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New York, NY, United States
Auction Details
Americana
The 31 October 2007 Bloomsbury New York auction includes a wide array of books, pamphlets, broadsides, prints, photographs and manuscripts relating to America, from colonial times to the end of the 19th century. The sale is divided into 8 sections, beginning with New Yorkiana highlighted by the very first deed for land on Long Island signed by Dutch Colonial Governor Von Twiller. Dated 6 June 1636, it is among the earliest New York documents in private hands ($50,000/$75,000). Sections follow on Colonial America, the American Revolution, the Early Republic, American Natural History, 19th Century America, Native Americans and Western Americana.
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![James Monroe letter signed to JQ Adams: MONROE, James (1758-1831) Letter Signed, to John Quincy Adams, introducing William Drayton. Washington, [July 1815]. 1 page (8 x 6 inches, 200x155 mm). Condition: Usual folds, trimmed and mounted](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/14143/4411681_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1193099452)

![Bonaparte in Trouble. Amos Doolittle engraving: DOOLITTLE, Amos (1754-1832); engraver Bonaparte in Trouble.[Cheshire, CT:] Shelton & Kensett, [1814]. Hand-colored engraving, ample margins (11 ¾ x 15 inches, 300x380 mm, overall). Six](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/14143/4411683_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1193099452)
![CULLEN. Lectures on Materia Medica. 1775: CULLEN, William (1710-1790) Lectures on Materia Medica. [Philadelphia]: Robert Bell, 1775. Quarto (9 ½ x 7 ½ inches, 240x190 mm). With 11 dried botanical specimens, laid in. Contemporary calf](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/14143/4411684_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1193099452)



![WILSON's Birds w/ BONAPARTE's cont. 1st editions: WILSON, Alexander (1766-1813) and BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien (1803-1857) American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. [Text to vols. VIII and IX by George Ord.]](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/14143/4411688_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1193099452)

![AUDUBON. Set of Birds and Quadrupeds.: AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851) and BACHMAN, John (1790-1874) The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories.New York [vols I-VII] and Philadelphia [vol.VI]: V.G.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/14143/4411690_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1193099452)







![War of 1812 broadside proclamation: GRISWOLD, Roger (1762-1812) By His Excellency Roger Griswold, Esq. Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the State of Connecticut, in America. A Proclamation.[Hartford, 1812]. Broadside](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/14143/4411699_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1193099452)
![War of 1812 caricature: CHARLES, William (1776-1820); engraver John Bull making a new Batch of Ships to send to the Lakes.Philadelphia: William Charles, [1814]. Etching and aquatint, trimmed to or just within the platemark](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/14143/4411700_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1193099452)
![War of 1812 caricature: CHARLES, William (1776-1820); engraver Johnny Bull and the Alexandrians.Philadelphia: William Charles, [1814]. Etching and aquatint, with a touch of hand-coloring, trimmed within the platemark and](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/14143/4411701_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1193099452)
![War of 1812 caricature: CHARLES, William (1776-1820); engraver John Bull and the Baltimoreans.Philadelphia: William Charles, [1814]. Etching and roulette, trimmed to the platemark on two sides, others ample (9 ¾ x 13 ¾](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/839/14143/4411702_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1193099452)

