Herbert Ingram (Publisher), Charles Mackay (Editor), William Little (Printer), and The Illustrated London News. The Illustrated London News (Single Complete Issue: Vol. XX No. 561, May 29, 1852) With Lead Article "Ministerial Recantations". William Little, London, England, 1852.

Price: US$38.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 417-436; previously disbound from bound volume. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article Ministerial Recantations; 'Daniel O'Rourke,' The Winner of the 'Derby' (with front cover engraving); The Emperor of Russia in Berlin; The Voyage of the 'Great Britain'; Royal Academy Exhibition; Paris Fashions for June (with engravings); Procession of the Forts de la Halle (with engraving); The Bornese Pirates (with five engravings); Captain Reed's Improvement in Saddles; double-page engravings of Nimroud Antiquities in the British Museum; The Recent Fatal Colliery Explosion Near Aberdare (with engraving); Gold in Australia - Port Phillip District (with map and four engravings); Launch of the H.M.S. Agamemnon (with engraving); Championship of the Thames (with portrait engraving each of Thomas Cole and Robert Coombes).

Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.

[Mackay, Charles]. History of the Mormons or, Latter-Day Saints. With Memoirs of the Life and Death of Joseph Smith, The "American Mahomet". Derby and Miller, Auburn, 1852.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: 399pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Original brown cloth binding with embossed designs on the covers, and a gilt stamped title and vignette on the spine. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. Good. There is a 3" split in the front board along the joint. There is a loss from the cloth at the head of the backstrip (measuring 1 wide by 1/2" deep), and there is a smaller loss from the cloth at the foot of the backstrip. The spine and the edges of the front board are a bit sunned. There is a contemporary owner's notation on the front free endpaper, a bookseller's small label on the rear pastedown, and a brief pencil notation on the title page. The pages are clean and quite bright, and the binding is strong. Flake: 5183. Subjects include Expulsion of the Mormons from Nauvoo, Interview with the Indians, Mormon Prosperity, Mormon Materialism and more.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.