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Lot 707

Sale 5520 - Pennsylvania Sale
Nov 23, 2008 7:00AM ET
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3 pieces + 2 vols.<...


3 pieces + 2 vols.
Muhlenberg Family Material: Printed document, filled-in in ms. Berlin, 1798. 1 p., folio. Membership certificate of Gotthief Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (1735-1815) for contributions in botany from Narturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. Signed by 12 noted academic members (Pelisson, Otto, Wildenour. Bode, Gronau, Herbst, Siegfried, Burgsdorf, Zollman, Bloch, M.H. Klaproth, L.G. Karsten). Slightly toned. * Manuscript document signed. Muhlenberg, F(rederick) (Augustus) (1795-1867). Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1821. 1 folio leaf; some creasing & moderate foxing. Framed. * Printed document filled-in in ms. Philadelphia, Sept. 20, 1878. 1 p., folio. American Philosophical Society Membership of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg (1818-1901 - first President, Muhlenberg College). Framed. * (Muhlenberg, Henry A. - bookplate of.) Schroeter, Johann Samuel. Lithologiesche Real und Verbal Lexicon. Frankfurt, 1784, 1785, 1788. Vols. 6-8 in 1. 8vo, contemp. 1/2 calf & bds.; scuffed, joints & extremities rubbed. Bookplate of Henry A. Muhlenberg, dated 1846, on front paste-down. * (Muhlenberg, W.F. - his copy.) Tait, Lawson. Diseases of Women. New York: W. Wood, 1879. 2nd ed. 8vo, orig. cloth; scuffed. Signed by W.F. Muhlenberg, son of F.A. Muhlenberg - first President of Muhlenberg College, practiced medicine in Reading.

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