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[Sale Number 63.] Great Events in American History Described by Participants [...] Manuscripts by Famous American Authors [...] The William Randolph Hearst Collection, Part I.

Author: 
William Randolph Hearst [George Washington; Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc.; auction catalogues; Americana]
Publication details: 
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 742 Fifth Avenue; 1938.
£100.00

Quarto: xii + 168 pp. In original grey printed wraps. Numerous facsimiles. Printed order slip loosely inserted. Good, with grubby prelims and creasing to last few leaves at rear. Including a twenty-four page description of an 'extensive collection of Washington letters and documents [covering] every phase of his eventful life'. Participants named in the title: 'Cotton Mather, George Washington, William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Generals of the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Robert Fulton'.

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