Auction 180, Lot 779

Subject: Document - Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson, Thomas

[Thomas Jefferson Appointment Signed], 1779

Size: 10.6 x 6.1 inches (26.9 x 15.5 cm)

Estimate: $9,500 - $11,000

An Uncommon Signature During Jefferson's Governorship of Virginia

Unsold

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 780

Subject: Document - National Capital Debate

Anon.

"The Federal City Ought to Be on the Patowmack" [in] The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser No. 3, of Vol. XVII. Friday, January 8, 1790. No. 1210, 1790

Size: 10.8 x 16.9 inches (27.4 x 42.9 cm)

Estimate: $150 - $180

Important Article Advocating for the National Capital on the Potomac River

Sold for: $100

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 781

Subject: Document - Thomas Paine

“Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas, in Answer to His Speech on the Late Proclamation" [in] Columbian Centinel Whole No. 883 Wednesday, September 5, 1792. No 51, of Vol. XVII , 1792

Size: 10.8 x 17.3 inches (27.4 x 43.9 cm)

Estimate: $180 - $220

Thomas Paine Defends His Rights of Man

Sold for: $120

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 782

Subject: Document - Lewis & Clark

[Lewis & Clark] The Literary Magazine and American Register Volume 1, No. 1 (October 1803) – No. 6 (March 1804), 1804

Size: 5.4 x 8.8 inches (13.7 x 22.4 cm)

Estimate: $400 - $500

Early Announcements of the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Sold for: $300

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 783

Subject: Document - War of 1812, James Madison

[War of 1812] Jefferson Against Madison's War, Being an Exhibition of the Late President Jefferson's Opinions of the Impolicy, and Folly of All Wars, Especially for the United States, Together with Some Remarks on the Present War..., 1812

Size: 5.8 x 9.1 inches (14.7 x 23.1 cm)

Estimate: $150 - $180

Election of 1812 Protest Against the War of 1812

Sold for: $100

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 784

Subject: Document - Oregon Country

U.S. Government

[Northwest Exploration] Northwest Coast of America. ... Mr. Baylies ... Made the following Report … as Respects the establishment of a Military Post at the Mouth of the Columbia River..., 1826

Size: 5.8 x 8.8 inches (14.7 x 22.4 cm)

Estimate: $200 - $250

Early Report on Explorations and American Claims to Oregon

Sold for: $150

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 785

Subject: Documents - Andrew Jackson

[Bound Set of Pamphlets Related to Andrew Jackson], 1828-36

Size: 6 x 9.3 inches (15.2 x 23.6 cm)

Estimate: $300 - $400

Andrew Jackson Censured for Closing the U.S. Bank

Unsold

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 786

Subject: Document - Texas Independence

U.S. Government

[Texas Independece] Capture of the Mexican Brig Urrea. Message from the President of the United States..., 1838

Size: 5.6 x 8.9 inches (14.2 x 22.6 cm)

Estimate: $100 - $130

Sold for: $75

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 787

Subject: Document - Lincoln

U.S. Government

[Abraham Lincoln] Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for the Year 1849. Part I. Arts and Manufactures, 1850

Size: 5.9 x 9.1 inches (15 x 23.1 cm)

Estimate: $200 - $230

Lincoln Receives Only Patent Granted to a U.S. President

Sold for: $120

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 788

Subject: Document - Texas Boundary Dispute

U.S. Government

[Texas Boundary Dispute] Message from the President of the United States, Relative to the Claim of Texas to Jurisdiction Over Part of New Mexico, 1850

Size: 5.8 x 8.9 inches (14.7 x 22.6 cm)

Estimate: $140 - $170

Important Texas Document - Compromise of 1850

Sold for: $100

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 789

Subject: Document - Mormon War & Western Exploration

U.S. War Department

[Mormon War] Message of the President of the United States, to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-fifth Congress. Vol. II, 1858

Size: 5.9 x 9.2 inches (15 x 23.4 cm)

Estimate: $160 - $190

Reports on the Mormon War and Western Exploration

Sold for: $475

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 790

Subject: Document - American Judaica

U.S. Government

[American Judaica] Discriminations in Switzerland Against Citizens of the United States of the Hebrew Persuasion. Message of the President of the United States..., 1860

