11-12-201711-12-2017
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
3040BBoston
November 12, 2017 11:00 AMCalender
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Piercy, Frederick (1830-1891) Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley, Illustrated, with Distinguished Mormon Provenance.

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Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 3040BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 12, 2017 11:00AM

Description:

Piercy, Frederick (1830-1891) Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley, Illustrated, with Distinguished Mormon Provenance. Liverpool: by Franklin D. Richards; London: Latter-Day Saints' Book Depot, 1855. First edition, inscribed by Brigham Young's daughter Maria Young Dougall (1849-1935) to her niece Leah Dunford Widstoe and her husband, John A. Widstoe (1872-1952),a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (with his ownership stamp),and signed by prominent LDS Elder (and Maria Dougall's husband) William Bernard Dougall (1843-1909); large quarto, text edited by James Linforth, illustrated with folding engraved frontispiece map, nine text wood engravings, and thirty full-page steel engravings, in original half-leather, rebacked, new endpapers, ex libris U of U, with their stamp and stamp of withdrawal dated 20 May 1986, contents clean, 12 x 9 1/2 in.
Maria Young Dougall was a Utah suffragist and a member of the general presidency of the Young Women's organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, her father was founder of Salt Lake City and Second President of the Church, Brigham Young (1801-1877).
Estimate $3,000-5,000


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Keywords

Leah Dunford Widstoe, John A. Widstoe, Jesus Christ, Franklin D. Richards, Maria Dougall, William Bernard Dougall, James Linforth, London, Salt Lake City