Color photograph, 8" x 10", matted in contemporary black frame with gilt accent border [light wear, frame coming apart at one corner]. Bust portrait of the president wearinug a dark suit with red tie, facing forward. Good+. More
[4] pp bifolium, folded. Letter written on recto of first leaf, inner pages blank, last page addressed to Fox. Old mailing folds, light margin spotting, paper loss on the blank leaf from a seal tear has been replaced with period paper. Very Good. Kentucky Revolutionary War veteran Breckinridge became Attorney..... More
Washington, D.C. 1868. Folded leaf, 4pp bifolium. Written in ink and signed by Banks on the last page, the previous pages an autograph letter to Banks recommending the appointment of McRitchie, signed by G[eorge] W[allace] Melville [1841-1912], American engineer, Arctic explorer, appointed chief engineer of the Navy. Light wear, Very..... More
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1866-1867. The album contains signatures collected by Mrs. Josephine Lee Darling, wife of New York Congressman William A. Darling. They are contained in an album, prepared in Philadelphia by the Lippincott Company. Covers are present, but separated, and leaves are loosened. Some pages show cuts from removal of some signatures..... More
[Philadelphia: 1750, 1751]. Single leaf, docketed on verso. Entirely in ink manuscript, the last seven lines in Peters' hand, and signed by him. Very Good with light wear. Born in England, Peters [1704-1776] became a lawyer and Anglican Minister. He immigrated to Philadelphia in 1735, and was a colonial official..... More
[4]pp bifolium, text written on recto of first leaf, folded for mailing and addressed [with red seal] to Colonel Webb at "Head Quarters Morristown." Small tear to left margin from seal [text unaffected]. Very Good. The Massachusetts Federalist Otis [1740-1814], the first Secretary of the U.S. Senate, served as such..... More
Boston: 1871. Single leaf, folded to [4]pp, bifolium. Each page 5" x 8-1/8." The two leaves separating along the spine. Sumner's signature at the end has an ink smudge partially affecting the "C" in his first name. Because Sumner's handwriting was terrible, we have made a couple of leaps of..... More
[Washington]: Senate Chamber, 1865. Letter written and signed, "Charles Sumner," in ink script on the first page of a [4] page bifolium. Folded, inner pages blank, docketed in a different hand on the last page. Very Good. "My dear Sir, | I hope that Paymaster Binney may in some way..... More
Washington DC: Post Office Department, 1825. Single page, entirely in ink manuscript, signed at the end, "John McLean." Very Good. Future U.S. Supreme Court Justice McLean settled in Cincinnati, where he became its leading citizen, a Congressman, Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court. President Monroe appointed him Postmaster General; Andrew..... More
Charleston, S.C. 1841. [2] pp, entirely in ink manuscript. Boldly signed, "H.S. Legare, on the sixth line of page [2]. Early tape at the blank left edge. Very Good. Legare was a great South Carolina lawyer, State Attorney General, and legislator. Though a State Rights man, he opposed Calhoun-style Nullification..... More