Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada by MURRAY, Hon. Amelia M - 1856

New York: G. P. Putnam & Company, 1856. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. [1], 410 pages. Brown cloth hardcover with blind stamped designs on covers and gilt title on spine. Fading and light edge wear to the brown cloth binding. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the contents. Rear end paper removed. Previous owner pencil inscriptions on the front end sheets, front blank end paper, and last page. Howes M 912; Clark III 478; De Renne Vol. 2 p.580.

NY 1856 Putnam. Murray was Lady in Waiting to Queen of England and travelled as her emissary. Intelligent, high content letters with much on practice of slavery. Only two chapters on Cuba, most chapters on US. 2 volumes in one. 8vo., 402pp., boards. Fairly Good, some foxing, front inner hinge cracking but binding still hold; cover worn, cracking along outer hinges, backstrip worn on ends. No owner marks. Text mostly clean with a bit of very light foxing. .

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New York: G. P. Putnam & Company, 1856. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. [1], 410 pages. Green cloth hardcover with blind embossed decorations on the covers. Gilt title on the spine. Light foxing to the early pages. Light wear to the cloth extremities. Pencil inscription by previous owner on the brown right front flyleaf. Howes M 912; Sabin 51486; Clark III 478; Derenne vol. 2 page 580.

NY: Putnam, 1856. First US Edn. 8vo, Pp. 402. Little worn publisher's cloth. Bookplate, rear hinge tender. Initials on flyleaf bled through to a spot on the title-page. Lande 668, Sabin 51486, Howes M-912. Murray traveled through Canada, down to Boston and New England, through New York, the South, etc. She talks about slavery, woman's mission, Cuba and the like.

NY: Putnam, 1856. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 410. A very good copy in publisher's cloth, contemporary name on end paper, rear hinge tender, some rubbed along the extremities of the cloth. Lande 668, Sabin 51486, Howes M-912; Robinson p. 145; Clark 3478. Murray traveled through Canada, down to Boston and New England, through New York, the South, etc. She talks about slavery, woman's mission, Cuba and the like. Murray (1795-1884) traveled to the US to study Botany and social questions. As a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria she was well treated wherever she went. However, when she returned home and published this work lauding slavery, her book became a best seller for the wrong reasons and she was dismissed from the court.