Mar 07, 2024 - Sale 2661

Sale 2661 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
HIS TAX RETURNS FOR YEARS LEADING UP TO HIS DEATH SCHWEITZER, ALBERT. Group of 7 partly-printed Documents Signed, each a copy of his Gabon general income tax return for a year between 1958 and 1964, in French, each providing detailed information concerning income sources and duties paid. The returns for the earlier years are accomplished in holograph and are accompanied by autograph notes, some additionally signed, though most of later returns are completed in the hand of his secretary, Ali Silver. Together over 70 pages, 4to and smaller, blue wrappers with label on front describing contents in hand of Silver, loosely sewn together at left edge; some scattered tearing at edges throughout. (SFC) Lambaréné, 1958-64

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With--Two letters from Gabonese tax officials to him concerning his taxes for 1959, in French, one with Schweitzer's holograph date of receipt ("Reçu 19 juillet 1959"). Each 1 page, 4to or 8vo. Libreville, 16 July; [Lambaréné], no month 1959.