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Lot 185
Sale 322 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Aug 6, 2014
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$100 -
200
Price Realized
$63
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Lot Description
(MORTON, J. STERLING)
First Annual Report of the Forest Commission of the State of New York, for the Year 1885. Albany: Argus, 1886.8vo, 3/4 tan morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. J. Sterling Morton copy with his bookplate pasted to front board and rear pastedown and inscribed by him on the f.f.e.p., signed ("J. Sterling Morton"), Arbor Lodge, Otoe County, Nebraska. With fold-out map of the Adirondack Plateau in pocket at front. Ex-Morton Arboretum Library copy with checkout card and pocket tipped to front endpaper; light wear and soiling to boards.


