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Artwork & Artists

Add Paul Revere’s Boston Massacre—Official Library of Congress Color Facsimile, 1970 to the cart
Add 1833 Royal Saxon Army — Pair of Antique Hand-Colored Lithographs, circa 1833 — Presidential Suite Ritz-Carlton, New York Provenance to the cart
Add c1850 Sir Edwin Landseer Archive—Four Autograph Letters Discussing His Paintings, Sir Walter Scott, David Roberts and Artistic Arrangements to the cart

Audubon Biens

Add Bien Edition - John James Audubon Yellow - Crowned Heron to the cart

Audubon Havells

Add Original Audubon Havell Ivory-billed Woodpecker to the cart
Add Original Audubon Havell Richardsons Jager, Plate 272 to the cart
Add Original Audubon Havell Carolina Parrot, Plate 26 to the cart

Authors & Poets

Add Charles Dickens Letter Envelope With Rare Penny Stamp to the cart
Add Charles Dickens Signed Dinner Invitation to the cart
Add c1840 Francis Scott Key — Rare “F. S. Key” Autograph Signature of the Author of “The Star-Spangled Banner” to the cart

Autographs

Add Luther Burbank—1887 Handwritten Letter Signed on Olive Trees and California’s Booming Nursery Trade to the cart
Add 1890 autograph letter signed by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to the cart
Add Joseph Hume—1824 Autograph Letter Signed Concerning an Autograph Collection to the cart
Add 1790's ? Attributed to Samuel Ward Jr.—Revolutionary War Officer—Autograph Business Note Signed, Undated to the cart

Aviation & Space

Add 1900 Wilbur Wright’s “Belief That Flight Is Possible” Letter to Octave Chanute — Complete Five-Page Vintage Facsimile, May 13, 1900 to the cart
Add Wright Brothers / Orville Wright Cash-Disbursement Ledger, 1909–1928 to the cart
Add Wilbur Wright’s Wright Cycle Company Checkbook, 1904–1906—Patent Attorney Payments, Foundry and Lumber Accounts to the cart

Books & Pamphlets

Add John Trumbull’s 1841 Autobiography with Original 1824 Autograph Note Regarding Washington’s Resignation Painting to the cart
Add Charles Lindbergh’s “WE” — His Own Story of the Historic 1927 Transatlantic Flight to the cart
Add 1901 Universal Classic Manuscripts George F. Warner British Museum Facsimiles to the cart
Add 1650 Critica Sacra—Seventeenth-Century Hebrew and Greek Biblical Lexicon—Probable Edward Ledwich Copy to the cart

Civil War

Add 1863 Civil War Southern Express Company Receipt—Charlottesville to Columbia, S.C.—“War Risk Excepted” to the cart
Add 1862 Civil War Union Naval Blockading Instructions—North Carolina Sounds to the cart
Add 1861 William S. Rosecrans Twice-Signed Civil War Requisition—Commanding the 23rd Ohio at Camp Jackson to the cart

Colonial Times


Colonial/Continental Currency

Add 1780 Rhode Island Three Dollar Colonial Currency — Historic Facsimile to the cart
Add 1773 Pennsylvania Two-Shilling Note—Hall & Sellers—Colonial Currency to the cart
Add 1771 Connecticut Two Shillings & Sixpence—Timothy Green—Colonial Currency to the cart
Add 1775 Connecticut Colonial Currency Printed By T. Green to the cart

Commerce, Business & Trade

Add 1741 Philadelphia Merchant’s Manuscript — Deadly Epidemic, Atlantic Trade, Silver Watches & Schoolbooks to the cart
Add 1739/40 Philadelphia–Newport Merchant’s Letter — Salt, Molasses, Flour & Indigo Philadelphia, February 5, 1739/40 [1740] to the cart
Add 1739 Colonial Philadelphia Merchant’s Correspondence — Fur Trade, Shipping & a Disputed Legal Release to the cart

