The extraordinary collection of autograph letters belonging to the late hon. Elliot Danforth, late treasurer of the State of New York ...
Subtitle: to be sold Friday afternoon and evening, December 6, 1912 ... and Saturday morning, December 7, 1912 ... order of sale: first sitting, lot 1 to 250, second [sitting], [lot] 351 to 700, third [sitting] lot 701 to end
By: catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels
Contributors: Henkels, S. V. (Stanislaus Vincent), 1854-1926, auctioneer
Publisher: Samuel T. Freeman & Co.
Published: 1912
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 991 lots.

"Catalogue no. 1074."

" ... embracing the finest set of the signers of the Declaration of Independence ever offered at public sale, full sets of the Stamp Act Congress, Annapolis Convention, the Constitutional Convention, the first Federal Congress, presidents of the United States, attorney generals of the United States; and members of the Continental Congress, generals in the Union and Confederate army (mostly war dates), many fine letters of Washington, Abraham Lincoln and General Grant, fine specimens of generals in the Revolution, Colonial governors, early New England divines and patriots, American and European literary characters, foreign potentates, statesmen, &c., &c.; all in the finest possible state."

McKay, 7188

Place of sale: Philadelphia.

Date of sale: December 6 and 7, 1912.