The Great Republic

Davis, Benjamin O. American: An Autobiography.  Washington and London: The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Benjamin O. Davis. In original ...

Graham, Col. William A. The Story of the Little Big Horn: Custer’s Last Fight. Harrisburg: Military Service Publishing Co., 1945. Second edition, later printing. Octavo. In original ...

Graham, Col. William A. The Story of the Little Big Horn: Custer’s Last Fight. Harrisburg: Military Service Publishing Co., 1941. Second edition. Octavo. In original yellow cloth boa...

Presented is an antique 1893 map of Colorado, published by George F. Cram. A colorful map with distinctive blue state and red county outlines, the map presents the state of Colorado ...

This is a handsome engraving of President George Washington, after Gilbert Stuart's famous likeness of the first President. The engraving was engraved by Oliver Pelton, circa 1861. ...

Presented is a "Home of Washington, Mount Vernon" blue-glazed transferware plate, by the famous earthenware importers, The Rowland & Marsellus Company.  Made in Staffordshire, En...

Presented is a "Washington Crossing the Delaware" blue-glazed transferware plate, by the famous earthenware importers, The Rowland & Marsellus Company.  Made in Staffordshire, En...

Kennedy Jr., John F. Profiles in Courage. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original publisher’s dust jacket and blue linen hardboards with bl...

Kennedy, Robert F. Just Friends and Brave Enemies. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1962. First edition, first printing. Octavo. In original navy cloth boards with gi...

Presented is an original acrylic on canvas painting entitled "Brandywine Flag," by American artist Dennis Lyall. Created as the original artwork for the Fleetwood First Day Cover hon...

Presented is a striking WWII pictorial map by Stanley Turner, published in 1944. The map is a progress map, chronicling major events in the war up to September 1944. The legend at bo...

Presented is an original 1943 "Colorado Railroads" Map, drawn by Linn Westcott for Trains Magazine. It was issued by Kalmbach Publishing Co., who boasted on the map’s original cover ...

Presented is an original "American Airlines System Map" from 1962. A topographical map of the United States, overlaid with American Airlines routes, this colorful lithograph was prep...

Presented is a 1928 "Map of Rock Island Lines and Connections: Route of Golden State Limited to California, Rocky Mountain Limited to Colorado." This large promotional map for the Ch...

Presented is an original “Ian Fleming Thriller Map,” which features the travels of MI6 Agent 007, James Bond, from author Ian Fleming’s series of fourteen spy novels. The pictorial m...

Presented is an original 1943 War Bonds poster by Norman Rockwell, illustrating “Freedom from Want.” The poster is one of the four iconic War Bonds posters by Norman Rockwell. The se...

Presented is an original engraving titled "The Attack on Fort Sumter by the Monitor Fleet." The dramatic composition depicts the Union naval assault on Fort Sumter in April of 1863. ...

Presented is an original engraving titled "Surrender of General Lee." It was engraved by D. Meeden, after a drawing by noted Civil War artist and war correspondent Alfred R. Waud. Th...

Presented is an engraving titled "The Monitor at Work on the Merrimac (or Virginia)," published by the N. Orr Company and illustrated by American artist Harry Fenn. The dramatic comp...

Presented is an engraved portrait of Thomas Jefferson, after the painting by Alonzo Chappel. This seated portrait depicts our third president in his coat, suit, and cravat, with a qu...

Presented is a vintage General Motors public service poster titled "American Duty. Register and Vote," circa 1950s. Produced for display by General Motors dealers, the poster was pri...

Offered is a vintage travel poster for United Airlines from the 1970s. This advertisement poster shows Colorado as one of United Airlines' alluring travel destinations. The poster fe...

Presented is a vintage WWII Victory Bond poster by famed 20th century artist Dean Cornwall. The poster dramatically depicts an American bald eagle spreading its wings, perched on a s...

Presented is an original War Savings Stamps poster by artist James Montgomery Flagg. Depicting a stern Uncle Sam, the poster is printed with the words, “I'm telling you / On June 28t...

Presented is a vintage “Reagan Bush '84” campaign poster, promoting Ronald Reagan for President and George H. W. Bush for Vice President. The poster features a bold and patriotic red...

