Items for sale by members

1480 - Incunable leaf from the Bible, in Latin

Ulm, Germany : Johann Zainer , 1480

1492 - Hand-colored incunable leaf from the Cronecken der Sasson (Chronicles of Saxony), 1492

by Konrad Botho (Conrad Bote)

Mainz, Germany : Peter Shoeffer , 1492

1493 - Incunable leaf from the Liber chonicarum (Nuremburg Chronicle)

by Hartman Schedel

Nuremberg, Germany : Anton Koberger , 1493

1513 - Leaf from Postilla Guillermi super epistolas et euangelia (Commentaries of epistles and gospels by Guilemus)

by Johannes Herlot but mistakenly attributed to Guilemus Pariesiensis

Basel. Switzerland : Michael Furter , 1513

1517-1518 - Leaf from La Mer des Histoires et Chroniques de France (The Sea of Stories and Chronicles of France)

by Anonymous

Paris, France : Gailot Du Pre and Michel le Noir , 1518

1527 - Leaf from William Claxton's translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend), printed in 1527with all references to the "pope" obliterated at the command ofHenry VIII following his excommunication by Pope Paul III in 1538

by Jacobus de Voragine and William Claxton

Westminster, England : Wynkyn de Word , 1538

1533 - Leaf from the Romisch Historien (History of Rome) by Titus Livius (Livy) discussing the conflicts between Rome, Carthage, and Macedon during Punic and Macedonian Wars of the Third Century BC

by Titus Livius (Livy)

Mainz, Germany : Johann Schoeffer , 1533

1535 - Leaf from the Supplementum Supplementi de le Chroniche (Suppliementum Supplements to the Chronicle) of Giacomo Filippo Foresti

by Giacomo Filippo Foresti

Venice, Italy : Bernardo Bindoni , 1535

16th-century leaf with an illustration of a type of Unicorn known as a Camphur from Ambroise Paré’s Poisons

by Ambroise Paré

Paris : Chez G Boun , 1585

16th-century leaf with a large illustration showing the harvesting of cinnamon from Ambroise Paré's Distillations

by Ambroise Paré

Paris : Chez G Boun , 1585

1735 - Letter between two prominent merchants discussing a shipment of "Pennopscot" beaver pelts and "Liver Oyle" from Boston to London

by William Clark to Christopher Kilby

1740 - The November 1740 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine, printed at London, which includes a detailed fold-out map of Governor Oglethorpe’s attempt to capture St. Augustine, Florida

by Sylvanus Urban (editor)

London 1740

1761 - A deed transferring ownership of a "tenement" in the heart of Boston located between entrances to Faneuil Hall and the Great Town Dock

Boston 1761

1764 – The Acts and Orders passed by the Colony of Rhode Island in May 1764

by Henry Ward, Secretary

Newport, Rhode Island : Samuel Hall , 1764

1779 - Revolutionary War funding-status letter from the Commissary-General for the Middle District that reads like a who's who of the Continental Army's Quartermaster Corps.;

1790 - Broadside enumerating the reasons that Connecticut's claim to what today is the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania were valid

1791 - An article regarding harpoon whale guns from "Papers in Mechanicks" describing a list of rewards proffered to expert harpoon-gunners for their achievements in 1790 and, most importantly, to Charles Moore, the inventor of an improved harpoon-gun that made those achievements possible

1792 – Certificate of votes cast in Washington Plantation, Massachusetts (today Newfield, Maine] for Governor (John Hancock received all 26 votes cast)

1797-1798 - Archive of documents relating to the capture of an Alexandria-based merchant ship by French privateers that was one of several such incidents that led to the Quasi-War with France

by Captain Henry Nicoll and others

1799 - Letter describing Dr. John Warren's successful removal of a precancerous tumor from an adolescent girl

by Written by Abiel Abbot and sent to family in care of himself