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A Semi-Monthly for
Inquiring Minds of the 1840s
The Daguerreotype: A magazine of foreign literature and science; compiled chiefly from the periodical publications of England, France, and Germany. Boston: J. M. Whittemore, 1847–49. 8vo. 3 vols. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Aug. 7, 1847)–v. 3, no. 12 (Apr. 14, 1849).
$775.00
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An uncommon, short-lived, and fascinating compendium of reviews of “the latest and most interesting” books, of news of scientific advancements, and of this and that for the inquiring mind of the late 1840s.
Despite the title of the magazine, these three thick, strong volumes are unillustrated; this is a wealth of
word pictures, for WORD PEOPLE! Recent, handsome black moiré cloth with caramel color spine labels; text blocks excellent with only the very occasional instance of a generally light spot/stain, short closed tear, or dog-ear.
Handsome on shelf, comfortable in lap. (27436)

The Daniel Webster Statue in Concord, NH
(Daniel Webster). Official proceedings at the dedication of the statue of Daniel Webster at Concord, New Hampshire, on the 17th date of June, 1886. Manchester: John B. Clarke, 1886. 8vo (23.7 cm, 9.33"). 120 pp.; 2 plts.
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A lovely copy of this official homage, clean and with gilt bright; both plates with their tissue guards. Published to commemorate the dedication of a statue raised to the orator in Concord, 1886, with reportage on the statue itself, on the dedication exercises, and on
the extended “Proceedings of Dartmouth Alumni” on the occasion.
Binding: Black pebbled cloth, plain spine, covers bordered with multiple rules. A large rendering of the statue appears in gilt on the volume's front cover along with neat descriptive lettering also in gilt.
Binding as above, spine slightly sunned, a touch of rubbing only to extremities. Pages and plates crisp and fresh. (41396)

An Example of Determination! — One Man's Take on Boston
Dearborn, Nathaniel. Boston notions; being an authentic and concise account of “that village,” from 1630 to 1847. Boston: Printed by N. Dearborn ... sold by W.D. Ticknor & Co., 1848. 16mo (15.9 cm; 6.25"). xx, [3], 8–426 pp., [35] plts., [6] maps.
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A history of Boston in encyclopedic entries written, illustrated, and printed
all by one man, engraver and flautist Nathaniel Dearborn (1786–1852), who first proposed the work in 1814. All manner of people, places, and historical events are here discussed in the work's extensive contents, including many societies, libraries, and museums. In addition to several in-text illustrations there are
35 plates, many engraved by the author, with five folded to fit the text, as well as
six maps of Boston, three of them folding. The engraved work is a mix of wood engraving and engraving on copper.
Provenance: Ink signature of J.R. Sower dated 1865 on front fly-leaf in ink.
Sabin 19078; Hamilton 692. On Dearborn, see: Stauffer & Fielding, American Engravers, v. 1, 62–3. Black paper–covered boards imitating leather, gilt ruling/stamping/lettering on spine, covers framed in blind with floral stamps at corners; well-rubbed with paper flaking on spine to expose some gatherings. Provenance marking as above, light age-toning with very occasional light staining, foxing, or corner creases, one plate with chipped edges, all folds strong.
A fun read and lots of VERY engaging illustration. (37071)

“We Have Gathered Here Tonight in Tribute to Those Whose Leadership Contributed to
the Magnificent Democratic Victory of 1964”
Democratic National Committee. 1965 Democratic Congressional dinner. June 24, 1965. [Washington: Democratic Party, 1965]. Folio (27.3 cm, 10.75"). [12] pp.; illus.
$100.00
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Commemorative program honoring Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, the leadership of the House and Senate, and the chairmen of the Standing Committees; the names of all of the former are given, along with the prominent players of the Congressional and Senatorial campaign committees. President Lyndon B. Johnson, whose portrait appears on the inside front wrapper, spoke at the dinner, which also featured entertainment by Carmel Quinn and a main course of filet mignon with pommes rissolées and French-cut string beans; the booklet closes with an exhortation regarding preparations for the 1966 elections.
Publisher's very colorful (bright pink and bright green) printed paper wrappers; slightly cockled, small spot of staining to foot of front wrapper.
A nice piece of political ephemera. (34158)

