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180341748Paris: Chez Courcier et Dentu 1803. First edition two volumes 8vo. Two folding plates in volume I two folding maps in volume II marbled endpapers and sides later bookplate of the collector Stuart W. Jackson. Contemporary green half calf gilt banded spines slightly sunned some mild rubbing head of the spine of volume II repaired Paris: Chez Courcier [et] Dentu unknown
18211907190050Paris : Bossange freres 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 volume set. Bound in contemporary tree calf. Handsome bindings. Gilt ruled spines with double red morocco spine labels. Very good bindings. Marbled end sheets. 8vo 22 cm. Half-titles 14 plates including frontispiece in vol.1 8 folding maps 15 folding tables. Lacks portrait. <br> Engraved armorial book plates of William Fullerton Lindsay Carnegie. Carnegie 1788-1860 lived at Kinblethmont House Inverkeilor Angus Scotland. <br> Contents: I. Notice sur la vie et les ecrits de Volney. Les Ruines. La Loi naturelle. Lettre de Volney au docteur Priestley. Discours sur l'etude philosophique des langues. ; II. Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie. T.I. : Etat physique de l'Egypte etat politique de l'Egypte etat physique de la Syrie etat politique de la Syrie. ; III. Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie. T. II : Etat politique de la Syrie ; Etat du commerce du Levant en 1784 ; Considerations sur la guerre des Turks en 1788. ; IV. Recherches nouvelles sur l'histoire ancienne. T.I : Examen de l'histoire des juifs jusqu'e la captivite de Babylone ; Chronologie des rois Lydiens ; Chronologie d'Herodote. ; V. Recherches nouvelles sur l'histoire ancienne : Suite de la chronologie d'Herodote ; Chronologie des Babyloniens ; Chronologie des Egyptiens. ; VI. Leçons d'histoire prononcees e l'Ecole normale en l'an III de la Republique française 1795. Histoire de Samuel inventeur du sacre des rois. Etat physique de la Corse. 1re et 2nde lettre e M. le comte Lanjuinais sur l'antiquite de l'alphabet phenicien. Lettre au directeur de la Revue sur une nouvelle traduction d'Herodote. Questions de statistique e l'usage des voyageurs. ; VII. Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis. Eclaircissemens sur divers articles. ; VIII. L'Alfabet europeen applique aux langues asiatiques. Simplification des langues orientales ou Methode nouvelle et facile d'apprendre les langues arabe persane et turke avec des caracteres europeens : grammaire de la langue arabe l'hebreu simplifie par la methode alfabetique. Vues nouvelles sur l'enseignement des langues orientales. Paris : Bossange freres hardcover
42564A Paris. chez Courcier Imprimeur-Libraire quai des Augustins no. 71; Chez Dentu Imprimeur-Libraire Palais du Tribunat Galleries-de-Bois no. 240 An XII. 1803. 8vo. 19.8cm The First Edition 2 volumes in One 8xvi300 & 4 301-532pp. paginated continuously with 2 folded engraved plates & 2 folded maps in contemporary quarter calf marbled boards gilt titles and panel borders marbled endpapers. "Vocabulaire de la Langue des Miamis" on pp. 525-532. fine condition. cgc. T.P.L. 723. Gagnon I-3676. Clark II-69. Howes V-141. Not in Lande. Sabin 100692 mentions that there were two issues of this edition: our copy includes the "Vocabulaire" in the continuous pagination" in the other issue the "Vocabulaire" is paged separately. Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf comte de Volney was a philosopher historian and politician. A member of the noble Boisgirais family of Anjou France he travelled extensively and wrote about his observations of the people and lands he visited. He spent time in Egypt Lebanon and Palestine "Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie " J 787 and later in Turkey and Russia "Considerations sur la guerre des T urcs et de la Russie " I 788. After the French Revolution he participated in the Estates-G‚n‚ral and Assembl‚e constituante. He later journeyed to the United States where he stayed for three years and came to know Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson translated twenty of twenty-four chapters of Volney's "Les Ruines" "Ruins of Empires " I802. Volney's "Tableau du climat" is his analysis of American politics and laws as well as the physical and cultural geography of the people he studied during his visit. "This work includes a description of the Niagara frontier and a review of French-Canadian enterprise on the Ohio and Mississippi. The author toured the United States 1795-1798 but did not apparently travel in Canada". TPL. Worldcat cites only Queen's Un Library Kingston. A Paris. chez Courcier, Imprimeur-Libraire, quai des Augustins, no. 71; Chez Dentu, Imprimeur-Libraire, Palais du Tribunat, Gall unknown
