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Presidential Autographs

Lot 46
16.10.2020 10:00UTC +00:00
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$ 25 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 411453
Lot 46 | Presidential Autographs
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES – a set of two extra-illustrated volumes, Autographs of the Presidents of the United States.

Two volumes, quarto (350 x 240mm), bound in red morocco with gilt-ruled boards and ribbed, titled spines (cracked). Each example laid into a page following an engraving or photograph of the subject. Housed in a red cloth slipcase.

The volumes include: WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). Signature on the concluding page of an LS to William Paca, [Head Quarters, 5 March 1783], with closing in the hand of Jonathan Trumbull (partial fold separations not affecting signature); ADAMS, John (1735-1826). Manuscript DS, Quincy, 22 January 1825. A receipt for $250 from John Quincy Adams; JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Signature; MADISON, James (1751-1836). DS, Washington 25 January 1834, a membership certificate for the American Colonization Society; MONROE, James (1758-1831). Signature; ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848). Signature; JACKSON, Andrew (1767-1845). Portion of a DS as President, n.p., n.d; VAN BUREN, Martin (1782-1862). Franking signature on an address panel directed to Lawrence Van Buren in Kinderhook, n.d.; HARRISON, William Henry (1773-1841). DS, Cincinnati, 3 February 1814, a check for $41.62 payable to "Mr. Huey"; TYLER, John (1790-1862) DS as President, Washington, 22 May 1841, an order to affix the seal to a pardon of "a Kickapoo Indian name Wapuatuck"; POLK, James (1795-1849). Signature as congressman; TAYLOR, Zachary (1784-1850). Signature; FILLMORE, Millard (1800-1874). Signature as President; PIERCE, Franklin (1804-1869). Signature; BUCHANAN, James (1791-1868). Franking signature; LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1965) Bottom portion of a DS as President, Washington, 13 January 1865, countersigned by William SEWARD (1801-1872) as Secretary of State, on vellum; JOHNSON, Andrew (1808-1875). Signature as President, n.p., 22 March 1866; GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). Signature (dated 1874); HAYES, Rutherford B. (1822-1893). AES to Ben W. Austin, n.p., 30 November 1892, accomplished at the conclusion of Austin's note; GARFIELD, James (1831-1881). Signature as congressman; ARTHUR, Chester A. (1829-1886). LS as President, Washington, 25 January 1882, concerning a consular appointment; CLEVELAND, Grover (1837-1908). Signature; HARRISON, Benjamin (1833-1901). LS, Indianapolis, 8 September 1893, declining to furnish information on his late wife, Carline Scott Harrison for a lecture on first ladies; McKINLEY, William (1843-1901). DS as Governor of Ohio, Columbus, 12 April 1892; ROOSEVELT, Theodore (1858-1919). TLS as Civil Service Commissioner, Washington, 21 January 1891; TAFT, William H. (1857-1930). TLS as Secretary of War, Washington, 29 February 1904 (mild toning at margins); WILSON, Woodrow (1856-1924). TLS as President, Washington, 16 May 1914; HARDING, Warren G. (1865-1923) TLS as President, Washington, 19 December 1921; COOLIDGE, Calvin (1972-1933). TLS as President, Washington, 1 December 1925, appointing John B. Payne as Chairman of the American National Red Cross; HOOVER, Herbert (1874-1964). TLS as President, Washington, 27 May 1930, regarding the 25th anniversary of Norwegian independence. ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945). TLS as President, Washington, 22 May 1933; TRUMAN, Harry S. (1884-1972). Signature on a White House card; EISENHOWER, Dwight (1890-1969). Signature on a small slip inscribed to Guy F. Rhodes.
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