Fine printed and manuscript Americana
Publisher: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Nichols School (Buffalo, N.Y.); Phillips Exeter Academy. Library; Phillips Exeter Academy
Notes: 87 lots.

Sale number: 5031.

Includes estimates.

"Auction Tuesday, April 26, 1983 ... Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1334 York Avenue (at 72nd Street), New York, N.Y. 10021."

Date of sale: April 26, 1983.

Price list tipped in.

Including the Treaty of Paris collection documenting efforts to end the American Revolution by diplomatic negotiations, with additional items bearing on the impact of the Treaty of Paris of 1783; the Robert Adam Ramsdell Collection of presidential autographs, the property of the Nichols School, Buffalo, N.Y.; and letters from the Library of the Phillips Exeter Academy. Together with other important manuscript and printed items relating to the history of New York and the American nation, primarily dating from the Revolutionary era, but also including letters and documents by American political, military, and literary figures of the 16th through the 19th centuries.

Auction held at York Avenue galleries.

Place of sale: New York.