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The Holy Land, Exhibiting the Places & Cities Mentioned in the Old & New Testament.
New York: , General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church Book Society,, Nd, c1840. First edition. Duodecimo. embossed black leather, gilt. Ill.: Folding birdÕs eye view of the Holy Land. Lithographed by Endicott & Company of New York. The view measures 27" x 11". Very good. There is an inscription by Susan F. Cooper on the paste-down of the case; ÒGiven us by our dear Cousin Mrs. Laight, Susan F. Cooper.Ó Mrs. LaightÕs signature appears just above the inscription. OCLC, COPAC and AAS do not locate any copies. Susan Fenimore Cooper, (1813-1894) daughter of James Fenimore Cooper was also an author, born in Scarsdale, New York, in 1813, named after her mother, she was the second child and the eldest of five that reached maturity. The Coopers moved about New York throughout her childhood because her father wanted the best education for his daughters.Ê Not finding the right education in the states, her family moved to Paris in 1826.Ê Here Susan learned how to speak four languages.Ê During the latter years of her father's life she became his secretary and amanuensis, and but for her father's prohibition would naturally have become his biographer. In 1873 she founded an orphanage in Cooperstown, and under her superintendence it became in a few years a prosperous charitable institution. In furtherance of the work to which sheÊ consecrated her later years, and which she termed her "life work," during 1886 she established "The Friendly Society." Every lady on becoming a member of the society chooses one of the girls in the orphanage and makes her the object of her special care and solicitude. Her published books are "Rural Hours" (New York, 1850); "The Journal of a Naturalist," an English book, edited and annotated by Miss Cooper (1852); " Rhyme and Reason of Country Life" (1885); and "Mt. Vernon to the Children of America" (1858).
Offered for US$ 850.00 by: Austin's Antiquarian Books - Book number: 10069
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