Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana - N10002

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Fine Manuscript And Printed Americana

24 January 2019 • New York

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Sale Number: N10002

2121. Thomas Jefferson

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("TH: JEFFERSON"), TO ROBERT S. GARNETT, MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (1817-1827), ON LIMITING GOVERNMENT’S HAND IN THE ECONOMY

Estimate: 80,000 – 100,000 USD

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2122. The Declaration of Independence

THE ONLY KNOWN PRIVATELY HELD COPY OF THE CELEBRATED WILLIAM J. STONE FACSIMILE FOR WHICH PROVENANCE CAN BE TRACED BACK TO A DIRECT ANCESTOR WHO RECEIVED IT IN 1824

Estimate: 600,000 – 800,000 USD

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2123. Autograph manuscript recording John Randolph's challenge to a duel

Estimate: 7,000 – 10,000 USD

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2124. A group of autograph letters related to Hamilton's biography, various authors and recipients

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 USD

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2125. Document signed ("M. Van Buren") as eight President, ordering the Secretary of State to affix the seal of the United States to both the Senate ratification and the ratified copy of the Convention with Mexico

Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 USD

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2126. Autograph letter signed ("John Tyler"), as tenth President, to Daniel Webster, disputing Lord Ashburton's claim that the Webster–Ashburton Treaty established a right to search American ships on the high seas

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 USD

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2127. Two autograph letters signed ("James K. Polk") as eleventh President, to Secretary of War William S. Marcy, regarding the Mexican War

Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 USD

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2128. Letter signed ("W Branford Shubrick") to Thomas H. Stevens, regarding supplies at the Naval Depot in the Sandwich Islands

Estimate: 1,200 – 1,800 USD

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2129. Woman's Rights Convention in the Long-Island Democrat. Long Island, NY: 15 New York 1848

Estimate: 7,000 – 10,000 USD

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2130. A fascinating archive of a Forty-Niner, including original pen and ink sketches, relating to Henry R. Taylor's role in a gold prospecting company, "Cunningham & Co.," 1849 to ca. 1851, together with a cache of later papers deriving from the family's effort early in the twentieth century to edit and publish Taylor's account of his adventures.

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD

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2131. Autograph manuscript signed ("A. Lincoln"), being Lincoln's official transcript of the "Subscription Book of the Capital Stock of the Alton and Sangamon Rail Road Company," incorporated 27 February 1843, transcribed in early 1851

Estimate: 300,000 – 400,000 USD

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2132. National Guard, 7th. Regt. N.Y.S.M. From the Original picture by Major Bötticher in the possession of the 8th. Co. N.G. [The principal heads from Daguerreotypes – by Meade Brothers 233 Broadway N.Y. New York, Published by Otto Bötticher, 289 Broadway [1852]

Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 USD

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