Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(FLORIDA.) Vignoles, Charles. Observations upon the Floridas. [4], [7]-197 pages, errata leaf. 8vo, publisher's printed boards detached but present, worn; foxing, lacking one leaf (apparently the half-title), first two leaves detached, faint dampstaining, major tear on final page not affecting text, does not include separately issued map; uncut; early owners' penciled signatures on title page and rear flyleaf, bookplate on front pastedown. New York, 1823
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first edition. The observations of an Irish engineer who spent time in St. Augustine as a surveyor. Only one other copy known at auction since 1983. Clark, Old South II:273; Howes V97 ("aa"); Sabin 99608.