Printed and manuscript Americana
Publisher: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Notes: 168 lots.

Sale number: 4998.

Civer title.

Includes estimates.

"Auction Wednesday, January 26, 1983 ... Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1334 York Avenue (at 72nd Street), New York, N.Y. 10021"--Cover.

Date of sale: January 26, 1983.

Price list tipped in.

Including books, broadsides, newspapers and manuscripts ranging from the Colonial Era to the Ford administration, with offerings of special interest for Civil War collectors and connoisseurs of illustrated books. Printed materials in the sale include sets of Audubon's Birds of America; Catlin's North American Indian portfolio; Bodmer's vignette plates for Prince Maximilian's Travels; Michaux's North American sylva; several scarce Franklin imprints; and a rare Stone facsimile of the Declaration of Independence on parchment. Manuscripts include significant items in art history, with documents relating to Audubon, Daniel Chester French, and Rembrandt Peale. Civil War materials include eighteen Lincoln autographs along with documents and memorabilia of the Confederacy and the Union. Sets of presidential autographs, along with important individual items by Washington, Jefferson, Hoover, Truman, Nixon, and Ford. With autographs of a variety of American historical figures including Haym Salomon and Lee Harvey Oswald.

Auction held at York Avenue galleries.

Place of sale: New York.