?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
MONROE, JAMES. Partly-printed Document Signed, "Jas. Monroe," as Secretary of State: "Instructions for the Private Armed Vessels of the United States," granting letter of marque to an unspecified privateer. The first two printed pages are "An ACT Concerning Letters of Marque, Prizes and Prize Goods." 2½ pages, tall 4to, on folded sheet; silked on first and terminal pages, separations at folds repaired with tissue on first and terminal pages, faint scattered staining, remnants of hinging at upper corners of second page. (SFC) Np, [circa 1812]
