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Civil War prisoner’s mail from Congressman Alfred Ely while held prisoner at Ligon’s Prison...

Civil War prisoner’s mail from Congressman Alfred Ely while held prisoner at Ligon’s Prison in Richmond following his capture while observing the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)

Alfred Ely

[Ligon’s Tobacco Warehouse Prison, Richmond}: November 17, 1861. Envelope or Cover. The envelope (there is no content) is free-franked "Alfred Ely"and postmarked with Washington D.C. Nov. 17, 1861 circular date stamp. In nice shape. Light edge-wear with tiny chip at top. Ely was a New York Congressman, and he..... More

Price: $1,500.00

A “true copy” of votes cast at a New Hampshire town meeting for a Congressional...

A “true copy” of votes cast at a New Hampshire town meeting for a Congressional representative in a bitterly fought election that broke “dams and dykes” allowing a “tide of anti-slavery feelings . . . [to] wash . . . down from . . . northern mountains upon the slave-cursed south.”

Attested to by John Brown, Town Clerk

Bridgewater, New Hampshire: 1846. Unbound. This partially printed document summarizes the vote taken “at a legal town meeting . . . at Bridgewater in the county of Grafton on Tuesday, march tenth, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty-six . . . for one person..... More

Price: $250.00

Early patent for airship “combination of plane and hot-air dirigible. Awarded to Adolph Lubke

Early patent for airship “combination of plane and hot-air dirigible

Awarded to Adolph Lubke

Washington DC: United States Patent Office, 1909. Wraps. The six page original patent is printed on thin cardstock with three pages of text and three pages of technical illustrations. It was awarded to Adolph Lubke, a resident of San Francisco, California. The leaves bear patent office file labels in the..... More

Price: $200.00

A Political Manual for 1866 for 1867, of Executive, Legislative, Judicial, Politico-Military, and...

A Political Manual for 1866 for 1867, of Executive, Legislative, Judicial, Politico-Military, and General Facts, From April 15, 1865, to April 1, 1867, and including the Development of the Presidential and the Congressional Plan of Reconstruction, with the Peculiarities of Each.

By Edward McPherson

Washington, DC: Stereotyped by M’Gill & Witherow. [Perhaps published by Philip & Solomons], 1867. Original wraps. Approximately 6” x 9.25”. Original string-bound self-wraps with iv introductory pages, 262 text pages, and [2] pages of advertisements. Uncut (i.e. untrimmed, not unopened), so a little worn at the edges. “Much..... More

Price: $150.00

Loyalty and Religion. A Discourse for the Times. By Reverend William Greenleaf Eliot

Loyalty and Religion. A Discourse for the Times

By Reverend William Greenleaf Eliot

St. Louis: George Knapp, 1861. Wraps. Complete with 12 pages including the cover. (See Sabin 2217.) In nice shape with some light marginal toning Elliot preached this sermon on August 18, 1862 shortly after eleven Southern states had seceded and while Missouri teetered between joining the Confederacy or remaining..... More

Price: $200.00

The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes 1 and 2 bound together. and Samuel Rhoads, Abraham L. Pennock

The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes 1 and 2 bound together

Edited by William J. Allison [and Samuel Rhoads and Abraham L. Pennock]

Philadelphia: George W. Taylor, 1853-1854. Half leather. Philadelphia: George W. Taylor, 1853-1854. Half leather. 24 monthly issues bound together. Complete; each volume contains 104 text pages. Half-leather with marbled boards; 6.75" x 10.25". Sound binding. Clean pages with light intermittent foxing. Old pencil annotation at top of the first title..... More

Price: $2,500.00

RECOMMENDATION FOR A FLORIDA PHYSICIAN AND PLANTATION OWNER TO RECEIVE A FEDERAL COMMISSION AS A...

RECOMMENDATION FOR A FLORIDA PHYSICIAN AND PLANTATION OWNER TO RECEIVE A FEDERAL COMMISSION AS A LIEUTENANT OF DRAGOONS; Free-franked folded-letter from Florida State Senator James H. T. Lorimer to U. S. Senator J. D. Wescott.

James H. T. Lorimer

Tallahassee: 1848. Unbound. This one-page folded letter measures 15.5” x 10” unfolded. It is dated “January the 16th, 1848.” The cover bears a green “Free” handstamp indicting no postage was required as it was addressed to a U.S. Senator. It is postmarked with a green circular Tallassee handstamp dated January..... More

Price: $500.00

A “Sovereign Citizen” treaty that supposedly provides ‘documentation’ that people living...

A “Sovereign Citizen” treaty that supposedly provides ‘documentation’ that people living within the territory of the United States can use to disobey any federal or state law including those requiring the payment of taxes

James Thomas McBride

Sevierville, Tennessee: Divine Trust, 2010. Faux leather. This 35-page document, “Universal Postal Treaty for the Americas,” published by the “Office of the Postmaster General, Trustee of the Global Trust, Divine Province,” is mounted within a black leatherette portfolio. A printed letter from “James Thomas McBride Postmaster General” is laid in..... More

Price: $300.00

Working Conditions in the District of Columbia. Transcript of a speech given by the Honorable...

