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Lot 112

Sale 6115 - Books & Manuscripts
Sep 19, 2019 8:00AM ET
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[Americana] [Thomas Jefferson] (Carpenter, Stephen Cullen) Memoirs of the Hon. Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, Vice-President, and President of the United States of America...

(New York): Printed for the Purchasers, 1809. In two volumes. First edition. 8vo. [1], iv, 404pp., [1]; [3], 434pp., [1]. Near contemporary sheep, worn and rubbed, front cover of the first volume detached, losses to spine ends on each volume; spines stamped in gilt, chipped and faded. Varying degrees of foxing and toning throughout the entirety of each volume, especially to the prelims and rear endpapers; margins slightly trimmed; fore-edge of p.183 in the second volume completely excised; fore-edge of p.263 in the second volume partially excised; scattered manuscript notation in the margins of the second volume; worming to front paste-down and first free endpaper of the first volume. With the armorial book-plate of W.S. Jones, Vaucluse (Frederick County, Virginia) on the front paste-down of each volume and with his signature on the title-page in the second volume. Howes C 164; Sabin 11004.

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