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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FOSTER, Joshua James (1847?1923). The Stuarts? London: Dickinsons, 1907. One volume in 3, 4to. EXTRA? ILLUSTRATED with 178 plates, inserted with additional title?pages and list of illustrations in manuscript prepared by Foster (dated 1920). Contemporary half sheepskin with single gilt fillets, 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, 3 with gilt tooled centerpieces of the Lion of England, remainder lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Provenance: William Edward Hollis (bookplate). A unique copy extra?illustrated with 18th to 20th century engravings of the royal family.