Feb 02, 2006 - Sale 2065

Sale 2065 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 1,610
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WITH THE RARE FRONTISPIECE (SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI.) Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. Engraved frontispiece. vii, 88 pages. 8vo, later 1/2 morocco, a bit worn; offsetting to the title from the plate, dampstaining to the front blank; early owners's signatures on verso of frontispiece and on the front blank (Jacob and William Chrystler), later bookplate on the front pastedown (C. L. F. Robinson). Philadelphia: John Steele, 1785
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Scarce. The frontispiece, engraved by Robert Scot, shows an American armor-clad "knight" waving a 13 star flag and sending Lady Britannia and her lion back to her boat. Evans 19248; Sabin 13130.