$3,437
Group of Broadsides and Prints, including a lithograph titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat LEXINGTON In Long Island Sound on Monday Eve'g Jan'y 13th 1840 by which melancholy occurrence; over 100 PERSONS PERISHED. , published by Nathaniel Currier, sheet size 20 7/8 x 13; a broadside: SPORTS OF ELECTION ; a lithograph titled The Capture of Acote Hill and the Sacking of the Village of Chepatchet... on the 28th June 1842 ; a c. 1839 broadside of An Account of the Capture and Burning of the British Schooner "GASPEE" ; a broadside of A Hap-Hazard Song For the People , and a printed silk elegy for Oliver Hazzard Perry 1785-1819, the "Hero of Lake Erie" for leading American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie, (imperfections). -Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat LEXINGTON broadside: Toning, several creases; several tears mainly on edges but one about 3 in. into image SPORTS OF ELECTION: Toning, foxing, losses in image and text backed with rice paper, minor creases. -lithograph The Capture of Acote Hill and the Sacking of the Village of Chepatchet: Toning, acid burns, margin tears and losses, pale foxing. -broadside of An Account of the Capture and Burning of the British Schooner "GASPEE": creases with old paper tape reinforcments on the reverse, stains at center and edges. -broadside of A Hap-Hazard Song For the People: Creases, minor toning, several small edge tears. -printed silk elegy for Oliver Hazzard Perry: backed with rice paper, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-03-06
