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The Pennsylvania Sale Featuring the Hedgerow Theatre Collection (1686) October 28, 2020 EDT, ONLINE ONLY Lot 1 The Pennsylvania Sale featuring The Hedgerow Theatre Collection (1686) October 28, 2020 EDT, ONLINE ONLY Lot 1 Estimate: $300 - $500 (plus Buyer's Premium) [Biddle Family] Biddle Family Mini-Archive 1. [Biddle, Beulah] Printed Document, signed Bond between Samuel Sansom and J. Thomas Annis, dated December 10, 1742, and signed by Annis, Jo(seph) Ryan, and Tho(mas) Croasdale. Samuel Sansom's son, Joseph Sansom (1767- 1826), was married to Beulah Biddle (1768-1837). 12 1/8 x 7 3/4 in. (307 x 196 mm). Unexamined out of frame. 2. [Biddle, Charles] Manuscript Document, signed February 23, 1786. Land patent on vellum for John Hide: "...on the West Side of Ninth Street from Delaware between Mulberry and Philbert Streets in the city of Philadelphia" and signed by Chas. Biddle, referred to in the document as "The Honorable Charles Biddle Esquire Vice President of the Supreme Executive Council. Additionally signed "James Trimble/for John Armstrong/jun. secy". 11 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (298 x 349 mm) (sight). Unexamined out of frame. Charles Biddle (1745-1821) served as Vice-President of Pennsylvania from October 10, 1785 to October 31, 1787. 3. [Biddle, Craig] Westchester and Philadelphia Railroad freight receipt for "One Bull Calf" West- Chester, (Pennsylvania), February 22, 1865. Printed receipt, finished in MS. 8 x 4 1/8 in. (203 x 104 mm) (sight). Unexamined out of frame. 4. [Biddle, James] Sparks, Jared The Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Co./London: Richard James Kennett, 1835. First edition. 12mo. 335 pp. Illustrated with an engraved title, four plates, and one map. From the "Library of American Biography" series. Blue buckram library-style binding, spine faded; marginalia in pencil; scattered light foxing. From the library of Commodore James Biddle (1783-1848) and with his ownership signature on title-page; thence by descent to Craig Biddle whose visiting card is pasted to the front free endpaper. 5. [Biddle, Nicholas] Printed Document, finished in manuscript November-December, 1807. With the signatures of Conrad Bartling, William Bartling, William T. Donaldson, and Samuel Meeker; docketed "N Biddle" on verso. 7 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (196 x 171 mm) (sight). Unexamined out of frame. 6. [Biddle, Nicholas] N. Biddle. President of the Bank of the United States Philadelphia, ca. 1837. Mezzotint by John Sartain after the painting by J. Eichholtz. 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (342 x 260 mm) (sight). Unexamined out of frame. 7. Goodrich, Charles A. A History of the United States of America; From the Discovery of the Continent by Christopher Columbus, to the Present Time… Hartford: H.F. Sumner & Co., 1835. Reprint (first published in 1832). 12mo. 540 pp. Full contemporary tree calf; front free endpaper excised. Presumed nineteenth-century engraved armorial Biddle family book-plate on front paste-down over an earlier book-plate..
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