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  Rare first editions of the Proceedings of the General Society of the Cincinnati and the Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati, Formed by the Officers of the American Army of the Revolution, 1783; uniformly bound in a beautiful contemporary binding

  [SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI],.

  Proceedings of the General Society of the Cincinnati [with] Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati, Formed by the Officers of the American Army of the Revolution, 1783.

  New York: Printed for the Society by Douglas Taylor, 1886/ Philadelphia: Review Printing House, 1887.

  First editions of two official publications of the Society of the Cincinnati, a valuable resource on the Revolutionary institution. Quarto, two volumes uniformly bound in three quarter contemporary morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The two-volume collection includes a first edition of Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati, Formed by the Officers of the American Army of the Revolution, 1783 [New York: Printed for the Society by Douglas Taylor, 1886], illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Washington by P. Hull after the painting by Mrs. E. Sharpless, and 47 engraved and reproduced portraits of members, original wrappers bound in, this is a rare official account of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati, compiled by the New York Society's Secretary, John Schuyler, and containing a trove of information on the institution's early years, with short biographical accounts of every founding member of the New York chapter. This is the first copy of this title we can find in the auction record since 1908. Together with a first edition of Proceedings of The General Society of the Cincinnati 1784-1884 [Philadelphia: Review Printing House, 1887], on...

  Price: $6,000.00     Item Number: 142373

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