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Lot 497

Sale 4605 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jun 20, 2019 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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[Travel & Exploration] Cussans, John Edwin History of Hertfordshire…

London: Chatto and Windus, 1870-81. In three volumes. First edition, #69/75 copies numbered and signed by Cussans. Folio. Illustrated with 22 color and tinted lithographic plates, one engraved portrait, one folding map, and illustrations in text. Contemporary three-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth, worn and rubbed, hinge starting on the first volume; top edges gilt, other edges trimmed; marbled endpapers; text and plates lightly toned throughout each volume, scattered foxing to same, small tide marks to top edge of several leaves at beginning of first volume, bottom edge in the second volume. Ex-library with book-plates on past-down in each volume, perforated stamps to title-page in each volume; ink stamps to the dedications in first and second volume and the half-title in third volume, mounted bardcode and ink stamp to rear blank in the first volume; all plates free of library markings. Sold with all faults.

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