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Lot 4
[AMERICANA] Reference collection of approximately four hundred fifty volumes of Americana subjects.
Various dates and publishers. Includes first and later editions. Mostly original bindings or wrappers. Potential wear commensurate with age and use, some quite worn, ownership or other markings, dust jackets may be lacking, the lot sold as is.
A large miscellany of antiquarian and reference works, sets and pahmphlets ranging across American history, including works on geography, culture, literature, biography, and government. Subjects include pioneer narratives, Revolutionary and Civil War histories, a few volumes of Harper's Magazine bound in half morocco, the Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes, the 15 volume Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Colton's Map of the State of Georgia (pocket map circa 1870), various society journals, Binger's 1900 work on the Louisiana Purchase with maps, Ames' The Mayflower and Her Log, 1901; numerous biographies on the Founding Fathers, American explorers, a few works on or by Theodore Roosevelt, leading politicians, public intellectuals, and figures from folk tales.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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