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Lot 62
Sale 5372 - Rare Books & Manuscripts
Apr 10, 2014
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$250 -
400
Price Realized
$130
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Lot Description
1 vol.
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1 vol.
(Cruikshank, George, illus.) [Barker, M.H.] Greenwich Hospital, A Series of Naval Sketches, Descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man. By an Old Sailor. London: James Robins, 1826.
1st book-form ed. 4to, slightly later 19th-century 1/4 navy morocco & marbled bds, gilt, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., other edges trimmed; corners bumped, joints & spine ends often rubbed. With 12 hand-colored plates, 16 wood-engraved text illus. Light to moderate offsetting, scattered mostly light foxing to text, moderate foxing & marginal discoloration after title & front matter to p50. Plates genereally clean. Light foxing to endpapers. Tall copy in custom fall-down green cloth box.
Cohn 53.