Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, ET AL. Various U.S. government documents in the Amistad case: 26th Congress, 2nd Session, 27th Congress, 28th Congress and 31st Congress. Various paginations; later quarter red morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards; spine gilt extra with title and fancy gilt tools in five compartments. Washington, 1841-1851

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Various Congressional documents relating to the Amistad case: 1. The request of John Quincy Adams to have certain errors in translation of the House Document 185 corrected; 2. Document 191, Message of the President of the United States (Martin Van Buren), including sundry letters between the Department of State and the Chevalier d'Argaiz, on the subject of the Schooner Amistad; 3. Schooner Amistad. Message of the President of the United States (John Tyler) 4. Message of the President of the United States, (Millard Fillmore) communicating the correspondence in relation to the claim of the owners of the Amistad for compensation, on account of the liberation of the negroes (sic) on board that vessel.