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
101	GRANT, ULYSSES S., President and General	A.L.s.	Vicksburg	1863	USD 300.00 - 300.00	Unknown
102	GRANT, ULYSSES S.	A.L.s.	Chattanooga, Tennessee	1863	USD 575.00 - 575.00	Unknown
103	GRANT, ULYSSES S., General	A.L.s.	Chattanooga, Tennessee	1863	USD 550.00 - 550.00	Unknown
104	GREELEY, HORACE	A.L.s. (Initials).	New York	1862	USD 110.00 - 110.00	Unknown
105	GREENE, CHRISTOPHER, Colonel in the American Revolution	A.L.s.	East Greenwich	1780	USD 55.00 - 55.00	Unknown
106	GREENE, NATHANIEL, General in the American Revolution	A.L.s.	Philadelphia	1778	USD 175.00 - 175.00	Unknown
107	GREGG, JOSIAH, author of Commerce of the Prairies	A.L.s.	Shreveport, La.	1845	USD 25.00 - 25.00	Unknown
108	HALLECK, H. W., Union General	A.L.s.	St. Louis	1862	USD 80.00 - 80.00	Unknown
109	HAMILTON, ALEXANDER	A.L.s. A. Hami (the signature scratched out).		1789	USD 275.00 - 275.00	Unknown
110	HAMILTON, ALEXANDER	A.L.s.	Philadelphia	1793	USD 85.00 - 85.00	Unknown
111	HAMILTON, ALEXANDER	A.L.s. A. Hamilton.	New York	1799	USD 200.00 - 200.00	Unknown
112	HAMPTON, WADE, Colonel in the American Revolution; Major General in War of 1812	A.L.s.	Charlotte	1781	USD 12.50 - 12.50	Unknown
113	HANCOCK, JOHN	D.s.		1776	USD 325.00 - 325.00	Unknown
114	HANCOCK, JOHN	L.s. John Hancock, Presidt.	Philada.	1777	USD 170.00 - 170.00	Unknown
115	HAND, EDWARD, General in the American Revolution	A.L.s.	New York	1776	USD 85.00 - 85.00	Unknown
116	[HARRISON, WILLIAM H.]	(Caption title) The Harrison Medal. Letters of Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts, concerning the ...	[Washington]	[1840]	USD 100.00 - 100.00	Unknown
116a	HARRISON, BENJAMIN, President	A.L.s.	Washington	1892	USD 27.50 - 27.50	Unknown
117	HARRISON, ROBERT H., Colonel in the American Revolution; Secretary to Genl. Washington	A.L.s.	Cambridge	1776	USD 170.00 - 170.00	Unknown
117a	HEINTZELMAN, SAMUEL P., Union General	L.s.		1862	USD 12.50 - 12.50	Unknown
118	HENRY, PATRICK, American Statesman	A.L.s. P. Henry, and a postscript signed P. H.	Williamsburgh	1777	USD 160.00 - 160.00	Unknown
119	HENRY, PATRICK	A.L.s.	Richmond	1784	USD 90.00 - 90.00	Unknown
120	HILL, DANIEL H., Confederate General	A.L.s.	Petersburg	1863	USD 45.00 - 45.00	Unknown
121	HIMMEL, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH. German composer	A.L.s.	Potsdam	1796	USD 5.00 - 5.00	Unknown
122	HOLMES, OLIVER W.	A.L.s.	Boston	1883	USD 60.00 - 60.00	Unknown
123		HOMER, WINSLOW, American Artist.		1906	USD 110.00 - 110.00	Unknown
124	HOOKER, JOSEPH, General	A.L.s.	Virginia	1862	USD 260.00 - 260.00	Unknown
125	HOOPER, WILLIAM, Signer of the Declaration of Independence	A.L.s.		1787	USD 460.00 - 460.00	Unknown
126	HOUSTON, SAM, President of Texas	A.L.s.	Austin	1860	USD 130.00 - 130.00	Unknown
127	HOWARD, O. O., General	D.s.	Potomac	1863	USD 55.00 - 55.00	Unknown
128	HOWE, JULIA WARD	Five A.Ls.s. Julia Ward Howe, except one signed Julia W. Howe.	Boston and Newport	1883-1907	USD 12.50 - 12.50	Unknown
129	HULL, WILLIAM, Major General and Governor of Michigan Territory	A.L.s.	Newton	1811	USD 110.00 - 110.00	Unknown
130		HUMPHRYS, DAVID, Lt. Col. and aide-de-camp to Gen. Washington.	Peekskill	1780	USD 75.00 - 75.00	Unknown
131	HUNTINGTON, JEDIAH, Gneral in the American Revolution	A.L.s.		1777	USD 170.00 - 170.00	Unknown
132	JACKSON, ANDREW	A.L.s.	Nashville	1820	USD 130.00 - 130.00	Unknown
133	JACKSON, ANDREW	A.L.s., Andrew Jackson.	Hermitage	1840	USD 200.00 - 200.00	Unknown
134	JACKSON, T. J. Stonewall, Confederate General	A.L.s.	Mexico	1847	USD 140.00 - 140.00	Unknown
