177 lots.
Cover title: A host of outstanding autographs, many rarely offered for sale; the first part of the collection of a noted Philadelphian, with accumulation from other sources.
At head of title: Catalogue.
At head of cover title: Public auction.
"Remarkable items of Washington, Franklin and Lincoln; signers of the Declaration of Independence; letters of presidents, naval heroes and literary celebrities; William Penn, Oliver Cromwell, the Jumonvilles; including Lincoln's prophetic dream, Franklin's pathetic episode, document signed, by both George and Martha Washington, a letter signed by seven men who signed the Declaration of Independence, Grant's correspondence with General McPherson, manuscripts of Bret Harte, Eugene Field, and John G. Whittier, etc., etc."
Place of sale: Philadelphia.