This year marks the 400th anniversary of the friendship and pact formed between Plymouth Colony s leader Edward Winslow and the Massasoit Ousamequin, which enabled America as we know it today to be formed.
There are some relevant lots in the Sotheby's New York Americana sale on Monday, January 23, including a 1927 publication agreement for Charles Lindbergh's book about his transatlantic flight ($15,000–20,000); a group of five seventeenth-century letters and documents about Britain's colonies in the American northeast ($15,000–25,000); a subscriber's copy of the octavo edition of Audubon's Quadrupeds in the original parts ($15,000–25,000); and several plates from the original edition of Audubon's Birds.
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