Printing block with eight columns of Chinese script, nine rows. Handwritten notes on back (some illegible): "For [?] Dunglison/Specimen of Chinese block cutting From W.B. Driver MD Macao July 1840" and "Presented to Am Philos Soc by S. Dunglison" and "5 March 18--"

Rectangular, thin, copper plate with "E.K. KANE. M.D." engraved in center. Size of business card.

Printing plate advertising "Fowler's Phrenological Head."

Portrait of Mathew Carey after an original composition by John Neagle (ca. 1825). The sitter faces our left in three-quarter profile. He has close-cropped brown hair, deeply set eyes with a prominent brow, and his left ear is visible. The sitter is dressed in a dark overcoat, vest, and white cravat. The background of the painting is a nondescript landscape seen through a nondescript interior. To the left of the sitter is a small inscription: "T. Henry Smith / after / John Neagle / 1844".

Brass pin. Central profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin encircled by "TYPOTHETAE PHILADELPHIA" in gold letters on blue banner in center of blue-outlined keystone.

Portrait of Charles Darwin above signature and inscription: "From Etching by Leopold Joseph Flameng / of Painting by Hon. Joseph Collier."

Image of medal (obverse and reverse) above inscription: "Medal struck by the Congress of U.S. commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin." Obverse: bas-relief profile portrait bust of Benjamin Franklin in center, "1706-1790" at right. "BENJAMIN FRANKLIN" and laurel branches around top perimeter. "PRINTER / PHILOSOPHER / SCIENTIST / STATESMAN / DIPLOMATIST" at bottom. Reverse: Seated female allegorical figure of History on temple porch, writing on shield. Three male allegorical figures at right: Literature (with books), Science (with lightning bolt and staff with caduceus symbol), and Philosophy (bearded, holding horn). "STRUCK BY ACT OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES" at top. "TO COMMEMORATE THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MCMVI" at bottom. "TIFFANY & CO." on outer rim.

Steel engraved plate with portrait of Simon Newcomb and signature.

Walnut box contains 397 brass stencils, including four decorative borders and one "Mr. Franklin" name plate. Also included in the box are ten stencils unoriginal to the set. A wooden block with black chalk and three additional pieces of colored chalk were discovered in a side-drawer of the box. The box is marked Marked "BERY/ Faiseur de Caracteres,/ En Cuivre & en aci[e]r. Fait/ Toutes Sortes de Vi[gn]ettes/ Demeure Sur Le Pont Notre Dame/ du même Côté & Près la Pompe/ A Paris" on the interior of the lid.

Obverse: bas-relief, profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Reverse: relief of the Curtis Building with "COMMEMORATING THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY / THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN" at the bottom, between "1728" and "1928."

Copper plate from Lewis and Clark Journals, American edition, 1814: Map of mouth of the Columbia River. Signed "J.B.KEIM PHILA" on reverse.

Copper plate from Lewis and Clark Journals, American edition, 1814: map of Missouri River. Signed "J.B.KEIM PHILA" on reverse.

Copper plate from Lewis and Clark Journals, American edition, 1814: map of The Great Shoot or Rapid [Columbia River]. Signed "J.B.KEIM PHILA" on reverse.