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Description

A Publication of a series of catalogues devoted entirely to books, prints, manuscripts and autograph material, relating to America, and the Philippines, under the collective title of "Bibliotheca Americana et Philippina."

Various volumes were issued as follows: Vol. 1 (catalogue 429), 1922; volume II (catalogue 432), 1922; Vol. III (catalogue 442), 1923; Vol. IV (catalogue 465), 1925; Vol. V (catalogue 479), 1926; Vol. VI (catalogue 496), 1927; Vol. VII (catalogue 502), 1928.

Scope of Text

This series is intended to take the place of the familiar "Leclerc," and to present an equal wealth of rarities in modern guise, with numerous facismiles and copious annotations.

It is sufficient to name documents signed by Ferdinand and Isabella, the patrons of Columbus, and autograph letters from Father Anchieta, "The Apostle of the New World," from Piratiningua (now San Paula), which he founded, from Almagro, the historic letter from Peru to Charles V. of Spain; from Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville; Sir Ferdinando Gorges (Father of English colonisation in America), Juan de Añate (Conqueror of New Mexico), William Penn, William Dampier, Captain dict Arnold, General Lee, Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones, etc. In addition there are secret letter books, and reports of the Governors and Viceroys of Spanish America, Colonel Simcoe's Letter Book, whilst Governor of Upper Canada, etc.

Among the Printed books there are a series of Ptolemies; the letter of Christopher Columbus (in Latin); the third and fourth letters of Cortes (in Spanish); two unknown Memorials to the King of Spain, by Fernandez de Quiros (in Spanish), for colonising Australia, in 1613; many of the important Spanish books on North and South America.

Much new materials has also been included in the shape of manuscript letters, and reports and privately printed early relations on Florida, California, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Louisiana, etc.

Total Records in AED 259836
  • Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.