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FINE MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED AMERICANA INCLUDING THE CHARLES GODDARD SLACK COLLECTION.
The auction catalogue from the sale at Sotheby's in 1992 which offered 287 items from the Charles Goddard Slack collection of Americana and other fine manuscripts. There are items signed by Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Andrew Jackson, Walt Whitman, John F. Kennedy and several more. Items about the Civil War, the War of 1812, the Declaration of Independence and political cartoons were also offered. Illustrated in black-and-white and color.
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> FIRST EDITIONS, AMERICANA, AN IMPORTANT LETTER OF BURNS AND OTHER AUTHOGRAPHS, THE ASHLEY CATALOGUE AND MANY OTHER BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, MAINLY THE PROPERTY OF HARRY K. MORRIS, NEW YORK.
> THE LIBRARY OF MARSHALL B. COYNE (SOTHEBY'S).
> WORKS BY EMINENT WRITERS IN HANDSOMELY BOUND SETS, BIOGRAPHIES, HISTORIES, AND GENERAL LITERATURE, THE LIBRARY REMOVED FROM OPHIR HALL, PURCHASE, NEW YORK, RESIDENCE OF THE LATE MRS. WHITELAW REID.
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FABLES OF AESOP, AND OTHERS, WITH DESIGNS ON WOOD
by Aesop
Second edition copy from a limited edition of 1000. An illustrated version of the classical Aesop's Fables, with illustrations by the English wood engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). This is a Demy copy. (See Roscoe, 1953, 165-170). Recased, preserving original calf binding. Free endpaper with archival paper repairs along edges. Occasional spotting and some of the page corners bent inward. Signature by previous owner in brown ink on the free front endpaper. Well-preserved copy.
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