[Women’s Early Education.] Report of the Commission Charged to examine memoirs relative to the education of women. Third Subject. – Morality. By Mr. Philis – Reporter. 1827. Paper boards. Folio size, 13 in x 8.5 in. 68 pages of handwritten script in black ink. In this manuscript, one of the.....
US President who guided the nation through Civil War and was famously assassinated. 2 page recto verso Manuscript Document Signed by Lincoln on June 19, 1862, the same date on which he signed the historic bill abolishing slavery in the U.S. territories. In this document, Lincoln extends mercy to an.....
Lincoln, Abraham. Alexander Gardner. [Photograph]: Abraham Lincoln at Antietam Battlefield, 1862. Mounted albumen. The albumen itself measures 9" x 6.5" and is affixed to the original mount, trimmed to an overall size of 9.375" x 6.75". Good clarity. Sunning resulting from prior matting and framing. Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln at.....
First Edition . Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery: Proceedings Jointly Sponsored by the Navy Department Bureau of Ordnance and Harvard University at the Computation Laboratory, 7-10 January 1947. (Cambridge: Harvard U. P., 1948). Volume XVI in the Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University. 302 pages. Text illustrations.....
Synopsis: Original 1894 patent materials of Antoinette Moranges' "Presto Multiplicateur" calculator, which provides fast and accurate resolutions to complex computation problems. Contains over 20 handwritten and signed pages in French by Antoinette Moranges, including her detailed design descriptions, explanations of the calculator's functions and benefits, and hand-drawn diagrams, as well.....
Inscribed signed photo by all three Apollo 11 astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Glossy 10" x 8" black and white photo of the Apollo 11 crew on their first evening out of quarantine after their return to earth posing with three executives of the Rice Hotel on.....
American writer who originated the philosophy of Objectivism. That rational self-interest should be the basis of action and that self-fulfillment is an individual's moral responsibility, with productive achievement is the noblest activity. Famous books include the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged In 1961, Rand collected her philosophical writings in "For the.....
American professional baseball player, known as "Babe Ruth," "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat". Vintage glossy 8" x 9.75" photo of Ruth late in his Yankees career, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To my good friend Ralph Woodbury, from Babe Ruth, 5-3-47.” Ruth famously set records of long.....
CLAUSEWITZ, Carl Von. Translated by Colonel J. J. Graham. Clausewitz’s seminal work was originally published in German from 1832-4, and this is the first English-language edition. London: N. Trübner & Co., 1873. Cover is near contemporary and has gilt badge of the Calvary Club on front cover. A very important.....
DARWIN, Charles. Rare Second Edition. Published by John Murray, London, 1860. On the Origin of Species was voted the most influential academic book ever written. It was hailed as "the supreme demonstration of why academic books matter" and "a book which has changed the way we think about everything." The.....
STEDMAN, Charles. The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. London: Published for the Author and S. Hooper, 1794. 2 volumes. First edition. Quarto. Vol. 1 is 399 pages, Vol. 2 is 449 pages. Quarter red morocco with five raised bands on spine; gilt titling. Marbled.....
Eminent French Impressionist painter. 2 page Autograph Letter Signed measuring 9" x 7", in French, from Giverny [Eure, France], July 6, 1914. Monet writes to his friend, author Lucien Descaves, regarding a visit. An interesting letter imparting details about how three prolific French creative thinkers arranged time together for friendship.....
Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, 1777. [2],513,[23]pp. Modern calf, to style. Minor dampstaining, particularly toward the end of volume. Custom chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Samuel McGraw Gunn (ink inscription dated 1822). This volume of the Journals of Congress is one of the rarest of the series issued from 1774 to 1788. It covers the.....
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1948. First edition, number 617 of the signed limited edition of 1,426 copies. Signed by Eisenhower to the bottom of a facsimile of the D-Day Order he issued. Octavo, 9.5” x 6.25” inches. Publisher’s original light brown cloth.....
American author. Signed book: To Have and Have Not. Later printing. NY: Schribner's, 1953. Hardcover, 8-3/8"" x 6-3/4" inches, 262 pages. Signed and inscribed on interior title page, “To Ben Strauss best luck always, Ernest Hemingway.” To Have and Have Not is Hemingway's story of fishing boat captain Harry Morgan.....
American author. Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. Later printing. NY: Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover, 4.5" x 6.5" inches, 355 pages. Signed and inscribed on the dedication page, “To Helen Mauldin, with very best wishes, Ernest Hemingway.” A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's semi-autobiographical first-person account of American Frederic Henry.....
American Author. Hand-written letters and a telegram from Fitzgerald to Pauline Brownell, a nurse who cared for him following a diving accident in July 1936. 202 words, on one side of a legal-size sheet, written and signed in pencil. The letter is undated, but the original mailing envelope, also included.....
Famous American Author. Hand-written letter to Pauline Brownell, a registered nurse who cared for him following a diving accident in July 1936. 277 words, on both sides of a legal-size sheet, written and signed in pencil. The letter is undated, but the original mailing envelope, also included and written in.....
Francis Ford Coppola. THE GODFATHER, PART II original screenplay. September 1973. Quarto. Brad bound, pictorial wrappers. Rare second draft of one of the most influential American films, which won six Oscars including for Best Screenplay and Best Picture. 200 pages. This script belonged to a stuntman, and has various notations.....
DOUGLASS, Frederick. Frederick Douglass’s newspaper, the “Douglass’ Monthly”. Rochester, New York. Continuously paginated, 385-400. Folio, self wrappers as issued. First edition. Issue from January 1861. Issue reporting upon the beginning of southern secession. The Douglass' Monthly was the successor to Frederick Douglass’ earlier abolitionist papers: The North Star and the.....
DOUGLASS, Frederick. Frederick Douglass. CDV of Frederick Douglass by J.W. Hurn: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No date. Very rare original CDV photo of Douglass, Clipped corners of mat. The Library of Congress has no catalog data on this portrait and assigns no date to it. David W. Blight, ed., Narrative of the Life.....
ORWELL, George. First Edition. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Published by Secker & Warburg, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. In the scarce and preferred variant red dust jacket. Green cover boards. A very nice example of one of the most popular and influential science fiction works of the century. Among the seminal texts.....
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First edition, first issue as per BAL. Two volumes; octavo (7.5 x 4.75 inches; 191 x 120 mm.). x, [13 (sic)]-312; iv, [1]-322, [2, blank] pages. With three engraved plates inserted in.....
Important Archive of 2 Harry S. Truman Presidential Typed Letters Signed on Truman's battle against McCarthyism. At the time of these letters in July of 1951, Senator Joseph McCarthy had radically expanded his anti-Communist investigations into the private lives and political beliefs of American citizens, attempting to take alleged Communist.....
Thoreau, Henry David. A Yankee in Canada. Published by Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. Original dark green cloth, sans serif titles to spine gilt, brown coated endpapers, boards blocked in blind with eight-point cornerpieces. This copy in the “B” binding described without priority assigned by BAL, unsurprising as a number.....