Parke Bernet: IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS. WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, ADAMS, LINCOLN, MADISON, GRANT, HAMILTON, HENRY, WAYNE, SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS. FROM SEVERAL PRIVATE COLLECTORS AND OTHER , 1710,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 20, 1956 - November 20, 1956

Page Size: 339 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ADAMS, JOHN, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and President of the United States	Draft copy of an A.D.s. John Adams for said Petitioner, 2 pp., small 4to, [August, 1772 ...			USD 160.00 - 160.00	Unknown
2	ADAMS, JOHN	A.L.s.	New York	1790	USD 420.00 - 420.00	Unknown
3	ADAMS, JOHN	A.L.s. J. Adams.	Quincy	1805	USD 525.00 - 525.00	Unknown
4	ADAMS, JOHN. Confederate General	L.s.	Columbus, Miss.	1862	USD 22.50 - 22.50	Unknown
5	ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. President	A.L.s.	Washington	1832	USD 75.00 - 75.00	Unknown
6	ADAMS, SAMUEL. Signer from Massachusetts	A.L.s.	Phila.	1779	USD 130.00 - 130.00	Unknown
7	ADAMS, SAMUEL	A.L.s. Sami. Adams.	Boston	1785	USD 300.00 - 300.00	Unknown
8		ALBANY CONGRESS, THE (1754). A collection of 13 A.L.s., L.s., and Documents.			USD 80.00 - 80.00	Unknown
9		AMERICAN COLONIAL. A collection of about 150 A.D.s., D.s., etc.			USD 110.00 - 110.00	Unknown
10	Thomas Greenleaf	AMERICAN PRINTER. D.s.	Albany	1788	USD 12.50 - 12.50	Unknown
11	Hugh Gaine	AMERICAN PRINTER. A.L.s.		1805	USD 20.00 - 20.00	Unknown
12	James Rivington, and Richard Morris	AMERICAN PRINTER. D.s. by Richard Morris.		1788	USD 17.00 - 17.00	Unknown
13	Isaiah Thomas	AMERICAN PRINTER. 2 A.Ls.s.	Worcester, Massachusetts	1798; 1824	USD 32.50 - 32.50	Unknown
14	Loammi Baldwin, Colonel commanding the 26th Regiment, Continental Army	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. A.D.s.	New York	1776	USD 40.00 - 40.00	Unknown
15		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Original Manuscript Journal written by Col. Elisha Porter of the Massachusetts ...		1776	USD 850.00 - 850.00	Unknown
16		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Autograph Manuscript Diary kept by Col. James McHenry, secretary to General ...			USD 700.00 - 700.00	Unknown
17		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. A.L.s. by Samuel Purviance, Jr.,.	Baltimore	1780	USD 7.50 - 7.50	Unknown
18		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. BROADSIDE. Pennsylvania War-Office, May 2d 1777. To the Public . . ..	Philadelphia	[1777]	USD 160.00 - 160.00	Unknown
19	ARMSTRONG, JOHN, General in the Amreican Revolution	A.L.s.	Newport	1777	USD 160.00 - 160.00	Unknown
20	ARNOLD, BENEDICT	A.L.s. B. Arnold, B. G..	Sorell	1776	USD 90.00 - 90.00	Unknown
21		AUTHOR'S GUILD OF AMERICAN WOMEN. D.s.	Washington, D. C.	1888	USD 7.50 - 7.50	Unknown
22		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of 15 A.Ls.s., and about 82 cut signatures and signatures to sentiments.			USD 90.00 - 90.00	Unknown
23		AUTOGRAPHS. Miscellaneous literary and other autographs, mostly French.			USD 45.00 - 45.00	Unknown
24	BALL, THOMAS, American sculptor	A.L.s.	Florence, Italy	1888	Not Available	Unknown
25	BARNARD, JOHN G., Union General	A.L.s.	Washington	1863	USD 7.50 - 7.50	Unknown
26	BARRY, JOHN, Father of the American Navy	A.L.s.	Philadelphia	1783	USD 120.00 - 120.00	Unknown
27	BARTLETT JOSIAH	Four-line autograph affidavit signed as Justice of the Peace; also signed as a witness.			USD 10.00 - 10.00	Unknown
28	BARTLETT, JOSIAH, Signer of the Declaration of Independence	A.L.s.		1781	USD 110.00 - 110.00	Unknown
29	BEAUREGARD, P. G. T., Confederate General	A.D.s. G. T. Beauregard, Gen. Comdg. Dept. No. 2.		1862	USD 750.00 - 750.00	Unknown
30	BERNHARDT, SARAH; AND OTHERS	2 A.Ls.s. by Sarah Bernhardt, each 2 pp., dated 1878 and Pesth, 1881; in the letter of 1881 she ...			USD 17.50 - 17.50	Unknown
