Fine Books & Manuscripts
Tue, Jun 26, 2018 08:30PM EDT
Lot 404
Historic Patapsco Hotel Guest Ledger Recording the Names of Notable Americans.
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000
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Historic Patapsco Hotel Guest Ledger Recording the Names of Notable Americans. Ellicott City, 1836?48. Full blind-stamped calf with gilt label on banded spine, housed in a modern custom cloth clamshell box with marbled interior. Nearly 400 pages containing the manuscript registrations of the historic hotel?s guests, including prominent statesmen and politicians Henry Clay, Johns Hopkins, Nathaniel Ellicott, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Jackson, Thomas ?Stonewall? Jackson, Junius Brutus and John Wilkes Booth (in graphite, notation beside John Wilkes reading ?my son,? as well as several American Indian tribal leaders, railroad workers and foreign visitors. Includes four loose manuscript inserts, several modern photographs of the hotel, and a researcher?s list of identified guests with their corresponding page numbers.
