Title: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson Author: Jefferson, Thomas Place: Charlottesville [Va.] Publisher: Published by F. Carr, and Co. Date: 1829 Description: 4 volumes. viii, [2], 466; [4], 500; [4] 519; [4], 532 pp. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Engraved frontispiece portrait in Vol. IV; 4-leaf folding facsimile of the draft of the Declaration of Independence at rear of Vol. IV. (8vo) 23.3x14.5 cm (9¼x5¾"), original cloth-backed boards, paper spine labels; housed in two modern half morocco clamshell cases. First Edition. Important compilation of writings by perhaps the most brilliant of the founding fathers, with a notable facsimile of the draft of the Declaration of Independence. In rare original state of cloth-backed boards, pages untrimmed and largely unopened. Bookplates of Victor B. Levit, few early ownership signatures. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear to boards, spines faded, rubbed, labels worn; normal foxing and darkening to contents; very good, very uncommon in the original boards. Item number: 274493
Title: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson Author: Jefferson, Thomas Place: Charlottesville [Va.] Publisher: Published by F. Carr, and Co. Date: 1829 Description: 4 volumes. viii, [2], 466; [4], 500; [4] 519; [4], 532 pp. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Engraved frontispiece portrait in Vol. IV; 4-leaf folding facsimile of the draft of the Declaration of Independence at rear of Vol. IV. (8vo) 23.3x14.5 cm (9¼x5¾"), original cloth-backed boards, paper spine labels; housed in two modern half morocco clamshell cases. First Edition. Important compilation of writings by perhaps the most brilliant of the founding fathers, with a notable facsimile of the draft of the Declaration of Independence. In rare original state of cloth-backed boards, pages untrimmed and largely unopened. Bookplates of Victor B. Levit, few early ownership signatures. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear to boards, spines faded, rubbed, labels worn; normal foxing and darkening to contents; very good, very uncommon in the original boards. Item number: 274493
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