Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 3245TLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: May 08, 2019 12:00PM
Description:
The History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts. By the Committee of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, Extra Illustrated. Boston: Ebenezer Clapp Jr., 1859. Thick quarto, first and only edition, with nineteen photographic portraits of prominent Dorchester natives and founders, most trimmed to ovals, all mounted on heavy stock, bound in contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards, rubbed, ex libris L.B. Taft, with his signature on ffep, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
Estimate $200-300
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