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Lot 339

Sale 5670 - Fine Books
Sep 29, 2005 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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4 vols.


4 vols.
Americana - Mid 19th-Century Imprints: [Frost, John.] Indian Wars of the United States,... by William V. Moore. Philadelphia: J. & J.L. Gihon, 1853. 8vo, orig. gilt-pictorial purple-brown cloth; some edge wear, occasionally frayed & scuffed. Hand-colored frontis., additional vignette title, 6 hand-colored plates, plain full-page illus. & vignettes. Occasional minor internal dampstaining & spotting. * Arthur, T.S. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo; J.W. Bradley, 1854. 1st ed., 1st issue. 12mo, orig. brown cloth; worn, spine cracked. Frontis. & additional engraved title. Scattered foxing & spotting. Slightly shaken. * Smith, William Prescott. The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857. New York: D. Appleton, 1858. 1st ed. 12mo, orig. green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, edge wear, spine ends frayed, head of spine starting to detach, spine & edges faded. Fold. map + 30 plates (2 fold.). 40 pp. adverts. With notice slip for 2nd ed. tipped in. Lacking front free endpaper. Internally clean. Sabin 84846. * Thoreau, Henry D. Letters to Various Persons. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. 1st ed. 8vo, orig. purple cloth, spine gilt; spine ends frayed away, some fraying along & front hinge, occasional edge wear. Internally clean. BAL 20116, bdg. A.

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