Trifecta in Beverly Hills

- by Bruce E. McKinney

Heritage Rare Book Auction

The Historical Manuscripts and Autographs sale is on the 13th and continues on the 14th.  It is 599 lots of letters, documents, newspapers and broadsides with a strong focus on Americana.  Some appealing English material is also included.

Some interesting lots:

George Catlin ALS Lot 35013

 

General Henry Burbeck Archive - Lot 35050

 

Rev War orderly book of General Grey - Lot 35028

 

Dwight Eisenhower Signed and inscribed photo - lot 35165

 

William Howard Taft Archive - Lot 35159

 

Thomas Jefferson ALS - lot 35128

 

Edgar Rice Burroughs Archive - Lot 35197

 

John Adams ALS - Lot 35126

 

Benjamin Franklin - Join or die - Lot 35097

 

Poor Richards and Poor Rogers 1756 - Lot 35098

 

The Rare Books Auction is on the afternoon of Tuesday the 13th.  Continuing on the 14th.    As with prior sales the material offered is a sophisticated combination of books, broadsides, images and artwork.  More than one hundred consignors have contributed material.

Some interesting lots:

37001  [The Aitken Bible]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly translated out of the Original Tongues... Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by R. Aitken, 1782. First edition, and the first printing in America of the complete Bible in English.

 

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37006  Alexander Hamilton. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury to the House of Representatives Relative to a Provision for the Support of the Public Credit of the United States...Presented to the House on Thursday, the 14th Day of January 1790. New York: Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1790.

 

http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=6058&lotNo=37006

 

37009  Thomas Jefferson. Notes on the State of Virginia. Illustrated with a Map, including the States of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1787. First edition in English.

 

http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=6058&lotNo=37009

 

37014  [Claude R. Wickard]. Franklin D. Roosevelt. D-Day Prayer by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House, June 6, 1944, Here Printed for His Friends at Christmastide 1944.Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 1944. Edition limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 9. Presentation copy, inscribed by the President to his Secretary of Agriculture: "For Claude R. Wickard / Christmastide 1944 / from Franklin D. Roosevelt."

 

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