[Rarebooks] FS: Isaac Wistar's AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1914, #9 of 250 copies, a Howes b item, price reduced

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Price reduced to $200 NET

WISTAR, Isaac. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC JONES WISTAR 1827 - 1905. 
Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1914. First 
Edition. Two quarto (8" x 11-1/2") volumes in green cloth with 
gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels. Copy #9 of 250 numbered 
copies. Illustrated with 7 plates and a folding map. Graff 4724; Howes 
W-598 "b"; New Howes W-597 "c": "Largely devoted to the opening and 
development of the far West from 1849 to 1860"; Nevins I-181; Wheat Gold 
Rush 234: "Significant and engaging narrative by a man of great native 
attainments." With the "Confidential" slips tipped to the front 
endpapers. Rear cover of first volume rubbed, leather labels a little 
worn. Near Fine. (#004502)        $400.00

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