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Emporium & Humber Family Collection Auction

Fri, Feb 4, 2022 09:00AM EST
Lot 376

Group of 12 Books on North Carolina History

Estimate: $200 - $400

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

including: History of North Carolina by Samuel A'Court Ashe, Greensboro: Charles L. Van Nopppen, 1925, rare two volume set (complete), in three quarter leather over tan buckram, with gilt lettering on spine, teg; and others

Provenance: Humber Family, North Carolina

Condition

bumped corners, wear to extremities, some scuffs and small losses to leather, some with front/back boards starting; Ashe volume one with front board detached, rear endpaper detached; Ashe volume two with backboard detached; Revolutionary Incidents probably missing title page; Life of Andrew Jackson with front and back boards detached, losses to leather at spine; one copy of Hawks History of North Carolina vol. 1 with front board detached