When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
Antique 1888 steel engraving bookplate!Captain Abraham ColbyBorn: November 28, 1785 (Salisbury, Ma.)
Died: September 15, 1865
Parents: Gee Colby
More info: Married Sarah Smith. Tallow Chandler. Fishing. President of Amesbury and Salisbury Savings Bank.
Portrait with signature facsimile.This is from a collection of bookplates rescued from a badly damaged two volume 1888 first edition set entitled "History Of Essex County Massachusetts, With Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers And Prominent Men." By D. Hamilton Hurd. For provenance, you will receive a copy of the title page. We also leave the edge untrimmed, which provides origin provenance.The approximate entire bookplate size is 7.5 x 10.5 inches or 19 x 27 cm. The backside, or verso, is blank.Very good. See images for condition, some have spots, foxing, tears, etc.
Invd1v2b
