Search Results: scenes in america for the amusement by taylor isaac

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

Hartford: S. Andrus & Son. Very Good-. 1848. Hardcover. Some spotting on cloth; light shelf wear extremities. ; The 2 page frontispiece map is present. Some foxing, and some of the plates have been poorly colored by a child. .

S. R. Publishers Limited, 1968. Ex-Library. Illus. by Illustrated. Good. Cloth. Facsimile Reprint. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. S.R. Publishers, 1968. Facsimile reprint of 1821 edition with fold out map, illustrations. 16mo., cloth binding, 122 pp. New preface. Bound in library buckram, usual markings, some exuberant. Appears unread, no defects to binding. Good condition..

Paperback / softback. New.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Scenes in America, For the Amusement and instruction of Little Tarry-At-Home Travellers. by the Rev. isaac Taylor..

Paperback / softback. New.

S.R.Publishers Limited,, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the original 1821 edition, with a new Preface. 12mo. 122pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. With a fold-out map and eighty-four copper engravings by the author. A virtually fine copy, top edge just a little foxed and stained. No dust wrapper. The fourth volume of Taylor's noted "Scenes in." series..

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Rochester: William Alling, 1840. Hardcover. G Cover has fading and edge damage. Front and rear cover largely seperated from spine. Outer spine missing. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have foxing and age toning. Interior fold out map is torn.. 3/4 brown boards with red spine. 117 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. In prose and verse.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

frontis folding map, with 84 engraved illustrations (good clear strikes) on 28 plates, titles page vignette, in the original quarter crimson roan backed printed paper over boards with vignette illustration on both boards, a fine clean copy of the first edition, fourth printing. Osborne II-p813. Sabin 94469. Among the earliest of the juveniles about the Americas, it contains brief highlights of early travel and discovery aimed at the juvenile audience, including material concerning Columbus, Cortes, Balboa, American Indians, Lewis and Clark, Hudson Bay, the West Indies, etc., with numerous charming woodcut illustrations. Both American continents are covered equally. Binding loose spine tattered. This is an ex-library copy. Owned by Wilbur Cortez Abbott (1869-1947) of Wabash College.Stamps and library ID numbers.Please contact the store for more information:
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hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: J. Harris and Son,, 1822. Hardcover Hardcover. Acceptable. Twelvemo. 122pp. Original quarter leather over printed boards. Poor copy with rubbing to covers, lacking prelims, detached and chipped title page, introduction and first page. No date (lacking bootom half of title page) c.1822-1840.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1840. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. (15.5x9.5 cm). - 117, 3 blank pages. - Contemporary 1/2-leather, spine with 4 bands and title in gilt. Worn. - With a multiply folding frontispiece map of America, and 78 illustrations on plates. Title-page with a vignette showing a Native American with headgear, and a ship (Columbus?) in the background. - (Illustration 39 with a small closed tear, Illustration 42 with a 1x3 cm piece missing from lower left corner.) - With inscription on front free end-paper, in old ink: "Presented / to Margaret G. .....(?) / By / Isaac Drew / February 20th, 1844". - Taylor describes for juvenile readers early travels and the discovery of America, including material about Columbus, Cortes, Native Americans, Lewis and Clark and the West Indies. - EXTREMELY RARE: surprisingly, WorldCat does not locate any hard copy of this edition.