Author: WILMER, Lambert A.
Title: Life, Travels and Adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the
Description: 1858. WILMER, Lambert A. THE LIFE, TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND DE SOTO, DISCOVERER OF THE MISSISSIPPI. Philadelphia: J. T. Lloyd, 1858. First edition. Illustrated: "Steel Engravings by John & Saml. Sartain, Philadelphia. The illustrations, designed and engraved on wood, by J. W. Orr and R. Tefler, New York;" six steel engraved plates, plus eight full-page wood-engravings and many others throughout the text. Octavo: [iv],532 pp. Publisher's binding of purple cloth, blocked in blind on sides, gilt-stamped title to spine. Pencil ownership on ffep. and ex-library: nineteenth-century bookplate on front pastedown, two small blind-stamped seals within, and no external marks. Cloth is sunned at spine, with some irregular chipping at either end, and is worn at corners. Very clean within. It is a sound copy whose condition is very good plus. .
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Title: Life, Travels and Adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the
Description: 1858. WILMER, Lambert A. THE LIFE, TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND DE SOTO, DISCOVERER OF THE MISSISSIPPI. Philadelphia: J. T. Lloyd, 1858. First edition. Illustrated: "Steel Engravings by John & Saml. Sartain, Philadelphia. The illustrations, designed and engraved on wood, by J. W. Orr and R. Tefler, New York;" six steel engraved plates, plus eight full-page wood-engravings and many others throughout the text. Octavo: [iv],532 pp. Publisher's binding of purple cloth, blocked in blind on sides, gilt-stamped title to spine. Pencil ownership on ffep. and ex-library: nineteenth-century bookplate on front pastedown, two small blind-stamped seals within, and no external marks. Cloth is sunned at spine, with some irregular chipping at either end, and is worn at corners. Very clean within. It is a sound copy whose condition is very good plus. .
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Price: US$ 200.00 Seller: Boston Book Company
- Book number: 75557
- Book number: 75557
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