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Auction archive: Lot number 72

AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, STATESMEN, and HISTORICAL FIGURES] An interesting collection of approximately 150 items, including autograph letters signed, letters signed, partly printed documents signed, free frank signatures (on partial covers), signatures, ...

Auction 12.11.1997
12 Nov 1997
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$11,500
Auction archive: Lot number 72

AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, STATESMEN, and HISTORICAL FIGURES] An interesting collection of approximately 150 items, including autograph letters signed, letters signed, partly printed documents signed, free frank signatures (on partial covers), signatures, ...

Auction 12.11.1997
12 Nov 1997
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$11,500
Beschreibung:

AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, STATESMEN, and HISTORICAL FIGURES] An interesting collection of approximately 150 items, including autograph letters signed, letters signed, partly printed documents signed, free frank signatures (on partial covers), signatures, etc., of a wide spectrum of mostly 19th century American presidents, politicians, authors, businessmen, clergy and others. V.p., v.d. Together approximately 150 items, each tipped to larger sheets by a collector . Includes: William Henry Harrison, (ALS as President-elect, spotted , and ADS, 31 August 1795, a receipt), Henry Clay (fine 2-pp. ALS, mentioning De Tocqueville), John Adams (partial DS), James Monroe (printed DS as Sec. of State), and John Quincy Adams (partly printed document signed, 1819), Andrew Jackson Dolly Madison (ANS, 1841), Sam Houston, Horace Mann, William Moultrie (uncommon LS, 1793), J.J. Crittenden, Aaron Burr (legal document signed), Daniel Webster, Peter Cooper (LS, 1 page, 4to , 1851, good letter regarding "future prospects of the Atlantic Telegraph Company"), Henry Ward Beecher (ALS, 4 pages, 8vo , 1854) Nathaniel Biddle (large engraved certificate of the Bank of the United States, 1837, for £250), Clayton, John (ALS, 1856 on Clayton-Bulwer Treaty regarding Panama), Horace Greeley (ALS, 1854), a large ink drawing of a winged angel, signed K.Huber, "New York Sketch Club," George Peabody, Bayard Taylor John G. Saxe, and others. Together approximately 150 items (150)

Auction archive: Lot number 72
Auction:
Datum:
12 Nov 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, STATESMEN, and HISTORICAL FIGURES] An interesting collection of approximately 150 items, including autograph letters signed, letters signed, partly printed documents signed, free frank signatures (on partial covers), signatures, etc., of a wide spectrum of mostly 19th century American presidents, politicians, authors, businessmen, clergy and others. V.p., v.d. Together approximately 150 items, each tipped to larger sheets by a collector . Includes: William Henry Harrison, (ALS as President-elect, spotted , and ADS, 31 August 1795, a receipt), Henry Clay (fine 2-pp. ALS, mentioning De Tocqueville), John Adams (partial DS), James Monroe (printed DS as Sec. of State), and John Quincy Adams (partly printed document signed, 1819), Andrew Jackson Dolly Madison (ANS, 1841), Sam Houston, Horace Mann, William Moultrie (uncommon LS, 1793), J.J. Crittenden, Aaron Burr (legal document signed), Daniel Webster, Peter Cooper (LS, 1 page, 4to , 1851, good letter regarding "future prospects of the Atlantic Telegraph Company"), Henry Ward Beecher (ALS, 4 pages, 8vo , 1854) Nathaniel Biddle (large engraved certificate of the Bank of the United States, 1837, for £250), Clayton, John (ALS, 1856 on Clayton-Bulwer Treaty regarding Panama), Horace Greeley (ALS, 1854), a large ink drawing of a winged angel, signed K.Huber, "New York Sketch Club," George Peabody, Bayard Taylor John G. Saxe, and others. Together approximately 150 items (150)

Auction archive: Lot number 72
Auction:
Datum:
12 Nov 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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