135	JACKSON, T. J. Stonewall	A.L.s.	Winchester	1862	USD 475.00 - 475.00	Unknown
136	JEFFERSON, THOMAS, President	A.L.s.	Richmond	1780	USD 165.00 - 165.00	Unknown
137	JEFFERSON, THOMAS	A.L.s.	Richmond	1781	USD 65.00 - 65.00	Unknown
138	JEFFERSON, THOMAS	A.N.s.. Thomas Jefferson to Mr. Nicholas.	Monticello	1804	USD 85.00 - 85.00	Unknown
139	JEFFERSON, THOMAS	A.L.s.	Monticello	1818	USD 90.00 - 90.00	Unknown
140	JEFFERSON, THOMAS	Cover franked: free Th. Jefferson.			USD 22.50 - 22.50	Unknown
141	[JEFFERSON, THOMAS]	Autograph Manuscript by John McAllister, unsigned.			USD 10.00 - 10.00	Unknown
142	C. F. C. de Volney	[JEFFERSON, T.] Volney's Ruins . . . and a Short Biographical Notice by Count Daru.	Paris	1820	USD 15.00 - 15.00	Unknown
143	N. Lloyd	[JEFFERSON, T.] Dictionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Poeticum.	Oxonii	1671	USD 175.00 - 175.00	Unknown
144	A. Millot	[JEFFERSON, T.] Elemens d'Historie Generale.	Paris	1778	Not Available	Unknown
145	Quintillian M.	[JEFFERSON, THOMAS.] Fabii Quintiliani Oratoris eloquentissimi, Institutionum oratoriarum Libri XII.	Parisiis	1542	USD 155.00 - 155.00	Unknown
146	J. J. Rousseau	[JEFFERSON, T.] Collection Complete des Oeuvres.	Geneve	1782	Not Available	Unknown
147	A. Smith	[JEFFERSON, T.] The Theory of Moral Sentiments.	London	1767	Not Available	Unknown
148	[JEFFERSON, T.]	[A Collection of all Such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia.]	[Richmond]	[1794]	Not Available	Unknown
149	[JEFFERSON, T.]	Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum.	[Leiden]	1715	USD 5.00 - 5.00	Unknown
150	D. De S. Faxardo	[JEFFERSON, T.] Empresas Politieas.	Madrid	1789-90	USD 5.00 - 5.00	Unknown
151	JENNER, EDWARD, English physician who developed vaccination against smallpox	A.L.s.		circa 1800	USD 120.00 - 120.00	Unknown
152	JOHNSON, ANDREW, President	A.L.s.	Greenville, Ternn.	1851	USD 410.00 - 410.00	Unknown
153	[JOHNSON, ANDREW]	Ticket for admission to the Diplomatic Gallery, U. S. Senate, Impeachment of the President.	[Imprint] Philip & Solomons, Washington	[1868]	USD 10.00 - 10.00	Unknown
154	JOHNSTON, ALBERT S., Confederate General	A.L.s.	San Francisco, Calif.	1861	USD 140.00 - 140.00	Unknown
155	KEARNEY, PHILIP, General in the Civil War	A.L.s. P. Kearney, Jun., Lt. 1st Dragoons, Comdg. & Recruiting Comp. 'F'.	Springfield [Illinois]	1846	USD 25.00 - 25.00	Unknown
156	KITTREDGE, WALTER	Autograph musical manuscript of Tenting on the Old Camp Ground. Signed at end Compliments of the ...			USD 55.00 - 55.00	Unknown
157	KOSCIUSZKO, THADDEUS, General in the American Revolution	A.L.s.	Charles Town	1782	USD 170.00 - 170.00	Unknown
158	KNOX, HENRY, General in the Revolution	A.L.s.	Morristown	1780	USD 80.00 - 80.00	Unknown
159	KNOX, HENRY	A.L.s., H. Knox.	Boston	1795	USD 55.00 - 55.00	Unknown
160	LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE	A.L.s., Lafayette.			USD 25.00 - 25.00	Unknown
161	COLERIDGE, SAMUEL T.	A.L.s.	N.p.	1814	USD 120.00 - 120.00	Unknown
162	CALCRAFT, CECIL	Original Watercolor of Lake of Grasmere signed, dated 1780.		1780	USD 17.50 - 17.50	Unknown
163	GREEN, HARRIET	Four Watercolor Drawings, signed in full or initials on verso of mounts.			USD 40.00 - 40.00	Unknown
164	SKENE, JAMES	Original Pencil Drawing, unsigned, of Lodore Falls, dated 24 Sept. 1806. On blue paper with some ...			USD 12.50 - 12.50	Unknown
165		ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. A group of three items of the town or school where Wordsworth lived, 1778-87.			USD 10.00 - 10.00	Unknown
166		ORIGINAL DRAWING. An Original Watercolor Drawing, inscribed on back Pooley Bridge 10th Septem. 1810 ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	Unknown