Size: 6 x 9.4 inches (15.2 x 23.9 cm)

Estimate: $300 - $375

Swiss Discrimination of American Jews Challenged

Unsold

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 791

Subject: Document - General Fitz John Porter

[Letter from Union General Fitz John Porter to General William B. Franklin], 1871

Size: 7.6 x 9.8 inches (19.3 x 24.9 cm)

Estimate: $180 - $220

Unsold

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 180, Lot 792

Subject: Document - Custer

U.S. Gov't Printing Office

[Custer] Report of the Secretary of War; Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Forty-Fourth Congress. Volume I, 1876

Size: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm)

Estimate: $200 - $230

First Official Report of Custer’s Last Stand

Sold for: $230

Closed on 11/18/2020

Auction 179, Lot 846

Subject: Document - Declaration of Independence

[Early Printing of Declaration of Independence] The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1776, 1779

Size: 5.3 x 8.4 inches (13.5 x 21.3 cm)

Estimate: $800 - $950

One of the Earliest Book-Form Appearances of the Declaration of Independence

Sold for: $700

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 847

Subject: Documents - Hamilton/Jefferson Debates

[Lot of 2 - Hamilton/Jefferson Newspaper Debates and the Beginning of American Partisan Politics] Columbian Centinel - Saturday, August 25, 1792 [and] Wednesday, October 24, 1792, 1792

Size: 10.8 x 17.3 inches (27.4 x 43.9 cm)

Estimate: $300 - $400

The Beginning of American Partisan Politics - Jefferson vs. Hamilton

Sold for: $325

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 848

Subject: Document - Lewis & Clark

[Description of Original Lewis & Clark Map and Early Report of Expedition] The Medical Repository, and Review of American Publications on Medicine, Surgery, and the Auxiliary Branches of Science …Volume III, 1806

Size: 5.4 x 8.6 inches (13.7 x 21.8 cm)

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $750

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 849

Subject: Document - Important Congressional Acts

U.S. Government

[Declaration of War on Great Britain and Important Congressional Acts] Acts Passed at the First Session of the Twelfth Congress of the United States [with] Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Twelfth Congress of the United States, 1811-13

Size: 6 x 9.5 inches (15.2 x 24.1 cm)

Estimate: $240 - $300

Sold for: $120

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 850

Subject: Document - Oregon Trail

[Discovery of Oregon Trail by First Major Expedition to the Pacific After Lewis & Clark] "American Enterprize" [in] The Weekly Register. No. 17 of Vol. IV , 1813

Size: 6.3 x 9.8 inches (16 x 24.9 cm)

Estimate: $300 - $375

Sold for: $150

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 851

Subject: Document - Missouri River Exploration

U.S. War Department

[Missouri River Exploration] Expedition Up the Missouri. Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting the Information … Respecting the Movements of the Expedition Which Lately Ascended The Missouri River &c., 1826

Size: 5.5 x 8.7 inches (14 x 22.1 cm)

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $120

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 852

Subject: Document - Slave Ships

U.S. Government

[Saga of Slave Ships Captured in Alabama] Slave Ships in Alabama. Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting the Proceedings of the Court and Marshal of the U. States … in Relation to the Cargoes of Certain Slave Ships, &c., 1826

Size: 5.5 x 8.7 inches (14 x 22.1 cm)

Estimate: $180 - $220

Sold for: $120

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 853

Subject: Document - United States-Mexico Boundary

U.S. Government

[United States-Mexico Boundary] Treaties with Mexico, 1832

Size: 5.6 x 8.9 inches (14.2 x 22.6 cm)

Estimate: $160 - $190

Sold for: $120

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 854

Subject: Document - Early Photography

[Invention of the Daguerreotype] The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 1839

Size: 5.8 x 9.1 inches (14.7 x 23.1 cm)

Estimate: $240 - $300

Announcement of the First Photographic Prints Made in America

Sold for: $150

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 855

Subject: Document - Texas Constitution

U.S. Government

[Texas Constitution] Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Copy of the Constitution of the State of Texas, 1845

