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[REFERENCE & COLLECTING] Group of works on Americana and collecting topics. Comprising: Three leather bound deluxe issue catalogues from the William Reese Company, including The Revolutionary Hundred , The Federal Hundred , and The Best of the West , each one of 12 specially bound copies bearing a gift inscription to Ira A. Lipman from Bill Reese; six additional cloth bound catalogues from the William Reese Company including duplicates of those previously listed and others; the cloth bound volume Bill Reese Memorial: A Life Well Lived ; Clarence Brigham's Paul Revere's Engravings , first edition, 1954, cloth in jacket; two copies of Printing and the Mind of Man , both second editions, cloth in jacket; Howes' U.S.IANA , second edition, cloth; John Blew's The Lives and Work of Wright and Zoe Howes and the Story of U.S.IANA , second edition, cloth; Printing and the Brain of Man. The Sixteenth Century Brain. Selections from the Collection of Eugene S. Flam , Grolier Club, new in shrink-wrap; Axelrod's Collecting Historic Documents , 1984, boards; and the following illustrated reference works on the Revolutionary Era, most cloth in dust jacket: Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence ; The George Washington Collection ; The Stars and Stripes ; Benjamin Franklin Writer and Printer ; A Grand Old Flag ; 1776 ; George Washington's America: A Biography through Maps ; and Dining With the Washingtons . Some light wear and markings but generally fine copies, sold as is . William S. Reese (1955-2018) was America's preeminent dealer of Americana and a great scholar and bibliographer. Ira A. Lipman was a passionate Americana collector and these specially bound limited issue catalogues of many of the finest items sourced and collected by both are certainly notable. C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman