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JOHN ADAMS. Two Autograph Documents Signed on one sheet: an Autograph Document Signed in the text, Braintree [MA], 21 June 1768, and an Autograph Document Signed, no place, no date. An early manuscript in which the future Signer of the Declaration of Independence and President rents out his home in Braintree, Massachusetts – the house where John Quincy Adams was born. $6500.00 Full Description

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. Typed Letter Signed to Margaret Sanders, Washington DC, 3 March 1915. A teacher of the deaf as well as an inventor, Bell writes here about George Sanders, a student of his whose father provided critical financial backing for the invention of the telephone, and about the Sanders Reader, which Bell devised to help instruct young George. $4500.00 Full Description

LOUIS BLÉRIOT. Signed Postcard Photograph, Paris, 1911. The French aviator and inventor signed this photo not long after he became the first person to fly a plane across the English Channel. $550.00 Full Description

HENRY CLAY. Autograph Letter Signed to Thomas Millar and S. C. Cooper, Washington [DC], 22 June 1840. The Kentucky politician known for crafting compromises to preserve the Union eloquently expresses his support for William Henry Harrison and the Whig ticket in the 1840 Presidential race. $1000.00 Full Description

JEFFERSON DAVIS. Autograph Letter Signed [to Dr. Robert C. Wood], Washington DC, “Wednesday Morning” [ca. June 1854]. A poignant personal letter from the future President of the Confederacy about the fatal illness of his first child – at the time, his only child – Samuel Emory Davis. $1750.00 Full Description

GEORGE III, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. Partly Printed Document Signed as King, Saville House, 27 October 1760. Countersigned by WILLIAM PITT the Elder. A military commission signed by George III on the second day of his reign, bearing the royal seal of his predecessor, his grandfather George II. $600.00 Full Description

GEORGE IV, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. Document Signed as Prince Regent, no place, no date [ca. April 1816]. An unusual document listing the passwords for each day of the month for May 1816, signed by George while Prince Regent. $400.00 Full Description

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Autograph Letter Signed to Alexander K. McClure, Springfield IL, 6 September 1860. A rare substantive letter about the 1860 Presidential campaign, in which Lincoln passes along a report of a scheme to funnel out-of-state money to his opponents in Pennsylvania. $30,000.00 Full Description

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU. Typed Letter Signed to J. Vijayatunga, Chakrata [India], 26 April 1957. The first Prime Minister of India endorses approaching the government of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) over ongoing issues between the two countries. $500.00 Full Description

SEAN O’CASEY. Signed Photograph, no place, no date. An appealing, informal photo that shows the Irish playwright standing with his son, Breon. $550.00 Full Description

GEORGE SAND (pseudonym of Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant). Autograph Letter Signed to Charles-Edmond [Choiecki], no place [Nohant], 6 October 1872. The unconventional French author writes about her work on a dramatization of one of her novels, Mademoiselle La Quintinie. $750.00 Full Description

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA. Postcard Photograph Signed and with an Autograph Musical Quotation, no place, 1903. The American composer and bandmaster has signed this photo showing him in his band uniform and has added two bars from one of his most popular marches, Hands Across the Sea. $850.00 Full Description

GEORGE WASHINGTON. Letter Signed as President to C[harles] Hall, Philadelphia [PA], 22 February 1797. Writing on his 65th birthday, his last birthday as President, Washington transmits his thanks to a group of citizens for their message of tribute. $25,000.00 Full Description

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