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519. Lot of Decorators Books

1) Washington's Farewell Address to the people of the United States. Published for the Washington Benevolent Society. Windsor: T.M. Pomroy. 1812. Includes certificated of admittance for the Washington Benevolent Society. 23 pp. Bound with marbled paper on boards with leather spine. 2) Letters of Anna Seward: Written between the years 1784 and 1807. Vol II of six volumes. Edinburgh, L George Ramsay & Company. 1811. 399 pp. bound in red leather with gilt tooling and gilt to edges of pages. Five compartments on spine with gilt lettering. 3) A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians... by W. Wilberforce, esq. Philadelphia: Key and Biddle, 1835. 232 pp. Owners name Colin Ferrie appears on bookplate and written in brown ink on front page. With tooled leather cover and spine with six compartments...

...4) Correspondance with de My Lady Cécile. Tome Premier. Paris: Chez Gents Jeune. 1846. 308 pp. Bound with brown paper boards and brown leather spine with gilt lettering. 5) Plutarque. M. De Propiac. 3rd edition. Paris: Chez Gérard. 1811. 372pp. With marbled end paper and bound with brown leather. 6) Mémoires du Capitaine Péron. Tome Premier. Paris: Brissot- Thivars. 182. Bound with marbled paper and with green leather spine. 7) Biography of Henry Clay. George D. Prentice. Hartford: Samuel Hanmer, Jr. and John Jay Phelps. 1831.

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