The History of Empress Josephine CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC TITLE PAGE
by Abbott, John S. C
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. This 1851 edition of John S. C. Abbott's history of Joséphine Bonaparte features a stunning chromolithographic title page as well as an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Empress and 6 engraved plates throughout.
6 3/4" X 4 1/2". [xiii], 14-328pp, plus 4pp ads. Bound in blind-decorated and blind-ruled red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with corners bumped, split, and turned in, open tears to head and tail of spine, including nearly 2" neat tear along edge of lower spine, soiling to boards, hard bump with tear to rear board, and lean to spine. Hinges tender and hint of spine to some pages. Binding remains quite sound. Birthday gift inscription dated July 9th, 1851 to front free endpaper. Yellow coated endpapers. Foxing and occasional smudging to pages throughout, else unmarked.
6 3/4" X 4 1/2". [xiii], 14-328pp, plus 4pp ads. Bound in blind-decorated and blind-ruled red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with corners bumped, split, and turned in, open tears to head and tail of spine, including nearly 2" neat tear along edge of lower spine, soiling to boards, hard bump with tear to rear board, and lean to spine. Hinges tender and hint of spine to some pages. Binding remains quite sound. Birthday gift inscription dated July 9th, 1851 to front free endpaper. Yellow coated endpapers. Foxing and occasional smudging to pages throughout, else unmarked.
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14127
- Title
- The History of Empress Josephine CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC TITLE PAGE
- Author
- Abbott, John S. C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1851
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- Tail
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