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Lot 136
Sale 6115 - Books & Manuscripts
Sep 19, 2019
8:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$150 -
250
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$8,750
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Lot Description
[Americana] (Paine, Thomas) Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper-Money
Philadelphia: Charles Cist, 1786. First edition. 8vo. 53pp. Modern three-quarter brown leather over marbled boards; new endpapers and blanks. Top portion of title-page removed with entire first word lost and repaired with paper and filled in text; similar loss at gutter of title-page with repair and filled in text; entire text leaf backed; margins trimmed close; ownership signature in ink on preface leaf; numerical notation on top corner recto of every leaf; stamp on verso of final leaf; other scattered notation and light soiling. Evans 19880; Sabin 58221.