Washington, DC: 2 September 1964. Bobby Kennedy writes on his last day as Attorney General, giving thanks to his colleague Francis Worthington at the Department of Justice: "On my last day as Attorney General, I want to thank you for your excellent service to this Department during my tenure …"..... Read More about Typed Letter Signed ("Bob"), letter of thanks on his last day as Attorney General to...

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1979 & 1982]. First edition. Inscribed to Robert McNamara. Kissinger’s massive memoir of his first four years in the Nixon Administration as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and Nixon’s closest advisor on foreign policy. This copy is inscribed on the half-title: “To..... Read More about White House Years & Years of Upheaval

[Albany: 26 April, 1804. Lansing (1754-1829) served as military secretary to General Philip Schuyler during the American Revolution, and a member of the Continental Congress, mayor of Albany, and candidate for governor of New York in 1804, the year he signed this document, which records his purchase of “all that..... Read More about Manuscript Indenture, signed (“John Lansing, Jun”), between Gerrit T. Vischer and Lansing for...

Washington D.C and Nahant, Mass: March 30, 1901; October 7, 1907; and May 21, 1920. In the first letter Senator Lodge thanks Hammond for the copy of "Mrs. Hammond's pamphlet on the Boer War," saying he is "very glad to have it and to hear about both sides of this..... Read More about 3 typed letters signed ("H.C. Lodge"), two to John Hays Hammond and one to the...

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1916-19). First editions of Vols. I & II, later of III & IV. Read More about The Life of John Marshall

Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1917. First edition. Read More about The Mexican War Diary of ... Edited by William Starr Myer

New York City: August 28, 1854. A SURPRISINGLY POIGNANT POEM FROM A HARDENED VETERAN. Romantic in a style befitting the era, Farnum offers a graphic account of a a heart-wrenching scene from battle, which he describes as ”carelessly written but respectfully dedicated to Maria L. Green.” Reading in part:…”Where hot..... Read More about Autograph Document, Signed, "J. Egbert Farnum late of the U.S.A." Being a hand-written...

[Philadelphia?]: 1896. First edition, with compliments slip tipped in. Read More about The Home Squadron Under Commodore Conner in the War With Mexico, being a Synopsis of its Services...

Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott & Co, 1873. INSCRIBED. By the act of May 13, 1846 the President was authorized to recruit volunteers to serve for a year or during this war (Preface). Kenly met Polk, volunteered to put together a company of volunteers from Baltimore and after this was accomplished..... Read More about Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer. War With Mexico, in 1846-48

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...

Helena: Independent Publishing Co, [1889]. First edition. Joining the Union. While there was a Constitution drafted and printed for the 1884 Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Montana which was approved by the voters, it was not until this Constitution of 1889 that Montana joined the Union. The "Address" is..... Read More about Constitution of the State of Montana as adopted by the Constitutional Convention held in Helena,...

Boston: Bela Marsh, 24 Cornhill, 1848. Second edition, with additions and corrections. The first edition, published by the Anti-Slavery Office, Boston in 1847 was titled "Facts for the People" Read More about A History of the Mexican War, or Facts for People, showing the Relation of the United States to...