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
297 TAYLOR, BAYORD A.Ms.s. of a quotation from one of his poems, beginning with Upon the World's great battlefield ...

USD 10.00 - 10.00 Unknown
298 TAYLOR, RICHARD, Confederate General A.L.s.

1862

 USD 45.00 - 45.00 Unknown
299 TAYLOR, ZACHARY A.L.s. Louisville, Kentucky

1826

 USD 22.50 - 22.50 Unknown
300 TAYLOR, ZACHARY A.L.s. Texas

1846

 USD 120.00 - 120.00 Unknown
301 THEATRICAL AUTOGRAPHS. A.L.s. by Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Ada Rehan, Joe Jefferson ...

USD 10.00 - 10.00 Unknown
302 THOMAS, GEORGE B., Union General Autograph Telegram, signed. Marked to be sent by Sipher. Nashville

1864

 USD 70.00 - 70.00 Unknown
303 THOMSON, CHARLES, Secretary of Congress D.s. Chas. Thomson, Secy..

1778

 USD 60.00 - 60.00 Unknown
304 THORNTON, MATTHEW, Signer from New Hampshire 4 Manuscript Pages of Matthew Thornton's religious essay Paradise Lost; or the Origin of the Evil ...

USD 60.00 - 60.00 Unknown
305 TILGHMAN, LLOYD, Confederate General A.L.s.

1862

 USD 25.00 - 25.00 Unknown
306 TOSTI, FRANCESCO PAOLO, Italian Composer Music and words of the chorus of Beauty's Eyes.

Not Available Unknown
307 TRUMBULL, JONATHAN, SR. (1710-1785), Governor of Connecticut A.L.s. Lebanon

1777

 USD 60.00 - 60.00 Unknown
308 TYLER, JOHN, President Autograph Telegram Signed.

USD 475.00 - 475.00 Unknown
309 VAN CORTLANDT, PHILIP, Colonel in American Revolution A.L.s. P. Cortlandt. York

1781

 USD 325.00 - 325.00 Unknown
310 VARNUM, JAMES, General in the American Revolution A.L.s.

1778

 USD 65.00 - 65.00 Unknown
311 VIRGINIA. Notebook with memoranda, notes, etc. in the autograph of Col. James Wood, Founder of ...

USD 350.00 - 350.00 Unknown
312 WALKER, L. P., Confederate Secretary of War A.L.s. Montgomery

1861

 USD 55.00 - 55.00 Unknown
313 WARREN, JOSEPH, General of the Massachusetts Provincial Forces; Member of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts; killed (June 17, 1775) at Bunker Hill A.L.s. Watertown

1775

 USD 250.00 - 250.00 Unknown
314 WASHINGTON, BUSHROD L.s. Bushfield

1784

 USD 7.50 - 7.50 Unknown
315 WASHINGTON, GEORGE L.s. (twice); the letter itself is signed and a lengthly postscript regarding the Battle of Fort ... New York

1776

 USD 350.00 - 350.00 Unknown
316 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A.L.s.

1776

 USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
317 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A.L.s. New York

1789

 USD 550.00 - 550.00 Unknown
318 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A.L.s., with a three-line postscript signed with initials. Mount Vernon

1793

 USD 175.00 - 175.00 Unknown
319 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A.L.s.

1796

 USD 450.00 - 450.00 Unknown
320 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A.L.s., 1 p., 4to, Mount Vernon, June 14, 1798. To Mr. Oliver Evans; Autograph Survey Signed: G ...

USD 900.00 - 900.00 Unknown
321 [WASHINGTON, GEORGE] Contemporary transcript of a letter written by George Washington, Philadelphia, 6 Novemr. 1777 to ...

USD 20.00 - 20.00 Unknown
322 WATT, JAMES, Inventor of the Steam-engine A.L.s.

1788

 USD 65.00 - 65.00 Unknown
323 WAYNE, ANTHONY. General in American Revolution A.L.s.

1779

 USD 225.00 - 225.00 Unknown
324 WEBB, ALEXANDER S., Union General in the Civil War, and President of the College of the City of New York A collection of 20 A.L.s., dated 1899-1907; four of them undated.

USD 45.00 - 45.00 Unknown
325 WEBSTER, DANIEL, Statesman A.L.s. Washington

1844

 USD 50.00 - 50.00 Unknown
325a John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States [WEBSTER, DANIEL.] A.L.s., 1 p., 4to, Washington, January 23, 1831. With integral address leaf: ... Washington

1831

 USD 150.00 - 150.00 Unknown
326 WELLES, GIDEON, Secretary of the Navy L.s.

1863

 USD 37.50 - 37.50 Unknown
327 [WELLES, GIDEON, Secretary of Navy] Manuscript telegram, in the autograph of G. V. Fox, Asst. Secretary of the Navy, to which he has ... Washington

1864

 USD 5.00 - 5.00 Unknown
328 WESLEY, JOHN, Famous Evangelist and Leader of Methodism A.L.s. Lewisham

1773

 USD 150.00 - 150.00 Unknown
329 WHEELER, JOSEPH, Confederate General A.L.s.

1865

 USD 75.00 - 75.00 Unknown
330 WHITING, WILLIAM H. C., Confederate General A.L.s. Wilmington, North Carolina

1864

 USD 22.50 - 22.50 Unknown
331 WHITNEY, ELI, American inventor A.L.s. New Haven

1824

 USD 55.00 - 55.00 Unknown
332 WIRT, WILLIAM, Attorney General of the United States A true copy of a document in the autograph of William Wirt; signed at end: January 13, 1800.

USD 25.00 - 25.00 Unknown
333 WOLCOTT, OLIVER, JR., Secretary of the Treasury L.s.

1794

 USD 3.00 - 3.00 Unknown
334 WRIGHT, MILTON, Bishop in church United Brethren in Christ, and father of Wilbur and Orville Wright A.L.s. Dayton, Ohio

1907

 USD 750.00 - 750.00 Unknown
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