Extraordinary historical sale ...
Subtitle: to be sold Thursday afternoon and evening, Dec. 5th, 1918
Publisher: Stan. V. Henkels
Published: 1918
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Other titles: Extraordinary sale of important autograph letters, literary manuscripts
Notes: 556 lots.

Cover title: Extraordinary sale of important autograph letters, literary manuscripts.

"Catalogue no. 1223."

"Autograph letters and documents and literary manuscripts from the papers of Asbury Dickens, Assistant Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson, the collection of Thomas Hutchinson Morris and F.B. Sanborn, author of the life of Thoreau. Fine historical letters of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, generals in the Revolution, Presidents of the United States, crowned heads, authors, actors, and statesmen. Valuable documents relating to the French and Indian War, the Indians of Pennsylvania and New York, the colonial governments of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Canada. Autograph manuscripts by Hawthorne, Irving, Cooper, Holmes, Longfellow, Thoreau, Whittier, Carlyle, Dickens, Bret Harte, and other eminent authors. Fine letter of Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island. Rare Franklin imprints, including the unique copy of the printed proposals for promoting the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia.

McKay, 8021

Place of sale: Philadelphia.

Date of sale: December 5, 1918.