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Bushnell’s Legendary Crumbs for Antiquarians

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Bushnell’s Legendary Crumbs for Antiquarians
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Bushnell, Charles I. CRUMBS FOR ANTIQUARIANS. New York: Privately Printed, 1864 and 1866. Two volumes, complete. 8vo [25 by 16.5 cm], original tan cloth-backed blue boards; printed spine labels. Volume I: Finely engraved frontispiece portrait of Bushnell by E.B. Hall, with tissue guard; chromolithographic collective title page printed in red and blue; dedication leaf; contents leaf; illustrations leaf. Followed by: AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST THREE BUSINESS TOKENS ISSUED IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. BY CHARLES I. BUSHNELL. New York: Privately Printed, 1859. Second edition. Blank leaf with “Tokens” written faintly in pencil; chromolithographic frontispiece depicting a Mott token and two Talbot, Allum and Lee tokens, printed in metallic ink on a light blue background; title leaf printed in red and black (second edition printed on verso at lower left), dedication leaf, preface leaf, (7)-23, (1) pages; decorative headpiece and initial on first page of text; decorative tailpiece depicting a rooster at end of main text; allegorical finis tailpiece at end of appendix. [bound with] MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL SMITH [Online description truncated: see printed or PDF catalogue for full description.]