Washington City: E. A. Cohen & Co., 1834. Period brown leather with gilt border on front and back, Directory 1834 on spine in gilt with four bands. 4.5" x 7.25", Missing first blank end page and last two pages of advertisement, top corner of pp. 25-32 have been torn off..... More

Washington DC / Los Angeles: 1950 - 1954. SIGNED "Omar Bradley" [1] and the very familiar "Brad" [2]. Letters are addressed to the editor of his book, Theodore S. Amussen. 7" x 10.75", Two letters are on Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff letterhead with flag colors in the..... More

Balt. & Ohio Railroad, Sept. 14, ?8. SIGNED "Benj. F. Butler" as Manager, R.A.D.V. (Railroad Authority for Disabled Veteran Soldiers), 4.25" x 2.25", on franked ticket for "John White from Washington to Columbus via Balt. + Ohio R.R.", in another hand. Circular, blue stamp in lower right, punched by conductor..... More

Washington DC: nd. SIGNED "Frances F. Clevelend in fountain pen on Executive Mansion Card Signed. 4.5" x2.75", 1p. 16mo. Fine signature is full breadth of the card dated 1887 in bottom left corner. Grover Cleveland first met Frances when she was an infant and doted on her, even buying her..... More

Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1938. First Edition. Blue cloth over boards. 5" x 7.5", pp. vi, [3] 4-319. This book was first intended as an opportunity for Einstein to financially aid his friend, Infeld. Though it soon became a joy for him to share physics in near layman's words..... More

Sussex County, England: January 17, 1783. 29.75" x 21" vellum document with scalloped top edge, folded bottom edge secured with red wax seal, two vertical and three horizontal folds. In addition to the wax seal, there is an embossed blue revenue stamp and two ink stamps, one on the front..... More

Washington DC: January 10, 1878. 9.75" x 7.5", 3 pp., on lined stationary, impeccable, crisp, readable penmanship. Very fine letter in which Henry writes to Joseph Patterson to thank him for setting up a Smithsonian Institution testimonial to himself. Henry is effusive in his humility and generous in his gratitude..... More

A 5-page and 6-page letters from Private John Johonot of the Sixth Battalion, Light Artillery of the 16th Maine Regiment written in 1862 only months before his death on December 20th in Baltimore. Transmittal envelopes are included as well as an especially poignant 2-page letter from his wife to her..... More

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..... More

Cairo, Egypt: Maktbit Misr, 1995. Prof. Moustafa Gouda. First Edition. Egypt, Inscribed to anonymous “my book”. /s/ Naguib Mahfouz. Mahfouz was suffering great difficulty which prevented him to write due to his injury from attempted assassination by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in October 1995. Naguib Mahfouz, (1911 -..... More

Montauban, France: Self-published, September 1, 1839. Quarter brown leather with marbled paper over boards. The title in gilt on the spine indicates an intentional preservation of this work. 4.5" x 7", 237 pp. of manuscript copy of "Murat", a short book by Alexandre Dumas, origninally published as part of his..... More

Cairo, Egypt: Maktbit Misr, 1977 - 1988. First Edition. All volumes are inscribed to the same person, Dr. Ali Hassan Ibrahim. Ibrahim was Mahfouz's medical doctor and close confidante, as well as himself a home grown poet. Ibrahim was the son of Sir Ali Ibrahim (1880 - 1946). The elder..... More

Washington DC: Office of the Vice President, July 14, 1956. Signed "Richard Nixon" in fountain pen on "Office Of The Vice President" letterhead, with stamped and franked mailing envelope. Richard Milhous Nixon, (1913 - 1994) Thirty-seventh President of the United States who led during the Vietnam War, reopened diplomatic ties..... More