70669Quatrieme édition. Paris Chez Courcier 1807. 6 X 487 1; 4 492 pp. 3 folding engraved maps. 1 folding engraved plan and 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary three calf gilt spine green leather labels. Binding a little rubbed. . <br/><br/><em> </em> hardcover
1789BOOKS025445IParis: Volland & Desenne. Very good set in contemporary leather. 1789-90. early ed. leather. 8vo 383 458 pp. Volume 1 has two folding engraved maps; volume 2 has three folding engraved plates both as called for Light edge and corner wear hinges generally tight; all edges stained red; maps and plates clean and bright; former owner's name on both title pages; bound in full brown calf with five raised bands and contrasting title and volume number labels . Volland & Desenne hardcover
1788121627London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1788. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 vols.: xii 418; iv 500 15 p. 22 cm. 5 engraved fold-out plates including 2 maps. 1. Full tree-calf leather. Corners lightly bumped. Vol. 2. Small dent on bottom of rear board in vol. 1 as well as a bit of soiling to lower edge of text block. Vol. 2 has large horizontal tear in p. 327 chip in third plate and dampstains to front pastedown and inner margins of first pages. Paper bright and clean. <br/><br/>Title continues: "Containing The present Natural and Political State of those Countries their Productions Arts Manufactures and Commerce; with Observations on the Manners Customs and Government of the Turks and Arabs." Volney 1757-1820 was a well-travelled learned man. He embarked on a journey to the Near East in late 1782 and spent nearly seven months in Ottoman Egypt. Afterwards he lived for nearly two years in Greater Syria in what is today Lebanon and Israel in order to learn Arabic. He returned to France in 1785 where he spent the following two years compiling his notes and writing these volumes. He continued to travel in later years being expelled from the U.S.A. as a suspected spy in 1797. It seems his life was always an adventure for he narrowly escaped the guillotine during the French Revolution. Of interest in these well-preserved volumes is the account given of the Arabic press at the convent of Marhanna vol. 2 pp. 190-191 with a catalogue of books printed there p. 196. On the macabre side is the extensive discussion of diseases prevalent in Egypt including smallpox blindness cutaneous eruptions plague and Neapolitan Disease which seems to be syphilis vol. 1 pp. 240-258. Indexed. G.G.J. and J. Robinson hardcover
1853London: printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson Pater-Noster-Row 1788. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Two volumes. I:iv xii 418pp.; II: iv iv 500 xvpp. Second English edition. I: 2 A6 B8-Z8 Aa8-Dd8 Ee2; II: 4 B8-Z8 Aa8-Ii8 Kk2 Ll8. With half-titless to both volumes present. Contemporary calf rehinged at an earlier date. Some scuffing and wear to covers hinges still tender. With two folding maps of Syria and Egypt and two plates of buildings in the two countries plus a folding plan. ESTC T12218. <br/> <br/> London: printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, 1788 hardcover
179241541London: Printed for J. Johnson 1792. First English Language edition. Later patterned cloth with morocco spine label. Split along top half of front joint chips to head and heel of spine occasional foxing still very good. xv 400 pp. Illus. with 1 frontispiece & 2 folded maps after the French edition engr. by T. Conder. 8vo. Translated from the French of "Les ruines ou Méditation sur les révolutions des empires" by Thomas Conder.<br /> <br /> Volney's work which was first published in 1791 argued by analyzing the arc of ancient civilizations that the primacy of equality before the law was necessary to prevent the deterioration of religious and political institutions into tyranny.The work had a profound influence on Thomas Jefferson who translated it beginning in 1796 when Volney visited him at Monticello. A new translation of the work had just been published and both Jefferson and Volney were not happy with it nor this earlier first edition in English. The project went on hold once Jefferson became president and was not published until 1802 in France and 1828 in America. Printed for J. Johnson hardcover
17872657Reliure demi-basane mouchetée à petits coins. Dos à nerfs avec pièce de titre rouge et pièce de tomaison verte. Coiffes courtes. Coins frottés. Trois tranches rouges. Intérieur propre. Les ouvrages sont enrichis de deux cartes dépliantes et trois planches gravées dépliantes, représentant les Ruines du Temple du Soleil à Balbek, un plan du Temple, celles de la ville de Palmyre, toutes en très bel état.Seconde édition revue et corrigée.
