Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 231

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(OHIO IMPRINT.) Kilbourn, John. Columbian Geography; or, a Description of the United States of America. [9], 14-228 pages. 12mo, contemporary 1/2 calf, worn; foxed and toned, paper flaws on leaves D2 and K1 with slight loss of text; early owners' inscriptions on endpapers. Chillicothe, OH, 1815

Additional Details

This copy collates with those at Yale and the American Antiquarian Society and is apparently complete, although other sources call for a straight 228 pages. AII Ohio 261; Howes K128 ("b"); Shaw-Shoemaker 35058. Only one other copy known at auction since 1973 (the Siebert copy in 1999).