31	[BLUNT, JOSEPH]	Collection of 30 A.Ls.s.			USD 7.50 - 7.50	Unknown
32	BOOTH, JOHN WILKES	A.L.s.	Franklin	1864	USD 500.00 - 500.00	Unknown
33	BOWEN, JOHN S., Confederate Major General	A.L.s.		1861	USD 20.00 - 20.00	Unknown
34	BRAGG, BRAXTON, Confederate General	A.L.s.	Tupelo	1862	USD 190.00 - 190.00	Unknown
35	BRECKENRIDGE, JOHN C., Vice-Pres. of the United States, Confederate General, and Secretary of War of the Confederacy	A.L.s.	Virginia	1864	USD 80.00 - 80.00	Unknown
36	BROWN, JOHN, of Osawatomie	A.L.s., (retained copy).	Peterboro, New York	1857	USD 120.00 - 120.00	Unknown
37	BROWNING, ROBERT	A.L.s.	N.p.	n.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	Unknown
38	BURGOYNE, JOHN, English General	A.L.s.	Cambridge	1777	USD 180.00 - 180.00	Unknown
39	BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON	A.L.s.	Washington, D. C.		USD 20.00 - 20.00	Unknown
40	BURNSIDE, A. E., General	A.L.s.	Providence	1865	USD 210.00 - 210.00	Unknown
41	BURR, AARON, Vice-President of the United States, killed Hamilton in a duel	A.L.s.	N.p.	n.d.	USD 50.00 - 50.00	Unknown
42		CALIFORNIA GOLD FIELDS. Diary kept by Robert Cushman of Kingston, Massachusetts, who went to the ...			USD 260.00 - 260.00	Unknown
43	CARLETON, SIR GUY, Gov. of Canada, and British Governor of New York at the Evacuation	D.s.	Montreal	1775	USD 32.50 - 32.50	Unknown
44	CARROLL OF CARROLTON, CHARLES, Signer from Maryland	A.L.	Baltimore	1828	USD 42.50 - 42.50	Unknown
45	CHARLES V. Holy Roman Emperor	L.s. Carolus.		1534	USD 20.00 - 20.00	Unknown
46	CHASE, SAMUEL P., Secretary of Treasury under Lincoln; Chief Justice	A.L.s.	Columbus	1860	USD 32.50 - 32.50	Unknown
47	CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON. English Statesman	A.L.s.	Wiesbaden	1902	USD 17.50 - 17.50	Unknown
48		CIVIL WAR. Supplement Muster Roll of Captain Edwin F. Barston's Company L of the Tenth Regiment of ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	Unknown
49		CIVIL WAR. A collection of about 150 A.Ls.s. by Hugh P. Roden and George Roden of Newark, N. J ...	V.p.	1861-65	USD 55.00 - 55.00	Unknown
50	CLAY, HENRY, American Statesman	A.L.s.	Washington	1832	USD 90.00 - 90.00	Unknown
51	CLAY, HENRY	A.L.s.	Washington	1836	USD 80.00 - 80.00	Unknown
52	CLAYTON, H. D., Confederate General	A.L.s.	Kingsville, S. C.	1865	USD 22.50 - 22.50	Unknown
53	CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.	A portion of an Autograph Manuscript.			USD 27.50 - 27.50	Unknown
54	CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.	Four pages of miscellaneous notes in Mark Twain's autograph, apparently memory joggers used in the ...			USD 35.00 - 35.00	Unknown
55	CLEVELAND, GROVER, President	A.L.s.	Washington	1886	USD 22.50 - 22.50	Unknown
56	COCKE, PHILIP ST. GEORGE, Confederate General	A.L.s.	Virginia	1861	USD 17.50 - 17.50	Unknown
57	CONWAY, THOMAS, General in American Revolution	A. L. s. T. Conway, B. G..		1777	USD 90.00 - 90.00	Unknown
58	COOPER, GEORGE	A.Ms.s. of his song Sweet Genevieve.		1869	USD 15.00 - 15.00	Unknown
59	CORNELL, EZEKIEL, General in the American Revolution	A.L.s.	Morristown	1780	USD 27.50 - 27.50	Unknown
60	CORNWALLIS, CHARLES, EARL	A.L.s.	Camden [S.C.]	1780	USD 140.00 - 140.00	Unknown
61	CORNWALLIS, CHARLES, EARL	L.s. Cornwallis.		1781	USD 180.00 - 180.00	Unknown
62	CRAWFORD, THOMAS H.	Autograph Manuscript Journal. Covers the period July 17, 1832 to July 3, 1843. About 225 pages.		1832	USD 30.00 - 30.00	Unknown
63	CULLUM, GEORGE W., Union General	A.L.s.	Cairo, Ill.	1862	USD 110.00 - 110.00	Unknown
64	CULLUM, GEORGE W.	A.L.s.		1862	USD 155.00 - 155.00	Unknown
65	CUSTER, GEORGE A., Major General in the Civil War, and Indian Fighter	A.L.s.			USD 160.00 - 160.00	Unknown
66	DAVIS, JEFFERSON, President of the Confederate States	A.L.s.	Washington	1846	USD 15.00 - 15.00	Unknown