200282Paris Parmantier, libraire, rue Dauphine. 1825-1826 XLIXp+423p (toma I)+436p+447p+478p+495p+400p+448p 8 tomes en 8 volumes IN8. Reliure d'époque en demi veau noir. Dos titrés estampés à froid Ouvrage orné de 3 planches dépliantes (tome I) 1 crte et deux gravures dépliantes (tome II) 4 p.d (tome III) 2planches dépliantes (tome IV)2 p.d (tome V) 2 tableaux
17872649A PARIS. VOLLAND, LIBRAIRE. DESENNE, LIBRAIRE. 1787 2 VOLUMES IN-8 (13,5 X 20 X 6,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 14 + (2) + 383 ET 6 + (2) + 458 + (3) PAGES, RELIURE D'EPOQUE PLEIN VEAU HAVANE, DOS A CINQ NERFS ORNE DE CAISSONS A FLEURONS DORES, TITRE DORE SUR ETIQUETTE MAROQUIN VERT, FILET DORE SUR COUPES, TRANCHES MOUCHETEES ROUGES. ILLUSTRE DE DEUX CARTES, UN PLAN ET 2 VUES REPLIES HORS TEXTE. EDITION ORIGINALE (CHADENAT. 720). PETITS DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS SANS AUCUNE GRAVITE, SINON BEL EXEMPLAIRE.
17923624jJ. Johnson 1792. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. With the original boards. Complete with frontis and 2 fold-outs. The front and back hinges have been reinforced. The boards are rubbed and worn but remain strong and sturdy. Internally there is light tanning and scattered foxing throughout but there are no other markings or inscriptions and the text is neat and clear. The binding is sound. In very good condition indeed considering its age! JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. J. Johnson hardcover
1788110521788 Paris, chez Volland, Desenne, 1788; 2 volumes in-8°, demi-basane marbrée à très petits coins de velin, dos lisse orné de fers à la tulipe et petites palettes dorées, titre et tomaison doré sur 2 étiquettes rouges, tranches mouchetées, plats de papier imitant la basane du dos; 383pp.; 458 -(3)pp. 2 cartes dépliantes (Egypte et Syrie), 3 planches dépliantes hors texte, déchirure sans manque au plan du Temple du soleil de Balbeck. Edition originale.
1804018128London: Printed for J. Johnson 1804. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xxiv vi 503 pages of text followed by i errata. Rebound in full black cloth with a leather spine label; new endpapers. Complete with two folding maps in excellent condition and two folding plates. The two maps have had previously torn folds archivally mended. There is very minimal soiling to a few pages and the first and final few pages are lightly foxed. Constantin-Francois Volney 1757-1820. Howes V-141; Sabin 100692. First edition. Printed for J. Johnson Hardcover books
178717572Paris: Chez Desenne & Chez Volland. Very Good. 1787. Seconde Edition Revue et Corrogee. Hardcover. The second edition reviewed & corrected published in 1787 the same year as the first edition Two volumes bound with vellum spines over decorative boards with 4 spine bands & black lettering. Marbled endpapers. Deckle page edges. xvi I383pp viii 458pp 4 llustrated with 2 fold-out maps and 3 fold-out plates 2 engravings & 1 plan. Hinges and text are tight clean & intact. The book chronicles the cultures history and languages of the areas Volney visited. Armorial bookplate of W. Arthur Jeffery: motto "supra spem spero". French text. Middle East Syria Egypt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 821 pages . Chez Desenne & Chez Volland hardcover
21135Without place or date. Replied to on 25 October 1803. 1p. 4to. In good condition lightly aged. On bifolium with stub from mount adhering to blank second leaf. Neatly written and reading: 'Le Senateur Volney a l'honneur d'offrir au Ministre du tresor public comme a l'un des juges les plus competens et les plus Eclairés l'examplaire ci-joint de Son Nouveau livre Tableau du climat et du Sol des Etats-unis D'Amerique et leprie d'agreer des tres humbles civilités.' At the head of the page the recipient has written: 'Rep. 2o Brumaire. 12. i.e. 25 October 1803' Another of Volney's works 'Ruines of Empires' 1791 was extremely influential particularly in the United States. In 1796 Volney met Thomas Jefferson at Monticello to discuss Jefferson's plan to translate the book into English. Jefferson had completed the greater part of his translation by the time he mounted his 1800 bid for the presidency at which point he handed over the project to Joel Barlow who translated the last four chapters and at Jefferson's request put his name to the whole translation which was published in 1801. Without place or date. [Replied to on 25 October 1803.] unknown
