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Auction archive: Lot number 5

AMERICANA]. HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, President . Document signed, n.p., n.d. [c.1813?], 1 page, oblong 8vo, slight discoloration, "The quarter Master will [give] the Commander in Cheefs servants and soldiers one quart of Extra Whiskey..." PENN, JOHN,...

Auction 25.04.1995
25 Apr 1995
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,000
Price realised:
US$4,370
Auction archive: Lot number 5

AMERICANA]. HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, President . Document signed, n.p., n.d. [c.1813?], 1 page, oblong 8vo, slight discoloration, "The quarter Master will [give] the Commander in Cheefs servants and soldiers one quart of Extra Whiskey..." PENN, JOHN,...

Auction 25.04.1995
25 Apr 1995
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,000
Price realised:
US$4,370
Beschreibung:

AMERICANA]. HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY President . Document signed, n.p., n.d. [c.1813?], 1 page, oblong 8vo, slight discoloration, "The quarter Master will [give] the Commander in Cheefs servants and soldiers one quart of Extra Whiskey..." PENN, JOHN, Governor and JOHN MORTON, Signer, Pennsylvania . Document signed by both, "An Act for the Support of the Government of this Province and Payment of Public Debts... Read the third time and passed the House September 26th, 1775..." [Philadelphia], 15 September 1775, 41 pages, folio, browning, edges worn, last page severely worn and detached (affecting some text), bound with pink ribbon at upper left corner -- RODNEY, CAESAR, Signer, (Delaware) . Letter signed, Dover, 6 November 1780, 1 page, oblong 4to, browned and lightly stained, one fold of letter separated (affecting signature), , "Please pay to French Battell, or order, the Sum of Three Hundred and Sixty Four Pounds Fifteen Shillings out of the Public Money..." -- HUNTINGTON, JEDEDIAH. Document accomplished and signed, [Philadelphia], 21 August 1789, 1 page, 4to, partially printed paper with decorative border, Treasurer Huntington certifies that "Ichabod Jewett has lodged in this Office the following Notes... Amounting to #46.96..." -- WEBSTER, DANIEL. Two autograph letters signed, Washington, D.C., 7 March 1842 and Boston, 31 April 1850, together 7 pages, 8vo and 4to, minor defects , the first thanking a supporter for a gift, "I am quite obliged to you for your little book of poems...," the second to a former professor, "I cannot well say how much pleasure it gave me to see a name so much venerated and beloved by me as yours is on the letter recently received by me..." -- GREELEY, HORACE. Autograph manuscript signed of " My Lives and Would be Insurers ," with numerous revisions, New York, n.d. [c.1870-1875?], 7 pages, 8vo, written on versos of New York Tribune lined stationery, bound with panel of envelope addressed by Greeley to the Spectator in dark brown morocco gilt, t.e.g., rubbed , "Insurance... is an effort to guard against the mischances and disasters [of] which we are always in danger..."; together 7 items . (7)

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
25 Apr 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

AMERICANA]. HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY President . Document signed, n.p., n.d. [c.1813?], 1 page, oblong 8vo, slight discoloration, "The quarter Master will [give] the Commander in Cheefs servants and soldiers one quart of Extra Whiskey..." PENN, JOHN, Governor and JOHN MORTON, Signer, Pennsylvania . Document signed by both, "An Act for the Support of the Government of this Province and Payment of Public Debts... Read the third time and passed the House September 26th, 1775..." [Philadelphia], 15 September 1775, 41 pages, folio, browning, edges worn, last page severely worn and detached (affecting some text), bound with pink ribbon at upper left corner -- RODNEY, CAESAR, Signer, (Delaware) . Letter signed, Dover, 6 November 1780, 1 page, oblong 4to, browned and lightly stained, one fold of letter separated (affecting signature), , "Please pay to French Battell, or order, the Sum of Three Hundred and Sixty Four Pounds Fifteen Shillings out of the Public Money..." -- HUNTINGTON, JEDEDIAH. Document accomplished and signed, [Philadelphia], 21 August 1789, 1 page, 4to, partially printed paper with decorative border, Treasurer Huntington certifies that "Ichabod Jewett has lodged in this Office the following Notes... Amounting to #46.96..." -- WEBSTER, DANIEL. Two autograph letters signed, Washington, D.C., 7 March 1842 and Boston, 31 April 1850, together 7 pages, 8vo and 4to, minor defects , the first thanking a supporter for a gift, "I am quite obliged to you for your little book of poems...," the second to a former professor, "I cannot well say how much pleasure it gave me to see a name so much venerated and beloved by me as yours is on the letter recently received by me..." -- GREELEY, HORACE. Autograph manuscript signed of " My Lives and Would be Insurers ," with numerous revisions, New York, n.d. [c.1870-1875?], 7 pages, 8vo, written on versos of New York Tribune lined stationery, bound with panel of envelope addressed by Greeley to the Spectator in dark brown morocco gilt, t.e.g., rubbed , "Insurance... is an effort to guard against the mischances and disasters [of] which we are always in danger..."; together 7 items . (7)

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
25 Apr 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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