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States: "Ex libris"; annotated "Blanche M. Harnan/Elizabeth H. Baker" with Blanche M. Harnan struck through; depicts a sailing ship. Personal bookplate for Blanche M. Harnan, Elizabeth H. Baker. Personal bookplate for Blanche M. Harnan. Blanche M.…

States: "Resurgam Sigillum Civitatis Portlandiae Ex Libris Philip Greely Brown"; annotated: "Philip G. Brown"; depicts historic seal of Portland, Maine. Personal bookplate for Philip Greely Brown, a prominent Mainer, public library benefactor, and…

States: "Constant And True James Anderson Rose"; depicts a coat of arms, divided in two, with a lion between three water bougets, and a shield between eight birds, and the Rose crest of a winged-maiden harp. Personal bookplate for James Anderson…

States: "This book belongs to Arthur W. Kennard of Boston, Massachusetts. Reading maketh a full man"; annotated: "No. 202"; single-lined border. Personal bookplate or Arthur W. Kennard (1870-1937), a Boston jeweler and silversmith.

States: "Ex libris Alice Brayton"; depicts a topiary garden with sculpted trees, shrubs, and animals. Personal bookplate for Alice Brayton. Alice Brayton oversaw the transformation of her family's estate in Portsmouth, Rhode Island into Green Animals…

States: "Books, like sheep, are wont to stray from their masters. If this little book has wandered into your green pastures, please treat it kindly, read it leisurely, and, when it has stayed its welcome, help it find its way back home! [Mrs.] Norton…

States: "Ex Libris"; annotated: "Blanche Harnan"; depicts a terrace with trees and flowers overlooking a mountain view. Personal bookplate for Blanche M. Harnan. Personal bookplate for Blanche M. Harnan. Blanche M. Harnan was the founder of the…

States: "Ex Libris"; depicts an opened book which reads "May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books - Carlyle." Mass production bookplate. Quote from Thomas Carlyle.

States: "Intrepidus [fearless]"; depicts a colorful coat of arms that has a blue glove on white beneath two lion's heads on green, with a crest of a winged lion's head.

States: "Inter Folia Fructus [among the leaves fruit]/ Ex Libris Harris C. Fahnestock New York"; depicts a female nude leaning on a stele filled with classical symbols of the arts and knowledge. signed with monogram 'SW.' Harris C. Fahnestock was a…