Nov 29, 2001 - Sale 1916

Sale 1916 - Lot 347

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
TOCQUEVILLE, ALEXIS de. Democracy in America * Democracy in America. Part the Second. Together, 2 volumes. Each 8vo, publisher's cloth, backstrips defective, rear cover detached to the second; both foxed throughout; each with an early owner's ink stamp on the title (Andrew B. Almon), the first with a bookplate on the front pastedown and signature on the title (Benjamin Pickman). first american editions<> [see note]. Howes T278; Sabin 96064 and 96065; Clark III:111; American Imprints 53324.<\t>New York: Dearborn & Co., 1838; New York: Langley, 1840

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There seems to be some confusion among bibliographers as to the priority of the 1838 editions of the first part of Democracy in America. This copy with both the Dearborn and the Adlard and Saunders imprint and with the Craighead and Allen imprint on verso of the title.<