Browne's Crusoe's Island, finely bound
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Author: Browne, J. Ross
Title: Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk. With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1864
Description: 436 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. (8vo) 19x12 cm (7½x4¾"), finely bound by Monastery Hill Bindery in blue gilt-ruled and ornamented full morocco spine tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled and ornamented dentelles, moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition.Includes Browne's famous A Peep at Washoe, an account of his 1860 visit to Virginia City. Paher notes that "his is among the best and liveliest reports of the early Comstock boom, capturing the flavor of mining camps in good style." Cowan p.78; Howes B876; Paher 219. Gift inscription on preliminary blank dated 1943. Lot includes a typescript carbon to Monastery Hill Bindery requesting a binding "of sufficient value and beauty to be worthy of the book".
Author: Browne, J. Ross
Title: Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk. With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1864
Description: 436 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. (8vo) 19x12 cm (7½x4¾"), finely bound by Monastery Hill Bindery in blue gilt-ruled and ornamented full morocco spine tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled and ornamented dentelles, moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition.Includes Browne's famous A Peep at Washoe, an account of his 1860 visit to Virginia City. Paher notes that "his is among the best and liveliest reports of the early Comstock boom, capturing the flavor of mining camps in good style." Cowan p.78; Howes B876; Paher 219. Gift inscription on preliminary blank dated 1943. Lot includes a typescript carbon to Monastery Hill Bindery requesting a binding "of sufficient value and beauty to be worthy of the book".
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Browne's Crusoe's Island, finely bound
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