General George Washington Concludes a Prisoner Exchange With Sir Henry Clinton
In this rare signed letter of George Washington from 1780, he mentions Sir Henry Clinton, Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in America, and accedes to...
Order for the Admission of Washington State to the Union, Signed by President Harrison
This Implementation Order for the admission of Washington State to the Union, signed by President Benjamin Harrison in 1889, officially welcomed the westernmost state...
Raab Acquires the Archive of a Napoleonic Marshal
Important Historical Documents Acquired From the Direct Descendants of Napoleon’s General and Never Before Offered for Sale “The best colonel to have ever commanded...
The Story Behind a Benjamin Franklin Document Signed in Paris in 1777
In his book, The Hunt for History, Nathan Raab tells a riveting tale of researching, authenticating, and selling a remarkable historical document signed by...
Amelia Earhart Officially Becomes the First Woman to Fly the Atlantic Alone
A national treasure of American history: Amelia Earhart’s signed certificate of landing for her groundbreaking solo transatlantic flight in 1932. This document, signed on...
For Sale: A Newly Discovered Abraham Lincoln Document Signed Days Before Assassination
For Presidents’ Day, Raab Offers One of Lincoln’s Last Official Documents, Signed on April 11, 1865 and Recently Found Locked in an Old Desk “A...
The Newly Discovered Love Letters of a WWII Bomber Pilot Up for Sale
Raab Announces the Discovery of 115 Letters from an American B-17 “Flying Fortress” Pilot, Stationed in England, to His Wife, Never Before Offered for...
The Story of the Discovery of the Autopsy Notes from the McKinley Assassination
For over a century, a collection of family papers had been kept in a closet, in a box around the size of a shoebox....
The “slug that killed my brother”: A Southern Family’s Story of the End of the Civil War
A deeply moving and never-before-seen archive documents the lives of a North Carolina family during the war’s final, harrowing year and includes the actual...
From Toulon to Moscow: Great Letters of Napoléon at Raab
As the highly anticipated film Napoléon debuts in theaters, we consider our collection of the French leader’s rare and historically important letters and documents...