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Lot 342
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$176
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Lot Description
STEPHENS, John Lloyd (1805-1852). Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871, 1863.
2 volumes, 8vo. 2 lithographed frontispieces, lithographed folding map, numerous lithographed plates. (Scant spotting to a few leaves, a few leaves becoming loose.) Original publisher's embossed cloth (very slight wear to extremities); cloth folding case. Provenance: A. Slaght (signature dated 18 February 1873); Henry L. Jost (label).
"Twelfth edition," reissued from the same plates as the first edition of 1841. Sabin notes: "Harper and Brothers, the New York publishers of the work, put out at least eleven issues of a “Twelfth Edition” between 1844 and 1871. The work was still in print in 1876, according to the American Catalogue." [Laid in:] Handwritten note by Larry McMurtry regarding the folding case for the work. A FINE COPY.
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