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Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020
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[Americana] Bancroft, George History of the United States, From the Discovery of the American Continent
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1844. In three volumes. 8vo. Tenth edition. Each volume inscribed by Bancroft on title-page to United States Representative George Sykes: "To the Hon George Sykes of NJ/with the respects of the author/Washington/Mar 10-1845". Each volume illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt, boards and extremities faded and soiled; all edges trimmed; endpapers and frontispieces foxed; scattered light foxing to text.