A MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION PART TWO AUTOGRAPHS, MANUSCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE SAME PERIOD A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION MONDAY & TUESDAY AFTERNOONS & EVENINGS MAY SEVENTEENTH & EIGHTEENTH AT TWO-THIRTY & EIGHT-FIFTEEN THE ANDERSON GALLERIES 489 PARK AVENUE AT FIFTY-NINTH STREET, NEW YORK 62 CONDITIONS OF SALE All bids to be PER LOT as numbered in the Catalogue. The highest bidder to be the buyer. In all cases of disputed bids the lot shall be resold, but the Auctioneer will use his judgment as to the good faith of all claims and his decision shall be final. Buyers to give their names and addresses and to make such cash payments on account as may be required, in default of which the lots purchased to be immediately resold. Goods bought to be removed at the close of each sale. If not so removed they will be at the sole risk of the purchaser, and subject to storage charges, and The Anderson Galleries, Incorporated, will not be responsible if such goods are lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. TERMS CASH. If accounts are not paid at the conclusion of each sale, or, in the case of absent buyers, when bills are rendered, this Company reserves the right to recatalogue the goods for immediate sale without notice to the defaulting buyer, and all costs of such resale will be charged to the defaulter. This condition is without prejudice to the rights of the Company to enforce the sale contract and collect the amount due without such resale at its own option. Unsettled accounts are subject to interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum. All books are sold as catalogued, and are assumed to be in good SECONDHAND condition. If material defects are found, not mentioned in the catalogue, the lot may be returned. Notice of such defects must be given promptly and the goods returned within ten days from the date of the sale. No exceptions will be made to this rule. Magazines and other periodicals, and all miscellaneous books arranged in parcels, are sold as they are, WITH OUT RECOURSE. Autograph Letters, Documents, Manuscripts and Bindings are sold as they are, without recourse. The utmost care is taken to authenticate and correctly describe items of this character, but this Company will not be responsible for errors, omissions, or defects of any kind. BIDS. We make no charge for executing orders for our customers and use all bids competitively, buying at the lowest price permitted by other bids. Telephone bids accepted at the sender's risk. Priced Copy of this Catalogue may be secured for One Dollar THE ANDERSON GALLERIES INCORPORATED PARK AVENUE AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET, NEW YORK TELEPHONE REGENT 0250 CATALOGUES ON REQUEST SALES CONDUCTED BY MR. F. A. CHAPMAN, MR. A. N. BADE AND MR. E. H. L. THOMPSON T FOREWORD HIS catalogue represents the consummation of Dr. Williams' discriminating collecting from many sources of both the printed and autographic records relating to the American Revolution. It includes his well-known complete set of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and what is most unusual in collections of this character, TWO SPECIMENS OF THE AUTOGRAPH OF BUTTON GWINNETT, one, a superb document signed by him, coming from a direct descendant of John Jay; the other a cut signature from the noted C. C. Jones-Joline collections. Dr. Williams' books have the added interest of coming from various well-known collections and comprise Biographical and Historical narrations all pertaining to American Independencethe events leading up to it, the result of the Declaration, the Revolution and the period immediately following the war. His success in forming a well-rounded library on this subject, which is of particular interest at this time in consequence of the approaching celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is evidenced in the following pages. Z W 72 |