| Doyle New York to auction rare books, autographs and a selection of Americana |
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NEW YORK, N.Y.- Doyle New York's November 7, 2011 sale of rare books opens with a selection of Americana, including an important Civil War diary by Lieutenant Frederick J. Bartlett of Company C of the 27th Ohio Colored Infantry. Among printed Americana, a fine copy of the first edition of Lawrence Furlong’s The American Coast Pilot … Newburyport: 1796 is featured. This was the first navigational guide of this type printed in the United States and is exceptionally rare. The section includes three Lincoln autograph items; two autograph notes and one document signed. An attractive copy of Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christi Americana… London: 1702 rounds out this section. A small section of Maps includes the Carrington Bowles New and Accurate Map of North America… [1784]; Homann’s Totius Americae Septentrionalis read full article
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