![[REFERENCE and COLLECTING] Group of works on Americana and collecting topics.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/284/1452284.jpg?itok=br6FdW0J)
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Lot 106
[REFERENCE & COLLECTING] Group of works on Americana and collecting topics.
Comprising: Three leather bound deluxe issue catalogues from the William Reese Company, including The Revolutionary Hundred, The Federal Hundred, and The Best of the West, each one of 12 specially bound copies bearing a gift inscription to Ira A. Lipman from Bill Reese; six additional cloth bound catalogues from the William Reese Company including duplicates of those previously listed and others; the cloth bound volume Bill Reese Memorial: A Life Well Lived; Clarence Brigham's Paul Revere's Engravings, first edition, 1954, cloth in jacket; two copies of Printing and the Mind of Man, both second editions, cloth in jacket; Howes' U.S.IANA, second edition, cloth; John Blew's The Lives and Work of Wright and Zoe Howes and the Story of U.S.IANA, second edition, cloth; Printing and the Brain of Man. The Sixteenth Century Brain. Selections from the Collection of Eugene S. Flam, Grolier Club, new in shrink-wrap; Axelrod's Collecting Historic Documents, 1984, boards; and the following illustrated reference works on the Revolutionary Era, most cloth in dust jacket: Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence; The George Washington Collection; The Stars and Stripes; Benjamin Franklin: Writer and Printer; A Grand Old Flag; 1776; George Washington's America: A Biography through Maps; and Dining With the Washingtons. Some light wear and markings but generally fine copies, sold as is.
William S. Reese (1955-2018) was America's preeminent dealer of Americana and a great scholar and bibliographer. Ira A. Lipman was a passionate Americana collector and these specially bound limited issue catalogues of many of the finest items sourced and collected by both are certainly notable.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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