FINE PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Catalog Information: 430 lots | 179 with images
Lot 1: [19TH CENTURY HISTORIC FIGURES].
A collection of autograph material amassed by Herbert Gunnison (1858-1932), publisher of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, tipped or laid down in two large albums (each with approximately 480 pages and index). Gunnison was an avid collector who sought to obt [...more]
Lot 2: ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848), President. Autograph letter signed ("John Q. Adams") to his brother Thomas Boylston Adams, London, 10 April 1796. 2 pages, 4to, integral blank, very fine.
AN EARLY ADAMS LETTER FROM HIS FIRST POLITICAL APPOINTMENT. In 1794, Adams had been appointed Minister to the Netherlands by President Washington, but, in late 1795, he had been ordered to London in place of minister Thomas Pinckney to London to offi [...more]
Lot 3: ADAMS, John Quincy. Autograph letter signed ("John Quincy Adams") as U.S. Minister to Russia, to Andre de Daschkoff, Boston, 14 July 1809. 11/4 pages, 4to, left margin reinforced, otherwise fine, in French.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND RUSSIA. A courteous letter written to the recently appointed minister, two weeks before Adams himself sailed to St. Petersburg. Adams expresses his high hope for his new post, anticipating: "one of the greatest pleasures, to hav [...more]
Lot 4: [AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. CLINTON, Henry (1730-1795), British General. Letter signed ("H Clinton") to Colonel Alured Clarke (1745-1832), New York, 6 January 1782. 21/2 pages, folio, recipient's docket, in very fine condition.
PICKING UP THE PIECES AFTER YORKTOWN: PROTECTING THE LOYALISTS AND GUARDING AGAINST A SPANISH ATTACK IN FLORIDA. An important letter, written less than three months after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, in which the Commander-in-Chief addres [...more]
Lot 5: [AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. HEATH,
William (1737-1814), General, Continental Army. Two autograph letters signed ("W Heath MG") to Colonel [Edward] Wigglesworth, Roxbury and Boston, 22 February and 27 March 1777. Together 2 pages, folio, one with integral address leaf. MARCHING TO TICO [...more]
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