[Rarebooks] FS: Bound volume of scarce American sheet music. 78 pieces. 1838-1847

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(MUSIC) Grobe, Charles. ...THE BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA... Composed and Most 
Respectfully Inscribed to Genl. Z. Taylor, the Hero Who Never Lost a 
Battle... Baltimore: G. Willig Jr. 1847. Folio (13-1/2" x 10"). 14pp. Printed sheet 
music with an elaborate lithographed pictorial cover. BOUND WITH: 77 other 
pieces of American printed sheet music from 1838-1845. Of these 77, 52 have 
lithographed covers (5 are hand colored). Bound in 1/2 brown morocco, gilt, 
over marbled boards (circa 1880) for "Frances L. A. Kimball" whose name 
appears on a leather label mounted on the front cover. Head of spine chipped and 
hinges & edges a bit rubbed, but still quite sound.     $1,350.00

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