Hagen, Walter. The Walter Hagen Story. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Walter Hagen. Octavo. Presented in the original dust...

This is a remarkable lithographic portrait of "Chittee Yoholo: A Seminole Chief," from McKenney and Hall’s three-volume work, Indian Tribes of North America. The portrait depicts Chi...

This is a remarkable lithographic portrait of "Foke-Luste-Hajo, A Seminole," from McKenney and Hall’s three-volume work, Indian Tribes of North America. Often referred to by the Engl...

Presented is an original World War II United States Army Air Corps guidon, identified to the 313 Replacement Company, a unit operating within the European Theater of Operations. The ...

Presented is an original engraving titled "Valley Forge: Washington & Lafayette," published by Johnson, Wilson & Co. in 1874, after the celebrated painting by Alonzo Chappel....

Constitution of the United States of America. Boston: Nathaniel L. Dayton, undated [c.1850s.] 12mo. Brown grained cloth, with blind embossed covers to front and back. Gilt embossed t...

Parker, Samuel. Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, Under the Direction of the A. B. C. F. M., Containing a Description of the Geography, Geology, Climate, Produ...

Austin, Samuel. A Sermon Delivered at Worcester on the Day of Public Thanksgiving, Observed Throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, December 15th, MDCCXCVI. Worcester: Leonard ...

The A, B, C. With The Church of England Catechism. To Which are Annexed, Prayers used in the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in Philadelphia. Also, A Hymn on the Nativity...

Townsend, Col. G. W. Our Martyred President: Memorial Life of William McKinnley.  {together with} The Life of President Roosevelt. New York: Memorial Publishing Company, 1901. S...

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: Including a Fac-simile, Autobiography, Variorum Readings of the Poems, and a Department of Gathered Leaves. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1900. Reprint. ...

McClure, Alexander Kelly. Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times: Some Personal Recollection of War And Politics During the Lincoln Administration. Philadelphia: The Times Publishing C...

Presented here is a rare printed Postscript to The Massachusetts Spy, or Thomas’s Boston Journal, issued in Boston on May 5, 1774. Founded by Isaiah Thomas and Zechariah Fowle in 177...

Presented is an 1862 Civil War song sheet by E. W. Locke. The folio broadside sheet includes two songs, “McClellan is Our Man” and “Song of the Volunteers," as well as several stanza...

Presented is an original John Hancock signature, presented framed with an 1858 engraved portrait of John Hancock. The cut signature reads “John Hancock” with a dramatic flourish, or ...

Presented is an original Ulysses S. Grant signed Presidential Appointment, dating to March 25, 1873. Signed at the start of the second term of Grant's presidency, the document appoin...

Presented is a George Washington Bicentennial parade flag from 1932. The flag is printed with blue, white, and red stripes, with a prominent bust portrait of George Washington at cen...

This is a remarkable lithographic portrait of "Yaha-Hajo: A Seminole Chief," from McKenney and Hall’s three-volume work, Indian Tribes of North America. Yaha-Hajo, which translates t...

Presented here is an original hand-colored lithograph of the "Ovis Montana. Rocky Mountain Sheep" by the celebrated American naturalist and artist John James Audubon. The image portr...

Presented is a 1903 calendar set, entitled “A Bit of American History – The Flag of Our Own Time.” This visually compelling and historically resonant calendar was issued by the Equit...

Presented is a vintage Bellamy-style carved wooden eagle by Walter Ketzler. This mid 20th century wood eagle is gilded, with a painted white and blue shield and a red tongue. It supp...

