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Fine porcelain bust of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson
[JEFFERSON, THOMAS].
Thomas Jefferson Bust.
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Fine porcelain bust of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson. Parian porcelain mounted on a marble base. In fine condition. The bust measures 28.25 inches in height. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 123933
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Rare Confederate States presidential election sample ballot heralding Jefferson Davis as President
[DAVIS, JEFFERSON].
Jefferson Davis Confederate States Electoral Ticket.
: [1861].
Rare electoral ticket from the 1861 Confederate States presidential election. 16mo, one page, printed. The sample ballot heralds Jefferson Davis for President, Alexander Stephens for Vice President, a representative for the state at large and some local districts. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription to the verso.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 132575
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Capture of Jefferson Davis Collection
[DAVIS, JEFFERSON].
Capture of Jefferson Davis Collection.
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Fine collection of pieces related to the capture of Jefferson Davis near Irwinville, Georgia on May 10, 1865. The collection includes an original carte-de-visite of Davis’s captor, Colonel B.J. Pritchard; a calling card signed by Pritchard; a cabinet card of “The Only Photo in the Word of the Exact Spot where Hon. Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy, was captured May 10th, 1865, by Fourth Michigan Cavalry, near Irwinville, Irwin county, Ga. Taken and copyrighted December 31st 1894, by J.H. Harris, Tifton, Berrien county, Ga.”; a first edition of Edwin M. Stanton’s Letter of the Secretary of War, Communicating, In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 26th instant, the report of Major General J.H. Wilson on the capture of Jefferson Davis. [Washington, DC] Jan. 31, 1867; and a printing of John Fox’s The Capture of Jefferson Davis [Publ. by author, 1964]. Benjamin Dudley Pritchard (1835-1907) was a lawyer before the Civil War. He enlisted in the 4th Michigan Cavalry in July 1862 as a 27-year-old Captain at Allegan, MI. He was promoted to Lieut. Colonel in late 1864 after the Battle of Chickamauga, and awarded a Brigadier Generalcy by brevet in March 1865. He became a national hero when he captured Jefferson Davis on May 10, but he declined to run for state or federal office in spite of appeals for him to do so. In near fine to fine condition. A unique collection.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 132583
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Selected Speeches of President William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2000; with the 1998 issue inscribed by Clinton to his director of the United States Information Agency Joseph Duffey
CLINTON, BILL. [WILLIAM JEFFERSON].
Selected Speeches of President William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2000.
Washington: The White House 1993-2000.
Presentation edition of this selection of speeches delivered by President Bill Clinton. Quarto, 8 volumes, original publisher’s half morocco over paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Each volume is one of a limited number of numbered copies. The December 1998 issue is a presentation copy, inscribed by Clinton on the title page, “To Joe Duffy with thanks Bill Clinton Christmas 1998.” The recipient, Joseph Duffey was selected by Clinton to serve as the director of the United States Information Agency in 1993. In 1970, Duffey ran for the U.S. Senate in 1970 as a prominent anti-Vietnam War candidate; he had just turned 35 years old. The campaign became notable because several of Duffey’s young supporters went on to prominent careers in Democratic politics, including future president Bill Clinton, a Yale Law School student at the time. In fine condition. An exceptional association.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 142751
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1806 United States Land Grant signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison
JEFFERSON, THOMAS AND JAMES MADISON.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Land Grant.
City of Washington: April 5, 1806.
