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Lot 7
[AMERICANA-ANTIQUARIAN] A large group of finely bound works on early American subjects, many of revolutionary and antiquarian interest.
All but one leather bound, 11 works in 19 volumes, a very attractive and clean group overall but subject to foxing, markings, etc. No work fully collated and the lot sold as a collection, not subject to return.
Comprising: RAMSAY, DAVID. The History of the American Revolution, 1793, first Dublin edition, 2 volumes in 1, contemporary tree calf, a good copy, likely washed; FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. The Life and Works of Benjamin Franklin, Bungay, 1816, contemporary calf, with frontis and engraved title, a sound copy; JEFFERSON, THOMAS. Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers, London, 1829, four volumes, first English edition, later leather backed boards, ink spot to spine, stamps to versos of title pages, Sabin 35892; LEE, HENRY. Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States, Washington, 1827, second edition, early three-quarters morocco; [GLEIG, GEORGE ROBERT]. Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans, 1821, first edition, later three-quarters red morocco; the fourth edition of the same, later three-quarters red morocco, stamped; ANDRE, MAJOR JOHN. Major Andre's Journal, Bibliophile Society, 1904, first edition, two volumes, one of 467 copies signed by the engravers, full vellum gilt in slipcases, a very fine set; The Perpetual Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester, Isaiah Thomas, 1788, modern leather backed boards, Evans 21245; The Writings of Samuel Adams, 1904, number 380 of 750 copies of the Letterpress Edition, 4 volumes in full brown morocco gilt, with a dealer description bound in at front, slight fade to spines; STEPHENS, JOHN. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, New York, 1841, first edition, original decorated cloth gilt, foxing; MATHER, INCREASE. Remarkable Providences Illustrative of the earlier days of American Colonisation, London, 1856, full morocco gilt. The lot 19 volumes.
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