[Rarebooks] fs: Banvard. Novelties of the New World, 1st ed., 1852, engravings

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(No. 7742 )  Banvard, Joseph. NOVELTIES OF THE NEW WORLD; OR, THE ADVENTURES 
AND DISCOVERIES OF THE FIRST EXPLORERS OF NORTH AMERICA.
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1852. First printing, Full cloth, Sixteenmo, 
[iii], 324 pages, Black & white engraved cuts. Fine.
      Accounts of the explorations of Cabot, Ponce de Leon, Cartier, 
Marquette, La Salle, John Davis, Verazzano, and others. SABIN #3229. 
Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated title page, and 12 other in-text 
illustrations. Bound in red cloth over boards with blind-stamped ornaments 
on both boards and spine, gilt-stamped spine title.  One leaf of publisher 
ads precedes frontispiece. Minor extremity wear, Slight darkening along 
spine, mild dustiness to top edge of textblock. Bright and clean overall, 
hinges not cracked.    $150.00
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