Price: $12,000

The Hague: August 1, 1795. "The character of the American people is so universally and essentially republican..." Nathaniel Freeman, Jr. (1766-1800) was a Harvard classmate of Adams. Initially elected to the Fourth Congress as a Federalist Representative in 1795, he would change party affiliation to Jefferson's Democratic Republicans in 1797.....  Read More Item Details for Important Autograph Letter Signed, to Nathaniel Freeman, on the disagreements between Federalists and Democratic Republicans, on the Batavian Revolution, the French Constitution of 1795 and the relationship with Great Britain Add to Wish List

Item #346574

Price: $1,250

Cambridge: Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, July 21, 1775. An important issue published during the Siege of Boston, including a lengthy account of the reading of the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms in Cambridge and on Prospect Hill. Other Revolution related content includes a printing of.....  Read More Item Details for The New England Chronicle: or the Essex Gazette ... July 21, 1775 Add to Wish List

Item #352421

Price: $250

Martinsburg, W. Va: Printed at the Office of the "Berkeley Union" 1872. Second Edition, expanded with new material. First published in 1869 in Hagerstown, Maryland, this second edition expanded. Includes much on John Brown. Read More Item Details for The Annals of Harper's Ferry, With Sketches of its Founder and Many Prominent Characters Connected with its History, Anecdotes, &c. By Josephus, Junior Add to Wish List

Item #334963

Price: $2,250

New York: April 10, 1865. The End of the Civil War. An historic issue of the New York Times, published the day following Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox, including the correspondence between the two discussing and accepting terms. Read More Item Details for The New-York Times ... April 10, 1865 ... Union Victory! Peace! Surrender of General Lee and His Whole Army Add to Wish List

Item #351866

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Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1800. First edition. The present work concerns the trial and subsequent imprisonment of Thomas Cooper, an Englishman by birth who loved in Northumberland, Pennsylvania and worked as a lawyer and newspaper editor, for violating the Alien and Sedition Act. In 1799, he had requested John Adams to.....  Read More Item Details for An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland; on a charge of libel against the President of the United States Add to Wish List

Item #346776

Price: $2,250

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 Item Details for The Battery Add to Wish List

Item #346068

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Philadelphia: D. Hall and W. Sellers, [1768]. Includes an essay on Fruit Trees on p. 2-3, being passages extracted from Thomas Hitt's Treatise (1755), as well as numerous health related recipes. The second Poor Richard's almanac issued after Benjamin Franklin's involvement with the publication ended. Read More Item Details for Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris … for the year of our Lord 1769 … Add to Wish List

Item #352716

Price: $1,500

London: Printed by J. C. Chappell, 1837. First edition. An impassioned appeal by Henry Sterne, resident of St. George, Jamaica, in defense of "apprentices" (i.e. newly-freed slaves following the 1834 emancipation in the West Indies) who have suffered mistreatment, citing detailed legal cases and presenting legal and religious arguments: "The.....  Read More Item Details for A Statement of Facts, Submitted to the Right Hon. Lord Glenelg, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. Preparatory to an Appeal About To Be Made by the Author to the Commons of Great Britain, Seeking Redress for Grievances of a Most Serious Tendency, Committed Upon Him, Under the Administration of His Excellency, The Marquis of Sligo, the Late Governor, and Sir Joshua Rowe, the Present Lord Chief Justice of the Island of Jamaica, with an Exposure of the Present System of Jamaica Apprenticeship Add to Wish List

Item #333372

Price: $4,000

[Philadelphia]: [1856]. "This political cartoon appeared during the 1856 presidential election and takes a vehement stance against the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Designed to open these territories to settlement, this act employed the doctrine of popular sovereignty to allow the people living in Kansas and Nebraska to vote these states.....  Read More Item Details for Liberty, the Fair Maid of Kansas, in the Hands of the Border Ruffians Add to Wish List

Item #346851

Price: $4,500

Washington: January 16, 1823. Signed by Monroe and Adams. Following the ratification of the Adams-Onis Treaty, President James Monroe was authorized on March 3, 1821, to take possession of Florida for the United States and provide for its initial governance. After appointing William Pope Duval as the first civilian governor.....  Read More Item Details for Manuscript document signed by Monroe as President and countersigned by Adams as Secretary of State, appointing William F. Steele the U.S. Attorney for the Territory of Florida Add to Wish List

