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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Volume 2 Only. Hardcover with no DJ. Brown paper boards with black lettering on spine. Title and copyright pages dated 1828. 367 pages. Shelf wear to boards with fading along front and rear boards. Spine chipped and peeling along top and bottom edges. 1 inch closed tears to covering of spine near top and bottom running horizontally. Rear board loosely attached to spine at bottom edge. Foxing to majority of pages, pages still readable. Binding tight. Fair Condition. Latin text on title page reads as follows: "Venient annis secula seris, Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus, Tiphysque novus detegat orbes, Nec sit terris ultima Thule. - Seneca. Medea.". Please contact us with questions or if youd like to see photographs.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth over paper boards. Covers rubbed and edge-worn, with corners frayed; title label on backstrips rubbed and chipped to be barely legible; discolored markings on front cover of vol. 1; moderate foxing throughout; top corner bumped on a few pages in vol. 2; dampstain at bottom inside corner of pages in vol. 1, and previous owner's name on title page; otherwise very good condition. . Two volumes (1 and 3 only), separately paged.
Seller: Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: G & C Carvill; NY, 1828. Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good, light to moderate foxing throughout, old moisture staining to page edge last 1/4 of book w/some staining/rubbing to full green, heavily blind and gilt embossed w/5 slightly hubbed compartments to spine/two with red author/title labels, ornate leather binding, nice marbled endsheets/matching page edges. A nice, clean unmarked copy, Vol III only. 8vo[octavo or aprx 6 x 9 inches], 420pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$359.09 + shipping
Description: Worn set bound in half leather over marble boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some minor wear and tear to the spine and boards, along with some dust-toning. Remains well-preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; two volumes (only): II & III. Subjects; Christopher Columbus. Biography. History. Washington Irving. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3 volumes. Full (brown) leather bindings. The spines have raised cords and once had black title labels. The title labels are missing on volume 1 and part of volume 2. All the boards are attached, but the hinges are weak. Marbled endpapers. Small ownership name of WIlliam L. Jenkins on the first blank page. Volume 1 is 399 pages. Volume 2 is 367 pages. Volume 3 is 419 pages (+1 unnumbered page). First edition of Irving's biography of Columbus. Measures 5.75 x 8.75 inches. Large folding map at the front of the first volume has some tears at the creases and an early repair. First edition. This is the first book Irving published in his own name, after the success of his Knickerbocker stories. Extra shipping may be required for international or priority shipping because it's a 3 volume set. Please email with questions or to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Worn set bound in half leather over marble boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some minor wear and tear to the spine and boards, along with some dust-toning. Remains well-preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; two volumes (only): II & III. Subjects; Christopher Columbus. Biography. History. Washington Irving. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 3 volumes. Bound in full brown leather. Spine labels in maroon and black with gold lettering and subtle decorations. Bindings good and tight. Text blocks solid, as well. Some foxing, as you would expect. Front endpaper of first volume is creased. Folding map is present in the first volume and is in very good shape, with only a small tear where it's tipped in (but none at the folds). A name has been clipped from the rear endpaper of volume 1, but not the words "Salem F. Academy, N.C." 399 pages. Volume 2 has 367 pages. Volume 3 has 420 pages. The Salem Academy note may be the Salem Female Academy in Winston-Salem. Irving's biography of Columbus was the first book Irving published under his own name. It was popular and successful. This is the first american edition. Priority and international shipping will require extra shipping because this is a 3 volume set. Books measure 5.5 x 9 inches.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
IRVING, WASHINGTON. History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. , 1828.
Price: US$460.00 + shipping
Description: IRVING, WASHINGTON. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1828. 3 vols. xvi, 399 p.; 367 p.; viii, [1], 14-420 p. Lacks folding map. Later half morocco. Two small ownership stamps in each volume, else internally fine and fresh, in a simple half morocco binding with the name of Chas. C. Allen in gilt at the foot of each spine. First American edition, and Irving's first major historical work. Lacking the map, and priced accordingly. BAL 10124.
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A unique three volume set with many early newspaper articles on Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci pasted in. Also two letters in French. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spines, original marbled free end papers retained with original pages uncut. First American edition, [Langfeld p 27, Sabin 35169], 22 x 14 cm., xvi, 399; viii, 367; viii, 420 pp. Clippings are dated 1834, 1835, 1836, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1843, 1851 and 1853. Two manuscript letters in French pasted in, an auction dealers notes on this copy intended for printing in a catalog This thee volume American edition is much rarer than the four volume first British edition also dated 1828. Heraldic bookplate (lion rampant holding cross botonnee above quartered shield with four crosses botonnee above sash with single word “Chase” attached to rebound fixed endpaper of each volume. Rebinding is neat and tight. Exact companion to Irving's "Voyages and Discoveries of the Cmpanions of Columbus" also offered here #959.
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
IRVING, Washington. History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. , 1828.
Price: US$660.00 + shipping
Description: IRVING, Washington. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Contemporary full tree calf with tan morocco spine labels, housed in custom cloth slipcase. New-York: G. & C. Carvill, 1828. 3 Vols. First American edition. BAL 10124. With folding map. Some rubbing and scuffing to leather, bookplates removed, ink ownership inscriptions on each pastedown, light scattered foxing, else a very good set.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.