HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

Soundings from the Atlantic

1864. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First edition. [viii] 1-468 pp. + 22 pp. publisher's advertisement dated November, 1863. Octavo, bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and blind-stamped boards. An attractive near-fine copy, it is clean inside and out, showing only a bit of negligible wear to cloth. Early gift inscription - within weeks of publication, dated 25 December 1863, to Moorfield Storey (American, 1845-1929), an attorney and an important civil rights activist who served as the first president of the NAACP, with his bookplate on front pastedown. All but one of the articles in this compilation first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, from 1868 to 1864. Included are some of Holmes' essays on photography, including "Stereoscope and the Stereograph." (BAL 8829; Currier & Tilton, pp. 123-124). .

Boston Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 86562

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Photography

[Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 1809 - 1894]

SOUNDINGS From The ATLANTIC

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. 1st collected edition (BAL 8829; Currier & Tilton, pp. 123-125). Green publisher's cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & boards stamped in blind. Brown clay paper eps. [10], 468, 22, [4 (blank)] pp. 22 page publisher catalogue, dated November 1863, at rear. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-5/8". Spine slightly dull, with minor extremity wear. Square & tight. Prior owner signature of W. B. Flint. A pleasing VG+ copy, and uncommon thus.

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Book number: 36605

Catalogue: Literature