Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. First edition, Large Paper printing. Signed by Holmes, Jr. Signed in blue... Read More about The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Every Man His Own Boswell
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New York: The Outing Publishing Co, 1906. First edition. Read More about Fishing and Shooting Sketches
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New Bedford [MA]: July 16 '74. A heartfelt letter reading in part: “You ought not to have been required to turn away from your thoughts for a moment from the all engrossing subject that fills them - perhaps it is bette thus… There is nothing like it in the world..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("John H. Clifford") to F.W. Bird ("My Dear Friend")...
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Signed, limited edition, number 1060 of 1500. Read More about My Life
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New York: F.J. Dow & Co., 139 Nassau St, 1850. First edition. Read More about Complete History of the late Mexican War. Containing an Authentic Account of All the Battles...
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Madrid: Libería de San Martín, [1899]. First edition. On original pictorial cover is the inscription "Compliments of R.U. Barthe---, Malaga Dec. 11/1899." presumably to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge who owned this book. The author was Chief of Staff of the Spanish Fleet at the battle of Santiago de Cuba. Read More about La Escuadra del Almirante Cervera por el Capitán de Navío
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Philadelphia: December 9, 1784. Letter Between Two Founding Fathers in the Confederation Period. "I received with great pleasure your kind congratulations on my return & shall be happy in every opportunity to express how much & how truly I value your obliging friendship. Your acceptance of a seat in Congress..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed, "Jos: Reed," to Elbridge Gerry, expressing pleasure at the...
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New York: Cornwell Press, 1880. Roscoe Conkling (1829 – 1888) was a Republican politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Read More about Speech of Roscoe Conkling at the Academy of Music New York, September 17, 1880
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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 City: Rand Book Store, 1927. First edition, signed issue, limited to 100 "autographed, numbered and specially bound copies. "The poetry of Sam de Witt is propaganda for a curiously compounded personality. Bred in a slum section of New York City, yet risen from that environment, he breaks the..... Read More about Idylls of the Ghetto and Other Poems
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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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1955-57. A fine collection of correspondence between President Eisenhower and publisher Seymour Berkson. Seymour Berkson (b.1905 - d.1959) was an American publisher of The Journal-American, a now defunct NYC daily newspaper, and was husband of fashion publicist and founder of New York Fashion Week, Eleanor Lambert. In this collection of..... Read More about Collection of T.L.S. correspondence from President Dwight D. Eisenhower to Seymour Berkson
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[Boston]: Published by a committee of the Boston Harrison Club, [1840]. A defence against allegations made by the Democratic Party in Oct. 1840 that James B. Glentworth, acting as an agent for the Whig Party, attempted to bring individuals from Philadelphia to fraudulently vote in New York during the 1838..... Read More about The New York Fraud. The Conspiracy of the Office Holders Unmasked
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Washington, D.C: George S. Gideon, July 6 to November 16, 1848. Whig Campaign Newspaper for Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. Scarce complete run of the weekly political newspaper "devoted to the support of Taylor and Fillmore" published during their campaign in the Election of 1848, which pitted the Whig Zachary..... Read More about The Battery
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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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Annapolis: Jonas Green, 1755. Recruiting for Braddock's Campaign. Passed in December 1754 "to raise a Body of able Land-men, for his Majesty's Service, against the French and their Allies on this Continent", this separately-printed session law essentially authorizes a draft system for forcing "all and every able-bodied Freeman who live..... Read More about Act of Assembly passed in December, 1754. At a session of Assembly, begun and held at the city of...
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[Great Britain]: [circa 1761]. Towards the end of the French and Indian War, William Pitt started a specie grant program to reward colonies for raising troops, thus putting the colonies in competition with each other for a share of an annual 200,000 pounds. With specie scarce in the colonies, the..... Read More about Manuscript document signed "George R" authorizing payment of £60,634 to the Province...
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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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