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Lot 441
Two Diminutive Books, The First in Elaborate Binding; the Second a CDV Album
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include: La Via del Paradisio (Parigi: Laplace, Sanchez , n.d., 19th century), 32mo (4-2/4 in. spine), metal hasps, gilt to page edges; this Italian language road map to salvation was published in Paris, France with a full color frontis and bound in mother-of-pearl, the pastedowns in blue silk (front and back boards each with a single chip; top hinge just beginning to split internally)...plus: American CDV album, also 32mo, leather binding, with thirteen (13) images, all CDVs and tintypes. The last image's caption reads, "Parker, Civil War. Killed escaping from prison. (wear to boards, spine loose; internal age toning).

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