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Auction archive: Lot number 612

(Jefferson, Thomas)

Estimate
US$100,000 - US$150,000
Price realised:
US$254,500
Auction archive: Lot number 612

(Jefferson, Thomas)

Estimate
US$100,000 - US$150,000
Price realised:
US$254,500
Beschreibung:

(Jefferson, Thomas) Notes on the State of Virginia; written in the year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, for the use of a foreigner of distinction, in answer to certain queries proposed by him. [Paris: for the author by Philippe-Denis Pierres,] 1782 [i.e., 1785] 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 in.; 198 x 126 mm). Full-page woodcut plan of "Madison's cave," folding letterpress table, manuscript deletion, likely in Jefferson's hand, on p. 5. Contemporary French speckled calf, covers with gilt-roll frame, smooth spine gilt in compartments, plain endpapers, red-sprinkled edges; morocco label lost from spine with lettering still visible in blind, extremities rubbed and with some neat repair, very lightly shaken. Half brown morocco slipcase, chemise.

Auction archive: Lot number 612
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 2010
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

(Jefferson, Thomas) Notes on the State of Virginia; written in the year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, for the use of a foreigner of distinction, in answer to certain queries proposed by him. [Paris: for the author by Philippe-Denis Pierres,] 1782 [i.e., 1785] 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 in.; 198 x 126 mm). Full-page woodcut plan of "Madison's cave," folding letterpress table, manuscript deletion, likely in Jefferson's hand, on p. 5. Contemporary French speckled calf, covers with gilt-roll frame, smooth spine gilt in compartments, plain endpapers, red-sprinkled edges; morocco label lost from spine with lettering still visible in blind, extremities rubbed and with some neat repair, very lightly shaken. Half brown morocco slipcase, chemise.

Auction archive: Lot number 612
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 2010
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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