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Lot 127

Sale 322 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Aug 6, 2014 10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 - 600
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$250
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ALKEN, HENRY Henry Alken's Scrap Book. London: McLean, 1824. Oblong 8vo, original quarter green cloth over decorative boards, paper title label to front cover, pale yellow endpapers. With 20 engraved color plates. One of the rarer scrapbooks by Alken, depicting heads of people and animals, hunting scenes, and dog and cock fights. Wear to boards; spine deteriorating; marginal foxing and light offsetting from plates.

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