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Description:
Four Historical Works and Two Manuscript Account Book/Ledger Name Indexes. Thomas T. Stone, Sketches of Oxford County (Portland: Shirley and Hyde, 1830),with a postcard regarding the book addressed to Mrs. Thos. T. Stone; Eugene Batchelder, Border Adventures: Or, The Romantic Incidents of a New-England Town; and Other Poems (Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851),(spine lacking, cover nearly detached); Thomas T. Stone, Sermons (Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1854),inscribed "Laura Stone From her Husband [Thomas T. Stone] Bolton, Nov. 30, 1854; and Thomas T. Stone ALS dated the same with a sentimental letter presenting the book to her, (cover with insect damage); Franklin B. Hough, Journals of Major Robert Rogers (Albany: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1883); and two 19th century manuscript account book/ledger name indexes with marbled paper covers.
Provenance: The Charles Foster Batchelder III estate, upstate New York, formerly of Natick, Massachusetts.
Estimate $200-400
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Keywords
Charles Foster, Robert Rogers, Franklin B. Hough, Laura Stone, Joel Munsell, Thomas T. Stone, Hyde, Thomas T. Stone Bolton, Reed, Nichols, Crosby, Eugene Batchelder, Shirley, Portland, NatickJohn Dorfman
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