Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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John Hancock appoints a Justice of the Peace in Revolutionary Boston
Estate / Collection: The Estate of LeGrand Mellon
HANCOCK, JOHN
Printed document signed. Boston: 28 January 1782. Printed document on watermarked laid paper with wafer seal accomplished in manuscript appointing John Davies as Justice of the Peace, signed at foot in ink by John Hancock as Governor, countersigned by John Avery as Secretary. Docketed on the verso. 18 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (47 x 30 cm); presented in a double-pane frame. Toned, a few punctures at fold points, a few nicks to edges, with a few small mounting adhesives to verso extremities, not removed from frame, an unrestored example with a large, dark example of Hancock's famous signature.
Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: The Estate of LeGrand Mellon
HANCOCK, JOHN
Printed document signed. Boston: 28 January 1782. Printed document on watermarked laid paper with wafer seal accomplished in manuscript appointing John Davies as Justice of the Peace, signed at foot in ink by John Hancock as Governor, countersigned by John Avery as Secretary. Docketed on the verso. 18 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (47 x 30 cm); presented in a double-pane frame. Toned, a few punctures at fold points, a few nicks to edges, with a few small mounting adhesives to verso extremities, not removed from frame, an unrestored example with a large, dark example of Hancock's famous signature.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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We Invite You to Contact Us for a Complimentary Auction Evaluation of Your Books, Autographs & Maps
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book.
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