Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 205

Price Realized: $ 861
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(TRAVEL.) Hubbard, Frederick. Archive of 10 letters from Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land. 94 pages on 25 sheets, some illustrated with small sketches; some minor wear at center folds. Vp, 1857-58
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Frederick Hubbard (1817-1895) of Utica, NY was a railroad engineer; his father was a railroad speculator who had represented New York in Congress. These exceptionally detailed letters were addressed variously to his parents or siblings. The first five were datelined from a Nile boat, at a wilderness encampment on the Sinai peninsula, Jerusalem, and Damascus; the others from England, France and at sea. Hubbard's journal of this same voyage was recently published as A Yankee Engineer Abroad, 1855-57. with--typed transcripts of each letter.