Brown’s Self-Interpreting Bible. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments,  According to the Authorized Versions. With an Introduction: Marginal References and Readings;  Explanatory Notes and Reflections. By the Rev. John Brown, of Haddington. And Many Thousand Additional Notes by the Rev. Henry Cooke, D.D., LL.D., President, Assembly’s College, Belfast. Re-Edited, with Considerable Additions by the Rev. J. L. Porter, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Biblical Criticism, Assembly’s College, Belfast. Illustrated by Historical Designs and Scenes from Bible Lands. London: The Gresham Publishing Company, circa 1880s. Large quarto, with original full leather carved and gilt tooled boards, all edges gilt, and metal clasps. Presented with a custom-made archival clamshell box with gilt tooling. Presented is a beautifully restored and exquisitely bound Brown’s Self-Interpreting Family Bible. Brown’s Self-Interpreting Family Bible was first published in 1778 in two volumes in Edinburgh. The Self-Interpreting Bible was Reverend Brown's most significant work and it remained in print well into the twentieth century. Although undated, this family bible was published by The Gresham Publishing Company, in London, circa 1880. Reverend John Brown (1722-1787) was a Scottish Minister of the Gospel at Haddington. He wrote numerous works on the bible, including The Dictionary of the Bible, A General History of the Christian Church, and Brown’s Self-Interpreting Family Bible, as seen here. The design of the Self-Interpreting Bible, Brown explained in the original preface, was “to present the labours of the best commentators in a manner that might best comport with the ability and leisure of the poorer and labouring part of mankind, and especially to render the oracles of God their own interpreter.” Thus, the work contains a thorough history, chronology, geography, and summary, as well as explanatory notes and reflections, on the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments. As this was printed as a “self-interpreting” bible, many of these notes occur in the margins, next to the pertaining scripture. This bible is further elucidated by upwards of eight thousand explanatory and critical notes by the Reverend Henry Cooke, D.D., LL.D., a minister of the Presbyterian Church and President of Assembly’s College in Belfast. It was further edited and notated by Reverend J. L. Porter, D.D., LL.D., a Professor of Biblical Criticism at Assembly’s College in Belfast. A publisher’s advertisement for Brown’s Self-Interpreting Family Bible was printed in the January-July 1880 issue of The American Bookseller journal. The advertisement claims, “Brown’s Self-Interpreting Bible is widely and most favorably known on both sides of the Atlantic. It is pre-eminently A Family Bible, suitable alike for all the members of the household and particularly Helpful in explaining difficult passages, and admirably adapted to promote a Devotional spirit. Also, its unusually Clear Type makes it an excellent Book for Pulpit use...

Twain, Mark, Roughing It. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872. First American edition, later printing “Seventy-Fifth Thousand.” Octavo. In the publisher's original brown clot...

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse–Five; or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty–Dance with Death. [New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1969].  First edition, first printing. Octa...

Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. New York: The Viking Press, 1958. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards with silver and metallic green lettering. In the original illustrated dust...

Fleming, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, [1959.] First edition. Octavo. In the publisher's original black cloth boards, with an embossed skull, gilt eyes, and gilt titles to ...

Greene, Ward. Lady and the Tramp. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1953]. First edition, first printing. Foreword by Walt Disney. Illustrated by Joe G. Rinaldi. Octavo. In the original...

Presented is an antique wood engraving, "Grand Review At Washington. -- Sherman's Veterans Marching Through Pennsylvania Avenue." The composition depicts a jubilant parade scene from...

Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1959, 1955. Illustrated by J...

Presented is a finely executed vintage silk printed handkerchief featuring the music and lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” a beautiful example of American patriotic ephemera rend...

Presented is a George Washington memorial engraving by John I. Donlevy. Titled “Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious Champion of Liberty, General George Washington, First Presiden...

Presented is a Proclamation of Emancipation wood engraving by W. Roberts. The engraving was published in 1864, just one year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the original Proclamation.  W. Roberts was the artist and engraver and Corydon Alexis Alvord was the printer. The engraving was published by R. A Dimmick, in New York, 1864. The text of the Proclamation is set in a variety of typefaces, which is encased in a pictorial border. The border is decorated with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and seven other vignettes, including the horrors of slavery at left, the bombardment of Fort Sumter at bottom, and scenes from a prosperous and united nation at right.  On September 22, 1862, five days after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that, unless the rebellious states returned to the Union by January 1, freedom would be granted to slaves within those states.  No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1, 1863 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation...

This colorful lithograph by H. A. Ogden was published in 1908 by Brigadier General J. B. Allshire. Originally published as a comprehensive series of U. S. military uniforms, this pri...

Offered is an original 1893 print by Douglas Adams entitled "Landing the Salmon." The print depicts fishermen beside a lake, surrounded by large mountains. One fisherman hoists a tau...

Offered is an original 1903 photogravure by Douglas Adams entitled "A Tight Line." The print depicts fishermen in a stream, beside large mountains. The fisherman at right arches his ...