter stating that he has examined the technical point I referred to..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Geo F Edmunds") to U.S. Congressman, Simeon B. Chittenden...
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London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1766. Third edition, revised and corrected, of vols.I-III; second edition of vols. IV & V. History of the French and Indian War, drawn largely from primary source material, and with much pertaining to the war in North America and the West Indies. Entick (1703-1773) was..... Read More about The General History of the Late War; Containing Its Rise, Progress and Event, in Europe, Asia,...
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[New York: 1881]. Rare broadside poem by the wealthy merchant and philanthropist Field, 1814-1893, on the first man in the U.S. Navy to hold the title of Admiral. Read More about Written on the occasion of the unveiling Farragut statue by St. Gaudens, on 25th May, 1881, City...
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[Washington, D.C]: Blair & Rives, 1847. Read More about Mexican War. Speech of Mr. OB. Ficklin, of Illinois
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Washington, D.C: 1879 & 1892. FIRST CALIFORNIAN JUSTICE, SECOND LONGEST SERVING AND FIRST TENTH SEAT ON COURT. Field was the first Californian appointed to the Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the newly created tenth Supreme Court seat, to achieve both regional balance (he was a Westerner) and political..... Read More about Letter, Signed and Telegram (not in his hand). Both addressed to Curtis J. Hillyer
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London [i.e., Paris?]: 1787. Advocates of French-American Commerce. A highly important work of political economy, published in Paris under a false imprint, and designed to stimulate investment in the United States by the French. Brissot was one of the most pro-American French thinkers of the period; he later wrote a...... Read More about De la France et des Etats Unis, ou de l'Importance de la Revolution de l’Amerique pour le...
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Trenton, N.J: The J.l. Murphy Pub. Co, 1898, 1898. First edition. Inscribed on ffp "With kind regards to Paul Lupke from Wm. Fulper Mch. 22, 1899." Read More about Diary of William H. Fulper on the Cruise of the U.S.S. "Resolute" with forty tons of...
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Washington, D.C: J. & G. S. Gideon, printers, [1847]. Anti-Texan annexation. Read More about Drop-Title]: Peace with Mexico
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New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation, 1962. First edition. Inscribed by Goldwater to the great boxing champion: "To the Gene Tunneys with respect and admiration. Barry Goldwater." Read More about Barry Goldwater: Freedom Is His Flight Plan
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Paris: Chez Buisson, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, 1792. Second edition overall and first French. Variant issue. Second edition: The ‘Federalist’ in the French Revolution. The first French edition of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay's celebrated collection of articles supporting the ratification of the United States Constitution. The other issue of this printing..... Read More about Le Fédéraliste, ou Collection de quelques Écrits en faveur de la Constitution proposée aux...
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New York: Random House, 1975. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Jane Engelhard “with deep respect and my love. Averell”. Read More about Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin 1941-1946
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London: Printed by J. Streater, for Livewell Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop at the Crown in Popes-Head-Alley, 1656. First edition, variant with “Livewell Chapman” in the imprint. A Classic of Utopian Thought. A celebrated work of political philosophy, which had a profound influence on America’s founding..... Read More about The Commonwealth of Oceana
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Washington, D.C: John T. and Lem. Towers, 1854. First Edition. Read More about Remarks of Mr. S.G. Haven of New York : on the bill to enable the President to fulfil the third...
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Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books, Inc, [1997]. Copy #3 of 250 copies of the Special Limited Edition, inscribed to Dick (Scaife) and signed by Edwin Feulner by the President of the Heritage Foundation. DICK SCAIFE'S COPY. Dick Scaife was one of the founding members of the Heritage Foundation. He joined Heritage’s..... Read More about The Power of Ideas. The Heritage Foundation at 25 Years
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Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. First edition, Large Paper printing. Signed by Holmes, Jr. Signed in blue ink and dated May 23, 1930, by then Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Read More about The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Every Man His Own Boswell
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[Philadelphia?]: November 10, 1815. From the Author of “Hail, Columbia”. Hopkinson (1770 - 1842), a U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania and a highly esteemed jurist who argued several landmark cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, is more popularly known as the author of the words to “Hail, Columbia”, which he wrote..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Jos. Hopkinson”), to John Inskeep, “President of the Insurace...
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Washington, D.C: February 2, 1948. Paul Douglas vs. Carl Sandburg for the Senate. Ickes (1874 -1952), former Secretary of the Interior under FDR (and briefly under Truman) and the administrator of the Public Works Administration, grew up in Chicago himself, and after leaving the administration, remained active not only in..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Harold L. Ickes”) to Harry Barnard of Chicago, objecting to...
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Philadelphia: Printed by William Dunlap [but G. W. Mentz/ E. C. Clay], 1758 [but 1828]. Reprint of the very rare 1758 editions, extracted from Ashbel Green's "Memoirs of the Rev. Joseph Eastburn" Journey through Canada. Captured in 1756 near Oswego by the French and Indians, Eastburn was taken to Canada..... Read More about A Faithful Narrative of the Many Dangers and Sufferings as well as the Wonderful Deliverances of...
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Indianapolis (IN): June 1, 1929. Written while the National and Indiana State Commander of the American Legion, Democrat, Paul V. McNutt (1891-1951) used his position in the influential veterans organization to help him win election as Indiana’s 34th Governor in 1933. Reading in part: “Whatever success I have attained I...... Read More about Typed letter signed "Paul V McNutt" to "Dear Friend" (Seymour Halpern) in...
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