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Item Details
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| Heading: |
AAA |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph |
| Title: |
Autograph Letter signed by Joseph Banks, to John Vaughan, a lawyer in Philadelphia |
| Place: |
London |
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| Date: |
May 3, 1792 |
| Item # : |
202669 |
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| Sale Number |
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403 |
| Lot Number |
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6 |
| Sale Name |
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| Americana with Manuscript Material; Travel & Exploration; Maps; Photographs |
| Sale Date |
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05/14/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 300 |
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| Description: |
| 2 pp., on 4-page lettersheet folded to form an envelope, addressed & docketed on p.4. 9x7½. |
| Sir Joseph Banks, the eminent English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences, needs a good Philadelphia lawyer to assist a friend, "Your Brother Mr. B. Vaughan has been so good out of friendship to me, to recommend to your care the process (?) against a certain John Thomas who having swindled his neighbors in Wales out of all the property they would trust him with has left a wife & family wholly unprovided for & carried the money with him to Philadelphia..." Provenance: A West Coast institution. |
| Condition: |
| Some light soiling and slight aging; very good or better. |
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