Important Americana ...
Subtitle: public auction sale Tuesday, November 25 ... and Wednesday, November 26 [1952]
Published: 1952
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 402 lots.

"Sale number 1385"--Prelim.

Date of sale: November 25 and 26, 1952.

Price list tipped in.

"'Jefferson edition' of the Bill of Rights, the Bordley papers, autographs of signers, Jefferson's manuscript index, rare Maryland items, valuable material relating to Washington, Penn, Franklin, Lincoln, the Revolution, French and Indian War, War Between the States, etc.  Mainly from private owners including estate of the late B.G. Johnson, St. Louis, Mo., sold by order of Eric Newman, executor, C.F. Hutter, Jr. of Keswick, Va., together with letters written between 1753-1781 by Edward Shippen of Lancaster, Pa. and allied material, sold by order of Edward Shippen Morris and Sarah Morris Machold of Philadelphia as owners and as agents of Sarah Shippen Haines, Col. William Whitehead West, U.S.A. (ret.), Col. Edward Shippen West, U.S.A. (ret.)."

Place of sale: New York.