[Rarebooks] FS: THE TOUR OF JAMES MONROE, 1818, with U.S. Seal
Charles Agvent
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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 leather 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 with 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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