Rome: The Vatican, April 3, 1654. The lead seal has "Pape Innocentus X" on the reverse and as is traditional, the profiles of Sts. Peter and Paul, unevenly worn in favor of Paul, on the obverse. It is still tied to the document through two holes and connected with a......
Versailles, France: April 12, 1712. 20" x 10.5" vellum with a 2.5" up fold at the bottom. Threaded attach at the bottom right is a paper / wax embossed seal of a mounted cannoneer on the front and heraldic seal on the rear. His regal 6" signature on the document.....
Grand rue [Paris]: A Besancon, De l'impririe de la V Bogillot, c. 1775. Silk cover, near fine, minus less than 10, small wear holes through the silk. Tarnished silver wire filigree loops around the entire perimeter of the book, as well as the spine. Both the front and back cover.....
5.25" x 1.75", signed in ink on clipped letter. Strong clear, light fade at corners, attractively matted beneath an etching of Taney signed in pencil by the artist Alfred Rosenthal Roger Brooke Taney, a graduate of Dickinson College, might well be the most controversial Supreme Court justice in American history.....
