Signed book: History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft. Volume III. Later printing. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1853. Hardcover, 6 x 9.5, 477 pages. Front pastedown bears a vertical ownership signature, “Millard Fillmore, Dec. 12, 1853.” On the title page Fillmore has penned the book’s location on his library shelf: “I - C.” Book also has several marginal pencil notations: “Mary queen of scots, Charles the 1st Charles the 2d” (p1), “Somers” (p11), “Cousin James 2d Earl of Clarendon” (p61), “Achan, who concealed some of the Spoils of Jericho and was stoned to death with his family—7 Joshua—” (p84), “S.E. end of Georgian Bay, lake Huron” (p131), “Soult de St. Mary” (p149), and “changed west” (p382). Autographic condition: some light spreading to ink of a few strokes of signature, an EJ Fillmore stamp to front pastedown, scattered light toning and foxing, and a pencil notation to top, otherwise fine. Book condition: VG-/None. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine; spine sunned; edges worn, with cloth fraying at corners and spine-ends; exterior foxed; textblock edges darkened; some light offsetting from text throughout.
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