Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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[BINDINGS]. AINSWORTH, William Harrison (1805?1882). Historical Romances of? Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, n.d. 20 volumes, 8vo. Printed on vellum throughout; frontispieces and plates printed in two states with remarques, lettered tissue guards. Contemporary half brown morocco with silk moir? sides, covers gilt?tooled with a monogram of ?PMS? inside a wreath, 2 larges compartments with one raised bands, large floral tools with leafy green morocco inlays, gilt?lettering in remainder, top edges gilt, silk moir? endpapers (a touch of rubbing at corners). LIMITED EDITION, number 439 of 1000 copies, of the ?First State, Library Edition? printed on Japanese vellum with the plates in two states.