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Description:
Eight Books Including Norwood, American Revolution, Distinguished Americans (Four Vols.),Surgeon General, Bull Run. Cook, H.T., George Alexander Norwood, New York: The De Vinne Press, 1911, bound in paneled green cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, frontispiece photograph of Norwood, inscription of front flypaper reading "To Mr. R.E. Allen from J.W. Norwood," (minor shelf wear),9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.; Dr. Esmarch, Friedrich, The Surgeon's Handbook, New York: L.W. Schmidt, 1878, quarter bound in brown morocco, with black marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, illustrated throughout, inscribed on ffep, (wear to spine and along joints, minor shelf wear),9 x 6 1/2 in.; Barnhart, John D., Henry Hamilton and George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution, Crawfordsville, 1951, first edition, limited to 800 copies, quarter bound in black cloth with floral boards, pasted-in frontispiece, inscribed on ffep, (minor shelf wear),9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.; Barnard, J.G., The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1862, signed by author on ffep, bound in paneled red cloth, gilt lettering on front cover, (missing all maps, rubbing to boards, sunning to spine),9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.; The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Philadelphia: D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1859, four volumes fully bound in brown leather, blind-tooling and stamping on front and back covers, gilt lettering and blind-stamping on spine, full gilt edges, illustrated throughout, (rubbing along joints and edges of boards with loss to leather, minor toning),11 x 7 3/4 in.
Estimate $250-350
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Keywords
Henry Hamilton, George Rogers Clark, Friedrich, Cook, D., George Alexander Norwood, Barnard, A.N. Hart, J.W. Norwood, L.W. Schmidt, R.E. Allen, H.T., Barnhart, Esmarch, Philadelphia, CrawfordsvilleJohn Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
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