Color photograph, 4-1/4" x 6-1/4", mounted on 7-1/2" x 9" white card stock, in contemporary black frame with gilt accent border [light wear]. Bust portrait of Agnew in a suit, body turned left, facing foward. The first part of the dedication is in modern calligraphy; autographed by Agnew. The surname..... More

[Harrisburg: 1854]. Octavo sheet, folded to four pages, each page filled with Bigler's writing. "(Private)" written at the upper margin of the first page. Very Good with light foxing. Democratic Governor Bigler aligned himself with his southern colleagues on issues of Slavery, Kansas, and opposition to the nascent Free Soil..... More

Newark: 1870. 2pp. 5" x 7-3/4." Entirely in ink manuscript on lined paper and signed "Joseph P. Bradley." Munsell's name above the salutation covers The previously written name of Bradley. Very Good. Bradley, a Rutgers graduate, was a highly respected New Jersey lawyer, specializing in railroad and patent litigation. President..... 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 U.S...... More

np: nd. Card stock, oblong 5-1/4" x 2-7/8." Fine. "During the American Civil War he upheld the cause of the North and opposed slavery, and his sermon on the death of Abraham Lincoln was an eloquent expression of the character of both men. His sermon at Harvard's commemoration of the..... More

Troy, S. C: 1907. Single sheet of paper entirely in ink manuscript, 5-1/8" x 6-1/4." Very Good. The commander of the Kentucky Orphan Brigade's Sharpshooters writes to "Joe," otherwise unidentified: "In accordance with your request of recent date as well as to fulfill my promise to you I send you..... More

Folio sheet, folded to [4]pp, all in manuscript. Docketed on page [4]: "Petition of Lawson Clark of Montgomery County. Presented by Archibald Van Horn. Recorded 5 June 1815." The first two pages, plus two lines on the third page, consist of Clark's Petition. Page [3] is Judge Chase's Opinion, signed..... More

[Mexico]: 1866. The first item on lined paper folded to 5" x 7-1/2"; the second, 4" x 8-1/2". Both in ink manuscript, written on rectos only. Old folds, a few shallow edge splits. Else Very Good. After the Civil War some diehard southerners moved to Mexico and South America. Mexico's..... More

Washington: 1929. Typed letter to "My dear Nelson," single page and signed "Charles Curtis." Fine. With an original news agency glossy photo of Curtis standing with Herbert Hoover after they had been nominated as the Republican standard-bearers in 1928 Curtis, "an enrolled member of the Kaw Nation," is the nation's..... More

[np: nd:. Autograph signature on paper, oblong 3-7/8" x 1-1/2." Near Fine, with blank verso exhibiting signs of prior mounting Justice Davis was Lincoln's friend and colleague from Illinois lawyering days. Davis managed Lincoln's 1860 campaign. Lincoln nominated him to the Supreme Court in December 1862; the Senate promptly confirmed..... More

New York: 1851 [3 May]. 4to. 3-1/2 pp on a folded sheet, in Douglas's ink script. Signed at the end, "S. A. Douglas." Very Good. With typed transcription. Old folds, minor wear, Very Good. When he wrote this Letter, Douglas was 33 years old, serving his first term as a...... More

Philadelphia: 1861. Octavo sheet, folded to [3], [1 blank] pp. With accompanying envelope addressed to Potter in Newport, Rhode Island, postage stamps and cancel. Folded for mailing, about Fine. A Harvard graduate, Fisher was a writer, an incorporator and benefactor of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind..... More