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Taylor, Bayard

AT HOME AND ABORAD A Sketch-Book of Life, Scenery and Men

G. P. Putnam, 1862

75,00 €

Complete Traveller

(Westport, Estados Unidos)

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Año de publicación
1862
Lugar de impresión
New York
Autor
Taylor, Bayard
Editores
G. P. Putnam
Materia
Around The World
Encuadernación
Tapa dura

Descripción

Gilt spine lettering faded. Some tears to top spine. Light dampstaining to endpapers. ; Second series. Bayard Taylor was a prolific travel writer but also wrote poetry. He won a contest set up by B. T. Barnum for a poem that was later put into music and later sung by the "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind on her tour through America. Dark buckram boards with blindstamped linear decoration. Tissue guarded steel engraved frontispiece and half title page with very slight foxing. Chapters include: Country home in America, New Pictures from California, Home in the Thüringian Forest, A walk in the Franconian Switzerland, Travels at Home [Hudson, Catskills, Bershire, Boston, Saco Valley, Ascent of Mount Washington, Montreal and Quebec, Up the Saguenay, Niagara, Trenton Falls and Saratoga], Personal Sketches. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 509 pages

Condizioni: very good
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