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JOHN A. WASHINGTON

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Political Memorabilia Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 200.00 USD
JOHN A. WASHINGTON
(1821 - 1861) Great grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washignton to own Mount Vernon. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the staff of Robert E. Lee and was killed on a reconnoitering mission in the Cheat Mountains. Book, signed "John A. Washington of Mount Vernon Virginia 1834" on the front pastedown (as well as three additional times on the blank flyleaf beneath his ownership stamp) on his copy of John Grove's A Greek and English Dictionary... (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1833), 616 + 102 pp., 8vo., bound in leather boards with titled spine. Scuffing and rubbing to boards and spine, pages moderately foxed, else very good.