Description
Christie's sale of Printed Books and Manuscripts held on Park Avenue, New York on May 29, 1998. This outstanding post auction catalog is not just a great sale of important documents but a fantastic history lesson. This sale offered 174 lots many of which are illustrated but all of them are described in the actual writings. People and some books in this sale are Churchill, Einstein (7 Lots), Henry II, Napoleon I, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Gauguin, Mary Stewart, Mark Twain, Samuel Clemons, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Margaret Mitchell, Egar Allan Poe, John Steinbeck( 5 Lots of Letters), Walt Whitman, John Adams, Ethan Allen, Jefferson Davis, Benedict Arnold, Jimmy Carter, Civil War Documents, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Edison, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, John Kennedy, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln (5 Lots), Charles Lindbergh, Thomas Paine, William Penn, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and many more. Listed were just the hand written documents. There are many important Manuscripts and Books that I did not mention. Catalog is in fine condition.