Declaration and Signers


Double Elephants

Add American Flamingo to the cart
Princeton Audubon American Goldfinch
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Add American White Pelican to the cart
Audubon print Baltimore oriole
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European Nations

Add James I-Era English Exchequer Receipt — Tax on Steel, May 4, 1618 to the cart
Add 1533 Edward III’s Campaign in France and the Battle of Crécy — Tudor-Era Fabyan Chronicle Leaf, to the cart
Add Decorative 1904 English Vellum Mortgage—Twenty-One Houses in Southall, London to the cart
Add 1892 Victorian London Mortgage Indenture – Five Battersea Houses on Glycena Road to the cart

Governors

Add Thomas Mifflin–Signed 1794 Pennsylvania Land Patent — 400-Acre “South Hill” Tract with Great Seal to the cart
Add 1824 New York Militia Commission Signed by Governor Joseph C. Yates—Walter Mead, Orange County to the cart
Add 1929 Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Extradition Document as New York Governor to the cart

Historic Figures

1703 H Boyle Signed Document
Add 1703 H Boyle Signed Document to the cart
Add 1710 Johannesburg Abeel ALS Signed Letter Albany Mayor Colonial Dutch Pre-Rev. to the cart
Add 1718 John Penn ALS to Brother Thomas Penn – William Penn Family – Wax Seal to the cart
Add 1720s Spanish Colonial Mexico Military Commission — Don Juan, Captain Jacinto de Fuentes — Signed by Juan de Acuña, Marqués de Casafuerte, Viceroy of New Spain to the cart

History in Documents

Add 1624 King James I English Vellum Final Concord – Latin Chancery Manuscript – Norfolk Property Settlement – Symondes Family to the cart
Add 1678 Vienna Diplomatic Letter Signed – Italian Manuscript from the Habsburg Court – Original Wax Seal – September 24, 1678 to the cart
1703 H Boyle Signed Document
Add 1703 H Boyle Signed Document to the cart
Add 1709 Issue Of The Tatler to the cart

Imperial Test Sheets

Add Audubon Original Imperial plate 119, Hudson Bay Lemming to the cart
Add Audubon Original Imperial plate 109, California Marmot Squirrel to the cart
Add Audubon Original Imperial plate 100, Missouri Mouse to the cart
Add Audubon Original Imperial plate 64, Little American Brown Weasel to the cart

Imperials

Add Original Audubon original Imperial Mink, plate 33 to the cart
Add Original Imperial Grizzly Bear, plate 131. to the cart
Add Original Imperial Colombian Black-tailed Deer, plate 106 to the cart
Add Original Imperial Say's Squirrel, plate 89 to the cart

Indentures/Patents/Grants/Deeds


Inventors & Scientists

Add Benjamin Franklin’s Union Fire Company — Early Philadelphia Manuscript Membership List, circa 1737 to the cart
Add c. 1760–1780 – Colonial Estate Division & Household Inventory Manuscript – Williams Family Probate – Original 18th Century American Manuscript to the cart

Kings, Queens, & Emperors

Napoleon Signed Document Before Becoming Emperor.
Add Napoleon Bonaparte Signed 1803 Notarial Commission on Laid Paper—Original Appointment Dating to 1782 to the cart
Add King George III–Signed 1792 British Army Commission — 66th Berkshire Regiment of Foot to the cart
Add King Louis XVI Signed Appointment to the Royal Wardrobe at Versailles, 1781 to the cart

Legal/Judicial Commisions/Writs


Lord-Hopkins Birds

Add Audubon Octavo Bartramian’s Sandpiper, plate 327, uncolored test sheet, 7 x 11 to the cart
Add Audubon Octavo Riffed Grouse, plate 293, uncolored test sheet, 7 x 11 to the cart
Add Audubon Octavo Common Cow-bird, plate 212, uncolored test sheet, 7 x 11 to the cart
Add Audubon Octavo Fox-colored Finch, plate 186, uncolored test sheet, 7 x 11 to the cart