67	DAVIS, JEFFERSON	A.L.s.	Atlanta, Ga.	1863	USD 65.00 - 65.00	Unknown
68	DAVIS, JEFFERSON	A.L.s.		1882	USD 25.00 - 25.00	Unknown
69	DAY, REV. JEREMIAH, President of Yale University	A.L.s.		1819	USD 5.00 - 5.00	Unknown
70	DEANE, SILAS, Diplomat, Member of the Continental Congress	2 pp. 4to, Philadelphia, June 22, 1779.	Philadelphia	1779	USD 65.00 - 65.00	Unknown
71	DEARBORN, HENRY, General and Secretary of War	A.L.s.	Boston	1817	Not Available	Unknown
72		DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. A collection of 6 Autograph Letters and Documents, various places and ...			USD 50.00 - 50.00	Unknown
73	DICKENS, CHARLES	A.L.s., 2 1/4 pp., 12mo. [Broadstairs, 1840?].	Broadstairs	1840	USD 90.00 - 90.00	Unknown
74	DIX, JOHN A., Union General and Gov. of New York	A.L.s.	Fort Monroe	1862	USD 17.50 - 17.50	Unknown
75	DOUBLEDAY, ABNER, General in the Civil War, and father of Baseball	A.L.	Washington, D. C.	1864	USD 180.00 - 180.00	Unknown
76	DUDLEY, JOSEPH, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts	A.L.s.	Massachusetts	1709	USD 130.00 - 130.00	Unknown
77	EARLY, JUBAL A., Confederate General	A.L.s.	Monterey	1847	USD 40.00 - 40.00	Unknown
78	EDISON, THOMAS	L.s., Thomas A. Edison.	N.p.	n. d.	USD 150.00 - 150.00	Unknown
79	ELBERT, SAMUEL, General in the Revolution	A.L.s.	Sunbury	1777	USD 30.00 - 30.00	Unknown
80	[ELLIS, POWHATAN, Senator from Mississippi (1827-32)]	A collection of 8 A.L.s. addressed to him by his brother Charles. Dated February 2 to July 13, 1832 ...		1832	USD 40.00 - 40.00	Unknown
81	ELLSWORTH, ELMER, Colonel in Civil War	A.L.s., 1 p., 4to, Chicago, June 12, 1859. To Adjt. Genl. T. S. Mather, Springfield; Carte-de-visite ...			USD 220.00 - 220.00	Unknown
82		ENGLISH ROYALTY. Cut signature of Queen Elizabeth, George III, Charles I, James I, and others.			USD 85.00 - 85.00	Unknown
83	EWELL, RICHARD S., Confederate General	A.L.s.	Fort Warren	1865	USD 17.50 - 17.50	Unknown
84	FIELD, EUGENE	Autobiographical Sketch.	N.p.	n.d.	USD 25.00 - 25.00	Unknown
85	FORREST, NATHAN B., Confederate General	L.s.			USD 380.00 - 380.00	Unknown
86	FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN	A.L.s.	Philadelphia	1786	USD 1,200.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
87		FRANKLIN PRINTING. The Pennsylvania Gazette. Numb. 580. January 22, 1739,40.	[Colophon]	1739-40	USD 60.00 - 60.00	Unknown
88		FRENCH HISTORICAL AUTOGRAPHS. 21 letters and documents, among which 13 L.s. by Marshals and Generals ...		1687	USD 75.00 - 75.00	Unknown
89		FRENCH RULERS. A.N.s. by Louis XVIII, May 16, 1811; Marie Leczinska, L.s., July 8, 1763; Autograph ...			USD 12.50 - 12.50	Unknown
90	FULTON, ROBERT	A.D.s. Rob't Fulton, Inventor.	New York	1811	USD 350.00 - 350.00	Unknown
91	FULTON, ROBERT	A.L.s.	New York	1812	USD 275.00 - 275.00	Unknown
92	GATES, HORATIO, General in the American Revolution	A.L.s.		1775	USD 240.00 - 240.00	Unknown
93		GEORGE V. OF ENGLAND. Manuscript Document, signed.			USD 27.50 - 27.50	Unknown
94		GETTYSBURG. L.s. by H. B. McClellan, Colonel in the Confederate Cavalry. 3 pp., 4to, Lexington, Ky ...			USD 12.50 - 12.50	Unknown
95	GISSING, GEORGE	7 A.L.s. George Gissing.	Dorking and Surrey	1898	USD 110.00 - 110.00	Unknown
96	GISSING, GEORGE	A collection of 17 A.L.s., 3 signed George Gissing 6 George, 7 G. G, and 1 G.	V.p.	1903	USD 230.00 - 230.00	Unknown
97	GISSING, GEORGE	George Gissing's Commonplace Book, containing favorite quotations, his opinions of books and other ...			USD 700.00 - 700.00	Unknown
98	GIST, MORDECAI, General in the American Revolution	A.L.s.	Maryland	1777	USD 40.00 - 40.00	Unknown
99	GLADSTONE, WILLIAM E., English Statesman	A.L.s.	Hawarden	1864	USD 22.50 - 22.50	Unknown
100	GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON	A.L.s.	Weimar	1828	USD 52.50 - 52.50	Unknown

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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