Scenes in America, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers.
Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1825.
Price: $500.00
About the item
First American edition. Engraved folding map at front, wood-engraved title vignette and 78 wood-engraved illustrations on 26 plates. vi, [7]-117, [1] pp. 12mo. Contemporary quarter blue roan and boards, spine gilt. Spine rubbed, faint embossed ex-libris stamp to lower corner of title. Osborne, p. 190 (English ed.); Sabin 94469.
Item #311981
First American edition of this work from the juvenile "Scenes" series by author, illustrator and nonconformist minister Isaac Taylor (1759-1829). Scenes in America was first published in London 1821.