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Lot 1038

Seven North Carolina History Books

Estimate: $600 - $1,000

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including Obituary Addresses on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. William R. King, Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1854, King served as a Representative from North Carolina and Alabama, and Vice President under Franklin Pierce, this copy is signed by several senators and representatives, some of which are tipped-in, in original blind-stamped cloth with gilt decoration, corners bumped, nick in the front board, some evidence of damp-staining otherwise very goodInsanity in its Medico-Legal Relations by William A. Hammond, New York: Baker, Voorhis, 1866, original wrappers bound in marbled boards backed in leather, gilt lettering, ownership inscription on title page, some edgewear to wrappers otherwise very good, binding is as newReminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina by John Wheeler, 1884, rebacked with original cloth, very good; Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas, Volume II, 1892, hinges starting, boards rubbed otherwise very goodHistorical Sketches of North Carolina by John H. Wheeler, 1851, two volumes in one, Howes W-323, in original blind-stamped cloth, extremities rubbed otherwise very goodSketches of Prominent Living North Carolinians by Jerome Dowd, 1888, in original blind-stamped boards, extremities rubbed otherwise very goodCornelius Harnett by R. D. W. Connor, 1909, in original cloth, inscribed by author, extremities rubbed otherwise very good

, Provenance: The Collection of Thomas A. Gray