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Valuable autograph letters and documents : embracing signers of the Declaration of Independence,...

by: Stan. V. Henkels (Firm); Stan. V. Henkels (Firm), creator, auctioneer, issuing body, publisher

Publication date: 1919

Topics: Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 -- Archives -- Catalogs, Rodney, Thomas, 1744-1811 -- Archives -- Catalogs, Rodney, C. A. (Caesar Augustus), 1772-1824 -- Archives -- Catalogs, Peale, Anna Claypoole, 1791-1878, Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827, Stan. V. Henkels (Firm) -- Catalogs -- 20th century -- Specimens, Autographs -- Collections, Auction catalogs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens -- 20th century, Delaware -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs, United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

Publisher: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Stan. V. Henkels

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

viii, [2], 162 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : 27 cm

"Friday afternoon and evening, June 13th, 1919 at 2:30 and 7:00 o'clock p. m."

Cover title: The great historical sale: the papers of Caesar Rodney, of Delaware ..

Printed wrappers

563 lots

"Catalogue no. 1236."

" ... embracing signers of the Declaration of Independence, members of the Continental Congress, generals and other officers in the Revolution, officers of the navy, Revolutionary master rolls, resolves of the Congress, &c., being the papers of Caesar Rodney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Rodney, member of the Continental Congress, and Caesar A. Rodney, attorneys general of the United States; sold by order of H.N. Twells, administrator; nearly every letter of the most vital historical importance. Also, oil portrait of Caesar A. Rodney, by Chas. Willson Peale; oil portrait of Genl. Washington by Anna Claypoole Peale; ivory miniature of Andrew Jackson, by Anna Claypoole Peale; ivory miniature of Captain Rufus Green, &c., &c."

Place of sale: Philadelphia

Catalogued 20210714