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Bidlack (B. Alen). Address Delivered by B. Alden Bidlack, on the 22d February, 1839, at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in Vindication of the Patriotism and Military Services of the First Settlers of Wyoming, with a View to Correct Many Errors in the Written and Unwritten History of the Settlement and Massacre of the Valley, Published in Pursuance of the Request of a Subsequent Meeting, Washington, 1842, 16pp., edges untrimmed, modern marbled wrappers, 8vo, contained in modern book box, (Benjamin Bidlack (1804-49), congressman and diplomat, was the son of Connecticut pioneers who had settled in the Wyoming valley, north of Philadelphia, in the 1770s. During the War of Independence their community was devastated by the Loyalist Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant. The massacre was later memorialised in Thomas Cambell's 'Gertrude of Wyoming', 1809. Sabin 5251) together with Shepp (James W. & Daniel B.),Shepp's World's Fair Photographed, Being a Collection of Original Copyrighted Photographed Authorised and Permitted by the Management of the World's Columbian Exposition Consisting of Photographs of the Thirteen Original Buildings..., The War Ship Illinois..., The Midway Plaisance, and its Scenes..., Sold by Subscription only, pub. Globe Bible Publishing Co., Philadelphia, 1893, b & w plan and numerous b & w illusts. from photos., orig gilt dec. cloth, oblong to Contemporary presentation inscription "Compliments of the Weaver Organ & Piano Co., York, Pa., U.S.A." (The Chicago 'World's Columbian Exposition' commemorated the 400th anniversary of the 'Discovery' of America and celebrated the country's economic and political achievements), and one other (3).
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A Victorian davenport, burr and walnut veneered, the rising top with a gallery to birds eye maple rim drawers and pigeon holes to a hinged piano top, with a pull out slide fitted ratcheted leather lined slope, pen rest and compartment with two drawers above on foliage carved cabriole supports, to four drawers on the right hand side fitted knob handles, the brass locks stamped West 37 Old St Road, the left with false drawers, on turned feet with castors, 22in (56in) wide.
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An inlaid mahogany baby grand piano, by Steck, the case outlined with satinwood crossbands, boxwood, ebony and harlequin stringing, on twin square tapering legs joined by stretchers, brass socket castors, 56.5in wide, 67in deep, early 20th century; a mahogany duet stool, on square tapering legs and spade feet (2)
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An early 19th century mahogany upright piano, by John Broadwood & Sons, London, the tall architectural back with a central panel of radiating pleated rose silk within a moulded bead-and-reel border, flanked by leaf capped three-quarter pillars beneath a breakfront cornice, the keyboard with cut brass inlay above tapering lobed legs, brass castors, 48in wide, 75in high
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A George III inlaid mahogany square piano by 'Tho's Tomkison, Dean Street, Soho, London', No.624, with 5.5 octave 68-note keyboard and floral painted and pierced satinwood nameboard, in ebony and box line inlaid case on stand with four square section supports and platform undertier, on brass cup castors, width 165cm.
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