[Rarebooks] FS: First Appearances by Hawthorne, Thoreau, Whitman, etc. and the Second Mention of Photography in Print in America (1839)

[Charles Agvent]

One of many interesting 19th Century American and British Literary items 
on our website: http://www.charlesagvent.com including signed pieces by 
William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Mark Twain, Henry 
Wadsworth Longfellow, and many others with some superb pieces to be 
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(HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel; WHITMAN, Walt; WHITTIER, John Greenleaf; BRYANT, 
William Cullen; LOWELL, James Russell; LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth; 
THOREAU, Henry David; POE, Edgar Allan; et. al.). THE UNITED STATES 
MAGAZINE AND DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. Volumes 1 - 15. Washington DC: Langtree 
& O'Sullivan, 1838 - 1844; 1848. First Edition. Fifteen octavo volumes 
bound in fourteen in half calf leather and marbled boards with calf 
corners. Includes the first or early publications of 22 stories or 
articles by Hawthorne (including "The Celestial Railroad" and "Artist of 
the Beautiful"), 7 stories by Walt Whitman (including "Bervance"), as 
well as a number of appearances by Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, and 
Whittier and one each by Thoreau ("The Landlord") and Poe 
("Marginalia"). In addition there are articles on or reviews of 
Tocqueville's DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, Texas and Mexico, a projected canal 
on the isthmus (Panama) connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, 
as well as a number of articles on banking and finance. The May 1839 
issue contains a description by Samuel Morse of daguerreotypes, 
recounting his visit that year to Daguerre in Paris, marking only the 
second mention of the new invention of photography in America. 
Illustrated with 51 (of 53) engraved portraits and two tinted 
lithographs of the Yucatan. The set lacks four issues from the last 
volume, 1844, and includes issue 95 from Volume 22, 1848, which has 
coverage of the Mexican War. Contents mostly clean with just a few pages 
foxed including the portraits. Leather is dry on some spines and has not 
been treated but all covers are tight and there is very little flaking. 
A Very Good set of this important periodical. (#015380)        $2,500.00

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