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Lot 95
Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$500 -
800
Price Realized
$320
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Lot Description
[British Isles] Westall, R(ichard). Victories of the Duke of Wellington
London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1819. First edition. 4to. iv, 47, (1) pp. Illustrated with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page, and 11 hand-colored aquatint plates, by T. Fielding and Chas. Heath, after R. Westall. Original three-quarter red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, original printed blue paper cover label, spine lettered in gilt, front board almost completely detached, boards worn and rubbed, rear joint moderately worn; old ownership signature of Mary Pemberton on front paste-down; offsetting from plates onto text; light scattered soiling to text; repair in fore-edge of E1. From the family libraries of Americana collectors and bibliophiles Amor L. and Zachary T. Hollingsworth. Abbey, Life 381 (his first variant); Tooley, p. 265
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