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Sat, Sep 15, 2018 09:00AM EDT
Lot 1031

Journals of the NC Senate and House of Commons

Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000

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including Journal of the Senate, State of North Carolina, dated November 3, 1788, Edenton: Printed by Hodge and Wills, [1789], 41 pages, gathered signatures, the record of the first session of the Senate of the State of North Carolina, and an early North Carolina imprint, Evans 22035, overall toning, otherwise very good; including Journal of the House of Commons, State of North Carolina, dated November 3, 1788, Edenton: Printed by Hodge and Wills, [1789], 56 pages, loose signatures, the record of the first activities of the first session of the North Carolina House of Commons, and an early North Carolina imprint, Evans 22034, overall toning, otherwise very good; any 18th century North Carolina imprints are quite rare; both are housed in a custom-made cloth chemise and slipcase in quarter leather over marbled boards, with elaborately gilt decorated spine, four raised bands, as new

, Provenance: The Collection of Thomas A. Gray