167		RYDAL MOUNT.			USD 22.50 - 22.50	Unknown
168	[SOUTHEY, ROBERT]	Adamo di D. Giuseppe Rota.	Bergame	1788	USD 12.50 - 12.50	Unknown
169	WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM	Title-page bearing Wordsworth autograph; Portion of an A.L.; Cut signature; Inscribed slip, and 2 ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	Unknown
170	[WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM]	3 L.s. by Gordon G. Wordsworth, v.d.; A.L.s. by Elizabeth Wordsworth, 4 pp., Oxford, Jan. 26, 1906.	Oxford	1906	USD 7.50 - 7.50	Unknown
171	John Wordsworth, Father of William Wordsworth	[WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM.] 3 A.L.s.	Cockermouth	1777	USD 10.00 - 10.00	Unknown
172	G. G. Wordsworth	[WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM.] Some Notes on the Wordsworths of Peniston and their Aumbry.	Ambleside	1929	USD 5.00 - 5.00	Unknown
173	Edward Quillinan, Wordsworth's son-in-law	[WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM] Dunlunce Castle, a Poem.	[Kent]	1814	USD 5.00 - 5.00	Unknown
174	LAURENS, HENRY, President of the Continental Congress	A.L.s.	York Town	1778	USD 50.00 - 50.00	Unknown
175	LAWRENCE, JAMES, U. S. Naval Captain	A.L.s.		1813	USD 250.00 - 250.00	Unknown
176	LEE, A. L., Confederate General, served in the Red River Expedition, 1864	A.L.s. (in pencil).		1864	USD 35.00 - 35.00	Unknown
177	LEE, ARTHUR, American Commissioner at the Court of France	Retained autograph copy, unsigned, of letter written to an unnamed recipient.	Paris	1777	USD 40.00 - 40.00	Unknown
178	LEE, CHARLES, Major General, second in command to General Washington	A.L.s., Charles Lee.	N. York	1777	USD 275.00 - 275.00	Unknown
179	LEE, CHARLES	A.L.s.	Philadelphia	1778	USD 45.00 - 45.00	Unknown
180	LEE, HENRY, General in American Revolution	A.L.s.			USD 30.00 - 30.00	Unknown
181	LEE, HENRY	A.L.s.		1782	USD 50.00 - 50.00	Unknown
182	LEE, RICHARD HENRY, Signer of the Declaration of Independence	A.L.s.	Chantilly	1778	USD 225.00 - 225.00	Unknown
183	LEE, RICHARD HENRY	A.L.s.	New York	1785	USD 45.00 - 45.00	Unknown
184	LEE, RICHARD HENRY	A.L.s.	Chantilly	1791	USD 40.00 - 40.00	Unknown
185	LEE, ROBERT E., Confederate General	A.L.s.	San Antonio	1860	USD 80.00 - 80.00	Unknown
186	LEE, ROBERT E.	A.L.s.			USD 350.00 - 350.00	Unknown
187	LEE, ROBERT E.	A.L.s.		1862	USD 800.00 - 800.00	Unknown
188	LEE, ROBERT E.	A.L.s.	Virginia	1863	USD 275.00 - 275.00	Unknown
189	LEE, ROBERT E.	D.s. R. E. Lee, Genl.			USD 725.00 - 725.00	Unknown
190	LEE, THOMAS LUDWELL	A.L.s.		1785	USD 5.00 - 5.00	Unknown
191	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President	A.L.s.	Washington	1862	USD 1,150.00 - 1,150.00	Unknown
192	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM	A.L.s.	Washington	1863	USD 160.00 - 160.00	Unknown
193	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM	Autograph Telegram.	Washington	1863	USD 650.00 - 650.00	Unknown
194	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM	A.L.s.		1863	USD 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
195	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM	A.L.s., 70 words.	Washington	1863	USD 225.00 - 225.00	Unknown
196	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM	L.s.	Washington	1863	USD 120.00 - 120.00	Unknown
197	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM	A.L.s.	Washington	1863	USD 230.00 - 230.00	Unknown
198	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM	A.N.s.	Washington	1864	USD 200.00 - 200.00	Unknown

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