Bonhams TREASURES FROM THE CAREN ARCHIVE II:
HOW HISTORY UNFOLDS ON PAPER
April 11, 2016
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1 GERONIMO, SON AND TWO PICKED BRAVES Boudoir photograph by C.S. Fly, 1886. $3,000 – 5,000
2 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Front-page of the New-Haven Gazette, September 27, 1787. $12,000 – 18,000
3 THE FIRST SECESSION BROADSIDE Charleston Mercury Extra … The Union is Dissolved! December 20, 1860. $15,000 – 25,000
4 CORK PORTRAIT OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE c.1860. $2,500 – 3,500
5 THE PATRIOT BIBLE 1775 Bible carried and annotated at the Battle of Bunker Hill by Francis Merrifield, June 17, 1775. $50,000 – 80,000
6 PEACE! LIBERTY! INDEPENDENCE! Broadside Supplement to the New-York Gazetteer, March 24, 1783. $12,000 – 18,000
7 THE EARLIEST PROCURABLE AMERICAN EDITION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON’S JOURNAL Annapolis: March, 1754. $60,000 – 90,000
8 LARGE BLOOMER CLUB CIGAR POSTER c.1890. $1,000 – 1,500

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: I. Thomas’ Own Corrected Copy of Washington’s First Thanksgiving Proclama-tion; The Beginning of Chinese-American Diplomacy: Document Authorizing the First Formal Treaty between the US and China; First Printing of Alexander Hamilton’s Report on Public Credit; Richard Henry Lee Autograph Letter written on the Eve of Proposing Independence; Washington’s Address to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport; Signer Gerry Congratulates John Adams on his Election; Important 1848 Mormon Letter about the first Major California Gold Strike; Emancipation Proclamation printing not in Eberstadt; Unique First Printing of Casey at the Bat in the Daily Examiner; Order for the Execution of the Countess du Barry (1793); a Louis XIV Royal Wall Almanac; Important Early Manuscript Petition from the Wyandot Chiefs; Washington’s Farewell Broad-side; Deaths of Blackbeard and Black Bart; Hamilton’s Establishment of the Bank of New York; American Broadsheet printing Two of the Intolerable Acts; Nov. 29, 1773 Boston paper about the coming Tea Party, Gold Rush Company Contract, and a Salt Lake City Banknote signed by Brigham Young.
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