Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S COPY BURR, AARON. Bixby, William K.; editor. The Private Journal of Aaron Burr. 2 steel-engraved portrait plates and 2 facsimile plates. 2 volumes. Thick 4to, original 1/4 cloth, paper spine labels, hinges split; both volumes inscribed and signed by Bixby to Frederic A. Delano on flyleaves, Delano bookplate and gift inscription on pastedown of Volume I, Helmut Friedlaender bookplates on pastedowns. Rochester, NY, 1903

Additional Details

first unexpurgated, and best, edition. #85 of 250 numbered copies, initialed by Bixby. Inscribed 'To my distinguished nephew--The President--from Frederic A. Delano, Jan. 12/41.' Howes B1011; Swann sale, 15 March 1984, lot 6 (this copy).