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AMERICAN IMPRINTS] Group of eleven volumes on Architecture, Trade & Commerce, and Historical subjects . Comprising: TAYLOR, ISAAC. Scenes of Wealth ... Trades-Manufactures-Produce and Commerce. Hartford: Cooke, 1826. Early half calf. Copper engravings. Binding worn; PAIN, WILLIAM. The Practical House Carpenter. Philadelphia: Dobson, 1797. Sixth edition (second American). Modern cloth. Plates. A rebound and nearly defective copy with numerous tape repairs and losses to plates, stains, but nonetheless an important American building guide. Evans 32628; ; TRUMBULL, BENJAMIN. A Complete History of Connecticut. Hartford: 1797. First edition. Vol. 1 only. Rebacked calf. Folding map and three plates. Binding worn, tape repair to map. Howes T-366; SHATTUCK, LEMUEL. A History of the Town of Concord. Boston: 1835. Rebacked early boards. Large folding map. With the signatures and booklabel of notable Boston merchant Peter Chardon Brooks, tape repairs to map. Sabin 79878; WATSON, JOHN FANNING. Annals of Philadelphia. Phila: 1830. Early calf. Numerous plates. With a circa 1837 drawing of the old court house laid in, board detached, spotting and marginalia. Howes W169; SIDNEY, ALGERNON. Discourses On Government. New York: 1805. 3 volumes. Contemporary calf. Bindings worn; DOWNING, ANDREW JACKSON A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening: New York: n.d. Eighth edition. Original cloth. Plates. A sound copy; and others including a color-plate work on mushrooms and the 1851 Memoirs of the painter and minster Edward Hicks Lot sold with all faults. Provenance: The Dr. Frank H. Sommer III Trust C