Ephemeral
MIMEOGRAPHED DeMolay Cookbook
DeMolay Mothers' Club. Success is automatic with a DeMolay Mother's Club cook book. [U.S.: ca. 1950?]. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). [26] ff.
$55.00
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Recipes from women associated with the DeMolay fraternal organization, founded in Kansas City in 1919. This small-scale, lovingly
self-produced mimeographed booklet — presumably a fundraising effort — opens with Spiced Peach Salad Molds (leading a pack of other gelatin-based salads and molds), and includes Fisherman's Pie (made of tuna fish, hard-boiled eggs, a can of peas, and a can of mushroom soup topped with mashed potatoes), along with a recipe for oven-fried chicken to serve 50 and a range of desserts including Maple Pecan Chiffon Pie, a variation on the classic Ritz [Cracker] Pie, and Busy-Day Cake with Lazy Daisy Frosting. The cover, although now faded, appears to have borne
a hand-drawn design, and there is no publication information provided; however, many of the recipes were contributed by Hilda Stone, Priscilla Carroll, Virginia Sanborn, Arlene Curtis, Doris Crouse, and Alma VanHorn.
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Front wrapper says “Mother's Club,” but all online references to the organization give either “Mothers' Club” or “Mothers Club.”. In original hand-inked wrappers, on original plastic rings; wrapper design faded, edges worn with short tears. Pages clean, unmarked, and unstained.
A surely uncommon if not now unique item, with no holdings discoverable. (38138)

“Apology” NOT Accepted!
[Dexter, Franklin]. A letter to the Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, representative in Congress from the city of Boston, in reply to his apology for voting for the fugitive slave bill. Boston: Wm. Crosby & H.P. Nichols, 1851. 8vo. 57 pp.
$165.00
Given the hotbed of abolitionism that Boston was, during the three decades leading up to the Civil War, one must wonder what Eliot was thinking when he voted in favor of the Fugitive Slave Act! Well, not wanting to leave his constituency in the dark, he wrote a defense of his action and published it in a letter to the Advertiser on 29 October 1850. His apology did not sit well with Dexter (here signing himself "Hancock"), who wrote this scathing rebuttal.
First edition.
Sabin 19890; Dumond 63. Sewn, in original printed wrappers, slightly chipped. Five-digit number stamped on front wrapper, and a neat paper label at upper left corner. A very nice copy. (3123)
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Dickens Goes to America
Dickens, Charles. American notes for general circulation. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1868. 12mo (18.7 cm, 7.36"). 104, [4 (adv.)] pp.
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Relatively uncommon American edition of Dickens's report on his trip to the United States. Based on the author's letters home to friends and first published in 1842, this account features visits to the Perkins Institution for the Blind, Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, the White House, etc., as well as Dickens's thoughts on slavery, public health, copyright, and other issues.
See Howes D316 & Sabin 19996 for earlier eds. Publisher's tan paper wrappers printed in terra cotta; wrappers detached but present, with edge chips and front wrapper with small early pencilled notation in upper margin. Pages age-toned; waterstaining to first few leaves and scattered foxing.
This edition was inherently fragile, as a production; this copy is a survivor! (41233)
GORGEOUS
BRIGHT RED COVERS
Proverbs, Parables, & Dreams with a “Period” Flavor
Downey, William Scott. Proverbs...tenth edition. New York: Pub. for the author by Edward Walker, 1856. 12mo (18.8 cm, 7.4"). 128 pp.
$200.00
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New York “tenth edition” of this popular collection of proverbs by a Boston preacher highly thought of in his day; its original publication was in 1850, perhaps rather oddly in St. Louis, and it appeared thereafter in a variety of markets. Here, it is in a perfectly stunning American publisher's binding of gilt red morocco. Along with the “proverbs,” pithy preachings of the author, this offers parables and apocalyptic dreams.
Binding: Publisher’s red morocco, covers framed in gilt rolls, front cover with gilt-stamped angel vignette and title, back cover with gilt-stamped urn, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.
Binding as above, edges and extremities rubbed with leather chipped at spine head, spine somewhat darkened and with gilt dimmed (not lost); appearance of three small pin-type wormholes through leather at front joint, but this is associated with the sewing stations. Pages gently age-toned, with a few lightly foxed or stained; first few leaves loosening.
Delightful lying on a table in 1856, delightful doing the same thing now. (15208)

“Well . . . If This is True, We Only Tumbled Out of One Mystery into Another”
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The valley of fear: a Sherlock Holmes novel. New York: George H. Doran Co., (1914). Small 8vo (19.7 cm; 7.75"). 320 pp.
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First American and indeed first book edition of the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel; as with many of the Holmes stories, it was originally published as a serial for the Strand Magazine before it was published as a whole. The first American edition preceded the first UK edition by several months.
The present copy includes all seven illustrations, a frontispiece and six plates, by Arthur I. Keller; this seems not always to be true of copies on the market and the first UK printing lacks Keller's illustrations altogether.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Red cloth with gilt stamping, no dust jacket; spine slightly cocked, light rubbing to extremities and corners. Previous owner's signature (“Howard”) in faint pencil on front endpaper; small stain to fore-edge affecting perhaps seven leaves with interior otherwise clean.
A very good copy of a classic detective novel. (37598)

New
Homes, NEW
HEARTS
Duncan, Norman. The suitable child. New York:
Fleming H. Revell Co., 1909. 4to. Frontis., 96 pp.; 4 plts.
$45.00
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First edition: Two intertwined stories of learning to love
again after loss, set at
Christmas-time aboard the westbound express train from
Winnipeg. Written by a Canadian-born journalist, this sentimental tale (meant
for grownups who love children rather than the children themselves) is here
illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green,
mounted on green paper, with additional in-text decorations done by Harold J.
Turner and printed in green.
Binding:
Publisher's sage green paper–covered sides with dark green cloth shelfback,
front cover with decorative title and train vignette both stamped in gilt
and dark green, spine with gilt-stamped title. Top edge gilt, outer edge deckle.
Binding as above; edges, joints, and extremities rubbed, front cover mottled. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription. Pages and plates clean. (29126)

An Artist's View of the
Early Development of American Art
Dunlap, William. History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States. New York: George P. Scott & Co., 1834. 8vo (24.6 cm, 9.7"). 2 vols. I: 435, [1] pp.; 1 facs. II: viii, 480 pp.
$450.00
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First edition. Dunlap (1766–1839) was “one of the first outstanding figures of the American stage” according to the Oxford Companion to the Theatre; sent to London to study painting with Benjamin West, he found the lure of the theatre more compelling and eventually became a playwright, manager of New York’s Park Theatre, and vice president of the National Academy of Design. Here reverting to his first “life,” he provides interesting biographical accounts, full of anecdotes and personal observations, of numerous prominent American artists and their works. Vol. I features a facsimile of an autograph bill of sale, for portraits, by John Singleton Copley.
On Dunlap, see: Oxford Companion to the Theatre, 211. American Imprints 24237; BAL 5026; Howes D571; Sabin 21303. Publisher's quarter green diced cloth and tan paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, corners bumped, spines sunned, sides with spots of staining and discoloration. Front hinges (inside) tender. Ex–social club library: spines with paper shelving labels, front pastedowns with 19th-century bookplates and inked shelving numbers, title-pages and one other in each volume rubber-stamped, no other markings. Some outer corners of vol. II lightly waterstained; a very few instances of small spots of staining. (27558)

Biblical Law, Debated
Dupin, André Marie Jean Jacques. The trial of Jesus before Caiaphas and Pilate. Being a refutation of Mr. Salvador's chapter entitled “The Trial and Condemnation of Jesus.” Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1839. 16mo (18 cm, 7.1"). viii, 88, [2 (blank)] pp.
$100.00
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First edition, translated from the original French “by a member of the American Bar”: John Pickering (1777–1846), a lawyer and philologist. Salvador's Histoire des Institutions de Moise et du Peuple Hebreu included a chapter in which he concluded that as a court proceeding, the trial of Jesus was in accordance with Jewish law; Dupin here rebuts that chapter's arguments, while continuing to express admiration for Salvador as a scholar and author — and while focusing on legal issues rather than theological ones.
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title. Cloth is ribbed and fits Krupp's Rb3 pattern.
Evidence of readership: One pencilled footnote, arguing that capital punishment is the will of the divine.
American Imprints 55455. On the binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50, p. 40. Binding as above; spine and board edges gently faded, extremities rubbed. Mild to moderate foxing throughout. An interesting book in a good example of an early American cloth binding. (34765)

BAL Author, before Her Whirlwind Episode with POE
Durfee, Job, & Sarah Helen Whitman. A discourse, delivered before the Rhode-Island Historical Society on the evening of Wednesday, Jaunary [sic] 13, 1847. Providence: Charles Burnett, jr., 1847. 8vo (22.5 cm, 9"). 42, 5, [1] pp.
$130.00
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Durfee (1790–1847), Chief Justice of Rhode Island, expounds on “the Rhode-Island Idea of Government” (p. 40), and his words were “Published at the request of the Society” (title-page). This was first printed in the Journal of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction (Providence: Charles Burnett, Jr., 1847), vol. II, no. 1.
But for many, of far more interest is the “Poem, by Sarah Helen Whitman. Recited before the Rhode-Island Historical Society on the evening of January 13, 1847; previous to the delivery of Judge Durfee's discourse” (sectional title at rear). Whitman (1803–78) was variously a poet, essayist, Transcendentalist, spiritualist, and romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe! The author of her page on the Poetry Foundation website characterizes her as “intelligent, gifted, witty, and warm” and says “She was widely read.” The fact is she is one of few women given space in the Bibliography of American Literature, that bastion of white male authors.
Provenance: Gift inscription on front wrapper, “Jno. McClellan, Esq. with the respects of E. Dyer, Jr.”
BAL 21359B; Sabin 21425. Yellow printed wrappers. Very good. (40377)

“To Toiling Millions, Whose Means are Small, Yet Whose
Desires are Great to Possess a Home . . .”
Dwyer, Charles P. Economic cottage builder: or, Cottages for men of small means. Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim & Co., 1856. 8vo (23.3 cm, 9.125"). [2], 127, [1] pp.; 32 plts.
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For the handy 19th-century American in need of a home but without the means to consult a professional (“and yet whose tastes are as worthy of being gratified”), an
architectural handbook for building one's own cottage on a humble budget. Charles P. Dwyer (ca. 1815 – ca. 1880), an architect and writer, emigrated to North America from Ireland and had moved to Buffalo, NY, by 1847. He subsequently began to publish architectural advice books for people with limited advantages among other works.
Log cabins, plank buildings, and double cottages are a few of the thoughtfully “economic” buildings Dwyer advises for “men of small means.” The materials he suggests are “adapted to every locality” and affordable for dwellers of each neighborhood. The manual is illustrated with
32 black-and-white plates (including an added lithographed title-page), 23 of which represent Dwyer's cottages, the other eight being plans for their designs. The lithographs are by Compton, of Buffalo.
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and foliate decoration to spine; deep blind-stamped triple-ruled and foliate border on front board framing stylized gilt title and cottage centerpiece; rear board identical to front board but with centerpiece in blind. Saffron endpapers.
Provenance: On front free endpaper, 20th-century signature of “Wm. B. Goodwin, M.I.T.” A rubber-stamp from the Lowell Historical Society appears on the front pastedown and on the top and bottom edge.
Hitchcock, American architectural books . . . portfolios, and pamphlets . . . published in America before 1895, 389. Bound as above; rubbing to extremities, small tears at spine head, minor coppery discoloration to gilt on front board. Provenance stamp and signature as above; age-toned edges and minor to moderate foxing throughout interior.
Sound and unassuming and more than respectable, much like its target audience. (38084)
CRANBERRIES
Eastwood, B. A complete manual for the cultivation of the cranberry, with a description of the best varieties. New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker, & Co., 1860. 8vo. Engr. t.-p., 120 pp; 9 plts.
$125.00
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Early reprint, following the first edition of 1856.
Publisher's embossed cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities showing minor wear, with gilt oxidized. Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription; some page edges with small blotches.
Binding very handsome in its subtle way. Impossible! to get a good image of! (12986)

Verses for Morning & Evening
for
German Americans
(Eckartshausen, Karl von). Witschel, Johann Heinrich W. Gott ist die reinste Liebe, oder Morgen- und Abend-Opfer, in Gebeten, Betrachtungen und Gesängen. Ein Gemeinschaftliches Gebet-Buch, Bestehend in Auszügen aus Witschels und Eckartshausen Gebätbüchern. Reading: Carl M'Williams & Co. (pr. by Carl A. Brudman), 1822. 12mo (17.8 cm, 7"). 300 pp.
$325.00
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Prayers and contemplations printed for a Pennsylvania German audience and prefaced by recommendations from ministers of the Lutheran church and the Reformed Synod. The volume is divided into four parts, each with its own sectional title. Gott ist die reinste Liebe was first published in 1791, as a Catholic devotional; Eckartshausen's later mystical works were enthusiastically received by such groups as alchemists, Rosicrucians, and followers of Aleister Crowley.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with ownership inscription by Henry Binkly, dated 1833; several laid-in slips of paper include a recipe for hair dye and a concoction involving sulphur, sugar of lead, and bay rum.
Shoemaker 8591; First Century of German Language Printing in the U.S., 2565. Contemporary sheep framed in blind, spine with blind-ruled raised bands, abraded but solid. One clasp lacking, one present and working. Moderate foxing; one sectional title with pencilled annotations. Clearly a volume that saw both use and reasonable care. Plain, and pleasing. (3424)

“200 Favorite Songs & Exercises”
Emerson, L.O. The golden wreath; a choice collection of favorite melodies, designed for the use of schools, seminaries, select classes, etc.. Also, a complete course of elementary instruction, upon the Pestalozzian system, with numerous exercises for practice. Albany: Newcomb & Co., 1857. Oblong 12mo. 240 pp.
$35.00
New edition, revised and enlarged; the Pestalozzian “instruction” is extensive. Proudly blazoned on the cover as the “FIFTIETH EDITION” of this classic.
Publisher's quarter sheep with printed sides; neatly respined with cloth tape. Signed by previous owner on front pastedown. (4182)
Important Account of
the Southwest & the Mexican Border
Emory, William Hemsley. Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers. Washington: Wendell & Van Benthuysen, 1848. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). 416 pp.; 43 plts. (lacking 1 fold. map).
$750.00
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Emory, Brevet Major of the Corps of Topographical Engineers and an outstanding surveyor and mapmaker, here provides a groundbreaking description of the terrain, flora and fauna, and peoples of the historic Southwest. J. Gregg Layne (Zamorano 80) says, “A library of Western Americana is incomplete without [Emory's report].”
The volume is illustrated with
43 lithographed plates done by Weber & Co., including a portrait of “A New Mexican Indian Woman,” a fish of the Gila River, a map of “the actions fought at San Pasqual in upper California between the Americans and Mexicans Dec. 6th & 7th 1846,” and a view of cliffside hieroglyphics, as well as a series of 14 botanical images.
Government document: 30th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Executive document no. 7; Howes describes this as the second issue of an edition which appeared in the same year as the first. The present example does not include the oversized, folding map found in some copies; the plates here are, however, in the preferred state, attributed to Weber.
Cowan & Cowan 195; Graff 1249 (other 1848 issues only); Haferkorn 38; Howes E145; Sabin 22536 (for House ed. only); Wagner-Camp, Plains & Rockies, 148:2; Zamorano 80, 33. Recent black cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Oversized, folding map lacking. Plates and pages with some light to moderate foxing; one leaf with tear from upper margin, extending into text without loss. Clean, strong. (27364)

20th-Century Renaissance Man — Medievally Inspired MANUSCRIPT Memorial
Erie Railroad Company (Follansbee, Mitchell Davis). Manuscript on paper, in English. “In memoriam Mitchell D. Follansbee 1870 – 1941.” [Chicago: 1941]. 8vo (27.4 cm, 10.75"). [8 (1 blank)] ff.
$950.00
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Gorgeously rendered manuscript tribute to a prominent lawyer, financial advisor, and railroad executive remembered fondly for “his public spirit, his high personal character, his urbanity and his loyalty as a friend.” Follansbee was a Harvard graduate (and notably active alumnus, serving as president of the Associated Clubs of Harvard) who studied law at
Northwestern University prior to becoming a board member and director of the Erie Railroad Company.
This admiring hand-accomplished homage to Follansbee's life and career was commissioned by his fellow directors and
beautifully calligraphed and illuminated on vellum by the Harris Engrossing Studio of Chicago. The capitals are accomplished in whitework, gilt, purple, and green, and the text in an even, handsome modern Gothic hand, with a gilt border surrounding the text on each page. Each leaf is protected by a moiré-patterned tissue guard. The final page was signed by the chairman and the secretary of the board, and pressure-stamped with the Erie Railroad Company's seal.
Binding: Dark blue morocco framed in gilt double fillets and panelled in a dotted gilt roll with gilt-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-framed compartments. Turn-ins tooled to echo covers, cream moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt.
Binding as above, edges and extremities showing slight sunning and wear. Vellum (expectably) cockled.
Lovely, unique, beautifully bound, and an impressive showcase both of modern calligraphy and of Follansbee's impact. (38417)
Telling
Spanish Americans about AMÉRICA
Everett, Alexander Hill. América: O examen general de la situacion política de las diferentes potencias del continente occidental, con conjeturas sobre su suerte futura. Northampton: Simeon Butler, 1828. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). [4], 296 (i.e., 294) pp. (pagination skips from 274 to 276, text complete).
$400.00
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Produced for export to Spanish America: First edition of this Spanish translation, printed the year after the English-language first edition. Everett served as the United States minister to Spain from 1825 through 1829, and was a frequent contributor to the North American Review before becoming the periodical’s owner and editor; here he examines the politics and potential development of the United States and of some of the European colonies of North America, in a work that received positive critical notice on both sides of the Atlantic — an unusual accomplishment for an American publication in that time period. Sabin 23225; not in Shoemaker. Period-style quarter tan cloth with paper-covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Title-page and a few others rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution; title-page with inner margin repaired. Mild to moderate foxing throughout. (18636)
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