How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX
Thu, Apr 18, 2024 12:00PM EDT
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Lot 12
[HAMILTON, Alexander (1757-1804), his copy]. SELDEN, John (...
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
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| $1,000 | $100 |
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON?S COPY [HAMILTON, Alexander (1757-1804), his copy]. SELDEN, John (1584-1654). Mare Clausum; The Right and Dominion of the Sea. London: Andrew Kembe and Edward Thomas, 1663. 4to (273 x 178 mm). Title-page printed in red and black (title chipped at extreme edges and soiled, reinserted on stub, marginal browning throughout). Disbound, as is; housed in folding chemise. Provenance: Sir Charles Hedges (1650-1714), one of Queen Anne?s Secretaries of State and Jude of the High Court of Admiralty from 1689 to 1714 (engraved armorial bookplate, contemporary notes at end); ALEXANDER HAMILTON?S COPY (?A. Hamilton?), written on the title-page, presumably in another contemporary hand; Library of the New York Law Institute (rubber stamp on title). Second edition, formerly owned by a Founding Father of the United States and the first Secretary of the Treasury.
