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Auction 129, Lot 187

"[Lot of 7 - University Prints]"

Subject: Eastern United States, Universities

Period: 1850 (circa)

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Nice lot of copper and steel engravings from a variety of 19th century illustrated histories of the United States.

1) Yale College & State House, New Haven, Connecticut (6 x 3.6") colored.
2) Dartmouth College; Hanover, N.H. (8.5 x 6" including decorations) b/w. Vines adorn vignettes; "Meeting of the First Assembly at Portsmouth, 1680" and "Lovewell's Fight - Fegnackett 1725." Tear in bottom margin is closed with cello tape.
3) Yale College & State House, New Haven, Connecticut (7.5 x 5.3") b/w.
4) Northampton (Massachusetts) (7 x 4.8") b/w.
5) Newhaven Connecticut, View Looking South West, across the Green, towards Yale College (6 x 3.5") b/w.
6) Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass (7.5 x 4.7") b/w.
7) Amherst College (7.5 x 5.3") b/w.

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Condition: A

Estimate: $350 - $500

Unsold

Closed on 9/23/2009

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