Four letters from merchants to Edward Spaulding, shipping agent, Maztanzas, Cuba

by Edward Spaulding

$2,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Havana, New York, & Newport: 1821-25. All 4to approx. 10 x 8 , all bifoliate, docketed, and with previous folds; condition overall is very good to fine, but the last with a torn piece from the top of the letter barely nicking a few letters in the docket. Four commercial letters addressed to Edward Spaulding concerning shipments, sailing vessels, and account payments. Spaulding, a Rhode Island merchant and shipping agent spent much of his time in Bristol, New York, and the port of Matanzas

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