1804002794EELondon: J. Johnson 1804. First Edition. Very good. A very good and tight copy. First English Edition Translated From the French of C. F. Volney. Listed in Howes USiana V-141 and Sabin 100693. 504pp. 3/4 leather in original boards. Rubbing and chipping to leather along spine folds corners rubbed. Top edge gold gilt. Two fold out maps and two fold out plates as called for. One of the plates has edge wear and split which has been repaired. Maps are in very good condition with the larger map having a couple of tears to fold. Some foxing to preliminaries. View all Seven Photo's. J. Johnson unknown
1803WRCAM51639Paris: Courcier 1803. Two volumes. 3xvi300; 4301- 5342pp. plus two foldings maps and two folding plates. Half titles. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards spines gilt leather labels all edges stained red. Hinges rubbed edges and corners slightly worn. Bookplates on front pastedowns. A few scattered fox marks and small dampstains but generally clean. About very good. Volney came to America to avoid imprisonment by the French government and brought with him a large measure of education and sophistication as well as a small bundle of prejudices: he was a vehement anticlericalist and opponent of things Rousseauian. Jefferson felt he might have been a catalyst for the Federalist Alien Acts. There is a small map of North America and a much larger map of the United States all east of the Mississippi. The map of the continent small as it is still represents fairly advanced cartographical knowledge. This copy is of the variant no priority with the Miami vocabulary separately paginated. The work is valuable for its notes on French colonies in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. HOWES V141. CLARK II:69. PILLING 4061. FIELD 2449. MONAGHAN 1472. BUCK 49. Courcier hardcover books
1807SW1692Paris:: Courcier 1807. 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. 6 x 487 1; iv 492 pp. Half-titles 5 folding engraved plates including detailed engravings of the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza 3 folding maps incl. frontis. a folding map of Egypt p. 288 Syria II p. 400 Turkey ads in front & rear. Original full mottled calf gilt spine red leather spine labels; joints rubbed but strong. Ownership Signature of Benjamin B. Wood. Very good. Fourth edition first issued in 1787 here printed with additional plates. This is a key source for the study of Ottoman Egypt Syria and modern day Lebanon sometimes called the Levant. Volney describes the geography of the region the climate its history cultures the militia economy and trade diseases the monuments natural history politics people law religions farming and agriculture craftsmen merchants commerce arts sciences and character of the inhabitants. All this is set within the presence of the years just prior to the outbreak of the French Revolution which started in 1789. "In 1783 Volney gave up the thought of following any particular profession and set out for the East. He arrived at Cairo ostensibly on a scientific mission although many there regarded him as a spy he was later accused of spying on America by John Adams' administration. In order to master Arabic he shut himself away in a convent for eight months then journeyed to the pyramids at Giza and moved to Suez where he lived with the Bedouin. While there he entertained the notion of constructing a canal to link the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. Sailing from Alexandria in September 1783 he visited Syria and the Lebanon concluding his journey at Acre =Akko in 1785. After a brief halt at Alexandria he returned to France where his documents turned out to be of enormous value in the planning of Napoleon's campaign to Egypt. Volney however persistently opposed such intervention despite producing a pamphlet which uncannily anticipated French involvement in the region." – Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 V61. / "The French author and traveller Constantin-Francois de Chasseboeuf 1757–1820 adopted the pen name Volney which combined the name of Voltaire and Ferney where the great philosopher lived. A friend of Thomas Jefferson and other Enlightenment figures Volney used an inheritance to further his education by travelling to Ottoman Egypt and the historical region of Syria visiting areas of present-day Lebanon and Israel. He chose these lands as he believed he would gain political and philosophical insights from their ancient heritage. Very little had been written in the West about these areas before he published this two-volume account in 1787. It enjoyed great popularity