Jun 07, 2012 - Sale 2280

Sale 2280 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(SOLAR ECLIPSES.) Gray and Bowen. The American Almanac and Repository . . . for the Year 1831 * ditto . . . for the Year 1834. Together, 2 volumes, each with engraved folding map showing the paths across the United States of the solar eclipses in those years. 8vo, first in contemporary 1/4 calf, very worn; second in original wrappers. Boston, 1831; 1834

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Said to be the first and second American maps devoted to the solar eclipses of 1831 and 1834.