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Lot 385

Two North Carolina History Titles

Estimate: $400 - $600

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Three volumes total, including: Chronicles of the Cape Fear River by James Sprunt, Raleigh: Edwards & Boughton, 1916, second edition, bound in three quarter leather over cloth backed boards, gilt lettering to cover and spine; The History of North Carolina by Hugh Williamson, Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1821, two volumes

Provenance: Private Collection, North Carolina

Condition

wear to extremities, some bumped corners, scuffs and light staining throughout; Sprunt with front hinge cracked, some early pages starting; Williamson with losses to spines, foxing throughout, boards starting, lacking folding map