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Lot 273
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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250
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$88
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Lot Description
[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. [FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1705-1790)]. Cato's Moral Distichs. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1939.
8vo. Original leaf from the Church of Scotland Prayer Book, printed by Benjamin Franklin (Philadelphia 1745) bound in; 24 pp. facsimile of Cato's 'Moral Distichs printed by Franklin throughout. Original green cloth gilt (a few small scuffs to cover).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press for The Book Club of California, with an explanatory forward by Carl Van Doren. Original prospectus laid in.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borosini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation