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Lot 424
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-410
Nov 8, 2022
9:00AM CT
Lots 411-717
Nov 9, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$800 -
1,200
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$3,125
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Lot Description
[FILLMORE, Millard (1800-1874) -- AUTOGRAPH ALBUM]. An autograph album, ca 1850s-1870s, assembling more than190 inscriptions, signatures, mounted signatures or letters by various American Presidents, statesmen, missionaries and prominent figures, including: James A. Garfield (inscription: “James A. Garfield / June 1868. Hiram, Ohio”), Millard Fillmore (inscription: “Millard Fillmore / Washington City May 28. 1852”), Daniel Webster (mounted inscription and letter), Henry Clay, William Seward (clipped signature), Jefferson Davis (clipped signature), Patrick Henry (clipped signature laid in loose, with a note containing dried flowers from his grave and related note), Henry Ward Beecher (inscription), Bayard Taylor (letter), Samuel F. B. Morse (inscription), Edwin E. Bliss, Hannibal Hamlin, and numerous others.
4to (229 x 183mm). (Occasional soiling or discoloration from adhesives, some letters or notes laid in loose.) Contemporary morocco, decorated in gilt and blind (rebacked in cloth preserving most of original spine, some other restoration).
Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota