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Bookplate of William Ashmead Courtenay, forty-sixth mayor of Charleston, South Carolina (1879 to 1887) and a businessman in the publishing and bookselling fields. Features a whale under stylized waves and over a bed of foliage; text around the border reads: "WILLIAM ASHMEAD COURTENAY CHARLESTON S.C."