Day 2 | Rare Books & Historical Documents from the Estate of Fred Bentley, Sr.

A printed broadsheet dated January 10th, 1782, Hartford Connecticut. An act, signed by George Wyllys, excellent content regarding the need to rais...

General Nathaniel Goodwin (1748-1819), ADS. Revolutionary War lieutenant colonel and brigadier general of militia. Good content war-date document ...

William Williams (1731-1811), American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Two signed documents. First is a letter date...

The Gentleman's Magazine from June, 1775. Printed for D. Henery, London. Contains many important stories about the beginning on the American Revol...

Ammi Paulk (1756-1843), Sergeant, 2nd Regiment, later to be Captain. A pay table committee stub from the Connecticut state treasury dated Sept 19,...

A pay table office stub issued December 17, 1781 to Dr. Philip Turner (1739-1815) and signed by him on the verso as P. Turner. Also signed by Majo...

A copper engraved map titled "A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine and the English Camp before June 20th 1740, by Thomas Silver. With a ...

Revolutionary War dated original Manuscript Document Signed, "Geo. Bryant," at Philadelphia, PA. George Bryant (1731-1791), Vice President of Penn...

Here is a fully endorsed pay document for Thomas Ball who was a delegate from Chester County, Pennsylvania, to the state of Pennsylvania constitut...

The Connecticut Courant, dated Oct 22,1787 being number 1187, this unbound example comes mounted in an ornate black double sided glass frame, repo...

This December 1, 1777, complete Revolutionary War debt loan certificate document is displayed in a black matted and black frame and preserved unde...

Nicely laid out set of Revolutionary War field battle orders, well scribed and easily readable discussing time sensitive and pertinent battle orde...

A Revolutionary War pay slip signed by Elijah Hubbard (1745-1808), a lawyer and merchant of Middletown and New London, Connecticut. A Patriot of t...

The Crisis, dated September 9, 1775 is a fine example of an early newspaper from London printed on Fleet Street by T.W. Shaw containing a scathing...

War of 1812 General Orders. A broadside from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts dated July 18, 1814. This demand directive set quantities of men ne...

A general orders broadside marked Head-quarters, Boston, April 12th, 1791. 1 page. Printed by Thomas Adams, and signed in print by William Donniso...

State of Massachusetts Bay tax raising document. The house of representatives dated June 14, 1780, read and concurred by John Hancock, Speaker, la...

Official document dated February 5, 1777 to raise a company in the Continental Battalion. Signed by William Belcher, Ezekiel Williams with Elijah ...

A broadside 1p, 1781, At a General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of...

Massachusetts Militia broadside printed by Benjamin Edes. An important Revolutionary War broadside published in 1776 regarding the mustering of a ...

A land grant document boldly signed by John Quincy Adams as president on July 15th, 1825. The land grant is to John Pitman. Document has been matt...

This copy, dated March 10,1832 has the important case of Samuel A. Worcester vs. the State of Georgia, with the opinion granted by Chief Justice M...

The Pennsylvania Evening Post newspaper dated October 8, 1776, #268. Stating Georgia is free by a declaration made by John Hancock that the new co...

A letter detailing the disposition of Hyde Parker (1739-1807) as to taken vessels during his time. Letter reads "I herewith transmit you my dispos...

Typed letter with General J.B. Gordon's original signature, plus rarely found Pine Mountain, Cobb County, GA General Polk monument button and UCV ...

A pair of land grants from the state of Georgia. First is an 1843 land grant signed by Governor Charles J. McDonald, to Littleton Augustus Whitten...

Georgia pre-revolutionary war history detailed account of its early struggles with colonialism. This document is a sworn disposition such printed ...

This June 25th, 1865 issue contains much talk about Reconstruction of the South, the arrival of soldiers home, with a speech by General Sherman an...

This final pass made out to allow leave until further orders is from camp 186th regiment Pennsylvania volunteers located at Seventeenth streets, P...

A pair of US Civil War soldier carte de visites. First is an unnamed union soldier with rare calvary kepi style, crossed swords patch sewn on and ...

Contains two letters addressed to General Pierce Manning Young (1836-1896). Detailed love letters from Belle Mary confessing her love and admirati...

Gen. Alfred Beckley (1802-1888) signed orders having 9 pages double sided and one single sided containing the brigade(s) orders and directives bei...

A Certificate of Gallant and Meritorious Conduct Certificate for Frank Blakewell James, private, Company K, 52nd Ohio Infantry. On period paper wi...

ALS, to Major General Polk, January 24, 1862, Hickman, Kentucky. Reads "I send in charge of Lieutenant Tyler a man who represents himself as Liniu...

ALS, discussing his father, General Leonides Polk's appearance to a lady who had a question about a photo she had. William Mecklenburg Polk (15 Au...

Leonidas Bishop Polk (1806-1864), later became a Major General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and was killed by a cannon ball during...

Original commission from the Confederate Army to the Union Army and dated March 14th, 1866 to Second Lieutenant James Hammond Baldwin. He was comm...

"Loyalty in the American Republic, what is it, and What's its Object? A Discourse Delivered in St. Luke's church, Philadelphia, on Thursday, Novem...

Wisconsin's first official printing of the state constitution dated January 21, 1847. House of Representatives document #49, of the 29th Congress,...

George Evans Davis (December 26, 1839 – June 28, 1926), a signed bank check drawn on Merchants National Bank of Burlington, Vermont. Oliver Duff (...

Brevet Brigadier General Eugene Beauharnais Payne signed muster papers as a lieut colonel into Illinois 37th regiment, known as the Fremont Rifles...

The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes, published 1920 by Harcourt, Brace and Howe. First American edition of this pivotal ...

An important contemporary source about the Exclusionary Bill Parliament and the Popish Plot crisis. An Exact Collection of the Most Considerable D...

A fore-edge painted book, titled The Wit and Sagacity of Dr. Johnson. Printed circa 1890-1900. Fore-edge painting shows a scene of children on a h...

Matted and ready for framing is a full manuscript pay order to Ezl Williams, Saml Wadsworth & Ephram Butt, a com(mit)tee to take care of Ticondero...