POPULAR BIOGRAPHY Embracing the Most Eminent Characters of Every Age, Nation and Profession: Including Painters, Poets, Philosophers, Politicians, Heroes, Warrior, Etc., Etc.
Hardcover
1832 · NY
by Parley, Peter
NY: Leavitt & Allen, 1832. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket. Embracing the Most Eminent Characters of Every Age, Nation and Profession: Including Painters, Poets, Philosophers, Politicians, Heroes, Warrior, Etc., Etc.. NY: Leavitt & Allen, (1832). Numerous b/w text portraits. 526 pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Brown cloth. Decorative blind-stamping to boards, gilt lettering, decoration and pictorial of a bust of Athena to spine. Extremities bumped and rubbed; rear corners worn, head and heel more so; head slightly chipped with 1/2Ó tear to seam of spine. Light scattered foxing to edges, endpapers, and pages. Former ownersÕ names in ink and pencil to front free endpaper. Few pages slightly browned. Two or three signatures shaken; binding beginning to split at pps. 310-311. Else still good; fanciful portraits of prestigious figures Good/No dust jacket. (Inventory #: 32132)