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1889 AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING REFERENCE BOOK ON CD
An ARCHIVAL CD ROM of a RARE, OLD reference book on collecting autographs
of famous Americans. A valuable reference for anyone collecting, buying, or
selling autographs and signatures of famous people. Also just a great book
to read about early American history & Americana.
This CD Rom contains a copy of the
following old book (the original of which is quite hard to find):
AN ESSAY ON THE AUTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS OF THE SIGNERS
OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND OF THE CONSTITUTION.
from Vol. Xth, Wisconsin Historical Society Collections.
Revised and Enlarged by LYMAN C. DRAPER, LL.D. NEW YORK: BURNS & SON,
Publishers, 744 Broadway, 1889. 117 pages.
Famous historian/genealogist Lyman C. Draper describes in detail each of the
twenty-two complete sets in existence in 1889 of autographs of signers of the
Declaration of Independence. He discusses the rarity of the signatures of
Button Gwinnett, Thomas Lynch, Jr., etc. He also describes major incomplete
sets, collections of signers of the Constitution, Stamp Act Congress, Albany
Conference, Hartford Convention, Presidents & Vice Presidents of the US,
Revolutionary War Generals, and much more.
The information contained in this book would be particularly valuable to collectors
and dealers of American autographs today--perhaps allowing them to trace back and provide
provenance for documents in their collections and appearing on today's market.
Draper also writes about (and includes an appendix on) famous FORGERS of
autographs and documents working in America before 1890 including James W.
Turner & the infamous Robert Spring who once assumed to be a daughter of
Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and carried on
correspondence in her name to sell his counterfeit wares.
Draper describes in detail the known portraits and and engravings of
the Signers including the work of Trumbull, Hunt, & Lossing. He details all
major American and British collectors of the time including: Mrs. Eliza Allen, Ferd. J. Dreer, Dr.
Thomas A. Emmet, Simon Gratz, T. Stamford Raffles,
Rev. Dr. Wm. H. Sprague, Professor E.H. Leffingwel, Dr. John S.H. Fogg, and many
more.
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This CD rom runs under Netscape or Internet Explorer browsers versions 4 or
higher (on- or off-line). It navigates like a web site, but pages load
instantly. Minimum requirements Windows 95 or 98, Pentium (or equivalent),
16 meg ram, 8x CD drive. Javascript must be enabled. Best viewed at screen
resolution of 800 x 600.
The scan below shows the Lyman Draper CD Rom followed by a couple of pages
from this book (the pages will appear larger on the actual CD).
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