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Lot 348
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
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Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$300 -
500
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$704
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Lot Description
[AMERICANA]. PIKE, Zebulon Montgomery. An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and Through the Western Parts of Louisiana... Philadelphia: Printed by John Binns, Published by C. & A. Conrad & Co., et al. 1810.
First edition. 8vo. 5, (iii), 106, (10), (107)- 277, (5), 65, (1), 53, (1), 87 pp. Illustrated with a stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of Pike; lacking all maps and tables. Full contemporary calf, red morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, boards and extremities scuffed, paper library label at foot of spine; all edges trimmed; remnants of book-plate of Mann S. Valentine on front paste-down, old library ink notation on same; front free endpaper sprung, ink stamp of The Valentine Museum on verso of same; offsetting from frontispiece; scattered foxing to text. Field 1217; Graff 3290; Howes P-373; Sabin 62836; Streeter Sale 3125; Wagner-Camp 9:1
This lot is located in Philadelphia.