Author: Marryat, Capt [Frederick 1792 - 1848]. Marryat, Horace [1818 - 1887] - Former Owner
Title: A DIARY In AMERICA, With Remarks on Its Institutions
Description: Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani and Co. No. 18, Rue Vivienne, 1839. 1st edition thus. Not on Sabin, though see 44696 for many other 1839 editions. ASSOCIATION Copy, with the bookplate of Horace Marryat. Period tan half leather binding, gilt decorated spine, with marbled boards. [4], 345, [3] pp. Contents page at rear. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5". Minor extremity wear, bit of rubbing to the marbled boards, blindstamp of Jerna & Hörningsholm to ffep, withal, a solid VG copy. Horace Marryat himself an author & traveller, with 2 published works documenting trips aboard: A Residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles and Copenhagen [1860] and One Year in Sweden [1862]. A fairly uncommon edition, with an impeccable provenance, of this immensely popular work, e.g. we see no other copies on the market at the time of cataloguing.

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