American land grant signed by Thomas Jefferson as the third President of the United States and countersigned by James Madison as Secretary of State. Folio, one page partially printed on parchment and accomplished in manuscript, the grant is dated April 5, 1806 and awards Caleb Johnson of Washington County, Pennsylvania a parcel of land. The document reads in part: Know Ye, that “Caleb Johnson of Washington County, Pennsylvania” having deposited in the Treasury a certificate of the Register of the Land office at “Steubenville” whereby it appears that “he has made full payment for the Northeast Quarter of Lot or Section number twelve of Township number Eighteen in Range number Six” of the lands to be sold at “Steubenville” by the act of Congress, entitled ‘An act providing for the sale of the Lands of the United States in the Territory north-west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky River.’ Signed by Thomas Jefferson as President, “Th Jefferson” and “James Madison” as Secretary of State. With the red wax-white wafer seal present. In very good condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 16 inches.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 143218
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"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do": RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE COLLECTION OF JEFFERSONS WRITINGS; In the Rare Original Boards
JEFFERSON, THOMAS.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
Charlottesville, VA: F. Carr and Co 1829.
First edition of the first published collection of Jefferson’s writings, an impressive four-volume work edited by his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Octavo, 4 volumes, original boards, engraved frontispiece portrait after Gilbert Stuart in Volume I. Rare and desirable in the original boards.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 143456
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"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do": RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE COLLECTION OF JEFFERSONS WRITINGS
JEFFERSON, THOMAS.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
Charlottesville, VA: F. Carr and Co 1829.
First edition of the first published collection of Jefferson’s writings, an impressive four-volume work edited by his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Octavo, 4 volumes, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece portrait after Gilbert Stuart in volume I, 4 folding plates of facsimiles of Jefferson‘s draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 142662
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Rare Salesman's Dummy of Jefferson Davis' The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
DAVIS, JEFFERSON.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.
New York: Appleton and Company 1881.
Salesman’s dummy of Jefferson Davis’ memoirs. Octavo, original cloth. Includes an example of the both examples of which were used in the sale of this volume. The cloth spine is affixed to the front pastedown and the leather on the rear pastedown. Contents include publisher’s prospectus, 16 tissue-covered steel engraved plates; 32 pages from the text, and many pages at the end for the salesman to record his sales. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 89786
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Scarce 1792 printing of An Act to extend the Time limited for settling the Accounts of the United States with the Individual States; signed by Thomas Jefferson
[JEFFERSON, THOMAS].
Second Congress of the United States: At the First Session, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. An Act to extend the Time limited for settling the Accounts of the United States with the Individual States.
Philadelphia: Childs & Swaine 1792.
Scarce printing of an early United States law providing for the funding of the national debt, signed by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State. Folio, one page. The document, which also carries the printed signatures of President George Washington, Vice President John Adams, and House Speaker Jonathan Trumbull, was approved January 23, 1792. Individual acts and bills of the first Congresses were routinely printed for public consumption. A provision was made, however, to print a few copies of each act for dissemination to the states, and to have each copy signed by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. One of the main priorities of the federal government in the early national period was to pay down the debt of the United States. The national debt was incurred during the Revolution and augmented in 1790 when the Congress passed the Assumption Act, in accordance with a plan devised by Alexander Hamilton. Because contacting the numerous and geographically dispersed holders of the debt proved more difficult than expected, it became necessary to extend the time allowed by law for making the relevant financial arrangements. The present act accomplished this, and made a special extension of five months for Vermont, which gave the new state time to calculate the amount of debt. Despite Jefferson’s vehement opposition to Hamilton’s plan when it was formulated, his position as Secretary of State necessitated his signature on the presentation copies of the acts that effected it. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco folding case. Scarce, with only one other example signed by Jefferson located.
Price: $82,000.00 Item Number: 125388
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First Edition of REPORTS OF CASES DETERMINED IN THE GENERAL COURT OF VIRGINIA, FROM 1730, TO 1740; AND FROM 1768 TO 1772; Inscribed by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
JEFFERSON, THOMAS [EDITED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON RANDOLPH].
Reports of Cases Determined in the General Court of Virginia, From 1730, TO 1740; And From 1768 TO 1772.
Charlottesville: F. Carr and Co. 1829.
First edition. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor and Thomas Jefferson’s grandson on the front free endpaper, “Rick Barnhead Presented by Tho Jefferson Randolph Grand son of the author.” In very good condition. Rare and desirable, especially signed and inscribed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 128396