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Lot 139
Sale 6115 - Books & Manuscripts
Sep 19, 2019
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[Americana] [Princetion University] (Blair, Samuel) An Account of the College of New-Jersey
Woodbridge, New-Jersey: James Parker, 1764. First edition. 8vo. 47pp. Illustrated with a supplied frontispiece folding-plate engraving of the Presidents House from another work ("The engraving referred to is frequently lacking," Sabin 53032). Later three-quarter red leather over marbled boards, lightly worn, extremities rubbed; spine lettered in gilt, spine ends rubbed; later endpapers and blank leaves. Plate trimmed and repaired with a small loss at top gutter; light dampstaining and soiling to text; chipping to fore-edge leaves; scattered creasing; lightly toned; dampstaining to top edge and fore-edge of half-title and title-page. Evans 9752; Sabin 53032.