Image Lot Price Description

2342
$3,910.00

FOURTEEN BOOKS CITED IN THE “CATALOGUE OF BOOKS RECEIVED FROM WASHINGTON”. This Catalogue sheet listing the books from Washington was found in the Armsden estate and sold as Lot 2135 in our auction of February 5, 2010. Books include: THE NEW ANNUAL REGISTER, OR GENERAL REPOSITORY OF HISTORY, POLITICS, ETC. LONDON: 1780 & 1781 (two volumes), Octavo, half calf, boards loose, chips to crown and tails. Bookplate of B. L. Lear. WITH: Anderson, Aeneas, A NARRATIVE OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY TO CHINA. Basil: Tourneisen, 1795. Octavo, in the yap edged “ship’s” binding Damage to top of yap edge, else very good. WITH: a Folio English Dutch Dictionary. Amsterdam: 1735. Two volumes, small folio, full velum (quite soiled). Some damp staining. Front free fly of the Dutch volume torn with missing piece. Each title signed/or with the book plate of Benjamin Lincoln Lear. WITH: A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Washington City, 1802. Compiled by THOMAS HERTY. Octavo, cloth over marbled boards. Four copies, mostly very good. AND five odd volumes from the aforementioned list, two with bookplate of B. L. Lear. Poor to fair condition of these five odd volumes. Along with LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES by Robert W. Lincoln, 1842. CONDITION: Varies. 9-27196 (3,000-5,000)


Auction: Fine Art, Antiques & Asian - Winter 2013
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