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Año de publicación: 1880
Librería: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Reino Unido
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No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A splendid original engraved portrait of an eminent person. Professionally mounted and ready to frame. Unusual, attractive and decorative. C. 1880.
Publicado por Philadelphia [PA]: Carey and Hart [Henry Charles Carey & Abraham Hart], 1842., 1842
Librería: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, Estados Unidos de America
VOLUMES III AND IV ONLY of a four volume set. Second American edition (as stated upon each volume's title page). Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 15.5cm. Original dark green cloth bindings; some wear at spine ends and tips of board corners; obtrusively affixed near the top of each volume's front board is a large contemporary bookplate (H 6.9cm x L 11.55cm) "Duncan. | Auburn." each having varied toning and staining; spines retain bright gilt stamped title lettering with decorative gilt stamped lamp and book vignette near heels. Each volume with ink signature "H.P. Duncan." neatly written in antiquarian ink at front free endpapers' center right. Varied foxing and toning throughout. Bindings are firm. Still an attractive set albeit only two volumes thereof. VOLUME III: 1-432, 1-12, [4], 1-24 pages. Publisher's title list-catalog advertisements on twenty leaves at book's rear. VOLUME IV: 1-472 pages; cumulative Index for the set on pages 439-472. This set features an exceptional Mississippi provenance as the front board bookplates attest to the books' association to the prominent Duncan family of Natchez, Mississippi. As President of the Bank of Mississippi and owner of fourteen cotton and sugar plantations, Dr. Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) amassed one of largest fortunes in the antebellum South and acquired the magnificent Auburn mansion in 1827. An opponent of the Civil War and Confederate secession, Duncan left Natchez in 1863 and resided in New York City for the remainder of his life. Henry P. Duncan (1823-1879) was the eldest progeny of his father's second marriage to Catherine Binghaman (first wife Margaret Ellis having died in the 1815 yellow fever epidemic) and resided most of his adult life in Issaquena County, Mississippi where he managed the 2680 acre plantation Ellislie north of Vicksburg as well as overseeing some small land holdings in Adams County. In 1911 the Duncan family donated Auburn and its adjoining 200+ acre tract to the city of Natchez and sold the home's opulent furnishings (including its large library) at public auction. This book's most recent provenance is from a Starkville, Mississippi estate but was, in turn, likely acquired at that now infamous estate dispersal which stripped one of the state's acclaimed architectural treasures of its magnificent early 19th century collection of furniture and decor.
Librería: Okmhistoire, St Rémy-des-Monts, SARTH, Francia
Couverture rigide. Condición: Assez bon. Paris, Paulin & Lheureux 1845-1862 . 20 volumes/20 sans l'Atlas .Format in-8°demi-chagrin . ----------494 ,456,570,620,473,573,684,687,596,511,476,709,583,686,614,69 3,911,656,637et 810 pages . ****** Bon exemplaire.