Fine July 7, 1863 official presidential order signed by Lincoln shortly after the Union's powerful but costly victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, here calling for New York to draft thousands of men under the controversial March 3, 1863 Conscription Act, a law that would provoke the bloody New York draft riots that erupted only six days after the date of this rare Civil War signed document. Handsomely framed with a portrait of Lincoln. $49,000. | More...
The Interesting Narrative o the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
Rare expanded 1791 edition, issued two years after the virtually unobtainable first and second editions, of Equiano's cornerstone slave narrative that gave "millions of enslaved Africans and their descendants… a face, a name, and most important, a voice"—featuring his harrowing account of the Middle Passage. With subscribers' list, rarely found engraved frontispiece portrait of Equiano and engraved folding plate of a slave ship, in contemporary calf boards. $16,000. | More...
1967 Typed Letter
Signed by Moshe Dayan
Typed letter signed by Moshe Dayan, written less than two months after forces led by Dayan during the Six-Day War captured East Jerusalem, thanking his correspondent for a gift, describing the centrality of Jerusalem to Jewish history, and discussing his interest in archaeology. $17,500. | More...
Cabinet Card Portrait
Signed by Ulysses S. Grant
Original 1879 cabinet card featuring a photographic portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant, by renowned San Francisco photographer Isaiah West Taber, boldly signed "U.S. Grant." $11,000. | More...
The Works
Theodore Roosevelt
Limited “Elkhorn Edition,” number 65 of 1000 sets produced, illustrated with over 90 photogravures, handsomely bound by Haddon. $7500. | More...
1812 Manuscript Letter
Signed by Napoleon
Fascinating 1812 manuscript letter from Napoleon to his Minister of War, Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Duc de Feltre, instructing him on supplies and troops needed for the garrison city of Danzig and other preparations for the Grande Armée, during the lead-up to the initially successful but ultimately disastrous invasion of Russia, boldly signed "Nap" by Napoleon. Text in French. $5200. | More...
The Book of Ser Marco Polo
Translated by Henry Yule
Second edition, substantially expanded and revised, of Henry Yule's esteemed translation of Marco Polo's travels, profusely illustrated with 33 plates, many printed in color, including frontispieces, additional illustrated title pages, portraits, facsimiles, maps and plans (several folding), and numerous in-text woodcut-engraved illustrations, handsomely bound in full calf-gilt by Zaehnsdorf. Presentation copy, inscribed a front flyleaf of Volume II, "from the author." $3500. | More...
