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[Norman Kane]

BLAIR, HUGH.  SERMONS ...[&c.]  VOLUME THE FIRST. THE SIXTEENTH EDITION.   London, Printed; Baltimore: Re-printed, for the Rev. M. L. Weems by Saml. & John Adams, Book-Printers, 1792.  Old full calf, very good. Scarce old bookbinder's label of Lea & Wilson, Wilmington, Delaware, "All kinds of books bound in the neatest manner." Signature at top of the title of New York merchant Edmund Elmendorf. Evans 24120; volume 2 was published a year later, and has a different Evans number. THIS IS THE FIRST BOOK TO BEAR PARSON WEEMS' NAME IN AN IMPRINT. $200.00

CHARLES F. HEARTMAN.  Approximately 22 auction catalogs in the original wrappers, in very good condition, between sale 111, 1920 & sale 301 in 1942. (Confederate sheet music, early American fiction, a Natchez ante-bellum collection, early American medical pamphlets, Revolutionary Hessian records, local history, broadsides, reference, Americana, &c, &c.)   The lot, $100.00

MORSE, JEDIDIAH.  GEOGRAPHY MADE EASY, BEING AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY . . . 15th EDITION AND 3rd OF THIS NEW ABRIDGEMENT. Boston: Thomas & Andrews (J. T. Buckingham, Printer), 1812. Old full calf, rubbed but quite sound, old private book label (J. T. Remsburg, Hummelstown, Pa.) With the 2 folding maps: the world & N. America (world map with some wrinkling.)  $100.00

WEISS, KARL.  GESCHICHTE DER STADT WIEN. 1. ABTEILUNG DIE ROEMERZEIT & DAS MITTELALTER.  Wien: Lechner's, 1872. Original cloth lavishly decorated in gilt, marbled end papers and edges, very good. 2 maps (one folding), 2 views & many other illustrations on the early history of Vienna, and elaborated initial letters. $60.00

PUGSLEY, (CAPT.) R. M.  PUGSLEY'S NEW GUIDE TO THE U. S. LOCAL INSPECTORS EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES OF OCEAN-GOING STEAM AND SAILING SHIPS ... NEW EDITION.  N.Y.: Pugsley, 1917. Original gilt-stamped cloth, very good. JOHN TAYLOR ARMS' COPY,  (sometime ensign and noted artist), with his signature, &c, and stamps. Arms at this time was a member of the Naval Examining Board in Norfolk, Virginia.  $50.00

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