Boston: Published by Oliver and Munroe, 1808. First edition. Page 4 unnumbered though comparison of the issue with the page numbered shows no differences. Commenting upon American co-minister in Great Britain Pickering's pamphlet on the Embargo and the the controversy between England and the United States. Adams felt the need... Read More about A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis...on the present State of Our national Affairs: With...

New Haven: Sidney's Press, 1808. Commenting upon American co-minister in Great Britain Pickering's pamphlet on the Embargo and the the controversy between England and the United States. Adams felt the need to respond noting that several statements which Pickering made were biased or not completely true and needed clarification. American... Read More about A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis...on the present State of Our national Affairs: With...

np: 1952. Eisenhower's Vicuña Coat Man. Read More about Autograph Note Signed to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT, "For Alfred Eisenstaedt with...

London: The Mining Magazine, 1912. One of 3000 copies. Inscribed by Hoover to Adolph Lewisohn. The Herbert Hoover translation of the classic work on mining and metalurgy. This copy inscribed by Hoover to mining magnate Adolph Lewisohn, “To Adolph Lewishon [sic] Esq, With compliments of HC Hoover.” Lewisohn (1849-1938) was... Read More about De Re Metallica

Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday & Co, 1960. First edition. Inscribed by His Mother. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To Marian & Hendon [Chubb - Stewart Alsop's nephew and niece] with love from S. Alsop's mother! Corinne Cole" Read More about Nixon and Rockefeller

1917- 1936. GROTON SCHOOL. A photographic chronicle of the first two decades in the life of Gordon Auchincloss from infancy to college. Highlights include the Groton School 50th Anniversary, June, 1934 with Fraklin D. Roosevelt pictured seated in the center of the porch, the Groton Football team of which Gordon... Read More about 2 Photograph Albums of Gordon Auchincloss including images from his years at the Groton School...

New York: 1860. Advertising itself as the "Authorized edition" on the titlepage, this biography covers Lincoln's life from early days through the election and the road to the Presidency, including publication of several of his speeches. Read More about THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, WITH A PORTRAIT ON STEEL. TO WHICH IS...

Massachusetts: 1859. Read More about Hand-colored lithograph: “Birds Eye View of Mt. Vernon, The Home of Washington”

Barbacena, [Brazil]: Tip. del "O Sericicultor" 1912. TR's Copy. TR's trip to the Brazilian Amazon in 1914 resulted in him getting the tropical disease that killed him 5 years later. Read More about Regolamento Amento Generale dei Nuclei Coloniali dello Stato di Mibnas Geraes (Brasile)

Washington, D.C: May 23, 1842. Reading in part, "In regard to Mr. Tyler's measures of nomination; I feel every disposition to support both when I can do so without a violation of principle; but I cannot approve his Exchequer project. Indeed it has but few, -very few friends in either... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed. To James A. Caldwell

Richmond, Virginia: Garrett and Massie Incorporated, (1941). First edition. The Author is the great-granddaughter of Emily Donelson who herself was the niece of President Andrew Jackson and who served as Hostess at the White House for him.Inscribed to Howard C. Smith "The author joins with Mary Phelps in Christmas Greetings-Pauline... Read More about Emily Donelson of Tennessee

New-York: Printed by Denniston and Cheetham, No. 142 Pearl-Street, 1802. First edition. Part of an ongoing attack on Burr by Cheetham, whose newspaper THE AMERICAN CITIZEN had become a mouthpiece for the Clinton faction of the Republican party. "Cheetham's attack on Burr was based partly on Burr's suppression of "a... Read More about A Narrative of the Suppression by Col. Burr, of the History of the Administration of John Adams,...