1849 Bill of Health Certificate for the California Schooner Sylvan en route to Boston

by BOYLE, William Ernst; Consulate of the United States of America, Bonaire

$2,500 · Offered by Between the Covers

(Bonaire, Leeward Antilles: 1849). Partially printed document, measuring 8’ x10”, completed in manuscript. Signed and dated July 29, 1849 by U.S. Vice-Consul William Boye, and blindstamped with the U.S. Consulate seal of Bonaire. Partially split along two horizontal folds, very good. A rare, well-preserved document from the Denis Vandervelde Collection..... More

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