Lord-Hopkins Collections

Add Audubon Octavo American Ptarmigan, plate 300, uncolored test sheet, 7 x 11 to the cart
Add Audubon Octavo Black-necked Stilt, plate 354, uncolored test sheet, 7 x 11 to the cart
Add Audubon Octavo Crested Grebe, plate 479, uncolored test sheet, 7 x 11 to the cart
Add Audubon Octavo Blue-headed Ground Dove, plate 284, uncolored test sheet, 7 x 11 to the cart

Lord-Hopkins Quads

Add Lord-Hopkins Collection - Artic Fox to the cart
Add Lord-Hopkins Collection - Caribou or American Rein Deer to the cart
Add Lord-Hopkins Collection - Common Flying Squirrel to the cart
Add Lord-Hopkins Collection - Cougar, Ring Tailed Basaris to the cart

Maps

Add 1590 Map By Ortelius to the cart
Add 1706 Pieter Schenk Map of Friesland with Frisian Islands—Original Hand Color to the cart
Add 1706 Pieter Schenk Monumental Map of Friesland—Full Period Hand Color to the cart
Add 1720 Christoph Weigel Antique Map Britain “Insulae Britannicae Antiquae” to the cart

Massachusetts and Boston


Mexico & South America

Add 1720s Spanish Colonial Mexico Military Commission — Don Juan, Captain Jacinto de Fuentes — Signed by Juan de Acuña, Marqués de Casafuerte, Viceroy of New Spain to the cart

Money

Add Complete 1864 Confederate $1,000 War Bond with All 60 Coupons to the cart
Add 1792 French Revolution 25-Sols Assignat—Paper Money Backed by Confiscated Church Property to the cart

Money:Obsolete/Confederate/Checks/Bonds


Music/Stage & Screen

Add William Penn’s March — Pennsylvania Bi-Centennial Grand March, 1882 to the cart
Add Enrico Caruso and the Creation of a 1907 Rose Company Photographic Postcard—Original Letter and Finished Souvenir Card to the cart
Add 1890s “Chariot Race or Ben Hur March” – Spectacular E. T. Paull Chromolithograph to the cart
Add 1838–1844 New York State Militia Documents — Samuel H. Cook, Musician & Drummer to the cart

Napoleon

Napoleon Signed Document Before Becoming Emperor.
Add Napoleon Bonaparte Signed 1803 Notarial Commission on Laid Paper—Original Appointment Dating to 1782 to the cart
Add 1796 London Chronicle — Early Napoleon “Buonaparte” Dispatch & George Washington Portrait Advertisement to the cart
Add CAMBACÉRÈS — 1811 IMPERIAL ENDOWMENT PATENT FOR COLONEL JEAN GÉRARD BONNAIRE to the cart
Add NAPOLEON I — ENDORSED 1812 REPORT ON EQUIPPING THE POLISH VISTULA LEGION to the cart

Native Americans

Add 1767 Colonial Virginia Land Office Application – 5,000 Acre Frontier Survey – Indian Path & Wigwam – Pre-Revolutionary Manuscript to the cart

Naval

Add 1826 Commodore William Bainbridge Autograph Letter Signed to Captain George C. Read Aboard U.S. Brig Brandywine to the cart
Add 1870 Rear Admiral William Radford Autograph Letter Signed – USS Franklin Flagship Stationery – Civil War Admiral – European Squadron to the cart

Newspapers

Add “The War Is Over” — Washington Evening Star Extra Announcing Japan’s Surrender, August 14, 1945 to the cart
Add 1796 London Chronicle — Early Napoleon “Buonaparte” Dispatch & George Washington Portrait Advertisement to the cart
Add 1795 Philadelphia Gazette & Universal Daily Advertiser Subscription Receipt – Philadelphia During Washington's Presidency to the cart

