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Lot 294
Sale 5132 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2017
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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(American Manuscrip...
(American Manuscripts & Autographs) American Physician' Manuscript Account Book. (Connecticut?), (ca. 1793-1800). 15 x 6 1/4 inches; 405 x 160 mm, binding gone. Approximately 100 leaves, the first 40 leaves (or so) were mounted in the mid 19th-century with stories, poems and other material excised from American magazines and newspapers, including an early printing of Harriet Beecher Stowe's, "Immediate Emancipation." Among the recorded accounts, Lieutenant Silas Holcombe, Noah Case, Jr., "Negro Brister."