Description:
Group of Broadsides and Prints, including a lithograph titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat LEXINGTON In Long Island Sound on Monday Eve'g Jan'y 13th 1840 by which melancholy occurrence; over 100 PERSONS PERISHED., published by Nathaniel Currier, sheet size 20 7/8 x 13; a broadside: SPORTS OF ELECTION; a lithograph titled The Capture of Acote Hill and the Sacking of the Village of Chepatchet... on the 28th June 1842; a c. 1839 broadside of An Account of the Capture and Burning of the British Schooner "GASPEE"; a broadside of A Hap-Hazard Song For the People, and a printed silk elegy for Oliver Hazzard Perry 1785-1819, the "Hero of Lake Erie" for leading American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie, (imperfections).
Estimate $400-600
-Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat LEXINGTON broadside: Toning, several creases; several tears mainly on edges but one about 3 in. into image
SPORTS OF ELECTION: Toning, foxing, losses in image and text backed with rice paper, minor creases.
-lithograph The Capture of Acote Hill and the Sacking of the Village of Chepatchet: Toning, acid burns, margin tears and losses, pale foxing.
-broadside of An Account of the Capture and Burning of the British Schooner "GASPEE": creases with old paper tape reinforcments on the reverse, stains at center and edges.
-broadside of A Hap-Hazard Song For the People: Creases, minor toning, several small edge tears.
-printed silk elegy for Oliver Hazzard Perry: backed with rice paper, frayed creases down and across center, toning, foxing.
-a small untitled lithograph of a bustling bay, probably San Francisco, C.R. Gifford, delineator, L. Nagel printer: toning, creases, stains, edge tears and losses.