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[Extra-Illustrated]. John Fiske. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1900. Large Paper Ed... (Total: 4 Items)
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Extra-Illustrated with Nearly 400 Pieces, including Plates, Maps, and an Original Old Virginia Tobacco Shipping Document from 1771
[Extra-Illustrated]. John Fiske. Old Virginia and Her
Neighbours. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1900. Large
Paper Edition. Two large octavo volumes extended to four. With
nearly 400 leaves with mounted plates, maps, title-pages,
portraits, etc. Each volume with an extra general title-page.
Bound by C. Walters in contemporary full dark brown levant morocco,
boards double-ruled in gilt, spine ruled, paneled and lettered in
gilt in compartments, five raised bands, gilt board edges and
turn-ins. Three of the volumes have been rebacked preserving the
original spines, volume III has not, and the front board is loose
and the rear board is detached, bindings worn. Interiors bright. A
good set.This expensive Large Paper edition is quite difficult to find, even more so with the addition of the superb plates, maps, broadsides, scenes, views, etc. Of special interest is an original shipping document (July 30, 1771) for "Six Hogsheads of Tobacco" as shipped by Col. Dudley Diggs. Extra plates in mezzotint, stipple, early lithograph, engravings (copperplate, steel, and wood), etc. with excellent impressions. Including over sixty copperplates from De Bry's Voyages, a rare portrait of Columbus by Maverick, plates of America Vespuccius, Pocahontas and Capt. Smith, George Washington, and many, many more.
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2014 October 8 Rare Books Signature Auction - Beverly Hills #6112 (go to Auction Home page)
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