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Lot 125
Sale 6115 - Books & Manuscripts
Sep 19, 2019
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[Americana] Sherburne, John Henry Life and Character of the Chevalier John Paul Jones, A Captain in the Navy of the United States
City of Washington: [United States Navy] 1825. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's two-toned blue and brown paper-covered boards with white paper spine label lettered in black, scattered soiling to boards, wear and bumping to extremities, minor loss to spine ends, front hinge starting at bottom edge, tide mark from prelims through p. 17 affecting the frontispiece and title, tide mark also from approx p. 347 through rear board. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of John Paul Jones by C. W. Peale. Howes S393.