Trifecta in Beverly Hills
- by Bruce E. McKinney
Heritage Rare Book Auction
The Historical Manuscripts and Autographs sale is on the 13th and continues on the 14th. It is 599 lots of letters, documents, newspapers and broadsides with a strong focus on Americana. Some appealing English material is also included.
Some interesting lots:
General Henry Burbeck Archive - Lot 35050
Rev War orderly book of General Grey - Lot 35028
Dwight Eisenhower Signed and inscribed photo - lot 35165
William Howard Taft Archive - Lot 35159
Thomas Jefferson ALS - lot 35128
Edgar Rice Burroughs Archive - Lot 35197
Benjamin Franklin - Join or die - Lot 35097
Poor Richards and Poor Rogers 1756 - Lot 35098
The Rare Books Auction is on the afternoon of Tuesday the 13th. Continuing on the 14th. As with prior sales the material offered is a sophisticated combination of books, broadsides, images and artwork. More than one hundred consignors have contributed material.
Some interesting lots:
37001 [The Aitken Bible]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly translated out of the Original Tongues... Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by R. Aitken, 1782. First edition, and the first printing in America of the complete Bible in English.
http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=6058&lotNo=37001
37006 Alexander Hamilton. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury to the House of Representatives Relative to a Provision for the Support of the Public Credit of the United States...Presented to the House on Thursday, the 14th Day of January 1790. New York: Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1790.
http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=6058&lotNo=37006
37009 Thomas Jefferson. Notes on the State of Virginia. Illustrated with a Map, including the States of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1787. First edition in English.
http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=6058&lotNo=37009
37014 [Claude R. Wickard]. Franklin D. Roosevelt. D-Day Prayer by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House, June 6, 1944, Here Printed for His Friends at Christmastide 1944.Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 1944. Edition limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 9. Presentation copy, inscribed by the President to his Secretary of Agriculture: "For Claude R. Wickard / Christmastide 1944 / from Franklin D. Roosevelt."