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Lot 228

[BINDING] American families, genealogical and biographical,...

Estimate: $400 - $600

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[BINDING] American families, genealogical and biographical, from most authentic sources? New York: The American Historical Society, n.d. [ca. 1919?]. Small folio. Contents printed on Japanese paper. Title hand colored. Profusely illustrated with hand colored coat of arms, tipped-in photogravures and engraved portraits, hand colored initials. Contemporary full blue Levant with red morocco inlay border framed in gilt with scallop cornerpieces, upper cover with the central arms of Allerton in gilt with black and grey inlays, lower cover with the central arms of Hurd in gilt with black and crimson inlays, raised bands stippled in gilt, compartments titled in gilt and with elaborate gilt scrollwork, top edge gilt, broad dentelle turn-ins, crushed crimson morocco doublures, cream silk moir? ffep, BY STIKEMAN & CO. BINDERY (small spot of rubbing to upper joint near head). A HANDSOME BINDING.