Fine Books & Manuscripts

Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Autograph Document Signed, April, 1794. Single page on laid paper with partial eagle watermark, inscribed on one si...

Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Autograph Letter Signed, Paris, 5 February 1815. Two inscribed pages on a wove paper bifolium with holograph self-e...

Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Ship`s Passport, 3 June 1825. Single parchment page, partially printed document with an engraving of a ship and a l...

Adams, Samuel (1722-1803) Printed Document Signed, 1 January 1796. Single page, partially printed document on laid paper. Appointing Actor Patten ...

Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888) Autograph Letter Signed, [c. 1868]. Small laid paper bifolium inscribed on all four pages. To Thomas Niles, her pub...

Artists and Illustrators, Letters and Ephemera, 20th Century. Three-ring notebook containing autograph and typed letters from a variety of modern ...

Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy (1889-1977) Manuscript Notebook and The Parables. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. An inscription in the beginning of The...

Benton, Thomas Hart (politician) (1782-1858) Autograph Letter Signed, 11 December 1827. Single wove paper bifolium, watermarked Amies, Philadelphi...

Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990) Correspondence to Reneé Longy. One autograph postcard signed, "Dear R., I fervently hope the minor operation is tru...

Buckner, Simon Bolivar (1823-1914) Signed Telegram Form. Mobile, Alabama, 2 April 1865. One page, to Brigadier Daniel Ruggles (1810-1897), apologi...

California and Far West Correspondence, 1870s-1890s, Wilbur Family, of Illinois. Forty letters, thirty-seven of which are accompanied by their ori...

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1729-1796) Partially Printed Document, Signed. Single parchment sheet, printed with a military-themed engr...

Clay, Henry (1777-1852) Autograph Letter Signed, Ashland, 6 December 1847. Single wove paper page. To Judge Francis Taliaferro Brooke (1763-1851),...

Conner, Samuel Shepard (1783-1820) Political and Military Theory Manuscript, c. 1807. Folio, seventeen leaves, disbound, each leaf in a protective...

Copland, Aaron (1900-1990) Typed Letter Signed, 30 May 1957. Single page of Copland`s Shady Lane Farm stationery, Ossining, New York. To Reneé Lon...

Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895) Letter Signed, 24 October 1866, Rochester, New York. Single sheet, wove paper, inscribed on one side. To A.P. [?] ...

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) Scrapbook Related to the Dedication of a Memorial Statue in Kyoto, Japan, 1966. Japanese-produced silk brocade alb...

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) Signed Black and White Photographic Portrait. Inscribed to L.H. Long, "one of the pioneers of the industrial truck...

European Royalty, Twelve Signed Letters and Documents. All on paper, mostly 18th century, mostly Holy Roman Emperors, including a letter by Gustav...

Hancock, John (1737-1793) Signed Document on Parchment. 8 November 1782. One page, on parchment, in brown and red ink, signed as Massachusetts Gov...

Hancock, John. (1737-1793) Military Commission Signed, 15 April 1776. Printed document on paper, single page. Appointing Robert Walker third Capta...

Heifetz, Jascha (1901-1987) Signed Photograph, 26 February 1938. To Jimmy and Amy Sturm, glossy black and white photograph, framed, rippled, surfa...

Houston, Samuel (1793-1863) Autograph and Secretarial Letter Signed, 1 November 1836. Paper bifolium inscribed on two and a half pages. To Elijah ...

Hunter, Edgar Hayes "Ted" Jr. (1914-1995) 1936 Olympics, Alpine Skiing. Including Hunter`s Olympic identification, with photograph; registration c...

Huntington, Samuel (1731-1796) Two Documents. A single page manuscript paper document from the state of Connecticut, 1770, itemizing payments made...

Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Letters Patent, Signed, 2 August 1808. Two partially printed parchment leaves completed by hand and bound together w...

Kansas State Constitution, Broadside, 1859. Leavenworth, Kansas: Printed at, and forwarded from the State Register Office, [1859]. Constitution of...

Kennedy Family, Photograph Collection, 1960s-1970s. Three signed photographs of Ted Kennedy, one signed photograph of Joan Kennedy, and a portrait...

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) Secretarially Inscribed Photograph. Framed 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. black and white portrait of JFK seated, hands t...

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) Typed Letter Secretarial Signature, 23 May 1960 Single page, typed on U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy for Presid...