Item #351949

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New York: Bunnell and Price, 1852. First edition. The 1835 Great Moon Hoax was prompted by a series of six articles published in the New York newspaper The Sun, about the supposed discovery of life and even civilization on the Moon. Read More Item Details for The Celebrated "Moon Story," its Origin and incidents; with a Memoir of the Author, and an Appendix, containing, I. An Authentic Description of the Moon; II. A New Theory of the Lunar Surface in relation to that of the Earth Add to Wish List

Item #346657

Price: $500

Washington, D.C: January 15, 1832. The letter continues: " ... Read & ponder that well. It is the result of cabinet party consultations to which the best men have contriobuted all their wisdom, and we must, can, will & shall sustain it. I heard him deliver it. His manner was.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed to attorney David Roberts, on the Tariff bill of 1832, Henry Clay and other members of Congress, "... The Tariff is to be the great subject for the action of this Congress & this Session. You will before this have received Clay's speech, opening generally, but explicitly the plan of the friends of the American system..." Add to Wish List

Item #338238

Price: $650

Port Praya, Cape Verde Islands: January 27, 1845. "... Lieut. Reid came into my cabin and informed me that Mr. Hurst had been brought on board badly wounded. On going into the Ward Room I found that a ball from one of the ship pistols had passed through both his.....  Read More Item Details for Contemporary true copy of an autograph letter signed from H. Bruce to Matthew C. Perry, detailing a duel between two officers on the U.S.S. Truxtun serving on Perry's African Squadron Add to Wish List

Item #346683

Price: $250

New York: G.W. Carleton & Co.; London S. Low, Son & Co, 1879. First edition. Inscribed "To J.O. Rutter, Esq. with compliments of The Author" on the front endpaper. INSCRIBED. Read More Item Details for The Gypsies and the Detectives Add to Wish List

Item #338119

Price: $450

Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co, 1884. First edition. The Raymond Excursion Party of 60 left Boston in April 1884 for an overland tour by train. The author gives descriptions of Chicago, Denver and Colorado mines, the southwest, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Monterey, etc. Spalding worked for.....  Read More Item Details for From New England to the Pacific. Notes of a Vacation Trip across the Continent in April, May, and June 1884 Add to Wish List

Item #326725

Price: $6,500

London: Simmonds and Ward, 1847. First edition. With Among the Earliest Views of the Houston-Gulf Coast Area. "The author had a rough experience in the new Republic and published his account to deter prospective emigrants from following in his 'fatal footsteps.' The work takes issue with the writings of Newell.....  Read More Item Details for St. Louis Isle, or Texiana; With Additional Observations made in The United States and in Canada Add to Wish List

Item #346901

Price: $1,250

Washington, D.C: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. First edition. "When in 1843 Congress approved the construction of an experimental telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington, Vail acted as Morse's chief assistant and received Morse's 'What hath God Wrought' message on May 24, 1844 ... [The present pamphlet] containts one.....  Read More Item Details for Description of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation Between the Cities of Washington and Baltimore Add to Wish List

Item #352853

Price: $1,200

[Washington, D.C: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1936. First edition, first(?) issue without rubber stamp on front cover. First edition, issue without the publisher's statement in rubberstamp on lower front cover: "The pamphlets for 1937 are exhausted. This copy of 1936 has most of the same.....  Read More Item Details for Negro History Week Beginning February 9, 1936 [Cover title] Add to Wish List

Item #334488

Price: $3,000

London: J. Almon, 1765. Zenger's trial represented the first case involving freedom of the press in America: “One of the famous decisions in legal history, establishing the epochal doctrine of the freedom of the press” (Howes). In 1733, John Peter Zenger published articles critical of the New York colonial Governor.....  Read More Item Details for The Trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, Printer: Who was charged with having printed and published a libel against the Government, and acquitted. With a Narrative of his Case. To which is now added, being never printed before, the Trial of Mr. William Owen, Bookseller, near Temple-Bar, Who was also Charged with the Publication of a Libel against the Government Add to Wish List

Item #346753