Sale 15BP01 | Lot 280

GRANT, U.S. Four language ship's papers signed regarding a whaling a voyage

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Lot 280
GRANT, U.S. Four language ships papers signed regarding a whaling a voyage. Washington: 7 August 1875. Document printed in...
. Washington: 7 August 1875. Document printed in French, Spanish, English and Dutch signed "U.S. Grant" as president and countersigned by Hamilton Fish as Secretary of State, with embossed and paper-covered wax seal. 17 x 22 inches (43.5 x 57 cm); framed. Usual folds with splits at center, chips to extremities, light creasing.
This document grants passage to the New Bedford whaling vessel Adeline Gibbs, under the command of Moses Snell, for an ocean voyage. This document relates an 1875 logbook of the Adeline Gibbs, in the collection of the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

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Rare Books, Autographs & Photographs

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