68 / 239
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[United States, Congress House].
[Imprimé]. Resolutions providing a place of Deposit for the Portrait of Colombus and
Directing the Distribution of certain Copies of the Declaration of Independence, now
in the Department of State
[Washington], [26 mai 1824]
1 p. in-4, légèrement bruni et effrangé, trace du sceau
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. LA DISTRIBUTION DES EXEMPLAIRES DE LA
DÉCLARATION D’INDÉPENDANCE (1824)
The
Declaration of Independence
was engraved on copper in 1824, printed on
parchment or on paper and distributed following that resolution. This printed copy of
the “Resolutions” seems of excessive rarity (no copy on Worldcat, nor in the
Library
of Congress
). Lafayette’s owned a copy on parchment of the 1824’s
Declaration of
Independence
which was sold at Christies, New York, on March 22, 1985. It had been
previously several time exhibited : in the
Exposition du Centenaire
(1934, n° 54) and in
Lafayette. Archives nationales
(1957, n 26).
6 000 / 8 000
€
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