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[Eliot, John]

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[Eliot, John]
[Eliot, John]. First edition of A Biographical Dictionary, Containing A Brief Account of the First Settlers, and Other Eminent Characters Among the Magistrates, Ministers, Literary and Worthy Men, in New-England (Salem: Cushing and Appleton and Boston: Edward Oliver), published in 1809. Leather and marbled-paper binding. Book was disbound and rebound using a now-forgotten technique known as grangerization or extra-illustration. A total of 161 pages of original etchings, engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs were added, including portraits by Holbein, Copley, Stuart, Doolittle, and Trumbull. The plates depict various New England scenes and the homes of the more well-known ministers, magistrates, literary figures, and other high-profile citizens of the time.
Estimated Value $500 - 1,000.

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