Size: 5.9 x 9.4 inches (15 x 23.9 cm)

Estimate: $450 - $550

Sold for: $250

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 856

Subject: Documents - Whitman Massacre, Indian Wars

U.S. Department of Interior

[Lot of 2 - Whitman Massacre Controversy and Indian Wars] Report of the Secretary of the Interior ... the Report of J. Ross Browne, on the Late Indian War in Oregon and Washington Territories, 1858-71

Size: See Description

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $100

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 857

Subject: Document - Canadian Judicial Independence

U.S. Government

[Important Slavery Case in Establishing Canadian Judicial Independence] Message from the President of the United States, Communicating, … Information Relative to the Extradition of One Anderson, a Man of Color, 1861

Size: 6.1 x 9.9 inches (15.5 x 25.1 cm)

Estimate: $150 - $180

Sold for: $100

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 858

Subject: Document - Early Nevada Mining

[Scarce Early Nevada Mining Report] Annual Report of the State Mineralogist of the State of Nevada for 1866, 1867

Size: 5.5 x 8.6 inches (14 x 21.8 cm)

Estimate: $180 - $220

Unsold

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 179, Lot 859

Subject: Document - Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Franklin D. Roosevelt Typed Letter Signed], 1924

Size: 8.5 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)

Estimate: $1,100 - $1,400

Sold for: $800

Closed on 9/16/2020

Auction 178, Lot 583

Subject: Document - George Washington

[Washington’s 4th State of the Union Address in the] Columbian Centinel , 1792

Size: 9.3 x 16.6 inches (23.6 x 42.2 cm)

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $190

Closed on 6/10/2020

Auction 178, Lot 584

Subject: Document - Quasi War, Aaron Ogden Signature

[Quasi War with France - Endorsement Signed by American Revolution Officer Aaron Ogden], 1800

Size: 8.1 x 6.6 inches (20.6 x 16.8 cm)

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $150

Closed on 6/10/2020

Auction 178, Lot 585

Subject: Document - Jim Bowie

[Eyewitness Account of the Jim Bowie Knife Fight] [in] Niles' Weekly Register, 1827

Size: 6.3 x 9.8 inches (16 x 24.9 cm)

Estimate: $250 - $325

Sold for: $150

Closed on 6/10/2020

Auction 178, Lot 586

Subject: Document - Early Photography

[Invention of the Daguerreotype] The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 1839

Size: 5.9 x 9 inches (15 x 22.9 cm)

Estimate: $250 - $325

Sold for: $130

Closed on 6/10/2020

Auction 178, Lot 587

Subject: Document - Slavery

U.S. Government

[Slave Revolt] Message from the President of the United States, Communicating, … Correspondence in Relation to the Mutiny on Board the Brig Creole, and the Liberation of the Slaves Who Were Passengers in the Said Vessel, 1842

Size: 5.6 x 9 inches (14.2 x 22.9 cm)

Estimate: $180 - $220

The Most Successful Slave Revolt in U.S. History

Sold for: $120

Closed on 6/10/2020

Auction 178, Lot 588

Subject: Document - Confederate General Floyd

[Land Grant Signed by Politician and Confederate General John Buchanan Floyd], 1851

Size: 11.2 x 13.5 inches (28.4 x 34.3 cm)

Estimate: $350 - $425

Sold for: $125

Closed on 6/10/2020

Auction 178, Lot 589

Subject: Document - Boxer Rebellion

U.S. Government

[Boxer Rebellion] Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1900. Report of the Lieutenant-General Commanding the Army ... Part 7, 1900

Size: 5.9 x 9.3 inches (15 x 23.6 cm)

Estimate: $250 - $325

Sold for: $150

Closed on 6/10/2020

Auction 177, Lot 167

Subject: Alaska

U.S. Government

Report of the Governor of Alaska for the Fiscal Year 1888 [with map] Alaska and Adjoining Territory, 1889

Size: 35.3 x 27.6 inches (89.7 x 70.1 cm)

Estimate: $180 - $220

Sold for: $120

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 187

Subject: Colorado

Colorado. For 1878, 1878

Size: 5 x 7.2 inches (12.7 x 18.3 cm)

