America Before Europe: Principles and Interests (Translated from Advanced Sheets by Mary L. Booth)
by Gasparin, Count Agenor De; Booth, Mary L. (trans)
First American Edition
Price: $145.00
- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 4330
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First American Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Charles Scribner
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1862
Book Description
New York: Charles Scribner, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. Light/moderate shelf/edge wear (tips through, light wear at head and heel), pencil notation ("Duplicate") on front pastedown, LoC bookplate on front pastedown, red ink stamp ("Duplicate - Exchanged from Library of Congress") on verso of title page, else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, burgundy leather spine and tips, five raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled paper boards, green paper endpages, red ink speckled at text block edges. 8vo. 419pp. Documentary evidence. Bound by The Library of Congress (showing LoC mark and seal and "DE GASPARIN'S AMERICA" at the spine. Explores issues around the US Civil War and European interests and implications therein. Overall, a handsome copy with an unusual provinence.
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