A Look Inside the Catalogue: Printed & Manuscript Americana
Featuring The Holzer Collection of Lincolniana
At Auction September 27
Complete Catalogue
Latin Americana
Latin Americana will feature Juan de la Anunciación’s 1577 Sermonario en lengua mexicana and other Mexican books, as well as the first novel set in Spanish America, Francisco Loubayssin’s 1617 Historia tragicomica de Don Henrique de Castro.
Lot 436: Francisco Loubayssin de Lamarca, Historia tragicomica de Don Henrique de Castro, the probable first edition of the first novel set in the Spanish New World, Paris, 1617. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.
Lot 447: Juan de la Anunciación, Sermonario en lengua mexicana, first edition of the first book of sermons in Nahuatl, Mexico, 1577. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000.
Lot 444: Maturino Gilberti, Thesoro spiritual en lengua de Mechuacá, first edition of a work in the Purépecha or Tarascan language spoken in Michoacán, Mexico, 1558.
“Lincolniana”
A special morning session offers the collection of noted Abraham Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer. The catalogue is rich in portraiture: highlights include a painting of the beardless president by John C. Wolfe from June 1860 and a plaster bust by Sarah Fisher Ames.
Lot 44: John C. Wolfe, Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, oil on board in period wooden frame, circa 1860s. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.
Satirical anti-Lincoln cartoons such as Miscegenation or the Millennium of Abolitionism will be offered alongside rare promotional engravings from the 1860 campaign. Textual material includes a commission signed by Lincoln for his personal secretary William O. Stoddard in July 1861.
Lot 84: Franklin H. Brown, State Sovereignty, National Union: Abraham Lincoln, from a Photograph by Hesler, Chicago, 1860. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.
Presidential Campaigns
Lot 360: Clay and Frelinghuysen, flag banner, circa 1844. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.
American Revolution
The afternoon session includes an early printing of Thomas Paine’s American Crisis, a set of manuscript drill orders issued at Valley Forge, and an array of nineteenth-century manuscripts on the Gold Rush, early photography, American Indians, and antebellum Virginia.
Lot 207: Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, Fishkill, NY, circa December 1776. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.
Mormonism
Lot 325: Portrait of a young man believed to be Frederick Granger Williams Smith, son of Joseph Smith, sixth-plate hand-tinted daguerreotype, circa late 1850s. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Complete Catalogue
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