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Description
Pp. xi, 502, with 1 folding diagram. Publisher’s full brown pebble cloth, ornately blind-stamped on the front and rear board with a floral seal, spine lettered in gilt, 8vo. Preserved in a clam-shell box in matching brown cloth, spine with author/title label and date label, both lettered in gilt. This is Freeman 377. The volume has all of the points of the first American edition, first issue – the verso of half-title has two quotations and is dated October 1, 1859 as in the first British edition. Circular blind-stamp of previous owner (H. Bruce Rinker) on the front free endpaper.
Additional Information
13322
First
New York
Appleton
1860
Near Fine
Professional repairs to cloth at the head and foot of the spine, front attached endpaper recolored where previous owner has removed a bookplate, text is bright and clean with no foxing or browning, cloth is clean with few signs of use; a very good to near fine copy in a new cloth-covered clam-shell box. The first issue is quite rare especially in such nice condition.
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