Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CONGRESS.) Pair of autograph albums and a seating plan from the 31st Congress. 3 items, various conditions as described. [Washington], circa 1849-51

Additional Details

The 31st Congress met from March 1849 to March 1851, and is best remembered for the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act. The two autograph books in this lot are both quarto-sized. The first was kept by Miss Josephine T. Roache of Washington (24 pages, including a few personal non-Congressional inscriptions), and the other possibly by a John Bailey (57 pages). Both have worn bindings and detached boards, and may be missing pages. Noteworthy congressmen who signed these volumes included senators David Levy Yulee, Jefferson Davis, Hannibal Hamlin, Stephen Douglas, and representatives Alexander Stephens, Thaddeus Stevens (twice), Andrew Johnson, Robert Toombs, and Horace Mann (twice).
The lot also includes an illustrated printed broadside titled "Plan of the Hall of the House of Representatives, First Session, Thirty-First Congress" (with Washington residences of each member printed below), 18 x 14 inches; moderate foxing, folds. [Washington]: Sage, circa early 1850.