Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

108 107 c   (CONNECTICUT.) Yale Summer Races! At Lake Saltonstall. Letterpress broadside, 41 x 29 inches, on yellow paper; slight loss at two fold intersections, somewhat wrinkled, but generally very well preserved for a broadside of this size. New Haven: Hoggson & Robinson, 28 June 1870 [500/750] An advertisement for three intramural Yale boat races in East Haven, CT (racing shells, double sculls, and wherries), contested for cash prizes. Excursion trains from downtown New Haven cost 50 cents, and a band enlivened the afternoon. No other copies traced at auction or in OCLC. 108 c   (DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.) Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. Silver-plated electrotype, 8 x 7 inches; slightly tarnished in corners, small hole in upper left corner. Not examined out of frame, but apparently edge- mounted with adhesive on verso. NewYork: S.H. Black, 1859 [400/600] A presentation of the text in miniature relief, with Trumbull’s depiction of the signing at center, and facsimile signatures below. 109 c   (DIARIES.) Group of 6 manuscript diaries by various authors. 6 volumes, each about 4 to 7 inches in height; various conditions. Vp, 1872-1930 [400/600] Timothy H. Lewis (1845-1927), pail manufacturer ofWestport,NH, 26April 1893 to 17 September 1894 * His father, Timothy B. Lewis (1816-1892), 26 March to 30 December 1872 with later memoranda * Gilbert Birdsall Burr (1866-1914) of Ridgebury, CT, 1 January 1888 to 9 January 1889 * Mary Susan Hitchcock Power (1888-1965), wife of an insurance agent in Elberton, GA, 22 June to 20 July 1930 *Wilbert S. Dolloff (1850-1941), farmer of Thorndike, ME, 9 February to 1 October 1904 * John H. Cuntz (1866-1928), engineer of Hoboken, NJ, graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Explorers Club member, 1 January to 31 December 1927. 107