THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Лот 205
23.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1539380
Лот 205 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
[Exeter, New Hampshire: Robert Luist Fowle, c. 15-19 July 1776]
In Congress, July 4, 1776. Declaration By the Representatives of the United States of America, In General Congress Assembled. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinion of mankind require that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. … & We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions, do in the name, and by the Authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, Free and Independent States, that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Britain is, and ought to be totally dissolved; and as Free and Independent States they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States, may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor. Signed by Order and in Behalf of the Congress. John Hancock President. Attest. Charles Thompson. Secretary. [Exeter, New Hampshire: Robert Luist Fowle, 15-19 July 1776].
A rare contemporary broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence printed in July 1776

One of only ten extant copies of this edition

A very clean copy preserving deckled edges on three sides

Folio broadside, 503 x 387mm on heavy laid paper with deckled edges preserved on three sides without watermark. Five-line headline, text in two columns, 58 lines in the first, docketed on verso "Declaration 1776" in a contemporary hand, together with several mathematical equations in pencil.




Provenance

Descended in a family with roots in New Hampshire from prior to the American Revolution
Discovered in 1980 by that family in a nineteenth century wooden box containing papers dating from c. 1750-1830
Sotheby's New York, 3 December 2000, lot 6
acquired by the current owner at that auction.
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