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2022 Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the Book Lover

From first edition printings to collectible multi-volume sets, early childhood favorites to historical memoirs, we've rounded up some of our favorite gifts for the book lover in your life. Presente...

2022 Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the Entertainer

We've rounded up our favorite gifts for your favorite hosts and hostesses! Surprise them with a beautiful rosewood tantalus stocked with vintage decanters and glasses, sparkling silver chalices, le...

2022 Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the Political Historian

We've rounded up some of the most interesting and illuminating political memoirs, autographs from great American leaders, paintings and collectible antiques that tell the story of the founding of o...

Joseph West Moore's "Picturesque Washington": A Snapshot of D.C. in the 1880s

With detailed prints and intriguing articles, Picturesque Washington by Joseph West Moore exposed 19th century readers to all parts of their expanding, booming capital city. Moore went beyond just ...

Report Upon the Colorado River

Prior to the Civil War, much of the American West was still unexplored and undocumented by the United States. In order to determine whether the Colorado River had potential to become a major shippi...

Roughing It with Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Roughing It provides another look at the growing American landscape during a crucial period in history. It serves as both a snapshot in time, as well as an example of Twain’s humorist ...

The Political Debates of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

The seven debates between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election produced some of the most significant discussions in American political history, arguing issues...

The Federalist

Learn the story behind the publication of The Federalist, one of the most important works of American political thought. Penned by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudon...

Rare Second Edition 1802 Printing of The Federalist Now Available for Purchase

New to our DC shop is a rare second edition, two volume printing of one of the most important works of American political thought ever written, The Federalist. According to Thomas Jefferson, the Fe...

Four Western Surveys and the Romance of the Wild West

Between 1867 and 1879, Congress authorized and funded four significant surveys of the West, the Powell Survey, the King Survey, the Wheeler Survey, and the Hayden Survey. These published maps, trav...