May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 371

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
FRAGMENT FROM "THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON" IRVING, WASHINGTON. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, with several holograph corrections, fragment in 28 lines from the draft of Chapter 18 of his Life of George Washington, numbered page 382. 1 page, 8vo, upper third of page written on pale blue leaf and mounted to upper margin of white leaf; right edge verso reinforced with linen, some scattered soiling. (MRS) Np, circa 1856

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"Ch 18. / Cornwallis prepares to invade North Carolina . . . ."