Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.) Sargent, Winthrop. The Life and Career of Major John André, extra-illustrated. Folding map, 18 plates. [2], xiv, [2], 543, [1] pages. 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt by Booklovers Bindery, front board detached, otherwise minor wear; with 13 original letters and manuscripts dated 1750-1858 and 96 engravings either inserted or tipped in to blank leaves; bookplate on front pastedown. New York, 1902, with inserted prints and letters dated 1750-1858
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Among the inserted manuscripts are Autograph Notes Signed in the text by the Duke of Wellington and Maria Edgeworth; Letters Signed by Cyrus Field and Viscount Palmerston; and an interesting 1769 letter from William Draper detailing his proposed trip America to visit Lord Townshend's scenes of glory in Quebec. The engravings are mostly from the 18th and early 19th centuries, depict important figures and scenes from André's career, and are placed to face related passages in the book. A detailed list of the letters and engravings is available upon request.
Provenance: William Hartmann Woodin, United States Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt (bookplate); Parke-Bernet's Woodin sale, 2 December 1941, lot 28.