[Rarebooks] FS: THE TOUR OF JAMES MONROE, 1818, with portrait of Monroe and the U.S. Seal, price reduced
Charles Agvent
chagvent at ptd.net
Wed Nov 16 11:12:45 EST 2011
Price reduced: Was $200, Now $175
WALDO, S[amuel] Putnam. THE TOUR OF JAMES MONROE, PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES, IN THE YEAR 1817 THROUGH THE STATES OF MARYLAND,
PENNSYLVANIA, NEW-JERSEY, NEW YORK, CONNECTICUT, RHODE-ISLAND,
MASSACHUSETTS, NEW-HAMPSHIRE, VERMONT, AND OHIO, TOGETHER WITH A SKETCH
OF HIS LIFE, HIS INAUGURAL SPEECH AND FIRST MESSAGE; AND HISTORICAL AND
GEOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL PLACES THROUGH WHICH HE PASSED.
ORNAMENTED WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE PRESIDENT. Hartford: F. D. Bolles &
Co., 1818. First Edition. Duodecimo (12mo: 3-7/8" x 6-7/8") bound in
contemporary tree calf with gilt rules on the spine and a gilt-lettered
black morocco spine label; xii, 288 pages [last two pages misnumbered
299 and 300, as apparently with all copies]. Illustrated with a
frontispiece portrait of Monroe and the United States Seal at the end of
the text. Light to moderate foxing; worming to the inner gutter of about
fifty pages in the middle occasionally affecting the text; clean
horizontal tear across the dedication leaf without loss. Very Good.
(#013610) $175.00
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