Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer part II
Auction: September 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
Brooklyn: printed by A. Spooner, 1824. First edition. 12mo. Untrimmed, leaf size 8 x 4 3/8 inches; 205 x 114mm., 60 leaves, complete with the terminal Contents leaf. Later 19th-century three-quarter purple-brown morocco over cloth, stamped in gilt to spine; with some rubbing to joints, dampstain to bottom edge; text block with faint tidemarks to blank margins at front and back, title page with some light soiling, scattered ink notes throughout; original wrappers bound in, with some paper loss to edges. Sabin 26220; Howes F-423; Church 1328.
Regarded as the first history of Brooklyn.