The collection of the late Hon. John Boyd Thacher of Albany, N.Y., Americana
Subtitle: autographs ... ; to be sold October 22 and 23, 1914, Thursday afternoon, lots 1-242, Thursday evening, lots 243-477, Friday afternoon, lots 478-713
Publisher: Anderson Galleries
Published: 1914
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 713 lots.

"No. 1100."

"Colonial and Revolutionary - Sir Henry Moore, John Montgomerie, William Penn, Gen. Nathanael Greene, Samuel Adams (the engraved border by Nathaniel Hurd), Gen. Smallwood on holding Philadelphia, Edw. Johnson, author of Wonder Working Providence, Washington, Aaron Burr, Paul Revere's Sword in Hand money, John Paul Jones. Signers of the Declaration of Independence - fine specimens of Samuel Chase, endorsed by Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Francis L. Lee, Francis Lewis to Washington, Cs̀̀ar Rodney on the Battle of Bunker Hill. Presidents of the United States - several fine war letters of Washington, John Adams, W.H. Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, John Tyler on Dorr's Rebellion. Later American - Hawthorne's manuscript of Time's Portraiture, 1838; Poe, mentioning the Raven; John Brown of Ossawatomie; Morgan the Freemason; Emerson; Irving; Audubon; S.L. Clemens giving the origin of his nom-de-plume; Santa Anna, R.E. Lee; Beauregard threatening relatiation for Charleston; Gen. J.H. Wilson on the capture of Jefferson Davis; Stonewall Jackson. Miscellaneous Autographs - SS. Vincent de Paul, Ignatius Loyola and Francis de Sales; Jacob Arminius; Cornelius Jansen; Thomas Paine; John Wilkes, including a manuscript of the libellous North Britain. Two rare views of New York City."

McKay, 7448

Place of sale: New York.

Date of sale: October 22 and 23, 1914.