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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HUGO, Victor (1802?1885). Notre?Dame de Paris. Paris: Perrotin, 1844. 4to. Engraved title page, numerous steel engravings, head-pieces and initials by de Beaumont, Belanger, Danbigny, Johannot, de Lemud, Meissonnier, Roqueplan, de Rudder, and Steinheil; including many full-page. Contemporary morocco?backed marbled boards, raised bands with gilt filets, elegant gilt scrollwork in compartments, gilt stamped titles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (spine sunned, intermittent pale foxing). Provenance: Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper. ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SECOND PRINTING with bat on title vignette in place of typographic filets.