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EARLY & RARE BOOKS AND RELATED ITEMS AUCTION
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(4 titles) 4 leather-bound titles pertaining to science/history/geography, including A COMPLETE PRONOUNCING GAZETTEER OR GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, OF THE WORLD by J Thomas and T Baldwin, Lippincott, 1863, 4to, 2182pp. Bound in full period speckled calf. Red leather spine label, light wear to covers; OUR FIRST CENTURY: BEING A POPULAR DESCRIPTIVE PORTRAITURE OF THE ONE HUNDRED GREAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS by RM Devens, with color lithograph illustrated title page and many other illus in b&w. Front and rear board beginning to detach, Edge wear to covers, contents clean; Darby, Wm. DARBY'S EDITION OF BROOKES' UNIVERSAL GAZETTEER: OR, A NEW GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, Phila, Bennett & Walton, 1823. 8vo, 1119pp + 154pp. Hand-colored folding map of US at front is in worse than poor condition, but with some loving care, could be repaired. Boards beginning to detach, wear to covers; and Loomis, Elias. A TREATISE ON ASTRONOMY, Harper & Bros, NY, 1885, VG+. Some vols with ownerships.
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