Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
TOCQUEVILLE, ALEXIS DE. Democracy in America. xxx, 464; xx, 355 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, unmatched publisher's cloth, minor wear, first volume tastefully rebacked with portion of original backstrip laid down; moderate foxing, moderate dampstaining to first volume. New York: Adlard & Saunders, 1838 and 1840
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first american edition, with a new preface by John Canfield Spencer (who later served as Secretary of War). Volume I is the Adlard & Saunders issue (priority over the more common Dearborn issue is undetermined), and Volume II is published by J. & H.G. Langley. Clark, Old South, III:111-36, 42; Howes T278-9 ("aa"); Sabin 96064-5.