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Lot 448

Collection of Eight Books Pertaining to the Columbian Exposition of 1893

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To include: Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Book of the Fair (Chicago and San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1893), five volumes, folio (16 in.), leather, loaded with photographs (four books with with 20th century kraft paper wraps taped to the boards, thus hiding condition, internally fine); World's Fair Chicago 1893 Souvenir (Chicago: Anbogue Publishing Company,1891), oblong octavo (6.75 in.), red linen (binding loose); Official Guide of the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago: The The Columbian Guide Company, 1893), red linen with pictorial gilt, small octavo (8 in.) (damp stains to boards); Shepp's World's Fair Photographed (Chicago and Philadelphia: Globe Bible Publishing Co., 1893), oblong quarto (9 in.),full leather with gilt (loose boards with chipping).

From a private North Carolina collection