Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 250

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Belknap, Jeremy. The History of New-Hampshire. Folding map with short closed tear and slight wear to fore-edge. 3 volumes. 8vo, uniform 19th-century 1/2 calf, moderate wear; a bit of dampstaining near the end of Volume I; later owners' inscriptions on front endpapers. Boston, 1792, 1791, 1792

Additional Details

First edition, including the second printing of Volume I. Provenance: U.S. Senator and New Hampshire historian Charles H. Bell (1823-1893), gift inscription to General and Senator Gilman Marston (1811-1890); later signatures of Edwin W. Eastman (1894-1980) of Exeter, NH. Howes B323 ("aa"); Sabin 4434. with--two later editions of the same work: 8vo, uniform calf, 3 volumes. Dover, NH, 1812 8vo, mixed edition in uniform calf. Boston, MA, 1813, with Dover edition of Volume III.