Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
"THIS IS MY 85[TH] BIRTH DAY" (SUFFRAGISTS.) SUSAN B. ANTHONY. History of Woman Suffrage. Signed and Inscribed, to her cousin Joshua Anthony, on a front blank of each volume. Vols III and IV only (of 4). Small 4to, publisher's cloth, rubbing to edges, some worming at front joint of volume IV. Rochester, (1886; 1902); inscriptions: Rochester, 15 February 1905

Additional Details

III: "To Joshua Anthony / Ushers, N.Y. / From his Cousin / Susan B. Anthony / Rochester, N.Y. / Feb. 15. 1905."

"IV: "[begins as does volume III] . . . This is / my 85 birth day. It / will be ten more years / if I reach the age of my--of our-- / Grand father Anthony Humphrey."

Humphrey Hicks Anthony (1770-1866) was a farmer and blacksmith in Berkshire County, MA, whose descendants included activist Susan B. Anthony and Ushers, NY, manufacturer Joshua Anthony.