and even accompanied Darwin aboard the Beagle on his own voyage of discovery decades later. Reissued here is the revised and corrected French second edition which also appeared in 1787. The volumes explore geography history ethnic divisions religious beliefs commerce politics and customs." – Cambridge University Press 2014. / De Volney was a French philosopher and historian and a member of the Estates-General during the French Revolution. Alexander Cook who believes that Volney's influence is as a "key thinker" though often forgotten in today's sense of that history examines this books as a specimen of geo-politics of both French anti-imperialist thought and French imperial practice in North Africa and the Levant where France was seeking to expand its global influence and power during the following decades. Cook is at Australian National University School of History received his PhD from University of Cambridge. CONTENTS: Volume 1: Preface; - Part I. Etat physique de l'Egypte: - 1. De l'Egypte en general et de la ville d'Alexandrie; - 2. Du Nil et de l'extension du delta; - 3. De l'exhaussement de delta; - 4. Des vents de l'Egypte; - 5. Du climat et de l'air d'Egypte; - Part II. Etat politique de l'Egypte: - 6. Des diverses races des habitans de l'Egypte; - 7. Precis de l'histoire des Mamlouks; - 8. Precis de l'histoire de d'Ali-bek; - 9. Precis des evenemens arrives depuis la mort d'Ali-bek jusqu'en 1785; - 10. Etat present de l'Egypte; - 11. Constitution de la milice des Mamlouks; - 12. Gouvernement des Mamlouks; - 13. Etat du commerce; - 14. De l'isthme de Suez; - 15. Des douanes et des impots; - 16. De la ville du Kaire; - 17. Des maladies de l'Egypte; - 18. Tableau resume de l'Egypte; - 19. Des ruines et des pyramides; - Part III. Etat physique de la Syrie: - 20. Geographie et histoire naturaelle de la Syrie; - 21. Considerations sur les phenomenes des vents des nuages des pluies des brouillards et du tonnerre; - Part IV. Etat politique de la Syrie: - 22. Des habitans de la Syrie et de la langue usitee; - 23. Des peuples errans ou pasteurs en Syrie. Volume 2: - 24. Des peuples agricoles ou sedentaires de la Syrie; - 25. Precis de l'histoire de Daher; - 26. Distribution de la Syrie par pachalics; - 27. Du pachalic d'Alep; - 28. Du pachalic de Tripoli; - 29. Du pachalic de Saide; - 30. Du pachalic de Damas; - 31. De la Palestine; - 32. Resume de la Syrie; - 33. Du gouvernement des Turks en Syrie; - 34. De l'administration de la justice; - 35. De l'influence de a religion; - 36. De la propriete et des conditions; - 37. Des paysans et de l'agriculture; - 38. Des artisans des amrchands et du commerce; - 39. Des arts des sciences et de l'ignorance; - 40. Des habitudes et du caractere des habitans de la Syrie. PROVENANCE: Benjamin B. Wood unknown as there are many with this name. / See: Alexander Cook "The Great Society of the Human Species': Volney and the Global Politics of Revolutionary France" Intellectual History Review Volume 23 2013 - Issue 3: Discourses of Humanity in the Enlightenment: Local Mediations of a Global Aspiration; Alexander Cook "Volney and the Science of Morality in Revolutionary France" Humanities Research Vol. 16 No. 2 May 1 2010; Samir Khalaf Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritans 1820-1860 Routledge 2012. Courcier, 1807. hardcover books
180411501804. VOLNEY Constantine F. A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America: With Supplementary Remarks Upon Florida; on the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio and in Canada; and on the Aboringinal Tribes of America. Translated With Occasional Remarks By C.B. Brown. With Maps and Plates. Phila.: J. Conrad & Co. 1804. 1st ed. in English. 8vo. Illus. with two folding maps and two folding charts. Very good in later antique style calf-backed marbled boards. Howes V-141. Sabin 100693. Field 1610. "The author spent three years in the United States ardently engaged in collecting facts for his work which principally related to the state and manners of the Indians and the climate. unknown
231341Paris, Desenne, Volland, Plassan, août 1791 in-8, titre, xvj pp., 410 pp., avec 3 planches, dont un frontispice par Martini, et deux dépliants, veau fauve raciné, dos lisse cloisonné et orné alternativement de fleurons et d'urnes dorés, pièce de titre cerise, encadrement de triple filet doré sur les plats, simple filet doré sur les coupes, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque). Deux mors fendus, coins abîmés, mouillures en début et en milieu de volume.
