1001 (America) ⁠— Sir Humphrey Gilbert | The contract for the voyage that made settlement in North America possible

1002 (America) ⁠— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling | Colonizing Nova Scotia and Newfoundland

1003 (Franklin, Benjamin) | A very rare work written and printed by Franklin, containing "the earliest American political cartoon"

1004 Washington, George | Perhaps the only leaf from Washington's diary in private hands

1005 Hancock, John | A significant broadside from the birthplace of the Revolution, foreshadowing in its grievances the Declaration of Independence

1006 The Treaty of Paris | "A True Copy of the congressional instructions to the American peace commissioners, attested by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams

1007 United States Constitution | A first-day publication of the United States Constitution, with contemporary newspaper context

1008 (Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay) | A first edition Federalist, uncut and unsophisticated, in original boards

1009 (Washington, George) | A book from Washington's library at Mount Vernon, inscribed by the author

1010 Washington, George | "… let the transaction be confined entirely to ourselves."

1011 Adams, John | The original nepo baby?

1012 Jefferson, Thomas | "I will expunge the effects of mr A’s indecent conduct in crouding nominations … at 12. aclock of which he was to go out of office"

1013 Jefferson, Thomas | "one act of his life, & never but one, gave me personal displeasure"

1014 Jefferson, Thomas | Citing his "advancing years," Thomas Jefferson declines to seek a third term

1015 Bowie, James, & Rezin Pleasant Bowie | John Goodman & Co. v. James Bowie

1016 Audubon, John James | First octavo edition of Audubon's greatest achievement

1017 Catlin, George | The only handcolored issue of Catlin's Portfolio published by himself

1018 Audubon, John James | A handsome copy of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America

1019 Gould, John | Gould's masterpiece, lavishly bound

1020 Lincoln, Abraham | A key document from Lincoln's legal career

1021 Dickens, Charles | An unrestored first issue of Great Expectations and a rare survival thus

1022 Potter, Beatrix | Old Mr. Bunny had no opinion whatever of cats.

1023 Bemelmans, Ludwig | Original mock-up of Madeline