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Lot 105
Sale 5024 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jan 31, 2019
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$531
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[Americana] (Carli, Giovanni Rinaldo) Della lettere americane
Cosmopoli (i.e. Florence), 1780. Two volumes bound as one. First edition in book form. 275, [8]; 318, [10] pp. plus folding engraved map (overlooked by Howes). Engraved vignette of an American Indian on each title-page. 19th century olive green cloth library-style binding, lettered in gilt, top edge stained brown, other edges speckled. With the armorial book-plate of George Cornwall Legh (1804-1877) on front paste-down. Legh was a Conservative Member of Parliament (1841-1847, 1848-1868, 1868-1873). Bell C74; Howes C149; Sabin 10911; Hough, The Italians and the Creation of America 94.