2246-14Paris Bossange 1821-22. 5me éd. 2 vols. gr.-8°. 2 Bll. 455 S. 1 Bl.; 2 Bll. VIII 456 S. Mit 1 gefalt. Plan 3 gefalt. Karten u. 4 gefalt. Kupfertaf. HLdr. d. Zt. Mit Rückengoldpräg. Rü. restaur. Stellenw. stockfleckig. vgl. Brunet V 1351; vgl. Cox I 235; Gay 2275; Ibrahim-Hilmy I186; Chadenat 720 - "One of the most exact and valuable works of the kind ever published all personal details being eliminated to economise the time of readers" Cox. - Constantin François Chasseboeuf Boisgirais Comte de Volney 1757-1820 französischer Reisender Orientalist und Geschichtsphilosoph. Der Abkömmling einer ländlichen Adelsfamilie studierte in Paris Medizin und Philosophie. Dort war er auch Gast in den Salons von Baron Holbach und Madame Helvétius wo er die Bekanntschaft von Voltaire Diderot d'Alembert und Benjamin Franklin machte. Mit letzterem blieb er auch schriftlich verbunden. 1782 unternahm er eine mehrjährige Reise in das Osmanische Reich die ihn nach Syrien Palästina und Ägypten führte. In der französischen Revolution war er Mitglied der Nationalversammlung. Paris, Bossange 1821-22. unknown
180493024Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co. 1804 1804. First Edition. unknown_binding. Used-Very Good. Octavo xxviii 446 pp.4 fold-out plates 2 of which are maps. New Quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards with red leather gilt stamped spine label. First fold-out plate is worn around edges with an ink marking over plate number. Otherwise a very good copy in a new attractive binding. Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co., 1804 unknown
179863341798 Paris, Dugour et Durand, an VII (1798). Complet en 2 vol. in-8 reliés: 12.5 x 19.5 cm, I/ 1f. extrait loi du 19 juillet 1793, faux-titre, titre, 10p. davis éditeur et préface, 478p. de texte, 4 pl. grav. dépliantes. II/ faux-titre, titre, 452p., 4 pl. grav. dépliantes. Reliés en veau marbré de l'époque. Dos lisses avec titre, tomaison, filets et fleurons dorés. Tranches rouges. Reliures frottés, manques aux coiffes et coins émoussées (prix en conséquence). En revanche l'intérieur est en excellent état, les planches fraîches et propres.
183567296Printed in the USA: Charles Gaylord 1835. 1835 edition. Cloth and paper over boards. As described. Hardcover cloth tan over paper illustrated over boards. 12mo. 216 pp. Illustrated with a b/w engraved frontispiece. No edition marks. Remnants of a paper label on the spine. Faded partially legible inscription on the front flyleaf. Ownership signature P. S. Van Wagner Hamilton 1844 R. R. on the front flyleaf and title page. Small enclosed tear on the back flyleaf. Text block is age browned around the edges and mildly foxed throughout. Binding is strong and square. Spine and boards are soiled rubbed and worn. Edges of the boards are frayed in sections. Small enclosed tear on the fore edge of the front board. Crack in the bottom of the front hinge. Bumped corners. Despite its appearance this copy's bindings are still strong and its pages legible. Charles Gaylord unknown
