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Album of Salt Lake City Utah, Ca. 1880's, Images Include: Mormon Temple (Under Construction), Brigham Young Home, Also Included is a picture of Assembly Hall, some Protestant churches and a hotel. 11 pages of text in the back. Sales Stamp of "Low Bros. News Agents, Ogden, Utah" within. OCLC locates one copy in each of four libraries. Obscure.
Album consisting of 14 accordion panels. Size: 3x5" and an eleven p. text. Circa 1880's. Cloth, Stamped gilt lettering, bright and crisp, with sales stamp of "Low Brothers, Ogden Utah." One image has a paste-on errata correction. The text is laid down against rear cover. The panels are loose from the book but all connected with each other with the last panel being the exception. The very first panels fold is actually held to the second by a small piece of tape. As you can see from the pictures the panels themselves are not attached anymore to the boards. If you look at the fourth picture, the back panel that completes the front one is detached and so is the… Read More

This book was owned by Harold Jefferson Coolidge, his book plate is within the front board, prominent lawyer and the great great grandson of Thomas Jefferson and distant relative of President Calvin Coolidge! This book came from the estate of John Robert Gregg, the inventor of the Gregg Shorthand writing system from his property in York, Maine.
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Compared with the Former Editions, and many valuable MSS. By John Urry. London: Bernard Lintot, Between The Temple Gates. 1721. Folio. The first collected Chaucer in easier-to-read Roman typeface, Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before Printed; By John Urry, Student of Christ-Church, Oxon. Deceased; Together with a Glossary, By a Student of the same College. To the Whole is prefixed The Author's Life, newly written, and a Preface, giving an Account of this edition, Printed for Bernard Lintot, between the Temple Gates, London, 1721, 626 pp, 81 pp, plus errata, frontispiece of Urry, full-page copper engraving of… Read More