Beschreibung:

Domestic Manners of the Americans, 2 volumes, 1st edition, for Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832, half-titles, 24 lithographic plates (variably spotted), advertisement slip to volume 1, ownership inscriptions and bookplates of Honora Legge (1775-1863), original blue cloth, expertly rebacked to style retaining original labels, slightly rubbed and cockled, 8vo, together with: Trotter (Alexander), Observations on the Financial Position and Credit of such of the States of the North American Union as have contracted Public Debts, 1st edition, Longman [and others], 1839, folding map frontispiece, errata slip, 16 pp. advertisements to rear, contemporary newspaper cuttings mounted to endpapers, ink-stamps (ownership and library withdrawal) to endpapers and title page, original cloth, rubbed and marked, head of front joint abraded, 8vo, Southesk (James Carnegie, 9th earl of), Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1875, 7 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, 2 lithographic plates (1 double-page), 2 folding maps on glazed cloth, presentation inscription 'To Sir William Stirling Maxwell Bart. with the author's kind regards, Jan 20. 1875' on half-title, front inner hinge cracked, maps slightly spotted, original blue cloth gilt, 8vo, and 16 others, 19th-century Americana and American imprints including Miller's New York As It Is (1862, with folding map), mainly in original cloth, 8vo Sabin 97028 (Trollope), 97058 (Trotter), 88549 (Southesk); Sadleir 3218, Wolff 6809 (Trollope). Southesk's work is a presentation copy to noted art historian Sir William Maxwell Stirling, 9th baronet (1818-1878). (21)