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Sat, Jan 17, 2015 09:00AM EST - Sun, Jan 18, 2015 09:00AM EST
Lot 860

Sixty-Nine Leather-Bound Books

Estimate: $500 - $800

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1782, 1851, including a partial set of Bell’s Edition of The Poets of Great Britain, London, 1782, 63 volumes, 5 x 3-1/4 in. very good in full tree calf with gilt lettered and decorated spines, two morocco spine labels; The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, London, 1851, 3 volumes, 6-1/2 x 4 in. very good in full leather with five raised bands, morocco spine labels, gilt decorated spines, all edges marbled; The Poetical Works of John Milton, London, 1851, 6-1/2 x 4 in. very good in full leather with five raised bands, elaborately decorated spines, morocco spine labels, all edges marbled . Provenance: Congressman Thomas Lowndes son of Rawlins begat…Charles Tidyman Lowndes son of Thomas - President of SC National Bank begat…Caroline Hampton Lowndes (Mullally) daughter of Charles Tidyman Lowndes married to Dr Lane Mullally, Owned Nathaniel Russell HouseCharles  Lowndes Mullaly (grandfather of consignor) 1898- 1982, Owned the People’s Building in Charleston and Cadillac dealership, Owned tugboat business which government took over in World War II

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