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Sat, Sep 15, 2018 09:00AM EDT
Lot 1030

Eight North Carolina Related History Books

Estimate: $400 - $600

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including Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina by Edmund Ruffin, Raleigh: Printed at The Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, 1861, Howes R-492, an important work of southern agriculture, by the man called "the father of modern agronomy", Ruffin is remembered for his fervent states' rights beliefs and his secessionist rhetoric, in 1865, after the war, he wrapped himself in the Confederate flag and shot himself; in original wrappers, wrappers are rubbed at the extremities and with minor losses otherwise very good; a partial set of Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece by the Abbe Barthelemy, 1804, three volumes (from a total of four), North Carolina Senator Robert Strange's copy with his ownership signatures in each volume, in full leather with morocco spine labels, front hinges tender otherwise very good; plus four other titles

 

, Provenance: The Collection of Thomas A. Gray

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