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Sale 454: Rare Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps & Atlases (#454) 05/19/2011 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #73 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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Title:

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author:

Franklin, Benjamin

Place Published:

Boston and New York

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin

Date Published:

1906

Description:

xx, [2], 183 pp. Portrait frontispiece, plus plates within. 27.6x18.5 cm. (11x7¼"), bound in half blue morocco and boards, ruled in gilt, gilt decorated and lettered spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. One of 1000 copies printed at the Riverside Press.

Finely bound copy of the work, with a John K. King Books, Detroit rubberstamp on front blank leaf.

Condition:

Spine a touch faded, with light spots of rubbing mostly at ends and raised bands, gilt at top edges a bit rubbed; hinges tender; very good.

Item#:

216092

Headline:

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1906
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