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Lot 2

Seven Books on United States History and Law

Estimate: $400 - $600

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 [Journal of the Senate of the United States of America], Philadelphia: printed by John Fenno, 1791, bound in leather, with five raised bands, gilt lettering to spine label, 12-1/4 x 8 in.; [Biography and History of the Indians of North America, from its First Discovery] by Samuel G. Drake, Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1851, bound in blind stamped leather, gilt lettering to spine, 9-1/4 x 6 in.; and others, Provenance: Collection from an Important American Family

Condition

wear to extremities and losses to leather to books throughout, some boards starting but holding, [Journal of the Senate..] and [The Jackson Wreath or National Souvenir] with detached front board (but present); other typical wear and abrasionsÿ