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[JONES, HERSCHEL V.] Adventures in Americana 1492-1897. The romance of voyage and discovery from Spain to the Indies, the Spanish Main, and North America; inland to the Ohio country, on toward the Mississippi; through to California…to the gold fields of Alaska. Being a sele
New York, Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1964. Originally published 1928, offered with the supplementary volume A Check- List of the Americana Collection of Herschel V. Jones (orig. published 1938); together, 3 volumes, small folio, 300 fine illustrations of title- pp., covers, woodcuts, etc.; generally a fine set in publisher's full brown buckram, gilt lettering on spine. Jones (1861-1928) served as publisher of the Minneapolis Journal from 1908 and, as these vols. attest, was a sagacious collector of Americana. Although he began selling his collection at auction in 1916, his personal library was held after his death until 1939 when it was sold to the dealer Rosenbach and then dispersed. (See American Book Collectors).
Offered for US$ 150.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 29240