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963), Ephemera Archive, 1961-1965. Including invitations, tickets, programs, and other ephemera relating to the 19...

Kennedy, Robert Francis (1925-1968) Small Archive Regarding His Assassination. Typed letter signed by Ted Kennedy, 24 June 1968, with envelope, to...

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Engraved Portrait by Jacques Reich (1852-1923). Copyrighted in 1905, Remarque proof number 7, signed by Reich in penc...

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Lithographic Portrait After William Edgar Marshall (1837-1906). Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Co., 1917. Lincoln depicted in...

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Photographic Portrait by Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) Washington, D.C., 9 August 1863. Large oval photograph on an e...

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Secretarial Note Signed, Springfield, 6 February 1861. Single page of laid paper, inscribed on one side. To Mary Roxa...

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Steel Engraved Portrait after Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1830-1900), by Frederick W. Halpin (1805-1880) Copyrighted ...

Literary Signatures, American and Others, 1860s-1890s. Eighteen signatures, mostly clipped or short inscriptions, with one or two full letters, mo...

Louis XVIII, King of France (1755-1824) Document Signed. One paper bifolium, Paris, 10 March 1824, countersigned by Chateaubriand, with impressed ...

Madison, James (1751-1836) and James Monroe (1758-1831) Letters Patent, Signed 18 January 1817. Two partially printed parchment leaves completed b...

Madison, James (1751-1836) and James Monroe (1758-1831) Letters Patent, Signed 8 January 1816. Two partially printed parchment leaves completed by...

Pierce, Isaac and Joseph (fl. circa 1778) Memorandum Book, Central Atlantic Region, 1770s. Sixteen-page small format note pad with slightly heavie...

Presidential and Literary Autographs c. 1875. Commercially produced green morocco album, gilt stamped front board with "Autographs" in an ornate g...

Presidential and Political Autographs 1860s. Commercially produced autograph album originally compiled by Mary Roxana Birchard (1827-1876), Ruther...

Presidential Autographs, Four Signed Letters, Two Signature Cards: William Howard Taft (1857-1930) two typed letters signed, 1908 and 1913; Calvin...

Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792-1875) Receipt for Moses Gillette, 1 January 1829. Partially printed laid paper promissory note, issued by the est...

Reading the Emancipation Proclamation. Hartford: Peters, copyright by Lucius Stebbins, 1864. Steel engraving by James W. Watts after H.W. Herrick,...

Riis, Jacob (1849-1914) Autograph Manuscript Draft, Ten Pages. A sketch of The Making of an American, in Riis`s hand, c. 1900, in this draft, Riis...

Roosevelt Family Document Lot. A printed card from the Metropolitan Club of Washington, dated January 10, 1895, on the occasion of a luncheon for ...

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) Typed Letter Signed, 20 March 1918. Single page on letterhead of the Navy Department, watermarked. To Carl ...

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) Typed Letter, Signed, Washington, D.C., 21 June 1916. One page, to Frederic L. Woods, Executive Secretary, ...

The [Signing of the] Declaration of Independence, After John Trumbull (1756-1843), engraved by Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886) [New York]: 20 Decem...

Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972) Typed Letter Signed, 7 January 1955. Single page on Federal Reserve Bank Building letterhead, Kansas City, Missouri. ...

Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Signed Photograph, Framed. Large format sepia-toned photograph, inscribed and dated in the blank margin at the bottom, "Tr...

Varèse, Edgard (1883-1965) Autograph Letter Signed, 27 July 1955. Single page, on his 188 Sullivan Street, New York, New York, stationery, with th...

Vitelleschi, Mutio (1563-1645) Illuminated Parchment Document Signed. Rome, 3 February 1624. Jesuit honorarium, perhaps a copy of Vitelleschi`s di...

War of 1812, Battle of Baltimore, Two Letters, Two Indentures. The two letters written by American soldiers and addressed to John K. Barney of War...

Washington, George (1732-1799) Woven Jacquard Silk Portrait, 1856. Lyon: J.R., 1856. Oval portrait of Washington with the phrase, "First in war, f...

Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.) [Tragoediae: Graece]. Paris: Adrien Turnèbe, 1552. Octavo, text in Greek, printed in Garamond`s "Grecs du Roi" typefac...

Al-Samanudi (fl. circa 123) Sullam or Scala Magna. Manuscript on Paper in Coptic, Arabic, and Greek: Egypt, 17th Century. Text in brown and red in...