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Lot 396
Sale 4605 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jun 20, 2019
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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[Philadelphia & Environs] Pocket Diary for 1865
[No place]: Published Annually for the Trade, 1865. 48mo; 4 x 2 ½ inches, 100x64mm. Original flexible black morocco, complete with gilt stamped flap and pencil. Printed titles-page, calendar and other front matters. Manuscript entries in ink and pencil of a merchant active in Pennsylvania, includes activities in Reading, Meadsville and Titusville, during the Oil rush. The entry for April 14 refers to the death of President Lincoln. Front free endpaper detached but present; internally clear and legible.