The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman | Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman | Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana

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Du Pont, Samuel F. | A rare Du Pont family copy

Auction Closed

April 14, 05:34 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 USD

Lot Details

Description

Du Pont, Samuel F.

Official Dispatches and Letters of Rear Admiral Du Pont, U.S. Navy. 1846-48. 1861-63. Wilmington, Del.: Press of Ferris Bros., 1883


8vo (225 x 138 mm). Three-quarter pebble-grained morocco and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, edges marbled, inscribed on front free endpaper by Sophie Du Pont, to her nephew, Alexis Du Pont; rebacked to style, extremities rubbed.  


The Du Pont family copy.


Both this work and Du Pont's Extracts from Private Journal-Letters were issued in privately printed editions of only 50 copies for private distribution, and are rare on the market. 


PROVENANCE

Alexis Du Pont (gift inscription; bookplate)


REFERENCE

Eberstadt 132:174; Garrett 207; Hill 520; Howes D589 ("b")

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