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Lot 39

Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
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Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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$300 - 500

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[Americana] (Morse, Jedidiah). The History of America, in Two Books...


Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1798. The Third Edition. 12mo. Illustrated with an engraved folding frontispiece map and one engraved folding map. Full contemporary tree calf, red morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, front and rear boards starting and tender, boards and extremities worn and rubbed, chipping to spine ends; all edges trimmed; old ownership signatures on front endpapers; old pencil and ink notations on front blanks; spotting and repairs to maps; spotting to text. ESTC W31346 (recording 13 copies); Evans 34147; Sabin 50937

Scarce third edition of American geographer Jedediah Morse's history of America. First published in 1790, a second edition was published in 1795, followed by the above.

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