Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 192

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.) Group of 14 pamphlets relating to Samuel Morse and the telegraph. 8vo, various bindings and conditions, sleeved in one binder. Vp, 1838-62
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A Humbug Exposed: The Project of Mr. F.N. Gisborne and F.O.J. Smith for a Submarine Telegraph to Nova Scotia. Boston, 1859 Chester. Railroad Telegraph Lines West of Pittsburg. [New York, 1853] Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Range: Deduction of Henry O'Rielly's Title to the Use of Morses's Patents. Np, [1853?] "B" [Samuel Morse]. The Present Attempt to Dissolve the American Union, a British Aristocratic Plot. New York, 1862 Decision in the Supreme Court . . . on the Patent of Professor Morse. New York, 1854 The Arguments in Favor of the International Submarine Telegraph. Washington, 1857 Argument of George Gifford . . . in the Case of Henry O'Reilly . . . vs. Samuel F.B. Morse. New York, 1853 The Decision of the Great Telegraph Suit of Samuel F.B. Morse. [New York], 1858.
Plus 6 government documents: Electro-Magnetic Telegraphs. 25th Congress, 2nd Session, House Doc 753. [Washington], 1838 Electro-Magnetic Telegraph, by Professor Morse. 25th Congress, 3rd Session, House Treasury Doc. 58. [Washington], 1839 Memorial of E. Gonon, Praying the Adoption of a System of Telegraphs. 26th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Doc 136. [Washington], 1841 Memorial of Henry O'Reilly, Proposing a System of Intercommunication by Mail and Telegraph. 32nd Congress, 1st Session, Senate Misc. Doc 67. [Washington], 1852 Pacific Railroad and Telegraph. 34th Congress, 1st Session, House Report 274. [Washington, 1856] Petition of the People's Pacific Railroad Company. 36th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Misc. Doc. 52. [Washington, 1860]. Provenance: Estate of Kenneth Silverman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who in 2003 published Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel B. Morse. Mr. Silverman was the co-director of the program in American civilization at New York University. with--an early chromolithograph cigar-box label for "Professor Morse" cigars, issued by the Cuban Cigar Company of Cleveland, OH.