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Title: The Celebrated Collection of Americana Formed by the Late Thomas Winthrop Streeter Author: ** Place: New York Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. Date: 1966-1970 Description: 7 volumes + Index. Illustrated with facsimiles. 10x7, gilt-lettered blue boards, original glassine dust wrappers. Perhaps the greatest private collection of Americana ever to appear at auction; the catalogue has excellent descriptions of many rarities which have seldom surfaced since. Prices realized neatly inked in the margins of the first four volumes, with prices realized laid in all but the first; the index volume also provides the prices. Added to the lot is the 1968 Parke-Bernet catalogue of American Historical Manuscripts from the stock of Edward Eberstadt & Sons. Lot Amendments Condition: Dust wrappers with some edge wear, chips and creasing; light foxing/soiling to page edges; near fine. Item number: 170830