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]. ?? [EASTON PRESS]. A large group of approximately 59 titles related to history. Norwalk: The Easton Press, v.d. Original leather gilt, raised bands, silk moir? endpapers, all edges gilt. Includes multiple volumes of Smith?s The History of America and of Macaulay?s History of England; multiple biographies of American presidents and other political figures, among them Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy; histories of numerous wars throughout the ages and the people who waged them, including Julius Caesar, Omar Bradley, others; biographies of cultural figures such as Helen Keller, Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter the Great, and Alexander Graham Bell. Some incomplete sets. ?? All 8vos, 4tos. Condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.