Octavo Birds

Add 262 Audubon Original Octavo Hairy Woodpecker, 2nd edition, matted to the cart
Add 261 Audubon Original Octavo Harris's Woodpecker, 2nd edition, matted to the cart
Add 259 Audubon Original Octavo Phillips Woodpecker, 2nd edition, matted to the cart
Add 258 Audubon Original Octavo Canadian Woodpecker, 2nd edition, matted to the cart

Octavo Quads

Add Plate 403, American Scoter Duck, Audubon Octavo 1st edition, framed to the cart
Add Plate 345, Tell-tale Godwit or Snipe, Audubon Octavo 2nd edition, framed to the cart
Add Plate 112, Californian Hare, Audubon Octavo 1st edition, framed to the cart

Odds & Ends

Add 1843 Essex County New Jersey Guardianship Document – Oliver S. Halsted – Seal to the cart
Add 1828 Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston as West Point Cadets — Rare 1828 Congressional Report to the cart
Add 1794 LEGAL FEE AGREEMENT ADDRESSED TO FOUNDING FATHER LUTHER MARTIN AND PHILIP BARTON KEY—UNCLE OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY to the cart
Add PIONEER PHOTOGRAPHY—1849 PHILADELPHIA DAGUERREOTYPE RECEIPT FROM T. P. & D. C. COLLINS to the cart

Presidents

Add 1782 Rare Revolutionary War Newspaper George Washington Celebrates the French Alliance to the cart
Add 1832 Andrew Jackson U. S. Land Grant Patent to the cart
Add 1832 Four Page Letter From Zachary Taylor to the cart
Add 1836 Benjamin Pierce Signed Letter to the cart

Religion

Add 1856 Alexander Campbell Autograph Letter Signed – Founder of the Disciples of Christ – De Ruyter Institute to the cart

Science & Medicine

Add 1799 ORIGINAL MEDICAL BILL — DR. MASON FITCH COGSWELL OF HARTFORD to the cart
Add 1878 Rear Admiral John Rodgers Autograph Letter Signed – U.S. Naval Observatory – Benjamin A. Gould – Smithsonian – Solar Eclipse to the cart

Slavery

Add Two North Carolina Slavery Documents Naming Enslaved Girls Sall and Bonetta – Dixon Family, 1790 and 1812 to the cart
Add Rare 1823 District of Columbia Slave Deed of Trust – Purchase of Enslaved Boy "Anthony" – Charles H. W. Wharton & Henry Waring to the cart
Add 1760 Colonial Slave Bill Of Sale West New Jersey “Jack” Pre Revolution to the cart
Add 1864 Abolition Pamphlet Isaac Arnold, Destroying Slavery In Rebel States to the cart

Treasury & Debt Certificates/Pay Orders


United States (filter by state)

Add 1718 John Penn ALS to Brother Thomas Penn – William Penn Family – Wax Seal to the cart
Add 1719 (1714?) Colonial Portsmouth Letter Signed By Thomas Burke Boston Merchant to the cart
Add 1735 Colonial Pennsylvania Vellum Deed — Baldwin Family to Richard Barry — 1708 Chain of Title — Three Seals to the cart
Add 1736 Johannes De Peyster Signed Albany NY Colonial Certificate Oswego Rum Trade to the cart

Wars of the Nations


Wright Brothers Estate

Add 1900 Wilbur Wright’s “Belief That Flight Is Possible” Letter to Octave Chanute — Complete Five-Page Vintage Facsimile, May 13, 1900 to the cart
Add Orville Wright Signed Check Collection—Mabel Beck, Lottie Jones and B. F. Goodrich, 1909–1930 to the cart
Add Wright Brothers Check Collection—Orville Wright, Lorin Wright and Charlie Taylor, 1907–1920 to the cart
Add Orville Wright and Lorin Wright—Four Wright Family Checks, 1918–1944 to the cart