PRINTED & MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA
Catalog Information: 436 lots | 252 with images | View lots
Date: March 18, 2010
Auction House:
Location:
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY
USA
10010
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Email: swann@swanngalleries.com
Viewing Notes:
Exhibition & Sale Schedule: Sale 2207 - Printed & Manuscript Americana - begins at 1:30pm in New York on Thurs, March 18. All material in Sale 2207 on display at our premises in New York City, 104 East 25th Street, as follows - Sat, March 13: 10am to 4pm - Mon, March 15: 10am to 6pm - Tues, March 16: 10am to 6pm - Wed, March 17: 10am to 6pm - Thurs, March 18: 10am to Noon.
Lot 1: ADAMS, JOHN. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. 3 vols. 1797 Lacks frontispiece.
ADAMS, JOHN. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. 3 volumes. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn; lacks frontispiece portrait, intermittent foxing, front free endpapers torn, missing corner of leaf I:B3-2; early li [...more]
Lot 2: ADAMS, JOHN. A Selection of the Patriotic Addresses, to the President of the United States, Together with the President's Answers.
ADAMS, JOHN. A Selection of the Patriotic Addresses, to the President of the United States, Together with the President's Answers. 12mo, later full morocco by Canape, minor wear. Evans 33345, Sabin 259. Boston, 1798
Lot 3: ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University.
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University. 2 volumes. 8vo, original boards, moderate wear, front board coming loose; unopened, minor foxing; early owners' insc [...more]
Lot 4: (ALABAMA.) Halbert, Henry S.; and Timothy H. Ball. The Creek War of 1813 and 1814.
(ALABAMA.) Halbert, Henry S.; and Timothy H. Ball. The Creek War of 1813 and 1814. Loose folding map outlined in color, other plates and illustrations. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; rear hinge split; 1896 pencil signature of E.T. Tomlinson, a [...more]
Lot 5: (AMERICAN INDIANS.) Atwater, Caleb. Remarks made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien; thence to Washington City, in 1829.
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Atwater, Caleb. Remarks made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien; thence to Washington City, in 1829. 12mo, contemporary calf, moderate wear, rebacked in buckram; number stamp on verso of title page, moderate browning, dampstaining on l [...more]
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