Three autograph letters, signed, to Philadelphia merchant Alexander Wooddrop, with mention of the shipwrecked 1733 Spanish flotilla.

by John Jourdain

$2,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Cádiz, Spain, July 8, 1732; February 20, 1733; October 15, 1733. Group of three letters, one 3.15 pp. and one 1.85 pp., in ink on a single leaf, 14.75” x 9”; one letter, 1.75 pp. in ink on a single leaf, 14.5” x 9”. The first two letters are copies that Jourdain made and sent with the third letter he notes including them at the beginning of the letter . The second letter includes three tables of goods and prices. CONDITION:

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