Fine printed and manuscript Americana and European historical manuscripts
Publisher: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Notes: 310 lots.

"Auction Wednesday, May 23, 1984 ... Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1334 York Avenue (at 72nd Street), New York, N.Y. 10021."

Sale number: 5187.

Includes estimates.

Date of sale: May 23, 1984.

Price list tipped in.

Including first editions of Tom Paine's Common sense and Roger William's The bloudy tenent, Crockett's almanacks, and other printed Americana and maps. European manuscripts, including a charter to Vasca Da Gamma from Manuel of Portugal. American manuscripts including  complete sets of signers of the Declaration of Independence, of the Constitution, and of presidential autographs from Washington through L.B. Johnson. Letters and documents representing the scope of American history from a collection focusing on the Revolution in Massachusetts and a superb choice of Washington documents to items relating to nuclear energy. Civil War records including Lincoln autographs and the last letter written by Henry Wirz, commandant at Andersonville; a map and letters from the California Gold Rush; with items for cultural and technological history by John Neagle and Robert Fulton.

Place of sale: New York.