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Sale 428: Americana - Travel - Natural History - Cartography (#428) 05/13/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #89 The American Star: Being a Choice Collection of the Most Approved Patriotic and Other Songs. Together with Many Original Ones Never Before Published

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zzf(American Star)

Title:

The American Star: Being a Choice Collection of the Most Approved Patriotic and Other Songs. Together with Many Original Ones Never Before Published

Author:

**

Place Published:

Richmond

Publisher:

Peter Cottom

Date Published:

1814

Description:

178 (of 180) pp. Folding frontispiece (lacking left half). (16mo) 13.6x8.5 cm. (5½x3¼"), period calf backed boards. First Edition.

Scarce collection of early American patriotic songs. According to ABPC and other sources, no copy of this edition has appeared at auction in at least 30 years. Sabin 1224 (citing the second edition of 1817). Rare.

Condition:

Binding worn; lacking the left half of the frontispiece and the final leaf of the index at the rear; foxing throughout, a few leaves chipped at corners (2 leaves with resulting loss of a few letters to line ends); good.

Item#:

210207

Headline:

The American Star Patriotic Songs 1814
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