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Etat : Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Etat : Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Etat : Good. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Etat : Poor. 1st Edition. Brown leather covers with gold borders on front and back covers. Gold lettering, bands and decorations on spine. All exhibit wear and chipping. Front and back hinges on both books are cracked and barely attached. Heavy wear and chipping on corners and edges. Large chips on spine ends. Marbled page ends and inside front and back covers are clean and unmarked. Heavy foxing and yellowing to ffep's and bfep's. Text is yellowed with occasional foxing. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Chapters detailing the price of provisions in Swisserland, the manners of the modern Egyptians, the food of the Icelanders and much more. Interesting observations from a traveler in the early 1800's. All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-lib unless stated. …

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. octavo, 16-page pamphlet, original printed paper wrappers, a very good clean copy. Lyman relates the prospects for economic growth along the 425-mile route of the just opened Erie Railroad, connections with railroads and canals and the benefits to trade as a result. He also gives an account of the struggles to build the route giving credit to the politicians whose influence helped the road, including Daniel Webster, who was in attendance, he also cites the engineers and investors who helped make it possible.…

Hand- coloured lithograph From Maria Morris Miller (1810 - 1875) Wildflowers of British North America. By Mrs. Miller, (Formerly Miss Morris). Under the Patronage of His Excellency Sir William Fenwick Williams, K.C.B. Executed from Nature of the full size of the Flowers, accompanied by information on the History, Properties, &c., of the subjects, By Professor Lawson. L.L.D. Halifax, N. S. London. 1866. Part VI. 3rd Series. Maria Morris Miller, botanical artist (b at Halifax, NS, 1813; d there 1875.) She took lessons in drawing and painting from 2 instructors in Halifax, W.H. Jones and Professor L'Estrange, then in 1830 opened a school in Halifax "to instruct young ladies in the polite and elegant accomplishment of drawing." Encouraged by a botanist, Titus Smith, she produced 146 paintings of wildflowers of Nova Scotia. In 1840, six of her botanical paintings were co-published by John Snow, London, and A.W. Mackinlay, Halifax, as a series of hand-coloured lithographs, with habitat notes by Titus Smith. This first publishing venture was under the patronage of Sir Colin Campbell, lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia. Further publications were issued in 1853 and 1866 and a more ambitious title, "Wild Flowers of British North America," was issued in 1867, but none of these was commercially successful. A collection of her flower paintings was shown at the Paris Exposition of 1867. Miller was the first professional woman artist in Nova Scotia and the publication of her botanical paintings as lithographs by a London publisher gave her work significance. The Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Halifax holds a large collection of her paintings and lithographs. Very light toning to outer margins, and a few light foxing marks and upper left corner repaired otherwise very good with vibrant colours.…