Lot 60
  • 60

(Fillmore, Millard)

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • printed book
Jared Sparks, ed. The Library of American Biography. Second Series. Vol. X (The Life of Nathanel Greene by George W. Greene). Boston: Little, Brown, 1864

In 8s (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.; 181 x 117 mm). Engraved frontispeice portrait of Greene, section-title to the biography. Publisher's ribbed purple cloth gilt, brown-coated endpapers, top edges gilt; very slight rubbing, small loss to head of spine. Purple buckram slipcase, chemise.

Provenance

Millard Fillmore (signature) — Mrs. Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby's New York, 27 March 1985, lot 46)

Catalogue Note

Association copy, from the library of Millard Fillmore and twice signed by him.The title-page and the verso of the front endpaper are both signed with Fillmore's acquisition date: "Millard Fillmore Jany. 26, 1867." Four other volumes from Fillmore's set of this series were sold in the Victor and Irene Murr Jacobs sale (Sotheby’s New York, 29 October 1996, lot 33).