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1st Edition of Webster's AMERICAN DICTIONARY, 1828
Sold
$13,000
Timed Auction
Discovery Sale: Online - Only - Closing Monday, December 21st, 2020
Category
Description
An Extremely Rare Monument of American Scholarship. Noah Webster, AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (NY: S. Converse, 1828) 2 vols., 4to, full tree calf of the period, marbled end papers; leather shows some wear and scuffing, with a peeling strip on the front of Vol. ll.
Provenance
Descended in the Coale-Sappington Family of Liberty Town, Maryland.
