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Millard Fillmore

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Millard Fillmore

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Auction Date:2013 Mar 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Signed book: Bancroft’s History of the United States Volume II. Later printing. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1853. Hardcover, 6 x 9.5, 466 pages. Front pastedown bears a vertical ownership signature, “Millard Fillmore, Dec. 12, 1853.” On the title page Fillmore has penned the book’s location on his library shelf: “I – C.” Fillmore has also made pencil notations in the margins: “Louis 14th Charles I Why not say the son of Charles 1st?” (p48). “Vane” (p51), “Never published. As after preparation it was discovered that the difficult Tribes spoke different languages & it was not considered worthwhile” (p94), “Quere? How was saved?” (p110), “Eleutheria, Festival of liberty Anthon. Cape Carteret at the mouth of the Santec R.” (p166), “Fanuel Hall” (p182), “Carteret had been governor of the ilse of Jersey” (p315), and, at bottom of last page of book, Fillmore has written and initialed: “Finished reading Sept. 28, 1865 / M.F.” Autographic condition: an EJ Fillmore stamp to front pastedown, and scattered light toning and foxing, otherwise fine. Book condition: VG-/None. Brown cloth-covered boards; spine and edges slightly sunned; mild wear to edges, with small tears in cloth at corners and spine-ends; slightly soiled and yellowed, with moderate scattered foxing; feps missing; some offsetting from illustrations onto facing pages.