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American and British Imprints, 18th and 19th Century, Eight Titles. Including: Edward Shaw's Civil Architecture, Boston: Marsh, Capen, and Lyon, 1831, large quarto, illustrated, title page with folds, tears, and damage; Richard Walter's A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. by George Anson, London: for Osborne et al., 1767, large quarto, illustrated, full leather, front board detached; Peter Whitney's The History of the County of Worcester, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1793, octavo, folding frontispiece map, contents browned, contemporary sheepskin, worn; Morse's Gravestones of Acadie, London: A. Smith & Co., 1929, limited edition, copy 205 of 500 bound in half leather; and four others. (8)
Estimate $400-600
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Keywords
A. Smith & Co., Richard Walter, Edward Shaw, George Anson, Peter Whitney, Capen, London, LyonCarly Babione
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