Small quarto, 110 manuscript pages, bound in half leather, contemporary marbled paper backed boards, spine cracked, boards detached, worn, rubbed, paper good, entries written in a legible hand, and dated 18 June to 8 September 1868. more >
small folio, one page, formerly folded, top edge lightly browned, else very good. Text neatly inscribed in ink on laid paper. The sheet, judging from the fold marks was evidently folded into a very small triangle of just over an inch in… more >
octavo, single sheet, folded, nicks at edges, affecting text slightly. This may have been a letter, or portion of a letter, evidently folded and mailed. In good legible condition. more >
[Albany September 3, 1781] folio, 3 pages, old folds, some spotting to paper, old archival tape repairs along folds of second page, else in very good, clean and legible condition. more >
Three separate fragments of manuscript political notes and text by a passionate New Hampshire man, presumably a Democrat and Civil War Copperhead, 1852-1864. It would not be surprising if the pages were at some point separated, or hidden, because of the author’s… more >
octavo, 51 pages, written on the letterhead of the Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, rectos only, neatly inscribed in pencil and ink, very good. more >
Dramatic eyewitness account of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn’s early morning surprise attack on Holly Springs, Mississippi, the resulting capture by the narrator, a cotton buyer from Rhode Island, and the destruction at the Union supply hub