Fine Books & Manuscripts 2011-11-13 Auction - 964 Price Results - Bonhams Skinner in MA
Fine Books & Manuscripts
907: (Maps and Charts, North America), Jefferys, Thomas
857: (Maps and Charts, North America), Speed, John (155
151: Wright, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959), Autograph note si
Done
Boston, MA, United States
Auction Details

Fine Books & Manuscripts

The next Fine Books & Manuscripts auction at Skinner features a complete set of American presidential signatures from Washington through Franklin Roosevelt. Other gems in the sale include an important draft manuscript petition of the XIII Amendment abolishing slavery, an ALS from Washington discussing architectural plans for a house in Federal City and an interesting historic letter from Abraham Lincoln to Massachusetts Governor John Andrews concerning Lincoln's ideas as to the defense of Boston Harbor. The sale will include diverse offerings from fine books, historical manuscripts, natural history prints, globes, and maps including an early 16th century world projection by Waldsemuller. The Fine Books & Manuscripts sale is held in conjunction with Boston's annual Antiquarian Book Fair.
SOLD
Adams, John (1735-1826), Signed document, one page,: Adams, John (1735-1826), Signed document, one page, February 28th, 1810, on vellum, military appointment for Robert H. Nicholls as second Lieutenant of Marines, countersigned by Benjamin Stoddert as
Est.
$3,000
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$5,000
SOLD
Adams, John (1735-1826), Signed letter, Quincy, Janu: Adams, John (1735-1826), Signed letter, Quincy, January 14th, 1823, one page, to Messrs. Timothy Cooley, Oliver Parsons and James Cooley, Committee [for an unnamed School], acknowledging their
Est.
$4,000
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$6,000
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Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), Signed endorsement,: Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), Signed endorsement, one page, November 25th, [1793], on the verso of a legal writ concerning the estate chattels of William Ash of Boston, with extensive notations to
Est.
$800
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$1,000
SOLD
Arnold, Benedict (1741-1801), Autograph note signed: Arnold, Benedict (1741-1801), Autograph note signed twice, once with initial, one page, October 17th, 1786, to James Hayt, forwarding a pay order and adding a postscript concerning a shipment, 4to,
Est.
$2,000
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$3,000
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Arnold, Benedict (1741-1801), Autograph note signed,: Arnold, Benedict (1741-1801), Autograph note signed, one page, St. Johns, May 26th, 1786, to James Hayton (?), a bank draft for fifty pounds, (right corner browned, faded).
Est.
$2,000
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$3,000
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(Autograph Album), including clips, and autograph/m: (Autograph Album), including clips, and autograph/manuscript letters and notes, many to members of the Carlisle family, and referencing Washington, DC, most late 19th-early 20th century and laid
Est.
$2,000
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$2,500
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(Autograph/Sketchbook, Salem, Massachusetts), Benso: (Autograph/Sketchbook, Salem, Massachusetts), Benson, Frank Weston (1862-1951), including a page with a pen and ink drawing of sailboats signed by Frank W. Benson and dated Jan. 9, '82, a small ink
Est.
$800
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$1,200
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(Broadside, Colonial America, Fire), Broadside titl: (Broadside, Colonial America, Fire), Broadside titled Rules and Order for the Relief Society, Boston, March 5th, 1773, printed by J. Boyles, with header device of cherubs with firkins over a banner
Est.
$2,000
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$4,000
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(Broadside, Revolutionary War), Gage, Thomas (1721-: (Broadside, Revolutionary War), Gage, Thomas (1721-1787), Broadside printed with three Loyalist addresses to Governor Gage, with Gage's responses, October, 1775, two pages, one side with "An address
Est.
$5,000
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$7,000
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(Broadside, War of 1812), Large printed Broadside e: (Broadside, War of 1812), Large printed Broadside entitled British Barbarity and Piracy!!, printed on a single folio sheet, c. March 25th, 1808, inflammatory rhetoric on the Chesapeake-Leopard
Est.
$4,000
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$6,000
SOLD
(Civil War, Mass. 54th Regiment), Civil War surgeon: (Civil War, Mass. 54th Regiment), Civil War surgeon's kit, Weiss, London, maker, mid 19th-century, in brass-bound mahogany case with velvet-lined interior fitted with numerous implements including
Est.
$3,000
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$5,000
SOLD
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910), Autograph po: Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910), Autograph postcard signed twice, one page, Hartford, November 20th, [1880], to a young Edward Bok, responding to his autograph request, "I was busy with the
Est.
$2,000
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$3,000