Working Conditions in the District of Columbia. Transcript of a speech given by the Honorable Virginia E. Jenckes as printed in the Congressional Record

Jenckes, Virginia E.

Washinington, DC: 1937. Unbound. One-page handbill (approximately 9” x 11.5”) formatted to appear like a page from the Congressional Record. Storage folds, some beginning to split at the margin. Clean with some light toning. This handbill provides the text of Jenckes’s speech in the House of Representatives on 6 December..... More

Price: $50.00

Lenin Szuletesenek 100. Evfordulojara: 1870-1970 (100th Anniversary of Lenin's Birth: 1870-1970)...

Lenin Szuletesenek 100. Evfordulojara: 1870-1970 (100th Anniversary of Lenin's Birth: 1870-1970) - Miniature Book

Karoly, Torma (editor)

Budapest: Kaposvari Magyar Hirdeto, 1970. First Printing. Hardcover. 80 pages. In Hungarian.Illustrated with more than 20 full-page b/w movie stills. Approximately 2.5" x 2". Signed by the printer, Mautner Jozsef, on the title page. Very light shelf wear. Traces Lenin's life through films made about him. More

Price: $75.00

WOMEN’S CAMPAIGN TO REPEAL PROHIBITION - “PUT THE CRIMINAL OUT OF BUSINESS . . . REPEAL . . ....

WOMEN’S CAMPAIGN TO REPEAL PROHIBITION - “PUT THE CRIMINAL OUT OF BUSINESS . . . REPEAL . . . THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT.”

Led by Pauline Morton Sabin (later Davis)

[1929]. Each of the four broadsides measures 6.25” x 9.75”. All are in nice shape. They are titled “Has Prohibition Brought Temperance?”, “Four Your Children’s Sake”, “Do You Want to Put the Criminal Out of Business? Help the Unemployed?”, and “Tax Payers! Do You Know”. Four different broadsides published by..... More

Price: $900.00

Andrew Jackson's famous veto of the Second National Bank Bill. Veto. Message from the...

Andrew Jackson's famous veto of the Second National Bank Bill. Veto. Message from the President of the United States returning the Bank Bill to the Senate, with his Objections

President Andrew Jackson

Unidentified printer, 1832. Unbound. This broadsheet measures approximately 11" x 17.25. Printed on both sides. Light foxing and stains. Edges worn. Chip at lower right corner does not affect any text. One small thin (half the size of a dime) that affects three or four words of the text. Docketing..... More

Price: $3,000.00

Speech of Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, Exposing the Malfeasance and Corruption of John Charles...

Speech of Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, Exposing the Malfeasance and Corruption of John Charles Watrous, Judge of the Federal Court in Texas, and of His Confederates. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Feb. 3, 1859.

Samuel "Sam" Houston

New York: Pudney & Russell, 1860. First Edition. 1/4 leather. Approximately 5” x 7.5”. Complete with iii introductory pages including the half-title, tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of Sam Houston, and 100 text pages. Marbled paper covered boards with later half-cloth spine covering. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition. Sound..... More

Price: $750.00

12-page Letter from Canon City, Colorado to North Adams, Massachusetts referencing the Colorado...

12-page Letter from Canon City, Colorado to North Adams, Massachusetts referencing the Colorado National Guard, the Battle of Ludlow, Mexican Border Service, a Strike in North Adams Massachusetts, Auto Touring, and Infantile Paralysis

Unidentified

Canon City, Colorado: 1916. Letter. The letter is written on United States Post Office stationery from a man named Allen, probably a post worker, and addressed to a friend named Lewis. Although no envelope accompanies the letter, its first page is postmarked, Canon City Colo. / M.O.B (Money Order Business)..... More

Price: $150.00

Early Republican Party Receipts - 1854 & 1856. Unlisted

Early Republican Party Receipts - 1854 & 1856

Unlisted

Boston & Charlestown, MA: Free Democratic State Committee & Republican Club, 1854. Leaf. Two early contribution receipts; one from the Boston Republican Club in 1856 and the other from the Free Democratic State Committee of Massachusetts in 1854. The Free Democratic Party was one of several splinter political parties (e.g...... More

Price: $150.00

Gov. Robinson's Polka - Sheet Music. Andrew Whitney

Gov. Robinson's Polka - Sheet Music

Whitney, Andrew

Fitchburg, Massachusetts: Andrew Whitney, 1856. First Edition. Sheet Music. 6 pages including cover. Portrait illustration of Robinson on the front cover. Very light dampstain along the fore-edge margin. Charles L. Robinson was an abolitionist leader who settled in Lawrence and worked for the New England Emigrant Aid Society, which transported..... More

Price: $300.00

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