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A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700…

IRVING, Washington.—A History of New York . . . The Author's revised edition. Complete in one volume. New York: George P. Putnam and Son . . . [Riverside Press, Cambridge] 1867. Imperial 8vo, brown levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by Matthews.
One of three copies specially printed on drawing paper. In addition to the series of illustrations by Darley and others, proofs on India paper, published with the book, four portraits of Irving have been added, proofs, and a full set of the illustrations after Leslie and Allston, proofs on India paper.
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A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700…

PAINE, Thomas.—Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly; being a plan for meliorating the condition of man, by creating in every nation a national fund, To pay to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, to enable him, or her to begin the world; and also, ten pounds sterling per annum during life to every person now living of the age of fifty years, and to all others when they shall arrive at that Age, to enable them to live in old age without Wretchedness, and go decently out of the World. By Thomas Paine, .
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A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700…

Jameson . . . London. Saunders and Otley . . . 1834. 12mo, four volumes, half red levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by Krafft.
First edition of "Visits and Sketches," second of "Diary of an Ennuyée." Steel frontispiece and woodcut illustrations.
JAMESON, Anna Murphy.—The Romance of Biography; or Memoirs of Women loved and celebrated [88] by Poets, from the days of the Troubadours to the present age; a series of anecdotes intended to illustrate the influence which female beauty and virtue have exercised over the characters and writings of men of genius. By Mrs. Jameson . . . third edition.
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