Estimate: $160 - $190

Sold for: $120

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 236

Subject: Western Pennsylvania, Oil

Plan & Location of the Properties of the Anglo Saxon Petroleum Company [bound in] Prospectus of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Boston, 1865

Size: 10.3 x 25 inches (26.2 x 63.5 cm)

Estimate: $160 - $190

Sold for: $85

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 759

Subject: Document - Frederick North

[Document Signed by Frederick North, Lord North], 1771

Size: 7.9 x 12.8 inches (20.1 x 32.5 cm)

Estimate: $350 - $450

British Prime Minister During the American War of Independence

Sold for: $125

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 760

Subject: Document - Northwest Indian War

[Northwest Indian War Pension Affidavit], 1799

Size: 7.5 x 11.8 inches (19.1 x 30 cm)

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,300

Sold for: $750

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 761

Subject: Document - Lewis & Clark

[Lewis & Clark Expedition] The Literary Magazine, and American Register. For 1805., 1805

Size: 5.5 x 8.8 inches (14 x 22.4 cm)

Estimate: $250 - $325

Sold for: $190

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 762

Subject: Document - Lewis & Clark

[Lewis & Clark Expedition] The American Register, or, General Repository of History, Politics, & Science, for 1806-7, 1807

Size: 5.7 x 9.2 inches (14.5 x 23.4 cm)

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $120

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 763

Subject: Document - Oregon Trail

[Discovery of Oregon Trail by First Major Expedition to the Pacific After Lewis & Clark] "American Enterprize" [in] The Weekly Register, 1813

Size: 6.1 x 10 inches (15.5 x 25.4 cm)

Estimate: $250 - $325

Sold for: $400

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 764

Subject: Document - Jefferson, Library of Congress

U.S. Government

[Jefferson’s Offer of His Library to Establish the Library of Congress] Report of the Joint Committee of the Library of Congress, 1814

Size: 5 x 8.3 inches (12.7 x 21.1 cm)

Estimate: $180 - $220

Sold for: $170

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 765

Subject: Documents - Texas, Slaves, Washington Buildings

U.S. Government

[Bound Compilation of Senate Reports from 1816-17], 1817

Size: 5.3 x 8.3 inches (13.5 x 21.1 cm)

Estimate: $250 - $325

Sold for: $75

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 766

Subject: Documents - Texas

[Lot of 2 - Evidence of Early Conspiracy to Free Texas from Mexico] The Affidavit of Andrew Jackson, Taken by the Defendants in the Suit of Robert Mayo vs. Blair & Rives... [and] Political Sketches of Eight Years in Washington..., 1839-40

Size: See Description

Estimate: $300 - $400

Sold for: $160

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 767

Subject: Documents - Mormon Wars

U.S. Government

[Lot of 2 - Mormon Wars] Document Showing the Testimony Given Before the Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, on the Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr... [and] The Utah Expedition..., 1841-58

Size: 5.8 x 9 inches (14.7 x 22.9 cm)

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $120

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 768

Subject: Documents - Oregon Territory

U.S. Government

[Lot of 2 - Early Oregon Documents] Oregon. Memorial of Citizens of the United States, Residing in the Territory of Oregon... [and] Protection Afforded by Volunteers of Oregon and Washington Territories to Overland Emigrants in 1854..., 1845-59

Size: 5.8 x 8.9 inches (14.7 x 22.6 cm)

Estimate: $180 - $220

Sold for: $140

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 769

Subject: Document - California 49er

[California 49er Gold Rush Note and Adventures] , 1849

Size: 7.6 x 3.2 inches (19.3 x 8.1 cm)

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $70

Closed on 4/29/2020

Auction 177, Lot 770

Subject: Document - Civil War Amnesty

U.S. Government

[Civil War Amnesty] Message of the President of the United States, Communicating … a Copy of Proclamation Granting Pardon and Amnesty to All Persons Engaged in the Late Rebellion, 1869

Size: 5.8 x 9.1 inches (14.7 x 23.1 cm)

Estimate: $180 - $220

Sold for: $120

Closed on 4/29/2020