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Adamant Media Corporation, 2002-05-22. Paperback. Used:Good.

British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-03-25. Paperback. Good.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The American in Egypt, with rambles through Arabia Petræa and the Holy Land, during the years 1839 and 1840 ... Illustrated with numerous steel engravings: also with designs and etchings by Johnston..

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D, Appleton & Company, 1843-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Publisher's brown cloth. Hardcover. Gutter chipped with loss. Foxing. 7 (1) x-xviii, 610 p., 11 pl., 1 port. 22 cm.

British Library, Historical Print Editions. paperback. New. 7x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

New York:: D. Appleton & Company,, [1842].. publisher's brown cloth gilt-letterred on the spine.. Old bookplate; light foxing throughout; small hole to center of the spine and shallow chipping at extremities of the cloth; but tight and sound.. 8vo,. Illustrated with numerous steel engravings; also with designs and etchings by Johnston..

New York: D. Appleton, 1842. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Large 8vo, 9.5 x 6 inches, publisher's blocked brown cloth, gilt spine. Very good, light wear to binding, foxing to text, musty odor from farmhouse storage, old bookplate on pastedown, small private library label toward bottom of spine. 610 pp, numerous engraved plates, errata slip bound in at end before the ads. Cooley was a New York City bookseller, auctioneer and politician. He served in the New York State Senate for the First District in the session of 1852, and served on the advisory board which planned Central Park. He was married in 1833 to Maria Louisa Appleton, the daughter of publisher Daniel Appleton, which might explain how this book came to be published by that firm. Starting around that time under the firm name Cooley & Bangs, afterwards Cooley, Keese & Hill, he conducted the semi-annual New York City book trade sales at his auction rooms, in later years in conjunction with his son-in-law George Ayres Leavitt, who took… Read More

New York: D, Appleton & Company, 1843. Hardcover. g. Octavo. xviii, 610pp. Original spotted calf leather with gilt lettering on black label of spine. Frontispiece print with tissue guard. Illustrated with numerous steel engravings, some with tissue guards, and designs and etchings by Johnston. Witty and satirical account of New York State senator Cooley's trip to Egypt. Compilation from the notes taken on the spots during the author's wanderings in the Old World. Entertaining caricature of David Bushnell, an American living in Alexandria. Criticized for lack of factual accuracy and lifting of illustrations but showing caricatures of Western travelers together with authentic representation oriental costumes and antiquities, in other words, the fanciful and the factual. Moderate rubbing of leather with some creasing of spine from reading, some shelf wear around edges. Offsetting on endpapers. Foxing throughout block, at times affecting images. Binding and interior in overall good+ condition.