Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 210

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(NEW YORK.) Journal of the Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Colony of New-York. Volume I only, covering 1691-1743. Folio, contemporary calf, worn, front cover detached; contents somewhat worn throughout; bookplates on front pastedown, early owners' signatures on title page, inked library stamps on title page and elsewhere. New York, 1764

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As usual, preface bears the manuscript inscription "Bound by Rob. McAlpine," suggesting a possibly unique colonial example of a signed edition binding. "Posterity regards these signed McAlpine bindings with a degree of interest out of all proportion to their negligible aesthetic value"--Wroth, Colonial Printer, 210. Evans 9756; Sabin 53719.