Set Reminder2024-04-18 12:00:002024-04-18 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/how-history-unfolds-on-paper-choice-selections-from-the-eric-c-caren-collection-part-ix-21908 This ninth sale from Eric Caren's archives offers a bird's eye view of history from a printed, manuscript, and photographic perspective.
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON?S COPY [HAMILTON, Alexander (1757-1804), his copy]. SELDEN, John (1584-1654). Mare Clausum; The Right and Dominion of the Sea. London: Andrew Kembe and Edward Thomas, 1663. 4to (273 x 178 mm). Title-page printed in red and black (title chipped at extreme edges and soiled, reinserted on stub, marginal browning throughout). Disbound, as is; housed in folding chemise. Provenance: Sir Charles Hedges (1650-1714), one of Queen Anne?s Secretaries of State and Jude of the High Court of Admiralty from 1689 to 1714 (engraved armorial bookplate, contemporary notes at end); ALEXANDER HAMILTON?S COPY (?A. Hamilton?), written on the title-page, presumably in another contemporary hand; Library of the New York Law Institute (rubber stamp on title). Second edition, formerly owned by a Founding Father of the United States and the first Secretary of the Treasury.