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THE AMERICAN ANNUAL: ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA
by EASTMAN, Mary H[enderson]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Foxing, mostly light and marginal but occasionally in the image. A few pages toward the end partly detached. Some fading and lig
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [1854]. First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing, mostly light and marginal but occasionally in the image. A few pages toward the end partly detached. Some fading and light wear to spine ends. Very Good. Seth Eastman. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in the publisher's gilt-decorated gray cloth, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 21 fine steel-engraved plates, mainly of the Sioux and the Pueblo, after Seth Eastman, the author's husband and one of the finest artists of the frontier American West. The Eastmans depict in words and pictures from their own firsthand experiences the life and manners of Native Americans in the 1840s.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018532
- Title
- THE AMERICAN ANNUAL: ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA
- Author
- EASTMAN, Mary H[enderson]
- Illustrator
- Seth Eastman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Foxing, mostly light and marginal but occasionally in the image. A few pages toward the end partly detached. Some fading and lig
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- [1854]
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books, Americana, Mary Eastman, 19th Century, Pueblo Indians, Sioux, Steel Engravings, Seth Eastman, Native Americans, Western Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana; Native Americans; Steel Engravings;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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