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Lot 373
Sale 5670 - Fine Books
Sep 29, 2005
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$500
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1 piece. 1 piece.
(Jefferson, Thomas, Rector of the University of Virginia.) (United States.) Memorial of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. Dec. 10, 1821. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1821. 8vo, unbound. [1-2]-4 pp.
Urging that tariffs on books imported into the United States be repealed, "to obstruct the acquisition of books from abroad, as an encouragement of the progress & literature at home, is burying the fountain to increase the flow of its waters..."
American Imprints 7375 (locating 2 copies)
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