Revolution by Xerox. Almost 150 issues of The Beacon edited and published by Atlin Harrigan (d.2005), OBE, the co-leader of the 1967 Anguillan Revolution. When..... More
Unrecorded late 18th Massachusetts handbill advertising the dentistry services of Josiah Flagg (b. 1763, Boston), the first native-born American to make dentistry his life’s work..... More
Original typed manuscript, in two volumes, with modest manuscript emendations and corrections. An unpublished translation of lawyer, philosopher, educator and Puerto Rican independence advocate, Eugenio..... More
![Robert E. Lee] Students Business School. Washington College. Lexington, Virginia [opening lines...](/pictures/thumb/3731781_1.jpg?v=1648176456)
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) was President of Washington College, later Washington and Lee University, from 1865 until his death. Here he endorses penmanship and bookkeeping..... More
After Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, he continued to enforce martial law on the city, even after..... More
![Library of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin; Captain Bligh’s Open Boat Voyage; Benjamin Franklin]...](/pictures/thumb/3730061_1.jpg?v=1648176439)
Of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Captain Bligh. From the library of Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President under President Abraham Lincoln, and his rubber stamp on..... More
Flake: “Contains letters describing a visit to Salt Lake City and the Mormons in 1886, p. 54–64.” Collection of 26 letters written by an observant..... More
Diverse group of mid-Victorian scroll saw-related material including trade literature, marketing materials, and oversized pattern sheets for creating fretwork designs in the Queen Anne Revival..... More
Unrecorded. If John Held, Hunter S. Thompson, and Dare Wright collaborated to produce a children’s book, this might have been the result. Catharine Susan is..... More
Scarce first edition of this survey of the development of American constitutional law. The text covers colonial legislation and proprietary and chartered governments through the..... More
Told in the first-person narrative, Maggie is no Mary Magdalene, and no scarlet woman, but she is the woman with the scarlet shawl. This shawl..... More
![1876 to 1891 American Academy of Medicine Sammelband]. American Academy of Medicine](/pictures/thumb/3730369_1.jpg?v=1624502566)
Substantial gathering of the printed output of the American Academy of Medicine from its first 15 years: from its founding 1876 to 1891. The wide..... More
Rare. An 1820 Confirmations Schein or confirmation certificate with German American poetry, completed in manuscript in 1821 for a Katharina Comfort, possibly Catharina Kumfort. Heinrich..... More
Rare Jazz Age photoplay based on this 1927 Paramount Studios film, written by Barbara Chambers and Becky Gardiner. Gardiner scripted the 1926 film The Great..... More
![New York City] Names and Places of Abode of the Members of the Common Council, and the Officers...](/pictures/thumb/3730968_1.jpg?v=1632404253)
Rare New York City government directory for 1838. Includes names and addresses of aldermen, assistant aldermen, their standing committees, and the mayor and executives of..... More
Scarce book of American poetry with a long poem on the Incas, indigenous to Peru. Author Chauncey Thomas was a coach-builder in Boston and he..... More
American Red Cross Map of Paris was published for soldiers on leave in newly-liberated Paris. The map is printed on a captured and then-recycled circa..... More
![Once I could Vote, Too! [Willkie War Veterans National Committee, WWII poster]. Willkie War...](/pictures/thumb/3731812_1.jpg?v=1648176459)
A 1940 presidential campaign poster for Wendell Willkie, the Democrat-turned-Republican activist and lawyer from Indiana. Here, American war veteran supporters of Willkie back his European..... More
Pocket-sized folding song sheet for soldiers at Camp Zachary Taylor near Louisville, Kentucky. The camp was in existence for three years during WWI, becoming the..... More
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