Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 304

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MAINE.) Group of manuscripts and ephemera relating to Maine. 6 items, various sizes and conditions: 3 manuscripts and 3 pieces of printed ephemera. Vp, 1761-1872

Additional Details

Joseph Frye (founder of Fryeburg). Autograph Document Signed, a receipt to Simon Frye, treasurer. Fryeburg, ME, 6 September 1792 John Hubbard, former Governor of Maine. Autograph Letter Signed to Hannibal Hamlin, recommending a man for a federal job. Hallowell, ME, 2 February 1853 John A. Douglass. Autograph Letter Signed to Dr. [T.H.] Gage re publication of a sermon. Waterford, ME, 22 March 1872 A.B. Thompson. Printed circular letter as Maine's Adjutant General during the Aroostook War, General Order No. 30 ordering the return of troops from the border. Augusta, ME, 30 March 1839 Engraved hand-colored map titled "Map of the Country which was the Scene of the Operations of the Northern Army," 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, apparently from the atlas to Marshall's Life of Washington Engraved map titled "An Accurate Map of New Hampshire in New-England," 13 1/2 x 11 inches, apparently from the Universal Magazine of 1761. Provenance: from the collection of William Wheeler III.