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Lot 86

Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022 5:00AM ET
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[Fine Bindings] Fiske, John Works

Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1892-1904. In 13 volumes. #163/250 numbered copies of the Large-Paper Edition. Profusely illustrated. Bound in three-quarter burgundy morocco, spines lightly faded, decorated in gilt, over linen-covered boards; marbled endpapers; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. A fine set.

Not an official set as such but each work is numbered #163/250. Titles not consistently listed in BAL.

Includes:

1. The Discovery of America..., 1892, in four volumes

2. The American Revolution, 1896, in two volumes

3. The Critical Period of American History 1783-1789, 1898

4. The Beginnings of New England..., 1898

5. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, 1900, in two volumes

6. The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, 1903, in two volumes

7. New France and New England, 1904

From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).

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