Mid 19th century, three cabinets including a five section example and two single unit examples, each example having an applied pierced crest above a large hinged glazed cabinet door with molded mullions featuring upper volutes, shelved interior, each base with a book-matched veneer paneled hinged door, shelved interior, flush molded base.

Single cabinet: 132 x 35.5 x 18.5 in.; five section 132 x 113 x 18.5 in.

Northeast Auctions, Ronald Bourgeault, The Contents of Carter's Grove, May 17th, 2008, Lot 175. Westover Plantation on the James River, Virginia. Accompanied with hardback book "The Story of a Virginia Plantation, Carter's Grove", ref. p.72 and 73; ref. The Contents of Carter's Grove auction catalog, p.38 and 39.

These imposing bookcases were part of the furnishings of the James River plantation, Carter’s Grove, after it was acquired 1928 by Pittsburgh industrialist Archibald McCrea and his wife Molly, a native Virginian. The McCreas expanded and modernized the Georgian house, built in 1755, and furnished it at the height of the Colonial Revival movement. They acquired these bookcases from Clarice Sears Ramsay of Westover, a nearby James River plantation.

Some losses to escutcheons; wear throughout including top surfaces, base boards; escutcheon losses.