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This is a first edition of Robert Burns’ 1787 book Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect finely bound by George Bayntun Bindery in England. The binding is full crushed dark blue levant leather with raised bands, gilt tooled panels enclosing thistle…

This 1633 edition of Poems, with Elegies on the Author's Death (also known as Poems by J.D.) is the first collected volume of John Donne’s poetry and the most authentic of all the early editions of his works. Donne (1572-1631) was an Oxford…

Carson McCullers (1917-1967) wrote eight books, The Member of the Wedding being among one of the most notable. Her writing is often described as Southern Gothic and is reflective of her southern roots. This story captures a young girl's feelings at…

A Chromolithographic image of the USS Maine as it sat in Havana, Cuba harbor after it was sank. "Restos del U.S.S. Maine Habana."

John Wesley (1703-1791) was an Anglican theologian who is credited with helping to found the evangelical movement called Methodism. These scraps of fabric are said to be from the bed on which John Wesley died. After Wesley’s death, personal items,…

Butterfly or insect collecting became popular during the Victorian age as a respectable hobby among the growing middle class. Scientific collecting of butterflies and other natural specimens had been a popular venture as natural history museums and…

 This unusual book contains mementos from the Royal Bourbon Family. Within these pages, the reader will come across carefully preserved locks of hair from certain members of the Bourbon family. Often a nostalgic practice for parents to remember their…

This is a section of the deck of the U.S.S. Maine which was sunk in Havana Harbor, Cuba, on February 15, 1898, as a result of an explosion in the forward part of the ship. Speculation continues as to what really caused the Maine to explode that…

This agate Mesopotamian signature seal of two lions attacking a deer was created about 600 B.C.E. It has a hole drilled through its length so that it could be worn on a string or pin. These types of seals are often engraved with a design so that when…

This photograph depicts a painting created by the workshop of Giovanni Bellini. Scholarly notes on the back of the photograph, along with a Kress Collection stamp, indicate that the work is one of the many paintings which originally formed the Samuel…