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Important Historic Americana | October 17, 2024

Thu, Oct 17, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Lot 1193

Group of Four Travel Related Documents

Estimate: $300 - $500

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including: The Traveller's Directory Through the United States by John Melish, fifth edition, Philadelphia: T.H. Palmer, 1819, with four full page maps and two folding maps with hand color, red leather binding; Description of The Island of Trinidad... New York: James Van Norden, 1839; To Coloured Emigrants. Sure and Profitable Speculation in Trinidad., New York: James Van Norden, 1840; Trade Between the United States and the Republic of Peru, July 31, 1854

Provenance: A Historic Edenton Family Collection

Note: This lot was viewed by representatives of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and the Department does not at this time have reason to believe that the Lot contains any out-of-custody public records.

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A Historic Edenton Family Collection

all with scattered browning, foxing, and staining throughout, wear to extremities