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Sat, Jan 27, 2018 11:00AM EST - Sun, Jan 28, 2018 11:00AM EST
Lot 95

Jefferson Davis’ Personal Copy of Moore’s Poetical Works.

Estimate: $300 - $500

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[Civil War] Davis, Jefferson (1808—1889). Jefferson Davis’ Personal Copy of Moore’s Poetical Works. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1843. Signed and dated by Davis on the title page, with a military (Union) inscription to the ffep added after the volume was seized. Contemporary half leather, banded spine. Frontispiece. 8vo. Wear to boards, intermittent light foxing, dampstains to frontis. and title.

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